Senior Tribe Tech Lead & Architect

Openwork Limited; Swindon; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15% Bonus on target

Pension scheme matching

Critical illness cover

Income protection

Death in service

27 days holiday + bank holidays + buy

Job summary

The Openwork Partnership is seeking a Tribe Lead to act as the senior technical authority for the tribe, owning the technical roadmap, architecture and quality across all deliveries. You will combine leadership with hands-on engineering to guide design discussions, code reviews and key engineering decisions while mentoring engineers and quality engineers within the team.

You will work with architecture, product and delivery stakeholders to ensure solutions meet standards, while influencing

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership across complex systems.
• Proven experience leading and line managing engineering teams, including performance and career development.
• Deep expertise in C#, modern .NET and clean architecture, with leadership through code review and design.
• Strong Azure cloud-native engineering experience and scalable integration patterns.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD, observability, logging and distributed tracing.
• Experience applying AI-assisted development tools and governing their use.
• Experience in architecture-led engineering environments within regulated/financial contexts is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the tribe’s technical direction, roadmap and architecture decisions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, contribute to design, coding, reviews and proofs of concept.
• Take end-to-end ownership of engineering quality, including testing, CI/CD and security.
• Lead and develop engineers, conduct 1:1s, performance reviews and hiring support.
• Translate architectural direction into delivery while aligning with enterprise standards.
• Represent the tribe in architecture reviews and cross-team technical discussions.
• Champion AI-native engineering practices to improve quality and productivity.

Skills

C#

.NET

Azure

CI/CD

Software architecture

Leadership

People management

AI-assisted development

Tools

GitHub Copilot

REST APIs

Job description

The Openwork Partnership is seeking a Tribe Lead to act as the senior technical authority for the tribe, owning the technical roadmap, architecture and quality across all deliveries. You will combine leadership with hands-on engineering to guide design discussions, code reviews and key engineering decisions while mentoring engineers and quality engineers within the team.

You will work with architecture, product and delivery stakeholders to ensure solutions meet standards, while influencing