System Engineering Lead — AI, Cloud & Delivery Leader

On Direct Business Services Limited; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fitness Cash Contribution

Pension Contribution

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

Life Assurance, Critical Illness, and

Birthday lunches

Fun Fund

Job summary

Cloud Direct is seeking a Systems Engineering Lead to drive technical leadership, delivery and evolution of the Systems Engineering team. You will shape AI-enabled solutions, automation and cloud-native platforms while coaching engineers and aligning with architectural strategy.

The role requires hands-on engineering, workforce development, and ownership of secure, scalable software. Bath-based with hybrid working and strong collaboration with architects and operations teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience
• 3+ years leading engineering teams or major technical initiatives
• Experience designing and delivering complex business-critical software
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure platforms and cloud-native development
• Experience delivering AI-enabled applications and automation
• Experience with Azure OpenAI or equivalent AI platforms
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git and CI/CD
• Strong understanding of secure-by-design principles and DevSecOps
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Must be able to work from Bath office at least two days per week

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction for the Systems Engineering team.
• Lead solution design and key engineering decisions with the Principal Architect.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, quality expectations and development practices via automation, testing, CI/CD, observability.
• Lead delivery of systems, platforms, integrations and AI-enabled solutions.
• Remain hands-on in design, development and deployment of software where required.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable and supportable.
• Shape and prioritise technical work with stakeholders and product owners.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, automation and emerging technologies to create business value.

Skills

C# (.NET 6+)

React

REST APIs

Azure Cloud

AI & Automation

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Tools

Azure DevOps

Docker

Cosmos DB

SQL Server

Git

Job description

Cloud Direct is seeking a Systems Engineering Lead to drive technical leadership, delivery and evolution of the Systems Engineering team. You will shape AI-enabled solutions, automation and cloud-native platforms while coaching engineers and aligning with architectural strategy.

The role requires hands-on engineering, workforce development, and ownership of secure, scalable software. Bath-based with hybrid working and strong collaboration with architects and operations teams.