Tech Lead: AI-Driven Cloud-Native Architect & Mentor

Dizplai; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dizplai in Manchester is seeking an experienced Tech Lead to guide a small team of engineers building cloud-native products that deliver real business value. This hands-on leadership role combines software engineering with coaching, architectural decisions, and delivery leadership.

You'll champion AI-enabled development, ensure scalable and secure solutions on AWS, and partner with Product and Design to turn priorities into tangible outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems.
• Experience leading engineers or small delivery teams.
• Practical AWS and cloud-native architecture experience.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps and modern engineering practices.
• Experience working within Agile product teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using AI tools to enhance software delivery and engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 2–3 software engineers from our Manchester office.
• Stay hands-on, guiding architecture, engineering standards and technical decisions.
• Deliver scalable, secure and reliable cloud-native products on AWS.
• Drive a "build it, own it, run it" engineering culture.
• Improve delivery flow, remove blockers and help the team ship value quickly.
• Champion engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, observability and operational excellence.
• Work closely with Product, Design and other business stakeholders to turn priorities into successful outcomes.
• Encourage pragmatic adoption of AI tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.

Skills

Leadership experience

Cloud architecture AWS

CI/CD & DevOps

Agile product teams

Stakeholder management

AI tooling

Team mentoring

Hands-on coding

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Dizplai in Manchester is seeking an experienced Tech Lead to guide a small team of engineers building cloud-native products that deliver real business value. This hands-on leadership role combines software engineering with coaching, architectural decisions, and delivery leadership.

You'll champion AI-enabled development, ensure scalable and secure solutions on AWS, and partner with Product and Design to turn priorities into tangible outcomes.