Technical Lead

Brown & Brown UK; Borehamwood; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Company pension

Professional qualification funding

Job summary

Brown & Brown Europe is building long-lived, product-led squads with end-to-end ownership of the services they create. You will lead technical delivery within a product-led squad, combining hands-on engineering with day-to-day technical leadership.

You will partner closely with Product and Delivery, while the Lead Engineer provides broader cross-squad engineering leadership. You will work in a collaborative engineering environment that values practical delivery, automation, security, quality,

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience in an agile team.
• Advanced full-stack capability using .NET and modern web technologies.
• Experience designing, building and supporting Azure-hosted services.
• Strong CI/CD, automated testing, version control and DevOps knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and delivery for the squad while remaining hands-on.
• Turn product priorities into secure, scalable and supportable technical solutions.
• Own technical delivery from discovery through release and live support.
• Set expectations for code quality, automated testing, security, documentation and observability.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices to enable safe, repeatable releases.
• Coach engineers through reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Full-stack .NET

Azure hosting

CI/CD

DevOps

Technical leadership

Agile

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

Brown & Brown Europe is building long-lived, product-led squads with end-to-end ownership of the services they create. You will work in a collaborative engineering environment that values practical delivery, automation, security, quality, learning and continuous improvement.

The day to day:

You will lead technical delivery within a product-led squad, combining hands‑on engineering with day‑to‑day technical leadership. You will partner closely with Product and Delivery, while the Lead Engineer provides broader cross‑squad engineering leadership.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead technical design and delivery for the squad while remaining hands‑on.
• Turn product priorities into secure, scalable and supportable technical solutions.
• Guide estimation, decomposition, dependencies and pragmatic technical decisions.
• Own technical delivery from discovery through release and live support.
• Set expectations for code quality, automated testing, security, documentation, observability and operational readiness.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices to enable safe, repeatable releases.
• Champion peer review, pairing, test‑first thinking, small releases and continuous refactoring.
• Coach engineers through reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing.
• Make technical debt, risks and operational issues visible and lead proportionate action.
• Use DORA, quality and service measures to drive improvement.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Cloud, Security and platform teams within agreed guardrails.
• Support incident investigation and turn learning into preventative improvements.

How we work:

• Work in a long‑lived, product‑led and stream‑aligned squad with clear service ownership.
• Follow a Build and Run model: design, build, test, deploy, monitor, support and improve squad‑owned services.
• Use a transparent, prioritised backlog and deliver value incrementally through a regular agile cadence.
• Take part in planning, refinement, daily collaboration, reviews, retrospectives, demos and showcases.
• Use Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, including testing, security, documentation and operational readiness.
• Automate build, test, security assurance, deployment and repeatable environment activity wherever practical.
• Release in small, safe increments and use feedback and delivery data to improve.
• Work within shared architecture, cloud, security and platform guardrails.
• Use approved engineering and AI‑assisted tools with appropriate security controls and human review.

Our technology environment:

• Backend: .NET, C#, APIs, Entity Framework Core, services and integrations.
• Cloud: Microsoft Azure, monitoring and platform guardrails.
• Practices: Automated testing, peer review, secure coding, pairing, test‑first thinking and continuous refactoring.

About you:

• Strong software engineering experience, with technical leadership experience in an agile team.
• Advanced full‑stack capability using .NET and modern web technologies.
• Experience designing, building and supporting Azure‑hosted services.
• Strong CI/CD, automated testing, version control and DevOps knowledge.
• Sound judgement across APIs, integrations, data, resilience, security and maintainability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and communicating technical trade‑offs clearly.
• Build and Run experience, including production support and service improvement.

How this role is distinct:

• Leads technical delivery within one squad.
• The Lead Engineer sits above this role and provides cross‑squad leadership.
• Combines leadership with meaningful hands‑on engineering.

The rewards:

• A negotiable basic salary and all the usual benefits you would expect, including holiday and a company pension.
• A collaborative, open and honest environment designed to deliver the best outcomes for our clients and teammates.
• A flexible working
• An environment built around supporting and developing our teammates, with funding available for relevant professional qualifications.