Technical Lead

Athlon; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Athlon seeks a passionate Technical Lead to oversee innovative client projects, ensuring technically robust solutions and high team performance. Candidates should have a solid background in full-stack development, strong leadership capabilities, and a thirst for emerging technologies like AI. This role offers growth opportunities within a dynamic company environment.

Benefits

Flexible work environment with remote and hybrid options

Opportunity to work on high-profile projects

Competitive salary and benefits package

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in a digital agency in a technical leadership role.
• Ability to work as a full-stack developer with a tech-agnostic approach.
• Experience in mentoring and team management.

Responsibilities

• Consult with clients, define technical solutions aligned with objectives.
• Lead and oversee project delivery to ensure high-quality standards.
• Participate in hands-on development as needed.

Skills

Technical Planning

Client Consultation

Front-end Development

Back-end Development

Animation for Web

API Integration

Cloud Services

Mentorship

Education

Technical Leadership Experience

Full-stack Development Skills

Tools

Git

AWS

CI/CD Automation

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As Technical Lead, you'll consult directly with our clients early on in the project to understand their objectives and goals, translating their needs into a robust and scalable technical solution.

From complex web apps to best in class marketing sites, you work passionately with our clients to identify, define and research the most appropriate solutions to meet their technical challenges.

Sitting at the intersection of creativity and technology, you take a broad overview across development infrastructure, engineering and systems to find effective and innovative ways to build world class digital products and bring imaginative ideas to life..

You have clear methodical thinking, strong communication skills and a passion for technology and digital storytelling.

Requirements

Technical Planning

Define the technical approach and solution in line with the client's goals.

• Strong ability to consult with clients to understand requirements
• Conduct thoughtful research and creative problem solving of technical challenges
• Build POCs to test and validate early ideas
• Synthesise client, user and technical requirements into a clear development strategy
• Create and maintain clear technical briefs and specifications that developers can follow
• Adopting a technology agnostic approach, define the technical architecture, confidently proposing the appropriate frameworks, languages, and platforms
• Provide accurate technical estimates, working closely with project managers to develop a detailed delivery plan that accounts for technical dependencies and mitigates risk
  
  

Technical Leadership

Lead and oversee technical delivery, guiding the team to success.

• Clear, confident and articulate presentation of appropriate solutions to clients, serving as their primary technical contact
• Leadership of technically advanced projects bridging the gap between client, project manager and development partner
• Collaborate with designers to ensure creative concepts are executed to spec. With a sharp eye for design fidelity, you care about maintaining visual consistency, polish and motion detail
• Ensure a high level of technical quality is maintained across projects from discovery to launch
• Enforce best practices are consistently followed across accessibility, security and performance
  
  

Hands-On Development

Support the development team in delivering the technical output.

• Active involvement in hands-on front-end and back-end development, as required
• Implement thoughtful, performance-conscious animation and transitions to elevate user experience
• Deployment and basic DevOps tasks as required
  
  

Passion & Culture

Suggest ideas that improve our output, working methods and cultural activities.

• Excite and engage those around you to bring about the best outcome
• Regularly share best technology practices and inspiration
• Excited by and keen to learn about innovative technologies, such as AI
• Suggest ideas, tools and systems to maximize the effectiveness of our processes and work
• Open to speaking at industry events on panels and raising the profile of Athlon in the public domain
  
  

We expect you to be knowledgeable in:

• Frontend languages (e.g. HTML, CSS/SCSS/Tailwind, JavaScript/TypeScript, frameworks like React, Next or Vue)
• Some experience with Backend languages (e.g. Node.js, PHP, JAVA, etc)
• Strong knowledge of the WordPress ecosystem
• Animation for web (eg. CSS animations, GSAP, Framer, Motion.js, Lottie etc)
• API Integration
• GIT workflows, CI/CD automation
• Cloud services (eg. AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Understanding of software design patterns
  
  

Your experience:

• Minimum 5 years experience
• Has worked in a digital agency in a technical leadership role
• Full-stack development skills, with a flexible tech-agnostic mindset
• Mentorship / team management
  
  

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on innovative, high-profile projects
• Flexible work environment with remote and hybrid options
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Career growth opportunities within a growing international design company

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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