Technical Lead: Architecture, Mentoring & Delivery

Xpertise Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Career development

Job summary

Xpertise Recruitment in Manchester is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to shape technical strategy, mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence within a modern technology environment. This role focuses on delivering high-quality software while influencing standards, architecture, and delivery practices.

join a forward‑thinking organisation investing in technology transformation, working with Agile squads to mature ways of working and support engineers' development for consistent

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Proven experience at Senior Engineer or Technical Lead level.
• Strong experience with .NET Core, C#, and SQL.
• Experience delivering distributed systems and modern architectures.
• Solid understanding of Agile software delivery.
• Ability to influence teams without direct line management.
• Hands-on with Git and cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering best practices and quality standards.
• Lead by contributing production code of high quality.
• Refactor existing systems and tackle complex technical challenges.
• Make architectural decisions and define scalable solutions.
• Mentor engineers via code reviews, pair programming, and design discussions.
• Support work planning, delivery management, and remove blockers.
• Help grow the capabilities of the wider engineering team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure delivery outcomes.

Skills

C# / .NET Core

SQL

Distributed systems design

Agile delivery

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Tools

Git

Azure

AWS

Job description

Xpertise Recruitment in Manchester is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to shape technical strategy, mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence within a modern technology environment. This role focuses on delivering high-quality software while influencing standards, architecture, and delivery practices.

join a forward‑thinking organisation investing in technology transformation, working with Agile squads to mature ways of working and support engineers' development for consistent