Technical Lead – Cloud & Architecture (Hybrid, London)

Lorien; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Lorien is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to own the architecture and engineering standards for a major digital product in London. You will guide both backend and frontend teams, ensuring scalable, secure and maintainable foundations while remaining hands-on where it matters.

This 12-month hybrid role sits inside IR35 and requires strong technical leadership across services, cloud, and data integration.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading technical design and delivery of complex production systems.
• Strong hands-on backend experience in Python and FastAPI, including async patterns and service design.
• Strong frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
• Strong AWS knowledge, including Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, IAM and CloudWatch.
• Solid experience with event-driven architecture, integration design and defining service boundaries.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, Docker, infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation.
• Good understanding of observability (logs, metrics, tracing, alerting) and secure system design (authentication, authorisation, secrets management, least privilege).
• Experience supporting live systems and improving resilience over time in Agile environments.

Aufgaben

• Own the technical integrity of the product across its full engineering lifecycle.
• Make and guide architectural decisions across services, APIs, integrations and system boundaries.
• Drive strong standards in code quality, testing, documentation, security and operational readiness.
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant incidents and recurring issues across services.
• Partner with DevOps and platform engineers on CI/CD, deployment strategy and infrastructure patterns.
• Keep technical debt visible and actively managed as part of product prioritisation.
• Contribute to planning, estimation and sequencing so delivery stays realistic and executable.
• Coach engineers by giving them context and direction, without micromanaging.

Kenntnisse

Python

FastAPI

React

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

IaC

Observability

Security

Tools

Cloud/AWS services

Docker

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

Lorien is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to own the architecture and engineering standards for a major digital product in London. You will guide both backend and frontend teams, ensuring scalable, secure and maintainable foundations while remaining hands-on where it matters.

This 12-month hybrid role sits inside IR35 and requires strong technical leadership across services, cloud, and data integration.