Technical Lead Developer

Coforge; Telford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a React Technical Lead to deliver hands-on front-end work while providing technical oversight in an Agile delivery team. You will coordinate sprint activities, mentor React developers, and ensure adherence to enterprise architecture and front-end best practices.

The role emphasizes responsible sprint planning, code reviews, and collaboration with architects to drive quality, accessibility, and scalable UI solutions.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of front-end architecture and component-based development.
• Experience with Redux or similar state management frameworks.
• Strong experience with RESTful API integration and front-end standards.
• Hands-on with GitHub/GitLab and CI/CD practices.
• WCAG accessibility and inclusive UI development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate front-end development within a Scrum team.
• Plan and deliver sprint commitments with Product Owners and Architects.
• Break down requirements into technical tasks and support estimation.
• Provide day-to-day guidance to React developers.
• Conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards.
• Monitor progress, identify risks, and unblock blockers.
• Collaborate with senior developers and front-end architecture groups.
• Ensure consistent architectures, patterns, and testing standards.
• Contribute to design discussions and technical solution inputs.
• Drive code quality, performance, and developer productivity improvements.
• Mentor team members and promote knowledge sharing.
• Act as primary technical contact for front-end development.

Skills

Front-end architecture

Redux

REST APIs

Code reviews

Mentoring

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD

Accessibility WCAG

Testing frameworks

GitHub

GitLab

CI/CD tooling

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

CI/CD tooling

Pega Constellation React SDK

Job description

We are looking for an experienced React Technical Lead to provide technical leadership within an Agile delivery team. The role combines hands-on development with day-to-day technical oversight of React developers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable front-end solutions.

The Technical Lead will be responsible for sprint-level planning and coordination for the front-end team, code quality governance, technical mentoring, and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, engineering standards, and front-end best practices established by the wider React engineering community.

Employment Type: Full-Time

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the front-end development activities within a Scrum team.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, and development teams to plan and deliver sprint commitments.
• Break down requirements into technical tasks and support estimation, sprint planning, and backlog refinement activities.
• Provide technical guidance and day-to-day support to React developers.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, architectural principles, and engineering best practices.
• Monitor delivery progress, identify technical risks, and proactively resolve blockers impacting the team.
• Collaborate with Senior React Developers and broader front-end architecture groups to adopt new standards, frameworks, patterns, and development practices.
• Ensure consistent implementation of agreed front-end architectures, design patterns, accessibility requirements, and testing standards across the team.
• Support application design discussions and provide input into technical solution approaches.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to code quality, automation, performance, maintainability, and developer productivity.
• Promote knowledge sharing and mentor team members to improve technical capability and delivery effectiveness.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for front-end development within the Scrum team.

Required Skills

• Deep understanding of front-end architecture, component-based development, state management, and API integration patterns.
• Extensive experience with Redux or similar state management frameworks.
• Strong experience integrating applications through RESTful APIs.
• Experience defining and enforcing front-end engineering standards and best practices.
• Strong understanding of WCAG accessibility standards and accessible UI development practices.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent tools.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub, GitLab, branching strategies, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
• Experience leading code reviews, technical mentoring, and team-level technical governance.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as Pega Constellation using React SDK.
• Experience with micro-frontend architectures and design systems.
• Familiarity with cloud-native application development and deployment practices.
• Experience implementing quality, accessibility, and testing standards within CI/CD pipelines.
• Technical leadership and decision-making.
• Sprint planning and work coordination.
• Coaching and mentoring developers.
• Stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration.
• Strong problem-solving and risk management skills.
• Focus on engineering quality, consistency, and continuous improvement.