Technical Lead: Hands-on Architect for Scalable Systems

2mrw Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

2mrw Group in the City of London seeks an experienced Technical Lead to steer technical direction and architecture across multiple products. This hands-on leadership role blends software development with enterprise architecture, guiding decisions, improving engineering standards and ensuring scalable, secure, resilient systems.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Architecture and Security teams, mentor engineers, and influence senior stakeholders while championing CI/CD, DevOps and

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical direction across multiple products.
• Hands-on development and architecture expertise.
• Design of enterprise-scale systems across teams.
• Strong cloud, microservices and event-driven patterns.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define technical architecture and direction across teams.
• Lead decisions on scalability, security, performance and reliability.
• Remain hands-on with coding, reviews and problem-solving.
• Drive platform modernization and reduce technical debt.
• Establish engineering standards and automated testing.
• Advocate CI/CD, DevOps and IaC in cloud-native development.
• Mentor technical leads and align solutions with business goals.
• Support production systems and continuous improvement.

Skills

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

Enterprise architecture

Cloud & DevOps

Microservices & distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions/Jenkins

Job description

2mrw Group in the City of London seeks an experienced Technical Lead to steer technical direction and architecture across multiple products. This hands-on leadership role blends software development with enterprise architecture, guiding decisions, improving engineering standards and ensuring scalable, secure, resilient systems.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Architecture and Security teams, mentor engineers, and influence senior stakeholders while championing CI/CD, DevOps and