Technical Lead - Product-Focused, Hands-On Engineer

Greenyard; Borehamwood; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary negotiable

Holiday and pension

Flexible working

Professional qualifications funding

Job summary

Brown & Brown Europe is seeking a Technical Lead to drive delivery in a product-led squad. You will blend hands-on engineering with leadership, shaping secure, scalable services on Azure.

You will mentor engineers, optimize CI/CD, and collaborate with Architecture, Cloud and Security teams to deliver high-quality, observable systems. Hybrid work in Borehamwood with a negotiable package awaits the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience in an agile team.
• Advanced full-stack capability using .NET and modern web technologies.
• Experience designing, building and supporting Azure-hosted services.
• Strong CI/CD, automated testing, version control and DevOps knowledge.
• Sound judgement across APIs, integrations, data, resilience, security and maintainability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and communicating technical trade-offs clearly.
• Build and Run experience, including production support and service improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery within one squad while remaining hands-on.
• Turn product priorities into secure, scalable and supportable technical solutions.
• Guide estimation, decomposition, dependencies and pragmatic technical decisions.
• Own technical delivery from discovery through release and live support.
• Set expectations for code quality, automated testing, security, documentation, observability and operational readiness.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices to enable safe, repeatable releases.
• Champion peer review, pairing, test-first thinking, small releases and continuous refactoring.
• Coach engineers through reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing.
• Make technical debt, risks and operational issues visible and lead proportionate action.
• Use DORA, quality and service measures to drive improvement.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Cloud, Security and platform teams within agreed guardrails.
• Support incident investigation and turn learning into preventative improvements.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Full-stack .NET

Azure services

CI/CD

DevOps

Mentoring

Production support

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Backlogs

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Brown & Brown Europe is seeking a Technical Lead to drive delivery in a product-led squad. You will blend hands-on engineering with leadership, shaping secure, scalable services on Azure.

You will mentor engineers, optimize CI/CD, and collaborate with Architecture, Cloud and Security teams to deliver high-quality, observable systems. Hybrid work in Borehamwood with a negotiable package awaits the right candidate.