Technical Lead, Software Delivery & Architecture

PA Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

25 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

Community involvement

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Tax efficient benefits

Job summary

PA Consulting's Digital & Data team is shaping the future of software solutions for diverse clients. You will lead engineering teams, influence delivery decisions, and mentor colleagues to raise the bar across projects.

You’ll work on a broad range of engagements, collaborating closely with product, design, and cross-disciplinary experts. The role includes hybrid working and a focus on continuous learning, with budgeted courses and certifications to grow your technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing and technically leading a software engineering team.
• Soft-skills to interact with clients, demonstrating credibility in technology and overall delivery.
• Proven capability in shaping the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, driving improvements across development, testing, deployment, and operational phases.
• Ability to implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and efficient release management strategies.
• Enhance system performance using load testing, caching, and optimizing database queries and application logic for better scalability and response times.
• Expertise in modern engineering standards such as TDD, contract testing, and secure coding, as well as architectural patterns like event-driven architecture and platform migration.
• You thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking to create long-term solutions
• You enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Experience providing technical subject matter expertise to shape bids and client proposals. Can present proposed approaches and discuss technical implementation with prospective clients during the sales process

Responsibilities

• Work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders. You’ll be using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients, as well as working on internal projects
• Steer technical teams through complex challenges and guide our clients towards successful digital transformations
• Provide mentorship to engineers and create an environment of continuous improvement
• Live in-person whiteboarding sessions to problem solve as a team, alongside asynchronous communication on Teams
• Hybrid working with the team on client site or in our office a minimum of two days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site
• An environment that deeply cares about its values

Skills

Team leadership

Client interaction

End-to-end SDLC

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Performance optimization

TDD/contract testing

Event-driven architecture

Platform migration

Problem solving

Stakeholder collaboration

Bid support

Job description

PA Consulting's Digital & Data team is shaping the future of software solutions for diverse clients. You will lead engineering teams, influence delivery decisions, and mentor colleagues to raise the bar across projects.

You’ll work on a broad range of engagements, collaborating closely with product, design, and cross-disciplinary experts. The role includes hybrid working and a focus on continuous learning, with budgeted courses and certifications to grow your technical leadership.