Technical Team Lead

Burns Sheehan; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Insurtech company is seeking a Technical Team Lead to guide a squad of developers. The role combines hands-on technical work and people leadership, focusing on enhancing the company's product by modernizing architectures and implementing efficient processes. Located in London with hybrid work arrangements, this position offers extensive benefits and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Extensive Benefits

10% Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team with minimum 3 direct reports.
• Strong communicator with technical concepts.
• Driving system design decisions for scalability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a squad of 6 in developing flagship products.
• Provide hands-on technical expertise and mentorship.
• Drive DevOps practices for CI/CD and deployment efficiency.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Communication

DevOps Culture

Tools

Java21

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Job description

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Base pay range

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Principal Consultant - Technology @ Burns Sheehan

Extensive Benefits and 10% bonus

Central London, hybrid with 2 days a week onsite

Technical Team Lead - We have been engaged by a leading Insurtech company to find a Technical Team Lead to oversee a squad of 6 working on their flagship product. Backed by a well-established global parent company, they operate with the agility of a scale-up while enjoying the stability of a larger organisation. Their technology powers underwriting and protection marketplaces, helping insurers and advisors streamline processes and deliver better outcomes for customers.

They are undergoing a multi-year transformation, modernising their architecture and shifting towards a product-focused, SaaS model.

The role of Tech Lead is a combination of hands-on technical expertise (30%) and people leadership (70%). You will report into the Director of Engineering being part of the technical leadership team for business vertical.

The tech stack consists of Java21, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm and various AWS services.

Requirements

• Experience leading an engineering team/squad (minimum of 3 direct reports)
• Experience mentoring engineers while fostering a culture of ownership
• Providing technical leadership and guiding system design decisions
• Working with product and your teams product manager to ensure the most important things hit the roadmap.
• Driving a DevOps culture, ensuring smooth CI/CD processes and improving deployment efficiency.
• We're looking for a strong communicator who can explain technical concepts to different audiences and stakeholders.
• Ability to drive system design decisions, balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Management

• Industries

  Insurance, Technology, Information and Media, and Software Development

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