Azure Cloud Tech Lead - Retail Platform

Retail Consult; Porto; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Mobile Allowance

Extra days off

Local partnerships

Job summary

Retail Consult in Porto, Portugal, is seeking a Tech Lead to join our growing Delivery team. You will design, implement, and oversee platform components with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability.

You will collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineers, champion cloud-native practices on Azure, and mentor the team while shaping the long-term technical vision.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Experience building distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency in English and strong communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end technical design and delivery of key platform components, ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into high-quality solutions.
• Champion cloud-native design and best practices for Azure PaaS services (e.g., Azure Functions, Event Grid, Service Bus, API Management).
• Guide the team in adopting modern DevOps and CI/CD practices using tools like Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Set and uphold coding standards, review pull requests, and ensure high code quality and security compliance.
• Act as a technical mentor, coach, and role model for other engineers on the team.
• Evaluate and incorporate new technologies, frameworks, or patterns that improve our architecture or developer experience.
• Participate in roadmap planning and contribute to the platform's long-term technical vision.

Skills

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Event-driven architecture

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Mentoring

Communication

English

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Kafka

API Management

Azure Functions

Event Grid

Service Bus

Kubernetes

Job description

Retail Consult in Porto, Portugal, is seeking a Tech Lead to join our growing Delivery team. You will design, implement, and oversee platform components with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability.

You will collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineers, champion cloud-native practices on Azure, and mentor the team while shaping the long-term technical vision.