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Technical Lead

1 month ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Lead
Technical Lead
Software Development
Agile AWS Azure Docker GCP Kanban Kubernetes Microservices PHP Scrum Solid.js
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Arbor

Arbor

Arbor is the leading cloud MIS provider in the UK, empowering schools and MATs to collaborate effectively, save time, and enhance pupil achievement through centralized data management and insightful analytics.

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Description

  • Define and guide system architecture, balancing trade-offs between speed, scalability, maintainability, and security.
  • Work with the architecture community (ATLAS) to define processes, drive technology adoption, and share best practices across teams.
  • Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, scalability, security) are addressed in all solution designs.
  • Ensure systems are observable, meet agreed Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and champion accountability from design through production.
  • Lead Root Cause Analysis and incident/problem management when issues occur.
  • Lead estimation and feasibility assessments and contribute to structured release planning with MVP-first phased rollouts; support post-release reviews and retrospectives.
  • Uphold coding standards and promote automated testing, CI/CD and containerisation while embedding a quality-first culture and prioritising technical debt.
  • Mentor and coach engineers through feedback and knowledge sharing, foster team alignment around technical solutions and goals, and communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders while working closely with Product, Engineering, QA and Design.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex, scalable systems.
  • Strong grounding in engineering principles and design patterns (e.g. SOLID, DRY).
  • Extensive experience with PHP.
  • Proficiency with relational databases and data modelling, including schema design, query tuning and data management.
  • Proven ability to design and deliver service-oriented or microservice architectures and well-structured APIs.
  • Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Working knowledge of a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and familiarity with observability practices (monitoring, metrics, alerting), incident management and Root Cause Analysis.
  • Understanding of secure coding and compliance requirements, plus experience guiding teams through technical estimation and contributing to release planning; demonstrated leadership mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred/bonus skills: experience with enterprise-scale or high-availability systems; Agile facilitation (Scrum/Kanban); exposure to DevOps/SRE practices (infrastructure as code, performance tuning, capacity planning).
  • Right to work: the company is unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Benefits

  • Salary £80,000–£90,000 (remote role).
  • 32 days holiday (25 days annual leave + 7 company days) plus Bank Holidays.
  • Comprehensive wellbeing benefits via AIG Smart Health (24/7 virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, personalised health checks) and a dedicated wellbeing team offering initiatives and training.
  • Private dental insurance (Bupa) and life assurance at 3x annual salary.
  • Salary sacrifice pension scheme provided by Scottish Widows.
  • Enhanced parental leave: 20 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption and 6 weeks full pay for paternity, plus 5 return-to-work maternity coaching sessions.
  • Flexible/remote-first working, dedicated professional development (CPD) budget, a volunteer day each year, social committees and dog-friendly offices, plus an employee referral voucher up to £200.

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