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Technical Lead

17 hours, 57 minutes 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.

IT Services
51-250
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Description

  • Define and guide system architecture, balancing trade-offs between speed, scalability, maintainability, and security.
  • Work with the architecture community to define processes, drive technology adoption, and share best practices across teams.
  • Ensure non-functional requirements such as performance, reliability, scalability, and security are addressed in solution designs.
  • Champion accountability from design through production by ensuring systems are observable and meet agreed Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
  • Lead root cause analysis when issues occur.
  • Lead estimation and feasibility assessments, ensuring plans are realistic and aligned with team skills and capacity.
  • Contribute to structured release planning and phased rollouts that deliver value early.
  • Support post-release reviews and retrospectives.
  • Uphold coding standards, promote automated testing, and embed a quality-first culture in development.
  • Identify and prioritise maintenance and technical debt, and translate its impact into customer and business outcomes.
  • Mentor and coach engineers through feedback, knowledge sharing, and motivation.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, QA, Designers, and other engineers and tech leads to align technical direction with product strategy.
  • Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience with PHP.
  • Extensive software engineering experience on complex, scalable systems.
  • Strong grounding in engineering principles and design patterns such as SOLID and DRY.
  • Proficiency with relational databases and data modelling, including schema design, query tuning, and data management.
  • Proven ability to design and deliver solutions using service-oriented or microservice architectures, including well-structured APIs.
  • Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Working knowledge of a major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Familiarity with observability practices, including monitoring, metrics, and alerting, plus incident/problem management and root cause analysis.
  • Understanding of secure coding and compliance requirements.
  • Experience guiding teams through technical estimation and contributing to release planning.
  • Demonstrated leadership in mentoring and supporting engineers’ growth.
  • Excellent written and spoken English and the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Bonus: experience with enterprise-scale or high-availability systems.
  • Bonus: experience with Agile facilitation such as Scrum or Kanban and continuous improvement.
  • Bonus: exposure to DevOps/SRE practices such as infrastructure as code, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

Benefits

  • Remote working within the UK.
  • Salary of £80,000 - £90,000.
  • 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays, made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 company-wide days over Easter, Summer, and Christmas.
  • Life assurance at 3x annual salary.
  • Comprehensive wellness support through AIG Smart Health, including 24/7 virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks.
  • Private dental insurance with Bupa.
  • Salary sacrifice pension with Scottish Widows.
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay).
  • Five free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions.
  • Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Dedicated professional development budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.
  • Volunteer for a charity of your choice for one day each year.
  • Dog-friendly offices.
  • Employee wellbeing initiatives including mindfulness, lunch-and-learns, manager training, and mental health first aid training.

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