Senior Engineering Team Leader

Senior Engineering Team Leader – Enterprise Software Solutions

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineering Team Leader to join a fast-growing software company developing innovative enterprise platforms used by major organisations in the UK and internationally. Their technology helps streamline complex operations, improve customer experiences, and support large-scale service delivery. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll combine people management with technical delivery, taking the lead on architecture, coding, and innovation while supporting the professional development of your team.

Location: Hybrid – Milton Keynes (2–3 days per week on-site)
Salary: £65,000 – £75,000 + benefits + bonus

Requirements for Senior Engineering Team Leader

• Strong commercial experience in a senior engineering or team leadership role
  
  
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  
  
• Proven ability to deliver projects from inception to completion while maintaining high technical standards
  
  
• Adaptability to new tools, technologies, and methodologies
  
  
• Solid technical skills in:
  
  
  • .NET (C#)
    
    
  • Unit & integration testing
    
    
  • CI/CD pipeline development (GitHub or similar)
    
    
  • AWS services (IAM, Lambda, API Gateway)
    
    
  • Angular, REST APIs, Web API development
    
    
  • SpecFlow (BDD), Postman, OpenAPI
    
    
  • MS SQL Server (SQL) & MongoDB (NoSQL)
    
    
  • Docker
    
    
• Experience with CQRS and Event Bus architecture is highly desirable
  
  Responsibilities for Senior Engineering Team Leader
  
  
• Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers, driving both technical and personal development
  
  
• Oversee architectural design and code reviews, ensuring high standards and consistency
  
  
• Plan and deliver work in line with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles
  
  
• Embed robust quality assurance practices to improve reliability and performance
  
  
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver software that meets business needs
  
  
• Contribute hands-on to coding, architecture, and problem-solving
  
  What the role offers:
  
  
• A supportive, people-focused culture with excellent training, career development, and performance-related bonus opportunities
  
  
• Competitive benefits package including 25 days holiday + bank holidays, 2 wellbeing days, Christmas shutdown, and flexible perks such as private healthcare, life assurance, and retail discounts
  
  
• 5% company pension contribution, modern hybrid working, and the chance to work on impactful, industry-leading technology
  
  Applications
  If you’d like to apply for this exciting Senior Engineering Team Leader role, please send your CV via the relevant links.
  
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