Technical Lead

At DEVLEAPS, we help teams ship better software with less friction. We're looking for a  Tech Lead – Engineering Excellence  who thrives at the intersection of hands-on technical leadership and strategic consultancy — someone who can steer architecture decisions in the morning, pair with an engineer in the afternoon, and sit across from a Product Manager at the end of the day to make sense of it all.

What you'll do

• Lead technical direction   on client engagements: own architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and ensure solutions are built to last across Kubernetes/AKS, event streaming, CI/CD, security, and AI/ML-ready platforms.
• Serve as the trusted technical voice   for clients: challenge assumptions, shape roadmaps, and help senior stakeholders understand trade-offs without drowning them in jargon.
• Embed as a technical anchor   in client teams: guide engineers through design and implementation, raise the collective bar through code reviews, pairing, and structured feedback.
• Drive modernisation at scale : supported migrations from on-prem, monolith, and ESB landscapes towards microservices, domain-driven, and event-driven architectures with a clear plan, not just a vision.
• Own the technical narrative : facilitate architecture reviews, run engineering workshops, and translate complex system challenges into clear options, trade-offs, and decisions.
• Remove what slows teams down : identify systemic bottlenecks in tooling, process, or architecture and work with client leadership to actually fix them.

You are

• A seasoned engineer who has led: you've made architectural calls, mentored engineers, and owned outcomes, not just delivered tickets.
• A consultant at heart: you ask before you prescribe, push back with evidence, and know that the best technical solution is sometimes not the first one you thought of.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and politics: you can navigate competing stakeholder interests, legacy constraints, and shifting priorities without losing momentum.
• A multiplier: you measure success by how much better the team around you gets, not just by what you personally shipped.
• Human: you have opinions, sharp questions, hobbies, maybe a questionable taste in snacks. That's fine, we're a little bit geeky and proud of it.