Tribe Lead

As Tribe Lead, you will be the senior technical authority within your tribe, responsible for the quality, technical direction and engineering capability of everything the tribe delivers.

You’ll combine leadership with hands-on technical expertise, remaining actively involved in design discussions, code reviews and key engineering decisions. You’ll set the technical roadmap, own engineering quality end-to-end and lead, coach and develop the Engineers and Quality Engineers within your team.

As the tribe’s primary technical voice, you’ll work closely with the wider engineering function to ensure solutions meet architectural and engineering standards, while being confident enough to challenge and influence where appropriate. This is a senior, autonomous role where you’ll be trusted to make sound technical decisions, navigate ambiguity and continuously improve both the technology and the engineering capability around you.

• Own the tribe’s technical direction and roadmap, including architecture decisions, technology choices, technical debt, engineering priorities and technical risk.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, contributing to solution design, coding, code reviews, technical spikes and proofs of concept while setting high engineering standards.
• Take end-to-end ownership of engineering quality, including automated testing, CI/CD, code review, observability, security and non-functional requirements.
• Lead, manage and develop engineers, providing effective 1:1s, performance and career development, recruitment support, onboarding and a strong engineering culture.
• Translate architectural direction into effective technical delivery, ensuring solutions align with wider architecture, security and regulatory standards.
• Represent the tribe in architecture reviews, engineering forums and cross-team technical discussions, collaborating closely with architecture, engineering, product and delivery stakeholders.
• Champion AI-native engineering practices, using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or equivalent to improve development quality, productivity and engineering capability.
• Maintain high-quality technical documentation, including Architecture Decision Records, API documentation, runbooks and system documentation, while driving continuous improvement across the tribe.

Experience & Technical Expertise

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership across complex, production-grade systems.
• Proven experience leading and line managing engineering teams, including performance management, career development, hiring and building high-performing teams.
• Deep expertise in C#, modern .NET and clean architecture, with the ability to lead through code review, technical design and engineering best practice.
• Strong Azure cloud-native engineering experience, ideally including Azure Functions, Service Bus, Key Vault, managed identities and scalable integration patterns.
• Extensive experience with REST APIs, event-driven architecture, microservices and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and automated testing, using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar, alongside observability, logging, monitoring and distributed tracing.
• Practical understanding of security-by-design, including secrets management, dependency scanning, SAST, access controls and secure development practices.
• Experience applying AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or Cursor, with an understanding of how to govern their effective use.
• Experience working within an architecture-led engineering environment, contributing to technical decisions while operating within established enterprise standards.
• Experience within financial services or another regulated environment is highly desirable, particularly where GDPR, regulatory compliance, auditability and system reliability are important.
• Experience of technology transformation, including legacy system decommissioning, platform replacement or third-party SaaS integration, would be advantageous.