Technical Lead

Technical Lead with experience driving software engineering innovation and delivery ideally gained in a product led, scale up or SME environment is sought by a multi award winning vehicle management & technology solutions company based South Birmingham.


With hugely exciting growth plans over the coming months this Technical Lead will play a key role in shaping the technical output of the engineering team driving innovation and new product development whilst working with the board to a build a technical roadmap that will form the backbone of organisational growth.


This role would suit a Technical Lead or Engineering Manager with hands on system architecture and design capabilities across the Microsoft stack (.Net, C#, Dynamics 365, Power platform etc) with the ability to champion new AI enabled product development.
In return this individual can expect a hugely exciting and varied day to day as the business scales with scope to progress quickly to a CTO position.


Key Responsibilities:


- Take ownership of the operational delivery and output of the engineering team whilst owning a technical roadmap and new product innovation
- Review existing technical stack, system design, documentation, architecture and project delivery leading on improvements if necessary
- Hands on solution development when required
- Line manage a team of five developers with scope to add offshore Developers to management remit
- Empower the team to upskill in the latest technology
- Ensure the overall team culture and ethos of collaboration and autonomy is maintained and strengthened through supportive, aspirational leadership
- Take ownership of business critical, agile application project delivery
- Act as thought leader for AI tooling innovation and implementation
- Review third party/ vendor integrations & relationships to assess return on investment
- Budget management


Personal profile:


- Prior experience operating as a technical lead or senior engineering manager within a product led scale up or SME
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts and processes to a non-technical board
- Strong hands-on capabilities across the .Net, Dymamics365, Azure and power platform stack
- Strong agile project management skills
- System design and architecture skills
- A mission led, business impact approach to engineering
- A real positive, can do and flexible attitude with a demonstrable passion and excitement for the journey the organisation are going on
- A collaborative, supportive management style with the desire to inspire the team to constantly push themselves and their knowledge base
- Strong architectural/ system design skills
- Any SaaS or PaaS exposure would be a plus


This Technical Lead will be rewarded with a six figure package and a clear progression pathway to CTO.


If interested please apply now or contact Jack Stockport at (url removed) to find out more and be considered


Technology Lead
South Birmingham
Microsoft, agile, .net, Dynamics365, business central, agile