Squad Technical Lead
Job Description
Squad Technical Lead
Oversee all technical aspects of squad delivery. Work closely with the Product Owner and Scrum Master to manage day to day task execution, ensuring prioritised backlog items are delivered with a balanced focus on business led features and support and maintenance.
- Partner with the Product Owner to keep the squad focused on the right outcomes and incorporate technical considerations.
- Communicate progress and value to key stakeholders.
- Provide subject matter expertise and contribute to planning, estimation, and skill development.
- Own solution design for the squad’s product set.
- Align cross squad, tribe, and team technical matters with the architectural CoE roadmap.
- Understand the product backlog, manage technical implications and dependencies.
- Track squad progress and sign off all design decisions, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and architectural standards.
- Guarantee quality of releases into production.
- Remove technical blockers and guide the team through troubleshooting.
- Identify, address, and mitigate risks and issues related to delivery.
- Drive continuous improvement across the SDLC in partnership with the DevSecOps Platform Team.
Skills & Experience
- Business Knowledge (beneficial): Understanding of the asset management business, core objectives of the Asset Management Tribe, and squad-level objectives.
- Technical Experience: Strong knowledge of software design and development in a test driven environment.
- Microsoft stack proficiency: Azure DevOps, Git (branching, pull requests, best practices).
- Automation: CI/CD, workflows, hooks.
- Leadership: Ability to lead, motivate, and line manage a team of technology professionals; coaching, mentoring, and supporting professional development.
- Communication & Interpersonal: Excellent communication, organisational, time management, problem solving, and influence skills.
- Adaptability: Curiosity about emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
- Detail orientation and independent prioritisation as part of a team.
Benefits
- 40 days annual leave.
- 16% employer pension contribution.
- Discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable).
- Private healthcare.
- Flexible benefits: gym discounts, season ticket loans, employee discount portal.
Equal Opportunity & Inclusion
We are proud to be a Disability Confident and inclusive employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustments for applicants with disabilities.
Our inclusive culture values diversity in education, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, ethnicity, and geographical provenance.
