Key Responsibilities

Hands-On Technical Leadership

• Set and own the architecture for the platform estate – integration patterns, data flows, API design, and service boundaries – documenting decisions and their trade-offs so they can be challenged and revisited when required.
• Contribute personally to design and code on the highest-risk and highest-complexity components, reference implementations, and technical spikes, maintaining the technical credibility on which the role depends.
• Lead design and code review, holding the team to explicit engineering standards covering testing, security-by-design, observability, and maintainability.
• Own the CI/CD pipeline and engineering toolchain, driving automation of build, test, and deployment to reduce release risk and shorten cycle time.
• Lead production incident response as the senior technical escalation point and drive root-cause remediation through to closure rather than accepting symptomatic fixes.
• Manage technical debt deliberately maintaining a visible, prioritised and costed remediation backlog, and negotiating its funding alongside feature delivery.
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