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 jack@sfpartners.com to find out more and be considered

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