Engineering Team Leader - UK

Team: Product Development

Location: Leeds, Hybrid

Commitment: Regular - Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & People Development 

• Own the technical direction of systems and services within the teams domain. 

• Lead design decisions and ensure alignment with StarCompliance architecture and engineering standards. 

• Maintain sufficient technical depth to challenge designs and resolve complex problems. 

• Drive modernisation, simplification, and reduction of technical debt. 

• Ensure scalability, security, resilience, performance, and maintainability are built in. 

 

Technical Leadership 

• Own the technical direction of systems and services within the teams domain. 

• Lead design decisions and ensure alignment with StarCompliance architecture standards. 

• Maintain sufficient technical depth to challenge designs and support complex problems. 

• Drive modernisation, simplification, and reduction of technical debt. 

• Ensure scalability, security, resilience, performance, and maintainability are built in. 

 

AI-First & Agentic Engineering 

• Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices. 

• Structure work so engineers and agents can deliver effectively together. 

• Increase the proportion of development activity that can be safely automated. 

• Establish automated validation and guardrails for AI-generated changes. 

• Measure AI adoption through improvements in throughput, quality, and engineering capacity. 

 

Delivery, Quality & Operations 

• Own end-to-end delivery and ongoing health of the teams products and services. 

• Translate product priorities into clear and achievable engineering outcomes. 

• Balance feature delivery with quality, resilience, security, and technical sustainability. 

• Ensure software is tested, deployable, observable, supportable, and production-ready. 

• Drive automation across testing, CI/CD, deployment, and operational processes. 

• Use engineering and production data to improve quality and delivery effectiveness. 

 

Quality, CI/CD & Operational Excellence 

• Ensure engineers own the quality of the software they create. 

• Embed appropriate automated testing and quality controls throughout the SDLC. 

• Drive high levels of CI/CD automation and low-risk, repeatable deployments. 

• Ensure services provide effective telemetry, logging, monitoring, and alerting. 

• Use production data and incidents to drive continuous engineering improvement. 

 

Platform & Collaboration 

• Build solutions using modern Azure, cloud-native, and reusable platform capabilities. 

• Partner with Platform Engineering, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, and Product. 

• Work across team boundaries to resolve dependencies and systemic engineering issues. 

• Communicate delivery, technical risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders. 

• Contribute to engineering-wide standards, forums, and improvement initiatives. 

Skills and Experience

• Significant software engineering experience, including technical and people leadership. 

• Strong experience with C# and modern .NET / ASP.NET Core. 

• Strong understanding of APIs, software architecture, and modern integration patterns. 

• Strong experience with microservices, containers, and distributed systems. 

• Experience with infrastructure as code and automated environment provisioning. 

• Experience with event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging. 

• Experience building and operating enterprise SaaS or cloud-hosted applications. 

• Experience with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript. 

• Strong knowledge of relational databases, particularly SQL Server. 

• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern engineering practices. 

• Understanding of observability, resilience, performance, and secure software development. 

• Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic development approaches. 

• Experience supporting or leading AI-first or agentic engineering transformation. 

• Proven ability to lead engineers, manage delivery, allocate resources, and influence across teams. 

• Strong technical judgement, communication, coaching, and stakeholder-management skills. 

Minimum Qualifications 

 

 Minimum Qualifications 

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. 

• Experience within regulated SaaS or financial-services technology. 

 

Integrity and Ethics 

• All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner.