Engineering Lead

Work where work matters.

Elevate your career at Qodea, where innovation isn't just a buzzword, it's in our DNA.

We are a global technology group built for what's next, offering high calibre professionals the platform for high stakes work, the kind of work that defines an entire career. When you join us, you're not just taking on projects, you're solving problems that don't even have answers yet.

You will join the exclusive roster of talent that global leaders, including Google, Snap, Diageo, PayPal, and Jaguar Land Rover call when deadlines seem impossible, when others have already tried and failed, and when the solution absolutely has to work.



Forget routine consultancy. You will operate where technology, design, and human behaviour meet to deliver tangible outcomes, fast. This is work that leaves a mark, work you’ll be proud to tell your friends about.



Qodea is built for what’s next. An environment where your skills will evolve at the frontier of innovation and AI, ensuring continuous growth and development.



We are looking for a team lead to manage our Platform Engineering team.

We look for people who embody:

Innovation to solve the hardest problems.

‍Accountability for every result.

‍Integrity always.

About The Role

The purpose of this role is to work closely with our team and ensure that the projects we develop for our customers are aligned to customers’ requirements.

This role is designed for impact, and we believe our best work happens when we connect. While we operate a flexible model, we expect you to spend time on site (at our offices or a client location) for collaboration sessions, customer meetings, and internal workshops.

What You’ll Do

Leadership & Team Development:

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to platform engineers, fostering innovation and continuous improvement.
• Identify growth opportunities for the team aligned with talent, interests, and business needs.
• Ensure appropriate skillsets and capacity are allocated to tasks and deliverables.
• Manage workload allocation to balance project work with training, upskilling, and leave.
• Actively support team recruitment when applicable.
• Lead the performance review process for team members in line with company strategy.
• Effectively manage team capacity and workload allocation, ensuring optimal deployment of skillsets to tasks, while strategically balancing project deliverables with dedicated time for training, upskilling, and leave.
• Manage day-to-day people management activities (leave, on-call, sickness, overtime, ROTA, timesheets, 1:1s).

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to both internal stakeholders and external customers, understanding their technical challenges and providing expert guidance and solutions utilising GCP technologies, patterns, and best practices.
• Represent the team in relevant internal and external forums.
• Identify the long-term impact of designs, advise stakeholders of risks, and suggest secure solutions or involve relevant internal stakeholders.

Strategic & Operational Planning:

• Provide valuable input to Management regarding capacity planning, allocation to new contracts, and team upskilling needs.
• Support management with the assessment of new incoming contracts and scope of work for the team.
• Proactively pursue decision-making processes to drive team success, including cost analysis based on time management.
• Partner with support teams to facilitate shift-left activities.

Technical & Business Acumen:

• Propose and/or develop improvements for overall internal tooling.
• Keep abreast of technology developments to ensure Qodea remains ahead of the technology curve.
• Represent Qodea in external engagements with Google and the wider tech community (e.g., technical writing, presenting at events).

• Manage the workload allocation so that  we  can ensure time for training and upskilling, as well as leave, in a balanced way
• Actively  involved and supporting the  recruitment  for  your team, when applicable 
• Managing the day-to-day people management-related activities: leave, on-call, sickness, overtime, shift ROTA, timesheet management, recurrent 1:1s, etc.
• Leading the performance review process for your team members in line with the company strategy and timeframes
• Propose and /or develop improvements of the overall internal tooling
• Identify the long-term impact of designs, advising stakeholders of the risk and suggesting potential secure solutions, or involving the relevant stakeholders from within Qodea
• Proactively pursue the decision-making process required to drive the team to success, including potential cost analysis based on (amongst other things) time management-related conclusions
• Partner with our support teams to support the shift left activities
• Stay abreast of technological developments, ensuring the Qodea business remains at the forefront of the technology curve.
• Represent Qodea in external engagements with Google and the wider tech community, when applicable. We can align this to your strengths, for example technical writing or presenting at events. 

Requirements

What Success Looks Like

• Previous experience  in a leadership-type role
• Capacity for strategic thinking and contributing to long-term technical roadmaps
• A strategic approach to problem-solving, anticipating future challenges and opportunities
• The ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication
• Ability to navigate and resolve team conflicts constructively.
• Proven ability to effectively delegate tasks and empower team members.
• Strong interpersonal skills with an empathetic approach to team management.
• You’re proactive and you like to solve problems. You want to get involved and make things happen, ensuring the best outcomes for your team, the business and our customers
• Curiosity relating to technology and bringing together the two areas, people management and technology. 
• Understanding of platform engineering, delivery and infrastructure automation
• Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes in production environments, and an understanding of container orchestration and management.
• Good awareness of infrastructure as code (IaC) and tools like Terraform, comfortable with configuration management tooling such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt.
• Good level of understanding of Linux operating systems (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS) with experience in some systems administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar pipelines, with a focus on automation and reliability
• Knowledge of modern internet protocols and patterns, including but not limited to gRPC, GraphQL, REST APIs, and related tools.
• Proven experience in a cloud-focused delivery role (DevOps or Software Development)

Benefits

We believe in supporting our team members both professionally and personally. Here's how we invest in you:

Compensation and Financial Well-being

• Competitive base salary.
• Discretionary company bonus scheme.
• Employee referral scheme.
• Meal Vouchers.

Health and Wellness

• Health Care Package.
• Life and Health Insurance.

Work-Life Balance and Growth

• Bookster.
• 28 days of annual leave.
• Floating bank holidays.
• An extra paid day off on your birthday.
• Ten paid learning days per year.
• Flexible working hours.
• Sabbatical leave (after 5 years).
• Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).
• Industry-recognised training and certifications.
• Bonusly: employee recognition and rewards platform.
• Clear opportunities for career development.
• Length of Service Awards.
• Regular company events.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all.