Engineering Team Lead

Responsibilities

• People Leadership & Coaching 
• Line manage, mentor, and coach Software Engineers to support their professional growth, performance, and career development. 
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. 
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and capability development across the engineering function. 
Technical Leadership 
• Lead and participate in design and architectural sessions, partnering closely with the Architecture function to deliver compliant, scalable, cloud-ready solutions. 
• Contribute hands-on to development, ensuring best practices, maintainability, and technical quality. 
• Drive the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, guiding teams on how LLMs and automation can enhance productivity and quality. 
Delivery Ownership 
• Own the lifecycle of delivery for your team, ensuring clear visibility of progress, quality, and key engineering metrics. 
• Ensure strong adherence to Star’s SDLC, engineering standards, version-control practices, and quality expectations. 
• Play a key role in defining, optimising, and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and associated tooling. 
• Support the technical strategy and evolution of Star’s SaaS platform, contributing to modernisation, scaling, and cloud transformation initiatives. 
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement 
• Work closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, QA, Architecture, and Cloud teams to ensure alignment on priorities, scope, design, and delivery. 
• Advocate for engineering needs, design integrity, maintainability, and long-term platform health. 
• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, providing clear updates, risks, and mitigation plans

Skills and Experience

• Essential Technical Skills 
• Extensive experience leading and mentoring high-performing software engineering teams. 
• Strong hands-on expertise with the Microsoft .NET ecosystem: 
• C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Visual Studio. 
• Solid understanding of web technologies such as JavaScript, React, Angular, HTML. 
• Strong grounding in software engineering principles, including SOLID, design patterns, and scalable architecture. 
• Experience delivering enterprise-grade, cloud-hosted applications. 
• Strong understanding of relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL). 
• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines and cloud technologies; Azure experience strongly preferred. 
• Familiarity with PaaS, cloud infrastructure fundamentals, and SaaS operational considerations. 
Leadership & Delivery Skills 
• Proven success overseeing large or complex software development projects. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of working across engineering, product, and leadership teams. 
• Ability to analyse requirements, propose solutions, and guide teams through delivery. 
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and drive their adoption across the team. 
Desirable Skills 
• Experience or interest in AI-enabled engineering practices, including use of LLMs for productivity, code generation, or testing. 
• Experience working in a modern, Agile, cloud-first SaaS environment. 
• Exposure to microservices, distributed systems, and modern architectural patterns. 
Minimum Qualifications 
• Degree or Similar 
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.