Team Lead Senior Engineer CDP

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Engineer / Team Lead to guide and support a distributed development team in building scalable reliable systems. This role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership ensuring high-quality delivery while fostering a strong engineering culture.

You will work closely with the Technical Product Lead (TPL) Principal Architect (PA) Product owner (PO) and Product Director (PD) to translate user/ business requirements and technical direction into execution while coaching engineers and maintaining delivery momentum across a remote setup.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership
  Lead by example through hands-on development setting standards for code quality performance and maintainability.
• Team Guidance & Mentorship
  Support and mentor engineers in a remote environment helping them grow technically and professionally. Provide regular feedback and foster ownership within the team.
• Execution & Delivery
  Own the day-to-day execution of work. Ensure tasks are well understood properly scoped and delivered on time.
• Collaboration with PO& PD
  Work closely with the Product owner and product director on business requirements and translate/ refine this into epic and user stories.
• Collaboration with TPL & PA
  Work closely with the Technical Product Lead and Principal Architect to implement architectural decisions and refine technical approaches.
• Code Reviews & Best Practices
  Enforce high engineering standards through code reviews design discussions and continuous improvement of development practices.
• Scalable System Design
  Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems.
• Kubernetes & Infrastructure Awareness
  Guide the team in building and operating applications in a Kubernetes-based environment ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Remote Team Operations
  Facilitate effective communication clarity and collaboration within a fully or partially remote team.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Software Engineering Background
  Extensive experience building backend systems in a modern programming language (Go is a strong plus not a requirement).
• Leadership Experience
  Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers preferably in a remote or distributed team setup.
• Distributed Systems Knowledge
  Solid understanding of scalable architectures APIs and system integrations.
• Kubernetes Familiarity
  Experience with containerized applications and a good understanding of Kubernetes concepts and operations.
• Pragmatic Problem Solving
  Ability to balance speed and quality making practical decisions in complex environments. Propose different options to Product owner to come to the best impact-effort solution.
• Communication Skills
  Clear and effective communicator able to align team members and collaborate across roles.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Golang in production environments
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (e.g. messaging systems)
• Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code
• Exposure to high-throughput or data-intensive systems
• Experience with AI to optimize workflow and in solutions towards end users.

What Success Looks Like

• A well-functioning aligned and motivated remote engineering team
• Consistent delivery of high-quality maintainable software
• Strong adherence to engineering standards and best practices
• Smooth collaboration with PO TPL PA PD and other teams
• Systems that scale reliably in a Kubernetes-based environment

Why Deployteq

• Make a direct impact on a critical platform (CDP) at the core of our product ecosystem
• Real influence on technical direction data architecture and product quality
• A culture built on ownership trust and thoughtful decision-making
• Flexible remote-friendly working environment
• A team of smart collaborative colleagues solving complex data challenges together

In One Sentence

You are the technical leader of the Customer Data Platform ensuring that customer data becomes a scalable reliable and powerful foundation for all product innovation at Deployteq.

We Value Diversity

We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment regardless of age race gender or gender identity religion sexual orientation disability or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day we make sure we take time to look after ourselves each other and the planet because were always stronger together.

ITG have a number of community groups available to employees and exist to offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues with shared interests to connect socialise and check in with each other.

These include Black ITGers Together LGBTQ Together Mens Health Together Muslims Together Neurodiversity Together Working Parents and Carers Together and Women In Tech Together.

What next
If you found yourself interested in knowing more drop us your application and someone from our team will be in touch.

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Manager