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About the Role
As a Technical Lead, you will act as the technical facilitator and engineering leader for a cross-functional squad, balancing hands-on software development with leadership through influence. You will help shape technical direction, guide delivery planning, drive quality strategy, and collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, QE, SRE/Platform teams, and partner squads to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the first line of technical escalation for the squad’s services/components
- Facilitate team ceremonies (refinement, technical grooming, sprint planning, design reviews) with a focus on flow and outcomes
- Translate product objectives into sound technical designs and testable acceptance criteria; decompose epics into implementable stories
- Design and implement complex features; complete complex bug fixes and performance improvements
- Define and uphold Definition of Ready/Done including code quality, automated test coverage, security checks, and observability
- Establish/maintain CI/CD pipelines, quality gates, and sensible branching/release strategies
- Drive a pragmatic quality strategy: test pyramid balance, contract tests, data management, environments, and non-functional testing
- Partner with TIO on SLOs, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident learning
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading through influence (tech lead, feature lead, guild lead, or similar) across design, delivery, and operations
- Strong track record in at least one domain: distributed services, data platforms, or high-throughput web/mobile applications
- Advanced knowledge of Agile/Lean practices including backlog refinement, technical grooming, and risk-based planning
- Experience with test strategy, test automation, CI/CD quality gates, and release readiness
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Java/JVM, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET/C#, Python, C/C++, SQL, Linux, or Windows
- Experience with relational and non-relational data stores, performance tuning, and data modelling
- Knowledge of CI/CD platforms, containers, cloud technologies, observability, and monitoring practices
- Understanding of secure coding, performance optimisation, reliability engineering, and incident response
Work Type
- flexible hours
Benefits
- numerous wellbeing initiatives
- shared parental leave
- study assistance
- sabbaticals
- country specific benefits
About the Company
- A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society.
- Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice.
- At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future.
- We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
- We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.