Tech Practice Principal – Web Tech Lead

Role Overview

• Hands-on Engineering: Lead by example by remaining hands-on, committing high-quality code in TypeScript, JavaScript, Next and React (React Native a bonus) to power cloud-deployed digital websites and mobile apps.
• Architectural Stewardship: Work closely with Technical Architects to ensure the long-term health of the frontend ecosystem, ensuring cross-platform consistency between web and mobile interfaces. You will oversee support for both the web and app platforms, making pragmatic decisions that balance speed-to-market with excellent user experience.
• Mobile Collaboration: In collaboration with the Mobile Lead (React Native), provide dedicated architectural guidance for the mobile application, as required, ensuring best practices in mobile performance optimisation, offline storage, native bridging, and App Store/Google Play deployments.
• Engineering Culture: Set the "gold standard" for frontend engineering routines. Drive a culture of technical pride, ensuring rigorous testing, secure cloud deployment practices, and insightful code reviews across all frontend codebases.
• Delivery Accountability: Operates in "Project Mode," taking full accountability for managing your team to deliver on-time frontend outcomes across web and mobile, while ensuring adherence to budgets and high quality.
• Distributed Team Management: Act as the bridge between onshore stakeholders and a distributed team of Onshore and Nearshore Web Developers and Mobile Developers. You will actively manage this team's day-to-day delivery to maintain velocity and ensure consistent standards across geographical boundaries.
• Technical Mentorship: Support the growth of developers on your project, fostering a high-achieving, collaborative environment through technical coaching and peer reviews.
• Collaborative Influence: Navigate a multi-faceted stakeholder landscape. You will be equally comfortable aligning cross-platform UI/UX expectations with technical realities as you are discussing business value and roadmap priorities with Senior Executives (C-suite/CxO level) to help them achieve their business ambitions.

Requirements

• Frontend & Mobile Mastery: Extensive professional experience with modern web and mobile ecosystems, specifically TypeScript, JavaScript, Next and React (React Native a bonus).
• Mobile Architecture: Deep understanding of mobile-specific engineering challenges, including cross-platform mobile architectures, app store deployments, and mobile performance tuning.
• Cloud Expertise: Solid experience building and deploying scalable frontend applications in cloud environments, with practical, hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure being highly advantageous.
• Team Management & Delivery: Proven experience managing and leading distributed Onshore and Nearshore development teams. You know how to maintain velocity and quality to successfully deliver project outcomes when the team isn't in the same room.
• Consultative Mindset: The ability to build trust quickly, evaluate options, and translate complex UI/UX and business requirements into actionable technical designs

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• JavaScript
• React
• React Native
• TypeScript