Tech Lead – Selby Jennings job at London Full Time NEW

Our Client, a global fintech company that provides quantitative data and analytics to hedge funds and institutional investors, is looking for a Technical Lead to oversee their European Technology team. In this role, you will act as a hands-on leader and strategic collaborator, driving the next phase of platform evolution. There is a strong element of greenfield engineering, as the business scales and modernises its infrastructure to support increasingly sophisticated quantitative workflows.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact position with exposure across the full technology stack, working closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and the business. Proven technical leadership experience, and a track record of designing and operating scalable distributed systems; comfortable working across the full technology stack, with strong knowledge of CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), and excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and scale the EMEA technology team, fostering a high-performance engineering culture
Take ownership of platform architecture, evolving the current infrastructure to support scalability, reliability, and performance
Drive greenfield initiatives, building new systems and capabilities from the ground up
Champion DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automation
Work cross-functionally with product, data, and business teams to deliver impactful solutions
Oversee cloud infrastructure (AWS), ensuring security, cost efficiency, and resilience
Implement robust monitoring, observability, and incident management frameworks
Contribute hands-on where needed across the stack (backend, infrastructure, data pipelines)

Requirements

5+ years’ experience working with financial or quantitative datasets or Data Vendor Backgrounds.
Proven experience in a DevOps / platform engineering environment, ideally within financial services or fintech
Strong expertise in AWS and cloud-native architecture
Demonstrated experience in a technical leadership or team lead capacity
Experience designing and operating scalable, distributed systems
Comfortable working across the full technology stack (infrastructure through to application layer)
Strong understanding of CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills