At DEVLEAPS, we help teams ship better software with less friction. We're looking for a Tech Lead – Engineering Excellence who thrives at the intersection of hands-on technical leadership and strategic consultancy — someone who can steer architecture decisions in the morning, pair with an engineer in the afternoon, and sit across from a Product Manager at the end of the day to make sense of it all.

What you'll do

Lead technical direction on client engagements: own architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and ensure solutions are built to last across Kubernetes/AKS, event streaming, CI/CD, security, and AI/ML-ready platforms.

Serve as the trusted technical voice for clients: challenge assumptions, shape roadmaps, and help senior stakeholders understand trade-offs without drowning them in jargon.

Embed as a technical anchor in client teams: guide engineers through design and implementation, raise the collective bar through code reviews, pairing, and structured feedback.

Drive modernisation at scale: supported migrations from on-prem, monolith, and ESB landscapes towards microservices, domain-driven, and event-driven architectures with a clear plan, not just a vision.

Own the technical narrative: facilitate architecture reviews, run engineering workshops, and translate complex system challenges into clear options, trade-offs, and decisions.

Remove what slows teams down: identify systemic bottlenecks in tooling, process, or architecture and work with client leadership to actually fix them.

You are

A seasoned engineer who has led: you've made architectural calls, mentored engineers, and owned outcomes, not just delivered tickets.

A consultant at heart: you ask before you prescribe, push back with evidence, and know that the best technical solution is sometimes not the first one you thought of.

Comfortable with ambiguity and politics: you can navigate competing stakeholder interests, legacy constraints, and shifting priorities without losing momentum.

A multiplier: you measure success by how much better the team around you gets, not just by what you personally shipped.

Human: you have opinions, sharp questions, hobbies, maybe a questionable taste in snacks. That's fine, we're a little bit geeky and proud of it.

You'll bring

6–10+ years of software and/or DevOps engineering experience, with at least a few years in a lead or principal capacity.

A track record of leading technical delivery on real-world, complex systems: services, data pipelines, integrations, AI/ML workloads, or platform engineering.

Engineering foundations

Deep understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, and architectural patterns (DDD, EDA, microservices, API design).

Strong instincts around code quality, testing strategy, observability, and production reliability.

Cloud & DevOps

Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (preferably Azure), including networking, identity, security, and managed services at scale.

Solid grasp of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automation. You've built and maintained these, not just used them.

Kubernetes/AKS experience at a level where you can make architectural and operational decisions, not just run workloads.

Leadership & consultancy

Experience leading engineering teams or workstreams: setting direction, unblocking people, and holding technical quality.

Proven consultancy skills: stakeholder management, facilitating difficult conversations, and delivering clear recommendations under pressure.

Comfortable operating across organisational levels, from pairing with a junior engineer to advising a VP of Engineering.

How you work

You don't need a methodology religion. You know when to lean on structure and when to cut through it. Scrum, Kanban, something in between: you read the room and help teams find a rhythm that actually works for them.

You've collaborated in messy, multi-team environments with different vendors, different cultures, and different definitions of "done", and you know how to find common ground without losing your standards.

You think in systems, not tickets: you care about how the team works together as much as what they ship.

Language

Dutch fluent, English professional.

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