Tech Practice Principal - Web Tech Lead

Tech Practice Principal - Web Tech Lead 

Location: Hybrid: Client Site, AND Digital office, Remote. Proximity to Reading / Thames Valley is key

Core Tech: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next,Microsoft Azure. React Native familiarity a bonus

AND Introduction

At AND, we accelerate the development of digital capabilities. In practice, that means helping ambitious leaders and organisations build the teams, products, processes and even operational structures they need to close the digital skills gap within their organisation today, so that they thrive tomorrow.

Clients rely on our experience, agility and craft skills across tech and business strategy, software development, AI and product management to address some of the toughest challenges facing their businesses.

We bring aboard thinkers, tinkerers, passionate software craftspeople and inspiring technologists to help us solve these challenges. Together, we’re united by a sense of pragmatism, purpose and a deeply-held belief that digital products and technology alone won’t transform a business or save the world: it’s the people that count.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Web Tech Lead to oversee the frontend delivery of a cornerstone digital platform. As a Lead, you won't just be overseeing delivery; you’ll be the technical heartbeat of mission-critical website architectures (managing dedicated Web dev teams) whilst working closely with the Mobile Tech Lead and Mobile devs (React Native) to ensure consistency, alignment and synergies are found. This role is perfect for a hands-on frontend expert who loves building responsive, high-performance web and mobile applications in the cloud, while taking accountability for managing a distributed engineering team to deliver exceptional outcomes for the client.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Excellence & Execution

• 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.

Team Leadership & Delivery Management

• 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.

Stakeholder Management

• 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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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 

Equal Opportunities Statement

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.