Azure Tech Lead

We are seeking an experienced Azure Integration Tech Lead to provide technical leadership across our integration platforms, cloud-native services, and API ecosystem. This role combines hands-on engineering expertise with technical leadership, architectural governance, and strategic decision-making. You will lead a team of integration engineers in our brand-new Tech Hub in Coimbra.

• Own the technical direction of the Azure Integration estate
• Lead architecture and design decisions for APIs, event-driven systems, messaging platforms, and enterprise integrations
• Establish engineering standards, design principles, and development best practices
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, observable, and maintainable
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and technical governance
• Balance delivery speed, technical quality, and operational risk
• Provide line management and technical leadership to integration engineers
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers at all levels
• Define technical objectives and support career progression planning
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and learning
• Support recruitment and technical assessment of engineering candidates
• Design and deliver solutions using Azure Integration Services
• Lead development of synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns
• Implement enterprise integration patterns
• Own the design and evolution of the Integration Developer Platform
• Enable self-service deployment capabilities for engineering teams
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform
• Establish reusable templates, accelerators, and automation frameworks
• Improve developer experience through platform tooling and automation
• Promote modern engineering practices including CI/CD, GitOps, Automated Testing, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps
• Drive utilisation of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery speed
• Champion automation across build, testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational processes
• Collaborate with Security teams to implement Azure security best practices
• Design secure authentication and authorisation models using Microsoft Entra ID
• Ensure compliance with organisational governance and regulatory requirements
• Implement secure networking architectures
• Establish best practices for monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management
• Improve operational visibility through Application Insights, Log Analytics, and PagerDuty
• Lead root cause analysis and continual service improvement activities
• Ensure services meet agreed availability and reliability targets

• 7+ years designing and delivering enterprise integration solutions
• Significant experience delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure
• Strong experience with Azure Integration Services
• Experience designing API-led, event-driven, and microservices architectures
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Application Insights
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
• Experience implementing CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• Strong knowledge of Git, DevOps, DevSecOps, Automated Testing, and Release Management
• Demonstrable experience leading engineering teams
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working with distributed teams and offshore delivery models
• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Networking, and Secure Integration Design
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused decision maker
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and influencing abilities
• Passionate about cloud technologies and engineering excellence
• Comfortable challenging assumptions while remaining collaborative
• Continuously curious and committed to learning
• Applications must be submitted in English

• Experience developing applications using C#, .NET, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Experience with MuleSoft, Kafka, or AWS
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Azure Developer Associate
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms
• Experience implementing AI-enabled software delivery practices
• Experience in highly regulated or large-scale enterprise environments
• FinOps certification or demonstrable cloud cost optimisation experience

• Hybrid Working, Home & Tech Hub Coimbra (monthly visits)
• Monday - Friday, 40 Hours
• Permanent status
• Opportunity to influence the development and culture of this innovative hub
• Training

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