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Job Title: Technical Lead x 3 positions

Salary: £49,000 - £65,500

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid

Contract: Permanent

The Tech Lead at Cambridge University Press and Assessment plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, scalable, and resilient applications that support the global spectrum of education needs. By providing technical leadership across the full technology stack, the Tech Lead ensures systems are designed for maintainability, extensibility, and long-term success, empowering teams to unlock potential, and deliver transformative solutions for learners, teachers, and researchers.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About The Role

We're seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to lead by setting standards for the migration of legacy 3-tier enterprise applications to scalable, cloud-native architectures on AWS, with a strong focus on observability and web-app technologies. You'll lead an agile, cross-functional engineering team by setting standards and providing thought leadership to deliver resilient, high-performance systems that empower our global platforms, serving millions of users worldwide. This role offers the opportunity to establish the foundation for future innovation, including the adoption of event-driven architecture (EDA) and modern practices to support successful cloud migration

About You

As a hands-on Tech Lead, you'll bring deep expertise in AWS architecture, cloud migration strategies, and observability frameworks, leading the transformation of legacy 3-tier enterprise applications into modern, scalable, cloud-native solutions. Your technical mastery spans microservices, serverless, and containerisation (ECS/EKS, Lambda, Docker), with proficiency in building high-performance PWAs using frameworks like React or Angular integrated with cloud-native backends. You will spearhead the implementation of robust observability solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack, ensuring resilient, reliable systems that empower our global platforms.

Security and compliance are at the heart of your approach, as you champion industry standards like OWASP and GDPR, deploying secure authentication (OAuth2, JWT) and encryption (TLS, AES) across all touchpoints. Your leadership is backed by extensive experience developing full-stack applications, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and driving automation through CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins. You thrive in agile, cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers and aligning technical solutions with evolving business needs.

Ideally, you are also keen to explore event-driven architecture (EDA) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD), with an interest in advanced patterns like CQRS, Event Sourcing, and Saga using AWS EventBridge, SNS, or SQS. Your background may include experience in various business sectors, equipping you to address industry-specific challenges and shape strategies for effective and future-ready cloud migration.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards And Benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 7th August. Interviews will take place after a call to discuss your interest, experience and suitability for the role.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand the eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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Location:
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£100,000 - £125,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Management & Operations

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