Technical Lead
Appnovation Technologies6 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own architecture and design decisions across composable web stacks.
- Lead hands-on development through planning, coding, code review, testing, and technical quality ownership.
- Select and implement headless CMS, frontend framework, hosting, content models, and component libraries.
- Lead accessibility, technical SEO, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, performance budgets, and Core Web Vitals practices.
- Establish standards and guardrails for AI coding assistants and agents, including review, testing, security, maintainability, and data-protection controls.
- Plan and lead CMS and platform migrations, including audits, mapping, transformation, automation, and URL redirects.
- Design CMS integrations, APIs, webhooks, event-driven workflows, monitoring, error handling, and rollback strategies.
- Own architecture and integration documentation and convert technical guidance into reusable onboarding and handoff materials.
- Break work into actionable tasks, delegate effectively, coach developers, and build team capability.
- Serve as the primary technical client contact, communicate trade-offs and risks, and manage expectations with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide technical input to planning, estimation, backlog refinement, milestone tracking, and risk escalation.
- Identify opportunities to add client value and communicate them to the account team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience, including at least 2 years leading a team’s technical direction.
- Track record delivering corporate and enterprise-scale, multi-site, multi-brand, or multi-region web platforms with complex governance and stakeholder needs.
- Ability to translate technical vision into clear, actionable execution plans.
- Excellent communication with non-technical audiences and the right to work in the UK.
- Experience designing MACH-style composable architectures and making build-versus-buy decisions.
- Hands-on experience with at least two of Sanity, Contentful, Builder.io, Strapi, or Webflow, including content modelling, editorial workflows, localization, and preview.
- Strong production experience with React and ideally Next.js or a similar framework, including SSR, SSG, and ISR strategies.
- Experience using Node.js and TypeScript to build APIs, serverless functions, middleware, and scripts.
- Experience leading large-scale migrations using n8n or similar automation tools, custom ETL, and scripted approaches.
- Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, OAuth, SSO, and integrations with CRM, DAM, PIM, search, and analytics platforms.
- Experience with Git workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment to platforms such as Vercel, Netlify, AWS, or Azure.
- In-depth knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, ARIA, semantic HTML, and hands-on assistive-technology testing.
- Knowledge of technical SEO, structured data, AI-driven search, answer engines, Core Web Vitals, performance budgets, caching, CDN strategy, and asset optimization.
- Daily fluent use of AI coding tools with the judgment to review, test, and reject generated output.
- Consulting or agency experience, team-practice creation, AI usage policy development, composable vendor certifications or partner experience, commerce or search platform experience, and familiarity with Storybook and Figma are preferred.
Benefits
- UK-based role working with an existing global team.
- Equal Opportunity Employer with diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments.
- Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process.
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About Appnovation Technologies
Appnovation Technologies is a privately held digital consultancy that designs, builds, and supports customer-facing platforms for enterprises, combining strategy, UX, engineering, and managed services. Its teams deliver web and mobile development, Drupal and open-source implementations, Atlassian consulting, and data/AI-enabled solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vancouver, it serves global clients including Pfizer, Google, Yeti, TCL, and AstraZeneca.