Tech Lead - AdTech

Internal use only – Grade D

About us.

We are The Very Group and we’re here to help families get more out of life. We know that our customers work hard for their families and have a lot to balance in their busy lives. That’s why we combine amazing brands and products with flexible payment options on Very.co.uk to help them say yes to the things they love. We’re just as passionate about helping our people get more out of life too; building careers with real growth, a sense of purpose, belonging and wellbeing.

About the role

The Tech Lead is a key role within a Software or Data Engineering sub-community providing technical leadership and guidance to Engineers to deliver and maintain operationally secure, stable, and performant code in line with TVG Engineering standards in a DevSecOps manner. 

A Tech Lead is technically experienced across a breadth and depth of technical solutions and emerging technology.  This role will lead by example, offer mentorship and is a pivotal role in architecture, design, coding practices and reviews. 

The Tech Lead is at the forefront of solving challenging technical problems, and responsible for engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement within the sub-community across all technical communities. 

About the Team

We’re creating a brand-new AdTech (Advertising Technologies) squad encompassing the digital tools, software and platforms TVG use to manage, deliver, target and analyse digital marketing activity. This squad will be central to The Very Group’s evolution in digital marketing.

This hybrid, cross-functional team will consist of software and data engineers, data specialists, and analysts, collaborating to deliver an ambitious and innovative roadmap. Operating at the intersection of software, data, privacy, and digital marketing, the team will develop solutions that drive real business impact. The squad is accountable for key capabilities such as:

• The collection and management of user consent through cookie management
• Data integrations with our trusted 3rd parties that provide the TVG Marketing team with quality, rich data to feed campaign execution and measurement
• First Party Data Activation – leveraging our data asset to improve the customer experience and drive customer engagement
• Oversight of digital data management and tagging across diverse platforms
• Orchestration of services Integration and orchestration of services across AWS, Google Cloud, Celebrus and OneTrust

Key Responsibilities

• All key design decisions around data engineering across the technical eco-system 

• Adoption of engineering best practice and proactively leading continuous improvement 

• Ensuring monitoring, alerting, and observability is consistently implemented. 

• Ensuring the solutions are operationally optimal, resilient, secure, efficient, effective and cost optimised, 

• Ensuring all software products comply with TVG’s current policies and standards, and where they don’t own the timely remediation. 

• Leading innovation and technology enhancement opportunities 

• Leading on production incident resolution when needed. 

• Identifying obstacles, risks and issues that could impact the software products and work with all stakeholders required to mitigate them. 

• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure that the skills required are known and a path to address is agreed 

• Working with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and Delivery Leads to ensure technical aspects are known and prioritised into a backlog  

• Ensuring technical Root Cause Analysis is completed in a timely and appropriate manner for any operational incidents 

• Alignment with other Tech Leads across the Technology and Data communities. 

• Deputising for the Senior Engineering Manager when needed. 

Essential knowledge and skills

• Significant experience of defining and delivery of the delivery of technical products/solutions 

• Familiar with operating in a lean, agile DevSecOps based environment 

• Proven track record of technical senior/leadership role(s) 

• Proficiency in Cloud technology, programming languages, frameworks, and modern software engineering tooling.  For example, AWS services, RDBMS technologies, Python, Spark, Helix.   

• Demonstrable experience of providing clear technology leadership, direction and decision making for a whole team. 

• Experience of building, integrating, maintaining, and managing complex software architectures (SaaS and in-house), ideally across multi-cloud environments. 

• Experience of building software applications with security, reliability, scalability, high availability, and concurrency from the outset. 

• A strong collaborator, communicator, and decision maker. 

• Experience in FinOps. 
• Confident and comfortable to share stories internally and externally to build our Very Group brand and credibility to attract and retain talent.
  

Benefits

• Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews
• £6500 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Udemy learning access
• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be found on our career site

How to apply

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.  

What happens next?

Our talent acquisition team will be in touch if you’re successful so keep an eye on your emails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we’re a good match, we’ll share your CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.

You can expect a two stage interview process after meeting the TA team,

First stage – A one-hour face to face or remote interview with the team.

Second Stage - Final Interview with a Senior Stakeholder within the Team (this stage will possibly include a task)

As an inclusive employer please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

If you'd like to know more about our interviews, you can find out here.

Equal opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.