Software Engineering - Technical Lead (React & Node) - Manager

At PwC, our people in integration and platform architecture focus on designing and implementing seamless integration solutions and robust platform architectures for clients. They enable efficient data flow and optimise technology infrastructure for enhanced business performance. Those in solution architecture at PwC will design and implement innovative technology solutions to meet clients' business needs. You will leverage your experience in analysing requirements, developing technical designs to enable the successful delivery of solutions.

Tech Lead / Team-Level Architect

We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead who thrives on building scalable, secure, and high-quality systems — not just in theory, but through code, coaching, and close collaboration. You’ll own the end-to-end technical delivery of your team’s outcomes, driving architectural decisions, enabling clean implementation, and ensuring alignment with platform-wide direction through ongoing partnership with the Solution Architect and Product Owner.

This role is embedded in a full-stack engineering team, where you will serve as the technical anchor — guiding design, mentoring developers, reviewing code, and unblocking delivery. You’ll play a key part in turning architectural intent into working software, while helping grow a high-performing, empowered team.

How You’ll Partner with Solution Architects and Product Owners

• With Solution Architects: You will work closely to translate platform and domain architecture into team-level implementation, validate approaches, and ensure consistency with cross-team patterns. You’ll provide feedback, propose solutions, and act as an extension of the architectural leadership within your team.
• With Product Owners: You’ll act as a trusted technical advisor, helping to shape features and backlog items into viable technical solutions. You’ll balance scope, feasibility, and engineering effort to deliver real value without compromising on long-term maintainability.
  
  

Pull Request Leadership & Code Quality Ownership

Code quality starts with you. As Tech Lead, you are ultimately responsible for ensuring that only production-ready, standards-compliant code makes it into the main branch.

• You set the bar for code quality by reviewing PRs thoroughly — not just for correctness, but for maintainability, readability, and alignment to team and platform standards.
• You are expected to leave meaningful, constructive comments on most PRs, fostering learning and growth while upholding best practices.
• PRs should be used as active mentoring opportunities — a place where developers get actionable feedback that helps them improve over time.
• You lead by example in the PR process: demonstrating how thoughtful reviews can unblock, uplift, and enable teams.
• You help ensure the PR process is healthy, respected, and efficient — never a rubber stamp or bottleneck.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Team-Level Architecture & Technical Ownership

• Own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery quality for your team’s outcomes.
• Translate solution architecture into team-level designs, interfaces, and implementation plans.
• Ensure alignment with broader platform standards, collaborating closely with the Solution Architect.
• Work with the Product Owner to refine backlog items into technically actionable stories and epics.
• Define and uphold NFRs (scalability, performance, observability, security) for all deliverables.
• Partner with your Product Owner and Delivery Manager to scope, plan, and deliver incrementally.
  
  

Hands-On Engineering Leadership

• Stay actively engaged in the code — from spikes and POCs to PR reviews and production support.
• Guide developers with implementation details, design decisions, and coding practices.
• Debug tricky issues, drive resolution, and proactively identify areas for improvement.
  
  

Mentorship & Talent Development

• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and pairing opportunities.
• Help guide engineers’ technical growth and align development to career goals.
• Foster a collaborative, feedback-rich team culture centered on learning and quality.
  
  

Execution & Delivery Excellence

• Ensure the team delivers robust, maintainable, and tested software each sprint.
• Identify and eliminate technical blockers, delivery risks, or scope ambiguity early.
• Champion clean architecture, automation, and CI/CD pipelines as part of delivery DNA.
  
  

Alignment & Communication

• Be the go-to technical leader in agile ceremonies and cross-functional meetings.
• Represent team-level technical direction in architecture syncs, design reviews, and retros.
• Communicate clearly across stakeholders — from engineers and architects to product managers and QA.
  
  

Must-Have Qualifications

• 9-12 years in software engineering with experience leading technical delivery for a product or feature team.
• Strong proficiency in modern web and backend technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, Microservices, MongoDB).
• Proven ability to design and deliver end-to-end software in complex, distributed environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, trunk-based development, and devops best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and elevating team capability.
  
  

How You Work

• In the Trenches: You lead from within the team — helping build, debug, and deliver.
• Connector: You bridge architecture, product, and engineering to enable smooth, strategic delivery.
• Code Guardian: You ensure what gets merged is clean, consistent, and contributes to a healthy codebase.
• Consultative: You help the team and product owner make informed tradeoffs by providing technical clarity and context.
• Collaborative: You partner naturally with architects, engineers, and product teams.
• Execution-Oriented: You care deeply about shipping working software — cleanly and consistently.
• Multiplier: You raise the bar by mentoring others and creating scalable patterns for success