Eames Consulting
Digital Product Lead
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Digital Product Engineering Lead
About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on Digital Product Engineering Lead to help shape and deliver digital products and technology services that address genuine customer and business needs.
This is a technical leadership role for a T-shaped engineer who combines strong engineering capability with leadership, product thinking and a practical approach to solving business problems through technology.
The role remains predominantly hands-on, with responsibility for providing technical direction, supporting other engineers and contributing directly to the design and development of digital solutions.
This would suit someone who enjoys staying close to technology and delivery while also having an influence on product direction, engineering practices and business outcomes.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead and contribute to the development of digital products and technology services.
- Work closely with business, product, customer and engineering stakeholders to understand needs and priorities.
- Translate business and customer requirements into practical, scalable digital solutions.
- Contribute to product discovery, technical design and delivery.
- Provide technical leadership while remaining actively involved in software development.
- Support and develop other engineers.
- Help improve engineering practices, development processes and ways of working.
- Explore the use of AI and automation to improve software development and service delivery.
- Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to explore new ideas and opportunities.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and identify where they can provide practical business value.
- Work within a modern cloud-based technology environment.
- Champion pragmatic, lean engineering practices and continuously look for better ways to deliver value.
- Take ideas from initial concept through to production.
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Technical Environment
The role requires strong hands-on experience with modern software engineering technologies, with particular experience across areas such as:
Front End
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Modern web frameworks
Backend & Cloud
- C# -.NET
- Cloud platforms and services
- Serverless technologies
- API development
- Distributed and cloud-based applications
Data & Engineering
- Cloud and/or open-source databases
- Source control
- CI/CD
- Automated testing and deployment
- Modern DevOps practices
AI & Modern Engineering
A strong interest in AI-assisted software engineering and modern approaches to product development is highly desirable.
Experience applying AI tools to software development, automation, prototyping or engineering workflows would be advantageous.
The organisation is exploring how AI and automation can be used to accelerate development, improve existing services and create new digital capabilities.
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About You
You will be a T-shaped, hands-on digital engineer who can combine technical depth with broader product and business thinking.
You will be comfortable:
- Working with business, product and customer stakeholders.
- Understanding problems and translating them into digital solutions.
- Moving between product thinking, architecture, technical design and hands-on development.
- Providing technical leadership while continuing to contribute directly to delivery.
- Working in an environment where engineers are expected to have a broad influence beyond simply writing code.
- Challenging established approaches and identifying simpler, more effective ways of working.
- Experimenting with new technologies and applying them where they can create genuine value.
- Taking ideas from concept and experimentation through to production.
Above all, this is a role for a pragmatic, digitally minded engineer who enjoys combining technology, customer needs and business outcomes.
Location
UK-based role with flexibility around the specific working location.
The position operates within a hybrid working environment, with occasional attendance at organisational offices as required.
The Opportunity
This is an opportunity to have meaningful influence across both product direction and engineering delivery while remaining closely involved in the technology and development work.
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