Argus is a fast-growing global B2B media company providing essential information on commodity markets. As a business, we continue to grow and evolve, adding new markets, new services, new delivery options and improved analytical tools.

Job Purpose

Technology is central to everything we do, and a key aspect of the evolving technology organization is to be aware of the emerging technologies and their applications to Argus services.

Working as the Engineering Tech Lead, you will be part of the Technology and Data team, leading a engineering team and closely collaborating with product, quality assurance and other engineering teams to deliver solutions that meet the required business needs, quality, and technical standards.

This role is deeply technical, practical, and delivery‑focused, requiring someone who can both set the technical direction and actively contribute to the codebase.

What will you be doing

• Apply strong software and data engineering practices to build scalable, maintainable, secure, and cloud-native applications.

• Provide hands-on technical direction using modern architecture patterns (microservices, event‑driven).

• Dive into the codebase regularly to solve complex problems, guide design decisions, and unblock engineers.

• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality, production-ready solutions with a strong focus on user experience and pragmatic engineering.

• Work closely with product, QA, and other engineering teams to align technology choices with business goals.

• Clearly communicate progress, risks, trade-offs, and technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Uphold engineering best practices through code reviews, architecture reviews, testing standards, and DevOps principles.

• Promote a culture of quality, ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Embed AI, automation, and practical DevOps approaches to increase development speed, reliability, and observability.

• Mentor and support engineers in their technical growth, be a visible, approachable technical leader who fosters collaboration and innovation.

• Remove technical bottlenecks by providing expert guidance and enabling teams to move faster and more independently.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and assess their potential value to Argus.

• Identify opportunities to incorporate AI/ML tools, automation, and cloud-native capabilities to improve engineering effectiveness.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

• Strong understanding of:

o Service oriented architecture, microservices, event-driven architectures

o Cloud native development with AWS services (Lambda, Step functions, API Gateway, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, RDS Aurora, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, Athena etc)

o DevOps practices (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization)

o Applications development

• Strong experience of operating within an Agile delivery methodology

• Strong experience of delivering .NET/C# and Angular Web Apps (hands-on current experience)

• Advocate of SOLID principles and design patterns

• Strong databases experience (SQL and NoSQL)

• Instrumentation, monitoring, alerting, observability

• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to think creatively, combined with a results-oriented mindset

• Practical experience with applying AI/ML tools and techniques as an extension of the software engineer’s toolbox

• Strong inter-personal and communication skills to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

What’s in it for you

Our rapidly growing, award-winning business offers a dynamic environment for talented, entrepreneurial professionals to achieve results and grow their careers. Argus recognizes and rewards successful performance and as an Investor in People, we promote professional development and retain a high-performing team committed to building our success.

• Competitive salary and company bonus scheme

• Group pension scheme

• Group healthcare and life assurance scheme

• Hybrid working environment (currently one day in office)

• 25 days annual holiday with incremental increase up to 30 days

• Subsidised gym membership

• Season ticket travel loan

• Cycle to work scheme

• Flexible benefits platform (ability to buy additional medical cover, life assurance, dental cover, holiday, critical illness, travel insurance & health screening)

• Extensive internal and external training