InnoWave is looking for an experienced, hands-on Technical Lead to join our team and lead the technical direction of strategic projects. If you're based in Lisbon, this might be the opportunity for you!

Technical Lead

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the applications and solutions within the assigned scope, ensuring alignment with business requirements, architectural principles, and technology standards.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the full application lifecycle, from solution design and development through maintenance, evolution, and technical debt management.

• Analyse complex technical requirements and translate them into scalable, robust, and maintainable solutions.

• Design and review complex technical solutions, identifying dependencies, risks, constraints, and opportunities for improvement.

• Act as the technical reference for development teams, providing guidance, reviewing technical decisions, and promoting engineering best practices.

• Work closely with global, cross-functional teams, ensuring effective communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ensure the quality, maintainability, security, and performance of application solutions and their underlying technologies.

• Maintain and prioritise the Technical Debt Backlog, working with relevant stakeholders to identify, assess, and plan remediation activities.

• Own and ensure the quality of the technical documentation for applications, including architecture, integrations, dependencies, technical decisions, and operational aspects.

• Assess and coordinate infrastructure change requests, ensuring that technical impacts, dependencies, risks, and required actions are properly identified and documented.

• Support the definition and evolution of application and solution architecture, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards and long-term objectives.

• Identify opportunities to improve application reliability, performance, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and other technology teams to resolve complex technical issues and dependencies.

• Support strategic projects and initiatives, contributing to technical assessments, solution proposals, estimations, and implementation plans.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to backlog refinement, technical planning, prioritisation, and delivery tracking.

• Promote continuous improvement within the development teams, encouraging knowledge sharing, technical excellence, and a strong commitment to delivery quality.

• Ensure that technical decisions and deliverables are clearly communicated and aligned with project objectives, timelines, and quality expectations.

• Provide technical support in problem-solving activities, acting as an escalation point for complex application and technology issues.

Skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• Up to 15 years of experience in the relevant platform, programming language, technology, or framework, depending on the technology stack defined for the project.

• Strong hands-on experience with the technologies supporting the application and the ability to work effectively at implementation level when required.

• Proven experience designing and implementing complex technical solutions.

• Experience as a Technical Lead, Tech Lead, Solution Lead, Senior Developer, or in a similar technical leadership role.

• Experience working on strategic and business-critical projects.

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with a structured and solution-oriented approach to problem solving.

• Experience managing and prioritising technical debt and driving technical improvement initiatives.

• Experience producing and maintaining technical documentation for applications and solutions.

• Experience assessing and coordinating infrastructure change requests and understanding their impact on applications and integrations.

• Good understanding of software development lifecycle, application architecture, integrations, and technology dependencies.

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working with tools such as JIRA and Confluence is valued.

• Knowledge of the Energy & Utilities sector is valued.

• Knowledge of GDPR / RGPD and its implications for applications and technology solutions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work collaboratively in international and multicultural teams.

• Strong sense of ownership and commitment to the quality of technical deliverables.

• Fluent in English, written and spoken (mandatory).

• Knowledge of Portuguese is valued.

• Knowledge of Spanish is valued.

• Availability to work in a Hybrid model.