Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world's top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestl, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.
The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.
Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today's content experience.
Technical Lead
Job Summary: As a Technical Lead in the Engineering Department, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership, guidance, and expertise to the engineering team. You will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence, ensuring the successful execution of projects, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Your strong technical background, problem-solving skills, and ability to mentor and coach team members will be instrumental in driving the department's success.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical expertise and guidance to the engineering team, ensuring the application of best practices, industry standards, and innovative solutions.
- Project Execution: Lead the technical aspects of projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define requirements, develop technical specifications, and deliver high-quality solutions within project timelines.
- Architectural Design: Lead the design and development of scalable, robust, and efficient architectures that align with project requirements and business objectives.
- Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough code reviews, promote code quality standards, and ensure adherence to coding best practices, performance optimizations, and security standards.
- Technical Problem Solving: Address complex technical challenges by analyzing requirements, proposing effective solutions, and guiding the team in implementing them.
- Mentoring and Coaching: Foster a culture of learning and development by mentoring and coaching team members, providing guidance on technical skills enhancement, and promoting knowledge sharing within the team.
- Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Product Management and Quality Assurance, to ensure alignment, effective communication, and successful delivery of projects.
- Technical Research: Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices, and assess their applicability to the department's projects and goals.
- Process Improvement: Continually evaluate and improve development processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance productivity, quality, and efficiency within the engineering department.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with stakeholders, such as product owners or clients, to understand their technical requirements, provide technical insights, and ensure customer satisfaction.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or a related field.
- Proven experience (3+ years) in a technical leadership role within an engineering department.
- Strong technical background in the relevant field (e.g., web, AR/XR/VR development) with expertise in one or more specialized areas.
- Extensive experience in software development, including proficiency in programming languages, frameworks, and tools relevant to the department's projects.
- 3D experience is highly desired. Whether that's specific language/framework experience, or a general knowledge of this nuanced field.
- Demonstrated experience in architecting and designing scalable and robust systems.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills to address complex technical challenges.
- Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and executives.
- Experience in mentoring and coaching team members, fostering their technical growth and career development.
- Knowledge of industry best practices, emerging technologies, and trends relevant to the department's domain.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and practices.
Diversity & Inclusion
Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.
Please contact [Confidential Information] if you need the job advert or form in another format.
Data
We rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing personal information under the GDPR for purposes of recruitment and applications for employment.
When you click the Submit Application button at the bottom of this page, this will send all the information you have added to Hogarth WW. Before you do this, we think it's a good idea to read through our Privacy statement. This explains what we do with your personal data when you apply for a role with us, and, how you can update the information you have provided us with or how to remove it.
