Company Description :

- Informa** is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.

The Technical Lead Developer is a practitioner-leader, someone who guides their team to deliver high-quality software solutions, while remaining deeply hands-on with code. This role bridges technical excellence and team enablement, embodying a philosophy of continuous improvement, clean code, and team-oriented delivery. This role reports to our Engineering Managers and is critical in Taylor & Francis growth to a Leading Knowledge Marketplace.



This is an exciting time to join our historical business as we ensure that technology is at the forefront of Academic Publishing.

Based in our Technology hub in Bangalore, we seek a dynamic, results oriented Technology leader, the Technology lead will make timely, practical decisions that balance immediate needs with long-term goals, ensuring progress without unnecessary delays. In support their team to devise innovative technology that solves our customer needs.

Technical Leadership

- Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and maintainable cloud-based system architectures aligned with product and business needs
- Advocate for and implement modern engineering practices, such as Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Write, review, and own production-quality code as an active contributor to the team's codebase; this is a technical, hands-on role
- Champion the use of AI-first software delivery approaches, leveraging AI tools and frameworks to enhance development efficiency, automate repetitive tasks, and improve decision-making
- Drive architectural decisions at the team and system level, balancing pragmatism with long-term maintainability

Team Guidance & Mentorship

- Act as a mentor and coach to team members, fostering a culture of learning and growth, spotting and capitalising on high potential, supporting individual growth through targeted feedback and development conversations




- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment by prioritizing the success of the team over individual achievements.
- Demonstrate humility by valuing and implementing good ideas, regardless of their source, ensuring every team member feels heard and respected.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing through pair programming, code reviews, and technical discussions
- Foster a psychologically safe environment where team members can raise technical concerns and experiment without fear of failure

Delivery & Collaboration

- Help break down complex technical work into well-scoped, deliverable increments
- Serving as the primary technical reference point for the team, collaborate with cross-functional teams, including QAs, product owners, architects, designers, and program management to clarify requirements, surface constraints, align technical solutions with business goals
- Work closely with the Architecture Advice Forum through Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to contribute to cross-team technical strategy, championing evolutionary architecture principles
- Remove technical blockers and escalate risks early to protect team delivery commitments
- Balance delivery pace with technical health — advocating for investment in test coverage, refactoring, and debt reduction

Quality & Engineering Excellence

- Champion test-driven development (TDD), behaviour-driven development (BDD), and automated testing at all levels
- Collaborate with platform teams to establish CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment processes
- Oversee the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and management
- Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems are in place to maint

📌 Lead Developer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Taylor and Francis
📍 Bengaluru