Team Lead

Team Lead, Content Tools

• Salary: £49,000 - £65,500
• Location: Cambridge/Hybrid
• Contract: Permanent

We are recruiting for a Team Lead who will be responsible for shaping, designing, and improving a wide range of cutting-edge AI-driven solutions that bring innovation, efficiency, and value to our organisation. You'll be leading a team building and enhancing internal tools that leverage AI to solve complex business problems and significantly improve our learning and assessment content generation and management processes.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the Team Leader role

As the Team Lead for our Content Tools team, you will:

• Take ownership of a critical, production-ready internal application, assessing its existing architecture and making strategic decisions for its evolution and improvement
• Lead and develop a team of 2-6 members, aligning performance with organizational values and leadership competencies
• Design, refine, and document the overall architecture of solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term technical strategy
• Foster team growth through knowledge sharing, technical mentoring, and promoting best practices
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner, senior stakeholders, and end-users to gather requirements for AI solutions
• Set technical direction and deliver solutions, including roadmap management and stakeholder communication
• Balance short-term tactical and long-term strategic technical focus

We have a progressive approach to AI-driven software engineering. We embrace cutting-edge technologies and best practices that help us deliver quality solutions, including automated testing, cloud infrastructure, and production-ready applications. Our ways of working are always evolving; if something's not working, we change it.

The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognized, listened to, and cared for. And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way. Whether you want a career that's linear, or want to follow your own path, we'll support you and help give you the resources and training you'll need to be bold and take ownership of what you do.

About you

We're looking for an experienced Team Lead with extensive expertise in AI and machine learning technologies and a proven track record in technical leadership. You'll need deep understanding of software architecture and team management, with 50-70% of your time focused on team leadership and the remainder on hands-on technical work. We value strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication abilities, and experience in developing and mentoring technical teams while driving strategic technical initiatives.

Your experience incudes

• Lead and develop a technical team of 2-6 members, fostering performance, growth, and a strong culture of mentoring and best practices.
• Take ownership of production-ready internal applications, making strategic architectural decisions to ensure scalability, quality, and alignment with business goals.
• Design, refine, and document solution architectures, balancing short-term tactical needs with long-term strategic vision.
• Directly build, deploy, and manage LLM-powered applications, with proficiency in relevant programming languages (especially TypeScript) and familiarity with low-code/no-code tools.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, senior stakeholders, and end-users to translate product vision into technical requirements and deliver AI solutions.
• Oversee team operations and agile practices, including daily stand-ups, planning sessions, retrospectives, and knowledge sharing activities.
• Select, assess, and implement AI technologies and cloud services (notably AWS and Okta) to meet performance, scalability, and security standards.
• Communicate technical uncertainty, team progress, risks, and challenges clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay current with trends and best practices in AI, LLMs, and software development, partnering with other leaders to improve departmental practices and technical strategy.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 4th September 2025 Interviews are scheduled to take place as applications are received.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

• Closing Date:4 September 2025

Team Leader, Content Tools