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Tech Lead (Amsterdam)Schuberg Philis · Schiphol-Rijk, North Holland, Netherlands
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Tech Lead (Amsterdam)

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-21 Schiphol-Rijk, North Holland, Netherlands Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 6,000 EUR–9,000 EUR/mo

About the Company

Technical Leadership at Schuberg Philis At Schuberg Philis, we specialize in mission critical IT, partnering closely with our customers to ensure their most vital systems run smoothly and securely. Our engineers are T-shaped professionals who thrive at the intersection of depth and breadth, combining deep expertise in their fields with a collaborative mindset to ensure 100% customer satisfaction. Working within dedicated, cross-functional, self-steering Customer Teams, we take ownership of complex challenges and co-create solutions that align with our customers' goals. From designing and building robust systems to managing secure, business critical platforms, we do it all. We automate as much as possible, support the (customer) team and developers on applications, and keep platforms secure, up to date and available. Within these teams, the Tech Lead plays a key role. You are a Mission Critical Engineer with added responsibility for technical leadership, quality, and long-term direction. This is a hands-on engineering role, not a management layer. There is no formal hierarchy: you're not "in charge of" other engineers. Instead, you influence by expertise, trust, and example. In this position, you'll primarily work with customers in and around the Amsterdam region. You'll have regular customer contact, be part of the core customer team, and also be expected to facilitate technical leadership across teams and within our internal Tech Lead community. What will yo

Responsibilities

  • ● ut may include:
  • ● Act as the technical point of contact:
  • ● Be the default go to person for technical leadership within your customer team.
  • ● Represent the team toward the customer on technical topics and decisions.
  • ● Translate complex technical concepts into clear, understandable language for all stakeholders.
  • ● Shape and guard the technical vision:
  • ● Formulate and maintain a clear technical vision for the customer team.
  • ● Ensure solutions align with the customer's enterprise, business and security architecture.
  • ● Balance innovation with stability, risk, and cost.
  • ● Lead within the account "triangle":
  • ● Work as an equal peer with the Customer Director Sales and Customer Director Delivery (together with the MD forming the Account Team).
  • ● Jointly own decisions: bigger decisions are made with the consent of the whole Account Team.
  • ● For technical topics, organize and facilitate the decision-making process toward consent within the team.
  • ● Drive best practices and standardization:
  • ● Promote and evolve SBP best practices instead of reinventing the wheel.
  • ● Help define reusable platforms, patterns, and reference architectures.
  • ● Decide when to go "custom" and when to standardize, based on customer value rather than technical curiosity.
  • ● Work closely with other experts (e.g. security leads, data protection leads) to ensure a "whole system in the room" approach.
  • ● Ensure high standards and quality (plan-build-run):
  • ● Guard quality across the entire lifecycle: design, implementation, and operations.

Requirements

  • ● We're looking for an experienced engineer who naturally steps into a leadership role without needing formal authority.
  • ● You'll likely recognize yourself in the following:
  • ● Strong technical and architectural expertise:
  • ● Proven experience designing, building and running complex, business critical systems (cloud, on-prem, or hybrid).
  • ● A solid understanding of modern infrastructure and/or software engineering: automation, security, CI/CD, observability, and reliable operations.
  • ● Ability to weigh tradeoffs between performance, resilience, security, compliance and cost, and explain your choices clearly.
  • ● Leadership by influence, not hierarchy:
  • ● You're comfortable stepping forward and taking the lead in discussions when needed.
  • ● You're good at facilitating group decisions, guiding teams toward consent rather than forcing outcomes.
  • ● You're a servant leader: you enable others to do their best work and realize that you only lead effectively if the team wants you to.
  • ● Customer centric mindset:
  • ● You enjoy direct customer contact and can build long term trusted relationships.
  • ● You speak the language of both business and IT and can bridge the gap between them.
  • ● You're not afraid to challenge assumptions-yours, your team's, and your customer's-always with respect and the customer's best interest in mind.
  • ● Communication and collaboration:
  • ● You can explain complex technical topics in a simple way to nontechnical stakeholders.
  • ● You give and receive constructive feedback and see it as an opportunity to grow.
  • ● You're engaging and fun to work with; you inspire others by your attitude and example.
  • ● Self-reflection and growth:
  • ● You know your strengths and weaknesses and ask for help when needed, for yourself and your team.