Technical Lead

Salary: £41,000 - 71,500 per year

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience with Java 11, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and REST APIs.
• Experience with OpenShift, Docker, Jenkins, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, Node, Vue, React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Solid HTML/CSS skills with an understanding of accessibility.
• Proven experience technically leading cross-functional development teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, automated testing, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with service-based and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience coaching and mentoring development teams.
• Strong SQL and data-modelling experience is desirable.
• Experience with AWS, Aurora/PostgreSQL, and Grafana is desirable.
• Experience delivering inclusive, human-centred digital services is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership within a high-performing, agile development team.
• Lead technical delivery across a portfolio of digital housing management services.
• Provide technical direction across tactical delivery and longer-term architecture.
• Design, assess, and implement scalable, secure, and sustainable technical solutions.
• Work closely with Product, Service Design, Operations, and Architecture teams.
• Represent the development team at architecture and technical governance forums.
• Drive continuous improvement, DevSecOps adoption, and technical debt reduction.
• Champion accessibility, security, performance, maintainability, and quality.
• Support troubleshooting across development and production environments.
• Coach and mentor developers, helping build a strong engineering culture.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and service resilience activities, including occasional out-of-hours support.

Technologies

• AWS
• CI/CD
• CSS
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• Docker
• Grafana
• Support
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• MVC
• OpenShift
• PostgreSQL
• REST
• React
• SQL
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• TypeScript
• Vue
• NodeJS
• Cloud

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We are hiring an experienced Technical Lead for a 6-month contract, with possible extensions, working remotely with occasional trips to Edinburgh or Glasgow. The day rate is £500 per day outside IR35. We are a high-performing, agile team focused on digital housing management services, and we are looking for someone to help strengthen our engineering culture, support service resilience, and drive continuous improvement across delivery and architecture.

last updated 34 week of 2026