Software Development Coach

Salary: £41,000 - 71,500 per year

Requirements

• Significant commercial experience in software engineering and technical leadership.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native development, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability and secure software development.
• Practical experience with AWS, GitLab or comparable platforms, APIs, containers and modern programming languages.
• Experience coaching and mentoring teams with different levels of maturity.
• Understanding of large language models and AI-assisted engineering.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Desirable: platform engineering, Kubernetes or internal developer platforms.
• Desirable: AI platforms, MLOps, prompt engineering or agentic workflows.
• Desirable: AI governance and responsible AI adoption.
• Desirable: public-sector digital delivery or technology modernisation experience.

Responsibilities

• Coach multiple agile teams to improve engineering capability, delivery effectiveness and technical decision-making.
• Identify and reduce technical debt, security, resilience and knowledge-concentration risks.
• Promote pragmatic engineering standards, automation and effective developer tooling.
• Improve developer experience through self-service capabilities and platform adoption.
• Support responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development, including coding assistants such as Claude.
• Help teams use AI for coding, testing, code reviews, troubleshooting and documentation.
• Facilitate workshops, communities of practice and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Support technical modernisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to engineering governance, skills development and technical capability planning.

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GitLab
• Support
• Kubernetes
• MLOps
• Security

More

We are seeking a Software Development Coach to join a cross-functional engineering environment where we strengthen software development capability, improve delivery and reduce technical and operational risk. This is a 12-month contract with possible extensions, offering a day rate of £450-£500 outside IR35. The role is mostly remote, with occasional trips to Edinburgh or Glasgow required. You will work across multiple product and enablement teams, providing practical coaching, technical guidance and support to embed secure, resilient and maintainable engineering practices.

last updated 36 week of 2026