Technical Lead (Python, AWS, Terraform Experience)

Description

You would join a technology consultancy that offers fast-track career growth and the chance to work with newer technologies.

The company works across public and private sectors, providing application development, cloud migration, programme delivery and service operations.

The company has more than 7,400 staff with offices in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Poland, the Netherlands and Vietnam.

Responsibilities

• You would set the technical direction for your team and push them to ship high-quality code.
• You would keep writing code yourself across the software lifecycle.
• You would set best practice and quality standards across several services.
• You would take part from design and build through to the final product delivered to clients.

Requirements

• Essential: You have led technical teams and can set technical strategy and architecture across several services.
• Essential: You have a full-stack or backend background in Python and TypeScript, or similar.
• Essential: You have cloud infrastructure experience on AWS or Azure and use Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Essential: You have delivered UK Government digital services and know the GDS and NHS Service Standard and its assessment process.
• Essential: You lead well across multidisciplinary teams, including Product, UCD and Delivery.
• Essential: You weigh technical, user and business needs when making decisions.
• Essential: You champion user-centred working and make sure research and design get the time they need at every stage.
• Essential: You communicate clearly and professionally, including when presenting to non-technical audiences.
• Essential: You have driven quality assurance, code reviews and process improvement across several services.
• Essential: You have run projects from start to finish, managed technical and non-technical stakeholders, and turned customer requirements into technical designs.
• Essential: You have worked through the full delivery lifecycle, from analysis and design to implementation and QA.
• Essential: You mentor and coach developers and help build a collaborative, high-performing team.
• Essential: You are highly ambitious and want to grow your career.
• Desirable: You have delivered digital services within multidisciplinary product teams.
• Desirable: You know accessibility and inclusive design, including WCAG standards.
• Desirable: You have coached and developed engineers and helped build collaborative team cultures.
• Desirable: You have delivered services in complex organisations or programmes with many stakeholders and competing priorities.

Conditions

Hybrid working is available, with some additional flexible working.

You must be willing to travel to client sites anywhere in the UK when needed.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

The company runs a Disability Confident Interview Scheme, guaranteeing interviews to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria and opt in.

Benefits

• 25 days' holiday.
• Private medical healthcare through Vitality.
• Pension contribution and life assurance.
• Support for professional certifications as part of learning and development.
• Retail discounts on restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure, and health and well-being services.
• Access to employee resource groups, which bring colleagues from different backgrounds together to connect, learn and support one another.