Technical Lead (Python, AWS, Terraform Experience)

Description

The company is a technology consultancy working across public and private sectors, offering application development, cloud migration, programme delivery and service operations.

The role offers fast-track career development. As Tech Lead, you will guide your team technically to produce high-quality code, and you will stay involved in the whole software lifecycle, including writing code yourself.

The company started in the UK in 2017 through an acquisition, is one of the fastest growing technology firms in Northern Europe, has 7400+ employees and has offices in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Poland, the Netherlands and Vietnam.

Responsibilities

• Set and uphold best practice and quality assurance across several services.
• Take part in each stage of a project, from design and development through to delivering a high-quality product to clients.
• Guide the team on technical direction while contributing hands-on coding.

Requirements

• Have led technical teams and shown you can set technical strategy and architecture across several services.
• Bring a full-stack or backend background using Python and TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Have cloud experience with AWS or Azure and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Have delivered UK Government digital services and understand the GDS and NHS Service Standard and its assessment process.
• Work well with others in mixed teams that include Product, UCD and Delivery, showing strong collaborative leadership.
• Weigh technical, user and business needs when making decisions.
• Promote user-centred working, making sure research and design get proper priority throughout development.
• Communicate clearly, including presenting to non-technical audiences, and bring a professional attitude.
• Have a proven record of driving quality assurance, code reviews and process improvement across several services.
• Have led projects from start to finish, managed technical and non-technical stakeholders, and turned customer requirements into technical designs.
• Have worked across the full lifecycle, from analysis and design through implementation and QA.
• Mentor and coach developers to build a collaborative, high-performing team.
• Be highly ambitious and want to grow your career.
• Desirable: Have delivered digital services in multidisciplinary product teams.
• Desirable: Know accessibility and inclusive design, including WCAG standards.
• Desirable: Have coached and developed engineers and helped build collaborative team cultures.
• Desirable: Have delivered services in complex organisations or programmes with many stakeholders and competing priorities.

Conditions

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.

Hybrid working is available.

The company is an equal opportunities employer and runs the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, which guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria, if they opt in.

Benefits

• 25 days of holiday.
• Private medical healthcare through Vitality.
• Pension contribution and life assurance.
• Hybrid working with some flexible hours.
• Support for professional certifications as part of learning and development.
• Retail discounts on restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure and health and wellbeing services.
• Access to employee resource groups for diverse backgrounds, where colleagues can connect, learn and support each other.