Technical Lead

Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, Platform Engineer, or DevOps role
• Strong cloud experience, ideally within Azure
• Experience supporting and operating production systems
• Hands-on experience with automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
• Software development experience, ideally with JavaScript / Node.js
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Comfortable working autonomously and taking ownership
• Desirable: experience in a startup, scale-up, or small technology team
• Desirable: mobile application experience
• Desirable: experience introducing DevOps and engineering best practices
• Desirable: exposure to AI-enabled products or services
• Desirable: experience working in social impact, education, or healthcare environments

Responsibilities:

• Own our technical operations and platform stability
• Act as the first point of contact for production incidents and outages
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes
• Reduce operational risk through better documentation and processes
• Work with external technology partners where specialist support is required
• Improve deployment processes and release management
• Introduce Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices
• Build CI/CD pipelines and automation capabilities
• Strengthen security, governance, and auditability
• Drive improvements in resilience, scalability, and performance
• Contribute directly to platform development
• Support and maintain our existing Node.js services
• Work alongside product stakeholders to deliver enhancements
• Help establish Agile delivery practices and technical standards
• Continuously improve our engineering ways of working
• Provide technical guidance across our organisation
• Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions
• Support future technology recruitment and capability growth
• Help shape our technology roadmap alongside our leadership team

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• Support
• JavaScript
• Mobile
• Security
• NodeJS

More:

We are a growing technology-for-good organisation dedicated to helping people with autism and special educational needs thrive in the workplace. This is a hybrid role based in West Yorkshire, with a salary of £45,000 to £60,000. We are making our first internal technology hire, giving you the chance to shape our platform, strengthen our technical capability, and make a genuine social impact every day. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving problems, improving systems, writing code, automating processes, and taking ownership of technology outcomes.

last updated 31 week of 2026