Software Developer Team Lead

Salary: £75,000 - 78,000 per year

Requirements:

• Track record leading software engineering delivery for a live SaaS product, ideally through a re-platforming or single-tenant to multi-tenant transition.
• Hands-on technical credibility in C#/.NET, Angular, and Azure, sufficient to set standards and earn the teams respect without being the person who must write the code.
• Proven delivery leadership in an agile environment, including turning around under-performing or under-planned delivery and making it predictable.
• Experience managing offshore and/or third-party delivery partners, and building an in-house team from a partner-led starting point.
• Strong product partnership instincts, including shaping and sizing a backlog with a Product Owner and holding the line on scope.
• Evidence of raising engineering discipline in testing, CI/CD, documentation, and release management in a real organisation.
• Comfortable with a time-boxed, fixed-term remit and able to deliver within the term while handing over a durable, well-documented operation.
• Modern delivery practice experience, including CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps culture.
• Practical, current use of AI coding assistants, and a working understanding of shipping LLM-backed product features, including evaluation, cost, and safety.
• Ability to lead remote and distributed engineers effectively.
• Credible in code review and architecture discussions, and comfortable as the technical escalation point.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the delivery cadence across the partner teams.
• Deliver the agreed programme milestones, including progress toward the multi-tenant, API-first architecture with the Technical Architect.
• Stand up our own engineering capability alongside the partners by hiring against an agreed plan, structuring the team into cross-functional squads, and progressively bringing critical knowledge and control in-house to reduce key-person risk.
• Establish a delivery function rather than personally remaining the only person holding cadence together, and leave a documented, sustainable operation and a recruitment and operating plan for a permanent team or successor.
• Run and mature agile practice, including planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives; unblock teams and manage dependencies and the critical path.
• Provide honest, evidence-based delivery reporting to leadership, including realistic forecasts and early escalation of risk.
• Lead, manage, and develop the engineering team across full-stack, data, and cloud/DevOps disciplines.
• Manage our offshore development and support partners as an effective, accountable extension of the team, including quality, SLAs, and onboarding to full operation.
• Run the Astral platform end to end, including the portal, API tier, data orchestration, and rules engines.
• Set and enforce engineering standards across documentation, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, environment management, and release discipline.
• Embed AI coding tools into daily practice with appropriate review and quality controls, and take the platforms AI features into production reliably.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Angular
• Architect
• Azure
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Support
• LLM
• Product Owner
• ASP.NET
• Embedded

More:

We are IMSERV, one of the UKs leading energy data and metering specialists, delivering award-winning services to customers across the country with specialist metering technology for electricity, gas, and water, alongside highly accurate energy data collection services. This is a fixed-term leadership role focused on the Astral platform, where we want someone to take ownership of our engineering function, strengthen delivery and engineering standards, reduce reliance on external partners, and help us build a sustainable in-house capability. We offer a competitive benefits package including 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, a buy and sell annual leave scheme, up to a 10% bonus, enhanced salary sacrifice pension, life assurance up to 6x salary, a Simply Health plan with upgrade options, and a car salary sacrifice scheme, subject to length of service and terms and conditions. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive team and welcome applications from all backgrounds, even if you do not meet every requirement.

last updated 32 week of 2026