Technical Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience with Java 11+
• Experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow
• Experience building REST APIs
• Experience with Thymeleaf
• Experience with JavaScript, Node.js or Vue
• Experience with React, Next.js and TypeScript
• Strong HTML, CSS and accessibility awareness
• Experience with OpenShift and Docker
• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with modern DevOps practices
• Experience technically leading development teams
• Strong software architecture and solution design experience
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments
• Experience with automated testing and quality engineering
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with monitoring and telemetry tools such as Grafana
• Strong stakeholder communication skills
• Experience coaching and mentoring developers
• Desirable: AWS experience
• Desirable: Aurora or PostgreSQL experience
• Desirable: Strong SQL and data modelling experience
• Desirable: Experience with human-centred and inclusive design practices
• Desirable: Experience with service and event-based architectures

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to a cross-functional agile development team
• Design and implement robust, scalable software solutions
• Lead technical improvements and help address technical debt
• Contribute to architecture decisions and represent the team at technical governance forums
• Ensure solutions meet security, accessibility, performance and maintainability standards
• Work closely with Product, Service Design and Operations teams
• Support DevSecOps, CI/CD and continuous delivery practices
• Troubleshoot development and production issues
• Coach and mentor other developers
• Contribute to disaster recovery and service resilience activities

Technologies:

• AWS
• CI/CD
• CSS
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• Docker
• Flow
• Grafana
• Support
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• MVC
• OpenShift
• PostgreSQL
• REST
• React
• SQL
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• TypeScript
• Vue
• Web
• NodeJS
• Cloud
• Network
• PLC

More:

We are recruiting on behalf of a public sector organisation for an experienced Technical Lead on an initial 6-month contract. This is a hybrid role with team collaboration taking place in Edinburgh or Glasgow as required. You will join an agile development team working within the Housing Management Registers domain, providing hands-on technical leadership and helping to establish best practices, technical standards and engineering principles. This is an outside IR35 contract with a day rate of £500.

last updated 32 week of 2026