Technical Lead (Python, AWS, Terraform Experience)

In this Tech Lead role you drive technical direction across multiple services, delivering high-quality software while contributing across the full development lifecycle. You will mentor teams, shape architecture, and ensure best practices and QA. You collaborate with product, UX, and delivery stakeholders to align technical decisions with user needs and business goals. The position offers fast-track career development within a growing European IT consultancy focused on government and private sector digital services.

• Hybrid working model
• 25 days’ holiday
• Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported

• Lead technical teams and define strategy/architecture for multiple services
• Deliver high-quality code and oversee full software lifecycle including hands-on coding
• Establish best practices and quality assurance across services
• Coordinate design, development, and delivery to produce high-quality client outcomes
• Mentor developers and foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture
• Manage technical and non-technical stakeholders across projects
• Translate customer requirements into technical designs and drive end-to-end delivery

• Experience leading technical teams with ability to define technical strategy and architecture
• Full-stack or backend background with Python and TypeScript (or similar)
• Cloud experience (AWS or Azure) and IaC with Terraform
• Experience delivering UK Government digital services with understanding of GDS/NHS Service Standard
• Strong collaborative leadership across multidisciplinary teams (Product, UCD, Delivery)
• Ability to balance technical, user, and business needs; user-centred design focus
• Excellent communication, including presenting to non-technical audiences
• Proven track record of driving QA, code reviews, and process optimisation
• Experience leading projects end-to-end and translating requirements into designs
• Full lifecycle delivery experience from analysis to QA; mentoring and coaching
• Ambitious with a drive to excel

• Collaborative leadership
• Clear communication
• Mentoring and coaching
• Python
• TypeScript
• Cloud (AWS or Azure)