Technical Lead (Python, AWS, Terraform Experience)

In this Tech Lead role you guide technical direction across multiple services while contributing hands-on coding. You will define best practices and quality assurance across delivery streams and shape architectures to meet client needs. You collaborate with product, UCD and delivery teams to ensure a high-quality end product. This position offers fast-track career growth in a leading tech consultancy with opportunities to work on government digital services and diverse client projects. You will be at the interface of strategy, design and execution, driving impact through technical leadership.

• 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 and architecture for multiple services
• Contribute hands-on coding across full stack
• Define and enforce best practices and quality assurance
• Contribute to design, development and end-to-end delivery of client solutions
• Drive process optimisation, code reviews and quality uplift across services
• Mentor and coach developers to foster a high-performing team culture
• Manage stakeholders and translate customer requirements into technical designs
• Deliver projects from analysis through QA, collaborating with cross-functional teams

• Experience leading technical teams with ability to define strategy and architecture
• Full-stack or backend background with Python and TypeScript
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS or Azure) and IaC with Terraform
• Experience delivering UK Government digital services and understanding GDS/NHS Service Standard
• Collaborative leadership across Product, UCD and Delivery
• Ability to balance technical, user and business needs and prioritise accordingly
• Champion of user-centred design and prioritising research throughout development
• Excellent communication, including presenting to non-technical audiences
• Proven track record of QA, code reviews and process optimisation
• Experience leading projects end-to-end with stakeholder management
• Full life cycle delivery experience from analysis to implementation and QA
• Mentoring developers and fostering collaborative culture
• Ambitious and driven to excel in career

• collaborative leadership
• effective communication
• stakeholder management
• Python
• TypeScript
• AWS