Technical Lead (Python, AWS, Terraform Experience)

This is an exciting opportunity within technology consultancy, offering fast-track career development and the chance to explore cutting-edge technologies. As a Tech Lead, you will play a crucial role in driving your team technically to deliver high-quality code, while also supporting the full life cycle of software development, including hands-on coding. On the specific programme, we manage multiple services, including both run-and-maintain activities and transformative work by designing and developing new features. You will work with a wide range of technologies including Python, C#, Java, TypeScript, React, Terraform, and AWS/Azure. We always use the most suitable technology for each project, giving you the opportunity to learn and work with different languages. Can you see yourself defining and ensuring best practice and quality assurance across multiple services? Are you looking to be involved in all parts of the process, from design and development, to ensuring that we deliver a high-quality end product to our clients? Essential: - Experience leading technical teams, with a proven ability to define technical strategy and architecture for multiple services. - Full-stack or backend technical background with experience in Python and TypeScript (or similar). Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS or Azure and IaC with Terraform. - Experience delivering UK Government digital services, with a strong understanding of the GDS/NHS Service Standard and assessment process. - Strong collaborative leadership skills, working effectively across multidisciplinary teams including Product, UCD and Delivery. - Ability to balance and prioritise technical, user and business needs when making decisions. - Champions user-centred ways of working, ensuring research and design are appropriately prioritised throughout the development lifecycle. - Excellent communication skills and professional attitude, including presentation to non-technical audiences. - Proven track record of driving quality assurance, code reviews, and process optimisation across multiple services. - Experience leading projects from start to finish, managing technical and non-technical stakeholders, and translating customer requirements into technical designs. - Full life cycle delivery experience, from analysis and design through to implementation and QA. - Mentoring and coaching developers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture. - Highly ambitious, wanting to excel in your career. Desirable: - Experience delivering digital services within multidisciplinary product teams. - Knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design, including WCAG standards. - Experience coaching and developing engineers and building collaborative team cultures. - Experience delivering services in complex organisations or programmes with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. Candidates MUST be willing to travel to client site anywhere in the UK when needed and MUST have the right to work in the UK. Hybrid working model available.