Technical Lead

Technical Lead

Duration: 6months (possible extensions)

Location: remote with occasional trip to Edinburgh or Glasgow)

Day rate: £500 p/d outside ir35

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership within a high-performing, agile development team.

The Role

• Lead technical delivery across a portfolio of digital housing management services.
• Provide hands-on technical direction across tactical delivery and longer-term architecture.
• Design, assess and implement scalable, secure and sustainable technical solutions.
• Work closely with Product, Service Design, Operations and Architecture teams.
• Represent the development team at architecture and technical governance forums.
• Drive continuous improvement, DevSecOps adoption and technical debt reduction.
• Champion accessibility, security, performance, maintainability and quality.
• Support troubleshooting across development and production environments.
• Coach and mentor developers, helping build a strong engineering culture.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and service resilience activities, including occasional out-of-hours support.

Essential Experience

• Strong commercial experience with Java 11+, Spring Boot, Spring MVC and REST APIs.
• Experience ...