Technical Lead

Technical Lead

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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 with OpenShift, Docker, Jenkins and modern CI/CD pipelines .
Strong knowledge of JavaScript, Node, Vue, React, Next.js and TypeScript .
Solid HTML/CSS skills with an understanding of accessibility.
Proven experience technically leading cross-functional development teams.
Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, automated testing and infrastructure as code.
Experience with service-based and event-driven architectures.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrable experience coaching and mentoring development teams.
Desirable
Strong SQL and data-modelling experience.
Experience with AWS, Aurora/PostgreSQL and Grafana .
Experience delivering inclusive, human-centred digital services. xwzovoh
Please apply today to be considered
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.