Technical Lead (Python, AWS, Terraform Experience)

Overview

In this Tech Lead role, you drive technical direction and hands-on delivery across multiple services, blending architecture with coding across diverse stacks. You’ll lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software in a fast-growing tech consultancy. The position spans design, development, QA, and stakeholder collaboration, with exposure to government digital services and cloud-based infrastructure. You’ll shape best practices, mentor engineers, and influence end-to-end delivery at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working model with flexible hours
• 25 days’ holiday
• Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution, Life Assurance
• Professional certifications support
• Retail discounts and wellbeing services

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and architecture for multiple services
• Lead technical teams and ensure quality standards across projects
• Contribute hands-on coding in Python, TypeScript, or similar
• Oversee full software development lifecycle from design to QA
• Facilitate collaboration with Product, UX/Design, and Delivery teams
• Drive quality assurance, code reviews, and process optimisation
• Translate customer requirements into technical designs and deliverables
• Mentor and coach developers to foster a high-performing team culture

Key requirements

• Experience leading technical teams with ability to define strategy and architecture
• Full-stack or backend background with Python and TypeScript (or similar)
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS or Azure and Terraform for IaC
• Experience delivering UK Government digital services and understanding GDS/NHS Service Standard
• Collaborative leadership across multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to balance technical, user, and business needs
• Champion user-centred approaches and research-driven development
• Excellent communication, including presenting to non-technical audiences
• Proven track record in QA, code reviews, and process improvement
• Experience delivering end-to-end projects and stakeholder management
• Mentoring and coaching developers; driving a collaborative, high-performing culture
• Ambitious with a drive to excel
• willingness to travel to UK client sites; eligible to work in the UK
• collaborative leadership
• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• Python
• TypeScript
• React

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