Technical Lead (Python, AWS, Terraform Experience)

Overview

As Tech Lead, you drive technical direction across multiple services while contributing hands-on to deliver high-quality software. You will oversee design, development, and assurance for run-and-maintain and transformative work, using a mix of languages and cloud platforms. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered, scalable solutions for UK government digital services. This role offers fast-track growth, exposure to cutting-edge tech, and a culture of agility and entrepreneurship.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working model
• 25 days’ holiday
• Private medical health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Professional certifications supported

Responsibilities

• Lead technical teams and define architecture for multiple services
• Provide hands-on coding and full lifecycle delivery from design to QA
• Guide technology choices (Python/TypeScript, AWS/Azure, Terraform) and ensure best practices
• Drive quality assurance, code reviews, and process optimisation across services
• Coordinate with stakeholders across Product, UCD and Delivery to balance technical, user, and business needs
• Mentor and coach developers to foster high-performing teams
• Lead projects end-to-end and translate customer requirements into technical designs
• Champion user-centered design and prioritise research and design in development lifecycle

Key requirements

• Experience leading technical teams with ability to define technical strategy and architecture
• Full-stack or backend background with Python and TypeScript (or similar)
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS or Azure and IaC with Terraform
• Experience delivering UK Government digital services, familiar with GDS/NHS Service Standard
• Strong collaborative leadership across multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to balance technical, user and business priorities
• Excellent communication, able to present to non-technical audiences
• Proven track record in QA, code reviews, and process optimisation
• Experience leading projects from start to finish and stakeholder management
• Full lifecycle delivery experience and mentoring capabilities
• Ambitious and career-focused

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

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