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Technical Lead

Spinwell
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 5 days
Location

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh EH8, Scotland

Salary

£508 per day

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The role of Technical Lead is a 12-month contract position based in a hybrid model in Edinburgh or Glasgow, with a pay rate of up to £508 per day.
  • Candidates must have significant commercial experience in technologies such as Java 11/17, Spring Boot, and React/Next.js, along with a strong background in leading cross-functional development teams.
  • The position requires expertise in modern DevOps practices, cloud services like AWS, and the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders to deliver high-quality software.
  • Applicants should have experience in Agile delivery models and be familiar with testing methodologies such as TDD and Consumer Driver Contract Testing.
  • A proven track record of introducing improved processes in development environments and designing solutions using both relational and NoSQL databases is essential.

Role: Technical Lead
Contract Length: 12 Months with possible extension
Location: Hybrid/Edinburgh or Glasgow - Onsite collaboration when required depending on project/team requirements
IR35: Outside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Up to £508 per day
Security Clearance: Disclosure Scotland



Spinwell is recruiting for a Technical Lead for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TECHNICAL LEAD

An experienced software engineer is required to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team within clients Land Registration domain, and to act as a conduit between the development team and the Architecture Steering Group, helping to define and refine best practices, standards, and architectural principles.


SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE TECHNICAL LEAD

Significant commercial experience with the following technology:

  • Java 11/17
  • Spring Boot microservices
  • Spring security and OAuth2
  • JavaScript UI frameworks, specifically React/Next,js
  • OpenShift
  • RabbitMQ
  • Elasticsearch
  • Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins and Docker
  • Postgres/PostGIS
  • AWS IAM, Lambda, Aurora/Postgres
  • AWS CDK and AWS based CI/CD pipelines

Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:

  • Technically leading a high-performing, cross-functional development team.
  • Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.
  • Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects
  • Developing within Digital First or GDS quality standards
  • Ability to engage with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements, from diverse areas of a business including Product Management, Service Design, and Operations
  • Introduction of new or improved processes in development environments
  • Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design Practices
  • Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures
  • Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks
  • Using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming to produce high quality, maintainable code
  • Using Consumer Driver Contract Testing to verify system behaviour
  • Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, specifically Grafana and Kibana
  • Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems
  • Working in Agile delivery models
  • Defining infrastructure as code
  • Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
  • Designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly Mongo and Postgres


If you are a Technical Lead, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!




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