Technical Lead at Harvey Nash, Edinburgh, £400-£475 per day

Technical Lead - .NET / React (Azure) - Public Sector - Outside IR35

Contract Duration: 12 months
Day Rate: Up to £475/day
Location: Mostly remote (occasional office visit)

Harvey Nash's Public Sector Client have a requirement for an experienced Technical Lead to support the development and evolution of a large-scale Azure-hosted platform built with .NET and React.

The system is a business-critical application with a legacy MVC foundation, alongside modern cloud components including Azure Functions, APIs, and modern React frontends. This role requires someone comfortable operating in a brownfield environment, balancing feature delivery with gradual architectural improvement and reduction of technical debt.

You will provide technical leadership to a team of 7 developers, while remaining hands-on with development (roughly 60/40 technical leadership vs coding).

Key Tech

• .NET 8
• ASP.NET MVC (legacy components)
• React + TypeScript
• Azure (App Services, Functions, Cosmos, Azure SQL)
• Azure Storage
• API Management (APIM)
• Key Vault
• Application Insights
• Azure DevOps CI/CD

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong experience with .NET and modern React development
• Experience leading teams of 5+ developers
• Comfortable working in large legacy systems
• Strong Azure cloud experience
• Ability to guide technical decisions, architecture, and engineering standards

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience modernising monolithic applications
• Public sector experience
• Experience reducing technical debt in long-lived systems

Please note that you must be eligible for BPSS Clearance to commence this post.