Technical Lead - Automation at McGregor Boyall Associates Limited, Glasgow, £Contract Rate

Technical Lead - Automation (Python / AWS)

Location - Remote, with occasional trip to Edinburgh/ Glasgow required

Duration - 6 months with possible extensions

Day rate - circa £550 p/d (outside ir35)

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to provide hands-on leadership to an agile development team delivering automation capabilities within a large-scale land registration platform. This role will focus on accelerating automation delivery by establishing strong engineering practices, building scalable cloud services, and guiding a team of Python engineers to deliver innovative AI-driven solutions.

You will play a key role in delivering a production-ready automation service that leverages OCR, object detection, and large language models (LLMs) to support accurate and scalable decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership to a cross-functional agile development team.
• Lead the design and delivery of automation services supporting land registration workflows.
• Establish delivery practices including agile ceremonies, quality gates, and continuous improvement.
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions on the AWS cloud platform.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines enabling frequent and safe releases.
• Implement automation workflows that move cases through defined decision points with full auditability.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including security, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks for production services.
• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and data teams to shape the delivery roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and champion engineering best practices across the team.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience leading high-performing software engineering teams.
• Strong Python development (3.9+) and experience building APIs using FastAPI.
• Commercial experience with AWS, including serverless architectures and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with OCR, object detection, or LLM-based automation solutions.
• Expertise with Docker, GitLab pipelines, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of secure, scalable cloud architecture and operational readiness.

Please apply today to be considered

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.