Technical Lead at McGregor Boyall, Edinburgh, 6 Months, £500 per day

Technical Lead

Duration: 6months (possible extensions)

Location: remote with occasional trip to Edinburgh or Glasgow)

Day rate: £500 p/d outside ir35

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership within a high-performing, agile development team.

The Role

• Lead technical delivery across a portfolio of digital housing management services.
• Provide hands-on technical direction across tactical delivery and longer-term architecture.
• Design, assess and implement scalable, secure and sustainable technical solutions.
• Work closely with Product, Service Design, Operations and Architecture teams.
• Represent the development team at architecture and technical governance forums.
• Drive continuous improvement, DevSecOps adoption and technical debt reduction.
• Champion accessibility, security, performance, maintainability and quality.
• Support troubleshooting across development and production environments.
• Coach and mentor developers, helping build a strong engineering culture.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and service resilience activities, including occasional out-of-hours support.

Essential Experience

• Strong commercial experience with Java 11+, Spring Boot, Spring MVC and REST APIs.
• Experience with OpenShift, Docker, Jenkins and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, Node, Vue, React, Next.js and TypeScript.
• Solid HTML/CSS skills with an understanding of accessibility.
• Proven experience technically leading cross-functional development teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, automated testing and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with service-based and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience coaching and mentoring development teams.

Desirable

• Strong SQL and data-modelling experience.
• Experience with AWS, Aurora/PostgreSQL and Grafana.
• Experience delivering inclusive, human-centred digital services.

Please apply today to be considered

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