Tech Lead - Business Solutions in Manchester

As a Tech Lead at ANS, you will be the “go to expert” in your technology field. You are empowered to make wide‑ranging and impactful technology decisions that you deliver against for ANS’ customers. You will be given the opportunity to work on a wide range of exciting projects, using the latest technologies and advancements, and lead a team of developers of varied experience levels. It’s up to you how you split your time – you may spend around half of your time “on the tools”, cutting code, and reviewing peers and your team’s work, and the rest building the profile of your products internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Develop new and improved products and services based on technologies within your domain and in response to customer and business requirements.
• Promote your thought processes and rationale behind decisions to the wider team.
• Work with technical product managers to gather low‑level requirements for products and solutions.
• Make reasoned, justifiable, research and evidence‑backed decisions.
• Work with technical product managers to create user stories that accurately describe requirements, convey valuable information to developers, and drive successful business outcomes.
• Perform any necessary technical discovery needed to understand business and customer problems and deliver successful solutions.
• Identify the technology required to achieve the outcome and any applicable constraints.
• Test the technical feasibility of proposed new products and solutions, with ultimate responsibility for architecting the product or solution.
• Deliver those products and solutions to a point where they add value to both ANS and our customers.
• Document any products and solutions so they can be used and consumed by customers and any relevant internal users.
• Provide product or solution specific support (e.g., bugs) – this does not include customer‑specific issues.
• Ensure products and solutions meet industry best practices, internal ANS standards, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Ensure security risks are considered, identified, reduced, and mitigated when designing, developing, testing, and implementing new products & services.
• Act as a champion for the products and solutions within your domain, building trust and evangelising new and existing services.
• Represent your portfolio at technical forums and steering committee meetings with key stakeholders from the business.
• Keep up to date with new developments and services within your domain and determine if new services can be developed from these.
• Assign and track work to developers and DevOps engineers you will be working with.
• Be confident enough to say “I don’t know”; and passionate enough to do something about it.
• Take responsibility for your technical decision making but know when to delegate and help others take accountability.
• Know that done is better than perfect.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading, coaching, or mentoring developers or consultants within delivery teams.
• Hands‑on experience designing and delivering solutions using Microsoft Power Platform Dynamics 365 Copilot Studio.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions, working closely with non‑technical stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of architecture patterns, including scalability, environment strategy, and solution lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of Dataverse data models, security roles, and integration patterns.
• Understanding of Power Platform governance, including environments, DLP policies, ALM, and managed solutions.
• Awareness of security, compliance, and risk considerations when designing business and AI‑enabled solutions, ensuring risks are identified and mitigated early.
• Experience operating within agile delivery models, contributing to discovery, user stories, technical feasibility, and sprint readiness.

Benefits

• Standard: 25 days’ holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days.
• Birthday off and an extra celebration day for whatever you want.
• If you get married you receive 5 additional days of holiday in the year you get married.
• 5 volunteer days.
• Private health insurance.
• Pension contribution match and 4× life assurance.
• Flexible working and work‑from‑anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions).
• Maternity: 16 weeks’ full pay; Paternity: 3 weeks’ full pay; Adoption: 16 weeks’ full pay.
• Company social events – jam‑packed calendar.
• Electric car scheme.
• 12 days of personal growth development time.