Lead Engineering Consultant in Leeds

As a Lead Engineering Consultant at Nimble, you will play a vital role in building high-quality digital products and services. You will work within multidisciplinary, agile delivery teams to foster a culture of sustainable engineering. Your work will involve bringing your broad technical leadership experience to help solve complex problems, bridge the gap between business requirements and technical execution, and build solutions that truly make a difference for our clients and their end users.

What you’ll do

• Technical Leadership & Delivery: Work alongside your team to clarify requirements, shape architecture, and move features from concept to production. You’ll focus on understanding the business problem to ensure the technical solution delivers genuine value, working closely with clients to outline the best approach for them.
• Holistic Quality: Think in complete, sustainable solutions. You help evaluate "quality" against the client’s reality - balancing long-term maintenance, performance, scalability, and pragmatic testing to ensure success.
• Engineering Excellence: Drive engineering practices across a range of environments, from modern cloud-native apps to legacy systems. You focus on mentoring engineers and finding the right solution that fits the client's specific needs and constraints.
• AI-Supported Engineering: Integrate AI tooling (such as Claude, Copilot, or Cursor) into your daily workflow to assist with prototyping, accelerate your work, and help explore complex codebases.
• Consulting & Leadership: Guide clients and teams through uncertainty. You bring a calm, steady approach to project environments, helping to provide clarity and facilitate shared progress.

What you bring

• Technical Leadership & Consulting Mindset: An ability to build trust, lead technical discussions, navigate ambiguity, and maintain a thoughtful approach when requirements or environments shift. A strong background in Javascript/Typescript is desired.
• Solution Shaping: Experience in designing solutions that align with the problem at hand. You bring a solid understanding of modern architectural patterns, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerized systems, and cloud platforms and serverless architectures (Azure experience preferred, although solid experience with AWS or GCP will be considered).
• Curiosity & Continuous Learning: A genuine interest in learning and growth. We value different technical backgrounds and view different languages, legacy systems, and modern front-end frameworks (like React, Vue, or Angular) as tools to solve problems.
• AI Tooling: Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs to assist with the development lifecycle.

We understand that your career path might look different from ours. We value the diverse paths that lead to the skills we need. Research shows that many talented people only apply when they meet every requirement. If this role excites you and your experience is broadly aligned, we’d still love to hear from you.

Who we are

Nimble Approach is a human‑centric, collaborative consultancy delivering Product, Technology, Data, and AI solutions with an equity‑first mindset. We work with organisations across a wide range of sectors, including Healthcare, Government, Utilities, Fintech, and Manufacturing. Our work varies by client and context, offering opportunities to build experience across different domains and ways of working.

We focus on delivering value in ways that are considered, collaborative, and sustainable. Our teams are made up of people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value respectful collaboration, shared learning, and practical problem‑solving.

We aim to provide supportive team environments and clear guidance, even when working in changing or complex contexts. We have offices in Sheffield (our headquarters), Leeds, and Manchester, and work in a hybrid way. Most of our teams come together in person a few times each month, as well as for team and client workshops when needed.

We recognise that people have different working styles, responsibilities, health needs, and commitments outside of work. Wherever possible, we support flexible working arrangements and will work with you to find approaches that help you do your best work while meeting the needs of your team and clients.

What we offer

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Company pension with employer contributions
• A £2,000 annual learning and development budget to use in ways that work for you
• Dedicated time during working hours for learning, development, and qualifications
• Private cashback healthcare for you and a nominated family member (Westfield Health)
• Supportive, collaborative working environment
• A flat organisational structure with opportunities for progression and development
• Laptop and any reasonable equipment needed for your role (Mac or Windows)
• Access to trained Mental Health First Aiders and optional 1‑to‑1 support
• Involvement in shaping company objectives and future direction
• Opportunities to take part in communities of practice
• Referral bonus of £3,000 for successful hires

What to expect

We want to ensure you feel prepared and supported throughout our recruitment process. We believe in transparency, so we will provide clear details about what to expect and our assessment criteria well in advance. Our journey typically consists of:

• A Nimble culture chat to get to know one another.
• A 30‑minute technical conversation.
• A 90‑minute formal interview (either whiteboard‑based or scenario‑based, depending on your specialist area).

Accessibility & Inclusion

Nimble Approach is committed to providing a fair, inclusive, and respectful working environment where everyone can thrive. Discrimination, harassment, or unfair treatment have no place within our organisation. We actively encourage applications from people who are underrepresented in technology, including those from non‑traditional career paths. We believe diverse experiences, perspectives, and ways of thinking help create better outcomes for our people, our clients, and the communities we work with.

If you require any adjustments or support during recruitment, please contact us and we’ll work with you to ensure you have an equitable opportunity to demonstrate your skills and experience.