At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead an agile team to design and implement scalable software solutions.
- Company: Join a public sector organisation with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with a focus on best practices and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in housing management while advancing your technical leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, and leading development teams.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Parity Network is recruiting on behalf of a public sector organisation seeking an experienced Technical Lead for an initial 6-month contract. This is a hybrid role, with team collaboration taking place in Edinburgh or Glasgow as required.
About the Role
As an experienced Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer you will join an agile development team working within the Housing Management Registers domain. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring strong commercial experience with Java, Spring Boot and OpenShift. You will lead technical solutions, support architectural decision-making and help ensure the development team delivers secure, scalable and maintainable digital services. You will also act as a link between the development team and architecture stakeholders, helping to establish best practices, technical standards and engineering principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership to a cross-functional agile development team.
- Design and implement robust, scalable software solutions.
- Lead technical improvements and help address technical debt.
- Contribute to architecture decisions and represent the team at technical governance forums.
- Ensure solutions meet security, accessibility, performance and maintainability standards.
- Work closely with Product, Service Design and Operations teams.
- Support DevSecOps, CI/CD and continuous delivery practices.
- Troubleshoot development and production issues.
- Coach and mentor other developers.
- Contribute to disaster recovery and service resilience activities.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience with Java 11+
- Spring Boot, Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow
- REST APIs
- Thymeleaf
- JavaScript / Node.js / Vue
- React, Next.js and TypeScript
- Strong HTML / CSS and accessibility awareness
- OpenShift and Docker
- Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines
- Modern DevOps practices
- Experience technically leading development teams.
- Strong software architecture and solution design experience.
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
- Experience with automated testing and quality engineering.
- Infrastructure as Code experience.
- Experience with monitoring/telemetry tools such as Grafana.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience coaching and mentoring developers.
Desirable
- AWS Aurora / PostgreSQL
- Strong SQL and data modelling experience.
- Human-centred and inclusive design practices.
- Service and event-based architectures.
If you are an experienced Technical Lead with strong Java, Spring Boot and OpenShift experience, we would love to hear from you.
Technical Lead in Edinburgh employer: Parity Network
At Parity Network, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through continuous training opportunities and a supportive environment that encourages professional development. With the flexibility of hybrid working arrangements in the UK, we ensure our team members can achieve a healthy work-life balance while contributing to impactful public sector projects.
