At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead tech projects, support teams, and develop innovative solutions for clients.
- Company: Join Counter, a fresh tech consultancy with a focus on collaboration and growth.
- Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work model, generous holidays, and a supportive team environment.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for career advancement and personal development.
- Why this job: Grow your tech skills while making a real impact in exciting projects.
- Qualifications: Passion for tech, teamwork, and a desire to learn and grow.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 54000 £ per year.
Application Deadline: 21 August 2026
Department: Counter
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Manchester/Leeds/Hybrid
Reporting To: Technical Director
Compensation: £50,000 - £54,000 / year
Description
Background to the role: In 2024 Northcoders Group launched a new standalone tech consultancy brand, Counter, using aspects of our Incubate proposition. To provide organisations with a new, high quality and affordable onshore technology partner to help them to overcome their unique tech challenges and then to provide long term and sustainable capability. Allowing them to scale, prosper and successfully deliver on their respective missions.
Working with a team of advisors and consultancy experts, we have devised innovative Discovery Frameworks and workshops that will help our clients uncover and understand their technical and strategic challenges that may be blocking their route to productivity, revenue or profitability. Once we understand clients’ challenges, we will assemble and land teams of highly skilled UK based technical problem solvers, handpicked from our diverse and highly sought after Northcoders and Tech Returners talent pools. These consultants will be selected on technical excellence as well as cultural alignment to respective clients so that they can seamlessly deliver the precious business value they need at speed. The consultant teams will be mentored by dedicated Tech Leads ensuring that every team member is technically and strategically aligned with our client’s mission and up-skilled to deliver within our client’s technology stack, working practices and ceremonies.
The Associate Tech Lead role is a transitional role towards tech lead. It provides an environment in which an individual can up-skill towards becoming a tech lead whilst being largely focused on internal and managed service Counter offerings.
Responsibilities
- Maintenance and advocacy of plan
- Working with the Technical Lead, you will identify what a client is looking to achieve whilst also being realistic around what is capable within their cost and time options.
- Identifying external dependencies and building up relationships where required
- Working closely with Counter account management in order to keep visibility high on progress
- Advocate for team agile working practices
- Supporting the tech lead in operating in an agile way.
- Provide technical architecture direction
- Technical expertise
- Commercial knowledge development
About You
This role provides a venue for an individual to build up their technical skills alongside developing existing engineers in a live client project environment. With this in mind a level of interest in dealing with different stakeholders whilst balancing the commercial spend/investment we make on projects will be important. Of equal importance is how you help those your internal engineers develop and progress around you. You are someone who loves learning about their craft and then loves sharing their knowledge. You keep up to date with the latest tech trends be it through reading blogs, listening to podcasts and ideally through attending events and conferences.
Adding Value
Individuals on projects at Counter contribute to Counter’s ecosystem in three key areas, known as the “Three C’s”.
- Counter: Contributions to marketing activity such as blogs, social media voice, talks/meetups delivered, development of or improvements to Counter processes and approaches, supporting other Tech Leads and/or projects, interaction with wider organisation.
- Client: Unsolicited feedback from the client regarding the project, feedback surveys provided to the client every 2 months.
- Consultant: Positive feedback in consultant surveys, client feedback that mentions consultants by name.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model
- 4.5 day working week
- Pension: 5 % employee, 5 % employer contribution
- Holidays: 5 weeks plus bank holidays
- Annual leave for your birthday
- Healthcare optional
- Medicash optional
- Death in service
- EAP employee assistance program
Counter - Associate Tech Lead employer: Tech Returners Limited
Counter is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, providing employees with the opportunity to engage in meaningful projects within a dedicated engineering team. Located in Manchester, the role of Hybrid Test Engineer offers flexible working arrangements and the potential for permanent positions upon successful project completion, ensuring ample growth opportunities for career advancement.
