At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical direction and manage teams on complex client projects.
- Company: Dynamic software consultancy based in Leeds with a hybrid work model.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career advancement in a collaborative environment.
- Why this job: Shape innovative solutions and mentor engineers while making a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in consultancy, strong technical presence, and leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 110000 £ per year.
Location: Leeds. One day a week on-site, occasional client travel.
Salary: £90,000 to £110,000
Clearance: SC held or eligible. Sponsorship available.
Process: Two stages. One held on-site in Leeds.
The Role:
- A leadership seat at account level, not a senior engineering seat with a better title.
- You would own the technical direction of a client engagement and run the people delivering it.
- Time splits between the client relationship and your teams.
- Hands-on coding is not the focus.
- Turning a vague problem into an architecture a team can build is most of the job.
Scope:
- Own solution architecture across complex, multi-stakeholder programmes.
- Act as the senior technical voice with client stakeholders and translate decisions for non-technical audiences.
- Run teams. A lead here has three or four engineers. A principal has roughly double that, or several leads on larger programmes.
- Weigh technical calls against cost and commercial reality, and flag where more value can be added.
- Mentor engineers and shape internal engineering practice.
Essential:
- Consultancy or client-facing delivery experience. The hard gate. Strong technologists have been turned down for lacking it.
- Presence. Someone you would put in front of a client to lead a programme without hesitation.
- Genuinely multi-language. Engineering judgement and architecture matter more than any one stack.
- Credible across cloud, CI/CD, engineering and architecture.
- Track record leading engineers and owning a programme technically.
Useful:
- Kotlin, C#/.NET, TypeScript, React or Azure. None are dealbreakers.
- Existing SC clearance.
- A lead ready for the step up will be considered, with salary pitched accordingly.
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