Technical Lead

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., * 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.

• 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’d love to hear from you.

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., Parity Group plc acts in the capacity of an Employment Agency when providing contract recruitment services.