Technical Team Lead
PurpleSector
Thursley, UK
14 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
Information Technology
Job description
- Own delivery of projects end-to-end (scope, plan, execution, outcomes)
- Work directly with customers to define problems and shape solutions
- Lead proposals, estimates, and delivery planning
- Manage risks, dependencies, and commercial performance
- Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, cost, and scalability
Accountable for delivering value, not just completing work
- MANAGE AND DEVELOP A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM
- Line manage a team of up to ~7 people across disciplines
- Run 1:1s, support development, and manage performance
- Build a high-trust, high-performance team environment
- Balance delivery, development, and utilisation
You build teams that deliver and improve over time
- DRIVE GROWTH WITHIN YOUR DOMAIN
- Identify and develop opportunities within customer engagements
- Expand successful work across client organisations
(additional sites, teams, or use cases)
- Act as a clear point of contact for Business Development within your domain
- Contribute to proposals and commercial development
- Contribute to improving delivery efficiency over time
Own product thinking within your domain - grounded in delivery
- OWN PRODUCT THINKING WITHIN YOUR DOMAIN
- Take responsibility for a defined but evolving area of our technical offering
- Combine technical capability with real-world application to create value
- Identify where delivery work can become repeatable, scalable approaches
- Shape these into reusable plays, methods, and assets
- Assess commercial viability - not just technical interest
- Collaborate with other teams where capabilities overlap or extend
Domains evolve through delivery, collaboration, and opportunity
- WORK WITH TECHNICAL LEADERS
- Partner with Chief Engineers on solution architecture
- Work with Technical Community Leads on standards, skills, and capability
- Ensure delivery aligns with best practice and evolving capability, * AI is part of how we deliver - not a separate activity
- You actively use AI tools in your day-to-day work
- You look for ways AI can improve delivery and customer outcomes
- You are curious about how AI changes how work is done
Requirements
- Strong experience leading customer-facing technical projects
- Degree in a relevant discipline, i.e. Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or qualified by equivalent industry experience
- Experience of working within a consultancy environment is beneficial
- Comfortable working across disciplines (engineering, data, software)
- Experience managing and developing people
- Strong communication - able to simplify complexity
- Commercial awareness and pragmatic decision-making
- Ability to identify and shape opportunities with customers, * You prefer narrow, clearly defined roles
- You want to focus only on delivery or only on people
- You are uncomfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration
- You are not interested in AI as part of how work gets done
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