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

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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