Lead Developer
Posted 1 week ago by TechNET IT Recruitment Ltd
£100 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Developer role involves providing technical leadership across multiple project teams to deliver high-quality digital services. The position requires mentoring developers, shaping project direction, and ensuring adherence to modern software standards. The role is hybrid, based in London, and is a 4-month contract inside IR35. The successful candidate will balance hands-on development with strategic guidance and coaching.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership across development projects, guiding the design, build, and integration of complex systems.
- Lead and mentor a team of developers, promoting high standards, continuous learning, and collaboration.
- Identify and implement the right technologies and approaches to meet business and user needs.
- Ensure software and systems are built following modern standards and secure design principles.
- Drive process improvement and contribute to community-wide knowledge sharing and best practice.
- Collaborate closely with delivery managers, user researchers, and service designers to ensure user needs are met.
- Oversee and manage knowledge transfer and handover to internal teams.
Key Skills:
- Proven technical and leadership skills in software engineering.
- Ability to balance hands-on development expertise with strategic guidance and coaching.
- Proficiency in a wide range of technical systems and development practices.
- Experience in designing and integrating complex systems with medium-to-high levels of risk and technical complexity.
- Knowledge of information security principles and modern standards in software engineering.
- Experience in user-centred design and service support.
- Skills in availability and capacity management, development process optimisation, and systems design and architecture.
Salary (Rate): £100.00/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Lead Developer
Location: London (hybrid working pattern)
Contract type: 4 Months
Rate: £700.00 per day inside IR35
The Role: I am looking for an experienced Lead Developer to provide technical leadership across multiple project teams, helping to deliver high-quality, secure, and user-focused digital services. You’ll guide the way your team works, shape the technical direction of projects, and ensure that all solutions are built using modern, scalable, and maintainable approaches. You’ll play a pivotal role in mentoring and developing your team, fostering knowledge sharing, and embedding best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across development projects, guiding the design, build, and integration of complex systems.
- Lead and mentor a team of developers, promoting high standards, continuous learning, and collaboration.
- Identify and implement the right technologies and approaches to meet business and user needs.
- Ensure software and systems are built following modern standards and secure design principles.
- Drive process improvement and contribute to community-wide knowledge sharing and best practice.
- Collaborate closely with delivery managers, user researchers, and service designers to ensure user needs are met.
- Oversee and manage knowledge transfer and handover to internal teams.
Skills / Experience required: You’ll be an experienced software engineering professional with proven technical and leadership skills. You can balance hands-on development expertise with strategic guidance and coaching. Depending on your focus, we have two complementary roles available: Technical Lead You will: Be proficient in a wide range of technical systems and development practices Apply and promote modern standards in software engineering. Design and integrate complex systems with medium-to-high levels of risk and technical complexity. Ensure information security is embedded throughout solution design. Lead on programming, build standards, and continuous improvement of development processes. Champion user-centred design and ensure services are built around real user needs. Management Lead You will: Lead and develop teams to deliver service improvements and process optimisation. Oversee the implementation of capacity and availability management to meet business needs. Ensure the correct application of information security and data protection principles. Manage and support integration and testing across multiple systems. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, representing both technical and user perspectives. Coach, mentor, and guide your teams in modern engineering practices.
Skills & Experience: Availability and capacity management Development process optimisation Information security Modern standards and agile approaches Programming and build (software engineering) Prototyping and user-centred design Service support and systems integration Systems design and architecture
Please apply online with your CV.