Lead Full Stack Tech Lead (SC Cleared)
Posted Today by Montash
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Full Stack Tech Lead (SC Cleared) role involves providing hands-on technical leadership for agile delivery teams, focusing on setting engineering standards and ensuring architectural alignment. The position requires active security clearance and emphasizes mentoring engineers while facilitating efficient and high-quality delivery. The role is remote and based in the UK, with a contract duration of 12 months and potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own engineering standards including code quality, testing, estimates, and PR reviews
- Shape and decompose work into clear, testable, delivery-ready stories
- Embed agreed architectural patterns across services
- Document technical decisions and collaborate with architects on design approvals
- Mentor engineers and model strong engineering behaviours
- Identify delivery waste and escalate blockers early
- Ensure cross-team consistency and alignment
- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders
Key Skills:
- Senior experience in one core stack: Java with Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security or JavaScript or TypeScript with React
- Strong experience with microservice architectures
- Proven Java and Spring best practices
- Frontend experience with React and Micro Front Ends
- AWS experience including SNS, SQS, S3, Aurora or PostgreSQL, OpenSearch
- Strong communication and leadership skills within agile teams
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Lead Full Stack Tech Lead (SC Cleared)
Location: Remote, UK Based
Duration: 12-month contract (With scope to extend)
Clearance: Active Security Clearance is required
We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Tech Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership across agile delivery teams. You will set engineering standards, ensure architectural alignment, and enable efficient, high-quality delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Own engineering standards including code quality, testing, estimates, and PR reviews
- Shape and decompose work into clear, testable, delivery-ready stories
- Embed agreed architectural patterns across services
- Document technical decisions and collaborate with architects on design approvals
- Mentor engineers and model strong engineering behaviours
- Identify delivery waste and escalate blockers early
- Ensure cross-team consistency and alignment
- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders
Essential Skills and Experience
- Senior experience in one core stack: Java with Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security Or JavaScript or TypeScript with React
- Strong experience with microservice architectures
- Proven Java and Spring best practices
- Frontend experience with React and Micro Front Ends
- AWS experience including SNS, SQS, S3, Aurora or PostgreSQL, OpenSearch
- Strong communication and leadership skills within agile teams