Technical Lead
Posted 2 days ago by Inara
£550 Per day
Inside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Technical Lead role focuses on guiding technical direction and engineering decisions within a cloud-native consultancy, emphasizing hands-on software engineering and cloud DevOps. The position requires expertise in Python, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment practices, while also mentoring team members and engaging with stakeholders. The ideal candidate enjoys remote work but values in-person collaboration opportunities. This role is classified as inside IR35 with a daily rate of £550.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead project technical direction and make architectural decisions.
- Set engineering standards and ensure high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions.
- Write code, design systems, and contribute to DevOps pipelines.
- Translate complex engineering concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and support their growth within the team.
Key Skills:
- Expertise in Python programming.
- Experience with AWS or Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Salary (Rate): £550 daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Contract - Technical Lead (Software Engineering and Cloud DevOps) - £550 a day inside IR35
Are you… A highly experienced software engineer who has progressed into leading technical direction, engineering decisions and delivery with Python Comfortable working across AWS or Azure , with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and scalable platform design? Skilled in containers and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes and able to guide others in best practices for production ready deployments? Passionate about solving complex, end to end, cloud native engineering challenges and acting as the technical point of expertise for your team and customers? Someone who enjoys the freedom of remote work but also values opportunities to meet colleagues in person during collaboration days?
About the Company
Our client is a high growth, cloud native consultancy (“Scale Up”) delivering specialist engineering across Software, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Transformation and Technical Strategy .
Technology Stack and Skills
Every project is different, so we are looking for a broad minded technical leader comfortable guiding teams across tooling such as:
- Programming: Python
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, CrossPlane, Ansible
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc
The Role
Technical Leadership
You will lead project technical direction, make architectural decisions, set engineering standards, and ensure high quality, secure and scalable solutions across the entire stack from application development to cloud infrastructure. You will stay hands on while also shaping how the team builds, tests, deploys, and operates modern cloud native systems.
Hands On Engineering
Although a leadership role, this is not purely managerial. You will still write code, design systems, contribute to DevOps pipelines, troubleshoot issues, and prototype solutions. Technical credibility is central to success in this role.
Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
You will be the technical face of the team, translating complex engineering concepts into clear, meaningful insights for customers, project managers and non technical stakeholders. You may run demos, lead workshops, handle escalations, and ensure smooth communication between engineering teams and customers.
Mentoring and Team Development
As a technical role model, others will naturally look to you for guidance. You will mentor engineers at various levels, support their growth, provide code and architecture reviews, and help shape a collaborative, psychologically safe and high performing engineering culture.
Interested? If you are excited by the idea of leading technical delivery across cloud native, modern engineering stacks while still being hands on, we would love to hear from you.