Technical Lead

Technical Lead - AWS Software Engineering

Hybrid working, Edinburgh or Glasgow based.

You will receive a daily rate of up to £460 a day and the contract will see you OUTSIDE IR35

Parity Group are delighted to partner with our client, a prestigious public sector organisation, who are looking to recruit an experienced Technical Lead with strong AWS and TypeScript expertise to lead a cross-functional agile development team.

You will provide hands-on engineering leadership, guide architectural decisions, and act as a key link between development teams and the Architecture Steering Group helping define and refine best practices, standards, and architectural principles. Supporting long-term digital sustainability and service resilience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead feature development and platform refactoring using AWS serverless tools (Lambda, CDK, API Gateway)
• Design and document public APIs and Back End services.
• Provide BAU support and technical oversight for existing registers.
• Collaborate across product, service design, and delivery teams.
• Coach and mentor developers and champion engineering best practices.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and cross-team governance.

Essential Skills:

• Experience with AWS (Lambda, CDK, S3, Aurora), TypeScript, React, and modern JavaScript.
• Proven experience in leading agile software teams
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, DevOps tooling, testing frameworks (eg Cypress), and monitoring (eg Grafana)
• Background in digital public services, accessibility, and GDS standards is highly desirable.

Why Apply?

This is a pivotal role supporting the digital infrastructure for our client. You will shape innovative, secure, and sustainable public services in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

If this sounds like the role for you then do not hesitate to contact me, Lynne Strang, for more information or simply click on the apply button.

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