The role; Technical Leads are responsible for the technical success of our projects, and for mentoring developers on the team. Typical project sizes range from 50 to 1,000 days and our projects span multiple sectors and technologies. You might: Lead a team of 10 developers to migrate a legacy monolithic API to a cloud-based microservices architecture which can handle significant spikes in traffic, for a leading leisure brand. Collaborate with a product owner and designer to prototype a new product for a start-up. Guide the technical design and implementation of a system that helps match thousands of bone-marrow donors with suitable recipients for a national charity. You will take responsibility for ensuring we deliver a technical solution that achieves our client’s aims. You will mentor & motivate the developers on the team, collaborate with the client’s technical stakeholders, and work closely with delivery leads to ensure our projects are delivered on time and in budget. You may also have involvement in meeting clients as part of the sales process and contributing to proposals by designing and estimating high-level technical solutions. Your approach; You are passionate about delivering great technical quality, and can work towards improving the quality of legacy systems You want to help our clients increase their technical maturity, while remaining sensitive to their business needs You enjoy mentoring developers, and helping them reach their personal development goals You enjoy collaborating with designers and product owners to innovate and devise great technical solutions to meet user needs You are comfortable with ambiguity and fast-paced, changing environments. Experience and qualifications; You have significant breadth & depth of technical knowledge & expertise, and can solve technical challenges across front-end, back-end and infrastructure You have strong experience and understanding in at least some of the following technologies: C# and the .NET ecosystem Java and the JVM ecosystem JavaScript and popular frameworks AWS Azure Popular databases and SQL versions You are a fast learner and can leverage your existing expertise to quickly become effective in unfamiliar tech stacks and novel situations You have a good understanding of best practice principles for technical architecture, and are comfortable applying these in unfamiliar situations to design new systems You are a talented leader, who can motivate and coach the developers on your team You are a strong communicator, who can explain technical concepts effectively to non-technical people You are adept at achieving outcomes by influencing client stakeholders who don’t report to you You have a good understanding of lean/agile delivery methodologies. You may also: Have experience delivering great outcomes for clients in an agency or professional services firm Have experience taking ownership of large & complex existing systems, planning strategies for changes and maintenance Speak at conferences and meetups to share your expertise.