Lead Developer (Tech Lead) - Python / Java / C# / TypeScript, AWS

Brio Digital Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite in Leeds city centre

Job summary

Brio Partners, part of Brio Digital, seeks a hands-on Lead Developer (Tech Lead) for a national public health Alpha. You will design and build prototypes enabling secure messaging and clinical document exchange between hospitals and primary care.

You will mentor developers and set modern engineering practices in a regulated, onsite environment. The role requires strong coding in Python/Java/C#/TypeScript, AWS proficiency, and experience with APIs and secure messaging.

Qualifications

• Tech Lead or Lead Developer with public sector or regulated services.
• Strong hands-on development in Python, Java, C# or TypeScript.
• Significant systems integration experience (APIs, asynchronous messaging).
• Practical AWS, CI/CD and automated testing experience.
• Rapid prototyping in Discovery or Alpha phases.
• Delivery against the GDS Service Standard or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration spikes against a national secure messaging API in sandbox and test environments.
• Prototype end-to-end document flows using FHIR, from hospital to primary care.
• Produce candidate target architectures and record decisions in ADRs.
• Set up modern engineering practices and work in the open.
• Apply secure-by-design principles and contribute to DPIAs, threat models and clinical safety work.
• Act as senior technical voice in a multidisciplinary team and mentor developers.

Skills

Tech Lead experience

Public sector experience

Mentoring

Systems integration

Tools

Python

Java

C#/.NET

TypeScript/Node.js

AWS

REST APIs

CI/CD

FHIR

HL7v2

SNOMED CT

Job description

Lead Developer (Tech Lead) - Healthcare Interoperability Alpha

Contract until 31 January 2027 | £500 Inside IR35 | Onsite 4/5 days per week, Central Leeds | Start 20 November 2026

Brio Partners is working with a national public health programme to appoint a hands-on Lead Developer (SFIA 5) for a high-profile Alpha. You will design and build working prototypes that integrate with national secure messaging services, proving how clinical documents can move electronically between hospitals and primary care. Your prototypes, integration spikes and architecture will form the technical case for Beta.

This role is based onsite in central Leeds 4 to 5 days per week, so you must be able to commute to Leeds city centre for the duration of the contract.

TECH STACK

• Languages: Python, Java, C# / .NET, TypeScript / Node.js (strong in at least one)
• Cloud: AWS (essential)
• Integration: REST APIs (HTTPS with mutual TLS), asynchronous and message-based patterns, mailbox-based secure messaging
• Standards: FHIR, HL7v2, SNOMED CT
• Engineering: Git, code review, CI/CD, automated testing, Architecture Decision Records
• Prototyping: (url removed) prototype kit, rapid throwaway and evolutionary prototypes

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead integration spikes against a national secure messaging API in sandbox and test environments
• Prototype end-to-end document flows using FHIR, from hospital to primary care
• Produce candidate target architectures and record decisions in ADRs
• Set up modern engineering practices and work in the open
• Apply secure-by-design principles and contribute to DPIAs, threat models and clinical safety work
• Act as senior technical voice in a multidisciplinary team and mentor developers

ESSENTIAL

• Tech Lead or Lead Developer experience on public sector or regulated services
• Strong hands-on development in Python, Java, C# or TypeScript
• Significant systems integration experience (APIs, asynchronous messaging)
• Practical AWS, CI/CD and automated testing experience
• Rapid prototyping in Discovery or Alpha phases
• Delivery against the GDS Service Standard or equivalent
• Able to work onsite in central Leeds 4 to 5 days per week

DESIRABLE

• Integration with national healthcare messaging or data-sharing services
• FHIR, HL7v2 and SNOMED CT
• Primary care clinical systems or hospital integration engines
• Healthcare data security and clinical safety standards

Brio Partners is part of Brio Digital, specialising in public sector technology contractors