Naimuri - Technical Lead Defence

QinetiQ; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible/Hybrid working options

Performance bonus

Company bonus

Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%

AXA group 1 medical cover

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Naimuri in Manchester is seeking a Technical Lead to own the technical solution on diverse defence projects, guiding delivery and reducing risk.

Base at Salford Quays with hybrid working; 3 days in the office and occasional travel. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. You will collaborate with platform engineers, DevOps, and data specialists to build scalable systems using React/TS, Java, Python, and cloud services.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical delivery and architecture on complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical solution and delivery roadmap.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for customers and stakeholders.
• Engage with other technical leads and drive cross-team collaboration.
• Contribute to project standards, risk management and longer-term technical roadmaps.
• Lead design reviews and mentor team members.

Job description

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Job Title: Naimuri - Technical Lead Defence

Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Role Type: Permanent Full Time

Job Title: Naimuri Technical Lead

Location: Salford Quays

ID: 20841

Help us make the UK a safer place:

We can offer you the chance to help make the UK a safer place through innovation, working in partnership with government, defence, and law enforcement organisations on some of the most challenging data and technology problems out there.

About Us:

We’ve just had our tenth birthday, having grown from a little-known tech start-up into a community of 180 people, mostly based in Salford, Greater Manchester. We also have a significant presence in London, Lincoln and Portsmouth.

Our name was chosen as an amalgamation of two Japanese words, to reflect our ethos: "Not & Overburden"

This principle applies to every aspect of our organisation from technology, process and infrastructure, through to people, culture and leadership. People and culture are at the heart of Naimuri, so that collectively, we can realise our mission of making the UK a safer place to be. We work in an Agile-first environment that values transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

About The Role:

Working on a variety of projects that range in length from a few weeks to 5+ years, the role of a Technical Lead is to own the overall technical solution, and guide the technical delivery of a project, with the key aim of reducing risk and improving project outcomes.

You will act as the primary technical point of contact for the customer and other stakeholders (partners, suppliers, Naimuri management) on a specific project.

Your responsibilities will include solutions architecture and delivery roadmap, along with supporting the customer in their decision making.

You will engage regularly with other technical leads across the company, both seeking and providing support. This will include time allocated to individual projects, as well as wider engagement.

Here are some things we’ve worked on recently that might give you a better sense of the kind of work you could be leading on:

• Building a data analytics tool using a Neo4J graph database.
• A DevOps platform to support 3000 users.
• Processing digital forensic data to enable search and insight generation.
• A search and reporting system backed by an ElasticSearch cluster.
• A custom workflow tool using Camunda, with a React/TS front-end
• An AI assurance capability
• Orchestrating a data pipeline and designing specialist metrics for the evaluation of the performance of LLMs in different contexts.
• Trials test databases and reporting tools using technologies such as ElasticSearch, Nifi and Camunda.

Accountabilities:

• Understands the technical aspects of the project and the wider customer business model.
• Creates and maintains the solution design and/or architecture of the solution.
• Ensures team members understand and adhere to project standards for quality, documentation, techniques and tools.
• Identifies, escalates & manages technical risk with Team Manager and/or Delivery Lead.
• Supports Delivery Lead and/or Product Owner with backlog prioritisation.
• Seen as a role model and mentor by the team.
• Follows and contributes to Agile project processes such as stand-ups and retrospectives
• Provides input for longer term technical roadmaps.
• Challenges detail design choices within the team.
• Leads reviews on others’ designs.

You will be working closely with our development teams who are responsible for the following:

• Designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining software solutions.
• Full stack development using Front End technologies such as React, integrating AWS services and open source tooling, using a variety of different databases (e.g. MongoDb or ElasticSearch) and developing in Java, TypeScript or Python.
• Working with our Platform Engineers to help manage and maintain their own infrastructure e.g. Kubernetes
• Building and adding to automated delivery pipelines (using GitLab).

It would be advantageous if you have:

• Prior experience working in the Defence domain, and/or delivering software solutions into Defence customers.
• Understanding and/or practical experience of working within Secure by Design (SbD) principles (ie/ JSP 440/604).
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure and or GCP.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG/GDS etc…).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

Learning and Progression at Naimuri:

Continuous Personal Development, or Personal Kaizen, is a core part of Naimuri's culture, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to develop in a transparent and supportive environment.

• You will be assigned a Mentor, usually outside of your team, who can help guide and support you on your development journey.
• Naimuri actively encourages training, through internal knowledge sharing and external courses. You are empowered to identify and pursue opportunities for further training.
• We have a Naimuri progression framework, which recognizes that continuous personal development drives greater proficiency and depth in skills, roles, knowledge, or leadership. It provides a clear direction for growth and reinforces achievements that support your Personal Kaizen.

Location & Flexibility:

Base: This will be based at our Head Office in Salford Quays, Manchester.

Hybrid Working: We offer hybrid working. This consists of a minimum of 3 days working in the office or customer site, but you are welcome to spend more time on-site if preferred.

Travel: Occasional visits to customer sites around the country may be required.

Pay and Benefits:

Naimuri pays competitively within the industry based on your role's base location rates. The salary for this position is dependent upon your experience. We assess seniority relative to the team at Naimuri during the interviewing process.

A full time working week is 37.5 hours and you have flexibility over when you give that time. We also offer part-time working which can be discussed during the recruitment process. There is an expectation that the successful candidate will work directly from one of our office locations, or customer sites, for at least 3 days a week.

Benefits include:

• Flexible/Hybrid working options
• Performance bonus
• Company bonus
• Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%
• AXA group 1 medical cover
• Cycle to work scheme

Recruitment Process:

We are committed to building an inclusive, safe and supportive environment that allows everyone to do their best work, so we strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We can of course support any accessibility or neurodiversity requirements that you may need during the recruitment process.

We want to ensure that you feel comfortable and confident when interviewing with us. To help you prepare, our recruitment team will be happy to discuss the process in more detail with you when you apply.