Senior .NET Tech Lead - Drive Scalable Digital Solutions

Hippo; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday + UK holidays

Perkbox discounts

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Cycle-to-work

Salary sacrifice EV scheme

Season ticket loans

Wellbeing sessions

Private health cover

Private dental cover

Additional pension contributions

Additional holidays

Wellbeing contribution

Charity contributions

Tree planting

Job summary

Hippo, a rapidly growing digital consultancy, seeks a Lead .Net Developer in the Manchester area. You will drive technical strategy, lead squads and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, secure software across public and private sector clients.

You will act as a technical SME, shaping architectures, pipelines and delivery practices, while partnering with data, design, product and delivery teams to achieve impactful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Expertise in the .Net ecosystem with C# and ASP.NET MVC.
• Proven track record leading a delivery team delivering robust solutions.
• Experience coaching others to achieve optimal solutions.
• Excellent communication, technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Full development lifecycle delivering user‑centred digital solutions.
• Advanced full stack skills: C#, F#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Experience with Node/React/Angular is a plus.
• Docker or Kubernetes for containerisation.
• Microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.
• Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, TDD).
• Infra as Code and public cloud (AWS/Azure).
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, Atlassian).

Responsibilities

• Act as technical SME to deliver user‑centred software based on business needs.
• Collaborate with colleagues to design and deliver client solutions.
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines.
• Prioritise workload and realign with evolving priorities.
• Present prototypes and progress clearly to stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships with team and stakeholders.
• Participate in recruitment, onboarding and mentoring engineers.
• Promote Hippo's Engineering Herd externally via blogs and talks.

Skills

Net ecosystem

C# & ASP.NET MVC

Lead delivery team

Communication skills

Full stack (HTML/CSS/JS)

Docker

Kubernetes

RESTful microservices

Agile/Scrum/TDD

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD (Jenkins, CodeBuild, Azure DevOp

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Jenkins

AWS CodeBuild

Azure DevOps

Atlassian

Job description

Hippo, a rapidly growing digital consultancy, seeks a Lead .Net Developer in the Manchester area. You will drive technical strategy, lead squads and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, secure software across public and private sector clients.

You will act as a technical SME, shaping architectures, pipelines and delivery practices, while partnering with data, design, product and delivery teams to achieve impactful outcomes.