Software Development Coach - Elevate Engineering & AI

Experis IT

City of Edinburgh

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 95,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

Experis IT is partnering with a leading Scottish organisation to recruit a hands-on Software Development Coach. You will influence engineering practices across product and enablement teams, delivering secure, resilient and maintainable digital services within a hybrid UK role.

Edinburgh or Glasgow onsite part of each week, with flexible collaboration across the country. You will drive engineering capability, champion AI-assisted development, and help teams adopt modern tooling and platforms

Qualifications

Hands-on software engineering and technical leadership.
Experience with AWS, CI/CD, APIs, containers and modern programming languages.
Cloud-native engineering, automated testing, observability and infrastructure as code.
Developer platforms, MLOps, AI automation or agentic workflows.
Coaching agile teams and influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Partner with teams to elevate engineering capability, delivery performance and technical decision-making.
Enhance developer experience through pragmatic standards, automation, self-service tooling and platform adoption.
Champion responsible AI-assisted development, including practical use of tools such as Claude.
Reduce technical debt, security, resilience and knowledge-concentration risks.
Build strong engineering communities through coaching, workshops and knowledge sharing.