Technical Lead

QinetiQ Group plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible/Hybrid working options

Performance bonus

Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%

AXA group medical cover

Personal training budget

Holiday purchase/buy-back scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Car benefit scheme

Job summary

Naimuri in Greater Manchester is seeking a Technical Lead to own the overall technical solution and guide delivery across multiple projects. You will act as the primary technical contact for customers and partners, shaping architecture and roadmap while mentoring the team.

The role supports flexible/hybrid working with a 37.5 hour week, occasional in-office days, and potential travel to customer sites in the UK or Naimuri offices in Greater Manchester.

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture and delivery of complex software projects.
• Ability to manage technical risk and drive quality standards.
• Mentor and guide cross-functional teams in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical solution and delivery roadmap.
• Act as primary technical contact for customers and stakeholders.
• Guide architecture, security, scalability, and performance decisions.
• Mentor team and drive continuous improvement in Agile ceremonies.
• Lead design reviews and ensure adherence to project standards.

Skills

Technical leadership

Agile practices

Stakeholder management

Mentor team

DevOps

React

Tools

React

AWS

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Java

TypeScript

Python

GitLab

Job description

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). Your responsibilities include solutions architecture and delivery roadmap, along with supporting the customer in 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.

Accountabilities:

• Understands the technical aspects of the project and the wider customer business model.
• Solution architecture, including security, availability, observability, scalability, performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• 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 Product Owner with backlog prioritisation.
• Seen as a role model and mentor by the team.
• Actively drives and enhances Agile project workflows by contributing valuable insights during stand‑ups, retrospectives, and other key ceremonies to accelerate team performance and continuous improvement.
• 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.
• Integration of AI into data processing and user workflow systems.
• 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).

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. Our core hours are 10:00am - 3:00pm and our office hours are between 7:30 and 18:00 Monday to Friday. Most teams have agreed 'in office' days to enable collaboration. You may also be required to attend a local customer site regularly or on occasion to travel to other customer sites in the UK or the Naimuri office in Greater Manchester.

Benefits include:

• Flexible/Hybrid working options
• A performance bonus
• Company bonus
• Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%
• AXA group 1 medical cover
• Personal training budget
• Holiday purchase/buy-back scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car benefit scheme

Recruitment Process: We want to ensure that you feel comfortable and confident when interviewing with us. To help you prepare, our recruitment team will discuss the process in more detail with you when you apply. We are happy to support any accessibility or neurodiversity requirements.

We can offer you the chance to help make the UK a safer place through innovation, working in partnership with government and law enforcement organisations on some of the most challenging data and technology problems out there. We're approaching our tenth birthday and have gone from being a little‑known tech start‑up to creating our very own community at the heart of the tech and digital epicentre of the UK - Greater Manchester. We also have a significant presence in the South West (Malvern/Cheltenham), where this role will be based. Our name Naimuri is Japanese and simply means… 'nai' meaning 'not' 'muri' meaning 'overburden' These principles apply to every aspect of an organisation from technology, process and infrastructure, through to people, culture and leadership. This means that we empower our teams to do what they think is the right thing, giving them the skills and confidence to explore new ways of working, and to create a bias‑free environment, where all our people feel comfortable collaborating to deliver the finest ideas and solutions in an agile environment. Our business is focused on 4 cornerstones, which shape and underpin the way in which we go about work and treat each other. These are: Wellbeing, Empowerment, Perpetual Edge and Delivery. 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'.