Technical Lead

Inara; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing cloud consultancy based in the United Kingdom is seeking a Technical Lead to guide technical direction while being hands-on in coding and DevOps. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in software engineering and cloud infrastructure, specifically with Python and platforms like AWS or Azure. Responsibilities include engaging stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and driving complex cloud-native projects. This role allows for remote work while maintaining collaboration opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with technical leadership.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure).
• Experience in mentoring engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead project technical direction and make architectural decisions.
• Stay hands-on in coding, DevOps, and troubleshooting.
• Engage with stakeholders and translate complex concepts.

Skills

Python

Cloud Infrastructure

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

Terraform

DevOps Pipelines

Job description

Contract - Technical Lead (Software Engineering and Cloud DevOps) - £550 a day inside IR35

Are you…

• A highly experienced software engineer who has progressed into leading technical direction, engineering decisions and delivery with Python
• Comfortable working across AWS or Azure , with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and scalable platform design?
• Skilled in containers and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes and able to guide others in best practices for production ready deployments?
• Passionate about solving complex, end to end, cloud native engineering challenges and acting as the technical point of expertise for your team and customers?
• Someone who enjoys the freedom of remote work but also values opportunities to meet colleagues in person during collaboration days?

About the Company

Our client is a high growth, cloud native consultancy (“Scale Up”) delivering specialist engineering across Software, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Transformation and Technical Strategy .

Technology Stack and Skills

Every project is different, so we are looking for a broad minded technical leader comfortable guiding teams across tooling such as :

• Programming : Python
• Infrastructure as Code : Terraform, CloudFormation, CrossPlane, Ansible
• CI / CD : GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc

The Role

Technical Leadership

You will lead project technical direction, make architectural decisions, set engineering standards, and ensure high quality, secure and scalable solutions across the entire stack from application development to cloud infrastructure.

You will stay hands on while also shaping how the team builds, tests, deploys, and operates modern cloud native systems.

Hands On Engineering

Although a leadership role, this is not purely managerial. You will still write code, design systems, contribute to DevOps pipelines, troubleshoot issues, and prototype solutions. Technical credibility is central to success in this role.

Communication and Stakeholder Engagement

You will be the technical face of the team, translating complex engineering concepts into clear, meaningful insights for customers, project managers and non technical stakeholders.

You may run demos, lead workshops, handle escalations, and ensure smooth communication between engineering teams and customers.

Mentoring and Team Development

As a technical role model, others will naturally look to you for guidance.

You will mentor engineers at various levels, support their growth, provide code and architecture reviews, and help shape a collaborative, psychologically safe and high performing engineering culture.

Interested?

If you are excited by the idea of leading technical delivery across cloud native, modern engineering stacks while still being hands on, we would love to hear from you.