Technical Lead - .Net

xdesign; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid/Remote options

Job summary

CreateFuture is seeking a Tech Lead to guide client projects with hands-on coding, architecture, solution design, or delivery leadership. You will mentor a team of technical directs and set high standards for delivery, working with clients to understand problems and maximise business value.

We value curiosity, pragmatism, and comfort operating in ambiguous environments, with exposure to AI-driven consultancy and modern cloud-native practices across multiple platforms.

Qualifications

• Hones hands-on technical leadership delivering complex software.
• Line-manage engineers and provide actionable feedback and mentoring.
• Strong delivery fundamentals: estimation, planning and risk management.
• Experience with .NET and Java or frontend; cloud familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, solution design, and documentation; set engineering standards.
• Contribute code where appropriate; ensure reviews, testing and maintainability.
• Line-manage direct reports; run core rituals and objectives reviews.
• Build trusted relationships with clients; translate business needs into technical plans.
• Oversee scope, estimates, plans, risks; communicate timelines and team shape needs.

Skills

Technical leadership

Team management

Software delivery

Cloud technology

Architectural design

Stakeholder communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Role Summary

As a Tech Lead at CreateFuture, you will use your technical and leadership skills to lead and support diverse client projects. Depending on the engagement, this includes hands-on coding, software architecture, solution design or delivery leadership and project management, ensuring a high standard of delivery in everything we do.

We focus on high-value, high-impact client outcomes, and we're not afraid to challenge the status quo. You should be curious, pragmatic, and operate well in ambiguous environments.

As a technology consultancy, it's important for us to not only deliver reliable, scalable solutions but to be looking at future trends and other high-impact developments. Your curiosity for technology and its application to business opportunities is highly valued within the company. We are disrupting consultancy through the use of Artificial Intelligence and radical thinking in our approach. We're doing something different, and that's realising significant benefits for our clients. We want you to share that same ambition.

You will also manage a team of technical direct reports, who are themselves working on client projects, for whom you will provide actionable feedback, technical guidance and mentoring, fostering a continuous improvement, growth and consultancy mindset.

You will work with clients at every level to understand their problems, set expectations, and maximise business value, representing CreateFuture as an engagement lead.

Role Requirements

• Proven, hands-on technical leader delivering complex software.
• Demonstrate thought-leadership; supporting our clients and colleagues to understand, through modern technology and process, what is possible for their business/craft.
• Line-manage a team of engineers while maintaining personal delivery contributions.
• Commercial experience with .Net as well as Java or frontend).
• Commercial experience with at least one major cloud (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and modern infrastructure practices (containers, continuous integration/continuous delivery, infrastructure as code).
• Strong delivery fundamentals: estimation, planning, and risk/issue/dependency management; escalates early with clear options and impacts.
• Communicate designs and trade‑offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Skilled in difficult conversations and actionable feedback; sets clear standards and holds people accountable.

Desirable:

• Tailor ways of working (Scrum or Kanban) to context and drive continuous improvement.
• Experience in change transformation projects that involved significant Artificial Intelligence adoption.
• Breadth across multiple languages or disciplines (e.g., Rust, test automation, DevOps/platform engineering).
• Experience across multiple clouds and cloud-native services.
• Contribute to recruitment and pre-sales in a consultancy context.
• Represent CreateFuture in the external tech community.

Technical leadership:

• Communicate designs, trade‑offs, and constraints in the context of client goals.
• Lead architecture, solution design, and documentation; make pragmatic technology choices.
• Contribute code where appropriate; set engineering standards; ensure reviews, testing, and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot complex issues; drive root‑cause fixes and follow‑up actions.

Delivery leadership:

• Own technical outcomes: scope, estimate, plan, and track to agreed goals.
• Highlight risks, issues, and dependencies; escalates early with clear options, impacts, and recommendations.
• Ensure actionable backlogs and realistic plans; communicate timelines and team shape needs.

People leadership (enable, unblock, hold to account):

• Guide direct reports to set themselves clear personal goals, and hold them accountable for realising them.
• Proactively remove impediments across technical, process, and organisational boundaries.
• Hold colleagues accountable for commitments and standards; address performance issues promptly.
• Provide targeted guidance and feedback; recognise achievements.
• Line‑manage direct reports; run core rituals (team meetings, 1:1s, objectives, reviews).
• Contribute to hiring.

Client leadership:

• Build trusted relationships at all levels; translate business needs into technical plans.
• Manage expectations and scope; articulate value and trade‑offs; identify follow‑on opportunities.
• Represent CreateFuture as the engagement lead.

Optional/community:

• Contribute to delivery practices and standards
• Contribute to pre‑sales.

What we’ll offer you:

• We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.
• We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote o