Technical Lead - .Net

Greenhouse Software, Inc.; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid/Remote options

Multiple office hubs

Job summary

CreateFuture in Manchester is seeking a Tech Lead to steer engineering outcomes across .NET and Java stacks. You will lead architecture, design, and delivery on client projects, while mentoring engineers and guiding delivery leadership.

The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership in a technology consultancy that embraces AI and future trends. You will manage a team of technical directs, set standards, and ensure high-value client outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on technical leader delivering complex software projects.
• Demonstrate thought-leadership; guide clients and colleagues on modern tech and processes.
• Line-manage engineers while contributing to delivery.
• Experience with .NET and Java or frontend tech.
• Cloud experience with at least one major cloud provider and modern infra practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, solution design, and documentation; set engineering standards.
• Contribute code where appropriate and ensure reviews, testing, and maintainability.
• Own technical outcomes: scope, estimate, plan, and track against goals.
• Highlight risks, issues, and dependencies with clear options and impacts.
• Build trusted client relationships and translate business needs into technical plans.

Skills

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

Architecture

Mentoring

Client engagement

Agile methods

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Role Title: Tech Lead - .Net and Java
Department: Engineering

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.

Role Responsibilities

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 options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.

We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.

Our hiring process

We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.

It usually looks like this:

• Call with our Talent Acquisition Team
• Role specific capability interview

Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.

Inclusion at CreateFuture

We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.

If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.

We look forward to your application!