Technical Lead - Software Delivery & AI Platforms

Digital Catapult; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top Workplace

Disability Confident Employer

25 days leave

Pension 10%

Discretionary bonus

Benefits allowance 4%

E-Vehicle / Cycle to Work

Life insurance

Hybrid working

Learning & development

Social events

Job summary

Digital Catapult in Belfast is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to steer technical delivery across software projects, including digital twin environments for the UK Digital Twin Centre and AI assurance testbed platforms. You will design and build software hands-on and set the technical direction for the teams you lead.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product, design, research and clients, own operations of platforms including monitoring and performance, and help grow the Belfast

Qualifications

• Proven technical leadership on complex multi-language projects.
• Strong backend experience in TypeScript/JavaScript and at least one other language (Python or Rust).
• Frontend experience with a modern framework (React).
• Experience with CI/CD, containers and cloud deployment (GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery on a range of projects from rapid prototypes to production platforms.
• Design and build end-to-end software using TS/JS, Python, Docker, Kubernetes; manage infrastructure on Azure.
• Set architecture standards, code quality, security and testing for projects you lead.
• Mentor engineers and help grow the Belfast engineering team.
• Collaborate with product, design, research and client stakeholders to translate requirements into working software.
• Own platform operation including monitoring, troubleshooting and performance.

Skills

Technical leadership

TS/JS backend

Python or Rust

Frontend: React

CI/CD / containers

Cloud deployment

Collaboration across stakeholders

Generative AI interest

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Digital Catapult in Belfast is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to steer technical delivery across software projects, including digital twin environments for the UK Digital Twin Centre and AI assurance testbed platforms. You will design and build software hands-on and set the technical direction for the teams you lead.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product, design, research and clients, own operations of platforms including monitoring and performance, and help grow the Belfast