Technical Lead

Parity Professionals • APPLICATION • Midlothian, Edinburgh, United Kingdom • £460 - £490 / day • 1d ago

Technical Lead - AWS Software Engineering

Hybrid working, Edinburgh or Glasgow based.

You will receive a daily rate of up to £460 a day and the contract will see you OUTSIDE IR35

Parity Group are delighted to partner with our client, a prestigious public sector organisation, who are looking to recruit an experienced Technical Lead with strong AWS and TypeScript expertise to lead a cross-functional agile development team.

You will provide hands-on engineering leadership, guide architectural decisions, and act as a key link between development teams and the Architecture Steering Group helping define and refine best practices, standards, and architectural principles. Supporting long-term digital sustainability and service resilience.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead feature development and platform refactoring using AWS serverless tools (Lambda, CDK, API Gateway)
Design and document public APIs and Back End services.
Provide BAU support and technical oversight for existing registers.
Collaborate across product, service design, and delivery teams.
Coach and mentor developers and champion engineering best practices.
Contribute to architectural decisions and cross-team governance.

Essential Skills:

Experience with AWS (Lambda, CDK, S3, Aurora), TypeScript, React, and modern JavaScript.
Proven experience in leading agile software teams
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, DevOps tooling, testing frameworks (eg Cypress), and monitoring (eg Grafana)
Background in digital public services, accessibility, and GDS standards is highly desirable.

Why Apply?

This is a pivotal role supporting the digital infrastructure for our client. You will shape innovative, secure, and sustainable public services in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

If this sounds like the role for you then do not hesitate to contact me, Lynne Strang, for more information or simply click on the apply button.

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