Technical Lead, IT/Tech, Systems Engineer
Job in
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh Area, EH1, Scotland, UK
Listed on 2026-08-11
Listing for:
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Contract
position Listed on 2026-08-11
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location:
remote with occasional trip to Edinburgh or Glasgow) Day rate: £500 p/d outside ir35 We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership within a high-performing, agile development team.
The Role Lead technical delivery across a portfolio of digital housing management services. Provide hands-on technical direction across tactical delivery and longer-term architecture. Design, assess and implement scalable, secure and sustainable technical solutions. Work closely with Product, Service Design, Operations and Architecture teams. Represent the development team at architecture and technical governance forums. Drive continuous improvement, Dev Sec Ops adoption and technical debt reduction.
Champion accessibility, security, performance, maintainability and quality. Support troubleshooting across development and production environments. Coach and mentor developers, helping build a strong engineering culture. Contribute to disaster recovery and service resilience activities, including occasional out-of-hours support. Essential Experience Strong commercial experience with Java 11, Spring Boot, Spring MVC and REST APIs .
Experience with Open Shift, Docker, Jenkins and modern CI/CD pipelines . Strong knowledge of JavaScript, Node, Vue, React, Next.js and Type Script . Solid HTML/CSS skills with an understanding of accessibility. Proven experience technically leading cross-functional development teams. Strong understanding of Agile, Dev Ops, automated testing and infrastructure as code.
Experience with service-based and event-driven architectures. Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Demonstrable experience coaching and mentoring development teams. Desirable Strong SQL and data-modelling experience.
Experience with AWS, Aurora/PostgreSQL and Grafana . Experience delivering inclusive, human-centred digital services. Please apply today to be considered McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
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