Technical Lead, Software Development, Java Developer

Technical Lead

6-Month Contract | (Outside IR35) £500 day rate / Hybrid (Edinburgh / Glasgow)

Parity Network is recruiting on behalf of a public sector organisation seeking an experienced Technical Lead for an initial 6-month contract. This is a hybrid role, with team collaboration taking place in Edinburgh or Glasgow as required.

About the Role

As an experienced Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer you will join an agile development team working within the Housing Management Registers domain.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring strong commercial experience with Java, Spring Boot and Open Shift. You will lead technical solutions, support architectural decision-making and help ensure the development team delivers secure, scalable and maintainable digital services.

You will also act as a link between the development team and architecture stakeholders, helping to establish best practices, technical standards and engineering principles.

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership to a cross-functional agile development team.

Design and implement robust, scalable software solutions.

Lead technical improvements and help address technical debt.

Contribute to architecture decisions and represent the team at technical governance forums.

Ensure solutions meet security, accessibility, performance and maintainability standards.

Work closely with Product, Service Design and Operations teams.

Support Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD and continuous delivery practices.

Troubleshoot development and production issues.

Coach and mentor other developers.

Contribute to disaster recovery and service resilience activities.

Essential Skills & Experience

Strong commercial experience with Java 11+

Spring Boot, Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow

REST APIs

Thymeleaf

JavaScript / Node.js / Vue

React, Next.js and Type Script

Strong HTML / CSS and accessibility awareness

Open Shift and Docker

Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines

Modern Dev Ops practices

Experience technically leading development teams.

Strong software architecture and solution design experience.

Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

Experience with automated testing and quality engineering.

Infrastructure as Code experience.

Experience with monitoring/telemetry tools such as Grafana.

Strong stakeholder communication skills.

Experience coaching and mentoring developers.

Desirable

AWS

Aurora / PostgreSQL

Strong SQL and data modelling experience.

Human-centred and inclusive design practices.

Service and event-based architectures.

If you are an experienced Technical Lead with strong Java, Spring Boot and Open Shift experience, we'd love to hear from you