Skills

Leadership Coaching Architecture Programming Process Improvement Agile

Job Specifications

Lead Developer

Location: London (hybrid working pattern)

Contract type: 4 Months

Rate: £700.00 per day inside IR35

The Role:

I am looking for an experienced Lead Developer to provide technical leadership across multiple project teams, helping to deliver high-quality, secure, and user-focused digital services.

You’ll guide the way your team works, shape the technical direction of projects, and ensure that all solutions are built using modern, scalable, and maintainable approaches. You’ll play a pivotal role in mentoring and developing your team, fostering knowledge sharing, and embedding best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across development projects, guiding the design, build, and integration of complex systems.
Lead and mentor a team of developers, promoting high standards, continuous learning, and collaboration.
Identify and implement the right technologies and approaches to meet business and user needs.
Ensure software and systems are built following modern standards and secure design principles.
Drive process improvement and contribute to community-wide knowledge sharing and best practice.
Collaborate closely with delivery managers, user researchers, and service designers to ensure user needs are met.
Oversee and manage knowledge transfer and handover to internal teams.

Skills / Experience required:

You’ll be an experienced software engineering professional with proven technical and leadership skills. You can balance hands-on development expertise with strategic guidance and coaching.
Depending on your focus, we have two complementary roles available:

Technical Lead

You will:

Be proficient in a wide range of technical systems and development practices
Apply and promote modern standards in software engineering.
Design and integrate complex systems with medium-to-high levels of risk and technical complexity.
Ensure information security is embedded throughout solution design.
Lead on programming, build standards, and continuous improvement of development processes.
Champion user-centred design and ensure services are built around real user needs.

Management Lead

You will:

Lead and develop teams to deliver service improvements and process optimisation.
Oversee the implementation of capacity and availability management to meet business needs.
Ensure the correct application of information security and data protection principles.
Manage and support integration and testing across multiple systems.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, representing both technical and user perspectives.
Coach, mentor, and guide your teams in modern engineering practices.

Skills & Experience:

Availability and capacity management
Development process optimisation
Information security
Modern standards and agile approaches
Programming and build (software engineering)
Prototyping and user-centred design
Service support and systems integration
Systems design and architecture

Please apply online with your CV.

About the Company

We are a leading specialist recruitment agency offering first-class recruitment solutions across all IT disciplines, Telecoms and Senior Appointments. Founded in January 2001, TechNET IT Recruitment has since benefitted from year-on-year growth and has developed organically into a leading technology agency supporting a variety of clients throughout EMEA. We are able to offer our clients a range of services from 'standard' contract or permanent recruitment through to headhunting, search/selection, and recruitment process ou... Know more