Technical Lead
PA Consulting1 year ago
Bristol, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead technical teams through complex software engineering and digital transformation challenges.
- Mentor engineers and foster continuous improvement.
- Shape the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle across development, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, release management, performance optimization, and scalable application practices.
- Use load testing, caching, database-query optimization, and application-logic optimization to improve system performance.
- Apply TDD, contract testing, secure coding, event-driven architecture, and platform migration patterns.
- Provide technical subject matter expertise for bids and client proposals.
- Present technical approaches and implementation plans to prospective clients.
- Collaborate with clients, stakeholders, product, design, and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Experience managing and technically leading a software engineering team.
- Strong client-facing communication skills and credibility in technology and delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to improve the full software delivery lifecycle.
- Ability to implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and efficient release management strategies.
- Expertise in application scalability, performance optimization, TDD, contract testing, secure coding, event-driven architecture, and platform migration.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, collaboration, and stakeholder-management abilities.
- Experience providing technical expertise for bids and client proposals and discussing implementation with prospective clients.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with at least two days per week in an office or on a client site, with assignments potentially requiring up to five days per week on a client site.
- Technical career-track progression, mentoring, peer support, and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
- Budget for technical and non-technical courses and certifications.
- Private healthcare and other health and lifestyle perks.
- 25 days of annual leave plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve, with the option to buy five additional days.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Community and charity initiative opportunities.
- Annual performance-based bonus and PA share ownership.
- Tax-efficient benefits including cycle to work and give as you earn.
- Background checks and Baseline Personnel Security Standard are required; some UK roles require security clearance and five years of continuous UK residency.
Tech Stack
AngularAWSAzureC#GitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptJenkins.NETNext.jsNode.jsReactSpring BootTerraformTypeScriptVue.js
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About PA Consulting
PA Consulting is a management and technology consultancy that designs and delivers strategy, digital systems, and physical products for public- and private-sector clients. It works across defense and security, government, health and life sciences, financial services, energy and utilities, consumer, and transport markets. Founded in 1943 and headquartered in London, it operates globally and is majority-owned by Jacobs.