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Technical Lead

Harvey NashEdinburgh, Scotland🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 10 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote Technical Lead role offers an excellent opportunity to provide hands-on technical leadership and shape architectural direction within a reputable public sector organization. You'll thrive here if you possess strong commercial experience in Java, Spring Boot, OpenShift, and modern DevOps practices, and are eager to contribute to impactful projects while working flexibly. Apply now to leverage your skills and contribute to significant improvements in citizen services and operational efficiency.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Remote
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Technical Lead - 6 Months - Outside IR35 - Edinburgh (Hybrid)

Day Rate - Circa 540

Harvey Nash's public sector client are currently looking to recruit a Technical Lead to join their team based remotely for an initial 6 month period. software engineer with solid commercial experience of building containerised Spring Boot Java applications running on OpenShift is required to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team. Ensuring alignment with strategic architectural direction and acting as a conduit between the development team and the Architecture Steering Group, helping to define and refine best practices, standards and architectural principles.

Main Duties:

  • Support the continued rollout of the Property Factors
  • Meet accessibility standards and remain compliant as they evolve
  • Improve operational efficiency for administrative users
  • Enhance citizen interactions
  • Comply with data protection legislation
  • Provide effective support and maintenance of the underlying system components
  • Strengthen DevSecOps practices within shifting vulnerability
  • management left and embedding controls in pipelines to prevent the introduction of new vulnerabilities

Essential Skills:

Significant commercial experience with the following technologies:

  • Java 11+
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring MVC
  • Spring Web Flow
  • Thymeleaf templates
  • REST APIs
  • JavaScript UI frameworks, including Node and Vue,
  • React, Next.js and Typescript
  • Strong HTML / CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations.
  • OpenShift
  • Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins, and Docker

Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:

  • Strong data modelling and SQL development.
  • AWS environments including Aurora/Postgres.
  • Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.

This role has been deemed Outside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.

Skills

Docker
Next.js
SQL
Spring
Spring Boot
AWS
Agile
CSS
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Jenkins
REST
React
TypeScript
Vue

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