Technical Lead (Python)

Technical Lead (Python) West London (Fortnightly Office Visits) Contract | Inside IR35 | Up to £750 per day Long-Term Programme (2+ Years)

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join a major transformation programme delivering enterprise-scale data and technology solutions. This is a rare opportunity to secure a long-term contract engagement (2+ years) on a high-profile programme, providing technical leadership across engineering, cloud, integration, and data platform initiatives.

The successful Technical Lead will combine strong hands-on technical expertise with leadership capability, helping to shape architecture decisions, guide engineering teams, and drive delivery of complex data-driven solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering and data workstreams.
• Lead solution design, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Manage and mentor technical teams, providing line management and technical coaching.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Drive delivery of cloud-native platforms, integrations, APIs, and data services.
• Work closely with Product, Architecture, Data Engineering, and DevOps teams.
• Support engineering standards covering CI/CD, testing, observability, security, and operational readiness.
• Lead technical decision-making and resolve complex engineering challenges.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, Lead Developer, Solution Lead, or Principal Engineer.
• Previous line management experience, including mentoring, coaching, and developing technical teams.
• Strong background delivering data-focused projects and data transformation initiatives.
• Experience designing and implementing modern data platform architectures, including a strong understanding of Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers).
• Experience leading technical design and engineering delivery across complex enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

Technical Skills

Experience with some or all of the following:

• Python
• FastAPI
• AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, IAM, CloudWatch)
• Event-driven architecture
• Data integration and data engineering
• CI/CD and DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code
• Docker and containerisation
• Observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting

What's on Offer?

• Up to £750 per day
• Inside IR35
• 2+ year programme of work
• High-profile strategic transformation initiative
• Hybrid working model with fortnightly office visits to West London
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-scale data and technology solutions

Keywords

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