Technical Lead

Role: Technical Lead

Total Remuneration:
£69,246 to £86,100

Pay Supplement:
The base salary for this role is £57,505 - £71,750. This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay Supplement 20% is included in the salary band above.

Pension
: 28.97% of base salary (RoS contribution)

Annual Leave:
42 days annual holiday.

Duration
: Permanent.

Working Pattern
: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns.

Location
: Home / Office hybrid working. Offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Grade:
C1
-
Please note:
If this campaign establishes a reserve list, we may make an offer at a lower grade (SEO). Any offer will be discussed with you before it is confirmed.

Closing date
: 30th of October at 23:59

Registers of Scotland (RoS)

Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. RoS is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. We work to create data-led, digital solutions for the people of Scotland. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house.

The Role

As a Technical Lead you will lead and support one or more development teams, guiding the delivery of software solutions aligned with business, architectural and technical strategies. You will foster technical excellence, coach engineers, promote best practices, and build capability across the software development profession at RoScotland.

On a typical day you will…

• Provide technical leadership and formal line management for software developers, including conducting performance reviews, supporting career development, and managing wellbeing.
• Ensure regular one-to-one discussions, setting clear objectives and providing constructive feedback to support individual growth and performance.
• Ensure team alignment to architectural strategy
• Encourage and support individuals to set their own development objectives and regularly reflect on their progress
• Support and enable the design, development and delivery of secure, accessible, performant, and scalable services
• Embed best practice software engineering techniques including TDD, BDD, pair/mob programming, CI/CD and DevSecOps
• Foster and support Communities of Practice, cross-team initiatives, and shared learning opportunities
• Lead by example in coding, peer reviews, architecture discussions and issue resolution
• Facilitate team retrospectives, planning sessions and technical roadmap development
• Coach engineers across all grades, particularly supporting new entrants and junior developers
• Support recruitment, onboarding and professional development activities
• Encourage and support individuals to set their own development objectives and regularly reflect on their progress
• Ensure services are operable, resilient, and meet DR targets (e.g. 2hr RTO, zero RPO)
• Adhere to RoS engineering standards including continuous delivery, trunk-based development, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps
• Follow agile principles and practices aligned to the Agile Manifesto
• Coordinate system integration and support integration testing activities
• Lead or participate in design and architecture reviews to ensure scalable, maintainable and efficient systems
• Champion secure development practices including CVE handling, threat modelling, and adherence to secure coding standards
• Monitor and manage service availability and capacity to meet business KPIs
• Identify and manage technical debt and delivery risks, ensuring long-term maintainability of systems
• Collaborate with product managers, delivery leads, architects and other stakeholders to align technical direction with business goals
• Promote inclusive design and accessibility best practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Design and deliver workshops to support engineering capability uplift and team learning
• Contribute to emerging ML/AI-enabled development tooling initiatives, promoting awareness and effective adoption within teams

This job is for you if you want…

• Work with purpose:
  we strive to provide the best public service and set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
• Flexible and hybrid working:
  work when and where it's best for you and your stakeholders, depending on the role and team requirements.
  Benefits:
  enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 29%, up to a year's parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service. (Adjust to 42 days for C1 and above)
• Investment in professional development:
  we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
• Diversity and Inclusion:
  We are an 'Investor in People' and a 'Disability Confident' employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
• Positive work culture:
  RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology. Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.

To learn more about RoS and the benefits we offer visit our
careers pages
or
watch this short video
. Hear directly from our colleagues about their experience of working within our Digital, Data and Technology teams
on our website.

Our Tech stack

Backend:
Java, Python and Spring Boot

Frontend:
JavaScript, React and TypeScript

DevOps:
AWS
,
CI/CD, Kubernetes and OpenShift

AWS:
AWS SNS, Comprehend, EC2, Lambdas, RDS, SageMaker and Textract

Data:
Hadoop, Microsoft SQL Server, Pandas, PowerBI, PostgreSQL, Pytorch, Spark, TensorFlow and Tableau

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