Technical Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 414247

**Salary**:

- £69,246 - £86,100
- The base salary for this role is £57,705-£71,750 This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement of 20% which is included in the total remuneration above.
Pension: 28.97% of base salary (RoS contribution)
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Grade 6

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- RoS - Corporate - Digital

**Type of role**:

- Digital
Engineering

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Flexible hybrid working within the UK. Occasional on-site presence required at Meadowbank House (Edinburgh) or St Vincent Plaza (Glasgow) in line with business requirements.

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
**Total remuneration**:£69,246 - £86,100
**Pay Supplement**: The base salary for this role is £57,705-£71,750 This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement of 20% which is included in the total remuneration 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 on a case-by-case basis. For example, compressed hours, term-time working or part-time working.
**Location**:Flexible hybrid working within the UK. Occasional on-site presence required at Meadowbank House (Edinburgh) or St Vincent Plaza (Glasgow) in line with business requirements.
**Grade**:C1
**Closing date**:Thursday 10 July at 23:59pm

**Registers of Scotland (RoS)**
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house. We work to create digital solutions for the people of Scotland. You will get an opportunity to nurture your creativity and develop with us through access to the latest data, software engineering and product delivery techniques.

**Our Tech stack**
**Programming**:Java (11+), Python, TypeScript
**Frameworks**:Spring Boot, Flask, React, Next.js
**DevOps**: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, Ansible)
**Cloud**:AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Aurora, IAM)
**Container Platforms**:OpenShift, Kubernetes
**QA**: JUnit, Mockito, Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, SonarQube
**Monitoring**: Grafana, Kibana, CloudWatch, X-Ray
**Architecture**: Microservices, serverless, event-driven, DDD

**Job description**:
**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 Registers of Scotland (RoS).

**On a typical day you will**
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**Provide technical leadership and management for one or more development teams
- Ensure alignment with architectural strategy
- Support the design, development and delivery of secure, accessible, performant, and scalable services
- Champion and embed modern software engineering practices including TDD, BDD, trunk-based development, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and infrastructure as code
- Facilitate agile ways of working including retrospectives, planning and iterative delivery, in line with the Agile Manifesto
- Lead by example in hands-on development, architecture discussions and peer review
- Coach and mentor engineers across all grades, with a focus on junior developers and new team members
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and continuous professional development
- Encourage and support individuals to set their own development objectives and regularly reflect on progress
- Lead or contribute to integration activities and system design reviews to ensure scalable, maintainable systems
- Manage service performance and capacity while identifying and mitigating technical debt and delivery risks
- Collaborate with product managers, delivery leads, architects and other stakeholders to align technical direction with business goals
- Actively participate in and support engineering Communities of Practice and cross-team collaboration initiatives
- Promote secure coding practices, threat modelling and vulnerability management
- 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

**Person specification**:
**Experience/Technical**:

- Proven