Tech Lead

Salary: £68,238
Grade: Level 6, Zone 1
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37, Full Time         
Closing Date: Sunday 27th April 2025; 23:55
 

About Camden

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. We’re not just home to UK’s fast-growing economy; we’re home to the most important conversations happening today. We’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all. 

What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved

You will be a Tech Lead for the Digital Engineering team, leading our understanding of how different digital technologies and platforms can be deployed to improve our citizens and businesses experiences when engaging with the council. You will influence all full-stack development, creating a strong framework for software engineering, ensuring that robust processes underpin the way we create and improve our products.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will report to the Head of Digital Engineering.  Whilst this is a senior technical management role, you will retain “hands on” involvement in the Software Development Lifecycle.  The role is responsible for advising on in-house development – starting from discovery, through iterative development on both new and existing products, through to launching new features that help improve the lives of those who live and do business in Camden.  We have a range of technical stacks and systems to integrate with.  Consequently, your adaptability, and willingness to learn new technology is just as important as your experience in particular technologies.  You may find yourself working with Java, Python, and a variety of JavaScript frameworks.  

Leading, governing and helping set the best practices for the software development of new services, you will lead by example, comfortable enough to get into the detail, and confident enough to operate in a software architecture/design capacity.  You will be working with people across the council to explain the benefits of digital and agile ways of working and help them build their digital plans, articulating the value of excellent in-house software delivery. You will work closely with stakeholders across the council and develop excellent relationships across all areas.  

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All About You

To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.

You are a passionate, experienced developer able to create products from scratch and pragmatically work with existing platforms to transform services. You’ll thrive when using agile methods and enjoy championing and establishing best practices in terms of process and standards.  You will encourage the adoption of an agile mindset within the services (lines of business) that we work with.  

You will have a relentless focus on how well-informed user needs inform great products and meaningful outcomes and will inspire others to do the same. Setting software development standards and ensuring they’re adhered to, defining high-quality service development and ongoing support. You will establish and promote a culture of learning, building, and leading a community of practice for software development.  

As Tech Lead you will be an active member of the Customer, Technology and Data services, helping us modernise and think radically about the role of technology in the future of the council.

Your experience should include:

•    Leading other developers in prototyping and building products on a mix of tech stacks (we currently have products built in React/Java/Python/JavaScript as well as low-code platforms that need more front-end expertise, and will look to build new products in future)  
•    Setting service and development standards   
•    Developing services that takes account of the needs of diverse users  
•    Building complex services in code  
•    Working in a culture of continuous code release  
•    Working with a Design System  
•    Significant experience working in teams using agile methods and culture  
•    Significant experience in understanding and balancing client, organisational, and technical needs and knowing how to balance these when setting product strategy and direction.  
•    Significant experience of researching, prototyping, launching and scaling products and platforms from inception to live.  
•    Working with APIs and microservices architecture and managing the relationships between interdependent product and platform teams.  

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits including:
•    27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
•    Local Government Pension Scheme
•    Flexible working opportunities
•    Interest free loans
•    Access to our incredible staff networks
•    Career development and training
•    Wellbeing support and activities

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
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Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.