Technical Lead

Technical Lead

Position Description

At CGI, we deliver secure, scalable digital services that support some of the UK’s most important public sector organisations. As a Technical Lead within one of our key UK Government programmes, you’ll help shape the future of justice services by leading engineering excellence across multiple product teams delivering high-impact digital platforms. You’ll work at the intersection of modern cloud engineering, large-scale service transformation, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities, helping teams build resilient, secure, and user-focused solutions in a highly regulated environment. This is an opportunity to influence technical strategy, mentor talented engineers, and drive innovation while contributing to services that make a real difference to citizens nationwide.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position.

Your future duties and responsibilities

In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership across multiple product teams delivering complex digital services within our one of our client’s key domains. You’ll support and mentor Technical Leads and engineering teams, ensuring solutions are delivered using strong engineering practices, secure development standards, and modern DevOps approaches. Working closely with architects, product managers, and delivery leaders, you’ll help translate strategic architectural direction into practical, scalable technical delivery.

You’ll also play an important role in identifying and introducing AI-enabled capabilities and AI-assisted engineering practices that improve productivity, quality, and operational efficiency. Alongside technical leadership responsibilities, you’ll foster collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across the wider programme.

Key responsibilities

• Lead & Mentor Technical Leads and engineering teams across multiple product areas

• Guide & Review complex technical implementations, engineering standards, and delivery quality

• Collaborate & Align with architects, delivery managers, and product teams on technical direction

• Drive & Support modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, and secure development

• Identify & Enable opportunities for AI-assisted engineering and AI-enabled service capabilities

• Support & Improve cloud-native solutions across Azure, Kubernetes, and distributed systems

• Manage & Mitigate technical risks, dependencies, and cross-team challenges

• Foster & Develop high-performing engineering teams through coaching and collaboration

• Contribute & Support proof-of-concept initiatives, technical investigations, and innovation activities

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring significant experience leading engineering teams within complex digital delivery environments. You should have strong hands-on technical expertise, a collaborative leadership style, and experience supporting large-scale cloud-based platforms. Experience with modern software engineering practices, distributed systems, and emerging AI-enabled technologies will be highly valuable.

Essential qualifications

• Significant experience leading software engineering teams and Technical Leads

• Strong programming expertise in Java, Angular, Node.js, and Express.js

• Experience designing and supporting distributed systems and microservices architectures

• Strong knowledge of Azure cloud technologies including AKS, Azure Service Bus, and Application Insights

• Experience with PostgreSQL and modern data-driven application development

• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and Terraform

• Ability to review, challenge, and guide complex technical implementations

• Experience working within highly regulated or public sector environments

• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and mentoring skills

• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools or AI-enabled software capabilities desirable

• Understanding of responsible AI principles and governance considerations desirable

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