Technical Development Team Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global tech firm is seeking a Technical Development Team Lead to guide engineering teams in delivering high-quality software solutions. Key responsibilities include coding, automated testing, and ensuring team efficiency through agile and DevOps practices. Candidates should possess strong technical skills in Java, AWS, and Python, with experience in both Waterfall and Agile environments. Competitive salary and benefits are provided.

Benefits

Competitive salary packages

Health care benefits

Access to training resources

Qualifications

• Technical background in engineering, architecture, DevOps, or automated testing.
• Experience with Business Change and IT Delivery in Waterfall and Agile.
• Familiarity with engineering tools and alternative testing approaches.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to coding, automated testing, and software design architecture.
• Lead defect triage to maintain stability and performance.
• Work with engineering leads to refine processes and embed agile principles.

Skills

Java

AWS

Python

Agile methodologies

DevOps

Technical leadership

Tools

Atlassian JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner | UK&I Tech Hiring Expert | DEIB - Driven Talent Engagement

Role: Technical Development Team Lead

Location: Edinburgh and London, UK

The Role

As a Technical Development Team Lead, you will be a key member of long‑lived delivery teams who shape delivery, provide technology leadership, guide and support the engineering team for the delivery of high‑quality, scalable, secure, and efficient software solutions. You will ensure the team is set up to accept, prioritise and deliver work for multiple products/projects and deliver to client standards with enduring quality.

Your Responsibilities

• Contribute to implementation such as coding, automated testing and creation of high‑level designs and architecture.
• Ensure technical needs are merged with feature changes, including operational cost reviews, quality, performance, resilience and recovery, and champion tech‑debt reduction.
• Lead defect triage and resolution to maintain stability and performance.
• Consolidate estimates using input from specialists in the team.
• Ensure work meets criteria with clear scope and outcomes, prioritise backlogs and manage the flow of work through the team, covering automation techniques to improve flow.
• Monitor team metrics (SLAs, OKRs, KPIs) and uphold estimation discipline.
• Work with engineering and test leads to refine processes, tools and practices, embedding agile principles, CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE approaches, AI, etc.

Your Profile

• Technical background in one or more of engineering, architecture, DevOps, technical BA, automated testing roles.
• Programming skills in Java, AWS and Python.
• Experience with Business Change and IT Delivery, both Waterfall and Agile environments.
• Experience using team productivity and work planning tools, e.g. Atlassian JIRA, Confluence.
• Working in team building software across multiple platforms and disciplines in a regulated environment.
• Knowledge of engineering lifecycle and practices, branching, code review, release governance and change control.
• Experience with engineering tool chains and alternative testing approaches such as Test‑Driven Development (TDD).
• Understanding of software design patterns and architecture patterns including cloud, PaaS, third‑party integration, microservices, APIs, event‑driven systems and data platforms.
• Experience with build processes, automation, deployment techniques, observability and monitoring.

Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Competitive salary packages include pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone and access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network. We offer health & wellness initiatives, sports events and sponsor the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting accessibility needs under the UK Equality Act 2010 and UK Human Rights Act 1998. We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment and sexual orientation. We encourage disabled people to apply.

Application Process

• Online application: apply directly via LinkedIn or upload CV.
• Skill‑Based discussion: level 1 interview with project team via video or in‑person.
• Managerial discussion: behavioural aspects and person‑organisation fit.
• HR Discussion: career journey, aspirations, compensation and questions.

Note

This role does not accept payments from candidates; TCS does not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process.