Technical Lead – Cloud-Native & DevSecOps (Hybrid) NEW

Registers of Scotland

Grade: C1

Total remuneration: £74,536 to £92,678

Pay Supplement: The base salary for this role is £62,114 – £77,232. This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay Supplement 20% is included in the salary band above.

Pension: 28.97% of the 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: Hybrid working model. Contractual base either at Meadowbank House, Edinburgh (EH8 7AU), or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G2 5LD). You will be expected to attend one of these locations as required by the role.

Department: IT Development

Directorate: Digital, Data and Technology

Role Reports to: Head of Engineering

Closing date: 20 August at 11.59pm

Number of vacancies: 2 (Please Note: If this campaign establishes a reserve list, we may make an offer at a lower grade. Any offer will be discussed with you before it is confirmed)

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.

This job is for you if you want

Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.

Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it’s best for you and your stakeholders.

Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year’s parental leave, and 42 days annual holiday.

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 what we offer visit our careers page or watch this short video. Hear 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 related frameworks Spring Boot, Flask
• Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript and related frameworks React, Next.js
• DevOps: AWS, OpenShift, GitLab CI/CD
• Data: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, MongoDB, Informix

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

• 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

Essential Criteria – Skills and Attributes for Success Experience/Technical

• Proven leadership of cross-functional software delivery teams, guiding design and delivery of secure, accessible, performant and scalable services in the cloud.
• Hands-on engineering background with modern languages and frameworks, for example Java 11+, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript with Spring Boot, Flask, React or Next.js.
• Strong DevOps experience, including CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins or GitLab CI), containerisation (Docker), infrastructure as code (CDK, CloudFormation or Ansible) and DevSecOps practices.
• Practical use of AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Aurora and IAM, with awareness of Azure; comfortable operating on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Test automation at multiple levels, for example Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library and consumer-driven contract testing; quality tooling such as SonarQube.
• Monitoring and operability experience using tools such as Grafana, Kibana, CloudWatch and X-Ray; proven ability to meet resilience and DR objectives.
• Sound architectural grounding in microservices, serverless and event-driven patterns, including DDD, integration design and performance considerations.
• Demonstrable commitment to secure development, including CVE handling, threat modelling and secure coding standards. Experience coaching others in engineering excellence (TDD