Job Description
Lead .NET Engineer (AWS / DevOps)
Department: Engineering
CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future.
We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel, and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.
About the role and team:
We are seeking an experienced Lead .NET Engineer to join a team responsible for maintaining, modernising, and evolving a portfolio of business-critical applications and services within a complex enterprise environment.
This role is focused on pragmatic modernisation rather than large-scale rewrites. The successful candidate will work across a broad technology landscape that includes legacy .NET applications and services alongside modern cloud-based platforms, helping teams improve, simplify, and evolve existing systems while balancing operational risk, business priorities, and long-term sustainability.
You will work closely with engineering teams, architects, and senior stakeholders, providing hands-on technical leadership and helping shape practical engineering decisions within a highly regulated environment.
This role follows a hybrid working model based in Glasgow and requires individuals who are comfortable building trusted relationships with stakeholders while working within established enterprise delivery frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and improve applications and services using .NET technologies and AWS cloud platforms.
- Work across both legacy and modern technology stacks, supporting the ongoing evolution of existing services.
- Analyse existing applications and services to identify opportunities for simplification, rationalisation, and modernisation.
- Contribute to cloud platform improvements and AWS engineering initiatives.
- Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
- Support DevOps practices, automation initiatives, and engineering improvements across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Work collaboratively with architects, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver pragmatic technical solutions.
- Help teams manage scope effectively, balancing technical improvement with delivery objectives.
- Promote best practices in software engineering, maintainability, operational excellence, and long-term supportability.
- Support knowledge transfer and documentation activities where domain knowledge may be limited or fragmented.
Required Experience
- Strong experience as a Lead Software Engineer working within .NET environments.
- Experience working across both modern .NET and legacy .NET Framework applications.
- Strong AWS cloud experience.
- Good understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering automation.
- Experience working within complex enterprise environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Comfortable engaging with senior business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience analysing and improving existing systems rather than delivering greenfield-only solutions.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach to engineering decisions.
- Ability to work effectively within hybrid delivery teams.
What We're Looking For
- Pragmatic engineers who can improve systems incrementally rather than seeking wholesale rewrites.
- Engineers who understand how to deliver incremental improvements, focusing on the right problems rather than attempting wholesale replacement of existing systems.
- Individuals comfortable navigating legacy codebases and building understanding where documentation or domain knowledge may be limited.
- T-shaped engineers with strong technical depth alongside architecture awareness and broader business understanding.
- Engineers who can balance technical excellence with commercial and delivery realities.
- Team players who contribute positively to engineering culture and stakeholder relationships.
- Individuals who can establish credibility quickly within a large enterprise environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience modernising legacy enterprise applications and services.
- Exposure to WCF, WPF, and broader Microsoft technology stacks.
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation or platform consolidation initiatives.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar technologies.
- Experience working within financial services or other highly regulated environments.
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
Our hiring processWe try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.
It usually looks like this:
- Call with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Role specific capability interview
Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.
Inclusion at CreateFutureWe believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.
If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.
We look forward to your application!
Skills Required
- Strong experience as a Lead Software Engineer working within .NET environments
- Experience working across both modern .NET and legacy .NET Framework applications
- Strong AWS cloud experience
- Good understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering automation
- Experience working within complex enterprise environments
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience analysing and improving existing systems rather than delivering greenfield-only solutions
- Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform
- Comfortable engaging with senior business and technical stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively within hybrid delivery teams
- Experience modernising legacy enterprise applications and services
- Exposure to WCF, WPF, and broader Microsoft technology stacks
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation or platform consolidation initiatives
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot
- Experience working within financial services or other highly regulated environments
What We Do
CreateFuture was built to take action. With our 500-strong team of software engineering, strategy and design experts, across Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Manchester, we’re determined to get you exactly what you need. As with our past clients, we get to the root of your challenge and do everything it takes to create positive solutions by building digital products and services that solve problems. With years of experience helping catalyse major organisations into action, our rapid growth has been driven by people who seek to understand before they solve. We care about our craft. We challenge each other by asking, “Why not?”. And we’re proud to collaborate and partner with the likes of PayPal, adidas, FanDuel, Money Saving Expert, Penguin Random House, Yorkshire Building Society and more. With CreateFuture, our people are at the forefront of every outcome and we know that a strong team dynamic is critical to success, so we’ll be there for you every step of the way. We draw on their unique skills for problem-solving – and helping your teams unleash their potential too. Put simply, we want to be an organisation that people want to work for and want to work with. You don’t need to have all the answers. Share your problem and we’ll go from there. Let’s create something incredible, together, today.
