Role Title: Tech Lead
Department: EngineeringRole Summary
As a Tech Lead at CreateFuture, you will use your technical and leadership skills to lead
and support diverse client projects. Depending on the engagement, this includes
hands-on coding, software architecture, solution design or delivery leadership and project
management, ensuring a high standard of delivery in everything we do.
We focus on high-value, high-impact client outcomes, and we’re not afraid to challenge
the status quo. You should be curious, pragmatic, and operate well in ambiguous
environments.
As a technology consultancy, it’s important for us to not only deliver reliable, scalable
solutions but to be looking at future trends and other high-impact developments. Your
curiosity for technology and its application to business opportunities is highly valued
within the company. We are disrupting consultancy through the use of Artificial
Intelligence and radical thinking in our approach. We're doing something different, and
that’s realising significant benefits for our clients. We want you to share that same
ambition.
You will also manage a team of technical direct reports, who are themselves working on
client projects, for whom you will provide actionable feedback, technical guidance and
mentoring, fostering a continuous improvement, growth and consultancy mindset.
You will work with clients at every level to understand their problems, set expectations,
and maximise business value, representing CreateFuture as an engagement lead.
Role Requirements
● Proven, hands-on technical leader delivering complex software.
● Demonstrate thought-leadership; supporting our clients and colleagues to
understand, through modern technology and process, what is possible for their
business/craft.
● Line-manage a team of engineers while maintaining personal delivery
contributions.
● Commercial experience in at least one: Java, .NET, Python, or TypeScript (backend
or frontend).● Commercial experience with at least one major cloud (Amazon Web Services,
Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and modern infrastructure practices
(containers, continuous integration/continuous delivery, infrastructure as code).
● Strong delivery fundamentals: estimation, planning, and risk/issue/dependency
management; escalates early with clear options and impacts.
● Communicate designs and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical
stakeholders.
● Skilled in difficult conversations and actionable feedback; sets clear standards and
holds people accountable.
Desirable:
● Tailor ways of working (Scrum or Kanban) to context and drive continuous
improvement.
● Experience in change transformation projects that involved significant Artificial
Intelligence adoption.
● Breadth across multiple languages or disciplines (e.g., Rust, test automation,
DevOps/platform engineering).
● Experience across multiple clouds and cloud-native services.
● Contribute to recruitment and pre-sales in a consultancy context.
● Represent CreateFuture in the external tech community.
Role Responsibilities
Technical leadership:
● Communicate designs, trade‐offs, and constraints in the context of client goals.
● Lead architecture, solution design, and documentation; make pragmatic
technology choices.
● Contribute code where appropriate; set engineering standards; ensure reviews,
testing, and maintainability.
● Troubleshoot complex issues; drive root‐cause fixes and follow‐up actions.
Delivery leadership:
● Own technical outcomes: scope, estimate, plan, and track to agreed goals.
● Highlight risks, issues, and dependencies; escalate early with clear options,
impacts, and recommendations.
● Ensure actionable backlogs and realistic plans; communicate timelines and team
shape needs.
People leadership (enable, unblock, hold to account):● Guide direct reports to set themselves clear personal goals, and hold them
accountable for realising them.
● Proactively remove impediments across technical, process, and organisational
boundaries.
● Hold colleagues accountable for commitments and standards; address
performance issues promptly.
● Provide targeted guidance and feedback; recognise achievements.
● Line‐manage direct reports; run core rituals (team meetings, 1:1s, objectives,
reviews).
● Contribute to hiring.
Client leadership:
● Build trusted relationships at all levels; translate business needs into technical
plans.
● Manage expectations and scope; articulate value and trade‐offs; identify follow‐on
opportunities.
● Represent CreateFuture as the engagement lead.
Optional/community:
● Contribute to delivery practices and standards
● Contribute to pre‐sales.
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
- Proven experience as a hands-on technical leader delivering complex software
- Commercial experience with at least one of Java, .NET, Python, or TypeScript
- Commercial experience with at least one major cloud platform: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with modern infrastructure practices, including containers, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code
- Experience leading and line-managing a team of engineers while contributing to technical delivery
- Strong delivery fundamentals, including estimation, planning, and risk, issue, and dependency management
- Ability to communicate technical designs and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to provide actionable feedback, manage difficult conversations, set standards, and hold people accountable
- Experience tailoring Scrum or Kanban practices to context and driving continuous improvement
- Experience with change transformation projects involving significant Artificial Intelligence adoption
- Breadth across multiple programming languages or technical disciplines, such as Rust, test automation, or DevOps/platform engineering
- Experience across multiple cloud platforms and cloud-native services
- Experience contributing to recruitment and pre-sales in a consultancy context
- Experience representing an organization in the external technology community
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.
