Engineering Lead
Job Location:
Gloucester - UK
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Job Summary
Job Description
Our exciting client is seeking an Engineering Lead to build and lead small high-performing Agile teams (48 engineers) delivering secure scalable solutions within the UK National Security (NatSec) domain
Engineering Lead - AI Cloud & National Security
Package -dv bonus excellent package
Location - Cheltenham - Hybrid
Clearance - eDV Clearance Required
Overview
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This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture software engineering and team leadership with a focus on Software AI data platforms and cloud-native systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor Agile engineering teams driving high-quality rapid delivery (DevSecOps)
- Own solution architecture designing for secure and constrained environments.
- Lead the implementation of the underpinning tech for AI including data pipelines.
- Act as a trusted advisor to UK Government stakeholders.
- Define technical roadmaps and support cloud transformation (AWS/Azure)
Core Skills
- Background in UK National Security / Defence / Government.
- Strong leadership experience in software engineering teams.
- Proficiency in Python Go or Java ( TypeScript/ desirable)
- Expertise in AWS or Azure Terraform and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)
- Strong grounding in SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB)
- Experience with CI/CD microservices TDD/BDD.
- Knowledge of secure system design.
Desirable (AI & Data)
- Vector DBs: Milvus Weaviate Pinecone
- Data orchestration: Airflow Prefect Dagster
- Search: ElasticSearch / OpenSearch
- AI frameworks: LangChain Hugging Face
- MLOps: MLflow Kubeflow
If you are looking for an opportunity to work on mission-critical systems at the forefront of UK National Security Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.
Required Experience:
IC
