Technical Lead

Contract Tech Lead - Outside IR35 - £500pd - Remote - 3 Months initial contract

The opportunity

I'm working with an established insurance business that is putting real effort into AI, and they need a senior, hands-on architect to take ownership of the platform that sits behind it all.

What you'd be doing

You'd report into their senior team, and your job is to make sure what gets built can actually be adopted and run safely inside the business. Day to day that looks like:

→ Getting into the detail of the programme and working out what the architecture, security, environments and integrations need to look like

→ Helping the senior team make good decisions and getting them properly signed off

→ Staying hands-on, improving and extending the platform as it grows

→ Prototyping where it saves them making an expensive mistake

→ Helping the engineers around you get better

How they work

They move quickly and don't have much time for process for its own sake. AI is part of how they work every day, but they're careful with it, so if your approach is to ship AI-generated code without properly reviewing it, this probably isn't the one for you.

The tech

The platform is Microsoft-first, so you'll need strong C#, .NET and Azure experience, ideally leaning towards backend, cloud-native and serverless.

Their landscape includes App Service, Functions, Container Apps, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Service Bus, Event Grid, Entra ID, Key Vault, API Management, Azure DevOps, Docker and Bicep, with Power Platform where it makes sense.

Who will do well here

→ You've taken products from an early idea into production

→ You've picked up an existing codebase and made it better without breaking everything

→ You're comfortable explaining technical trade-offs to senior people who aren't technical

→ You'd rather shape the work yourself than wait to be told what to do

The practical bit

You'll need to be UK based, and to start within the next 2 weeks