Salary: £30,000 - 55,000 per year Requirements:

Tech Lead or Lead Developer experience on public sector or regulated services
Strong hands-on development skills in at least one of Python, Java, C#/.NET, or TypeScript/Node.js
Significant systems integration experience, including APIs and asynchronous messaging
Practical AWS, CI/CD, and automated testing experience
Experience rapidly prototyping during Discovery or Alpha phases
Experience delivering against the GDS Service Standard or equivalent
Able to work onsite in central Leeds 4 to 5 days per week
Desirable: experience integrating national healthcare messaging or data-sharing services
Desirable: knowledge of FHIR, HL7v2, and SNOMED CT
Desirable: experience with primary care clinical systems or hospital integration engines
Desirable: knowledge of healthcare data security and clinical safety standards

Responsibilities:

Lead integration spikes against a national secure messaging API in sandbox and test environments
Prototype end-to-end FHIR document flows between hospitals and primary care
Produce candidate target architectures and record decisions in Architecture Decision Records
Establish modern engineering practices and work in the open
Apply secure-by-design principles and contribute to DPIAs, threat models, and clinical safety work
Act as the senior technical voice in a multidisciplinary team and mentor developers

Technologies:

API
AWS
C#
CI/CD
Java
Python
REST
Security
TypeScript
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NodeJS
Cloud
Git
JavaScript

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We are Brio Partners, part of Brio Digital, and we specialise in public sector technology contractors. We are working with a national public health programme on a high-profile Alpha to demonstrate how clinical documents can move electronically between hospitals and primary care. The prototypes, integration spikes, and architecture will form the technical case for Beta. This is a hands-on Lead Developer role at SFIA level 5, with a contract through 31 January 2027, an inside IR35 rate of £500, and a planned start date of 20 November 2026. The role is based in central Leeds and requires onsite work 4 to 5 days per week. The technical environment includes AWS, secure messaging, REST APIs, FHIR, HL7v2, SNOMED CT, CI/CD, and automated testing.

last updated 45 week of 2026

Lead Developer (Tech Lead) - Python/Java/C#/TypeScript/AWS

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