Lead Developer (Tech Lead) - Python/Java/C#/TypeScript/AWS in Leeds, United Kingdom

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

• 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

• 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