Counter - Tech Lead

Position: Counter Tech Lead
Location: North, hybrid
Salary: £55-70K
Contract: Start ASAP

Background to the role:
In 2024 Northcoders Group successfully launched a new standalone tech consultancy brand, Counter, in order to challenge the UK tech consultancy space and to provide organisations with a new, high quality and affordable onshore technology partner. Counter assembles and land teams of highly skilled Counter Consultants for our clients.

Teams are handpicked from our diverse and highly sought after Northcoders and Tech Returners talent pools and mentored to deliver client projects by dedicated Tech Leads. It is the Tech Lead's role to ensure that the Counter Teams are technically and strategically aligned with our client’s mission and up-skilled to deliver within our client’s technology stack, working practices and ceremonies.

At the end of our engagements, clients are able to hire the Consultants as Full Time Members of their team, whilst the Tech Leads return to us to get ready to work on our next client projects.

Counter are now looking for a number of Tech Leads to join our team following a hugely successful first year where we landed a number of high profile clients including HMRC, Skipton Building Society and Manchester Airport Group. If this sounds like rewarding work that you would love to do, then please read on and click apply.

Reports to: Technical Director

Department: Counter

Base Location: Manchester or Leeds - Client's will often require travel and whilst we will focus on clients within a commutable distance you can expect the potential for travelling to the clients office on a form of regular cadence.

The technical lead role is core to the success of every client engagement that the consultancy will operate.

Our tech leads operate in two main capacities. Internally facing aspects, they provide technical guidance and development for their team of engineers - guiding the engineers on best practice and ensuring a focus on maintaining progress of the project.

Externally facing aspects of the project, the tech lead cultivates strong relationships with stakeholders. Through proactive relationship management, the tech lead ensures stakeholder buy-in and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.

You can expect to balance hands-on development work and non-hands on work throughout projects. Typically and 80/20 (20% hands on development work) at the start of a project as much of the discovery and design stages utilise your leadership skills. As projects progress you can expect a balance somewhere in the region of 60/40 (40% hands on development work).