Lead Python Developer

Location: Leeds (Hybrid / UK-based with travel)

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Sector: Digital Consultancy / Software Engineering

Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Lead Python Developer to join their growing digital consultancy practice. This role operates within multi-disciplinary delivery teams, building, supporting, and maintaining user-centred digital solutions that deliver measurable value for clients.

As a senior technical consultant, the Lead Python Developer will provide deep expertise in modern software engineering practices, lead delivery teams, and act as a trusted advisor to clients. This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with people management, delivery ownership, and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical subject matter expert within delivery teams, ensuring high-quality, user-centred software solutions aligned to business requirements and engineering best practice.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to explore, design, and deliver solutions to complex client problems.
• Design, implement, and manage software development and deployment pipelines, proactively identifying and resolving risks or bottlenecks.
• Lead and prioritise delivery team workloads, anticipating the need for realignment in response to evolving priorities and complex workstreams.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, presenting prototypes, solutions, and progress clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Build strong relationships across teams and with clients, ensuring challenges are addressed and delivery outcomes are achieved.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, line management, and professional development of engineers and consultants.
• Contribute to the organisation’s external technical profile through activities such as blogs, workshops, seminars, or conference participation.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading delivery teams to produce high-quality, robust digital solutions.
• Strong coaching and mentoring capability, supporting the development of engineers and consultants.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging for technical and non‑technical audiences.
• End‑to‑end experience across the full software development lifecycle delivering user‑centred digital services.
• Containerisation experience using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful API design.
• Experience working within agile delivery environments using methods such as Scrum, Kanban, and TDD.
• Experience designing and building web and native applications across a range of platforms and scales.
• Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or similar).
• Strong experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and DevOps practices.
• Experience delivering public sector projects (e.g. government or healthcare) is highly desirable.
• Competitive salary with transparent pay ranges.
• Contributory pension scheme with enhanced employer contributions.
• 25 days annual leave plus UK public holidays.
• Life assurance, critical illness cover, and death‑in‑service benefits.
• Flexible benefits package including private medical and dental cover, additional pension contributions, wellbeing allowance, and extra annual leave.
• Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle‑to‑work and electric vehicle options.
• Employee discounts platform and wellbeing support.
• Volunteer days and community engagement opportunities.
• Relocation support package of up to £8,000 (subject to terms).

Application Process

Candidates should apply with an up‑to‑date CV outlining relevant leadership, consultancy, and technical experience. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted to discuss the role in more detail and to outline the next stages of the recruitment process.