Tech Lead
Middlesbrough (Hybrid)
Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?
Who are we?
We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.
If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.
We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.
Purpose
Our technology is used by thousands of companies and affects millions of lives. You are our driving force in leading the technical product teams. Your goal is to ensure that technical projects are completed accurately, within budget and on time, meet the business objectives and support the overall vision to transform the construction industry through the use of our technology. You’ll be a strong leader, working with technical architect’s product teams, ensuring that market-leading solutions are developed to high standards and Causeway retains a competitive edge in the market.
The Tech Lead will report to the Agile Delivery Lead or Technical Delivery Lead.
The key areas of responsibility for a Tech Lead include:
* Technical Leadership.
* Contributing to business operations.
* Contributing to customer relationships and Customer Success.
* Contributing to the development of Causeway products.
* Work with the Group Architect to align team standards and processes to Causeway’s and influence the evolution of Causeway’s standards and processes.
Essential experience
* Extensive, hands-on experience developing data pipelines using Python and PySpark.
* Strong proficiency with Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or similar data platforms.
* Experience architecting and optimising ETL/ELT processes and complex data models.
* Establish data governance and quality frameworks that ensure data accuracy, consistency, and availability.
* Integrate with web frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask) for data APIs and services.
* Implement and maintain MLOps pipelines to enable continuous model training, versioning, and deployment in collaboration with Data Scientists.
* Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), test automation, and code quality metrics.
* Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) and automated deployment pipelines.
* Set up monitoring and alerting to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of data infrastructure.
Desirables:
* Exposure to C# or Java or other backend technologies
* Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP services (e.g., S3, EMR, BigQuery, Azure Data Lake, etc.).
* Exposure to tools like Hadoop, Kafka, Kinesis, or other distributed systems for real-time data processing.
* Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies
What you get from us:
If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.
Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.
Our Values
We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.
We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.
We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.
We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.
Benefits
As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.
* 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
* 4% matched pension.
* Income protection and life assurance.
* Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
* We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
* £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
* Dell discounts.
* Private Medical Insurance.
* Paid study leave + volunteering days.
* Car Scheme.
Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.