Lead Full Stack Engineer - Active SC, AWS

  • Hays Specialist Recruitment
  • 11/05/2026
Contractor Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Lead Full Stack Engineer - Active SC, AWS

£Market Rate - Inside IR35

Remote

6 months

My client is an instantly recognisable consultancy who require Lead Full Stack Engineers to join a business-critical programme for an end client within the public sector.

Key Requirements:

  • Proven commercial experience working as a Lead Full Stack Engineer within the Public Sector.
  • Active SC Clearance.
  • Previous experience leading and coaching engineering teams, promoting good engineering practices, guiding technical decision-making, and contributing to the developer community.
  • Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining full-stack solutions for public-sector digital services, owning features from development through release.
  • The ability to select appropriate technologies and patterns, decide when and how software should be built, and ensure scalable, secure designs.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with clients and delivery teams in a fast-paced, contract-driven environment with high interaction and accountability.
  • Hands-on development using modern Front End and Back End technologies (eg TypeScript, React, Node/Java, APIs, databases).
  • Strong experience building and operating solutions in cloud environments (primarily AWS), using infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.

Nice to have:

  • An openness to Temp to Perm.
  • Immediate availability.

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