Ghyston
Principal Tech Lead
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Principal Tech Lead
Central Bristol (hybrid)
Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 (Perm)
We're a bespoke software development house with brilliant talent, proudly based in central Bristol. Working across different sectors and with the latest technology, we deliver exceptional software engineering through high-quality bespoke projects, helping technically ambitious companies meet their business goals.
The Role
This role has three connected pillars: leading our most senior consultative client engagements, evolving our technical standards, and mentoring our Tech Leads.
Your client work is targeted and consultative rather than general delivery billability, including audits, technical foundation-setting, and advisory consultancy work that draws on deep experience, not day-to-day project delivery. You'll also contribute to pre-sales, where your technical credibility can help shape and win work.
You'll build on the strong technical practices we already have, evolving and embedding them further with the team, with AI tooling and best practice a key part of that. You'll also mentor our senior Tech Leads while their Squad Leads handle day-to-day coordination, sharing knowledge across the group so our capability keeps building.
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What You'll Do
- Lead senior, consultative client work: technical audits, foundation-setting and advisory engagements that draw on real depth of experience
- Bring technical credibility to pre-sales, from early client conversations through to bids and proposals
- Evolve our technical standards and make AI tooling a core part of how we build
- Mentor our senior Tech Leads and grow the next layer of technical leadership, so our capability never rests on one person
- Build strong client relationships during consultative engagements, managing expectations and constructively challenging requirements where it helps
- Spot and close skills gaps across the Tech Lead group, coaching them to raise the technical bar together
You Should Apply If
- You've got 8+ years in software engineering, with several years at technical-leadership or architecture level, and a track record of leading complex client work
- You're comfortable across modern architecture, DevOps and more than one stack, and you pick the right tool rather than a favourite one
- You've actually driven AI adoption in how software gets built, not just kept an eye on it
- You raise the bar by growing the people around you, and you measure success by how strong the team is rather than how much only you can do
- You're happy moving across different clients and domains rather than settling into one codebase
- You're confident engaging clients directly on consultative work, and can flex between deep technical detail and business-level conversation
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We're committed to building a team where everyone can thrive, whatever your background, united by one thing: building software better and faster. If you've got the drive and the commercial instinct for this role, we'd love to hear from you. Even if you don't tick every box, tell us why you'd be a great fit.
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