Tech Lead

Middlesbrough / Remote

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of advanced AI solutions, leveraging Generative AI, LLMs, intelligent agents, and other cutting-edge technologies.
• Develop and deploy AI-driven analytics applications, ensuring alignment with architects, stakeholders
• Drive best practices in AI model deployment, monitoring, optimisation, and responsible AI usage.
• Enforce best practices for data quality, data governance, and data integrity across the organisation.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality datasets and actionable insights.

Essentials:

• Strong proficiency in developing and deploying Generative AI models and solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, or similar, including fine-tuning and prompt engineering.
• Experience in building intelligent agents and autonomous AI-driven systems with AI frameworks and platforms such as LangChain, Hugging Face, Semantic Kernel, Autogen or Azure AI.
• 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.
• Experience with cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) and related AI servicesStrong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• An inquisitive mind and a desire and ability to learn.
• The ability to deliver stability and innovation in the quality of work.
• Tenacious, highly energised, passionate and committed, determined to achieve amazing results and make an impact, delivering to high standards and delighting customers.
• Strong team worker with the ability to work within an Agile (Scrum) framework.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Solution-orientated, with a positive, can-do attitude and an ability to work under pressure.
• High level of autonomy and the ability to develop an idea into a viable software module with minimum supervision.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills to successfully plan and coordinate a high number of activities, with excellent time management, prioritisation and the ability to remain calm and objective under pressure.

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 fueled 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.