Software Development Team Lead (C#)

Lead delivery. Build capability. Make an impact.

At System C, we're on a mission to improve health and care outcomes through innovative technology. As our CMM team continues to grow, we're creating a new Software Development Team Lead, known internally as Technical Team Lead, position to support a significant roadmap of NHS-funded work and establish a third delivery team. System C combines meaningful work with a collaborative environment where people are encouraged to grow, take ownership, and make a real difference.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading one of the CMM delivery teams and taking ownership of delivery outcomes
• Guiding day-to-day technical decisions and ensuring adherence to engineering standards
• Contributing hands‑on to software development, writing and reviewing production code alongside the team
• Planning sprint delivery, tracking progress, and proactively managing risks and dependencies
• Working closely with Product, QA, Information Security, Release Train Management and Architecture teams
• Supporting complex technical problem-solving across the team
• Introducing and embedding effective agile delivery practices
• Coaching, mentoring and developing engineers
• Providing regular guidance, support and performance feedback
• Helping deliver a substantial roadmap by coordinating multiple parallel workstreams

Essential

What you'll bring

• Proven experience leading software development teams
• Strong experience delivering software using agile methodologies
• A solid technical background, ideally including C#, ASP.NET and SQL
• Experience planning sprint-based delivery and managing competing priorities
• Experience collaborating across technical and non-technical disciplines
• Strong coaching and people development skills

Desirable

• NHS or healthcare sector experience
• HL7 or FHIR messaging experience
• InterSystems ObjectScript experience
• VB.NET experience
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js

What We're Looking For

You’ll combine technical credibility with strong leadership skills. You’ll be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment, balancing delivery against quality, and bringing people together to achieve shared outcomes.

We’re particularly interested in individuals who demonstrate ownership, integrity, collaboration and a continuous improvement mindset.

Why System C?

We believe great people do their best work in supportive environments. You'll join a team that values collaboration, accountability and professional growth, with opportunities for learning, development and recognition alongside a comprehensive package of wellbeing and flexible benefits.