Permanent Location: Wigan (Hybrid) Salary: £70,000-£80,000 Industry: Consultancy About the Client Our client is a small, fast-growing technology consultancy delivering innovative software solutions to organisations within a complex, operationally critical sector. They are known for building high-quality, scalable platforms that solve real-world challenges, working closely with their customers to drive meaningful outcomes. With a collaborative and agile culture, they place a strong emphasis on ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement, offering engineers the opportunity to have a genuine impact on both product direction and delivery. How you’ll spend your day As a Lead Developer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of projects while remaining hands-on in delivery. You’ll be responsible for: * Leading the design and development of high-quality software solutions using C# and .NET * Translating high-level architecture into scalable, practical implementations across APIs, services, and data layers * Driving best practices across coding standards, testing, and development processes * Designing and optimising solutions across Azure services, including databases and messaging platforms * Leading containerisation and deployment using Kubernetes, alongside CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps * Implementing observability and monitoring us...