Role : Technical Lead
Location : Basingstoke , full time onsite
Clearance level: DV required

Key Responsibilities

-Take full ownership of allocated work packages and drive them through design, build, test, and release into live service.

-Provide strong technical leadership across Wintel-based and multi-platform environments.

-Navigate and resolve obstacles including technical blockers, organisational bureaucracy, and interpersonal challenges.

-Assess technical information from engineers, ensuring accuracy and calling out inconsistencies or blockers early.

-Coordinate with engineering, architecture, test, change, and operations teams to maintain momentum and deliver on time.

-Ensure that technical decisions are aligned with programme goals, compliance requirements, and best practices.

-Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and escalate appropriately when required.


Required Skills & Experience

-Proven experience as a Technical Lead, Delivery Lead, or Senior Engineer in complex IT environments.

-Strong understanding of Wintel platforms (Windows Server, AD, group policy, infrastructure services, virtualisation, etc.).

-Broad technical awareness across networks, security, applications, and integrations.

-Ability to challenge technical teams constructively and separate fact from fiction.

-Demonstrated success driving delivery in complex, bureaucratic, or high-pressure environments.

-Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

-Experience working in or alongside Agile teams.


Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.