About RWS RWS is a global AI solutions company empowering the world’s most trusted enterprise AI. Our proprietary Cultural Intelligence Layer, powered by 250,000 data specialists, cultural and language experts and deep domain professionals, backed by 45+ patents, makes enterprise AI culturally fluent, contextually accurate and secure, ensuring every interaction reflects a brand’s tone, context and customer values. Through our Generate, Transform and Protect segments, we deliver intelligent content, enterprise knowledge, large-scale localization and IP protection for global growth. Trusted by 80+ of the world’s top 100 brands, RWS provides the confidence, governance and expertise organizations need to deploy AI safely, responsibly and at scale. Headquartered in the UK, RWS is listed on AIM (RWS.L). More information: rws.com. About Propylon Propylon is the Dublin-based content-management arm within the RWS group, specialising in software for legal and regulatory workflows. For more than 20 years, Propylon has helped governments, standard bodies and regulated organisations manage legislation, regulations and legal content in a smarter, modular way. Joining Propylon means working in a people-led, innovation-driven environment recognised as one of Ireland’s Best Workplaces in Tech - while having the backbone and global reach of RWS. You’d be contributing to meaningful projects that shape law, compliance and global content workflows, with the support and flexibility to grow your skills and career. Job Purpose We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Team Lead to join our team in expanding our core product offering and working across major client projects. The Propylon Government Solutions team is developing the next generation of legislative drafting and document workflow management tools using Python, TypeScript, React and Redux and needs a technical team lead to oversee the implementation and delivery phases for these tools. The ideal candidate will be an experienced engineering team lead with experience shipping complex, multi-component software solutions to enterprise clients. Team Leads at Propylon have significant influence over team composition, hiring, resourcing and technical decision-making and are expected to take high levels of ownership for the solutions they deliver. Responsibilities:

Lead a team of software engineers delivering complex workflow and document management applications for Propylon’s Government Solutions division spread across the globe.
Responsible for the overall quality of the team’s technical deliveries in terms of test coverage, code quality, security best practices and maintainability.
Plan and oversee the execution of development sprints, ensuring accurate effort estimation and high-quality delivery of agreed sprint outputs.
Produce technical analysis of existing complex, multi-component systems and architectural designs integrating these systems with Propylon applications.
Work with Government Solutions management to ensure that designs are technically robust and aligned with company strategic direction.
Collaborate with project managers, business analysts and other stakeholders to provide accurate development estimates and technical guidance.
Act as the team’s technical authority, providing guidance and direction to developers through pair programming, mentoring and code reviews.
Provide one-to-one support and mentorship for team members to help develop their technical capabilities and career progression.
Contribute to technical decision-making, team growth, hiring and resource planning.

Requirements:

Extensive professional Python programming experience, 5+ years.
Extensive professional experience with Django, Flask or equivalent Python-based web/API frameworks.
Deep knowledge of the Python ecosystem, tooling and software engineering best practices.
Proven technical team leadership experience, ideally 3+ years.
Demonstrable experience managing the planning and delivery phases of complex software implementations across multiple time zones for Legislative, Government Agency or Public Administration clients.
Current experience working within the full software development lifecycle.
Strong technical background delivering complex, multi-component software solutions.
Experience architecting complex workflow systems.
Experience developing and delivering software under strict deadlines.
Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills.
Recent experience working with Westminster or US jurisdictions to develop legislative technology solutions for bill drafting, amendments, workflow, or legislative publishing.
Experience with Microsoft Word add-ins, extensions and automations.
Experience with Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions and other DevOps-related technologies.
Experience developing Microsoft Office integrations using the Office JavaScript API or VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office).
Experience with GraphQL API design and implementation, including schema definition, resolvers and client-side query management (Apollo or equivalent).
Experience designing and operating distributed task processing systems using Celery or equivalent async task queue frameworks.

Nice to haves:

Experience working with Propylon products and solutions
Experience designing document management systems.
Experience working with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch and data indexing, search and aggregation workloads.
Knowledge of Python document manipulation tools and libraries.
Professional development experience with strongly typed languages such as Java or C#.
Experience with MVC-style web development frameworks.
Experience with modern Python features such as type hinting, async programming and data classes.
Experience with XML processing and transformation.
Experience with document management or document workflow software.
Agile development experience
Familiarity with DevOps principles and CI/CD pipeline implementation.

Personal Attributes:

Wants to be the leader of a team that is committed to delivering high quality innovative products.
Wants to be part of a culture that is committed to sharing and enhancing the knowledge of the wider team, supporting team wide learning and success
Have a curious mindset – about what you do, the technology you use and how you connect with others to deliver products that we are proud to deliver to our clients.

Life at RWS - If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients. RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. RWS Values Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

Technical Lead