Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! Please see below our current jobs that match your search criteria. For a broader job search please visit the home page or call us on 01403 216216 to discuss career options in other areas of Life Science and Technology.
Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! Please use the above link to see our current jobs that match your search criteria. For a broader job search please visit the home page or call us on 01403 216216 to discuss career options in other areas of Life Science and Technology.
Technical Lead
Technical Leads in life sciences oversee the delivery of complex software, engineering, or scientific projects. They provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor teams, and ensure solutions meet both performance requirements and compliance standards.
Core responsibilities:
Architecting systems or processes – Whether in bioinformatics, digital health, lab automation, or manufacturing, the Technical Lead defines structure and strategy.
Coordinating multidisciplinary teams – Bridging developers, scientists, QA, and stakeholders to align project execution.
Providing code or design reviews – Ensuring robustness, efficiency, and alignment with regulatory expectations.
Driving delivery excellence – Managing project milestones while maintaining technical depth and quality.
Staying ahead of technology trends – Recommending improvements and new tools in line with business needs and scalability.
Ideal candidates are senior technologists with strong leadership, domain-specific expertise, and cross-functional communication skills.
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is located in the Swale district of Kent in south east England approximately 45 miles from London, 17 miles from Canterbury, 20 miles from Ashford and 17 from Maidstone. Sittingbourne has direct railway links to London’s Victoria and St Pancras International stations with a journey time of around one hour and road links, particularly to the coastal ports, are also excellent.
The main employers in the Sittingbourne area are in the paper manufacture, cement making and fruit farming industries, Kent is particularly famous for its apples and cherries. In days gone by the Sittingbourne area was also well known for brick making, barge building and water transport. The Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum provides an insight into the barge building industry. New industries growing in the Sittingbourne area include engineering, IT, distribution/logistics and life sciences, the latter particular at the Kent Science Park.
