Job Description

Technical Project Lead (Part-Time, Innovate UK / SMART-Scotland Projects)

Employer:

VIONIX Pharma Ltd (UK-based)

Contract Type:

Fixed-term (9 months) Part-time 2-3 days per week

Salary:

1,800 - 2,000 per month (21-24 k pro-rata)

Location:

Hybrid - UK based / remote with occasional on-site meetings (London or Edinburgh)

About VIONIX Pharma

VIONIX Pharma Ltd is an Innovate UK-funded healthcare technology company developing

PHARMORIS(TM)

, an AI-driven platform for generics optimisation and NHS medicine-supply intelligence.
We combine pharmaceutical compliance, data science, and advanced automation to build the future backbone of healthcare logistics.

The Role

You will coordinate all technical delivery for PHARMORIS(TM) across our UK and international engineering teams.
Reporting directly to the Founder & CEO, you'll translate milestones from two government-funded programmes (Innovate UK & SMART Scotland) into actionable sprints and documented outputs.

Key Responsibilities

Lead weekly sprint planning and stand-ups with developers (Next.js, Node.js, Python). Maintain the unified project tracker, RAG dashboard, and milestone evidence for Innovate UK/SMART Scotland claims. Review code merges, ensure documentation parity and CI/CD consistency. Prepare monthly technical progress summaries and coordinate claim-evidence packs. Identify delivery risks and implement mitigation plans. Liaise with external stakeholders (Innovation Leads, universities, NHS partners). Mentor junior engineers on agile discipline and compliance reporting.

Requirements

UK resident with right to work (PAYE employment). 4 + years' experience in technical or software project management (SaaS, AI, health-tech preferred). Working knowledge of agile development workflows, GitHub, and cloud environments. Strong documentation and communication skills. Ability to manage distributed engineering teams and track deliverables precisely. Desirable: exposure to Innovate UK, NIHR, or public-sector R&D projects.

What We Offer

Flexible hybrid schedule (approx. 20 hours/week). Direct impact on national-level healthcare innovation. Collaboration with a fast-moving, internationally distributed engineering team. Potential extension to full-time leadership after Series A.
Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 21,000.00-25,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 16 - 24 per week

Benefits:

Company events Flexitime Work from home
Ability to commute/relocate:

Leeds LS1 6JL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):

How many years of experience do you have in software or technical project management? Have you previously worked on Innovate UK, SMART Scotland, or other grant-funded R&D programmes? Briefly describe one project where you coordinated remote developers; what tools and cadence did you use? Are you comfortable working part-time (approx. 20 hours/week) on PAYE? What are your salary expectations within the stated band? You're leading a distributed team using Next.js (frontend), Node.js & Python (backend), and PostgreSQL (pgvector).
Describe, step by step, how you would:

manage version control using GitHub (branching + review workflow),

maintain deployment stability via CI/CD (GitHub Actions / AWS / Vercel), and

ensure every release is audit-ready for Innovate UK reporting.
(We're looking for specific tools, not theory; name the exact workflow you'd set up.)

A developer pushes an update that breaks the build in production.
You have:

one engineer in India (backend),

one in New York (frontend),

and a compliance report due in 24 hours.
What do you do in the next 60 minutes?
(Outline your incident-response process, tooling, and how you'd communicate while protecting the grant timeline.)

List the project-management and DevOps tools you have personally configured (e.g. Jira, Trello, Asana, GitHub Projects, Jenkins, AWS, Docker, Vercel). Indicate whether you set them up yourself or used them as part of a team. Our engineers use Next.js, Node/NestJS, and PostgreSQL with AWS S3 and Auth0 integration.
Explain how you would review and approve a merge request that modifies both backend and frontend API endpoints.
What specific items would you check before approving the PR, and how would you enforce consistency across the repos?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds LS1 6JL