Job Vacancy Lead Developer - Department for Transport - G7
England
Government Digital & Data
Job position Lead Developer - Department for Transport - G7
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Working as part of a talented team, at this role level, you will:
Guide the ways in which the team works.
Be proficient in a wide range of technical systems.
Be involved in identifying appropriate technology and approaches, deciding when software should be written.
Contribute to the developer community.
Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring your team.
Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice.
Provide governance, identify appropriate metrics to inform reporting and decision making.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Candidate profile
You will:
Take ownership of your ways of working and be adaptable to change.
Role model positive behaviours and support the embedding of the new target operating model and the changes to the ways of working.
Develop and implement effective development plans and demonstrate continuous professional development.
Effectively line manage a team embedding the civil service line management standards and consistently applying the line management policies and processes expected, g. managing performance, career conversations, team development, succession planning.
Develop and implement clear and effective team development.
Be expected to become a trained Service Assessor and take part in Service Assessments.
Working environment
Location
Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, Swansea
About the jobJob summary
Can you lead agile teams, coach developers, and shape better engineering practices that deliver excellent public services?
Do you thrive providing technical leadership, mentoring teams, and improving how software is built through continuous improvement?
Our Lead Developers provide technical leadership, leading our continual improvement cycle for software engineering. Your time will be split between leading work in agile teams to build solutions & developing our capability, improving how we work through new tools and adapting ways of working & building our developer community.
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
We are looking for a Lead developer, with the drive and passion to join a talented, experienced delivery team in shaping the future of our delivery our digital and data services.
Our current tech stack is based around .Net and C#, hosted on Google Cloud Platform.
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Lead Developer - Department for Transport - G7
Government Digital & Data