Job Vacancy Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services - IPO - G7
Newport
Government Digital & Data
Job position Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services - IPO - G7
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Main duties consist of but are not limited to:
Technical
As Tech lead be responsible for the team’s design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale to large, complex or mission critical applications and solutions using C#, , MVC, SQL
Work in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are defined and adhered to.
Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders
Act as a technical coach or mentor, instilling a continuous improvement ethos, and explore opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.
Behavioural
Understanding yourself to be a technical leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results)
Work alongside the Head of Existing Systems and People Manager to provide guidance and facilitate issue resolution on a day to day basis
Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team.
Personal and Team Development
Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills
Take responsibility for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes
Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values
Guide more junior members in their personal development
Coach and mentor colleagues
Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends
Candidate profile
Essential Experience
Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects
Strong experience of payment system integrations
Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile
Advocate of DevOps principles
Experience with Azure DevOps
Experience writing Unit Tests, using tools such as MS Test, and an understanding of TDD principles
Essential Technical
Excellent understanding of C#, , MVC, SQL, Jenkins and TFS.
Strong experience in web services, REST
Deep understanding of Oracle integrations.
Deep understanding of architectural principals such as SOA and Micro-Services
Experience working in a Multi disciplined team
Experience of writing complex SQL statements
Working environment
Newport, NP10 8QQ
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Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services
The IPO is an organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers, systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. This position plays a key role in ensuring the Legacy Existing Systems vertical within IT, continues to be able to support these aging and complex legacy systems. This is a challenging role as the post holder must be able to balance complex maintenance commitments of the legacy estate with new initiatives, and conflicting demands.
In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to support and maintain enterprise services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliverables as well as mentoring and coaching team members. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues on some aging platforms.
As a multi-skilled individual, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types.
Working Style
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office.
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
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Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services - IPO - G7
Government Digital & Data