Job Vacancy Lead Software Developer

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• Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. 

• Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign.  You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC. 

• Remote contracts will only be offered to successful candidates who are not within a commutable distance to our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. If you are located in a reasonable distance to one our offices, you will receive a hybrid contract aligned to one of our offices. 

• The basic salary is £41,571 - £45,784 with an additional, non-pensionable digital allowance of up to £11,000. The final salary and allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. The pay advertised is the maximum that can be offered.

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As a Lead Developer you may be asked to work in one of two areas – either leading a Scrum team, or to work as an individual contributor as part of our R&D Team. There may be opportunity to move between the two areas in the future, but you will be allocated an area during the offer process, if you are successful in your application. You will be asked for your preference at interview, and we will try to accommodate where possible, given the needs of the business. 

1. As a Lead Developer managing a Scrum team, you will line manage other developers, seniors and juniors. You will work in a cross functional team with delivery colleagues using agile practices and the normal agile ceremonies, to deliver software projects. You will provide coaching and mentoring to the team and help them deliver at pace. You will use your development and people management experience to create a high functioning software development team. A team will typically consist of around eight developers at various levels of seniority. You will be working on services at the heart of our estate. 

2. As a Lead Developer working as an individual contributor as part of our R&D team, we are looking for a broad skill set (given the foundation languages and frameworks noted above). We value fast learners with a flexible approach. Our R&D team supports the rest of our development department, and the business in general, with Proof of Concepts, technical evaluations and investigations. It is a fast-moving environment where your hands on software development skills will come to the fore.  

We very much encourage innovation and training; every developer is given time to undertake innovation and training within their regular activities. This allows developers and teams to try out new things, stay up to date with industry trends and continue their professional development. We provide access to online training platforms, access to instructor led training and ability to attend conferences (budgets permitting). We have a thriving community of practice.