Senior Developer
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Lead Technical Recruiter (Digital Data and Technology DDaT) - for Engineering, Quality Assurance and Test (QAT) and UCD Professions at UK Home Office
The Senior Developer is key for our product delivery, you will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making.
You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.
The Senior Developer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.
What will you be doing?
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- Delivering secure, reliable and scalable software, and supporting your team with technical tasks when needed.
- Evaluating and advising on design choices and ensuring that software is high quality and balances technical and business considerations.
- Defining and documenting test cases for new systems and maintaining live systems to ensure ongoing performance.
- Evolving new approaches/solutions with other professions through discoveries, maintaining a focus on development and deployment.
- Helping prioritise and direct technical tasks across your team, to balance new and live services.
Your skills for this role
You’ll have a demonstrable passion for software development, with the following skills or strong experience in:
- Designing, reviewing and maintaining complex software applications, components, modules and documentation.
- Collaborating in designing, coding, testing, documents, amends, and refactoring moderately complex programs/scripts.
- Designing test cases and scripts under own direction, mapping back predetermined criteria and reporting testing outcomes.
- Providing technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for system tests.
- Managing and updating data systems, enabling the availability, integrity of searchability of information which can be utilised by many sources.
- Maintaining application support processes, ensuring support requests are dealt with to agreed processes, investigating issues, and reporting findings where applicable.
Why Join Us?
- Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
- Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
- Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
- Recognition and inclusion: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.
Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers
Additional Information
This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you typically need to have been resident in the UK for at least three years. Unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship.
Ready to lead, innovate, and make an impact? Click 'Apply' to explore the full job description and salary details.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering, Information Technology, and General Business
- Location:
- Croydon, England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £100,000 - £125,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- IT & Technology
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