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Senior Software Developer (.NET) - Insolvency Service - SEO

Government Digital & Data -

Full-time (Permanent)
£41,880 This role also attracts an additional Recruitment & Retention allowance up to £5,150
Published on
23 January 2025
Deadline
3 February 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic Senior Developer within our Digital Services team. We are responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the agency’s line of business applications. 

Digital Services is a predominantly an in-house team, with a small 3rd party DevSecOps function. We’ve recently moved away from a hybrid development and support partnership, with the aim of bringing the function in-house. We are also consolidating our technology stack and moving away from legacy services, so this is a fantastic opportunity to help shape our digital services and the way we work for a sustainable, user centric future. We would love to for you to be part of that new team.

Digital services is part of Change and Technology Services (CTS) who support and improve applications and systems across the agencies IT landscape. CTS provide key services including digital services, cyber security and information governance, service architecture and governance and digital programme delivery.

About The Insolvency Service

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.  

Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group. 

We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.  

The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career! 

Job description

Working within the Digital Services Team, you will be one of our senior developers, bringing experience and expertise to the team.

As a senior developer, you will work alongside our technical leads, other developers, architects and development team, to enhance, support and develop our line of business applications.

You will be working on a number of different applications, aimed at making our digital offer more accessible and easier to use for those that find themselves in financial distress.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Developer you will:

  • Support the Lead Software Engineer and implement digital services using C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the Azure stack, i.e. Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, AI Search, Azure app services, Function apps, meeting the requirements of the Technology Code of Practice and Gov.UK Service manual.
  • Identify and fix faults in digital services.
  • Assist the developers across our development teams, acting as a mentor and coach.  
  • Promote a culture of knowledge sharing and the adoption of good practice.
  • Assist the teams within Digital Services, offering them expert advice and guidance, including operations leads, product managers and QAT leads.
  • Work with a multi-disciplinary team and business stakeholders, fostering good relationships and responding to views and challenges from others.
  • Advocate user-centric, agile approaches which focus on efficient, effective delivery of high-quality digital services within the team and the wider agency.
  • Transform government into a modern, agile development centre by embedding practices such as Behaviour and Test-Driven Development, continuous deployment, and DevOps.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will have:

  • Demonstrable knowledge of .NET, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (client-side, express.js, hapi) and the Azure stack, i.e. Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, AI Search, Azure app services, Function apps, meeting the requirements of the Technology Code of Practice and Gov.UK Service manual.
  • An understanding of a number of integration implementations including real-time, scheduled, API, batch and messaging services.
  • Experience of IaaS and PaaS solutions.
  • An understanding of the importance of good documentation.
  • Enthusiasm for sharing knowledge and mentoring others, supporting the team and nurturing its growth.
  • Knowledge and experience of modern development practices such as BDD and TDD, CI/CD, and DevOps, modern development workflows, ideally using GitHub, as well as an understanding of modern design principles such as clean architecture, OOP, SOLID, RESTful APIs.
  • A good understanding of web application security and awareness of the OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Working Together

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Candidates who are invited to interview will be asked to undertake a short coding exercise. Further information about this will be provided to those who are invited to interview in due course.


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