Lead Developer

Job summary

This is a Hands-on Lead Developer role with some line management responsibility. This role leads development on one or a small number of related teams. The role has some line management responsibility for 1 or more junior developers in a team.

This role’s responsibilities include:

• Provide technical leadership a team to deliver strategically important initiatives.
• Provide line management to some team members, grades ranging from interns to grade 8
• Work with others to guide the ways in which the team works
• Be proficient in a wide range of technologies and systems
• Be involved in identifying appropriate technology and approaches
• Contribute to the developer community internally
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring your team
• Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice

Job description

This role is ideal for someone who wants to:

• Take on a senior technical position working with the latest Microsoft technologies.
• Be part of a collaborative, hybrid team that values continuous learning and personal development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design and deliver accessible, cloud-hosted websites using modern technologies and industry-standard design patterns.
• Lead the development of mission-critical applications, applying event-driven architectures and Domain Driven Design principles to create robust, scalable, and maintainable cloud-first solutions.
• Drive the modernisation of legacy applications by refactoring them into microservice architectures hosted on cloud app services, optimising for performance, reliability, and future growth.

Person specification

Essential skills

• Excellent knowledge of C# and the .Net framework
• Extensive experience of Web technologies and in particular ASP.NET MVC
• Practical understanding of Event Driven Architecture and Domain Driven Design
• Experience of TDD/BDD, ideally using ReqnRoll and Playwright for Web UI tests
• Experience of applying Agile values and principles with Scrum, Kanban or XP frameworks
• Experience improving development methodologies, processes and standards

Desirable skills

• Experience of Sitecore/Umbraco or similar Content Management Systems
• Experience of building modern internal and external secure APIs
• Working knowledge of Azure including Functions, Logic Apps, App Services
• Experience of Azure Dev Ops, including creating CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with NServiceBus and/or Azure Service Bus

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £63,213, Pensions Regulator contributes £18,312 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

TPR offers:

• Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
• A values-led, inclusive environment.
• Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
• A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Women’s).

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.

We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk
• Email : Recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk