Senior Developer
£56,745 to £72,509 per annum dependent on skills and experience (this may include allowances)
Full time
Permanent
Polaris House Swindon or Keyworth, Nottingham (Hybrid working available)
Closing Date Sunday 12th January 2025
As a minimum, due to the nature of this role, candidates must be eligible for clearance in line with UK National vetting guidelines and willing to undertake the process.The level of clearance required issecurity check
Do you want to drive innovation and build impactful software solutions that support UK research and innovation? Join UKRI as a Senior Developer and lead the creation of resilient, cutting-edge systems at the core of groundbreaking advancements.
Job Overview
The UKRI CIO Group plays a pivotal role in managing and optimising the organisations critical enterprise technical services that underpin and enable UKRIs business capabilities. Within the group a team of Software Development professionals support the delivery of modern, secure, resilient and scalable services across a larger federated team of Digital, Data and Technology professionals to deliver impact across the organisation and the wider UK research and innovation system.
This post provides a rare opportunity for an experienced Senior Developer to step into a critical role supporting a major agile development underpinning the organisations mission. Working at the heart of research and innovation in the UK you will join a team of technical specialists that enable the successful delivery of services. Reporting directly to Lead Developer, your broad remit is to deliver and integrate software to form a complete service that underpin our critical business process that enable the fulfilment of our mission.
Responsibilities
- Plan and lead development on sets of related stories.
- Have an understanding of the whole system and take responsibility for teaching this to others.
- Work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built.
- Coach and mentor more junior colleagues.
- Operate the production services you build.
- Find ways to improve system robustness, resilience and stability.
About you
You will be to demonstrate the following skills:
- Availability and capacity management
- Development Process Optimisation
- Ability to implement security controls.
- Apply modern development standards.
- Use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts.
- Able to effectively prototype.
To view the full job description please click apply to visit our careers site.
Benefits
We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package! We are committed to supporting employees development and promote a culture of continuous learning! A list of benefits below.
An excellent defined benefit pension scheme
30 days annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)
Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities.
Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice.
Flexible working options
Please click here for more details on the Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
How to Apply
Applicants are required to provide an up-to-date CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role. Please click apply for further information and to visit our careers page.
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