Senior Developer

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Salary: £62,109 (National) or £66,229 (Croydon) plus up to £18,291 skills allowance, pending assessment

Location:

Croydon, Manchester or Sheffield (hybrid with 60% office attendance)

Close Date: 11:55pm Sunday 18th January 2026

Security Check (SC) clearance required – 5 years UK residency in the past 5 years

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.

• Dataverse, Power BI, Postgre
  
  SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongo
  
  DB, Apache Cas

• ience in:
  Designing, reviewing and maintaining complex software applications, components, modules and docu
• mentation.
  
  Collaborating in designing, coding, testing, documents, amends, and refactoring moderately complex program
• s/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 sys
• tem tests.
  
  Managing and updating data systems, enabling the availability, integrity of searchability of information which can be utilised by man
• y sources.
  
  Maintaining application support processes, ensuring support requests are dealt with to agreed processes, investigating issues, and reporting findings where a

• A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at l ice 28.97%.In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team a chievements.
  
  The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a c areer break.
  25 days annual leave on appointment, rising w ith service.
  
  Eight days public holidays, plus one additional pr ivilege day.
  26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualify ing service.
  
  Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualify ing service.
  
  Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to a adopt policy.
  
  Support for guardians and kin ship carers.
  
  Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive co nversations.
  
  Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special ci rcumstances.

Full-time

Mid-Senior level