Senior Software Developer

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GHD Advisory Data & Insights Team - Software Developer

Join a global profession services leader, committed to solving the world's biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanisation. We are seeking curious minds with a passion for data-driven problem solving to join and shape our growing Data & Insights team. You will support the delivery of innovative solutions across sectors such as rail, highways, telecoms, water, and future energy, delivering tangible impacts for generations to come. You will have the freedom to explore your interests across diverse projects and sectors, with support and encouragement to develop your skills and experience. We embrace a start-up mentality within a global corporate framework, encouraging autonomous decision making, fresh ideas and agile thinking. Our team structure fosters collaboration and ensures every member feels supported, empowering you to meaningfully contribute to our continuously growing and improving team.

What we do

• We help our clients unlock the full potential of their data and assets by combining cutting-edge technology solutions with our data and analytical expertise.
• A core part of our offering focuses on creating intelligent digital environments through virtual site modelling, technical engineering automation, and location intelligence.

Your responsibilities

• Your core responsibility will be building and evolving our digital twinning platform, developed using Angular, .NET C#, and hosted on Azure.
• Additionally, you will have the opportunity to contribute to other Data & Insight projects.
• Our team works across a diverse range of offerings, including strategic modelling, simulation, insight generation, and analytical data management.

Software Development & Technical Innovation

• Designing and delivering innovative software solutions that solve complex client challenges and enhance our software capabilities.
• Leading the resolution of technical issues across production systems to ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Investigating emerging technologies and frameworks, recommending adoption strategies to improve platform functionality and user experience.

Platform Enhancement & Integration

• Post-processing survey data to generate photogrammetry models, point clouds, and spatial reference systems.
• Integrating processed data into our proprietary digital twin platform to create accurate, interactive representations of real-world sites.
• Exploring and implementing virtual and augmented reality solutions to enrich client engagement and design workflows.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Working closely with internal stakeholders to understand user needs and translate them into robust software features.
• Supporting business growth by contributing to technical proposals and identifying platform improvement opportunities.
• Driving innovation by proactively suggesting enhancements to the development environment and championing best practices across the team.

About you

We would love to hear from you if you bring a strong foundation in software development, problem-solving, and digital innovation. This role suits someone who is curious, collaborative, and passionate about applying cutting-edge technologies to build powerful tools that solve real-world challenges.

Personal Characteristics

• You are a proactive team player who thrives in both remote and in-person environments.
• You demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, ensuring clear communication and a positive presence while working with your team.
• You are comfortable working in a dynamic, growing team and contributing to the development of new capabilities.
• You are an independent thinker who can confidently share ideas and challenge conventional approaches.
• You have a collaborative working style and understand the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Experience & Capabilities

This role is primarily focused on front-end development using Angular, but we are looking for someone who also brings experience in .NET/C# to support back-end development when needed. We see this role as an opportunity to further develop your full-stack capabilities, with support and flexibility tailored to your career aspirations. While technical capabilities are paramount, strong interpersonal and management skills are also valuable due to the collaborative nature of our work and the potential to engage with a variety of clients and projects.

Required Technical Capabilities

• At least 3 years of experience of front-end web development, with a strong eye for UX.
• Computer Science degree, or similar.
• Excellent knowledge of Angular (15+) and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of core web technologies (HTML, CSS).
• Strong understanding of OOP and SOLID principles.
• Familiarity with .NET and C# (does not need to be as deep as front-end expertise).

Additional Desirable Technical Capabilities

• Familiarity with Azure services and cloud-based development.
• Experience with 3D development and 3D graphics (e.g., Cesium, 3D Tiles, gITF).
• Experience in the unit testing framework Jest.
• Understanding of systems design and software development techniques.
• Working knowledge of GIS, geospatial tools, and mapping frameworks.
• Experience working in Agile SCRUM environments.
• Familiarity with Python for scripting or data-related tasks.

Management Capabilities

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts clearly to clients and stakeholders.
• A consulting mindset, with an interest in understanding client needs and delivering tailored solutions.
• Ability to contribute to project planning, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Commercial awareness and a willingness to support business development activities.

About GHD

Being the best that we can be is in our culture. We are a team of smart, innovative, and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

Our Commitment to you

• Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another.
• We will support your needs by giving you the tools, training and support to do your best work and then recognise your achievements.
• We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work.
• We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can.
• Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. We believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and experience, and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems.

Our internal working groups, such as GHD Young Professionals, Pride Alliance and Women in GHD (WING), enable every employee to shape the conversation and help implement initiatives to make GHD a better place to work for all.

Inclusion is hugely important to us, and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wider variety of benefits to support you, including 25 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave, matched pension contributions and family-friendly flexible working.

As an employee-owned business, you will have the opportunity to obtain shares in GHD, empowering you to shape and share the company's long-term success. We will advocate for your professional development and provide you with technical development opportunities and mentoring programmes to help you grow and improve your abilities.

We actively promote inclusion and equity focussed initiatives, with the example of our STEMAZING partnership, which offers STEM outreach programmes for women. We are always looking to improve the way we collaborate, communicate and operate as a team through regular socials, team strategy days and internal initiatives.

Working Location

This role is based in either our London or Chester office, with an expectation to work from the office an average of three days per week.

What next?

If shortlisted, our interview approach is a two-way learning experience. We will give you access to the leadership team and technical leads throughout the application process.