Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services - IPO - G7 in Manchester

Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services – IPO – G7

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Location

Newport, NP10 8QQ.

About The Job

The IPO is an organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up‑to‑date services to our customers, systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. This position plays a key role in ensuring the Legacy Existing Systems vertical within IT continues to support ageing and complex legacy systems. This is a challenging role as the post holder must balance complex maintenance commitments of the legacy estate with new initiatives and conflicting demands.

Working Style

This role will be carried out in line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. The role is based in our Newport Office. The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role, so we encourage candidates to discuss arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

Job Description

Main Duties (Technical)

• As Tech lead, be responsible for the team’s design, coding, testing and documentation of small to large, complex or mission‑critical applications and solutions using C#, ASP.NET, MVC, SQL.
• Work in a multi‑disciplinary team to deliver highly user‑focused and successful digital services, ensuring governance standards are defined and adhered to.
• Implement toolkits and APIs for integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability.
• Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Act as a technical coach or mentor, instilling a continuous improvement ethos, and exploring opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.

Main Duties (Behavioural)

• Understand yourself to be a technical leader and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results.
• Work alongside the Head of Existing Systems and the People Manager to provide guidance and facilitate issue resolution on a day‑to‑day basis.
• Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team.

Main Duties (Personal & Team Development)

• Drive your own training and self‑development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that the team’s test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes.
• Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values.
• Guide more junior members in their personal development.
• Coach and mentor colleagues.
• Continuously improve technical knowledge and stay abreast of the latest trends.

Person Specification

Essential Experience

• Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects.
• Strong experience of payment system integrations.
• Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile.
• Advocate of DevOps principles.
• Experience with Azure DevOps.
• Experience writing Unit Tests, using tools such as MS Test, and an understanding of TDD principles.

Essential Technical

• Excellent understanding of C#, ASP.NET, MVC, SQL, Jenkins and TFS.
• Strong experience in web services and REST.
• Deep understanding of Oracle integrations.
• Deep understanding of architectural principles such as SOA and Micro‑Services.
• Experience working in a multi‑disciplinary team.
• Experience writing complex SQL statements.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level.

Employment Type

Full‑time.

Job Function

• Information Technology.
• Technology, Information and Internet.