Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services - Newport
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Newport
About the job Job summary Please note : Applicants should review all aspects of this advert to ensure a thorough understanding. If reviewing via a screen reader, please note that the Job summary, Job description, Person specification, Benefits and Things you need to know sections have been emphasised Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services 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 be able to support these aging and complex legacy systems. This is a challenging role as the post holder must be able to balance complex maintenance commitments of the legacy estate with new initiatives, and conflicting demands. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to support and maintain enterprise services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliverables as well as mentoring and coaching team members. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues on some aging platforms. As a multi-skilled individual, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. 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. This role is based in our Newport Office . The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Technical • As Tech lead be responsible for the team's design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale 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 purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability, • Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders, • Understanding 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 People Manager to provide guidance and facilitate issue resolution on a day to day basis, • Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills, • Take responsibility for ensuring that the team 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, • 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, • Excellent understanding of C#, ASP.NET, MVC, SQL, Jenkins and TFS., • Strong experience in web services, REST, • Deep understanding of Oracle integrations., • Deep understanding of architectural principals such as SOA and Micro-Services, • Experience working in a Multi disciplined team, • Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc., • Use this to explain why you're suitable for the role ., • Structure your statement around the essential criteria in the Person Specification., • Making Effective Decisions, • Seeing the Big Picture, • Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access, • Access to Microsoft's ESI training suite, • Hybrid working with no core hours, • Substantial support for career progression, • 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments, • UK nationals, • nationals of the Republic of Ireland, • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window), • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020