Lead Developer

Role and Responsibilities

TPR grade & pay group: Grade 7 & Digital

Directorate: Digital, Data & Technology

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract: 12 Months

Location: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)

This role is ideal for someone who wants to:

• Take on a senior technical position working with the latest Microsoft technologies.
• Be part of a collaborative, hybrid team that values continuous learning and personal development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design and deliver accessible, cloud-hosted websites using modern technologies and industry-standard design patterns.
• Lead the development of mission‑critical applications, applying event‑driven architectures and Domain Driven Design principles to create robust, scalable, and maintainable cloud‑first solutions.
• Drive the modernisation of legacy applications by refactoring them into microservice architectures hosted on cloud app services, optimising for performance, reliability, and future growth.

The role criteria

• Excellent knowledge of C# and the .Net framework.
• Extensive experience of Web technologies and in particular ASP.NET MVC.
• Practical understanding of Event Driven Architecture and Domain Driven Design.
• Experience of TDD/BDD, ideally using ReqnRoll and Playwright for Web UI tests.
• Experience of applying Agile values and principles with Scrum, Kanban or XP frameworks.
• Experience improving development methodologies, processes and standards.
• Experience of Sitecore/Umbraco or similar Content Management Systems.
• Experience of building modern internal and external secure APIs.
• Working knowledge of Azure including Functions, Logic Apps, App Services.
• Experience of Azure Dev Ops, including creating CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with NServiceBus and/or Azure Service Bus.

Benefits

• Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
• Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
• A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Women’s).
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime.
• Competitive parental leave, Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offering retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and cycle‑to‑work scheme.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to give everyone an equal opportunity to succeed.

We are a Disability‑Confident Employer and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.

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