Role title: Lead Developer
TPR grade & pay group: Grade 7 & Digital
Directorate: Digital, Data & Technology
Starting salary: £63,213.00 Per Annum
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract: 12 Months
Location: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)
Responsibilities
- 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.
Essential Skills
- Excellent knowledge of C# and the .Net framework
- Extensive experience with Web technologies, in particular ASP.NET MVC
- Practical understanding of Event Driven Architecture and Domain Driven Design
- Experience with TDD/BDD, ideally using ReqnRoll and Playwright for Web UI tests
- Experience with Agile values and principles using Scrum, Kanban or XP frameworks
- Experience improving development methodologies, processes and standards
Desirable Skills
- Experience with Sitecore/Umbraco or similar Content Management Systems
- Experience building modern internal and external secure APIs
- Working knowledge of Azure including Functions, Logic Apps, App Services
- Experience with Azure Dev Ops, including creating CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with NServiceBus and/or Azure Service Bus
Reward and Benefits
We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
Equal Opportunity
As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the criteria outlined in the ‘what you will bring’ section will be offered an interview.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.
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