About this role
Salary: £25,000 - 65,000 per year
Requirements
- Strong hands-on technical development experience.
- Proven experience delivering software using C#, .NET, .NET Core/.NET Framework, RESTful APIs, SQL/SQL Server, Git, CI/CD pipelines, web technologies, and modern frontend frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue.
- Experience leading developers within a multidisciplinary or agile delivery team, including coaching, mentoring, pairing, coordinating technical work, and helping teams apply good engineering practices consistently.
- Ability to design, review, and deliver systems with medium to high levels of technical or business complexity, making appropriate technology choices and ensuring secure design, maintainability, performance, integration, and adherence to modern standards.
- SC Security Clearance.
- Experience in public sector, Parliaments, government, regulated, or complex stakeholder environments is desirable but not essential.
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical lead for a development team, helping shape, coordinate, and assure technical delivery.
- Translate user and business needs into well-designed, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Make local technical decisions aligned with wider architectural direction, engineering standards, and organisational priorities.
- Support and develop developers through coaching, mentoring, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
- Ensure engineering standards, development practices, security expectations, and quality controls are applied consistently.
- Work with Principal Developers, DevOps colleagues, product teams, and other stakeholders to support knowledge transfer and joined-up delivery.
- Support Engineering improvements, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, reusable components, shared tooling, and developer experience.
- Help the team work effectively in an agile environment, maintaining focus on user value, outcomes, quality, and value for money.
Technologies
- .NET Framework
- Angular
- C#
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Frontend
- Git
- Support
- React
- SQL
- Security
- Vue
- Web
- ASP.NET
More
We are recruiting on behalf of a client for a Lead Developer to provide hands-on technical leadership in a multidisciplinary delivery squad, supporting the delivery of digital products and services. The role also contributes to the wider Engineering capability by coaching developers, guiding technical decisions, and improving ways of working. This is a six-month contract based in London, with two days in the office, at a competitive day rate inside IR35. Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel, and all candidates will be given due consideration.
last updated 43 week of 2026