Software Engineering Senior Front End Developer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required Professional Mu ...

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you-supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking a Senior Front-End Developer to join IBM, delivering innovative digital solutions across public sector and defence accounts. Due to the nature of the work, this role requires eligibility for enhanced Security Check (eSC) or enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance. You will be responsible for building modern, secure, and highly performant user interfaces, translating complex requirements into intuitive digital experiences. The role includes opportunities to lead front-end delivery, shape architecture and engineering standards, and guide development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate UI/UX designs into polished, user centric interfaces aligned with accessibility, usability, and government digital standards.
• Collaborate closely with designers, backend engineers, QA, DevOps, and wider delivery teams to deliver integrated end to end solutions.
• Build reusable components, shared UI patterns, and maintain clean, modular, and scalable codebases.
• Perform testing, debugging, and front-end performance optimisation to ensure reliable, fast, and secure user experiences.
• Contribute front-end expertise during requirements analysis, solution design, and technical planning.
• Support CI/CD workflows and Git based version control practices.
• Stay up to date with emerging front-end technologies, tooling, and engineering approaches and apply them where beneficial.

Depending on seniority:

• Lead front-end development on complex or highly secure projects, defining architecture, patterns, and standards.
• Shape development workflows, testing strategies, and release processes.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level developers in technical and delivery capabilities.
• Communicate technical decisions, trade offs, and solution direction to clients and stakeholders.
• Influence technical strategy and contribute to planning across account level delivery.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Hands on experience with modern frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Next.js, including component driven architecture and state management patterns.
• Strong understanding of responsive design principles, accessibility standards (WCAG), and user centric usability best practices.
• Experience working with component libraries, design systems, and collaborating closely with UI/UX teams to deliver consistent, high quality interfaces.
• Proficient in Git and Git based workflows, including branching strategies and collaborative code review practices.
• Solid understanding of API integration, including RESTful services, backend collaboration, and data driven UI patterns.
• Knowledge of front end testing approaches, including unit, integration, and end to end testing.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated build processes, and DevOps workflows supporting front end delivery.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong analytical mindset, able to troubleshoot complex issues and propose effective technical solutions.

This role is subject to pre employment screening in accordance with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Additional National Security Vetting (NVS) controls may apply, including eligibility for Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

Optional, depending on seniority level:

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title

Senior Front End Developer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required

Job ID

117214

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?