Digital Developer Senior
Location: London (HQ), Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington
Contract Duration: 12 months +
IR35 Status: In Scope
Pay Rate: £750 per day
Security Clearance: SC required
Overview
An opportunity for an experienced Digital Developer Senior to join a high profile public sector subsidiary delivering critical digital services at national scale. Operating within a modern Digital, Data and Technology function, you will work as part of a multi disciplinary team to design, build, and improve secure, scalable, and user centric services. This role requires a strong hands on engineer with leadership capability, able to guide teams and deliver high quality solutions aligned to public sector digital standards and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of full stack features using Python and Django
- Act as a senior technical lead within a multi disciplinary squad (Business Analysis, User Centred Design, Engineering)
- Write clean, secure, and maintainable code using test driven development principles
- Design and deliver scalable, resilient, and high performing systems aligned to modern engineering standards
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to define and deliver user focused solutions
- Manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets
- Embed security controls into system design to mitigate risks and threats
- Coordinate integration, build activities, and support testing across multiple systems
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve faults, defects, and performance issues
- Support and operate live production services, ensuring reliability, resilience, and stability
- Apply appropriate design standards, tools, and development methodologies effectively
- Review system designs to ensure efficient use of resources and appropriate technology choices
- Identify opportunities for process optimisation and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
- Mentor and guide engineers, supporting capability development within the team
- Demonstrate strong hands on experience with Python and Django in production environments
- Operate effectively at Senior Developer or Tech Lead level within agile, multi disciplinary teams
- Apply secure coding practices and modern development standards
- Build and integrate APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
- Use test driven development (TDD) and automated testing approaches
- Design systems for scalability, resilience, and performance
- Work with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP (desirable)
- Align solutions to public sector digital service standards and best practices (desirable)
- Maintain a strong focus on user needs over user wants
- Navigates complex systems and delivery environments effectively
- Proactively identifies risks and drives solutions
- Collaborates effectively in a fast paced delivery environment
- Takes ownership and accountability for delivery outcomes
- Contributes to the delivery of high impact digital services at scale within a regulated environment