Senior Software Developer - Python
Role Overview
The Digital, Data and Technology directorate designs, builds, and runs services, platforms, and technology used by businesses, colleagues, and citizens across the UK.
The role is part of a multidisciplinary agile team working on digital services and solving complex technical problems.
The position is listed as Grade 7 and permanent; working patterns include flexible working, full-time, and part-time.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Digital, Data and Technology directorate designs, builds, and runs services, platforms, and technology used by businesses, colleagues, and citizens across the UK.
The role is part of a multidisciplinary agile team working on digital services and solving complex technical problems.
The position is listed as Grade 7 and permanent; working patterns include flexible working, full-time, and part-time.
Main responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain quality software, delivering features and improving services in line with architecture and coding standards.
- Work across development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues to translate user needs and designs into software, iterating based on evidence and feedback.
- Work with technical architects and developers on technical decisions and solutions to complex problems.
- Develop and maintain REST APIs, web applications, microservices, and containerised applications.
- Understand service dependencies, data, and system interactions to improve reliability and address underlying issues.
- Investigate live service incidents, identify root causes, and implement sustainable improvements.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery.
- Review code, share knowledge, and support colleagues to improve quality and consistency.
- Improve engineering practices, including exploring and prototyping potential solutions.
Person specification
- Strong experience developing REST APIs and/or web applications using Python and Django, with SQL experience; this is the lead criterion.
- Experience designing, building, and supporting microservices and containerised applications using technologies such as those specified in the full posting.
Pay and benefits
- Salary is £68,732–£88,423, with separate London and national ranges; the final salary is based on skills and capability assessed at interview.
- A Civil Service Pension is offered with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
Locations
- Listed locations are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, and Manchester.
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