Lead Developer
- Intellectual Property Office
- Newport-on-tay, Fife
- Dec 16, 2025
Full time
I.T. & Communications
Job Description
Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services
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Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services
The IPO is an organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers, systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. This position plays a key role in ensuring the Legacy Existing Systems vertical within IT, continues to be able to support these aging and complex legacy systems. This is a challenging role as the post holder must be able to balance complex maintenance commitments of the legacy estate with new initiatives, and conflicting demands.
In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to support and maintain enterprise services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliverables as well as mentoring and coaching team members. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues on some aging platforms.
As a multi-skilled individual, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types.
Working Style
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least20%of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in ourNewportOffice.
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to:
Technical
Essential Experience
Click the'Applynow'button and complete the application form by providing the following:
Your CV
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see ourcandidate guidancefor more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below.
Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Please note that benefits may be subject to change.
Things you need to knowSelection process detailsThis vacancy is usingSuccess Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills. Additional details on security and vetting
Successful candidates must pass adisclosure and barring security checkand if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, ahigher Security Clearance.
For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to haveconsistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 yearsin order to meet the relevant security clearance.
Further information on the vetting process can be found atNational security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK
The assessment process will comprise of the following:
Stage 1 SiftAn initial sift of applications will be carried out to create a shortlist. This will be based on the evidence provided for the following Success Profile elements:
Experience
Your CV will be used to assess your suitability for the role and Your 500 word Personal statement will demonstrate your Experience against the listed person specification/essential criteria
Stage 2 Interviews
If invited to interviewBehaviours, Experience and Technicalbased questioning will be used.
Specific information regarding the Success Profile elements that will be assessed at interview will be contained within the interview invitation.
Interviews for this role will be carried out in person at our Newport Office.
The successful candidate would be expected to remain in the role for a minimum of 12 months before applying for another role.
Applicants to note:CVs sent direct to the IPO will not be accepted.
There may be important information contained within the job role profile candidates may also wish to refer to. We recommend candidates download and save a copy of the role profile for reference.
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see ourcandidate guidancefor more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
This post is being advertised toInternal . click apply for full job details
Pleasenote:Applicants should review all aspects of this advert to ensure a thorough understanding. If reviewing via a screen reader, please note that the Job summary, Job description, Person specification, Benefits and Things you need to know sections have been emphasised
Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services
The IPO is an organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers, systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. This position plays a key role in ensuring the Legacy Existing Systems vertical within IT, continues to be able to support these aging and complex legacy systems. This is a challenging role as the post holder must be able to balance complex maintenance commitments of the legacy estate with new initiatives, and conflicting demands.
In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to support and maintain enterprise services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliverables as well as mentoring and coaching team members. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues on some aging platforms.
As a multi-skilled individual, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types.
Working Style
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least20%of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in ourNewportOffice.
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to:
Technical
- As Tech lead be responsible for the teams design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale to large, complex or mission critical applications and solutions using C#, ASP.NET, MVC, SQL
- Work in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are defined and adhered to.
- Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
- Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders
- Act as a technical coach or mentor, instilling a continuous improvement ethos, and explore opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.
- Understanding yourself to be a technical leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results)
- Work alongside the Head of Existing Systems and People Manager to provide guidance and facilitate issue resolution on a day to day basis
- Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team.
- Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills
- Take responsibility for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes
- Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values
- Guide more junior members in their personal development
- Coach and mentor colleagues
- Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends
Essential Experience
- Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects
- Strong experience of payment system integrations
- Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile
- Advocate of DevOps principles
- Experience with Azure DevOps
- Experience writing Unit Tests, using tools such as MS Test, and an understanding of TDD principles
- Excellent understanding of C#, ASP.NET, MVC, SQL, Jenkins and TFS.
- Strong experience in web services, REST
- Deep understanding of Oracle integrations.
- Deep understanding of architectural principals such as SOA and Micro-Services
- Experience working in a Multi disciplined team
- Experience of writing complex SQL statements
Click the'Applynow'button and complete the application form by providing the following:
Your CV
- Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV.Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc.
- Make sure it clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.
- Use this to explainwhy you're suitable for the role.
- Structure your statement around theessential criteriain the Person Specification.
- Make sure to provide clear examples to show how you meet each requirement.
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see ourcandidate guidancefor more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below.
Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- At interview you will be assessed on technical criteria
- Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
- Access to Microsofts ESI training suite
- Hybrid working with no core hours
- Substantial support for career progression
- 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
- You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave
Please note that benefits may be subject to change.
Things you need to knowSelection process detailsThis vacancy is usingSuccess Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills. Additional details on security and vetting
Successful candidates must pass adisclosure and barring security checkand if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, ahigher Security Clearance.
For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to haveconsistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 yearsin order to meet the relevant security clearance.
Further information on the vetting process can be found atNational security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK
The assessment process will comprise of the following:
Stage 1 SiftAn initial sift of applications will be carried out to create a shortlist. This will be based on the evidence provided for the following Success Profile elements:
Experience
Your CV will be used to assess your suitability for the role and Your 500 word Personal statement will demonstrate your Experience against the listed person specification/essential criteria
Stage 2 Interviews
If invited to interviewBehaviours, Experience and Technicalbased questioning will be used.
Specific information regarding the Success Profile elements that will be assessed at interview will be contained within the interview invitation.
Interviews for this role will be carried out in person at our Newport Office.
The successful candidate would be expected to remain in the role for a minimum of 12 months before applying for another role.
Applicants to note:CVs sent direct to the IPO will not be accepted.
There may be important information contained within the job role profile candidates may also wish to refer to. We recommend candidates download and save a copy of the role profile for reference.
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see ourcandidate guidancefor more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
This post is being advertised toInternal . click apply for full job details
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