Digital Developer

Mott MacDonald; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Digital Consultant to join the Information Management team in the UK. You will apply web development skills to support civil engineering projects, focusing on data extraction and value from data to assist clients in achieving Net Zero objectives.

You will work with engineers and digital consultants to deliver solutions across transportation systems, including rails, roads, bridges and tunnels, using Python, React and SQL in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Proven software development experience with Python and React; SQL experience.
• Knowledge of data-focused web applications and agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Developing responsive and scalable software using agile methodologies.
• Providing estimates and delivering work to agreed timeframes.
• Collaborating to derive value from data and build analytical tools.
• Staying updated with emerging web technologies and best practices.
• Cleaning, structuring, and querying asset data to identify patterns.
• Maintaining rigorous version control and audit trails in code development.
• Exploring new technologies for infrastructure data capture and analysis.
• Creating decision-support tools that contextualise data for stakeholders.
• Communicating findings clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.

Skills

Python

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

API design

Azure services

Agile delivery

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

MS SQL

NoSQL databases

MongoDB

CI/CD tools

Git

Browser performance

Job description

About The Business Unit

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Overview Of The Role

We are looking for a Digital Consultant to join our enthusiastic, ambitious and growing Information Management team. You will be part of our Information Management network, helping to implement the latest digital design delivery methods and improved ways of working across major projects. Our team works with a range of major project clients, predominantly within the transportation sector across the UK and North America. We focus on developing innovative digital project solutions that improve efficiency throughout the delivery of built environment projects.

This role offers the opportunity to apply and further develop your web development skills within the civil engineering sector, working on solutions that support our clients in achieving their Net Zero objectives. You will be part of a highly successful and innovative team, advising infrastructure-owning clients on the delivery of civil engineering assets, predominantly within transportation systems, including railways, roads, bridges and tunnels.

You will have the opportunity to be creative in developing information- and technology-based solutions to real-world challenges. This will involve obtaining, organising and extracting value from data, and using the resulting insights to help clients make well-informed decisions. Working collaboratively with engineers, technologists and other digital consultants, you will help develop and deliver solutions that make a positive contribution to the safety, performance and sustainability of our clients’ infrastructure, benefiting both clients and society.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing responsive and scalable high-quality software using agile methodologies.
• Providing estimates and delivering work to agreed timeframes.
• Working as part of a team to help define and develop approaches for deriving value from data, while independently undertaking specific analysis tasks.
• Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in web development, and sharing knowledge across the wider team.
• Cleaning, structuring and querying asset data, building analytical tools, and identifying patterns and trends.
• Applying rigorous quality procedures for version control and maintaining audit trails throughout code development.
• Researching and evaluating the potential application of new and emerging technologies for infrastructure data capture and analysis.
• Helping to create decision-support tools that combine, contextualise and derive value from collected data.
• Communicating findings effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences through written reports, visualisations, presentations, and verbal discussions.

Candidate Specification

Our ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering and related experience in a similar role in software development.

You will work with a specialist team in developing solutions by producing high quality code in an agile environment. You will need to have primarily Python and React with SQL experience and enthusiasm to dive into different technologies with a ‘can do’ attitude.

Essential skills

• Python
• React, TypeScript, and JavaScript
• MS SQL, NoSQL databases, and MongoDB
• API design for streaming data
• Azure services
• Agile delivery methodologies
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Desired skills

• .NET / C#
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Vulnerability management
• Git commands and collaborative team workflows
• Understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance optimisation.

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Location(s): Croydon, GB Birmingham, GB London, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Transport

Discipline: Digital design