Digital Developer

Mott MacDonald; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits including life cover

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is hiring a Digital Consultant to join the Information Management team. You will contribute to digital design delivery, working on solutions that drive efficiency in major projects across the UK and North America.

Ideal candidates have a degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering and strong Python/React with SQL skills, to help deliver web-based data solutions that enable better decision-making for transportation systems and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering and related experience in a similar software development role.
• Primarily Python and React with SQL experience.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.

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 derive value from data and perform analysis tasks.
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in web development.

Skills

Python

React

SQL

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

MS SQL

NoSQL

MongoDB

Job description

Croydon, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Birmingham, United Kingdom

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.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy

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
• MS SQL, NoSQL databases, and MongoDB
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills

Desired skills:

• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Vulnerability management
• Git commands and collaborative team workflows

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.

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.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

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.