Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services - IPO - G7

Manchester Digital; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector organization is seeking a Lead Developer for Legacy Shared Services in Newport. The role focuses on maintaining and improving legacy systems while managing new initiatives. Candidates should have extensive experience with C#, ASP.NET, and SQL, and be comfortable leading a multi-disciplinary team. This position offers a hybrid working arrangement, requiring at least 20% on-site work. The salary ranges from £66,162 to £77,888 plus allowances, with an application deadline of December 22, 2025.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in delivering technical solutions for projects.
• Experience with payment system integrations is required.
• Familiarity with modern Agile delivery models is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team's design, coding, testing, and documentation.
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver user-focused services.
• Investigate and resolve issues in aging platforms.

Skills

Technical leadership

C#

ASP.NET

MVC

SQL

Agile methodologies

DevOps principles

Unit Testing

RESTful services

Oracle integrations

Tools

Azure DevOps

MS Test

Jenkins

TFS

Job description

Lead Developer Legacy Shared Services - IPO - G7

£66,162 up to £77,888 with additional allowances
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Full-time (Permanent) £66,162 up to £77,888 with additional allowances
Published on 9 December 2025 Deadline 22 December 2025

Location

Newport, NP10 8QQ

About the job

Job summary

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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 ourNewport Office.

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.

Main duties consist of but are not limited to:

Technical

• As Tech lead be responsible for the team’s 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.

Behavioural

• 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.

Personal and Team Development

• 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

Person specification

• 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