Lead Software Developer - SC Cleared

Network IT; Hayes End; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Network IT is seeking a Lead Software Developer for a 6-month contract. The role is based at the Palace of Westminster, with two days per week on-site in Westminster. The position pays £625 per day and requires SC clearance.

You will lead a cross-functional squad, drive technical decisions, and ensure high-quality delivery across back-end and front-end work, collaborating with engineering teams and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• SC clearance is required for this role.
• Proven experience leading a development team in agile environments.
• Strong background in C#, .NET, MVC, Web API, and front-end technologies.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical leader and coordinate squad work.
• Bridge between Principal Developers and delivery teams to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Drive the adoption of automated testing, observability, and developer tooling.

Skills

Leadership

C#

.NET

Front-end

Tools

MVC

Web API

HTML/CSS/JS

Job description

Lead Software Developer 6 month contract initially 2 days in Westminster per week (Palace of Westminster and the Parliamentary Estate) SC Cleared £625 per day

This six-month contract for a Lead Software Developer - SC Cleared sits with Network IT in London, paying £625 per day. The successful candidate will act as technical lead within a multi-disciplinary squad, working two days weekly at the Palace of Westminster and Parliamentary Estate. Responsibilities span back and front-end products, bridging Principal Developers and delivery teams while ensuring high-quality output. Proven experience leading a development team is essential, alongside confidence with agile principles and translating customer needs into features. Collaboration with engineering colleagues and liaison across technical groups form a central part of the work. Security clearance is required for this London-based position.

The Role

You will act as a Lead Developer in a team whose work spans a range of back and front-end products and digital. The Lead Developer will operate as a technical leader, embedded in one of our clients multi-disciplinary squads. You will act as key liaison between the Principal Developers and the development teams and will be responsible for the high-quality delivery of products. You will have proven experience in acting as a lead for a development team. You are confident operating to agile principles and will thrive on collaborating with technical minds across Engineering, as well as translating customer needs into features. You will take technical decisions in line with the overarching strategic direction and ensure standards are applied consistently. You will strive to remain close to the detail on emerging technologies, identifying, testing and championing their adoption where appropriate. Alongside project delivery, the role will support improvements that benefit the Engineering team and our users more broadly. This may include helping to develop shared capabilities such as automated testing, dashboarding, monitoring/observability, developer experience tooling, as well as other lateral improvements that help raise quality, security, consistency and delivery confidence across multiple products and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Acting as a technical leader in the team who takes localised decisions in line with our overarching strategic direction and orchestrates the technical work of a squad, working to motivate and develop squad members.
• Understanding the needs of users and keeps them in mind when taking actions or making decisions.
• Being cognisant of the differences between needs and wants, and maintaining a strong focus on benefits, outcomes, and value for money in all the work we do.
• Ensuring the skills of developers in our team are sufficient for the needs of the products and services being developed, including providing coaching, pairing and mentoring to colleagues, or recommending learning and training areas.
• Overseeing adequate transfer of knowledge between Principal Developers and the development and DevOps teams, in line with the overarching strategic direction and our departmental standards.
• Representing operational teams in decisions to evolve processes, structures and policies to ensure maximum effectiveness based on current organisational need.
• Leading on ways of working and collaboration across a multidisciplinary team that is forming, ensuring changes are introduced at the right pace to be sustainable.

Technical Experience

Demonstrable experience across C#, .NET, .NET Core and .NET Framework, web frameworks including MVC and Web API, SQL / SQL Server with proven experience in designing database schemas to satisfy data storage and retrieval requirements, designing and creating RESTful APIs, performing profiling of applications and writing performant code, Git, abstracting code into core libraries and creating reusable components, debugging and systems analysis, HTML5, CSS / SASS & Javascript and TypeScript, familiarity with a frontend framework such as Angular / React / Vue (Angular preferred), CI/CD and pipelines.

Leadership

You are a strong leader and will have effective teambuilding skills with the ability to motivate, lead and develop a multidisciplinary team whilst adhering to wider technical direction in a complex environment.

Standards

You demonstrate strong understanding and application of the most appropriate modern standards and practices and can advise and coach others on the right way to apply these standards and methods, ensuring compliance.

Systems Design

You can design systems characterised by medium to high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity and can review the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, secure design, and integration of multiple systems and technology.

Information Security

You have a good understanding of information security and build systems with information security included as a core part of the design.

Systems Integration

You can define the integration build, can coordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration-testing activities.