Lead Software Developer - SC Cleared

Network IT; London Borough of Ealing; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Network IT is seeking a Lead Software Developer (SC Cleared) for a six-month contract in London. You will lead a multidisciplinary squad, shaping both back-end and front-end work across digital services, and act as the liaison between Principal Developers and delivery teams.

The role demands hands-on leadership and agile collaboration to ensure high-quality product outcomes. You will drive technical decisions, champion best practices, and help translate customer needs into tangible features

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience leading a development team within a multi-disciplinary squad.
• Experience delivering high-quality software using agile principles.
• Ability to translate customer needs into features and work with engineering peers to implement them.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical leader of the squad and align work with strategic direction.
• Collaborate with Principal Developers and delivery teams to ensure quality outcomes.
• Lead on best practices, including automated testing, observability, and developer experience tooling.
• Support improvements benefiting engineering teams and users across products and services.

Skills

C#

.NET

RESTful APIs

SQL Server

HTML5

CSS/SASS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Angular

React

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

This six-month contract for a Lead Software Developer - SC Cleared, based in London, offers £625 per day and requires two days weekly in Westminster at the Palace of Westminster and Parliamentary Estate. The postholder acts as technical lead within a multi-disciplinary squad, working across back and front-end products and digital services. Serving as liaison between Principal Developers and delivery teams, the successful candidate ensures high-quality product outcomes. Applicants must demonstrate proven experience leading a development team, confidence with agile principles, and the ability to translate customer needs into features while collaborating with engineering colleagues. Current SC clearance is essential for this assignment.

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

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.
• 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.

Representing operational teams in decisions to evolve processes, structures and policies to ensure maximum effectiveness based on current organisational need.

Technical Experience

Demonstratable 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 and 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 th