Senior Software Developer (Full Time/Part Time)

West Midlands Police; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking police department in Birmingham is seeking an experienced full stack software developer to design and develop business analytics applications. You will collaborate within the Cloud Services Team to implement web solutions using modern JavaScript frameworks and cloud infrastructure. This role offers career growth across various projects and technologies, with a comprehensive benefits package including pension and enhanced annual leave.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave

Competitive pension scheme

Wellbeing package including free eye tests

Qualifications

• Several years' experience developing Web applications with modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Demonstrable knowledge and proven skills in building responsive user interfaces.
• Skilled in building REST based web services and SQL data manipulation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and implement web applications for operational policing.
• Collaborate with teams to build effective solutions.
• Improve solutions based on user experience and security.

Skills

Collaboration

Understanding business requirements

Building modern web applications

JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, Vue)

Writing Java application code

Relational data models

Rapid prototyping

Cloud computing concepts

Source code version control

Job description

Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.

West Midlands Police IT & Digital in 2025 is a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation of individuals committed to delivering excellent information technology solutions to support West Midlands Police and the public we serve.

Cloud Services underpin all aspects of West Midlands Police today, we operate a technically hybrid estate, and our services running under Amazon Web Services are critical to enabling Police Officers and Police Staff to perform their roles and fulfil the Force’s mission of 'working in partnership, making communities safer'.

The IT & Digital Cloud Services Team (AWS) is looking for an experienced full stack software developer with a passion for designing and developing modern business analytics applications on large complex datasets and running on scalable cloud infrastructure. If you would like to work within a Dev Ops team of skilled technologists and can make a positive impact on our current and future solutions this opportunity could be your next challenge.

The principal focus of this role is on our front-end technology solutions which are currently based on JavaScript web applications and Java based web services. The web services implement search across a number of database technologies from analytic search engines, traditional relational as well as graph databases. You can expect to be using tried and tested patterns to deliver rapid incremental deliverables with a client centric approach one day and exploring new technologies and approaches to move our solutions forward on another day.

You will develop and support mission critical policing systems, and enjoy working with native cloud technologies. At West Midlands Police IT & Digital there is a very wide scope to build your career across many and varied projects and technology disciplines.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build and implement web applications in support of operational policing
• Collaborate within the Cloud Services Team, across the IT&D department as well as the wider organisation to design and build-in to all solutions the maximum know how and highest practicable value
• Put people first and work to improve solutions developed in all aspects from user experience, maintainability, reliability, security and value for money
• Research, learn and apply new techniques and frameworks to both improve current solutions and design new solutions to business challenges

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Ability to collaborate effectively within a team of software development professionals
• Ability to gather a detailed understanding of business requirements, conceptualise potential solutions, articulate ideas and discuss designs within teams
• Demonstrable knowledge and proven skills in building modern web applications including responsive user interfaces, REST based web services and SQL data query and manipulation
• Several years' experience developing Web applications with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React and Vue
• Skilled in writing Java application code
• Skilled in the design and interpretation of relational data models for storage and query of structured data
• Ability to rapidly prototype ideas into simple working solutions, presenting to team and clients
• Knowledge of traditional client server, 3-tier hosting and familiarity with Cloud computing concepts
• Experienced using source code version control within a multi-disciplinary team

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Experience developing solutions within a Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline
• Experience working with graph databases and interrogating the models using graph traversal languages
• Knowledge and practical skills configuring Cloud based serverless runtime environments
• Understand how to implement, and have implemented, authentication and authorisation into SPA's using OAuth 2.0 based protocols

BENEFIT STATEMENT

By choosing to join West Midlands Police you will receive an enhanced benefits package including:

• Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme.
• Enhanced annual leave in addition to public holiday entitlements.
• Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities.
• A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs.

Vetting

Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

Medical

Appointment to this role may be dependent upon successfully completing medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

Interview

TBC

Contact

For further information email [e-mail]

Disability & Inclusion

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a 'Disability Confident Interview Scheme' - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

Diversity and Inclusion Vision

"Diversity and Inclusion Vision: Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities"