Lead Developer

Role title: Lead Software Developer (Lead Specialist) TPR grade & pay group: Digital Directorate: DDaT Salary starting from: £55,504 – £70,922 per annum, dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package. Candidates with exceptional expertise may be considered towards the upper end of the range. Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (FTC) Location: Brighton/hybrid 6 days per month in the office The Role And Responsibilities This role is ideal for someone who wants to: • Take on a senior technical position working with the latest Microsoft technologies. • Be part of a collaborative, hybrid team that values continuous learning and personal development. • Collaborate with stakeholders to design and deliver accessible, cloud-hosted websites using modern technologies and industry-standard design patterns. • Lead the development of mission-critical applications, applying event-driven architectures and Domain Driven Design principles to create robust, scalable, and maintainable cloud-first solutions. • Drive the modernisation of legacy applications by refactoring them into microservice architectures hosted on cloud app services, optimising for performance, reliability, and future growth. The role criteria Essential Skills • Excellent knowledge of C# and the .Net framework • Extensive experience of Web technologies and in particular ASP.NET MVC • Practical understanding of Event Driven Architecture and Domain Driven Design • Experience of TDD/BDD, ideally using ReqnRoll and Playwright for Web UI tests • Experience of applying Agile values and principles with Scrum, Kanban or XP frameworks • Experience improving development methodologies, processes and standards Desirable skills • Experience of Sitecore/Umbraco or similar Content Management Systems • Experience of building modern internal and external secure APIs • Working knowledge of Azure including Functions, Logic Apps, App Services • Experience of Azure Dev Ops, including creating CI/CD pipelines • Experience with NServiceBus and/or Azure Service Bus The team TPR Offers • Genuine opportunities for learning and development. • A values-led, inclusive environment. • Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns. • A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Women’s). Reward And Benefits We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme. Find Out What Benefits a Civil Service Pension Provides. Our culture TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment. Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section. We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another. About The Pensions Regulator With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society. Find out more about us. Applications To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications. Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application. We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis. Selection and interview If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the criteria outlined in the ‘what you will bring’ section will be offered an interview. Diversity and inclusion TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR. Further information Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees. If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk .