Job ref: 189278
TPR grade: TDD 7 - Lead Specialist
About us
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2 trillion of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.
Role
Our Development Team works within our Agile teams to deliver positive outcomes on a range of projects and programmes for both the organisation, and savers, for years to come. Some of these projects include:
- transforming critical application into an event based architecture by applying domain driven design principles using the best cloud-based technology
- building accessible cloud hosted websites using the newest technologies and design patterns
- helping to refactor applications
- working on a cross-industry initiative to consolidate all workplace pension information
Due to growth within the Development Team, we are looking for our next generation of talent to come on board. This is a hands-on, technical role where you will be leading a cluster of developers building solutions across the full stack using .Net C#.
You will provide technical guidance, coaching and mentorship to developers, and train junior members of the team.
We will help you grow your skills and become an expert in your field. You will be supported with extensive professional development including furthering your Azure skills and learn or improve your event based architecture and domain driven design skills.
Responsibilities
You will:
- help to define and deliver the technical strategy across one or more development teams, this will involve making decisions to ensure that technology choices, software architecture and tools align with both the TPR strategy and UK government service standards
- keep up with technological advances to optimise the tools and processes used by the team
- help continuously improve development methodologies, processes and standards
- develop and maintain software using Dev Ops and Agile values and principles
- write clean code across the full stack for multiple business solutions
- refactor code to keep it optimised and keep tests green
- share learnings with all and coach and mentor less experienced members in the team
Essential and desirable criteria
Essential
- Experience of leading, coaching and mentoring developers across multiple teams.
- Practitioner level experience in developing clean, secure, and well tested code in .NET C#, ideally cloud hosted.
- Demonstrable ability to build accessible web applications which meet users’ needs using appropriate technology in particular ASP.NET MVC.
- Practitioner level experience of working with relational databases, SQL Server in particular.
- Consistent track record of operating the services you build and identify issues in production.
- Extensive experience of applying appropriate software architecture patterns.
Desirable
- Experience of Sitecore/Umbraco or similar content management systems.
- A cloud background, ideally Azure including Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus.
- Experience of Azure Dev Ops, including creating CI/CD pipelines.
Person specification
- Highly organised with good time management.
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Communication skills at all levels.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Leadership skills.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary between £55,504 and £70,922, we offer:
- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton
How to apply
To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 189278 along with:
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period
Current employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
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 essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis.
In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.
The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).
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.