Summary

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

We are seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the team. This is an Internal Applicant only opportunity. Details on how to apply are below.

You will be responsible for the development and support of custom software applications within Historic England, which includes our internal business systems and public facing web applications.

 What you will be doing

As a senior developer you will act as technical lead, establish development standards and be responsible for code quality and selecting the right approach. You will be a proactive driver of improvement within the development team.

You will support the professional development of more junior developers, providing mentoring and coaching

The Senior Software Developer will develop and support Historic England applications.  Key objectives include:

1.                   Be responsible for architectural design and development of new systems to internal and external customers

2.                   Selecting the right approach for system design to favour simplicity, security, resilience, and to meet our digital strategy goals.

3.                   Establish and improve development standards within the developer team, supporting adoption by junior team members.

4.                   Take the lead maintaining the efficient functioning of existing systems and identify requirements for compliance and planning future upgrades.

5.                   Estimate effort for complex work on systems, understanding relative complexity across the team, as part of the planning process.

6.                   Take responsibility for the delivery of high quality, efficient, reliable code, including peer reviewing the work of other developers, and mentoring junior team members when needed.

7.                   Proactively advocate a culture of continuous improvement, promoting best practice and optimising team processes.

8.                   Work collaboratively within an Agile team to apply your expert technical skills to deliver the business’s strategy and users’ needs

9.                   Ensure that the developer team is adopting the right tools and technology so that Historic England is remaining current and tracking future trends.

10.               Actively seeking opportunities to represent Historic England on developer forums and contributing to discussions in the wider community as a technical expert.

11.               Keep focused on the 4 agile principles: Value individuals and interactions over processes and tools, value working software over comprehensive documentation, value customer collaboration over contract negotiation and value responding to change over following a plan.

12.               Make sure our legal obligations and policy expectations are met, including health & safety, equality & diversity, finance, procurement, information security and managing people.

What we are looking for

• Proven working experience in a similar software development role.

• Considerable experience architecting, developing, and maintaining secure enterprise web applications.

• Experience of acting as a technical lead in a multidiscipline development team.Ability to work well in a team and proactively drive improvement

• Ability to work to tight deadlines

• Keen attention to detail

• Conscientious, motivated and customer focussed

 We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

To apply for this opportunity, please email karen.millard@historicengland.org.uk and anna.flynn@historicengland.org.uk detailing why you are interested in and suited to this position (max 750 words), by 23:59 on 03rd December 2023.

Why work for Historic England

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 26% contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at ResourcingTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries. 

Provisional virtual interview dates: 9th / 10th November

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

For a full copy of the JD please click on the following link;

https://historicengland.org.uk/content/job-descriptions-hr/senior-software-developer/