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443794 Lead Developer

Department for Transport

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 25th January 2026

📍 Location: Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, Swansea (Hybrid)

💷 Salary: £57,515 – £80,400 – A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

The base pay is £57,515. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £22,885.

🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

We are looking for a Lead developer, with the drive and passion to join a talented, experienced delivery team in shaping the future of our delivery our digital and data services.

Our Lead Developers provide technical leadership, leading our continual improvement cycle for software engineering. Your time will be split between leading work in agile teams to build solutions & developing our capability, improving how we work through new tools and adapting ways of working & building our developer community.

Our current tech stack is based around .Net and C#, hosted on Google Cloud Platform.

Top Responsibilities

• Guide the ways in which the team works.
• Be proficient in a wide range of technical systems.
• Be involved in identifying appropriate technology and approaches, deciding when software should be written.
• Contribute to the developer community.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring your team.
• Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice.
• Provide governance, identify appropriate metrics to inform reporting and decision making.

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
• Access to the staff discount portal.
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
• DfT prioritises investing in our project delivery professionals, because successful projects begin with skilled people. We offer funding for industry recognised qualifications e.g. APM PMQ, PRINCE2, and MSP, alongside leadership programmes. You will have access to targeted technical training, support for project delivery accreditation, and potential funding toward Chartered Project Professional (ChPP). From day one, mentoring, coaching, and the Government Online Skills Tool (GOST) are available to support your learning and development throughout your career in DfT.

About you

• Take ownership of your ways of working and be adaptable to change.
• Role model positive behaviours and support the embedding of the new target operating model and the changes to the ways of working.
• Develop and implement effective development plans and demonstrate continuous professional development.
• Effectively line manage a team embedding the civil service line management standards and consistently applying the line management policies and processes expected, g. managing performance, career conversations, team development, succession planning.
• Develop and implement clear and effective team development.
• Be expected to become a trained Service Assessor and take part in Service Assessments.

How to Apply
👉 Read the full job description and apply here https://bit.ly/4a2wtQp

This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Sunday 25^th January 2026