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Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.\nWe are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.\nOverview\nWe are looking for a Lead Software Developer to design, build, and maintain high-quality software to help UK government clients solve problems and deliver value for citizens and the public sector.\nYou will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team, delivering user-centred digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and accessibility requirements.\nThis is a hands-on technical leadership role operating within structured and governed environments where security, performance, accessibility, reliability, and scalability are critical to service success.\nThe role will support the development of a modern digital system that enables secure, reliable, and efficient processing and exchange of information between government services and external organisations, helping to provide customers with a seamless 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a wide range of systems.\n\nLead performance optimisation activities, including database query tuning and optimisation of application-level caching using existing framework capabilities.\n\nOversee the design, monitoring, and optimisation of overnight batch jobs and high-volume transactional processing.\n\nProvide technical leadership, coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing across the engagement.\n\nContribute to the Scrumconnect developer community and promote the adoption of good engineering practices.\n\nAct as a senior on-call responder, supporting incident management and driving long-term resilience and reliability improvements.\n\nCollaborate with product managers, designers, architects, developers, testers, and other stakeholders to deliver user-focused digital services.\n\nRequired Skills & Experience\nYou'll be working with:\nJava 21\n\nSpring Boot\n\nSpring Data JPA\n\nPostgreSQL / Amazon RDS PostgreSQL\n\nAWS, including EKS, RDS, SQS, SNS, and S3\n\nTerraform\n\nGitHub 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services, or strong evidence that you can ramp up quickly in such environments.\n\nDemonstrable experience providing technical leadership, mentoring developers, conducting code reviews, and driving engineering best practices across teams.\n\nDesirable Experience\nDomain knowledge of UK tax administration.\n\nExperience in regulated public-sector or financial-services environments.\n\nExperience working with legacy system modernisation and service migration strategies.\n\nOpen-source contributions to government engineering ecosystems.\n\nActive community-of-practice contribution, such as talks, blog posts, or internal teaching.\n\nHybrid working: On-site presence typically 3 days per week.\nLocation: Swansea\nDuration: Permanent\nHow We Work\nIt is our mission to make digital easy - through intelligent systems that predict needs, automate complexity, and drive measurable value for the citizens and organisations we serve.\nOur Values\nCollaboration\nWe are stronger as a team than as 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We tackle problems and celebrate wins together.\nCreate Value Early\nWe find the quickest route from idea to product because customers rely on us to do what's best.\nIntegrity\nTeamwork requires trust. We can always be relied upon to uphold the highest standards.\nCommitment\nNo matter what, no matter how, we will always give our 100% to keeping our promises and achieving our goals.\nDiversity and Inclusion\nAt Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that diversity drives innovation and better outcomes. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every individual is valued, respected, and supported.\nWe welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and actively encourage individuals from underrepresented groups, including women, people with disabilities, and diverse communities, as well as those seeking flexible working arrangements.\nAs a Disability Confident Level 1 employer, we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and during employment to ensure equal opportunities for all.\nHow to Apply\nPlease submit your CV. 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