Lead Developer (Integration and Systems) - IT Services

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £45,585 to £54,395 with potential progression once in post to £61,198

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to October 2025

Role Summary

The primary responsibility of the Lead Developer (Integration and Systems) is to deliver quality software solutions on time and to budget that meet the needs of the organisation and to provide third line support for those solutions once they are live. 

Main Duties

• Solutions architecture
  • Leads the development of system integration and internal bespoke solution architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external, and internal customers and the Business Analyst. 
  • Systems development management
• Systems design
  • Specifies and designs large or complex integration and systems software. 
  • Selects appropriate software design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensures they are applied effectively. 
• Systems integration
  • Designs and builds integration components and interfaces. 
  • Leads practical integration work under the technical direction of the system/service designer. 
• Programming/software development
  • Sets local or team-based standards for programming tools and techniques, including security guidelines, and the selection of appropriate development methods. 
  • Advises on application of standards and methods and ensures compliance. 
• Testing
  • Accepts responsibility for creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications (such as reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability and portability). 
• Software release and deployment
  • Assesses and analyses release components. 
  • Provides input to scheduling. 
• Porting/software configuration
  • When required leads a team, providing expert technical knowledge in the systems testing of platform-specific versions of the software products, on varying platforms. 
• Technical specialism
  • Provides leadership and guidelines to promote the development and exploitation of the following applications and technologies in the organisation and therefore must have up to date knowledge and skills, as well as being a highly competent developer in one or more of the following technologies. 
• Systems integration and development methods and tools
• Emerging technology monitoring
• Technology leadership and innovation
• Supplier management and sourcing
• Contract management
• Relationship and stakeholder management
• Risk and sustainability management
• Project management

Person Specification

• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification plus substantial work experience in a relevant technical/scientific and/or management/supervisory role in a specialist area.  A higher degree may also be held.  Where no equivalent qualification is held a proven track record of extensive and substantial work experience in a series of progressively more demanding and relevant roles will be required.
• Proven technical specialist knowledge and understanding in a relevant technical area (specialists will require advanced technical expertise).
• Meaningful and relevant experience of integration development using the following Azure services: 
  • Logic Apps, 
  • Service Bus, 
  • API Management, 
  • Event Grid, 
  • Azure Functions, and 
  • Azure Data Factory 

Informal enquiries to David Madden, email: d.d.madden@bham.ac.uk   

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