Lead Developer

Hours:             8.30am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week)

Salary:            Negotiable (dependent on experience) with bonus opportunity

Location:        Hybrid – A blend of home working and office based, 60/40 split (Bridgehead Business Park, Hessle)

Reports to:     Head of Software

Role Overview

Parallel is a fast-paced scale up with the backing of parent company Sewell Group. The business supports public sector clients across the UK to make decisions about their services, estates and budgets through the delivery of market leading web applications and data visualisation tools, including SHAPE (Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation).

To support growing client demands and an expanding product range, Parallel is looking to grow its developer team and take the business to the next level.

The Lead Developer will work alongside the Head of Software and with the software development team to deliver a series of software and data projects for NHS clients, to help modernise existing technology platforms and develop new products for new markets.

We are seeking a hands-on Lead Developer to take accountability for the technical delivery of the company’s products. The successful candidate will have relevant commercial development experience, and a proven track record of leading development teams to deliver quality products within budget.

This is the perfect opportunity to work in a growing business and highly motivated team, where the exposure to multiple technologies, unique products and concurrent projects provides a continuous learning and personal development opportunity.

If you are a positive, well organised, people person, looking for an opportunity to make your mark on national products, with the backing of a nationally recognised top employer, we’d love to hear from you.

To learn more about Sewell Group and Parallel, please follow the link below:

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As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential:

• Fluency in multiple programming languages/frameworks and the full SDLC
• Strong project management skills, with experience ensuring projects are delivered individually and by the team on time and within budget, across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Possess people management skills with the ability to manage, measure, develop and grow a team
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members, be seen as a technical expert and champion best practices and effective standards and improve overall team code quality through code reviews, documentation and testing processes
• Ability to conduct line management functions efficiently and sensitively, including measuring performance, conducting appraisals, promoting continuous improvement and supporting recruitment
• A team player and an excellent communicator with all stakeholders, including clients and colleagues
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a process driven method to approach design solutions and a keen eye for user experience
• High-level of expertise in working with and developing on databases and RDBMS solutions (MS SQL preferred)
• High-level of expertise with developing using .NET
• Proficient in the use of HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript (ideally Vue.JS)
• Have effective and efficient time management skills
• Passion for technology, ongoing learning and client satisfaction
• Good understanding of information security, data protection and confidentiality practices and approaches
• Good leadership skills, facilitating the professional growth of the technical team through coaching, training and mentoring
• Have excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Understand and have experience in modern and varied application architectures, web development and APIs

Desirable:

• Experienced in the use of Vue.JS for building SPAs
• Experience of developing in Laravel/PHP
• Experience of geo-mapping formats, approaches or tools
• Experience of other databases (ideally PostgreSQL or Redis) and Object-Relational Mapping frameworks (ideally Entity Framework or Eloquent)
• Experience of Cloud services/technologies (ideally MS Azure)
• Knowledge of XML and JSON for defining content structures
• Experience of developing Power Platform/Power Apps/Power BI solutions
• Experience in data manipulation and analysis

All candidates will need to be able to demonstrate their technical ability as part of our selection process.

Parallel and the Sewell Group are equal opportunities employers, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services. As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

• Competitive Salary, Dependent on experience
• Annual Bonus opportunity

• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

Click here to take a look at our flexible reward and benefits offer!