About us:
Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.
You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.
At a certified Great Place to Work®, you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.
Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.
The Role:
As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Informed Solutions, you’ll take a leading role in designing, building, and delivering complex digital solutions that tackle real-world challenges in the public sector. Your work will make a tangible difference, helping to create a healthier, safer, and more sustainable UK.
You’ll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team, taking ownership of end-to-end delivery on greenfield projects while guiding and supporting colleagues to develop their skills and contribute effectively. Working across Software Engineering, User-Centred Design, Delivery Management, and Live Services, you’ll help shape enterprise-scale digital solutions for high-profile clients, influencing technical direction and driving innovation.
Our consultancy is proudly technology agnostic, empowering you to architect the best solutions using the most effective tools for each challenge. With technologies ranging from .NET, Java, Python, Node.js, AWS and Azure, you’ll have opportunities to deepen your expertise, explore new areas, and grow your career.
This role offers flexibility to be based from our Altrincham (Manchester) or Westminster (London) offices, where you’ll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team environment, supported by our hybrid working approach.
Role Responsibilities
This is a varied role that requires adaptability, ambition, and a proactive approach in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will:
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Own delivery of services: Take responsibility for the engineering and delivery of small-to-medium services (or major components of larger services) across the full lifecycle, from design and build through to deployment, operation and continual improvement.
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Lead on architecture and design: Take ownership of the end-to-end design of components or services, producing and maintaining high-quality documentation. Collaborate with Lead and Principal Engineers, and practitioners from disciplines such as UCD and Data Science, to review and refine designs and translate them into robust implementations.
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Support delivery planning: Partner with Delivery Managers to plan and structure technical activities, provide accurate and commercially sound estimates, and proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, issues and dependencies.
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Build stakeholder trust: Act as a trusted technical advisor to client counterparts, partner organisations and third parties, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical delivery.
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Mentor and develop others: Provide guidance and technical leadership to colleagues, supporting their professional growth, fostering high-quality delivery, and enabling the team to work efficiently and confidently.
Requirements
Essential Skills
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5+ years’ proven experience in a Full Stack Engineering role, with advanced skills in .NET, Java or Python, plus modern JavaScript libraries.
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Experience taking ownership of delivery for services or significant components across the full lifecycle from design to operation.
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Strong understanding of architectural and design patterns, including serverless and microservices, with the ability to lead and assure their application.
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Experience working in Agile environments, using Scrum, Kanban and test-driven development (TDD), and contributing to delivery planning and estimation.
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Experience mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers, providing guidance and enabling high-quality, efficient delivery.
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Proven experience engaging with clients, taking ownership of technical decisions and delivery outcomes, and building trusted relationships.
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Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), delivering scalable, secure and well-architected solutions.
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Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or Terraform.
Desirable Skills
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Experience working in a consultancy environment, engaging with external stakeholders and clients.
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Exposure to public sector projects and delivering solutions in complex organisational landscapes.
Senior colleagues, experts, and leaders at Informed Solutions are committed to supporting, coaching, upskilling, and enabling the success and career progression of each other.
There are some foundation areas, however, which you need to possess to be able to successfully contribute to your team and work alongside others.
Key abilities that are necessary for success
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Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty, change, and agile working.
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Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
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Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to respect and accept different perspectives and disagreement, work collaboratively in diverse teams, and maintain positive working relationships.
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Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others.
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Good communication skills, including clear, constructive written outputs and measured, respectful verbal delivery.
We work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving innovation and problem-solving workplace environment where no two days are the same. This requires you to have the foundations of personal resilience, professional adaptability, and flexibility in working alongside others with a positive mindset.
We appreciate that this workplace culture and the level of variety won’t suit everyone. However, after significant consultations with colleagues at all levels, we understand that these are the fundamentals of success in undertaking the complex, innovation work which is the DNA of Informed Solutions.
These shared foundations are important to team cohesion, performance, and mutual personal support.
As colleagues, we thrive in successfully problem solving together to deliver real-world impact; and value the variety of challenges and opportunities to learn, grow, and progress on a personal and professional level.
What You’ll Gain
At Informed Solutions, you’ll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact while advancing your career. You’ll gain:
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Ownership and influence: Lead the delivery of services, shape technical direction, and influence project outcomes at a senior level.
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Professional growth: Develop your leadership and mentoring skills, guiding colleagues and helping them thrive.
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Exposure to high-profile projects: Work on enterprise-scale digital solutions that improve public services and have societal impact.
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Technical development: Expand your expertise across a wide range of modern technologies, including cloud, microservices and serverless architectures.
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Collaborative, supportive environment: Join a team that values learning, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
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Career progression: Opportunities to grow within a consultancy setting, broadening your client-facing experience and technical leadership.
Benefits
Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.
These can include:
- InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
- Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
- Hybrid working*
- Private Health Care Cover*
- Generous life assurance cover*
- Gym Membership*
- Monthly office lunch
- Onsite massage sessions
- 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
- Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
- Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
- Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
- Company Pension Contribution
- Profit Share Scheme
- Payment of professional subscriptions
- Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
- Qualifying period applies
Culture
We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.
We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.
We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.
Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.
We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.
