Java Developer

Company

Innovate UK

Location

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Posted At

8/27/2025

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Description

Details Reference number 424883 Salary £45,272 A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP Job grade Senior Executive Officer UKRI Band E Contract type Permanent Business area IUK - Software Development Type of role Information Technology Working pattern Full-time Number of jobs available 1 Contents

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Location Swindon (Hybrid Working) About the job Job summary

Context

The Innovation Funding Service is currently undergoing a wealth of implementation programmes including adding support for new Government initiatives and investigating how AI solutions could be utilised. The goal is to improve productivity and security, automate processes and improve customer experience.

We particularly welcome female applicants as women are under-represented within Innovate UK in this type of role.

Job Purpose

As an experienced Software Developer, the role holder will work in-house contributing to the development of a number of different systems for IUK. With a passion for cutting-edge technology, the role holder will provide technical input and innovation to ensure appropriate solutions are in place to meet business requirements. Utilising their strong technical skills, the role holder will provide quality solutions to the business through the use of existing standards and technologies. They will need to have an aptitude to pick up new skills quickly and work with other developers within the team and other areas of the organization.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

A Java Developer delivers software components that form part of an IUK product. In this role, you will:

Write clean, secure and well-tested code
Follow best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines
Operate the services and identify issues in the live environment
Coach and mentor more junior colleagues

This is not an exhaustive list and you might be encouraged to undertake any other duties across the wider directorate, commensurate with the Band and level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the key experience and/or training.

Skills Needed For This Role

Availability and capacity management. You can manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
Development process optimisation. You can explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised. You can support specific activities to improve development processes. You can spot or identify obvious deficiencies.
Information security. You can discuss information security. You can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
Modern standards approach. You can competently use modern standards approach and guide others in so doing.
Programming and build (software engineering). You collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium complexity, using the correct standards and tools.
Prototyping. You see prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You establish design patterns and iterate them. You know a variety of methods of prototyping and can choose the most appropriate one.
Service support. You can help fix faults following agreed procedures. You can carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
Systems design. You can translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs. You know how to document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate. You can design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact. You can work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.
Systems integration. You can build and test simple interfaces between systems, or work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.
User focus. You know how to collaborate with user researchers, business analysts and product owners and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.

Person specification

Person Specification

Experience & Qualifications:

(S) Assessed at shortlisting

(I) Assessed at interview

(S&I) Assessed at both shortlisting and interview

A degree in Computer Science or a related subject is not essential but is desirable. It is more important to be able to demonstrate projects you have worked on and your role in them (S&I)
Demonstrable experience designing, coding, testing, debugging Java 8 / Java 17 based systems (S&I)
Previous work in an agile software development environment within SCRUM teams (S&I)
Skills in back-end/front end web technologies: Thymeleaf, JSP, HTML, CSS, etc (S&I)
Experience developing Spring Boot / MVC microservices (S&I)
Knowledge of Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using Gradle / Maven (S&I)
Familiar with Git or other source control systems, including branching, merging, etc (S&I)
Good knowledge of RDBMS including data modelling, SQL scripts, stored procedures (S&I)

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication
Strong task planning and delivery
Care, accuracy and attention to detail
Self-awareness
High levels of professionalism
A self-starter with strong motivation to succeed
Excellent problem-solving with a can-do approach

Benefits Alongside your salary of £45,272, Innovate UK contributes £13,115 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Employee Benefits

We offer a benefits package crafted to provide an excellent work/life balance. This includes 30 days annual leave, 10.5 public and privilege days, flexible working hours, an exceptional defined benefit pension scheme, and access to a variety of support networks and discount schemes.

Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Flexible Working

We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants.

Things you need to know Selection process details

How To Apply

For full details, please visit our careers site. Please submit an application including your CV and a Cover Letter that showcases how your skills and experience align to the requirements of the role.

A well thought through application providing evidence and examples of how you meet the advertised essential and desirable criteria for the post will be considered far more favourably than a generic covering letter and CV.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements Working for the Civil Service Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. Diversity and Inclusion The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy . Apply and further information Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Contact point for applicants Job contact :

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