Software Developer

This is a Hands-on engineering role for someone who delivers and integrates software to form a complete service. The role is ideal for someone who wants to:

• Plan and lead development and testing of sets of related stories
• Have an understanding of the whole service and take responsibility for sharing your expertise with others
• Work with other disciplines with the product team to understand user needs, and shape technical solutions to meet them
• Operate the production services you build, including collaboration with test engineers to test new functionality and resolve defects and release changes to published versions.
• Work in an agile way to make iterative improvements for robustness, resilience, stability and usability of products and services
• Contribute to team/ DDaT ways of working, including agile ceremonies, stand ups, show and tells and retrospectives

Do you have experience in VBA?, * Experience in Excel and VBA for productised, macro enabled forms: modular architecture, defensive error handling, performance tuning on large workbooks, and secure signing/distribution.

• Experience keeping validation rules in sync across a spreadsheet and an ingest/upload service (incl. error playback), with a controlled versioning approach tied to a governed data model
• Designed and delivered public facing Excel artefacts that meet GDS expectations (accessibility, content design, service assessment readiness) in agile, research led teams.
• Strong Azure DevOps habits for work tracking, branching, code reviews, CI like packaging/publishing of .xlsm artefacts and release notes.
• Able to competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so.
• Experience in cloud technology, ideally Azure including Functions, Logic Apps, Power Query, Power Pivot/ Data Models, Power Automate and VD script are desirable
• Experience in Agile ways of working, able to apply Agile values and principles in practice. Able to collaborate with UCD roles and product manager to solve problems and user needs

Desirable skills

• Power Query / Power Pivot / Data Models for richer validation/transform.

Salary starting from: Salary: £47,040 - £60,106 per annum, dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package. Candidates with exceptional expertise may be considered towards the upper end of the range., We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment. Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government's workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section. We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another. About The Pensions Regulator With a career at TPR, you'll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We're committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society., TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.