Senior Software Developer (Java), HEO, Perm, Liverpool/ Newport

Do you want to use your Java expertise to build software that protects the public and strengthens trust in charities?

Join a mission-driven engineering team where modern tech, meaningful impact, and professional growth come together.

Collaborate to innovate and develop high-quality services used nationwide to improve transparency and support a thriving charity sector?

In this role, you will design, build, and maintain software that meets user needs, producing clean, secure, and well-tested code. You’ll work within agile or waterfall delivery frameworks, depending on the project, and follow robust peer-review processes to ensure quality and consistency.

As part of our collaborative team, you’ll work closely with colleagues across the DDaT directorate and partner with teams across the wider Charity Commission. Your work will directly support our organisational goals and contribute to the delivery of our overall strategy.

You will also help strengthen the team by coaching and mentoring junior developers, sharing knowledge, and supporting capability building across the function.

A key responsibility will be operating and maintaining Charity Commission systems. This includes proactively identifying issues in production environments and ensuring services are reliable, secure, and aligned with the Government Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice.

This role is ideal for a developer who enjoys solving meaningful problems, improving ways of working, and contributing to impactful public-sector services., The main things you will be doing are:

• Planning and running user research that delivers real insight, using the right methods, involving your multidisciplinary team, and turning findings into clear, actionable guidance.
• Embedding research into agile delivery, working closely with designers, product managers and developers to support iterative design and ensure user needs drive each stage of development.
• Championing inclusive research, ensuring a diverse range of users take part in studies and helping create services that are accessible and usable for everyone.
• Strengthening our research practice, defining the scope of studies, applying good standards, seeking guidance when needed, and continually improving how we work.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders, communicating research effectively, influencing decisions with evidence, and helping align organisational priorities with user needs., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture, We will assess your experience, strengths and the following Behaviours at Interview stage:
• Changing and improving
• Seeing the big picture
• Delivering at pace

You will also be asked to carry out a presentation at interview. This will be on a prepared topic and will assess your knowledge and experience.

Interview Arrangements

Interviews will be taking place Face to Face in our Bootle office.

The sift is due to take place 22/04/2026.

Interviews will be held on 07/05/2026.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

At the interview, the panel can then probe further and ask applicants to provide further specific examples that show how they best demonstrate their skills., If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled persons, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes., * 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

Ability:

• Ability to design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure Dynamics 365 systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex deployment issues.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (developers, QA, operations).
• Capacity to work in agile environments, adapting to changing priorities.
• Ability to document processes and communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong focus on automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

Experience:

• Proven experience in Dynamics 365 CE, including integration with other systems and proficiency with Power Pages and Power Automate.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for build and release management.
• Demonstrated experience in MS Dynamics 365 development and deployment.
• Familiarity with GitHub for source control and collaborative development.
• Exposure to automated testing frameworks and integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Previous experience in cloud environments (preferably Azure) and infrastructure as code.

Technical:

• Dynamics 365 CE: Customer Service, Omnichannel, Knowledge, (optional) Sales; Dataverse solution management; Power Pages for portals.
• Power Platform: Power Apps (model-driven), Power Automate for orchestration, Power BI for dashboards.
• Azure: Logic Apps, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Key Vault; secure integration patterns used in government deliveries.
• Languages/tools: C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET, HTML/CSS; SQL (data migration/ETL); Azure DevOps/Git.
• Understanding of GDS standards and secure deployment approaches for public sector services using Dynamics., The distinguishing Behaviours (the required skills, knowledge, and behaviours) for this role are set out in the Success Profiles: Civil Service behaviours (Success Profiles - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)) and should be referred to when making this application.

You are required, under the Behaviours approach, to describe how you have dealt with a specific situation.

You must give evidence of your knowledge, skills, and behaviours and how you have applied this, such as what you did or said and how you interacted with other people.

When you are giving your examples, do not spend too many words on description and background information. Avoid using general or unspecific statements. Instead say what the situation was, what you did, what your thought process was and what was the result.

This post is full time however those applicants who do or wish to work an alternative working pattern are welcome to apply. The preferred working pattern may or may not be available. You should discuss this with the vacancy holder., Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Alongside your salary of £35,384, Charity Commission contributes £10,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Alongside your salary, Charity Commission contributes towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

This is your chance to make a contribution that really matters and to make an impact in an organisation where your voice will be heard and your hard work noticed.

Watch this short video to find out more about us.

We operate a flexible hybrid working policy where office attendance is combined with at least 3 days homeworking per week dependent on role requirements.

We recognise everyone as an individual, accepting people for who they are and treating everyone fairly. We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring from all backgrounds and we aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We champion inclusion and wellbeing, aiming to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and has a sense of belonging.

We do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

We offer access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme (employer contributions of 28.97%), far more than in the private sector, and a flexible, family-friendly environment. Additionally you can look forward to other great benefits via our ‘Perkbox’ and ‘Edenred’ schemes. These include everything from an interest-free season ticket loan and bicycle loan (after two months) to discounts on gym membership, cinema tickets and restaurants. Please see the attached Charity Commission benefits document.

A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days per year. You have the opportunity to purchase up to an additional 5 days annual leave (pro rata) per year, requests must be submitted in the February of that year.

The Charity Commission’s operational ambition is to realise the Commission’s values of being an expert regulator that is fair, balanced, and independent, which works in a way that is supportive, collaborative, and innovative to achieve our ambitions. We want to develop our capability to regulate charities to realise this goal and meet our statutory and public duties to ensure that charity in England and Wales can deliver maximum benefit to society in a way that upholds its reputation in the eyes of the public.

Work at the Charity Commission and you’ll make a difference every day to:

• The 170,000 charities of all shapes and sizes that we regulate across England and Wales.
• The trustees we partner with and advise.
• The people and causes that benefit from the £10bn generously donated each year by the public.

Find out more about working for us here., The Charity Commission’s recruitment processes are underpinned by the Civil Service Commissioner’s Recruitment Principles, which outlines that selection for appointment is made on merit based on fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the values in the Civil Service Code and/or if you feel the recruitment has been conducted in such a way that conflicts with the Civil Service Commissioner’s Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance hrselfservice@charitycommission.gov.uk.