Location Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Darlington, North East England, DL1 5QE : Manchester, North West England, M1 2WD : Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, S1 2FJ About the job Job summary These are exciting times at the Department for Education. In 2026 we''ll continue to build more user-centred digital services for all our users, children, adults, and those in social care. As a senior software developer, you will be part of a team responsible for developing and supporting scalable, secure, and high-quality user-centric digital services. Working with senior colleagues, you will lead team members on the design and build of digital services and will work closely with colleagues within multidisciplinary agile teams, that focus on delivering work iteratively and at pace. You will innovate to radically transform how public services are delivered and improved. If you are successful, you will be working in The Data Capture and Ingestion Team within Data Directorate. We''re on a mission to radically improve how public services are delivered and experienced-and data is at the heart of this transformation. We provide a full range of capabilities including data sourcing, management, governance, sharing, statistics, and visualisation, supporting users across the Department for Education (DfE), the education sector, cross-government, and the public. Data Capture and Ingestion (DCI) team plays a pivotal role in supporting over 50 DfE data collections developed using ..... full job details .....