Lead Developer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong background leading technical environments, release pipelines, and deployment strategy.
• Demonstrated experience with environment configuration management and system patching, with NEC experience preferred.
• Hands-on expertise testing, troubleshooting, and signing off on third-party API integrations.
• Solid understanding of data governance, migration assurance, and database security practices.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of environment management, deployment pipelines, integration stability, and data security across our NEC ecosystem and core technical platforms.
• Safeguard ecosystem health across all development and production environments.
• Drive high standards for release management, quality assurance, integration reliability, and data governance.
• Monitor performance, system health, and overall stability across all environments, including Dev, Test, Pre-Prod, Training, and Prod.
• Maintain strict configuration consistency across all environments and NEC modules to eliminate deployment, data, or overriding conflicts.
• Lead technical engagement in NEC calls, tracking environment updates, system patches, and development pipeline activities.
• Coordinate deployment schedules, maintenance windows, and release sign-offs across cross-functional delivery teams.
• Define, document, and execute reliable rollback strategies and emergency fix procedures for failed releases.
• Test, troubleshoot, and formally sign off on third-party APIs and custom integrations.
• Establish strict quality stage gates and mandatory technical sign-offs throughout the release cycle.
• Oversee data migrations, performing rigorous quality assurance and data integrity checks.
• Ensure sensitive data protection and masking protocols when cloning Production databases into non-production and training environments.

Technologies:

• API
• Security
• Windows

More:

We are recruiting a Lead Developer on behalf of the London Borough of Hackney for a technical leadership role focused on environment management, deployment pipelines, integration stability, and data security across our NEC ecosystem and core technical platforms. We will be looking for someone who can help us deliver seamless releases, robust system performance, and strong data governance across development and production environments. Commercial Services Trading Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

last updated 38 week of 2026