Senior Software Engineer

General information

Reference

002076  

Publication start date

26/11/2025

Publication end date

10/12/2025

Post Description

Senior Software Engineer

Vacancy location

Location

South West, Gloucestershire, Rosehill - Hybrid

Vacancy details

Job Profile

Digital Services - Technical Teams

Title

Senior Software Engineer

Contract Type

Full Time

About us

About UCAS

UCAS is at the heart of connecting people to higher education.

 

UCAS is the world’s leading shared admissions service for higher education. We provide application services for UK universities and colleges as well as delivering a wide range of research, consultancy and advisory services to schools, colleges, careers services, professional bodies and employers.

 

We’re a successful and fast-growing organisation, which helps hundreds of thousands of people every year. We're committed to delivering a first-class service to all of our customers — they're at the heart of everything we do.

Business Unit description

The Digital Services business unit is at the heart of UCAS’ technical innovation, data and infrastructure. It focuses on leveraging data science, technology, and enterprise architecture to enhance UCAS' digital products and services.

 

The unit is dedicated to developing and improving customer-centric digital solutions, ensuring seamless and secure online experiences for all users. By providing insightful data and analysis, often made available to anyone with free-to-use intuitive dashboard, Digital Services empowers the Higher Education sector and those interested in the sector with valuable information to make informed decisions. By working in collaborative, expert led, multi-disciplinary teams, Digital Services drives UCAS’ mission to connect students with their next opportunities through advanced technological solutions.

About the role

Contractual Hours

35.00

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer is the key development and technical specialist resource for the team, responsible for developing and delivering software solutions in line with UCAS’ Corporate and IT strategy. They maintain a detailed knowledge of existing UCAS applications and systems while work alongside other Senior Software Engineers to ensure compliance with UCAS coding and design standards.

 

Key accountabilities:

• Provide technical leadership and innovation, utilising advanced technical skills.


• Accountable for the development of quality solutions based on technical requirements, leading projects and/or project teams as required.

• Provide coaching, mentoring support and feedback to team members in key technologies and developments, to improve general skill set of the team and increase knowledge of solutions.

• Code/configure and document complex solutions from supplied specifications, using agreed standards and tools, and conduct reviews with others as appropriate.

• Define and maintain coding and best practice standards and documentation guidelines.

• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of cloud technologies, design principles, architectures, and software.

• Analyse data requirements to establish, modify, and maintain object/data models

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for related technologies and understand the interactions between the systems.

 

 

For a full job description please see the attached role profile.

Skills, qualifications, and experience

• Educated to degree level in relevant computing discipline or able to demonstrate an equivalent level of professional experience.

• Substantial experience of developing enterprise level .Net applications.

• Significant experience leading and designing solutions

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively to both non-technical and technical audiences

• Experience of working successfully in a dynamic, large-scale agile department with multiple technologies.

• Significant experience developing solutions for the cloud.

• Highly p