Senior Software Developer - Welsh Revenue Authority - SEO

Our work raises revenue to support public services, like the NHS and schools, in communities across Wales. But that’s not all, we're also involved with and support future tax design for Wales. 

We’re responsible for Land Transaction Tax and Landfill Disposals Tax. Our work raises revenue to support public services, like the NHS and schools, in communities across Wales. But that’s not all, we're also involved with and support future tax design for Wales. 

Join a place with purpose 
You’ll join a team of 100+ talented people from across 14 different professions. Our culture is best described as innovative, collaborative and kind. 

By working together, we’ll deliver a fair tax system for Wales. 

You’ll be working with… 

Our people come from a wide range of backgrounds and experience. From Operations, Policy, Digital and Data, HR, Communications to Finance – there’s a place for you in our friendly team.  

You’ll be our greatest asset

When you join us, you’ll be part of a fair and inclusive team where you can thrive, be rewarded and heard. 

We’ve consistently featured in the top 3 for people engagement in the Civil Service People Survey. Inclusion and fairness are our most strongest scoring areas – see our latest People Survey results. 

And we’re recognised for our innovation as a digital ‘cloud-based’ organisation that supports hybrid and flexible working that enables a great work-life balance. 

More about working for us, our roles and our corporate plan 2025-2028 .

Job description

The Senior Software Developer will sit within the WRA’s Digital & Technology function, working as part of a multi-disciplinary digital team. The Digital & Technology team are responsible for the delivery of all IT-related services within the WRA by providing infrastructure, applications and services.

You will be responsible for building and supporting software to meet the needs of both internal and external users. This includes front end applications and back end .NET API services.

You will design, code and correct programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.

You will be able to apply modern standards and guide others to do so.

You will design solutions with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature.

You will collaborate with our user researchers and can represent users internally, championing user research to focus on all users.

“We are one of the first fully cloud based organisations and this is an exciting time for us as we have the opportunity to design and develop services for devolved taxes.”

Alun Lee - Digital Lead

Person specification

Solve business problems and design Understand the business problem which needs to be solved, and engaging with others across the  organisation to design and implement an appropriate solution
Manage our apprentice and junior developers
Develop software to meet user needs, this may include designing a new system or iterating existing services
Follow best-practice guidelines, and write clean code
Build secure applications that are subject to regular IT security health checks, making improvements on recommendations and tracking changes
Identify issues in production and resolve them
Control releases using CI/CD tools and provide post-live support
Provide ongoing support for the applications and services you build
Escalate problems and issues as they arise to the Lead Developer

Languages

The following list of language requirements represents an objective assessment of the Welsh language skills required to undertake the duties of this post:
Welsh language skills Welsh skills are desirable
Reading 0 = No skills
Spoken 0 = No skills
Understanding 0 = No skills
Written 0 = No skills

Welsh desirable means that having Welsh language skills would be useful in this role, but it is not an assessment criteria so it won’t put you at any disadvantage during recruitment if you aren’t a Welsh speaker. We support all staff to learn or improve their Welsh language skills once they join us.