NEC Lead Developer

Overview

In this Lead Developer role, you own the housing and asset management technology estate, ensuring stability, performance and security across environments. You will steer configuration, deployments, integrations and data governance while collaborating with technical teams, suppliers and stakeholders. You drive best practices across the software lifecycle to deliver reliable services and robust change controls. This position combines hands-on development with strategic oversight to support a mission-critical platform. Your work shapes how the authority delivers housing and asset management services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for configuration and management of housing and asset management systems across development, test, training, pre-prod and production environments
• Monitor system health, performance and availability; coordinate upgrades and configuration changes with vendors
• Manage deployment schedules, maintenance and release approvals; develop rollback and recovery procedures
• Lead testing, troubleshooting and validation of integrations and APIs; implement quality controls and sign-off processes
• Oversee data migration, quality and integrity; ensure controls for sensitive information and compliance with governance standards

Key requirements

• Extensive experience configuring, maintaining and supporting enterprise business systems
• Strong expertise in environment management, releases, upgrades and deployment pipelines
• Experience testing and assuring third-party integrations and APIs
• Understanding of data governance, migration assurance, security controls and best practices
• Excellent stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams
• Proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset

• stakeholder management
• proactive problem-solving
• continuous improvement
• environment management
• release management
• deployment pipelines

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