Senior Front End Developer - Defence

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations.

Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer
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• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

You will be part of teams working on mission‑critical public sector and defence projects, pushing the boundaries of digital innovation while operating within secure and high‑assurance environments. If you are passionate about crafting exceptional user experiences and thrive in a collaborative, fast‑paced setting, we would love to hear from you.

IBM office location

This will be determined by your home address and the nearest IBM office:
Hursley, Leicester, Manchester, or London.

Client sites

Include Cheltenham, London, and Manchester. You will be required to spend a minimum of three days per week either on client site or at your closest IBM office location, depending on project needs.

• Collaborate closely with UX designers, back‑end engineers, and multidisciplinary delivery teams to define and implement application functionality
• Build prototypes and conduct thorough testing to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve usability and performance issues
• Stay current with emerging front‑end technologies and industry trends, applying them to enhance application performance and user experience
• Maintain clean, efficient code and documentation to support ongoing development and collaboration
• Mentor junior and graduate developers, providing guidance on technical delivery and professional consulting skills

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Front‑end specialist with strong UI focus, with full‑stack experience as needed
• Mandatory skills:
  React, Type Script, Graph
  
  QL, Node, Express, Postgres, Docker,…