Senior Systems Developer - ICT

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Permanent Posting End Date: 02/11/2026

At BUUK Infrastructure, our vision is to be the leading utility partner to accelerate the UK towards net zero for all our customers. Our group of companies has been the major drive for change and innovation over 30 years.

We provide a supportive environment that is committed to enabling our people to be the best – ensuring they feel proud to be themselves and part of BUUK Infrastructure.

We are looking for Senior Systems Developer (Python/PostgreSQL) who would like to help us reach our mission to “earn customer loyalty and drive business growth by providing consistently excellent service”.

Provide well-developed full stack software solutions while using your excellent customer service skills to work with users and change/product owners to ensure solutions are as expected and fit for purpose.

This position requires you to contribute to and promote the relevant support and development processes associated with the product(s) you work with. As a senior developer, your primary responsibilities will be the design, engineering and support of an established product suite. You will also be involved within a larger sphere of IT, contributing towards the development of departmental policies and standards, whilst acting as a role model for your colleagues.

Software Development:
Designs, codes, verifies, tests, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integrations. Contributes to selection of and promotes the chosen development methods, tools and techniques for software delivery.

Customer Focus:
Ensuring customer effort is minimised through exceptional customer service and customer-focussed solutions.

Knowledge Management:
Taking specialist knowledge and formally capturing and classifying that knowledge. Organising and overseeing knowledge sharing ensuring the effective operation of the team and wider business.

Release and Deployment:
Maintains release processes and procedures whilst assessing and analysing release components for input to release scheduling. Maintains and administers tools and methods for software delivery, deployment and configuration.

CI:
Implementing continual improvement in all aspects of the role.

Application Support:
Maintaining and following application support processes for the team to ensure the effects of incidents are minimised and requests are served to expectation.

Leadership:
Proactively contributes specialist expertise and experience to the evolution and implementation of appropriate working practices and culture.

Other Responsibilities:

Any other responsibilities as deemed appropriate by the line manager or hierarchically above.

Degree in IT or equivalent industry experience

System Design:
Experience of designing large or complex systems whilst evaluating functional and non-functional requirements and ensuring that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied.

Software Development:
Experience of adopting and adapting appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Experience of contributing to the development of policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

Release & Deploy:
Experience working with release management software (e.g. Azure Dev Ops or Jenkins) to manage builds and pipelines to achieve continuous integration/delivery.

Version Control:
Experience with version control systems including branching with multiple developers, reviewing others work (e.g. git).

Client-side Development:
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