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Senior Systems Developer - Housing

Hays TechnologyOldham, Lancashire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 3 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers significant career growth as you'll drive digital transformation and mentor a team within a reputable organization. You'll thrive here if you have strong development and integration experience, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and want to contribute to impactful projects. Apply now to shape future technology solutions and develop your skills in a collaborative environment.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Our client, a leading organisation undergoing significant digital transformation, is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Developer to play a key role in the development, integration, and modernisation of critical business systems.This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative technology team and contribute to a major systems transformation programme, working across business critical applications and integrations while helping shape future technology solutions.


As a Senior Systems Developer, you will be responsible for the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. You will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, and third party suppliers to deliver high quality solutions and resolve complex technical challenges. You will have the opportunity to:-

  • Design, develop, maintain and support enterprise applications and integrations.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical and business critical issues.
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation and system designs.
  • Mentor and support a small team of 3 developers.
  • Contribute to project delivery within Agile, Scrum, Waterfall or DevOps environments.


If you possess a combination of the following skills, then LET'S TALK!

  • Knowledge of Housing, Repairs or Property Management systems
  • Strong software development and systems integration experience.
  • Commercial experience with technologies such as SQL, .NET, C#, Java, Python, PHP, XML, HTML or similar is advantageous.
  • Experience working with enterprise platforms including ERP, CRM, Azure and cloud-based technologies.
  • Experience gathering requirements, designing solutions, coding, testing and deployment.
  • Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Previous leadership or mentoring experience would be highly advantageous.
  • Familiarity with NEC or similarly complex operational environments is highly desirable.


What's On Offer?

  • Opportunity to join a large scale transformation programme
  • Exposure to modern technologies and cloud platforms
  • Excellent career development and progression opportunities
  • Comprehensive benefits package


If you're a technically strong Senior Developer looking for your next challenge and want to play a pivotal role in a major transformation journey, we'd love to hear from you.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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Skills

PHP
SQL
Scrum
Agile
Azure
C#
.NET
HTML
Java
Python
Stakeholder Management

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