VolkerWessels UK is a market leading contracting group of five closely linked businesses.
We provide integrated and ground-breaking solutions for the civil engineering and construction sectors, with specialisms in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.
We’re looking for a hands‑on Lead Developer to shape our engineering direction and guide a talented development team. If you thrive on solving complex technical challenges, enjoy mentoring others, and want to influence modern cloud‑based solutions at scale, this is a fantastic opportunity.
You’ll lead the design and delivery of high‑quality software built on Azure, working with technologies such as C#, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, and Infrastructure as Code. You’ll champion engineering best practice, support architectural decisions, and help drive continuous improvement across the team.
Collaboration is at the heart of this role. You’ll work closely with Product Owners, QA, architects, and cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions — while supporting developers through coaching, guidance, and technical leadership. Please note that this is a permanent, full time role based at our Hoddesdon office.
About you
- Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Developer, with strong hands‑on expertise in Azure Functions (C#), event‑driven design, and serverless architectures
- Technical capability across:
- Designing, developing, and deploying scalable, maintainable software solutions
- Building Azure Logic Apps, workflows, connectors, and enterprise integrations
- Core Azure services including Service Bus, Key Vault, Storage, API Management, Front Door/Application Gateway, VNETs, Subnets, and IAM
- Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform and/or Terragrunt)
- Git/GitFlow using GitHub or Azure DevOps, and modern CI/CD practices
- Cloud testing approaches, including automated and integration testing
- Working within enterprise‑level software environments
- Coaching and mentoring - demonstrable experience of providing guidance, coaching and mentoring supporting a team of developers
- Project Delivery – experience of working across product owners, test teams and cross functional project teams to ensure successful delivery
- Collaboration and stakeholder management – experience of collaborating across different stakeholder groups
- Communication skills – effective communication skills
If your past experience doesn’t match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.
Why work with us?
VolkerWessels UK operate through five separate, but complementary businesses, working in collaboration and using our specialist skills to deliver an integrated service for our clients. At any one time, our people are working on our sites or in our offices, for around 250 projects across the UK. Everyday we overcome challenges, fulfilling our commitments, no matter what. That’s what our business is about, that’s how our people find satisfaction in their jobs.
We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.
We offer a range of benefits, including:
- Competitive salary
- Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
- Option to buy additional annual leave
- Private medical care
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
- Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
- Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mental health, physical health, and financial support
- 24/7 Virtual GP service
Fairness, inclusion and respect
We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.
If you need support with your application, please contact us at careers@volkerwessels.co.uk
Additional information
Note for Recruitment Agencies:
Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.
We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed to careers@volkerwessels.co.uk
VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.
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