Full Stack Developer
Full Stack Developer position will report to the DSO Data Science & Development Manager and will work within DSO Directorate based in either our London or Ipswich office. This is a permanent employee role.
You will attract a salary depending on your skills, qualifications and experience and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) — 3 days in the office and 2 remote.
Close Date: 23/11/2025
Benefits
* 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
* Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid.
* Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%).
* Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan.
* Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes.
* Occupational Health support.
* Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products.
* Discounted gym membership.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
Job Purpose
UK Power Networks Distribution System Operator (DSO) is ensuring the net zero transition for all. The DSO is harnessing data to unlock huge amounts of value to critical players in the energy sector, such as large renewable energy developers and generators, flexibility markets, local authorities, connections specialists, the National Energy System Operator, academics and others. Our role is to help everyone to participate in the future of energy.
Responsibilities
* Design and develop production‑ready code bases for software, databases, reporting scripts, and external releases following partner needs.
* Work with a variety of company partners including planning, operations, and markets teams in the DSO and external partners including developers, flex providers, operators, academics, etc., to build meaningful and valuable software, tools and datasets.
* Deliver software/data outcomes that meet partner requirements and DSO goals achieved through excellent expectation management, creative solutions and a healthy relationship with customer service.
* Ensure code quality through best practices (testing, documentation, modularity).
* Participate in automated deployment, scheduling, monitoring and CI/CD.
* Version control and collaborative coding via Git.
* Build data ETL where relevant for both internal datasets and for open data release.
* Integrate with central IS Azure Data Lake and Databricks.
* Write data design documents, ensure governance of data while working with Cyber security teams, architecture teams and the enterprise data management team.
* Work independently (where relevant) and to deadlines.
* Operate within budget and be as cost‑effective as possible.
* Develop domain knowledge of the Distribution Network Operator (DNO), DSO and IT and infrastructure perspective. Domain knowledge is not a pre‑requisite.
Experience
* Experience operating within a business environment managing partner expectations.
* Expertise with Python software development, focusing on production‑ready code, webapps and APIs, with tangible evidence from relevant experience in industry.
* Expertise with software best practices, demonstrated with experience in frequently used / custom open‑source frameworks such as Flask/Django/Dash, test‑driven development, and DevOps aspects such as testing, versioning, dependencies, redundancies, defensive coding, documentation.
* Expertise with version control software such as Git and experience with its CI/CD pipelining.
* Experience of collaborative code projects with multiple contributors using git versioning at the same time.
* Experience with DevOps strategies and practices especially in Hybrid environments.
* Experience with containerisation, ideally on creating custom images and how to deploy in clusters for different type of applications and orchestration of the containers based on the application.
* Experience with low‑level operations of operating systems, specifically Linux and Redhat Linux.
* Experience in at least one cloud provider and deploying infrastructure as code.
* High IT and Computer Science competency, cloud‑based environments, version control, programming languages, data pipelines, data exploration, data visualisation (static, interactive), code scalability.
* Experience deploying applied code bases.
* Experience delivering for internal/external partners product management with experience in project work and continuous development.
Qualifications
Essential: Degree level qualification in computer science or similar or demonstrated equivalent industrial experience.
Skills
* Gather requirements, convert them to specifications and develop solutions to customer needs and challenges and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
* Structure problems or requirements in an uncertain environment and develop well‑seasoned and evidenced solutions.
* Work and collaborate at all levels internally and externally.
* Build partnerships and maintain working relationships with staff at all levels of the organisation and representatives of other companies and third parties.
* Prioritise tasks based on our needs, drive forward deliverables and take partners along the delivery. Produce project plans and produce project updates reporting against important metrics and escalating support needs and risks.
* Work independently with the confidence to seek input where needed.
* Be a team player and lead collaboration between team members and wider group of partners.
* A willingness to push for constant improvement for yourself, the team and the company.
Health & Safety Responsibilities
Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.
Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Contact
If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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