Senior Software Developer

Job Title: Senior Software Developer

Location: Remote (South England)

Estimated Duration: 6 months

Weekly hours : 40 hours

Engagement Type: Outside IR35-Limited contract

Rate: £500 - £600 per day

Job Description:

Our Client is an Energy technology company are seeking to recruit Senior Software Developer and this is a Remote role. The role is for a contract position of 6 months Outside IR35. Our client has 150-year legacy of innovation and will focus on energy transformation, new technologies, decarbonization and Innovative leading-edge technology.

Role:

Role Overview

This is a 6 month contractor assignment for an experienced Senior Software Developer with a strong focus on business analysis and pre-development solution shaping within a finance environment. The role is designed to provide short-term, high-impact support to Finance and Digital teams by ensuring business needs are clearly understood, analysed and translated into actionable requirements before development begins.

Key Responsibilities

• Senior Software Developer will engage with Accounting, Controlling and FP&A stakeholders to elicit, clarify and challenge requirements before software development starts.
• Analyse current-state and target-state finance processes, identifying inefficiencies, risks and opportunities for simplification.
• Translate business needs into clear, prioritised functional and non-functional requirements suitable for delivery teams.
• Act as the initial gatekeeper for new requirements and incidents, ensuring they are well-defined, value-driven and technically feasible.
• Design pragmatic, sustainable technical solutions aligned to enterprise standards and long-term maintainability.
• Provide hands-on senior development input where required, maintaining a solution-level view across the application landscape.
• Review existing applications and integrations to assess alignment with business intent and recommend improvements.
• Ensure business logic is transparent, documented and testable to support auditability and compliance.
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore teams to ensure shared understanding of business context and priorities.
• Support release, deployment and governance activities, escalating risks and dependencies as appropriate.
• Identify opportunities to simplify finance processes, reduce manual effort and improve transparency through digital solutions.
• Provide focused ad-hoc analysis and insight to support prioritisation and decision-making during the assignment.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience as a senior software developer in complex, enterprise environments.
• Strong capability in business analysis within technology-led initiatives.
• Proven ability to engage confidently with senior finance stakeholders and translate business problems into technical direction.
• Solid understanding of finance, accounting or controlling processes and data flows.
• Experience with modern development and delivery practices including cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• An outcome-focused, pragmatic mindset with the ability to deliver value quickly in a time-bound contractor engagement.
• Software tool: Ruby on Rails experience