Application Development Manager

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Key Information

Job title: Application Development Manager 

Salary:  £74,238 to £87,500                                                          Grade: 3

Contract type: TfL                                                                         Reference: 1876  

Team: Revenue Application Development                                     Directorate: TfL Corporate 

Contract details: Permanent                                                         Location: Pier Walk/Hybrid 

Application closing date: Wednesday 1st October 2025 

You’ll influence the lives of millions 

Join us, and you could soon be using best practices such as TDD, CI & CD to deliver software that’s used by millions of Londoners every day.

You’ll be working on our customer facing websites and APIs. We’ll rely on you to develop systems that are elegant, robust and can handle very high throughput.

You’ll be responsible for leading multiple agile software development teams in the Revenue business area of Technology Development. That means you’ll be involved in activities such as refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily scrums. You’ll work with other teams to produce coordinated and integrated high-quality working software. 

You’ll get to use every bit of your expertise 

Constantly looking for better ways to develop software and experienced in developing high profile public applications, you will have strong experience of: 

• Managing developers across multiple scrum teams
• Helping build careers through mentoring and coaching
• Recruitment of software developers
• Delivering secured software solutions using Agile methodology

You will be a technical expert in the following: 

• C#, .NET development 
• Rest APIs
• Typescript
• HTML/CSS
• Frontend web technologies such as React or similar framework
• Database technologies such as SQL Server
• Microsoft Azure services such as Function App, Service bus, Event hub, APIM, Azure Storage, Azure DevOps

It would be highly desirable if you’ve also had experience in the following:

• Project, stakeholder, and budget management experience
• Understanding of front-end and accessibility standards (i.e. WCAG)

If you can bring excellent communication skills and a flair for analysing complex systems and coming up with effective solutions to problems, you're someone we'd like to talk to. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. 
 
Benefits  
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
 
Final salary pension scheme 
Free travel for you on the TfL network 
Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays 
TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional) 
Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
Retail, health, leisure and travel offers 
Discounted Eurostar travel
 

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4 week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements. 

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.