Full Stack GIS Developer

About us:

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

At a certified Great Place to Work®, you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

The Role:

As a Full Stack GIS Developer at Informed Solutions, you’ll play a key role in shaping, building, and delivering innovative digital solutions that solve complex challenges in the public sector. The work you do will have a real and lasting impact on society, helping to make the UK healthier, safer, and more sustainable.

You’ll be part of an experienced and collaborative team, working on greenfield projects from the ground up and delivering enterprise-scale digital services for high-profile clients across multiple sectors. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work, and you’ll partner closely with colleagues across Software Engineering, User-Centred Design, Delivery Management and Live Services to deliver exceptional outcomes.

As a consultancy, we are proudly technology agnostic. This means our priority is designing the right solution using the most effective tools for the challenge at hand. Our teams work with a wide range of technologies including .NET, Java, Python, Node.js, AWS and Azure, giving you the opportunity to expand your skills, explore new technologies, and grow your career.

Many of our projects also leverage Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and open-source geospatial tools, helping clients unlock the value of location data through innovative mapping and spatial analysis solutions.

This role offers flexibility to be based from our Altrincham (Manchester) or Westminster (London) offices, where you’ll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team environment, supported by our hybrid working approach.

Requirements

Role Responsibilities

This is a varied role that calls for adaptability, ambition, and a proactive approach to working in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will:

• Deliver high-quality solutions: Design, build, and continually improve software, infrastructure, and deployment pipelines for public and private sector clients, ensuring robustness and scalability. Projects may also include solutions with geospatial data, GIS platforms, and open-source mapping technologies.
• Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with Senior and Lead Engineers, Delivery Managers, and colleagues in User-Centred Design and Data Science to shape designs, contribute to documentation, and deliver against agreed plans.
• Ensure standards and best practice: Follow established approaches, provide accurate technical estimates, and escalate risks or issues where required.
• Communicate and build relationships: Present prototypes, solutions, and progress updates clearly to stakeholders, while building strong, collaborative relationships with colleagues, clients, and partner organisations.

Essential Skills

• 3+ years’ proven experience in a Full Stack Engineering role, with strong skills in .NET, Java or Python, plus modern JavaScript libraries.
• A collaborative mindset with experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of architectural and design patterns, including serverless and microservices.
• Hands-on experience working in Agile environments, using Scrum, Kanban and test-driven development (TDD).
• Experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS or Azure, to design and deliver scalable solutions.
• Experience working with GIS systems or geospatial data, and familiarity with open-source mapping tools (e.g. Leaflet, OpenLayers, QGIS, GeoServer, PostGIS).

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience working in a consultancy environment, engaging with external stakeholders and clients.
• Exposure to public sector projects.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or Terraform.
• Awareness of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice, and their application to geospatial systems in public sector projects.

Senior colleagues, experts, and leaders at Informed Solutions are committed to supporting, coaching, upskilling, and enabling the success and career progression of each other.

There are some foundation areas, however, which you need to possess to be able to successfully contribute to your team and work alongside others.

  Key abilities that are necessary for success

• Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty, change, and agile working.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to respect and accept different perspectives and disagreement, work collaboratively in diverse teams, and maintain positive working relationships.
• Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others.
• Good communication skills, including clear, constructive written outputs and measured, respectful verbal delivery.

We work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving innovation and problem-solving workplace environment where no two days are the same. This requires you to have the foundations of personal resilience, professional adaptability, and flexibility in working alongside others with a positive mindset.

We appreciate that this workplace culture and the level of variety won’t suit everyone. However, after significant consultations with colleagues at all levels, we understand that these are the fundamentals of success in undertaking the complex, innovation work which is the DNA of Informed Solutions.

These shared foundations are important to team cohesion, performance, and mutual personal support.

As colleagues, we thrive in successfully problem solving together to deliver real-world impact; and value the variety of challenges and opportunities to learn, grow, and progress on a personal and professional level.

Personal Qualities

• You use your experience to lead, coach and mentor more junior team members.
• You should excel at conveying complex technical concepts in a non-technical manner and facilitate trusted working relationships with stakeholders.
• You should have the ability to work collaboratively, proactively and be flexible in responding to changing needs and priorities.
• Excellent work planning capabilities and time management skills.
• Ability to balance conflicting deadlines and priorities.
• A meticulous attention to detail.
• Punctuality, reliability, and a clear commitment to your role.

What You’ll Gain

At Informed Solutions, you’ll have the chance to make a meaningful impact while accelerating your career. You’ll gain:

• Exposure to high-profile, enterprise-scale projects that improve public services and deliver positive societal outcomes.
• Opportunities to work with a wide range of modern technologies, expanding your technical expertise in areas such as cloud, serverless and microservices.
• A supportive, collaborative environment where knowledge sharing and continuous learning are embedded into our culture.
• Professional development through training, accreditations and certifications to keep your skills sharp and future-ready.
• The opportunity to grow your career in a consultancy setting, building strong client-facing experience alongside technical excellence.

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY™– We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.