HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)
Senior UiPath Software Developer Overview
| Company Name | HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) |
| Job Role | Senior UiPath Software Developer |
| Qualifications | Not specified |
| Category | I |
| Job Type | Full Time |
| Location | East Midlands, East of England, London, North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands… |
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Proven experience designing, building and supporting enterprise automations in UiPath Studio and Orchestrator.
- Monitoring, troubleshooting and fixing failing processes. Building resilience against changes in target applications. Managing robot and licence capacity cost-effectively.
- Using VB.NET (Invoke Code, custom activities) to extend solutions.
- Mentoring developers, setting coding standards and review practice, owning a technical roadmap, and explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Managing credentials and secrets through Orchestrator credential stores or Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID, least-privilege robot accounts, and data protection (UK GDPR). Spotting and raising security risks.
- Strong systems integration skills, including consuming REST APIs over HTTP (methods, headers, authentication such as OAuth 2.0 and bearer tokens, status codes and error handling), working with JSON, and integrating automations with Azure services and other data sources.
Nice to have
We’re seeking a low-code developer with the ability to develop and deploy high-quality code. The ideal candidate will have either:
- Strong hands-on experience with UiPath Studio and UiPath Orchestrator, including the design of automations and reusable workflows.
- Strong systems integration skills, including REST APIs, JSON, data sources and integration with Azure services.
- Experience of application lifecycle management and DevOps practices for Power Platform or UiPath, including environments, solutions, source control and CI/CD.
- A strong understanding of security and governance, data loss prevention policies, Microsoft Entra ID, secrets and credential management, and data protection.
- Leadership capability, with a proven track record of mentoring developers, setting technical standards and improving engineering practice.
- Strong testing and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to use scripting or custom code such as JavaScript, TypeScript or C# when low-code alone is not the right solution.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
£58,511 – £70,725
The national salary range is £58,511 – £65,329, London salary range is £63,343 – £70,725. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
New recruits to the Civil Service joining MoJ are expected to join at the band minimum.
Existing Civil Servants applying on promotion, will usually be appointed on the salary minimum of the new pay band, or receive an increase of 10 percent on the current base salary, whichever is higher (This is restricted to the pay maximum of the new band).
Alongside your salary of £58,511, HM Courts and Tribunals Service contributes £16,950 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance
Visa & relocation
This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship in accordance with the current immigration rules if you are looking to apply for a Skilled Worker Visa for the first time.
The Department cannot consider sponsoring you for this role unless you have held a Skilled Worker visa continuously since before 22 July 2025. If you have held a Skilled Worker visa continuously, please raise this during your vetting checks and eligibility will be assessed in accordance with the immigration rules and transitional provisions in place.
If you are applying for this role and you do not meet the new eligibility criteria for sponsorship (or the transitional provisions), you will need to consider your options for obtaining and/or maintaining your right to work in the UK in light of these changes. Successful applicants must ensure they have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.
The Department will continue to comply with UK Immigration Rules applied in the UK and Civil Service. You can read more about Skilled Worker visas and the eligibility criteria here.
The role
Job Title: Senior UiPath Software Developer
Grade: G7
Directorate: Digital Technology Services (DTS)
Location: London / National
Contract Type: Permanent
This is a full-time position only due to the nature of the role.
As a Senior Software Developer at HMCTS you will work with a wide range of stakeholders such as user researchers, product managers, designers, business analysts, delivery managers and digital architects, all of whom share a vision for making better government through smarter use of technology. You will innovate to radically transform public services for the better.
Technologies we rely heavily on:
- UiPath Studio and UiPath Orchestrator for robotic process automation
- Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse, for low-code application and workflow development
- Power Platform solutions, environment configuration and application lifecycle management for controlled delivery
- Azure for integrations, supporting platform services and infrastructure
- REST APIs, custom connectors and integration patterns to connect HMCTS services and external systems
- UK Design System for our web interfaces
- Macs to do all the above
- In addition, we use a range of other technologies and continue to evolve by employing new technologies that help us deliver better services to our users
What you'll do
Your role as Senior UiPath Software Developer will encompass several key responsibilities listed below (but not limited to):
- Design, build, test, deploy and document low-code applications and automations using UiPath and Microsoft Power Platform, following best practice and internal standards.
- Continuously learn and stay up to date with UiPath, Power Platform and related technologies, identifying opportunities, constraints and technical risks.
- Ensure product security, data confidentiality, and integrity, raising risks as needed.
- Support and maintain software, including limited out-of-hours work when required.
- Plan development, coordinate integration, and contribute to process improvement.
- Manage service availability effectively and cost-efficiently.
- Apply appropriate automated testing, peer review, source control and CI/CD practices to low-code and robotic process automation solutions.
- Mentor junior colleagues and share technical expertise.
- Take ownership of the technical roadmap and promote best practice across the development lifecycle.
- Influence product strategy by providing technical insight to stakeholders
- Design and develop software based on user stories.
- Participate in recruitment and procurement.
How you'll work
Flexible working, Full-time
Working Pattern: Full-time/ Flexible Working
Successful applicants will be expected to be office based 3 days per week in any HMCTS Office (subject to business availability).
There will be a requirement to travel occasionally to any HMCTS site in line with business needs.
Apply before
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 11th November 2026
Reference number
487018
Job grade
Grade 7
Grade 7
Contract type
Permanent
Type of role
Digital
Information Technology
Number of jobs available
1
Location
East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber
Job summary
This position is based nationally.
Level of Clearance
Level of Clearance: To apply for this role, you will be required to successfully complete Security Clearance (SC) level as a condition of appointment. For further guidance click here
To apply for this role, you will be required to successfully complete Security Clearance (SC) level as a condition of appointment. To meet these requirements, you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years.
For further information please click here
Person specification
Please refer to Job Description
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Capability Skill 1 – Programming and Build
- Capability Skill 2 – Systems integration
- Capability Skill 3 – Service support
- Capability Skill 4 – Information security
- Capability Skill 5 – Systems design
Benefits
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) .
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Job contact :
- Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
- Email : [email protected]
- Telephone : 0345 241 5359
Recruitment team
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