Lead Software Engineer Department for Work & Pensions

Job description

We’re looking for talented Lead Software Devs and Engineers with knowledge of software products to join our growing community of experts and become a key part of one of the biggest and high profile digital transformation programmes in the world.

As a Lead Software Engineer you will be an integral part of the team designing and delivering products and services that are used by our 22 million people in the UK, including friends, family, neighbours and some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

If you are looking for an engineering role that differs from the norm, where you will use your skills to help real people, you will struggle to find a bigger, more challenging and rewarding opportunity anywhere in the UK. Click through or get in touch to find out more.

You and your role

We’re looking for outstanding Lead Software Engineers, who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. Be part of creating Government digital services that will change the face of public services and have the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

Our Engineers to build and run applications as part of a multi-functional agile delivery teams. What really excites the successful candidate is problem-solving and the opportunity to deliver innovative technology that carries real value for users. The candidate will be expected to draw value from collaboration with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.

Responsibilities

• Champion technical evolution within the organisation, find, test, agree and adopt emerging technologies.
• Champion the latest Software Engineer best practices, principles and processes.
• Design and lead the strategies for building reusable libraries and services.
• Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required.
• Collaborate with large teams of Software Engineers and key technical decision makers to define the strategic vision for our products.
• Lead the Software Engineering community to deliver the strategic vision.
• Collaborate with the Principal Software Engineering community to ensure usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity are embedded in the development of our citizen services.

Your skills:

• Open source technologies like Java, JavaScript, Node.js,
• Developing on cloud based environments like AWS and Azure
• Have a good understanding of TDD and BDD
• SQL and noSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB
• Distributed version control systems such as Git
• Containerisation – tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment
• Have working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
• Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures

Where You’ll Work

You’ll join us in our brilliant new digital hub in Leeds. Find out more about here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/

We are a building a Software Engineering community that believes in nurturing the talent of our people, and here you’ll step onto a career path with many opportunities to develop and expand your knowledge base and skill set.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.

Our Offer

In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £81,269, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working family friendly policies
• Volunteering and charitable giving
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Learning, development, coaching and mentoring
• Career pathways and progression
• And lots more

APPLY

For further information and to start your application click apply.

We value capability over experience, and we’ll ask you to demonstrate the depth and breadth of your skills/knowledge in your application. We want to see what have you delivered before when using our key technologies, what technical solutions have you shaped, what your knowledge of providing technical product support is… show us what you can do.

If you want to discuss the role with us please contact me via andrew.renton@dwp.gov.uk

Closing date for applications is midnight on 29th November 2019.

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