Senior Software Engineer (Java) Department for Work & Pensions
Newcastle
| Reference | 1643437 |
| Location | Newcastle |
| Salary | Up to £62,203 |
| Work hours | 37 |
| Employment type | Permanent |
| Job benefits | If you’re creative with a passion for learning new things, want to be empowered to make decisions and challenge the norm, and want to bring your ideas to a MASSIVE digital challenge then you’ll love it here. And we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to join DWP’s Digital Delivery for Shared Platforms (DDSP) project and become a key part of one of the UK’s biggest and most high-profile digital transformation programmes, a once-in-a-generation tech-driven reform of government products and services. What is DDSP? Digital Delivery for Shared Platforms evolves and transforms some of the most critical systems in DWP, unleashing the potential of Digital services to reduce overheads, cost and friction for citizen and agent-facing services. Our Integration Technologies, Payment Services and Citizen Information teams work together to enable the successful delivery of services across DWP. You’ll join our brilliant DDSP Citizen Information team. We look after a critical national asset, and the personal records of 110 million people. Our main ambition is to keep our data safe and stay out of the headlines. If you don’t know about us, we are doing our job well, maintaining availability of our data and protecting against access by unknown actors. Our services supply citizen information across DWP and beyond. We are working across DWP’s Digital Group to harness the power of our data and provide quicker access to a richer quality and greater understood sources of data. With your help we will create faster and more efficient bulk data sharing, more accurate benefit assessments and better debt recovery across DWP, other departments and third party partners. You and your role You will be working as part of our Citizen Information team, a skilled software engineer and advocate of engineering best practice, working on projects of a size and scale unavailable anywhere else. You’ll work with systems responsible for sensitive, critical data, and you will build real-time, high quality, efficient and cost-effective services to protect the personal information of our 22 million users. You’ll be using your skills and expertise to own the process of designing, coding, testing and correcting document programmes and script. This role offers you the chance to lead, so you’ll need experience of communicating to colleagues at all levels within the Software Engineering community. But you’ll also get to stay hands-on, delivering day-today and providing 3rd line support and solutions as required. What are we looking for?
Where will you work? You’ll join our team in Newcastle. We’re just a short walk from Longbenton Metro, and we have great facilities including coffee shops, snack bars and restaurants as well as gym and team sports facilities. It’s a massive site and a hub for tech talent in the North East, hosting regular events and meet-ups across government and beyond. In DDSP we believe in giving you a working experience that meets your needs and expectations and that means a focus on work-life balance, flexible hours, team-based working and the ability to work from multiple locations. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender, race or sexuality. Our Offer In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £62,203, 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:
CLICK APPLY for further information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs. If you have any questions of you want to discuss the role before you apply get in touch with me via andrew.renton@dwp.gov.uk The closing date for applications is midnight on 2nd September 2019. |
| Closing date | 2 September 2019 |