Description
My Government client runs one of the largest digital operations in Government.Their digital business runs the IT behind tax and benefits services for 45 million individual and 4.9 million business customers.They are undergoing a major transformation programme, which includes a £200 million investment in digitization, so customers can do more for themselves online and in Real Time.
Part of their transformation and Digital Strategy is to embed an API first approach. This means for any new digital services, we will provide APIs that join our Legacy services with the Tax Platform and publish them to the external market for third party software developers to build customer specific services.
They already publish a range of APIs that support 75% of the 1.1bn digital transactions received annually, supporting £350bn of exchequer funds. They want to do much more; by increasing the number and type of APIs we publish, stimulating demand in the external software market and supporting developers to provide new intermediary services.
To achieve this they are building a Digital Delivery Centre in Yorkshire. This team will primarily be focused on developing API's to be utilised by external third party software developers.
The API Programme Roadmap is continuously being enhanced to ensure alignment with the Making Tax Digital agenda, focusing on the following areas:
- Making Tax Digital for Businesses
- Making Tax Digital for Individuals
- International Trade
- Payroll/Employers
- Agents
They will use modern technology and agile development methods to research, define, develop and deploy APIs for the external market.
Front End Developer role exists to build and deploy digital services according to defined user needs.
Front End developers work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary agile scrum teams to develop, modify and maintain the user interfaces for their new digital services. As a Front End Developer, you will focus on developing user interfaces that will help users manage their tax affairs more effectively, supporting the move to digital by default. Using agile methods, you will work closely with other members of the scrum team throughout the development cycle in order to design, build, test, maintain and support the new digital services. We are looking for flexible, skilled Front End developers to fill this role.
Responsibilities/Tasks
- Build, deploy and operate outstanding digital services within an agile environment that meet well-defined user needs
- Deliver application designs that meet web standards, ensuring that key elements are built in from the outset
- Collaborate with Design specialists to translate designs into high quality websites, apps, HTML emails, and interactive experiences
- Contribute to the development and continual enhancement of products
- Partner with Product Managers, Design specialists, Business Analysts and Software Developers to facilitate a consistent user experience.
- Participate in the rapid development of user-driven digital prototypes
- Work in cross-functional teams to write and test production quality, sustainable code for world-class user interfaces for new and existing systems
- Ensure that new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for accessibility and can be maintained and improved over the long-term.
- Provide mentorship and/or line management for more junior Front End developers where necessary.
- Contribute to a culture of continual improvement in which key systems owned by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved.
- Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment.
- Become involved in the wider web development community (outside of government), building relationships with other Front End developers and identifying best practices we can adopt
- Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider digital teams and across government
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Use and implementation of modern Front End web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON;
- Good understanding of web/agile technologies & protocols;
- Demonstrable experience in automated testing solutions;
- Proven problem solving skills: able to logically break down a problem into smaller manageable parts to solve;
- Proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
- Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques;
- Demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.
- Experience of programming languages such as Python, Ruby, C#;
- Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs);
- Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring, MVC;
- Experience with open source solutions and community, including Linux system administration and configuration management skills;
- including Linux experience;
- Experience with automated testing and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit;
- Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms;
- Experience working on technical projects within an agile team;
- Configuration management skills;
- Confluence and JIRA;
- Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences;
- Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites;
- Understanding of the use of responsive web design;
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage;
- Understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10;
- Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion.
- Scala developer with experience of delivering external facing RESTful APIs