Description
DWP are seeking a Software Engineer to join their team. This role is remote working until restrictions ease.
Initial contracts will run for 6 months and offer a rate up to £450/day.
IR35 STATUS: Inside IR35. This engagement has been assessed by the public body as Inside IR35 legislation. Candidates would be required to operate through an umbrella company on this engagement.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: at 10:00
Main Responsibilities
- Deliver software products which make up services for our citizens to consume;
- Transform business requirements into production ready code;
- Ensure system robustness, resilience and stability;
- Design and develop reusable libraries and services and promote reuse across the department;
- Produce comprehensive suites of automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality;
- Assure there is a fit for purpose, robust automated test suite;
- Assist in the development of medium-long term strategies for products;
- Define version control strategies for the source code of the product;
- Identify and resolve issues preventing delivery or continuation of software engineering activities;
- Collaborate across teams and liaise with Principal Software Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions;
- Produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption;
- Carry out agreed infrastructure maintenance tasks;
- Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required;
- Contribute to community discussions about best practice within Software Engineering;
- Provide coaching and mentoring to Software Engineer colleagues and peers.
Skills and Experience
- Collaborates with others when necessary to review specifications and uses these agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
- Able to use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes. Delivers analysis and information that addresses stakeholder needs and provides recommendations. Collaborates with user researchers and other user-focused professions. Guides others on approaches to understand user stories. Identifies and engages with users/stakeholders to collate user needs evidence, and understands and defines research which fits user needs.
- Able to build and test simple interfaces, or can work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.
- Takes inputs and establishes coherent frameworks that work.
- Understands key principles of modern standards approach and how they apply to the work they are undertaking and will apply under guidance.
- Translates logical designs into physical designs. Produces detailed designs and documents all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate. Designs systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity and meaningful impact. Works with well-understood technology and identifies appropriate patterns.
Candidate Eligibility
Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, this role will not offer Visa sponsorship. Tier 2 - General visas are cannot be accepted. This role requires that candidates be willing to undergo BPSS (DS) Baseline Personnel Security Standard (with a Disclosure Scotland).