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Principal Developer/ Technical Lead (D)

Closing date for applications: 01/07/2020
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Developer
Summary of the work
 A principal developer/ technical lead for a product team developing products and services with operational impact. A leadership role working with senior colleagues to design and build sustainable technical products. Supporting delivery of an end-to-end process at the core of the Home Office’s duty to keep citizens safe.
Latest start date
 13/07/2020
Expected contract length
 Maximum 2 years
Location
 London
Organisation the work is for
 Data Service and Analytics (DSA), Home Office
Maximum day rate
 £585
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with
 A multi-disciplinary agile team including User Researcher, UX designer, Junior developers, data scientists, tester, dev ops, infrastructure, and product managers.
What the specialist will work on
 The Principal Developer will be the technical lead as part of a product team and be responsible for working with senior colleagues to design and build technical products. This role requires developed leadership skills and experience leading an engineering team. Full stack development: - gov.uk service for receiving public submissions of Suspicious Activity Reports. - Existing Search & Visualisation tool. BAU operations. Delivery of enhanced features and new functionality. New feature development. Deliver technology & architecture change. Support the build of internal tooling and the application of analytical techniques. Support junior members of the team
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 Work will be carried out from a Home Office location primarily in Croydon and as required and in Suppliers’ offices. Remote by arrangement & as needed to accommodate current COVID-19 restrictions. There may be working with other departments.
Working arrangements
 The work will require the individual to work within an agile multidisciplinary product team in London. The team will work from the base location as required, Monday to Friday 09:00 – 17:00. Participation in stand-ups, planning sessions, show & tells and retrospectives as required. Travel to stakeholder buildings within the M25 area on a regular basis. Additional travel outside of London may be required. Expenses outside the M25 will be payable in accordance with the Home Office Travel (no Subsistence) policy.
Security clearance
 The Software Engineer must be Home Office SC cleared before they can start work. DV clearance is desirable.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
 Statements of work will be agreed periodically with the supplier on a fixed price, capped, or T&M basis with agreed deliverables. Standard DOS framework and call-off terms and conditions. Expenses outside the M25 will be payable in accordance with the Home Office Travel (no Subsistence) policy. Adherence to DSA and HO security governance and standards is mandatory.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many specialists to evaluate
 6
Cultural fit criteria
 -Be able to work collaboratively, promote ideas and work effectively in a multi-supplier environment -Be able to provide knowledge-transfer and share best practice -Be able to maintain a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes -Have excellent communication skills, experienced at communicating with staff at all levels of an organisation
Assessment methods
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 5% Price 35%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
  • Have expertise leading an engineering team and working in a multi-disciplinary agile product team
  • Have expertise in node.js, React, ANGULAR, typescript
  • Have expertise in Java
  • Have expertise in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, MongoDB
  • Have expertise in CI/CD Pipelines, especially with Kubernetes
  • Have expertise in Developing applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Have experience of the Government Digital Service’s Design Principles and Digital Service Standard
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • Experience in supporting all aspects of user story development including analysis, testing and deployment
  • Experience of supporting live systems
  • Experience with Graph databases and visualisation, Java Spring framework, SQL
  • Experience with python and data science tooling (scikit-learn, pandas)
  • Experience collaborating with data analysis/science teams
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 01/07/2020

Principal Developer/ Technical Lead (D)

Closing date for applications: 01/07/2020


Specialist role:

Developer

Location:

London

Organisation:

Data Service and Analytics (DSA), Home Office

Maximum day rate:

£585
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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