RN Personnel Data and Information Exploitation Programme (D)

Closing date for applications: 23/12/2019

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

Specialist role	Developer
Summary of the work	Development of the RAF Personnel Data and Information Exploitation Programme
Latest start date	03/02/2020
Expected contract length	1 year
Location	South East England
Organisation the work is for	Royal Navy - MoD on behalf of the RAF
Maximum day rate	£665

ABOUT THE WORK

Early market engagement	There is a team delivering the core outcomes; an RAF specific developer is needed.
Who the specialist will work with	RAF, Navy and Land Command Service and Civilian personnel, other contractors and support organisations operating in or contributing to the personnel management environment
What the specialist will work on	To lead and undertake application design and development work for the Oracle and related applications to deliver and sustain the RAF Personnel Information Exploitation Programme, its derivatives, sub-projects and related support activities.

WORK SETUP

Address where the work will take place	Whale Island, Portsmouth with some travelling to Land HQ at Andover and other sites as required.
Working arrangements	The developer will be working in a team, with outcomes generated by the Authority.
Security clearance	SC to be in place at contract start date.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional terms and conditions	"In addition to the day rate, an additional £2k is available for T&S in line with current MoD rates. A Cyber Risk Assessment has been raised for this requirement under Assessment number RAR-2SEW455B. The Cyber Risk Level has been classed as moderate. You must submit a Supplier Assurance Questionnaire against this, at https://supplier-cyber-protection.service.gov.uk/ A security aspects letter applies for information classified up to secret. The IR35 legislation does not apply to this engagement."

Additional terms and conditions

"In addition to the day rate, an additional £2k is available for T&S in line with current MoD rates. A Cyber Risk Assessment has been raised for this requirement under Assessment number RAR-2SEW455B. The Cyber Risk Level has been classed as moderate. You must submit a Supplier Assurance Questionnaire against this, at https://supplier-cyber-protection.service.gov.uk/ A security aspects letter applies for information classified up to secret. The IR35 legislation does not apply to this engagement."

EVALUATION CRITERIA

How many specialists to evaluate	3
Cultural fit criteria	Work as a team with our organisation and with other government organisations Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes Share knowledge and experience with other team members Can work with customers with low technical expertise
Assessment methods	Interview
Evaluation weighting	Technical competence 75% Cultural fit 5% Price 20%

EXPERIENCE

Essential skills and experience

Skilled and experienced designing and building role based custom security components in Apex.
In depth understanding of the HR data sets.
Multiple full life cycle software project experience from initial design to build, deployment and testing.
Agile methodology adoption in projects.
Running user workshops and liaising with business users in requirement gathering.
Skill in translating business objectives and ensuring the implementation is correctly aligned to requirements.
Data Warehousing architecture, design and data structure modelling.
Data Integration using extract transform load tools with in depth understanding of Oracle Data Integrator
Skilled and experienced in front end application development using Oracle Application Express
Skilled in Oracle Business Intelligence (12c) repository design and data analytics via dashboards and interactive reporting capability
Skilled in Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 12.2.1.1.0 for published reporting and bulk document generation
Experienced in the use of Oracle Database 18.0.0.3.
Experienced in the use of Oracle APEX 18.1
Experienced in the use of ODI 12.2.1.
Experienced in Oracle Linux 7.

Nice-to-have skills and experience

To be proficient in installation, architecture and migration of Oracle applications
Experience with Oracle databases, SQL, PL/SQL, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, Apache 2.4, Tomcat, WebLogic and Oracle DBA skills
Experience in the development and execution of unit tests and automated web browser tests
Experience working in development teams, working with the Product Owner, requirements analysts and testers on an ongoing basis
Experience running sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and retrospectives and demonstrating software solutions to stakeholders during sprint reviews
Experience in the production of technical documentation to support the application to the standards specified by the IAS Software Development Standards
Experience in the production of user stories
Experience of the RN and Army data warehouse structures
In depth understanding of the HR data sets for Ministry of Defence Armed Forces (JPA)
Experience in ensuring developed applications successfully transitions through system testing for subsequent deployment into a live hosting environment
Experience in the use of ORDS 18.3.0 including rest API ’s and OAUTH2 security
Experience supporting data requirements for Data Science, Engineering and Analytics activities including NOSQL and HDFS
Co-technical team leadership incorporating overseeing and coordinating the outputs from mixed capability teams
Knowledge of project management and skilled in team leadership

EXPRESS INTEREST

Closing date for applications: 23/12/2019