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Senior Software Engineer – DWP Working Age Transformation (D)

Closing date for applications: 14/02/2023
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Developer
Summary of the work
 Progress delivery of DWP Transformation and change of New Style Jobseekers and Employment Support Allowance benefits service for citizens and Agents across Jobcentre network building on Digital Services already in this area and how we can more seamlessly deliver this alongside and integrated with Universal Credit.
Latest start date
 31/03/2021
Expected contract length
 24 months
Location
 Yorkshire and the Humber
Organisation the work is for
 Department for Work and Pensions
Maximum day rate
 £665
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with
 You will be working as part of an established multidisciplinary and blended delivery team, comprising other suppliers, contingency labour personnel and DWP personnel fulfilling roles in product and service design and analysis, engineering, research, and testing.
What the specialist will work on
 Working Age Transformation and Change has been established to improve the experience of Working Age citizens and DWP colleagues and to reduce related costs, it focuses: 1. To understand how New Style benefits should be provisioned in future a technical, business, and operational level. 2. To deliver efficiencies against existing New Style services. Existing challenges across New Style benefits include: • improve focus on citizen-centric outcomes • facilitating improved orientation between working age benefits • removal of complex, fragmented, and manual processes • error reduction, improved turnaround time and complianceSE will work with team tasked to address these challenges.
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 Leeds, Quarry House, LS2 7UA
Working arrangements
 This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is where an individual works part of the week in the DWP office or individuals workplace location and part of the week from home. Hybrid working is a voluntary arrangement and the DWP office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but is typically in region of 40% of your time onsite and 60% at home.
Security clearance
 BPSS minimum security clearance
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
 DWP Enhanced Security ScheduleDWP Offshoring ClausesDWP travel and subsistence policyAll above terms and conditions will be shared with shortlist suppliers at request for proposal stage.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many specialists to evaluate
 3
Cultural fit criteria
 -You ensure that the end user gets the highest level of value out of the work delivered by the team within each sprint. -You work with and bring a team together in DWP made up of professionals from different disciplines sourced from internal staff, contingent labour and third party suppliers -You ensure transparent and collaborative decision making -You foster a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes -You encourage team members to take responsibility for their work -You adapt to change and challenge the status quo.
Assessment methods
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 10% Price 20%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
  • 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
  • Identify and support the resolution of infrastructure faults
  • Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required
  • Engage with Software Engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance. Including coaching and mentoring your team and their professional development
  • Contribute and set strategic direction for product team
  • Collaborate & share knowledge and good practice with the wider software engineering team
  • Experience of working in self-managing Agile teams ensuring impediments and blockers are mitigated or removed
  • Recent experience with Java 8 (or newer)
  • Demonstrable understanding and experience of Test Driven Development, Business Driven Development, SQL and noSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB
  • Experience in developing on cloud based environments like AWS and of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • 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
  • Identify and support the resolution of infrastructure faults
  • Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required
  • Engage with Software Engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance. Including coaching and mentoring your team and their professional development
  • Contribute and set strategic direction for product team
  • Collaborate & share knowledge and good practice with the wider software engineering team
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 14/02/2023

Senior Software Engineer – DWP Working Age Transformation (D)

Closing date for applications: 14/02/2023


Specialist role:

Developer

Location:

Yorkshire and the Humber

Organisation:

Department for Work and Pensions

Maximum day rate:

£665
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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