Software Developer
Recruiter
Department for Transport
Listed on
22nd January 2021
Location
London
Salary/Rate
£38654 - £42466
Type
Permanent
Start Date
ASAP
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Salary: National £38,654, London £42,466 Location: Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, London Do you hold a proven track record in developing and implementing software packages?Would you like to be part of something new and innovative across the public sector?
If so, we want to hear from you.
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities. We are looking for expert Senior Software Developers to join our new Digital Services team to deliver a diverse and successful portfolio of projects. The workload is varied and interesting, and you will have opportunities to transform your knowledge, experience and ideas into the design and implementation of a new software development service.
Leading your team's contribution to the project delivery of departmental and public facing solutions, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the team's growth with professional development activities, providing technical leadership and promoting best practice.
You will motivate your team to deliver challenging and complex digital solutions. You will be working in an agile environment so you will need to adjust your priorities and workloads to meet the changing needs of the business.
Responsibilities Include but are not limited to:
Leading the technical design and develop digital solutions, services and interfaces, applying both agile and waterfall software development approaches, with a team of software developers, user experience designers and database administrators.
Research into software development to support the adoption of industry best practices and new approaches in the department.
Applying and using standards, methods and tools for software development within DfT, including software development lifecycle management.
Leading by example in the application of development techniques, such as agile, DevOps, test driven development and continuous integration.
Managing a joined up team of software developers that are allocated to software development projects.
Test digital solutions, services and interfaces.
About You
As the ideal candidate you will hold proven experience of developing cloud based solutions within an Agile Delivery Framework. This will include the ability to demonstrate experience designing, creating, testing and documenting new/amended software components from supplied specifications in line with agreed development & security standards and processes. You will be a highly organised individual, with the capacity to coach and mentor junior staff within a team environment. You will also hold proven experience in designing technically complex and secure information systems and an appreciation of cloud architectures.
