Senior Software Developer

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Our reward package

The Met Office is recruiting for a Senior Software Developer based at Exeter HQ with hybrid remote working.

As our Software Developer, your total reward package is potentially worth up to £45545.00 annually, which includes basic salary, RRA, potential corporate bonus and employer pension contributions.

Your starting salary will be £30932.00 and you will have opportunities to progress to £33925.00 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima.

In addition you will be paid £2,500 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. You will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2022 until March 2024 in your monthly pay whilst performing this role.

Your package includes: - Outstanding Civil Service Pension - Flexible hours and homeworking - Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave - Cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel - Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories

Who we are

We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

Our exceptional people deliver scientific, technological and operational expertise and provide critical services. Our people work together to deliver extraordinary impact, making us one of the most trusted forecasters in the world.

Our values - it's who we are: - We're a force for good - We're experts by nature - We live and breathe it - We're better together - We keep evolving

We are the Met Office, come and join us and help us to make a difference.

We put our people at the heart of our decisions as an employer and aim to provide outstanding working conditions and career development opportunities. We will invest heavily in training and personal development to help you to reach your highest potential. You can expect to enjoy a flexible working day, we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that suits you.

Job Purpose

This role is within our recently expanded Defence technology team, who are responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting advanced meteorological-based visualisation services for use by our Defence customers around the world. You will be part of a talented development team to find innovative ways of enabling our customers to make the most of our world leading meteorological data. You will be joining at an exciting time as we work to modernise our systems to make best use of new technologies such as AWS. We will help you develop your skills, express yourself and make a real impact. You will also work with and learn from other technology and science experts from the Met Office, its global Defence partners, including MOD, Nato and the US Air Force, and other highly skilled partner organisations such as Amazon. This is a unique opportunity to work with a cutting-edge team and the Met Office's world leading science and technology capability to enable MOD and its key allies to gain optimum advantage and achieve operational success.

A developer delivers software components that form part of a product. In this role, you will:

Configure software to meet user needs

Follow best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines

Prepare clean, secure, and well-tested systems

Coach and mentor more junior colleagues

Operate the services they build and identify issues in production

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

1. A Proven ability to plan and lead development on sets of stories

2. Experience of delivering and supporting services

3. A User focus - you understand users needs and are able to translate that into a suitable product

4. Experience coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues

5. A proven ability to communicate easily, enthusiastically, and professionally with a range of customers

6. Demonstrable ability to improve system robustness, resilience and stability

Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but your application will be even stronger if you have:

1. Experience with GIS (Visual Weather)

2. Knowledge of OGC standards

How to apply

If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you. Apply below using your CV and Cover Letter/Supporting Statement (which must bullet point how you meet each of the essential criteria). Closing date 08/06/2022 at 23:59 with interviews commencing from 20/06/2022 . You will hear from us once the closing date has passed. Our interviews are taking place remotely via Microsoft Teams.

If successful, please note we are unable to offer expenses for travel to your normal place of work. Please ask at interview if you would like extra clarity on how often this requirement is likely to be.

How we can help:

If you are considering applying and need assistance to do so, please contact us via . You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity.

You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident (Guaranteed Interview) Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

Additional information

We operate an on-call roster in Technology to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements. This post may be part of an on-call roster and the postholder would be required to participate in an on-call roster where in operation. The hiring manager will be able to let you know if this applies to this job.GOLD