Senior Software Engineer - DWP - G7
Government Digital & Data -
Are you a Software Engineer with experience of working in a Live Service team responsible for the operational stability, ongoing development and maintenance of cutting edge, innovative cloud-based solutions in a business-critical team?
If so, The Garage has an exciting opportunity for you!
To date, The Garage has developed and deployed over 75 solutions that have processed over 45 million transactions. Recognised as a government leader in intelligent automation, The Garage is also acknowledged as leading the way across industry.
As a skilled practitioner and a role model in software craftsmanship, you will work as part of a multi-functional team of Architects, Technical Leads, Business Analysts, Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Testers ensuring best practices are adhered to when designing, developing, and maintaining customer-focused products that meet business needs throughout their life.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
Job description
As a Senior Software Engineer in The Garage Live Service team, you will be accountable for daily operational stability, ongoing development and maintenance of products and services for DWP.
You will coordinate multiple technical teams and stakeholders to oversee the smooth transition of products and services built within The Garage into live service running.
You will provide guidance to your teams that ensures the development of quality software products that have clean, secure, well-documented code following a test-driven approach in collaboration with architecture and engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for the code your teams produce.
To develop, operate and maintain innovative, robust, secure, scalable and cost-effective automation products to be proud of, the Senior Software Engineer will utilise a blend of the latest techniques and technologies such as event-driven architecture, microservice architecture, serverless computing, containerisation, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and optical character recognition.
To help you really make a difference, you’ll be using the best tools and equipment for the job. We plan and track work in Jira, we document in SharePoint, we communicate using Teams and Slack, we commit, build and deploy code with GitLab, we use best-in-class cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and we do it all on MacBook Pro devices.
To support you in your role, you’ll have access to some fantastic learning and development resources; conferences with industry expert speakers, comprehensive instructor-led training, and subscriptions to digital training solutions such as Cloud Academy. You will also have access to support through direct Slack channels with our partners such as AWS, UiPath and MongoDB for every day on the job learning. You will:
- Lead multiple Software Engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to your teams to help with their professional development.
- Provide support for products running in live service, which will include out-of-hours support as and when required, and the opportunity to join an out-of-hours on-call rota.
- Co-ordinate and support the effective resolution of production incidents, whilst communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure the quality and maintainability of products transitioning into live service running.
- Collaborate across teams and liaise with Architects, Technical Leads, and DevOps Engineers to investigate technical solutions.
- Produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption.
- Design and lead the strategies for building reusable libraries and services.
- Ensure alignment to DWP standards and best practice for all product development and support.
- Lead the collaboration & sharing of knowledge and best practice with the wider software engineering community.
Person specification
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Lead Criteria: Expert knowledge and extensive experience creating and maintaining robotic process automation using UiPath and Blue Prism, as well as JavaScript/Node.JS and TypeScript technologies, frameworks and design principles. Capable of leading the production of software solutions of the highest quality.*
- Extensive experience of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) practices and techniques.
- Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures.
- Expert knowledge and extensive experience of developing on cloud-based environments like AWS and Azure.
- Knowledge and experience of SQL and NoSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB.
- Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
- Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture.
* An initial sift may be conducted using the lead criterion stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact sam.hackett@dwp.gov.uk.
