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Defence Business Services (DBS) DIT-AG Senior Developer05
| Posting date: | 03 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,590 to £55,990 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 February 2025 |
| Location: | FY5 3WP, BS34 8JH, G2 8EX |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 389349 |
Summary
Job description
As a Senior Developer in the Defence Business Services (DBS) Automation Garage you will be expected to work collaboratively in small, multi-disciplinary agile scrum teams, taking Discovery Documents for Robotic Process Automations, PowerApps, etc, created by the Business Analysts, through development, testing, user acceptance testing, to live running operation. In addition, you will be expected to investigate and assess new technologies that may offer benefits to organisation if adopted.
Senior Developer
Technical
Supports implementation of new systems or upgrades for RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation Solutions
Develops good practice, ways of working
Grows the digital community, activity encourage collaboration.
Develops knowledge and keeps up to date with latest vendor offerings across multiple technologies including RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation
Innovates and improve the way processes are delivered to the business, assessing, and championing the adoption of new technologies to meet the organisations automation requirements
Collaborate with others (service manager, technical architects, design team) to understand and review software requirements.
Designs, codes, tests, corrects, and documents user interfaces using the right standards and tools.
Keeps the service and project managers informed of the status of development / service support. Finds ways to improve system robustness, resilience, and stability
Maintains and supports open Gitlab repositories - deploying and managing code changes, as well as other DevOps tasks.
Manage Amazon Web Service storage, domain naming services and DynamoDB
Stakeholder Management
Builds strong relationship with outside technical teams to ensure implementation success
Seen by Business and team as the RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation Solutions expert
Builds productive relationships internally and externally
Person specification
Essential Skills
Programming and build (software engineering). You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications; use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
Development process optimisation. You can identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions (Skill Level Required: Working)
Service support. You can identify, locate and fix faults (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
Modern standards approach. You can competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
Information security. You can understand information security; design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
Prototyping. You can approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others; establish design patterns and iterate them; use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
User focus. You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally; explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user; champion user research to focus on all users; prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so; offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
Availability and capacity management. You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets (Skill Level Required: Working)
Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity; select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively; review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
Systems integration. You can define the integration build; co-ordinate build activities across systems; understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
Desirable Skills
Experience of Government Digital Service Ways of Working