AMS PSR

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for an AWS Software Engineer for a 6 month contract (Inside IR35) based hybrid in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield 3 days per week.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation
• Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now
• Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society
• Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

As an AWS Software Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Responsible for the management of technical team members, guiding and mentoring them, including the achievement of defined objectives and their performance management.
• Responsible for providing technical expert domain knowledge and advice to project teams when dealing with complex issues.
• Responsible for providing leadership on architectural roadmaps to support advanced analytics for DWP, including of fraud detection strategies and fraud mitigation approaches to the department.
• Advising senior stakeholders including Digital and wider leadership on development priorities including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
• Maintain relationships both internally and externally, reconciling on priorities and agreeing on approach, tooling or strategy improvements.
• Advise on problems arising from specific work programmes or from implementation of proposed changes in Departmental policy and make recommendations.
• Managing performance against the technical roadmap for DWP Analytics.
• Ensure product development alignment with and assists in delivery of wider DWP technical strategy, including Strategic Reference Architecture and Departmental Data Strategy.

Essential:

• Experience of creating cloud-based solutions (specifically AWS) using S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, EMR, Redshift, SQL, Docker, API Gateways and IAM.
• Experience of communicating effectively with stakeholders at multiple levels within an organisation.
• Experience of defining, building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Awareness of AI/ML model development, and how to build and train them (using Sagemaker) in cloud-based solutions.
• Significant experience of the full life cycle of a cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and patching (in particular AWS and Azure)
• Exposure to Python

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".