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On behalf of The Home Office, we are looking for a Senior React Developer (Inside IR35) for a 5 Month contract based REMOTELY/ in Croydon.

"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.

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government’s plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public. These are difficult areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in – this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

The Central Operations Platform (COP) was built for Border Force to ensure data capture and processing are delivered in a structured and standardised manner, enabling the business to deliver on its common goals. It is fundamental for this platform to continue to service the objectives of this country and host forms to help with efficient data capture at Borders.

COP is a product cluster with about 7 supplier led development teams, a Live Services support team and a Platform Engineering team. COP teams have a mix of engineers from suppliers, MBTP Civil Servants and SAS engineers (currently contractors).

As a Senior React Developer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Help existing team to develop application
• Support and development of the COP platform as part of a product centric team.
• During product development and test phases participate and contribute with specific product event, incident discovery, resolution actions and specific product development / enhancement activities.
• Manage teams that are delivering services for the COP platform
• KT of any support and maintenance activities on to COP team.
• During product live production phase, participate as part of COP team on L3 Service support events, incident discoveries, resolution actions and perform discovery, planning and implementation on specific COP led product development / enhancement activities.

Essential:

• Excellent react skills.
• Experience in standardizing React Libraries.
• Experience in NextJs
• Active SC clearance.

Desirable:

• Experience in JAVA and Typescript.

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, the Home Office 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

The Home Office 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".