AMS PSR

On behalf of the Met Office, we are looking for a Full Stack Developer (Inside IR35) for a 3 Month contract based REMOTELY.

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, (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. 

Developer for climate data quality control system interface

The developer will be tasked with improvement and possible redesign of the legacy web-based user interface currently used by the Met Office for data quality assurance for international weather station data. The existing user interface is web based and written in a combination of HTML, SQL, Perl, CSS and Shell script, with code managed on GitHub. The role is essentially to convert current code to Python.

Functionality required includes but is not limited to:

• Retrieval of monthly weather station statistics and precomputed quality flags that are stored in an existing Oracle database.
• An interface for providing previously computed automated data quality assurance checks to a user to inform quality assurance decisions.
• Plotting maps of the retrieved monthly weather station statistics and quality flags to allow visual inspection by a user.
• Plotting time series of the monthly weather station statistics to aid the user’s quality assurance decisions.

The developer will work alongside scientist users of the quality assurance system to understand their needs and will work to improve the users’ quality assurance workflow.

The new user interface should be developed with an aim to maintainability by its users. These users are scientists with some coding background, typically in Python, or scientific software engineers, but are not experienced web developers. The system should be developed with this need for maintainability in mind and needs to include documentation to allow future maintenance.

Skills required:

• Experience working with users to identify optimal solutions to meet user requirements
• Good HTML, SQL, CSS, Python and Shell script programming skills
• Some familiarity with Perl would be beneficial
• Experience developing web interfaces which interact with SQL databases

Desirable:

• Expertise in visualisation techniques for geographic data and timeseries

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 Met 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 Commitment

The Met 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".