AMS PSR

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Software Engineer for a 12 Month (Inside IR35) contract based Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Blackpool, Sheffield or Birmingham (2 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.

Description: 

As a Software Engineer you will develop and maintain software products that make up citizen services and contribute towards their design. 

You will be responsible for the operational stability of the products you build, and be in a position to affect change in the on-going robustness and resilience of those products. 

You will work within, and contribute to, the overall Software Development Lifecycle Process as part of a multi-functional Agile delivery team focused on one or more products. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver software products which make up services for our citizens to consume
• Transform business requirements into production ready code
• Ensure system robustness, resilience and stability
• Design and develop reusable libraries and services and promote reuse across the department
• Produce comprehensive suites of automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality; 
• Assure there is a fit for purpose, robust automated test suite
• Assist in the development of medium-long term strategies for products
• Define version control strategies for the source code of the product 
• Identify and resolve issues preventing delivery or continuation of software engineering activities 
• Collaborate across teams and liaise with Principal Software Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions
• Produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption
• Carry out agreed infrastructure maintenance tasks
• Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required
• Contribute to community discussions about best practice within Software Engineering
• Provide coaching and mentoring to Software Engineer colleagues and peers. 

Skills/Experience Required:

• Collaborates with others when necessary to review specifications and uses these agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Able to use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes.
• Delivers analysis and information that addresses stakeholder needs and provides recommendations.
• Collaborates with user researchers and other user-focused professions. Guides others on approaches to understand user stories.
• Identifies and engages with users / stakeholders to collate user needs evidence, and understands and defines research which fits user needs.
• Able to build and test simple interfaces, or can work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.
• Takes inputs and establishes coherent frameworks that work.
• Understands key principles of modern standards approach and how they apply to the work they are undertaking and will apply under guidance.
• Translates logical designs into physical designs.
• Produces detailed designs and documents all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.
• Designs systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity and meaningful impact.
• Works with well-understood technology and identifies appropriate patterns.

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.

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 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".