AMS PSR

On behalf of DWP we are looking for a Senior Front End Developer for a 12 month (Inside IR35) contract. Hybrid working with 3 days per week required in Manchester, Leeds or Newcastle. 

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.

In Bereavement and Care we deal with delivering systems to manage and pay support payments to citizens in a time of need. So the user interactions for these services must be supportive of people dealing with these problems by being as simple, clear and straightforward to use as possible.

You will work with Node.js, Express, React and templating engines to deliver accessibility compliant UIs using well defined GDS standards. Working with a community of frontend developers committed to building reusable templates and patterns for use throughout the department; you will be able to contribute to shared features and components.

As a Senior Front End Developer your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead and promote the technical direction and development of reusable patterns and components.
• Work with cross-functional teams to integrate into the back-end services to ensure that they are built to the same high standards.
• Ensure we develop accessible user interfaces for DWP services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers
• Use modern tooling and development techniques to write and share test-driven code iteratively delivering.
• Input into, promote and ensure design standardisation processes.
• Release, maintain and support the deployment of products and code packages.
• Engage with teams across different levels and capabilities.
• Be an enabler for multiple teams, driving consistency, standards, pace and quality, resolving technical blockers, and promoting re-use and collaboration through the wider communities.

Essential:

• Detailed working knowledge and experience of open-source technologies including HTML, CSS, client and server-side JavaScript, TypeScriptNode.js and other modern front-end frameworks and templating languages.
• Experience in building accessible compliant user interfaces (WCAG).
• Proven ability in delivering thorough unit level test coverage using common testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha.
• Experience integrating with a wide range of technical systems including database technologies (SQL or NoSQL), caching tools such as Redis and API Microservices, all deploying into cloud-based infrastructure. (AWS or Azure).
• Influential and able to lead front-end activities, set and develop best practice for an agile team and contribute across multiple teams. You will ensure consistency whilst promoting standards as well as creating a coaching and mentoring culture.
• Public Sector experience.

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".