AMS PSR

On behalf of the Met Office, we are looking for a Lead Full Stack Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 12 Month contract based Hybrid / in Exeter.

An active 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 a Lead Full Stack Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead and motivate your team to be inclusive and honest, creating the right environment to work in and empower them to deliver. Guide the team to help them understand what needs to be built, to enable product delivery and build solutions to meet these requirements. Provide guidance on the ways in which the team works and provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues.
• You can build and test reliable interfaces between data-handling systems. You can make decisions based on an understanding of the system architecture. You can understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.  You understand the system and business domain. Take responsibility for technical debt and future feature development.
• You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to high complexity, using cloud native technologies and best practices. You can operate the production services you build, improving system robustness, resilience, and stability. 
• You can collaborate with users or user researchers and can represent users internally. Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. Champion user research to focus on all users. Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
• You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. Review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• You can communicate well with senior stakeholders, clients, product managers and other senior Met Office personel.

Essential:

• Strong knowledge of Typescript, Angular, AWS, Terraform, GitHub, Jira.
• Team Leadership.
• Systems integration.
• Programming and build (software engineering).
• User focus
• Systems design

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 Covenant / 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".