Job Vacancy Senior Developer - Manager

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Developer Manager to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Senior Developer Manager, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 30 hours per week and we will also try our best to consider those intending to work a job share. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We're a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact

• We're experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better

• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making

• We're better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater

• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

You will lead a dedicated delivery team, responsible for the development and maintenance of systems that handle and distribute vast amounts of critical data. This will be working in Technology or Programmes Directorate at the Met Office as a Senior Developer Manager in one of these areas:

• Space Weather - Creating forecaster visualisation tools used by our expert forecasters in the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre.

• Consumer Digital - Developing a platform built on Amazon Web Services to supply data to our mobile apps and website via cost-effective, high-performance APIs.

• Data Provisioning -Helping to expand the use of Met Office data and services to customers through in-house developed solutions and 3rd party suppliers.

• Observations Research & Development Technology (Programmes) - working with global and national observations networks to gather essential data, helping to power the Met Office's world-class forecasting models and cutting-edge research.

• You will be working with modern technologies like Angular, TypeScript, Python, AWS, AWS CDK, Github and Jenkins.

Your key duties

• Team Leadership: Guide your team to help them understand what needs to be built, to enable product delivery and build solutions to meet these requirements.

• Be an Expert: Understand the system and business domain. Take responsibility for technical debt and future feature development.

• Provide guidance: on the ways in which the team works and provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues

• Take Ownership: Operate the production services you build, improving system robustness, resilience, and stability.

This post may be part of an on-call roster and the postholder would be required to participate in an on-call roster to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often lifesaving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is accredited as a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and in addition has achieved a place on both the UK's 'Best Workplaces in Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists.

As our Senior Developer Manager, your total reward package will be up to £62,939 annually, which includes:

• £41,725 base pay

• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 27%

• Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA) you will be paid £5,300 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. Whilst in post, you will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2024 until September 2025 in your monthly pay

• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. Team Leadership. Lead and motivate your team to be inclusive and honest, creating the right environment to work in and empower them to deliver. (Better together)

2. Systems integration. 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.

3. Programming and build (software engineering). 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. (Expert by nature)

4. User focus. 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.

5. Systems design. 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.

How to apply

If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 18/11/2024 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 09/12/2024. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

How we can help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at .

If you're considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don't always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.