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Job Description Head of Digital & Data Our Client is bank based in Central London with offices across Europe. They are looking to recruit an expert candidate for the Head of Digital position - which is an exciting new position. You will have proven track of working within the banking World and delivering digital capabilities for the bank. You must have at least 5 to 10 years expertise in the digital space within the banking World. This is a senior position and will report to the Board at the bank. The Digital & Data Lead role is responsible for overseeing the strategy and development of the Bank's digital products and processes and design and implementation of Bank wide data governance framework. Playing an important role within the Bank's Digital Transformation programme, the role holder will: • Work with multi-disciplinary teams responsible for researching, designing, building and/or procuring, and releasing transformative user journeys - for both customers and employees. • Responsible for engaging collaboratively with the various business and support functions in order to ensure all interests are represented in the development of the Bank's future state digital capability and to support the adoption and embedding of new digital processes. • Define the overarching digital products and processes vision, building the roadmaps and leading the prioritisation to deliver that vision in a performant, secure and user focussed way. In doing so, ensure alignment to wider Bank strategy and ensure that maximum business value is achieved. • Accountable for delivering and then driving the continual optimisation of the digital products and processes to support the realisation of a seamless, flexible customer and colleague experience. • Responsible for design and implementation of bank wide data governance framework and ensure businesses and support functions are held accountable for ownership and maintenance of accurate data within the bank's ecosystem. • Responsible for governance, risk management and regulatory compliance activities relating to the digital products and processes under development, forging strong, effective relationships with the 1st and 2nd line control functions. • Develop an inclusive and collaborative culture where the advice and knowledge of skilled specialists around user insights, journey and UX design, technology delivery, security and infrastructure are heard and respected in order to develop highly effective digital products through a process of research, ideation and design. • Forge a strong working relationship with Technology and partner with them on the development and delivery of the digital products and processes. • Work closely with stakeholders in Group to accelerate digital development and ensure optimal ways of working. Candidate expertise: • Outstanding SME in digital product and process management and digital user experience design, within the Financial Services industry. • Customer-centric with a strong focus on end user experience and outcomes. • Demonstrable experience in the end to end lifecycle of product and process development, including managing and delivering high quality digital products and processes to end users, from ideation through to delivery, feedback and improvement. • Experience and/or a robust understanding of the bank wide processes is highly desirable. • In-depth knowledge of agile methodologies and significant experience of working within an agile environment. • High degree of proficiency in prototyping and iterative development, with experience in building product teams desirable. • Highly positive and effective leader, who actively coaches, develops, and supports team members, sharing their experience and knowledge with others. • Be driven, have high levels of personal accountability, not being afraid to be hands-on and get into the detail. • Strong influencing skills with the ability to confidently represent the Digital Product area and gain buy-in to the strategy and roadmap with a diverse set of stakeholders. • Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously, often with competing priorities. • Have strong people skills; approachable, empathetic and able to work with people to achieve progress. • Have strong written and verbal communication skills. • A good knowledge of the Financial Services industry. • Strong awareness of the digital banking ecosystem, keeping abreast of market trends and competitor propositions. • Relevant certifications or qualifications in agile product management or aligned disciplines. • Understanding of development processes and business case development. Role requirements: • Actively Builds Relationships • Embraces Change and Technology • Creates Business Value • Role Specific Regulations • Risk Management, Governance and Controls • Consumer Duty This is a hybrid role - at least 3 days in the office in Central London. The salary will be circa £100K - £140K plus benefits - dependent on experience. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.

The Opportunity As a Lead Enterprise Data Architect within Parliament, you will assume a pivotal leadership position, collaborating closely with senior parliamentary business, strategy, and technical leads. Your primary mission will be to demonstrate the strategic significance of Enterprise Architecture in shaping effective strategic decision making, driving business change, and fostering technology innovation within the parliamentary context. taking a strategic approach to aligning initiatives with overarching digital and parliamentary objectives, analysing the organisations technology needs, and developing standards, data architectures, and roadmaps to achieve transformative outcomes in collaboration with subject-matter experts. maturing Parliaments knowledge and understanding of its data domains by leading the development of enterprise data assets including models, data dictionaries, and data flows. Supporting colleagues to ensure they understand and address data requirements in their designs. providing expert guidance on optimal architectural design, guiding teams to adhere to correct technical governance processes while ensuring the appropriate application of organisational standards and methodologies. identifying and mitigating complex architecture challenges or risks ensuring successful outcomes that align with parliamentary priorities and meet the highest parliamentary standards. defining and driving strategic technical procurement requirements that align with strategic goals and uphold the exceptional quality expected within Parliament. What You Need experience as a senior Data or Enterprise Architect or an equivalent role, showcasing practitioner-level capability across diverse architectures, technologies, and programming languages. Including an architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent) or demonstrable experience within architecture frameworks experience of designing multiple data models, able to demonstrate a broad understanding of how data models fulfils the needs of the organisation. Experience of designing and implementing metadata repositories and establishing robust governance processes to keep them up to date. Experience of implementing master data management strategies and tools. Knowledge of Graph or NoSQL database technologies. experience of demonstrating technology leadership through significant contribution to the development of accessible, reusable reference architectures, the definition of data policies, architectures and standards, the development of clear and well-followed technical governance processes, and the development of data architecture roadmaps. experience of managing people through periods of ambiguity, building and maintaining motivation, balancing and prioritising workload, and measuring delivery productivity, whilst upholding the values of equality, diversity and inclusion. experience of building strong relationships with stakeholders at various levels within the parliamentary environment and effectively communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. experience of leading the translation of business problems into pragmatic architectural designs, anchored in robust technology solution design principles, and customized to meet unique organisational requirements. experience of making well-informed decisions, considering risk and complexity, and skilfully influencing positive outcomes while ensuring solutions comply with standards and compliance requirements. desirable: Experience of public sector procurement rules and practices in a complex organisational and technical environment. the ability to pass security clearance, backed by the right to work in the UK About The Team The Enterprise Architecture team is part of the Office of the CTO. We are responsible for developing Parliament's technology strategy ensuring that Parliament has the technology it needs to do its work. We do this through mapping Parliament's digital landscape, working closely with teams across Parliament to understand how demand for digital will change over time, working with teams in the Digital Service to develop roadmaps and developing Parliament's reference architecture, standards and design patterns. About Us UK Parliament is steeped in history and tradition. It is an important part of UK life and we need to ensure as many people as possible can engage with its work. This is why we are at the start of a huge transformation programme powered by technology. The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) works with the House of Commons and the House of Lords with all their IT and digital needs. We are here to realise the digital ambitions of a modern Parliament and welcome you to join us in building a digital democracy. Our Package Please refer to our Candidate Information Pack for a full list of our benefits which include: up to 35 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays generous maternity pay policy up to 6 months full pay great pension scheme options (contributory and non-contributory) on-site subsidised gym, nursery, catering, post office, travel office and GP flexible options including hybrid working and family friendly policies How To Apply Please make sure you're clear on the requirements of the role. These can be found in the Job Description and Candidate Information Pack. You will need to upload a CV and show how you meet criterions 1, 2 and 3. Our application process is anonymous, so please remove any personal information from your CV. Apply By: Interviews: TBC: 10th June 2025 Format: Presentation + Panel Interview (Remote) Our Culture For our people, we provide an amazing opportunity to bring their talents to an institution that sits right at the heart of society in the UK. We are helping to change UK Parliament and strengthen democracy. What matters here is your potential for growth and your commitment to playing your part in our ongoing success. We are passionate about providing an environment which promotes inclusion, diversity and equality. Regardless of your age, gender, ethnicity, beliefs or any of the other things that make you, you. We welcome applications from people who feel under-represented in the workforce. This includes those who may feel disadvantaged because of their socioeconomic circumstances.

We are recruiting for a Principal Software Developer to provide additional leadership to the Software Development profession during a time of growth. Are you someone who could help encourage our profession to be the best it can be? Are you enthusiastic about making change and ensuring all our teams have the skills and knowledge they need to succeed? These are exciting times at Companies House as we continue our transformation journey, developing new digital services that are used nationally at scale. Our services are built using the latest technology and cloud services, with a focus on microservice development on AWS. This role is a unique opportunity to shape how we develop and secure our digital services. Working within an embedded agile delivery structure you will be empowered to define the processes and technology we use to produce software. Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%. Job description You'll work closely with the Head of the Development to produce, lead and implement strategies to: Improve the flow of software into production and meet users needs. Ensure high quality software is delivered within an agile delivery environment through the constant improvement of standards and processes. Establish communities of practice both internally and externally, in order to share knowledge and help. Raise the profile of Development and Companies House both internally and externally through knowledge sharing and supporting others to create a culture of innovation and experimentation. Keep up to date with emerging technologies and lead the introduction into the development community when appropriate, ensuring that legacy technologies and services are constantly improved or removed as necessary. We want our profession to: Be passionate about meeting user needs by releasing software as often as possible. Be enthusiastic about clean maintainable code, well designed software and coaching others with it. Love helping and mentoring others to enable them to work at their best. We would love you to be part of our team and help us get to a point where the following are part of the culture. We want to: Have many releases per day automatically into production. Have automated test coverage for everything from accessibility to security and performance. Be constantly innovating and running iterations of our services to meet and exceed user needs. Be publicly recognised as an organisation that works openly on interesting things. Ensure we are meeting the needs of our users by ensuring we have diversity in thought and ideas. Person specification We're looking for the following, which will be assessed at sift and at interview. The successful candidate will be someone who: Values working in the open, and are comfortable sharing ideas early. Is optimistic and will lead the teams according to the Companies House values by being Adaptable, Bold and Curious. Is proactive, and encourage others to take practical action. Recognises that diverse views make our services better. Youll communicate across borders, whether thats teams, directorates or government agencies. Enjoys learning and experimenting with new approaches and tools. Relishes helping others to work at their best. Is confident using a coaching or mentoring approach to provide leadership within projects. Technical Knowledge of the following technologies: NodeJS, Java, AWS And ideally some knowledge of these technologies: Go, APIs, GitHub, Concourse Experience You'll have significant experience as a developer and leading developers. Experience of improving the development practice ensuring that the engineering function is delivering software in its most optimum way. Experience of working using agile methodologies. Experience of setting and delivering strategic direction for the engineering function including the management of all necessary stakeholders. About us Companies House is an award-winning employer, building brilliant services on cutting edge technology. You'll join our digital team at a time of transformation, and you will be a part of shaping the future of our department. We use Agile methodologies and promote a culture of continuous improvement. We currently have 15 cross functional agile software development teams. Each containing developers, testers, business analyst, product owner, user researcher, user experience and agile delivery manager. The teams are supported by a platform team who have already automated large parts of our development pipeline using Concourse CI, SonarQube, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Artifactory & Docker. We also have a dedicate Research and Development driving Innovation at the heart of Engineering. We're migrating our current legacy systems into a Microservice architecture. All new services are hosted on AWS and we're using trunk-based development and Continuous Integration. We're working with data that is estimated to be worth £3 billion to our users. There are over 4 million companies on the register. Over 6 billion searches of the free register are made every year (excluding API calls). We register approximately 2,800 new companies every day. What it is like to work in Companies House Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. Wherever possible we offer flexible working arrangements. We'll support you to meet other commitments and help you strike a better work-life balance. We're keen to create an environment that works for everyone, and we particularly encourage applications from different underrepresented demographics. Half a day a week is devoted to Innovation time where everyone in digital can work on whatever they choose, be that building new applications, trying new technologies or working towards certifications, it's up to you. In addition to this we offer lots of opportunities to have training as and when it is needed. We trust and empower our staff to work in a way which best suits them. Companies House is an award-winning employer, with an Investors in People Platinum Award we are at the forefront in ensuring our staff reach their full potential in building brilliant services on cutting-edge technology. You'll be joining our Software Engineering Profession at a time of transformation and you will be a part of shaping the future of our department. We use Agile Methodologies and promote a culture of continuous improvement. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Leadership Seeing the Big Picture Working Together Developing Self and Others Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Knowledge of Microservices Amazon Web Services Design/Programming & Build

The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers systems need to be developed, improved, and maintained. This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring the core applications are reviewed and continually improved. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office. The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Be responsible for the design, coding, configuration, testing and documentation of large, complex or mission critical applications in a cloud first environment using Dynamics and Power Apps in MS Azure Configure and customise both model model-driven and canvas apps Develop Power Automate Flows via connectors to the Dataverse and other data sources Develop PowerApps integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage Work collaboratively with IT and stakeholders, share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality Embrace a continuous improvement ethos Responsible for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes Proactively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF) Person specification Essential criteria Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile methodologies Advocate of DevOps principles Experience working in a Microsoft Azure Cloud first team Experience with Azure DevOps How to apply Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by providing the following: CV Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. This will assess your suitability for the role therefore please evidence the essential requirements listed in the person specification above. For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below. Please visit our Civil Service Careers page - If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Read E-mail: Telephone: [Telephone number removed]

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government. Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by: joining up public sector services harnessing the power of AI for the public good strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure elevating leadership and investing in talent funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation committing to transparency and driving accountability We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK's geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government. We're part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol. The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you'll be working with some of the world's most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale. Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation's highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need Job description You will be part of the Data Directorate at an exciting time as we gear up to deliver on the vision for modern digital government. Data is the driving force of the world's modern economies, and central to helping us tackle some of society's biggest challenges. We are delivering a programme of work to improve the way we use data in government through implementing standards, frameworks and tools that increase data quality, trust, security, privacy and interoperability. We need great people to make it happen. One of areas of focus is supporting our programme delivery with effective governance, communications and engagement with our key stakeholders. For this we need a creative individual who can think on their feet, solve problems and build collaborative relationships across the organisation and across Whitehall. As a Data Engagement Lead you'll work directly with the Head of Data Portfolio, working across all areas of the team: lead on Engagement with other government departments and wider DSIT for Data Policy development provide oversight of our governance groups (including the Chief Data Officers Council and the Data and Technical Architecture Design Authority), ensuring there is strong alignment with wider departmental governance structures create an Engagement plan and develop strategic relationships to align the teams roadmap of work with wider government strategy and departmental programmes identify opportunities to allow us to test and develop policy and guidelines. work flexibly and collaboratively on a range of projects where your expertise and skills are needed and support a culture of agile working across your team Person specification We're interested in people who have: excellent communication and writing skills the ability to balance changing priorities, deal with ambiguity, using astute judgement to make decisions in the absence of full facts significant experience of building and maintaining effective relationships, and using a variety of channels to get the best results experience of working with multiple stakeholders across a large and diverse audience experience of communicating to data expert and non-technical audiences and producing briefings and presentations experience in handling both quantitative and qualitative evidence to make decisions experience of taking the initiative to solve problems, and and deliver results collaboratively, but independently an understanding of HMGs data agenda and how this fits into the broader digital strategy

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC. Visit our to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architecture and supports the Chief Data Architect. They will engage at a strategic level, influencing policy, and setting direction for technical and business change. They play a key role in ensuring that HMRC develops and maintains a strong Enterprise Data Architecture capability that meets business needs. A Senior Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for defining our data strategy and roadmaps, aligning them with business strategies and requirements and obtaining senior stakeholder buy in. They drive the development of the Enterprise Data Model and data modelling capability of the HMRC. The role supports the documentation of the organisations data assets, to aid understanding, to allow more effective integration of data, whilst diminishing legacy data silos, enabling HMRC's hugely complex IT estate towards a smaller set of strategic systems. They will assure and contribute to data and solution designs both as a subject matter expert and from a strategic point of view against the Enterprise Data Architecture. They lead on the governance of data models produced by solution and delivery teams against the Enterprise Data Model and Data Standards. Job description A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architect and supports the Chief Data Architect. At this level, you will: • Maintain, enhance and evolve the Enterprise Data Model ensuring alignment to business data needs now and into the future. • Promote the use of data models and data architecture in designs, providing oversight and governance to project teams who are undertaking new initiatives. • Provide oversight and advice to data architects who are undertaking the design of data models. • Support the management of data dictionaries. • Define, enhance, and promote data standards, ensuring Data Architects and projects are working to the standards. • Work with solution and technical architects to make sure that the organisation's systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture. Person specification Essential Criteria You will need to demonstrate within your application the following essential criteria: • Ability to guide the organisation to make the correct data decisions, promoting reuse and standardisation to achieve value for money. • Experience in Data Modelling for operational and analytical systems, including conceptual models through to physical schema deployments. • Experience in developing and governing Data Principles, Policies, Standards, Processes and Procedures. • Experience in Master Data Management, Data Quality and Data Governance. • The ability to simplify complex and technical information by using appropriate and accessible language for non-technical audiences. • An understanding of how all parts of the business model work together including processes, data models and IT operating models. • Capable of guiding the decision-making process, explaining trade-offs, and making a recommendation based on all the available information. • The ability to look beyond the immediate problem and identify the wider implications across the enterprise. Desirable Criteria The following skills and experience are desirable: • Experience of developing data architecture capabilities for operational and analytical systems • Experience with an Enterprise Data Catalogue and Business Glossary • Experience of cloud data technologies, enterprise integration tools and Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) tools • Understanding of the data lifecycle and implications for GDPR • Either have or work to achieve professional IT qualifications such as TOGAF or CITP • Experience of Enterprise Architecture modelling using ArchiMate and BPMN notations • Experience of using Abacus and PowerDesigner

This is an exciting opportunity in the Digital and Technology directorate for an enthusiastic Lead engineer with excellent leadership and technical skills who can support and develop Companies House systems. You will be customer and service focused with particular attention on service availability, problem solving and root cause analysis. We promote a “Team” first approach with everyone pulling together to achieve the best results. You will join a large, diverse team of engineers with a broad range of skills and domain knowledge. You will be responsible for leading technically and have direct input into the long-term operational strategy and tooling to support a continuous delivery approach within Companies House. You will have a track record of coaching and mentoring other IT professionals and be able to network and engage with stakeholders to deliver improvements. You will ensure that value is delivered through improvement and automation of Companies House's systems, including infrastructure, tooling, upgrade paths, configuration, performance monitoring / alerting / tuning. Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%. Job description We are proud to have hit our availability target of 99.5% over the last 5 years and you will be working in a team that will assist us to continue to meet this target across our new and current systems. The team carry out maintenance, upgrades, automation and service improvements in order to provide a high capacity, secure and resilient IT Service capable of exceeding performance targets. The estate has been recently migrated to the AWS cloud and we are in the middle of a huge Transformation project to align our services with our new powers under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. We are looking for people with proven DevOps automation and monitoring skills and a willingness to learn new technologies and develop your career working on large and small projects alongside developers, analysts and testers delivering agile change to our existing and new services. You will be part of the IT Services Digital team in a time of great change and play an integral part in the way that Companies House systems are developed in the future. You, and the team, will be responsible for release, maintenance, upgrades, automation, and service improvements, resolving ServiceNow Incident issues and finding root causes of problems. You will contribute to the development of projects to improve the range and quality of digital services available to the customer and take an active part in the transformation of our services and smarter ways of working. You will also be expected to participate in the on-call rota for your section in line with the current on call agreement to ensure our services remain operational at all times. This on-call element covers 24/7/365 and is an essential requirement of the role. Come and help us as drive our digital services and culture. Person specification We're looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview: Experience (Please refer to these in your personal statement) Incident/Problem resolution and root cause analysis. Problem resolution via coding and scripting. Adhoc reporting and data management. Proven experience within an IT environment (preferably in an Ops environment), and of leading a technical team. System software build and release - Automation of manual processes, including code deployment and environment provisioning. Setting up performance monitoring / alerting / tuning for web-based services and APIs. Coach and support colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the services. Engage in continuous improvement activities by working collaboratively within and outside of the team. Excellent customer focus, communication, and networking skills. Mentoring and leading less experienced members of the team. Technical Experience (Please refer to these in your personal statement) Demonstrable experience of Unix/Linux in a support or development environment. Demonstrable experience of DevOps and associated technologies. Continuous Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience. Demonstrable experience of supporting infrastructure in the cloud. Demonstrable experience of database querying. Demonstrable experience of any type of coding AWS, Java, Terraform, Concourse, Ansible, Docker, JSON, SQL, GIT, Tibco iProcess, Doc1. Experience in similar technologies will be considered. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Working Together Managing a Quality Service Delivering at Pace Changing and Improving Developing Self and Others

Would you love the opportunity to develop and embed Data Architectural best practices throughout The Planning Inspectorate? Do you want to see the impact of your work embedded in applications that support the UK's planning system, helping to tackle real-world challenges like the housing market? Do you have a passion for data design and quality? Would you thrive in a multidisciplinary team where creativity and a commitment to great solutions shape the way we work? If so, click the apply button now and join us as a Lead Data Architect. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of The Planning Inspectorate during a period of growth. As we drive a wholesale digital transformation of the planning system, our work will be instrumental in creating radically new digital services that enable better-quality homes and critical national infrastructure such as roads, wind farms, and solar energy projects. The role of Lead Data Architect is essential to addressing long-standing data debt and unlocking the true value of our data assets. The Planning Inspectorate is expanding its Digital and Data unit to meet increasing demands from colleagues, government, and customers, and we are looking for a skilled Data Architect to join our growing team. In this role, you will develop the organisation's data model, standards, and principles, while designing tools that integrate disparate data sources into our central Operational Data Warehouse (ODW). You may be embedded within a service team, leading a talented group of Data & Digital professionals to ensure that the tools and processes built align seamlessly with the underlying data architecture. Job description We are seeking passionate, driven individuals who thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. If you have a keen eye for detail, a proactive mindset, and a genuine enthusiasm for delivering excellence, we want to hear from you! Whether you're an experienced professional or someone eager to grow and develop new skills, we value creativity, dedication, and a collaborative spirit. Join our team and be part of something truly exciting! In a typical week, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping The Planning Inspectorate's data landscape. You'll collaborate closely with information owners and experts to refine data models, establish reusable patterns, and uphold data standards. Your work will intersect with key teams driving planning reform, ensuring that changes are seamlessly integrated into operational data warehouses and analytical outputs. As an active member of the Architectural Communities of Practice, you'll contribute to the development of architectural artefacts and champion best practices across the organization. Leading a multi-disciplinary team, you'll guide the creation of innovative data and digital products, embedding strong data architecture principles at every stage. Additionally, you'll keep stakeholders and governance boards informed, making strategic recommendations and providing updates on workstream progress. Role types and Salary details These roles attract a DDaT allowance, for details please see the section marked “Salary”. Salary This role is being advertised at Grade 7. Salary range for the Grade role is £59,644 - £66,120 plus a DDAT allowance of up to £20,756 based on Capability and base salary. Working hours: Standard working week is 37 hours, flexible working hours policy available. Part time at 22 hours and 20 minutes or above, flexible working hours policy available. The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people's lives, the communities where they live and the economy. We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services. For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please visit our careers page at Person specification We will assess your application against the Essential Criteria and Success Profile elements listed: Essential Criteria Understand the concepts and principles of data modelling and experience of applying these in practice. This should include models that cross organisational boundaries, identifying opportunities for re-use and greater alignment. Taking data modelling and architectural approaches through peer reviews, such as an Architectural Review Board or other gateway challenges. Have participated in the development of a data strategy within an organisation, engaging with stakeholders and overseeing change. The ability to communicate complex concepts in a straightforward way to influence senior stakeholders and customers. Be able to communicate business stakeholder and user needs to a technical audience and ensure that the architecture delivers against those needs. Experience of using architectural repository tools for the documentation of data architecture and the integration of data architecture within the enterprise architecture. Good knowledge of data governance and data security and privacy, including familiarity with the legal and regulatory requirements around data, especially GDPR. Desirable Criteria Experience of cloud technologies, enterprise integration tools and extract, transformation and load (ETL) tools. Experience of collaboration with architects of other disciplines in the successful delivery of a solution or enterprise architecture. Experience See Essential Criteria For guidance on how to structure your application please visit: Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Leadership Delivering at Pace Changing and Improving Working Together Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Strategic thinking (data architecture) Turning business problems into data design. Metadata management. Data innovation.

Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference? Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence? Are you ready to shape how the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is designed and is operated, directly enabling the defence of the UK? The MOD is seeking an exceptional and experienced professional for one of MOD's top strategic priorities; Corporate Services Modernisation. Corporate Services are critically important for the 250,000 people working across Defence to do their day-to-day jobs. For example, every time the department procures military equipment, personnel receive their monthly pay or request their vacation, they are using Corporate Services. As part of the wider government Shared Services Strategy, MOD has established the Corporate Services Modernisation (CSM) portfolio to drive Human Resources, Commercial and Finance policy, process, organisational, data and systems transformation. (More information on the Shared Services agenda can be found through this link: A Shared Services Strategy for Government - GOV.UK ([-hidden link-)]-hidden link-)). Our ambition is to revolutionise MOD corporate services to: Improve the user experience by simplifying our policies and processes, ; providing easier and better interfaces to systems and self-service and; making services more responsive and providing easy access to help. Deliver better data driven decision making by introducing and fully exploiting the latest Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Human Capital Management (HCM) technology; improving visibility, accuracy and accessibility of management information across defence; and, using integrated data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to inform decision making. Improve Productivity and Efficiency by automating transactional processes ; expanding and improving MODs shared service centre operations; and, reducing MODs overall corporate services spend to maximise our reinvestment into the front-line. DBS has recently undertaken a review of its operational locations in the North West, and have consolidated all activities in Norcross, Blackpool. A further move, to the new Government Hub at Talbot Gateway in Blackpool, is scheduled to take place in 2026. Come and join the DBS community today! -hidden link- Job description The Ministry of Defence is moving its core HR systems to a Software as a Service (SAAS) Oracle Fusion platform. The Civilian population's HR services have already transitioned to SAAS solution however, CSM (specifically the Defence HR Services (DefHRS) project) has been established to transform MoDs offering to a whole force solution. CSM is looking for an experienced software developer to support the DefHRS project's discovery phase, lead the design and development of the solution and provide enduring support and change through-life. The CDS-DefHRS Application Lead position will be responsible and accountable for the delivery of the DefHrs HR Application, specifically: Discovery; Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) you will be expected to work alongside our delivery partner advising, supporting, directing, driving the team to deliver high quality discovery products eg designs, options assessments, plans etc. Implementation Team mobilisation will also be a key part of this phase (recruit, build and upskill). Implementation: As the Application lead you will be expected to manage our Delivery Partner and internal team to develop, configure, unit test, document, support testing and ultimately deliver the solution into the live environment. Support: As the Application lead, you will be expected to manage our Delivery Partner and Internal teams to provide early life support/hypercare to the delivered DefHRS solution. Enduring support: The successfully candidate will be expected continue and manage the internal team to provide through life support and change management. Person specification The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate: A strong development background in SAAS Oracle Fusion with a proven track record of delivering change and support. A good understanding of MODs Corporate HR Service, processes, structures and systems or Corporate Service arrangements of similar complexity in the wider public or private sectors would be advantageous Great communication and team working skills Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Leadership Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Delivering at Pace Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: DDAT - Lead Developer - Modern Standards DDAT - Lead Developer - Programming and build (software engineering) DDAT - Lead Developer - Systems design DDAT - Lead Developer - Systems integration

This is an exciting opportunity in the Digital and Technology directorate for an enthusiastic Senior engineer with great leadership and technical skills who can support and develop Companies House systems. You will be customer and service focused with particular attention on service availability, problem solving and root cause analysis. We promote a “Team” first approach with everyone pulling together to achieve best results. You will join a busy, large, diverse team of engineers with a broad range of skills and domain knowledge. The team support and develop a number of Companies House external and internal customer facing services, and associated backend processing systems. These allow customers to search and update the company register. Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%. Job description We are proud to have hit our availability target of 99.5% over the last 5 years and you will be working in a team that will assist us to continue to meet this target across our new and current systems. The team carry out maintenance, upgrades, automation and service improvements in order to provide a high capacity, secure and resilient IT Service capable of exceeding performance targets. The estate has been mostly migrated to the AWS cloud and we are in the middle of a huge Transformation project to align our services with our new powers under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. We are looking for experienced Support engineers with experience in modern DevOps technologies, or a passion for automation and monitoring and a willingness to learn. We work in an agile way, so you will develop your skills and experience by working on large and small projects alongside software engineering, analysis and product colleagues. You will be part of the IT Services Digital team at a time of great change and play an integral part in the way that Companies House systems are developed in the future. You, and the team, will be responsible for maintenance, upgrades, automation, and service improvements, resolving ServiceNow Incident issues and finding root causes of problems. You will contribute to the development of projects to improve the range and quality of digital services available to the customer and take an active part in the transformation of our services. You will also be expected to participate in the on-call rota for your section in line with the current on call agreement to ensure our services remain operational at all times. Come and help us as drive our digital services and culture. Person specification We're looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview: Experience (Please refer to these in your personal statement) Incident/Problem resolution and root cause analysis. Problem resolution via coding and scripting. Ad hoc reporting and data management. System software build and release - Automation of manual processes, including code deployment and environment provisioning. Performance monitoring / alerting / tuning. Potential development of problem fixes or minor change requests. Coach and support colleagues in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the services. Engage in continuous improvement activities by working collaboratively within and outside of the team. Mentoring and leading less experienced members of the team. ITIL 4 Foundation (training can be provided). Technical Experience (Please refer to these in your personal statement) This role requires experience in Unix/Linux, particularly shell scripting, database querying and log investigation. The team looks after lots of different systems in many different technologies; some require extensive domain knowledge, some extensive technical skills. We do not expect anyone to have everything, but we are looking for experienced support engineers who show: Demonstrable experience of Unix/Linux. Demonstrable experience of automation and monitoring in a support environment. Demonstrable experience of supporting infrastructure in the cloud. Demonstrable experience of database querying. Demonstrable experience of any type of coding. Knowledge of DevOps and associated technologies - Continuous Delivery methods and techniques, including Agile. Some examples of technologies used to manage front and back-end services: DevOps/Cloud - e.g. AWS, Git, Terraform, Docker. Databases - e.g. Oracle, Mongo. Monitoring - e.g. ELK stack, Grafana. Application Servers - e.g. WebLogic, Tomcat. Programming languages - e.g. shell, java, python. Experience in similar technologies will be considered. The roles offered are varied and interesting requiring plenty of learning and development. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Working Together Managing a Quality Service Changing and Improving Delivering at Pace Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Demonstrable experience of Unix/Linux Demonstrable experience of database querying

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world's leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. We are looking for ten Software Developers to join our Transformation and Technology Directorate. Job description As a Software Developer you will deliver software components that form part of a product: develop software to meet user needs follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines write clean, secure and well-tested code coach and mentor more junior colleagues maintain the services you build and identify issues in production You will actively participate and contribute to the developer community, collaborating with other disciplines to enable effective cross-functional delivery and continuously improve the quality of the software and systems produced. You will develop your own skills and knowledge through agreed personal development activities and develop software by following industry best practice, aligned to HMLR standards and approved technologies. You will identify and implement optimisations to the development process and maintain awareness of organisational priorities and their impact. HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office. Occasional travel to other HMLR / government / external locations, including overnight stays where necessary. This role is part of HM Land Registry's Digital and Data Pay Supplement Scheme and may attract a non-consolidated, non-contractual, non-pensionable supplementary payment on top of the base HMLR salary. The supplement amount is the result of a capability assessment, which will be determined during the application and interview process to assess your capability level. Minimum starting total pay £41,100. The maximum total pay after two years in this role is £47,200. For more information please see attached candidate pack. Person specification To be successful in this role you will have experience within Programming, using object-oriented languages (e.g. Java, Python, Delphi). You can showcase experience of implementing controls to mitigate security threats and applying appropriate modern standards and practices. You will have experience working as a developer, on agile software development projects and you are used to working with users to understand their needs. Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Programming using object-oriented languages (e.g. Java, Python, Delphi).

Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem solving? Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively, and get software into the hands of users with speed and stability? Are you looking for a new role in an organisation that treats you as an individual and supports you on your professional and career development journey? Then this is the role for you! We have an exciting opportunity to join our DevOps Enablement team, within the Platform Engineering group, during the IPO digital transformation journey. Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms. Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office. The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Provide supervised assistance to apply and implement DevOps principles, processes, and best practices. Assist with development and implementation of automated, repeatable, and efficient build and release pipelines. Act as the DevOps engineer for Releases and troubleshooting of issues, with support from other engineers. Providing administration, configuration and troubleshooting support for CI & CD pipelines and hosted container applications. Assist with delivery, integration, administration, and configuration of DevOps tools. This includes tools for source control, build, CI & CD, code reviews, security scans, configuration automation, test automation, artefact management and monitoring. Assist with reviews and quality checks for newly delivered code and be an advocate for security and performance standards in the organisation. Assist in implementing and configuring DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing and notification strategies. Contributing to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment, including estimations, product planning and user stories. Attending Team and Agile Scrum meetings. Person specification Essential criteria Awareness of DevOps principles and iterative development principles. Awareness of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts and orchestration tools. Awareness of automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines. Demonstrable problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Usage experience of source control tools such as Git. Demonstrable ability to follow and continuously improve processes. Demonstrable technical experience (development, infrastructure, or cloud) or equivalent degree/training. How to apply Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by providing the following: CV Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. This will assess your suitability for the role therefore please evidence the essential requirements listed in the person specification above. For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below. Please visit our Civil Service Careers page - If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Reed. E-mail: Telephone: [Telephone number removed] Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Working Together Developing Self and Others Communicating and Influencing Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Technical Essential

The Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) is responsible for delivering a compensation scheme that has been long awaited by the infected blood community to provide financial compensation to victims of infected blood on a UK-wide basis. This role will lead our data platform architecture and modelling team within the Data Operations arm of the IBCA Data Directorate. The Data Operations team is responsible for developing and running safe and secure data solutions that provide a single source of truth for those going through their compensation journey. They are designing and building a new data platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and data management and intelligence products using Databricks and Quantexa. We are taking a product-centric approach treating data as a product and are building squads around our products, with a focus on paying compensation to those impacted by the infected blood scandal seamlessly. You will focus on designing scalable and flexible data solutions for data management processes (including data integration and master data management), ensuring data quality, and driving a culture of problem statement driven design. Working at IBCA gives you a huge opportunity to make an impact on those who deserve compensation, and this role suits a candidate who can spearhead solutions from the ground up to take from ideation to reality so that data is an enabler to everything IBCA does. Job description As the Principal Data Architect for our data platform and products, you'll be critical to delivering data architecture and modelling capabilities. You will mature the quality of our data architecture practices and should be committed to delivering high-impact, secure data solutions to achieve IBCA's objectives. This post is within a data delivery setting, especially one focused on AWS, Quantexa and Databricks. You will: set the direction for data architecture and infrastructure and provide technical guidance for the development of designs for the data platform including integration and master data management encompassing secure by design principles ensure designs are scalable, secure and efficient lead efforts to integrate data from various sources of varying fidelity, ensuring data consistency, accuracy, and quality, and support the development and maintenance of these processes be responsible for the design and implementation of logical and physical data models, and the development of data standards and data management policies be responsible for ensuring we have the right data architecture teams in place across the data platform and its products and will collaborate with data delivery managers and wider digital service delivery teams to make sure data architecture practices are embedded consistently and to industry standard best practices help the data architecture practices thrive, you will call on your expertise in emerging data management approaches including on data centralisation and apply these to help the organisation deliver success develop our internal data architecture capability by developing L&D routeways, shaping careers paths and recruiting talent to the organisation provide leadership and guidance to a team of data architects and modellers, further developing your own data architecture, delivery management and leadership skills work with business stakeholders and across digital service teams, understanding their needs and translating them into high- and low-level architecture designs work with industry partners to leverage the best of new and emerging tools and approaches Main Responsibilities: Strategic Planning: Develop and execute the data architecture and modelling strategy, aligning with business goals and data needs. Team Leadership: Use your expertise to build and maintain excellence in data architecture capabilities by building, leading, and mentoring a team of data architects and modellers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment. Data Solution Design: Design and model robust, scalable, efficient and cost-effective data solutions for data ingestion, transformation, and storage - and be the assurer of designs at architecture review boards such as Technical Design Authority. Data Quality: Ensure data quality and integrity across the data platform. Data Governance: Prescribe the level of data governance required, taking responsibility for assurance and make recommendations to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and security standards. Collaboration: Work closely with business teams to understand data requirements and recommend design choices and provide technical expertise; and partner with senior leaders to provide assurance on solutions as they transition between design, implementation and live. Supplier Management & Oversight: Manage supplier relationships by setting performance standards, negotiating contracts, and ensuring high-quality outcomes. Capability Building: Make the data architecture practices thrive by exploiting new and emerging tools/approaches and using these to help the organisation deliver better services. Opportunities to move to the new Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). At the moment all IBCA roles are hosted by Cabinet Office within the Civil Service. However, once IBCA becomes operational, it is anticipated that most of these roles will transfer to IBCA, which is a new Arms Length Body (ALB) separate from the Cabinet Office. Roles that transfer to IBCA from Cabinet Office will maintain the same or substantially the same terms and conditions of employment that are overall no less favourable. It is anticipated that employees who move from Cabinet Office to IBCA will be able to continue to participate in the Civil Service Pension arrangements with no break in their pensionable service. Roles commencing after IBCA has become operational will be with IBCA itself on similar terms and conditions. All successful candidates will receive full details of the terms and conditions of employment for their role with their formal job offer. Please note that the mission of IBCA means that it is likely to be operational for a period of approximately 5 to 7 years. When IBCA's work begins to wind down, IBCA employees will receive support and practical guidance to find a new role, whether in the Civil Service, another Arms Length Body (ALB), or an external employer. Person specification Essential Criteria Accomplished expert Data Architect with extensive hands-on experience at a senior level of working with and designing patterns/approaches for cloud platforms in AWS that host data management systems and processes such as data integration, data quality & transformation processes, data matching and master data management at scale. (Lead essential criteria) Strong proficiency in data modelling, database technologies and designs, building data pipelines, with strong knowledge of ETL, SQL, NoSQL, Data Lakes and AWS cloud-based data solutions. Strong expertise in the full end to end data lifecycle for design, build and test, with extensive knowledge of data architecture, modelling concepts for data warehousing, data lakes and data lake houses. Expert in setting strategic direction at organisational level for the design of data architecture approaches involving data fabric, and managing these standards through architecture peer review such as Technical Design Authority. Significant data architecture leadership and management experience in a data environment with the ability to motivate individuals to deliver user excellence using highly developed interpersonal communication skills. Experience of mentoring and leading teams in Agile/DevOps delivery and working across multi-disciplinary teams. Demonstrable experience of setting up organisational data architecture processes from scratch or of implementing large changes to existing processes within an organisation that operate in an environment of highly sensitive personal data. Strong knowledge and application of data governance and data security and privacy through architecture designs, with familiarity with the legal and regulatory requirements around data, especially GDPR and Cloud Security Principles. Working at senior leadership level, establishing and maintaining organisational level networks and actively engaging other senior leaders. Desirable Criteria You will have experience of working with the Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform and Databricks. Management of contracts and 3rd party suppliers for software and professional services. Experience of leading a community of practice in a rapid delivery setting, setting up practice and community events and fostering a culture of learning and continuously improving ways of working. Additional information: A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Leadership Communicating and Influencing Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Data governance (Expert) Turning business problems into data design (Expert) Data standards (Expert)

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic Senior Developer within our Digital Services team. We are responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the agency's line of business applications. The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty. Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women's Network Group. We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities. The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career! Job description Digital Services is a predominantly an in-house team, with a small 3rd party DevSecOps function. We've recently moved away from a hybrid development and support partnership, with the aim of bringing the function in-house. We are also consolidating our technology stack and moving away from legacy services, so this is a fantastic opportunity to help shape our digital services and the way we work for a sustainable, user centric future. We would love to for you to be part of that new team. Digital services is part of Change and Technology Services (CTS) who support and improve applications and systems across the agencies IT landscape. CTS provide key services including digital services, cyber security and information governance, service architecture and governance and digital programme delivery. Responsibilities: As a Senior Java Developer you will Support the Lead Software Engineer and Technical Architect support, improve and maintain digital services written using Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PL-SQL hosted on the Azure platform. Improve digital services in line with Government Digital Standards Promote a culture of knowledge sharing and the adoption of good practice. Assist the teams within Digital Services, offering them expert advice and guidance, including operations leads, product managers and QAT leads. Work with a multi-disciplinary team and business stakeholders, fostering good relationships and responding to views and challenges from others. Advocate user-centric, agile approaches which focus on efficient, effective delivery of high-quality digital services within the team and the wider agency. Transform government into a modern, agile development centre by embedding practices such as Behaviour and Test-Driven Development, continuous deployment, and DevOps Person specification The ideal candidate will have: Demonstrable knowledge of Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript An understanding of a number of integration implementations including real-time, scheduled, API, batch and messaging services Experience of Springboot An understanding of the importance of good documentation Enthusiasm for sharing knowledge and mentoring others, supporting the team and nurturing its growth. Knowledge and experience of modern development practices such as BDD and TDD, CI/CD, and DevOps, modern development workflows, ideally using GitHub, as well as an understanding of modern design principles such as clean architecture, OOP, SOLID, RESTful APIs A good understanding of web application security and awareness of the OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities Please note: This vacancy is advertised across 11 locations; however, Stratford and Croydon are only available to current Insolvency Service Staff. The advertised salary includes London weighting, which is only applicable to internal candidates. Languages English Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Working Together Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: There will be an exercise, provided at the time of the interview, to assess the candidates coding skills and analytical approach.

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world's leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. We are looking for three Senior Software Developers to join our Transformation and Technology Directorate. Job description A Senior Software Developer delivers and integrates software to form a complete service: plan and lead development on sets of related stories have an understanding of the whole system and take responsibility for teaching this to others work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built coach and mentor more junior colleagues maintain and support the production services you build find ways to improve system robustness, resilience and stability You will actively participate and contribute to the developer community, collaborate with other disciplines to enable effective cross-functional delivery and continuously improve the quality of the software and systems produced. Develop software, following industry best practice, you will identify and implement optimisations to the development process. Ensure that software designs are aligned to strategic goals and policies and undertake strategic planning and input into organisational priorities. You will develop own skills and knowledge through agreed personal development activities. HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office. Occasional travel to other HMLR / government / external locations, including overnight stays where necessary. For more information please see attached candidate pack. Person specification To be successful in this role you can demonstrate the following Technical Skills: Programming using object-oriented languages (e.g. Java, Python, Delphi). Working knowledge of functional and behavioural automated testing techniques (e.g. TDD, BDD). Understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery practices. You will have proven experience in the following: engineering solutions with controls embedded to mitigate security threats. applying appropriate modern standards and practices. working as a developer on agile software development projects. developing proof of concept prototypes (e.g. to inform service design). maintaining and supporting services in production. designing systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact. integrating systems and the associated build or test activities. working with users to understand their needs. Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Programming using object-oriented languages (e.g. Java, Python, Delphi). Working knowledge of functional and behavioural automated testing techniques (e.g. TDD, BDD). Understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.

We are looking for people who are passionate about Quality. Do you want to be part of the award-winning Home Office Quality Assurance and Testing Team (QAT) within Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT)? Quality is at the heart of everything we do. We provide a large-scale shared service, delivered through 750 QA professionals. It supports services that are essential for the UK! A strong continuous improvement culture underpins the way we work, making advancements on how quality is delivered and assured in groundbreaking DevOps environments, including cloud platforms. We are a well-established, well-knit team of quality specialists and among the best in the industry! We won the Testing Team of the Year at the 2024 European Software Testing Awards and were also re-certified at TMMi level 5, receiving the best score globally. This role is in the Police and Public Protection Technology (PPPT) portfolio. PPPT is an organisation of dedicated professionals who are primarily responsible for the design, build and deployment of National Law Enforcement Systems. They ensure that they deliver highly effective, efficient systems which leverage modern digital technologies and provide world-class Law Enforcement capabilities. DDaT is making significant investments in building and scaling modern cloud platforms to host these systems. PPPT is also responsible for the running and sustainment of critical national infrastructure such as the Police National Computer (PNC), as well as a myriad of other existing national policing systems. Job description As a Senior Test Engineer, you will drive the test engineering approach within your product area. You will determine and implement approaches to assure, measure and build quality into every phase of the software development life cycle. You will define and implement product level test engineering strategies while ensuring that these are aligned to portfolio level Test Engineering approaches and follow QAT Test Engineering principles. You will be responsible for solving engineering challenges of QAT approaches adopted in projects that you work with. This involves developing or enhancing frameworks that help deliver scalable tests which are faster, frequent, and continuous. You will be expected to build relationships with Software engineering, DevOps, Product and Project delivery partners. You will provide support and guidance to a team of engineers, further developing your own delivery management and leadership skills. To help the QAT practice thrive, you will also keep up to date with emerging tools and approaches and work out how these could help the organisation to deliver better success. You will be an active contributor and a mentor within the QAT Test Engineering community. You will also promote the value of QAT within the larger Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession community. Quality Engineering Tools and Technologies we use: We have a wide portfolio of projects, and our vast estate covers a whole range of tools. The below is sample snapshot of some tools we use: Frameworks: Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), and several bespoke frameworks. DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Drone, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.? Performance testing: JMeter. Other tools: Browserstack, Axe, ZAP, SonarQube. Observability and Monitoring: ELK, Grafana, Dynatrace. What you will do Your main day to day responsibilities will be: Actively maintain existing test frameworks or help develop new ones when required. You will also undertake code refactoring where necessary. Develop tests that are predictable, repeatable and implement automated verification of acceptance criteria to the greatest possible extent. Review test automation code and test utility code, and configure, monitor, and trigger tests to run on demand as well as continuously evaluating the efficacy of this process. Determine tools and approaches for virtualisation, data mocking , contract testing or other automated integration testing techniques and determine tools and approaches for automated test data management, test results aggregation and release management. Enable precise, real-time reports of automation test runs. Manage test infrastructure usage and determine approach to running distributed, parallel tests. Use container & Cloud technology to orchestrate faster, scalable tests. Interpret data from code scan, code quality and observability tools. Agree quality thresholds and provide actionable feedback in aiding quality improvement. Participate in the QAT Test Engineering community to help grow it. Person specification Essential skills You'll have a demonstrable passion for Test Engineering , with the following skills or some experience in: Programming using Java to write secure, reusable, and maintainable automated tests and test utilities. You should be familiar with concepts like thread management, synchronisation, resource, and memory management, and scripting languages like bash or PowerShell (Lead essential criteria). Using tools like Selenium for front-end automation, RestAssured for API testing, Serenity BDD, build tools like Maven or Gradle and using Git to manage branches and merge requests through distributed version control. Working with unit test frameworks like Junit, assertion libraries and data serialisation tools, leveraging tools like Wiremock, to aid automated testing. Working with POM test design pattern and SOLID code design principle. Implementing coding guidelines and standards and using BDD tools like Cucumber for developing automated tests. Using CI/CD tools while having a good understanding of release pipelines and jobs and familiarity with containerization platforms like Docker. Using code quality tools like SonarQube. Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework The technical skills listed below are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework. Please refer to the attached Home Office QAT Skills Library pack, which includes detailed descriptors of the listed skills at each level of capability to assist with your application. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Working Together Communicating and Influencing Changing and Improving Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Strategic Planning (ITSP) - Level 3 Domain Experience - Level 3 Test, Analysis, Design and Execution - Level 3 Automation and Tooling - Level 3 Performance Testing - Level 3 Integration and Assurance - Level 3