Senior Software Engineer
Pay up to £78,517, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.
We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
* Awareness/knowledge of Tuxedo/IPC, Microfocus COBOL, SQL, Bash, Unix and RHEL.
* Awareness/knowledge of open-source technologies and tools such as Python and Java.
* Experience of using task management tooling such as Jira.
* Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
* Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture.
You and your role