We have an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic Lead Software Engineer within The Insolvency Service's Digital Services Team. We are responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the agency’s line of business applications.
We’d love you to consider working for us. Working within the Change and Technology Services directorate, the Digital Services Team maintains, enhances and supports a line of business applications that form the backbone of The Insolvency Service’s digital offering. We’re looking for talented and enthusiastic people to come and join our flexible, family-friendly team.
Digital Services prides itself on making your working environment a great place to build a career. We offer continuous investment in your future, with opportunities for training, and developing your skills, whilst at the same time doing something that matters. As well as that you’ll find flexible working and an inclusive culture and a place where your opinion is valued.
About The Insolvency Service
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!
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 Lead Software Engineer you will:
* Support the design and lead the implementation of digital services using C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (client-side, express.js, hapi) and the Azure stack, i.e. Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, AI Search, Azure app services, Function apps, meeting the requirements of the Technology Code of Practice and Gov.UK Service manual.
* Work with a multi-disciplinary team and business stakeholders, fostering good relationships and responding to views and challenges from others.
* Provide technical support for a small team of engineers across one or two digital services.
* Ensure that we build digital products that are interoperable, share components and are sustainable, i.e. perform well and share infrastructure as much as possible to keep energy use and costs as low as possible.
* Work with the wider agency leadership team, promoting the work of digital services, helping build and maintain a diverse inclusive culture across the agency
* Develop and sustain modern development standards, practices and techniques in our development team
* Support, coach and mentor less experienced developers in the team.
* 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.
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