Software Developer

Details

Reference number

484559

Salary

£37,682 - £40,705

External applicants will join on the pay band minimum.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HMRC - CDIO - CDPO - Valuation Office Agency

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Kilbride, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Portsmouth, Telford, Worthing

About the job

Job summary

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Job description

This is an exciting and challenging role for those looking to deliver and inform technological change against a background of organisational transformation.

Valuation Office Customer Group provides digital services and IT support to the Valuation Office: drawing on HMRC’s digital expertise to ensure our customer (the Valuation Office) gets the right level of service as well as building and supporting specialist unique services.

There are some important attributes that we are looking for in anyone joining Chief Digital Product Office, Valuation Office. You must have a collaborative approach and a passion to communicate effectively. You will take accountability and ownership with the ability to coach, mentor, reflect and ability to give and take feedback. You will be flexible and adaptable, working with a sense of urgency and passionate about having ‘Customer’ at the heart of what you do.

The Valuation Office is currently in the process of a transformation project. This role will involve working with a multi disciplined team to deliver new services within multiple environments and working with wider stakeholders. The work will include coding and completing the process to enable the systems to go live.

As a Developer, you will work within a delivery team; building high-quality, reliable, and maintainable digital services. You will help to further the capability of our technical community by demonstrating best practices and sharing knowledge through community events and academy sessions. You will work within your team under the guidance of your lead or senior developer, often pairing as you employ a test-driven approach to software development, helping your team to meet the needs of our users.

As a member of the Software Developer community, you will be working as part of a DevOps team using Agile best practices. You will work alongside other Developers producing test driven code and advising on software engineering best practices. Collaborating across disciplines within your team, you will help ensure the digital services being delivered help our stakeholders achieve their aims, meet HMRC standards and enable the organisation to achieve its strategic objectives.

Person specification

The candidate will have a proven record of being able work within a multi discipline team, contributing to discussions and seeking to resolve issues as they arise. They will be part of a development team where they be coding to standard and on time, while able to prioritise work on their own, picking up tickets as they are assigned to them.

As a Developer, you will work within a delivery team; building high-quality, reliable, and maintainable digital services. You will help to further the capability of our technical community by demonstrating best practices and sharing knowledge through community events and academy sessions.

You will work within your team under the guidance of your lead or senior developer, often pairing as you employ a test-driven approach to softwar…