Software Developer

United Kingdom JPC - 545 Contract

Role: Software Developer

Headcount:1

Digital/Non Digital: Digital

Contracting Authority: Met Office

Contract Length: 12 months

Location: Exeter

IR35: Inside

Sensitive information on client – Yes – DO NOT ADVERTISE DAY RATE

Pay Rate to Candidate: £625 Umbrella

Minimum Requirement: As per Fieldglass

Security Clearance: SC

CV Deadline: 24/03

Interview Process: MS teams

Client qualify for GIS: YES

Please highlight on coversheet if your candidate qualifies for the guaranteed interview scheme

Description:

Consumer Digital enables the public to access Met Office forecasts and observation data

through various channels such as the website and mobile apps. This post is within Atlas Team in Consumer Digital. Atlas team aims to understand the important weather data for web scale platforms and make available the latest science and data through common capability APIs that are robust and well architected.

A developer delivers software components that form part of a product.

At this role level, you will:

· 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

· Operate the services you build and identify issues in production

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/software-developer – Software developer – Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

Essential

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (Experts by nature)
Proven ability of designing, implementing and delivering quality and efficient software using Amazon Web Services to deliver data via APIs (We keep evolving)
Good communication skills that adapt to all level of stakeholders (We're better together)
Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, and lead development activities
Demonstrable skills in Python software development
Demonstrable skills in AWS CDK