Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Hiring for Software Engineer Job at Swansea, Wales Full Time

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£30,734

A Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £3,500 applies

Permanent

DVLA – Information Technology Services

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology

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

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Swansea – DVLA supports flexible working, and as an IT department we are currently working from home. We are working towards introducing a hybrid model, under which working arrangements will be driven by the requirements of your role in agreement with your line manager.

At DVLA, we encourage applications from everyone, particularly groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. We pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has and promote inclusivity and equality of opportunity for all. Our recruitment process is anonymised, which means that your name, date of birth and other personal details will not be seen by the sift panel.

Salary: £30,734

Location: Swansea

Are you an experienced Software Engineer who has a genuine ambition and aim to succeed?

Would you like to work with leading serverless and cloud based technologies?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are recruiting software developers, to work with us and help us build services that reach over 49 million people a year. In this role, you’ll work in an agile delivery team alongside lead and senior engineers to build modern, cloud-based services.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) deliver wide reaching digital services to the UK public and industry. We maintain the national record of vehicles and drivers so if you have applied for a driving licence, taxed your vehicle or completed a vehicle enquiry you would have used one of our services.

We have a friendly and stable engineering community who support each other within and between teams. We promote secure and efficient use of software and infrastructure and try to keep work life as fun as possible.

Our current projects include:

• Entirely new services including a new customer portal, mobile digital driving licence and identity platform.
• The DVLA digital payment service that helps us collect around 6 billion pounds a year.
• New versions of key driving licence services that will help us to reduce paper forms, reduce waiting times and to enable all of our customers to transact digitally.

As one of the agile, cloud and technological leaders within the government, we are constantly pushing boundaries to find, develop and introduce new and innovative technological advancements.

We’ve been using serverless solutions for several years and currently build enquiry APIs, utility and application services using Node.js and associated AWS services. We’ve recently adopted TypeScript within several product areas, so if you think this sounds like a good challenge, please get in touch.

For many of our core business services, you’ll be working with Java and SpringBoot alongside tools like OpenAPI. You don’t need to be a specialist in Java but you will need a passion for creating clean, maintainable and secure applications using an object-oriented language.

If you’re working on the front-end you’ll be using a combination of Ruby on Rails and React. You’ll get to build our external and internal UIs, so this is an exciting opportunity to deliver far reaching, intuitive and accessible front-end systems. Ruby experience isn’t critical, if you’ve worked with an MVC framework, create single page Javascript apps or you’re familiar with the GDS UI guidelines you’ll fit right in.

As part of our ongoing mission to support and develop all staff within the DVLA, you will be given a high spec Macbook and we will help you to achieve certification in areas such as AWS and Java, as well as giving you the freedom and support necessary to perform in your role and continuously develop your skill set.

Responsibilities

Include but not limited to:

• Developing software within an agile team.
• Ensuring good engineering practices and knowledge sharing within your team.
• Working closely with business analysts and agile delivery managers to prepare and review user stories and tasks.
• Creating and executing automated tests.
• Helping ensure that your services are resilient and supported.

For an in-depth insight into the role please click here to see the Role Profile

About You

You will be experienced working as a software engineer across multiple projects, developing software using a variety of modern technologies and tools.

You will be able to work with a team to shape and define requirements and have the skills to build, tests, and deliver features and services.

You will need to be comfortable in using modern CI/CD tooling with an understanding of languages such as Java, Ruby, C#, HTML, Python or similar.

You may have experience delivering services using a public cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, or a motivation to develop these skills.

We strive to ensure that DVLA is a great place to work where everybody can be their true self, be treated with dignity and respect, and according to their individual needs. We have 6 staff network groups run by staff to support their colleagues: Freedom (LGBT), Ability (Disabilities), Gender Equality, Unity (Ethnicity), Mental Health Network and Carers Support Network.

Working for the DVLA Digital Team

At the DVLA our work matters. We’re at the forefront of digital within government, providing new and improved services that are reliable, easy to use and offer value for money for our customers. With over 49 million driver records and over 40 million vehicle records, the opportunity to work at this scale is unrivalled across the region. Our services generate billions in revenue and make a difference to the lives of 9 out of 10 households in the UK.

If you would like to read more about the great opportunities with the DVLA Digital Team then click here

Our people are transforming our digital services, head over to our DVLA Digital Services Blog to read about what we have been up to.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• SFIA Framework – Programming/Software Development (PROG) – Level 4
• SFIA Framework – Application Support – (ASUP) – Level 4
• SFIA Framework – System Design – (DESN) – Level 3
• SFIA Framework – Technical Specialism – (TECH) – Level 4