Met Office Hiring for Senior Scientific Software Engineer (Climate Observations) Job at Exeter, England Full Time

Our reward package

We’re hiring a Senior Scientific Software Engineer (Climate Observations) to help us make a difference to our planet.

Our Senior Scientific Software Engineer (Climate Observations) will work a hybrid pattern of homeworking and working from our Exeter HQ.

We are open to a range of flexible working options including full- or part-time working (minimum 22.2 hours or 3 days per week) with a regular or irregular pattern of hours.

Why join us?

We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science to deliver extraordinary impact and benefit across the globe. Our work helps people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

As our Senior Scientific Software Engineer (Climate Observations) , your starting salary will be £37418.00 and you will have opportunities to progress to £41159.00 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima.

Your total reward package is potentially worth up to £51,767 annually, which includes basic salary, potential corporate bonus and employer pension contributions.

In addition you will be paid £3000 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. You will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2022 until March 2024 in your monthly pay whilst performing this role.

Who we are

The Climate Monitoring and Attribution team at the Met Office Hadley Centre is an internationally recognised group that specialises in working with observations to monitor and understand our climate. In this role, you will be primarily developing software to process climate observations, although there will be opportunities for you to collaborate and interact with other Met Office software engineers and scientists. Our work is used internationally and we provide climate information to the UK government and the general public.

This role offers the opportunity to work on a number of projects, e.g. developing a large software system for routinely monitoring different key climate variables – https://climate.metoffice.cloud/; developing and improving the maturity of our existing dataset production software systems to make them more efficient, robust and transparent; and contributing to satellite climate data record development with the European Space Agency and EUMETSAT, as well as working on the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme.

Together:

• We’re a force for good – focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature – always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it – putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together – understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving – pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Find out more about our values – https://bit.ly/3fokaRD

Job Purpose

Working both as part of a team and independently, as our Senior Scientific Software Engineer (Climate Observations) , the key duties are:

• Working with colleagues to design and build robust and traceable software systems to process and analyse observational data from a wide range of sources (e.g. weather stations, satellites, dynamical reanalysis). These systems produce (from diverse measurements with an initially low level of processing) datasets or products that can be used for monitoring climate change.
• Improving the efficiency, automation, and quality assurance of new and existing software systems to ensure our observational datasets are robust and of the highest quality.
• Communicating, both verbally and through clear documentation, the purpose and function of complex software systems to colleagues, some of whom do not specialise in software engineering.

We invite interest from candidates who feel they are able to provide strong evidence in response to the criteria below. However, we fully understand that many career paths may not have provided opportunity to demonstrate all of these to the highest level. We are therefore equally keen to hear from you if you believe you can make a positive impact in this field. If you are interested, and think you have something unique to offer, please do submit an application, providing evidence where you can against the key criteria below, how you have grown to overcome knowledge gaps and what you would bring to this role.

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you. Apply below using your CV and Cover Letter/Supporting Statement (which must bullet point how you meet each of the essential criteria).

Closing date 10/07/2022 at 23:59 with interviews commencing from 16/08/2022 . You will hear from us once the closing date has passed. Our interviews are taking place remotely via Microsoft Teams.

If successful, you will occasionally need to work at our state of the art office in Exeter for team days and face to face collaboration as required, we are unable to offer expenses for travel to your normal place of work. Please ask at interview how often this requirement is likely to be.

How we can help:

If you are considering applying and need assistance to do so, please contact us via askHR@metoffice.gov.uk. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity.

You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident (Guaranteed Interview) Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from those with all protected characteristics (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/careers/equality-diversity-and-inclusion). We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK – please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.