Digital Services - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Companies House

Companies House
Companies House
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Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £25,613 - £30,630
  • Placement commences at Band C £25,613 then rises to Band C(IT) £30,630 at the end of year 1 providing placement expectations are being met

Job grade:


  • Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • CH
  • Digital
Services
Type of role:
  • Digital
  • Information Technology
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Homeworking
    Number of jobs available:
  • 4Contents
    • Location

    About the job


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    Location

    • Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZAbout the job

    Job summary:


    An exciting opportunity has arisen for innovative, highly motivated graduates to join our Digital Services Team within Companies House in Cardiff.

    The programme runs for 2 years and will start in June 2023.

    You will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of the Government's Digital Transformation and to develop our services to meet the ever-changing demands of the UK's business landscape.


    Throughout this programme, you will develop skills and knowledge in the following areas: website, web service, and internal system development and maintenance, data science and product development.


    There will be two further graduate positions which will operate purely in Software Engineering for the duration of the programme.

    Please note, the grade and salary for rotational and fixed positions are identical.

    Being a graduate is more about your attitude and ability to learn, rather than your previous experience.


    At Companies House, hybrid working is about achieving an effective balance between working in the office and working from other appropriate locations.

    Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life.


    As a Digital Services Graduate you will be expected to attend the Cardiff office when required (at least 1 day per week) to allow ongoing support and development and to allow you to collaborate with your colleagues.

    Job description:


    We are looking for talented individuals to join our 2 year graduate programme, which will transition into permanent positions once successfully completed.


    • 2 posts will focus purely on Software Engineering
    • 2 posts will rotate through the following areas Software Engineering, Software Testing, DevOps/Platform Engineering and Data, Analytics and Research (DAR)

    Software Engineering - Development


    Companies House has several internal systems that are core to the processing and management of the information stored on the Companies House Register.

    These systems are researched, developed and maintained by teams within Companies House.


    The teams that develop these systems use a wide variety of skills and technologies such as _Linux, AWS operations, Terraform, Concourse (building and maintaining pipelines), Ansible, Java, Kafka, MongoDB, Docker, JSON, Elastic Search, JavaScript, SQL, Mesosphere and an ever-changing technologies to_ carry out this work_.

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    DevOps - Platform Engineering
    The team is responsible for the automation of Companies House software delivery processes and environment creation. The team is working towards replacing human labour by creating automated pipelines that will deploy code automatically into production.


    The team also creates and supports development environments for the CHS Services and will be responsible for the legacy development environments as they transition to the cloud.

    In addition, the team are assisting in the migration of the on-premise infrastructure to cloud based services and control access and user permissions for AWS.

    Some of the services that the team are responsible for are Concourse, Jenkins, SonarQube, Vault and Artifactory.


    Software Engineering - Testing and QA
    The Test Team is responsible for ensuring the production of quality software. As one of the test engineers you will play a pivotal role in influencing the development of our products.


    Within this role, you will be a representative of the end-user, remaining customer focused and ensuring that satisfaction is delivered to the customer.


    You will have the opportunity to practice all modern forms of testing, as well as learning about the development of automated scripts using popular frameworks (like Cucumber), using behavior-driven development, which shifts the focus of our products to the end-user and enables us to get a clear understanding of their needs.


    Data, Analytics and Research (DAR)


    The Data, Analytics and Research (DAR) team provide essential information and expertise supporting Companies House vision of using data to drive confidence in the UK Economy.

    The team collects and analyses data to form strategic outcomes and predict trends.

    The team's work can range from establishing data requirements for the latest policy initiative to helping operational areas understand the barriers to increasing their t
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