Associate Developer - Lawrence Hill, United Kingdom - Planning Inspectorate

Planning Inspectorate

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Lawrence Hill, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Details:

Reference number:

Salary:

- £26,586 - £28,064
Job grade:

Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
PINS
Corporate Services
Type of role:
Digital
Information Technology
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Compressed Hours
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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About the job

Benefits:

Things you need to know

Location

Bristol, South West England, BS1 6PNAbout the job

Job summary:

The Planning Inspectorate is recruiting for a Developer to join our growing Digital Services team as we expand to meet growing demands from our colleagues, government, and our customers.

You will be a member of a multidisciplinary team, writing code, and providing technical expertise, within one of our services including our casework management system, public facing websites and internal tools, as well as supporting our ongoing digital transformation work to create a more modern Inspectorate.

The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people's lives, the communities where they live and the economy.

We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services.

For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please see the information pack attached.

Job description:

You will be responsible for working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, focussed on delivering high quality code in line with project goals and delivery cycles.

As a Developer, you will work with others within the team to utilise practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

You will also keep up to date with the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often, learning new languages and frameworks and picking the right solutions.

Our Tech Stack

We rely on:

NodeJS for our digital transformation work.
C#.NET for our legacy casework management system and appeals service.
HTML/CSS/JavaScript for both digital transformation and other services.
Azure for our infrastructure and deployment.
MSSQL for data storage.
Docker and Azure Web Apps to host our digital transformation services.
GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces.

We're happy to help you learn our tech stack once you are part of our team.

Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technology we use.

A typical week in this role will consist of a blend of responsibilities, including:

Performing code review.
Prioritisation of work in line with deliverables and project goals.
Writing code.
Writing unit tests.
Offering technical advice on software architecture and technology choices.
Providing guidance to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Identifying and fixing faults.

Hybrid working

Person specification:

Essential Criteria

Experience of frontend web development (HTML, CSS and JavaScript).
Experience of agile development, software design patterns, continuous integration, test driven development and version control (preferably GitHub).
Experience of developing and working with RESTful APIs.
Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Experience of identifying, locating and competently fixing faults.

Desirable Criteria

Experience of other Cloud platforms and programming languages (e.g. AWS, PHP, Java).

Behaviours:

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

Working Together
Developing Self and Others
Changing and Improving
Delivering at Pace

Technical skills:

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

Front end web development
Working with RESTful APIs

Benefits:

Flexible working options, including flexitime, parttime, compressed hours and home working if suitable for the role.
A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity.
25 days annual leave increasing by 1 day per year up to 30 days after 5 years, plus 1 privilege day to mark the King's birthday. In addition to the normal bank holidays.
Generous family friendly policies.
Fast and modern IT kit which utilises Windows 10 and Microsoft 365, enabling seamless working from home and collaboration across teams.

For full information see our Benefits information pack.

Things you need to know

Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Application

Interview

If you are shortlisted, you will:

Be asked to attend an interview to have a more in-depth discussion about your experience and suitability for the role
Interviews will be a blend of behaviour, experience