Front End Tech Lead - Manchester, United Kingdom - Office for National Statistics

Office for National Statistics
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Location:

We operate a hybrid working model and fully support flexibility with colleagues already based across the UK working from home and linked to one of our core locations in Newport, London, Titchfield (Fareham), Manchester, Edinburgh or Darlington.


Salary:
£53,400 - £65,400 + up to £7,500 skills allowance


Working Patterns:
All our vacancies are offered as your choice of Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time or Compressed Hours

Are you a Senior Software Engineer, Senior Developer, Tech Lead or DevOps professional looking for an opportunity to develop your career as a Lead Software Engineer? Then read on


You will be a crucial part of our new Advanced Content Co-Creation service, a part of our Digital Publishing directorate focused on developing new advanced data-driven formats (including bespoke data visualisation products, scrolly-telling, semi-automated journalism), and creating new citizen-focused content in partnership with ONS statistical teams.

This is some of the most publicly visible technical work at ONS, producing and facilitating content aimed directly at individual members of the public.


As a seasoned mentor, you enjoy coaching & developing other engineers' skills, and you're happy to set standards and lead code-reviews within your team.

You are a skilled engineer, with expertise and understanding across front-end development and good knowledge of some of our tech stack (listed below), with willingness to learn the rest over time and with the support of ONS.

Last of all, you have enthusiasm and capability to develop front-end experiences involving data, mapping and visualisation.


Tech Stack:

- _we expect you to have experience of _
some_, not all, of the following:_

  • Javascript (D3js, MapboxGL)
  • Python
  • React
  • SvelteKit
  • Go
  • Java
  • AWS (w/ Terraform, Ansible & Kafka)
  • Hashicorp stack (inc. Nomad & Docker)
  • Data storage (MongoDB, AWS Neptune)
  • Build & Deployment (Jenkins, Concourse CI)

In return we offer:

  • Hybrid working in an organisation voted top in the UK for worklife balance 2 years running
  • A market leading pension scheme our employer contribution rate is around 27%
  • A choice of working patterns *for every role* fulltime, parttime, jobshare.
  • Employee Assistance Programmes
  • Diversity Network Groups
  • Mental Health Allies
  • Civil Service Sports and Social club
  • Generous holiday allowance 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays
  • Protected L&D time and huge investment in certifications, training & upskilling

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Permanent


Salary:
£53,400.00-£65,400.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Canteen
  • Casual dress
  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discounted or free food
  • Enhanced maternity leave
  • Enhanced paternity leave
  • Flexitime
  • Free parking
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • Onsite parking
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Sick pay
  • UK visa sponsorship
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Flexitime
  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Manchester, M1 6EU

Application deadline: 03/07/2023

Reference ID: 294827
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