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Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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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, Titchfield (Fareham), London, Manchester, Edinburgh or Darlington.
ONS operates a hybrid working arrangements where colleagues are required to work in their allocated office location at least 20% of their work time from January 2024 raising to a minimum of 40% attendance from April 2024. The exception to this is for colleagues based at the Darlington Economic Campus who will be required to attend the office for a minimum of 20% of their work time due to current accommodation constraints.
About the job
Job summary
Are you an accomplished software engineer working within Cloud Technologies, looking for a role where you can make a real impact, using your technical experience to enable us to deliver our Statistics for the Public Good strategy for the UK?
Do you want to work in an organisation that champions diversity and inclusivity, and has been voted by Glassdoor as top in the UK for Work-life balance for the last 2 years in a row?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is looking for experienced Software Engineers to join our active community of software professionals, working within our Cloud technology division.
Job description
When you join the ONS you will be part of an active community of practice of 180 software engineers, working on critical projects and programmes across the organisation in a collaborative development environment.
We are looking for experienced Cloud software Engineers, who are either Front-end , Back-end or Full Stack.
As part of an agile and multi-disciplinary development team, you will learn from and support each other in the delivery, support and continuous improvement of critical systems and tools.
You will be working on Cloud Technologies- In particular Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Responsibilities
You will be involved in the full software development lifecycle, carrying out the design, running, testing and continuous improvement of software to meet user needs, and will be responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, and working to open-source principles to create code that is easy to re-use.
As a software engineer you will be responsible for:
- Designing, delivery and maintenance of quality software products to serve a variety of user needs and enhancing existing software products to meet evolving user needs.
- Maintaining and supporting services, identifying, locating and fixing faults, and taking proactive actions to avoid loss of service.
- Triaging issues and building stories for more involved issues, document processes and support more junior colleagues.
- Evaluating and adopting tools and approaches appropriate for the environment.
- Supporting an environment where continuous or on demand delivery can be enabled by the business, using effective delivery and deployment techniques.
- Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques; identifying and sharing good practices and collaborating to improve the capability of the team
- Peer reviewing the work of others.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Ability to support the prioritisation and defining of approaches to the full Software Development Life Cycle, from defining user stories through to testing, delivery and ongoing support of products.
- Ability to design, code, test and support complex work, following key principles and design patterns, and carry out agreed maintenance and operational tasks.
- Ability to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.
- Ability to work collaboratively to peer review work of others, share knowledge and support more junior colleagues.
Technical Criteria:
We are looking for developers and engineers with knowledge of Cloud technologies, with a willingness to collaborate, learn and grow during their time with us.
You will be working on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) utilising Angular 2+ and have good working knowledge of TypeScript, HTML language, Node.js and CSS.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Programming and Build
- Function & Non-Functional testing
- Service Support
- Communicating between technical and non-technical
Benefits
£10,584 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.
Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.
Inclusion & Accessibility
At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader were committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
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Selection process details
Security Clearance
Individuals appointed to the Office for National Statistics or UK Statistics Authority will be subject to National Security Vetting at SC Cleared level for this post. To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out applicants will normally need to have lived in the UK for the 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying.
A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance.
If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please contact the recruitment email on the advert before applying to discuss.
Applicants may utilise AI resources in their submissions; ensuring all information provided is factually accurate, truthful, and original, avoiding any form of plagiarism to maintain the authenticity and credibility of the application process.
Applicant support
The ONS regularly run webinars and support sessions for candidates. You can find details on all our upcoming webinars on our Eventbrite page.
Stage 1 Application & Sift
Assessment at application stage will be based on your work history and skills and experience. Your CV section on the application should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the role.
The technical questions (the Additional questions section of the application) should be no longer than 500 words each. You should use this space to provide evidence for the technical criteria within the person specification. As the criteria are scored, we would recommend that you give clear examples for each including the impact of your actions and set them out using the STAR acronym (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
In cases where there is a high number of applications the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e. those scoring the highest.
Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage.
Stage 2 Interview
Should you be invited to interview, you will be assessed using various assessment techniques aligned to the Civil Service Success Profiles, where you’ll be assessed against all the behaviours and technical criteria outlined in the advert. More details around Technical skills can be found within the role profile attached.
A presentation may be required at interview. Further information will be provided to successful candidates prior to interview.
Important Dates:
Sift date: From 10/01/2024
Interview dates: From 24/01/2024
Dates are subject to change.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
This role falls within the remit of the Government Digital and Data (formerly DDaT) Pay Framework that was introduced at the Office for National Statistics from June 2022. This means that in the event that you are successful at interview, your starting salary will be calculated based on the scores achieved during the Technical section of the interview. Full feedback will be provided to you at the point of offer.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Steve Clark
- Email : Steve.Clark@ons.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : DDaT.Recruitment@ons.gov.uk
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