Office for National Statistics Careers Near Me – Lead Software Engineer

• Protected Learning Time to spend on your personal development and side-projects.
• A supportive and active Community of Practice which you will be expected to contribute to, helping ensure you and your colleagues get the training, development and opportunities you need to progress your careers.
• The opportunity to participate as an assessor in our annual progression panels, that provide yearly promotion opportunities.

Responsibilities

As a Lead Engineer you will Contribute to the community, providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring the team, promoting knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice. Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Identify security risks and technical debt which affect the products we build, working with the service owner, product owners, and product teams to prioritise, design and implement improvements.
• Act as a champion for agile practice and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge CI/CD and DevSecOps practice
• Contribute to the community, providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring the team, promoting knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice.
• Empower the software engineers to take responsibility for culture, standards, and technical aspects of the products themselves.
• Ensure we have the right people and skills to meet the team’s goals by taking ownership of the technical recruitment process and leading on interviews. You will also have a voice in determining the roles we seek to recruit. 

We work across multiple business areas, software tools and systems and use a range of programming languages, including Go and Java.

We Also Utilise Technologies And Platforms Such As

• AWS with Terraform, Ansible and Kafka,
• Hashicorp stack including Nomad and Docker,
• Data Storage technologies including MongoDB, and AWS Neptune,
• Build and deployment tools including Jenkins and Concourse CI.

We expect that you will have experience of using some of these technologies and be keen to learn others.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Able to bring people together to form a motivated team. Understand how to empower delivery teams and to help create the right environment for a team to work in.
• Be skilled and enjoy coaching and developing engineers’ skills in modern development standards and practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative, autonomous and user-centred agile environment.
• Skilled in software engineering with an understanding of back end, front end and platform engineering. You are likely to have strong skills in at least one of those areas
• Can apply industry best practice security standards and specifications to design, create, test and document software solutions with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats
• Able to analyse current software development and delivery processes, then identify and implement opportunities to optimise them
• Can set team-based standards for programming tools and techniques. Lead code reviews and give constructive feedback to others
• Able to design, implement and execute a wide range of functional and non-functional testing techniques.

Behaviours

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

Technical Skills

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

• Programming and build (software engineering)
• Functional and non-functional testing
• Communicating between technical and non-technical
• Service support

Benefits

The

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.

We are an organisation that takes well-being seriously and lives and breathes the desire to modernise the workplace of the future. Everyone, from our office-based colleagues across our office sites, to our field interviewers and airports and ports passenger survey teams, are part of a diverse and inclusive family.

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 we’re 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.

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using

Stage 1 – Application & Sift

Assessment at application stage will be based on your job history, skills & experience.

The CV, job history and skills & experience should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the content of the role.

Your personal statement should be no longer than 1250 words. You should use this space to provide evidence for each essential 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.

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 outlined in the advert as well as against the technical areas listed in the advert. More details on technical assessment criteria can be found within the role profile attached.

A presentation may be required at interview. Successful candidates will be given full details in advance of their interview.

In the current circumstances, interviews will be conducted by Video.

A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.

Important Dates

Sift date: w/c 31st October 2023

Interview dates: from 10th November 2023

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 DDaT Pay Framework that was introduced at the Office for National Statistics from June 2023. 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.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is

People working with government assets must complete

Nationality Requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Working for the Civil Service

The

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Simon Roland
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team :

• Email : [email protected]

Further information