Digital Development Programme - Associate Developer
Various locations: Croydon, Manchester, Sheffield
Salary
£37,300 - £44,191
National pay location: Manchester, Sheffield - £37,300 - £39,911
London pay location: Croydon - £41,300- £44,191
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
Business area - HO - Digital Data and Technology
Join the Digital Development Programme as an Associate Software Engineer
Are you passionate about technology, driven by curiosity, and eager to learn? Do you excel at problem-solving, adapt easily to change, and enjoy building strong stakeholder relations? Then our scheme could be the perfect next step in your career, as Home Office Digital, Data and Technology is seeking to strengthen its early talent pipeline.
We will be facilitating an on online open event for an overview of the programme where you will be able to ask any questions on
Tuesday 9th September
at
6:30pm. See job full job ad for further details.
Job description
As an Associate Engineer you will be paired with an engineering colleague to learn on the job whilst designing, running and improving software components.
* Learn to write clean, secure code that meets our technical standards.
* Work under close supervision with regular feedback to support your development.
* This post is being offered on a Fixed Term Appointment (FTA) basis in order to complete a finite piece of work for 18 months.
Key responsibilities
* Taking tasks from definition to completion and owning changes.
* Completing basic development/test tasks on your own initiative, and more advanced tasks under the supervision of others.
* Proposing solutions that fit within the overall models and patterns set by more senior developers.
* Identifying and resolving issues with one of our systems, using established methods.
* Supporting the definition and delivery of new services.
* Learning more advanced software development and delivery skills to advance as an engineer.
Over the course of the programme, you will work in multidisciplinary delivery teams, to deliver word-class, user-centred services for the public and civil servants.
Essential criteria
* Experience/knowledge in the engineering industry.
* Basic development practice, front end or back end.
* Applying testing techniques and understanding the role testing plays in software development lifecycle.
* Supporting and troubleshooting applications following prescribed procedures.
* Working knowledge of databases and interest in cloud technologies.
Qualifications:
Minimum 2.2 degree in Computer
Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or recent working and professional experience/knowledge in the engineering industry.