Our reward package
We're hiring for a Lead Developer to join our Solutions Delivery team. We'd love to hear from anyone wishing to work 0.6 FTE- 1.0 FTE (3 to 5 days a week).
Our Lead Developers work a hybrid pattern of homeworking and between 1 and 4 days a month in Exeter HQ.
Your total reward package is potentially worth up to £57847.00 annually, which includes basic salary, market supplement, potential corporate bonus and employer pension contributions.
As our Lead Developer (Technical), your starting salary will be £37418.00 and you will have opportunities to progress to £41159.00 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima.
In addition, you will be paid £6,000 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. You will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2022 until March 2024 in your monthly pay whilst performing this role.
Your package includes: - Outstanding Civil Service Pension - Flexible hours and homeworking - Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave - Cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel - Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories
Who we are
We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
Together:
We're a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact We're experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making We're better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customersFind out more about our values by visiting our careers site.
We are the Met Office, come and join us and help us to make a difference.
Job Purpose
The Met Office is recruiting for a Lead Developer to join our fantastic team, working in an organisation with some of the most advanced technology within UK government and enabling the realisation of weather and climate science to services. We need great people to join us and help us exploit all of the technological benefits that the recent £1.2B investment in our supercomputer will bring.
A career at the Met Office opens a wealth of opportunities to not only work with world class partners, such as Microsoft, Amazon and many others, but also to challenge them to create solutions for Met Office problems.
You'll be able to see your work on millions of devices through our award winning weather app, and know that solutions that you helped to build are helping third world countries prepare for climate change.
We put our people at the heart of our decisions as an employer and aim to provide outstanding working conditions and career development opportunities. We will invest heavily in training and personal development to help you to reach your highest potential. You can expect to enjoy a flexible working day, we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that suits you.
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
Programming and build - You can advise on the right way to apply standards and methods to ensure compliance. You can maintain technical responsibility for all the stages and iterations of a software development project. You can provide technical advice to stakeholders and set the team-based standards for programming tools and techniques. User focus - Experience communicating technical concepts, problems and solutions to architects, developers, and customer stakeholders Systems design - You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Modern standards approach . You can demonstrate a strong understanding of the most appropriate modern standards and practices, and how they are applied. You can coach and guide others in these standards. Systems integration . You can define the integration build. You can co-ordinate build activities across systems. You can understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
Public cloud - Experience with AWS/ Azure building services via CI/ CD. Geospatial data - Knowledge of geospatial data concepts and technologies. APIS - Experience building restful APIs to expose data.How to apply
If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you. Apply below using your CV and Cover Letter/ Supporting Statement (which must bullet point how you meet each of the essential criteria). Closing date 08/ 01/ 2023 at 23:59 with interviews commencing from 18/ 01/ 2023 . You will hear from us once the closing date has passed. Our interviews are taking place remotely via Microsoft Teams.
If successful, please note we are unable to offer expenses for travel to your normal place of work. Please ask at interview if you would like extra clarity on how often this requirement is likely to be.
How we can help:
If you are considering applying and need assistance to do so, please contact us via . You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity.
You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident (Guaranteed Interview) Scheme. To be invited to interview/ assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.
We are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.
Additional information
We operate an on-call roster in Technology to provide 24/ 7/ 365 support to respond to operational service requirements. This post may be part of an on-call roster and the postholder would be required to participate in an on-call roster where in operation.GOLD