HM Courts and Tribunals Service

Directorate: Digital Technology Services (DTS)

Pay Band: Grade 7

Job Title: Senior Software Developer (Low Code)

Location: National

Successful applicants will be expected to be office based 3 days per week in any HMCTS Office (subject to business availability).

Term: Permanent

Interview: Video conference via Teams

Important salary details:

New recruits to the Civil Service joining MoJ are expected to join at the band minimum.

Existing Civil Servants applying on promotion, will usually be appointed on the salary minimum of the new pay band, or receive an increase of 10 percent on the current base salary, whichever is higher (This is restricted to the pay maximum of the new band).

GDD:

Roles will be recruited using a combination of the Government Digital and Data (GDD) and Success Profile Frameworks. Using GDD we will then determine if you will be paid an additional allowance, on top of your basic salary. This role is aligned to the Technical Job Family, is a Software Developer role at Senior Developer level, and carries the title Senior Software Developer within DTS.

Reserve List:

HMCTS run a Reserve List, where candidates who are unsuccessful at interview by only a few points, can be offered other roles, at the same band, for up to 12 months. You will be able to view your status via the application screen. If you have been added to the Reserve List, your status will show either Merit or Reserve list.

Introduction:

These are exciting times at HM Court and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). As an agency of the MoJ, we support the judiciary across England and Wales to deliver justice by running courts and tribunals and processing outcomes, and we are looking for talented people to help us achieve our ambitions. It will be challenging, important and rewarding.

HMCTS Digital and Technology Services (DTS) is a specialist technology directorate which provides support to HMCTS in the use of IT and Digital.

DTS is committed to being a great place to work and part of our offer is brilliant training opportunities and support from expert colleagues. As well as that you’ll find flexible working, an inclusive culture, and a place where your opinion is valued.

Please follow the link below for further information about HMCTS. www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service

The key purpose of the role:

At HMCTS, we're using cutting-edge low-code technologies like Microsoft Power Platform and UiPath Robotic Process Automation to deliver fast, secure, and critical business solutions. Our low-code team is made up of talented developers who work together to make a real difference.

As a Senior Developer, you'll be a key part of this team working closely with developers, user researchers, product managers, business analysts, delivery managers, and architects. Together, you'll innovate and transform public services to facilitate swift access to justice.

You'll lead and mentor a team of developers, design, develop, and deploy low-code solutions, work with stakeholders to understand their needs, and ensure solutions are secure, reliable, and efficient.

You'll need experience with low-code platforms like Microsoft Power Platform and UiPath, strong technical skills, excellent communication and collaboration skills and a passion for technology.

Technologies:

We rely heavily on:

• Power Platform for low-code development

• UiPath for Robotic Process Automation

• Power Platform Pipelines for deployment

• Dynatrace for application monitoring

• Azure for most of our infrastructure

• Dataverse and SQL Server as our databases.

• GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces

• Macs to do all the above

• In addition, we use a range of other technologies and continue to evolve by employing new technologies that help us deliver better services to our users.

Key responsibilities:

• Write, amend, refactor and document code to build complex programs/scripts, and as required leading on these activities. Adhere to internal process and procedures, promoting and advising others which software development standards, processes & procedures apply.

• Constantly seek to learn and further develop your skills as required for your role. Monitor changes in the tech stack you use and alert on any major changes affecting our software. Adhere to industry's best practices, produce well-engineered modern products and guide others to do so in a highly competent manner.

• Ensure that products are secure, engineered to mitigate security threats and have the necessary security controls in place. Ensure that information is handled with confidentiality and integrity, and that products are compliant. Identify and raise risks and support Information Assurance activities.

• Support and maintain software as required, including in the live environment. Use modern tools to identify, troubleshoot and fix faults effectively and thoroughly. Package and deploy software built. Some activities may be outside the core office hours (in-line with the organisation's policy for OOH).

• Plan the development on sets of related stories and coordinate integration tasks across systems. Contribute to selection of the software development approach (plan-driven, iterative/agile etc.) for projects. Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and support activities to improve the development process. Choose the most appropriate from a variety of methods of prototyping, actively solicit prototypes with others.

• Define, analyse, plan, forecast, measure, maintain and improve all aspects of the availability of services. Control and manage service availability to meet the needs of the business in a cost-effective manner. This includes managing the capability, functionality and sustainability of service components (for example, hardware, software, network resources and software/infrastructure as a service).

• Define the integration build. Coordinate build activities across systems and undertake and support integration testing activities.

• Take a test-driven approach to software development, write complex automation test scripts and participate in testing. Participate in code reviews of own work and leads code reviews of colleagues' work.

• Guide and advise others on technical areas you have expertise in, modern development standards and approaches to understand user stories. Coach and mentor more junior colleagues. Lead on and participate in recruitment as required.

• Participate in and lead on procurement activities as required.

• Translate user stories to a proposed design and develop software to meet user needs. Collaborate with user researchers, represent users internally and champion user research to focus on all users.

• The post holder may be expected to travel between sites, for meetings, events etc as and when required.

Skills & Experience:

• Sound knowledge in one programming language for development of enterprise and public facing applications, ideally in our core stack (Java and JavaScript).

• Knowledge of one low-code platform ideally in our core stack (Power Platform and UiPath).

• Sound knowledge of HTTP and at least one RDBMS (e.g. SQL Server).

• Sound knowledge in a wide range of technologies and libraries used in an enterprise, such as logging and monitoring, authentication/authorisation, cloud hosting environments, systems integration, source control, package management etc.

• Experience of mentoring, coaching or leading other developers.

• Experience of working with modern tools and techniques.

• An understanding of common security issues and how to mitigate them.

• You will also want to make a positive impact on the communities we serve.

• You are looking for new technical and leadership challenges.

• You thrive when you work as part of a team.

• You enjoy learning and helping others.

• You hold yourself and others to a high standard.

• You solve problems in a systematic way.

Application process:

Coding Task

When submitting your application please complete the following coding task and provide a link to the repository:

https://github.com/hmcts/dts-developer-challenge

Please note the Civil Service application process is name-blind, so ensure that the repository containing your code does not include any personal information that would identify you.

The following areas of Success Profile Framework will be used to assess and score your application during the sift, and interview.

• Experience - As demonstrated in your application form.

• Technical -Successful sift candidates will be invited to a pre-interview technical on-line test. If successful, you will move on to the interview stage, which will also include a coding challenge that you will have time to prepare for.

• GDD Assessment - During the interview, you will be assessed against the GDD skills

• and framework below.

GDD Skill 1 - Development process optimisation

GDD Skill 2 - Modern development standards

GDD Skill 3 - Programming and build (software engineering)

GDD Skill 4 - Systems integration

• Behaviours - You will be required to provide evidence of the following key behaviours at Grade 7 level.

• Leadership

• Delivering at Pace

• Level of Clearance - To apply for this role, you will be required to successfully complete Security Clearance (SC) level as a condition of appointment: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/sc-guidance-pack-for-applicants