Defence Business Services
7 months ago
**Details**:
**Reference number**:
- 328736**Salary**:
- £43,080 - £54,480-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:
- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:
- Permanent**Business area**:
- MOD - Head Office & Corporate Services - Digital, Data and Technology Profession
**Type of role**:
- Digital**Working pattern**:
- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:
- 1Contents
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About the job
**Benefits**:
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Location
- Abbey Wood North, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, South West, BS34 8QW - Tomlinson House, Norcross, Blackpool, FY5 3WPAbout the job
**Job summary**:
**Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference?**
**Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence?**
Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services, to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.
- Our Vision - To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.
- Our Mission - Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability.
DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society.
We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working.
DBS has recently undertaken a review of its operational locations in the North West, and have consolidated all activities in Norcross, Blackpool. A further move, to the new Government Hub at Talbot Gateway in Blackpool, is scheduled to take place in 2026.
**Come and join the DBS community today**
**Job description**:
As a Senior Developer in the Defence Business Services (DBS) Automation Garage you will be expected to work collaboratively in small, multi-disciplinary agile scrum teams.
In this role, you will be responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach.
Create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse.
Be able to integrate APIs such as gov.uk/pay and gov.uk/notify and develop services in line with the Government Digital Service Standard.
Test and document code releases and support the team at GDS Service Assessments.
**Responsibilities**:
- Learn on the job while delivering software components.
- Collaborate with others (service manager, technical architects, design team) to understand and review software requirements.
- Design, code, test, correct and document user interfaces using the right standards and tools.
- Work with JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, TypeORM, Postgres, SQLite, Nunjucks, NestJS and Docker
- Keep the service and project managers informed of the status of development / service support. Find ways to improve system robustness, resilience, and stability
- Maintain and support open Gitlab repositories
- Deploy and Manage code changes, as well as other DevOps tasks.
- Manage Amazon Web Service storage, domain naming services and DynamoDB
**Person specification**:
**Programming and build**. Collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications; use the agreed specifications to build, test and document user interfaces of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools. (Relevant skill level: Practitioner)
**User focus**. Collaborate with user researchers and interaction designers to represent user needs internally; explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. Champion user research to focus on all users; effectively prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others to do so; offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. (Relevant skill level: Practitioner)
**Systems design**. Translate agreed designs into working user interfaces following modern standards; manage and document technical complexity to make sure work is easily maintained and reusable; work with well-understood technology and can identify appropriate patterns to make effective use of technologies’ best features. (Relevant skill level: Practitioner)
**Systems integration**
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