Junior RPAEngineer

Launch your career as an RPA Engineer, as part of DWP's Intelligent Automation Garage.

We're changing how DWP works for 110,000 colleagues, and over 20 million users, using the latest techniques and tech like natural language processing, optical character recognition, computer vision, machine learning, event-driven architecture, and serverlesscomputing.

Pay up to £37,707. Learning, development and career progression as part of a community of engineers.

Plus 27% employer pension contributions, hybrid working with 60% home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

**DWP. Digital with Purpose.**

DWP is the UK's biggest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to people who need support. We look after £1.7Bn in pensions assets.

We are looking for an emerging Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're driving a generational transformation of government services. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to create innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions used by millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

**Delivery World-Class Products**

You'll join DWP's Intelligent Automation Garage. We're an ambitious, energetic, driven and fun-loving team. IAG works best when support each other and socialise. We regularly hold events like picnics in the park, online quizzes, and play (sometimes too competitive)5-a-side football.

You'll have chance to work with highly-skilled RPA Engineers and multidisciplinary experts all driven by the desire to deliver innovative products that we can be proud of.

Together, you'll create clean, secure, and well-documented products using a test-driven approach.

To help you really make a difference, you'll be using the best tools and equipment for the job.
- We plan and track work in Jira
- We document in Confluence
- We communicate using Teams and Slack
- We commit, build and deploy code with GitLab,
- We use best-in-class cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- And we do it all on the latest MacBook Pro devices.

**Your development in IAG**

You'll have access to some fantastic learning and development resources including conferences with industry expert speakers, subscriptions to digital training solutions such as Cloud Academy, and comprehensive instructor-led training.

You will also have access to support through direct Slack channels with partners such as AWS, GitLab and MongoDB for every day on the job learning.

**What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?**
- RPA Software - Experience in one or more of the following: UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere.
- API Design and Open Standards - Experience in one or more of the following: RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, Cloud computing.
- Security - Experience in one or more of the following: Secrets Management, Encryption, OWASP Top 10, Denial of Service, SQL Injection, Cross Site Request Forgery.
- Testing - Experience in one or more of the following: Unit Testing, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
- Version Control - Experience in one or more of the following: Git, Pull/Merge Requests.

**Details. Wages. Perks.**

You'll join us in our brilliant digital hub Newcastle. We're just round the corner from Longbenton Metro station.,

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work and collaborate flexibly. We work a hybrid model and you'll be in the office about 40% of the time, with 60% home working

We offer competitive pay of up to £37,707.

You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth over 27%, and a leave package starting at 24 days and rising to 31 (plus all public holidays).

You can also take extra days off - up to 3 a month - using your flexi hours.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

- Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days off
- Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
- Family-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Working in an award-winning environment and culture
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.