Defence Business Services

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 382175

**Salary**:

- £44,590 - £55,990
- per annum (pro rata)
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- MOD - Head Office & Corporate Services - Defence Business Services (DBS) - Digital, Information and Technology (DIT)

**Type of role**:

- Digital

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Norcross, Tomlinson House FY5 3WP
Bristol, Abbey Wood north BS34 8JH
Glasgow, Kentigern House G2 8EX

About 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 28.97%. 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, taking Discovery Documents for Robotic Process Automations, PowerApps, etc, created by the Business Analysts, through development, testing, user acceptance testing, to live running operation. In addition, you will be expected to investigate and assess new technologies that may offer benefits to organisation if adopted.

**Senior Developer**

**Technical**
- Supports implementation of new systems or upgrades for RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation Solutions
- Develops good practice, ways of working
- Grows the digital community, activity encourage collaboration.
- Develops knowledge and keeps up to date with latest vendor offerings across multiple technologies including RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation
- Innovates and improve the way processes are delivered to the business, assessing, and championing the adoption of new technologies to meet the organisations automation requirements
- Collaborate with others (service manager, technical architects, design team) to understand and review software requirements.
- Designs, codes, tests, corrects, and documents user interfaces using the right standards and tools.
- Keeps the service and project managers informed of the status of development / service support. Finds ways to improve system robustness, resilience, and stability
- Maintains and supports open Gitlab repositories - deploying and managing code changes, as well as other DevOps tasks.
- Manage Amazon Web Service storage, domain naming services and DynamoDB

**Stakeholder Management**
- Builds strong relationship with outside technical teams to ensure implementation success
- Seen by Business and team as the RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation Solutions expert
- Builds productive relationships internally and externally

**Person specification**:
**Essential Skills**
- Programming and build (software engineering). You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications; use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools (Skill Level Required: Practitioner)
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