Job Title: Developer
Location: Birmingham
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week)
Salary: Up to £37,307 depending on experience
Grade: 11
Job Req: ICT56
You Benefits
- Generous Civil Service Pension, with an employer contribution rate of 27%
- 26 days’ holiday, rising to 29 days after two years’ service, with the option to buy up to five days’ extra annual leave
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working, with regular travel to Birmingham
- Ergonomic, fully accessible office, very close to Birmingham New Street Station
- Open, collaborative and people focused culture
- Employee Assistance Programme
Your Role:
As part of the Digital and IT Team, you will be involved in the creation and maintenance of Digital services for both internal and external users. This includes front and back-end development, and the integration with 3rd party software.
Your Responsibilities
- It’s about understanding our users. You will be involved in the whole lifecycle of delivery and must understand the user needs. All development should put the user at the heart.
- It’s about making things simple. You will remove complexity in services by working with service designers, user researchers and content designers to understand user needs, with the aim of ensuring services are simpler, clearer and faster to use. You will be responsible for working with the support and testing team to ensure the service is high quality and performs well.
- It’s about continuous improvement. You will identify potential improvements to existing services and work with the Digital Team to understand and implement these.
- It’s about collaboration. You will work in an open and collaborative way, using the tools we have to ensure your work is visible and understood. You will coach and support other members of the team.
- It’s about knowledge sharing. You will actively contribute to the team and Commission goals of putting users at the heart of our services, by sharing your knowledge and supporting others to understand the role of Development.
The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of duties. You will be required to perform any reasonable tasks commensurate with the level of responsibility at the request of your Manager.
Your Profile:
Essential:
- Ability to deliver maintainable/clean code and follow coding standards.
- Experience building scalable server-side cloud-based web applications in Microsoft Azure and detailed knowledge of the C#, .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core and MVC programming languages. Detailed understanding of front-end web development (HTML/CSS/JS and Node JS).
- An ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
- Experience of agile development, software patterns, continuous integration and Test-Driven Development.
- Experience of agile environments and version/source control and their configuration.
- Understanding the role of accessibility in digital services.
- Ability to build secure digital services, with knowledge of OWASP and other vulnerabilities.
Desirable:
- Able to deliver software to utilise the features of the Azure platform, Devops and guide teams on these features.
- An understanding of Continuous Integration/Development processes.
- Able to deliver RESTFUL web services.
- An understanding of architectural patterns and principles.
- Able to develop software using SQL server as the underlying data store.
- An understanding of SOLID Principles.
- An understanding of distributed, enterprise level, applications.
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.
Our Ways of Working
Outcome-focused: We put consumers at the heart of everything we do. We take responsibility for an issue and moving it forward. We deliver results through working collaboratively.
Reaching for ways to improve: We encourage feedback and ideas. We are committed to continuous improvement and are open to trying different ways of working. We celebrate successes and take responsibility when things go wrong.
Respectful: We recognise every colleague’s contribution. We give each other timely constructive feedback. We all encourage challenge.
Communicate well: We are clear and concise. We listen and check our understanding. We explain the reasons for decisions.
Making this a great place to work: We all help to make the Commission a great place to work. We value and support each other. We demonstrate a positive attitude
About Us:
Set up under the Gambling Act 2005, the Gambling Commission is committed to safeguarding the public against any detrimental impact brought about by gambling. We do this by keeping crime out, protecting children and vulnerable people and ensuring the commercial gambling industry is run fairly and openly. We work with the legal system, the public health system, community groups and the industry itself to understand how we can protect the interests of as many people as possible, as effectively as possible.
Your Application:
We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion. We are committed to a working environment where each individual’s contribution is valued and respected, enabling our employees to thrive and reach their full potential. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
To apply for this position please see our careers website.
The closing date for this role is 10th November 2024.
The recruitment process for this role will consist of two stages; a technical assessment and a final interview.
If your application is successful, you will be invited to complete a technical assessment. In this, you are asked to complete a code-based exercise and send your completed work back to us. This will be reviewed by us and discussed in a final interview.
Interviews are likely to be held from 20th November 2024.
Please ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying. We are unable to provide sponsorship for visas currently.
Incomplete applications will be discounted from shortlisting. Please ensure your application is fully completed and submitted before logging out of your account.
As the regulator of the National Lottery, there are some roles within the Commission that are prohibited from playing the National Lottery. This does not affect your family playing. We will let you know at interview if the role you have applied for is on the Prohibited List.
This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency
Nov 02, 2024
Permanent
Job Title: Developer
Location: Birmingham
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week)
Salary: Up to £37,307 depending on experience
Grade: 11
Job Req: ICT56
You Benefits
- Generous Civil Service Pension, with an employer contribution rate of 27%
- 26 days’ holiday, rising to 29 days after two years’ service, with the option to buy up to five days’ extra annual leave
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working, with regular travel to Birmingham
- Ergonomic, fully accessible office, very close to Birmingham New Street Station
- Open, collaborative and people focused culture
- Employee Assistance Programme
Your Role:
As part of the Digital and IT Team, you will be involved in the creation and maintenance of Digital services for both internal and external users. This includes front and back-end development, and the integration with 3rd party software.
Your Responsibilities
- It’s about understanding our users. You will be involved in the whole lifecycle of delivery and must understand the user needs. All development should put the user at the heart.
- It’s about making things simple. You will remove complexity in services by working with service designers, user researchers and content designers to understand user needs, with the aim of ensuring services are simpler, clearer and faster to use. You will be responsible for working with the support and testing team to ensure the service is high quality and performs well.
- It’s about continuous improvement. You will identify potential improvements to existing services and work with the Digital Team to understand and implement these.
- It’s about collaboration. You will work in an open and collaborative way, using the tools we have to ensure your work is visible and understood. You will coach and support other members of the team.
- It’s about knowledge sharing. You will actively contribute to the team and Commission goals of putting users at the heart of our services, by sharing your knowledge and supporting others to understand the role of Development.
The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of duties. You will be required to perform any reasonable tasks commensurate with the level of responsibility at the request of your Manager.
Your Profile:
Essential:
- Ability to deliver maintainable/clean code and follow coding standards.
- Experience building scalable server-side cloud-based web applications in Microsoft Azure and detailed knowledge of the C#, .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core and MVC programming languages. Detailed understanding of front-end web development (HTML/CSS/JS and Node JS).
- An ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
- Experience of agile development, software patterns, continuous integration and Test-Driven Development.
- Experience of agile environments and version/source control and their configuration.
- Understanding the role of accessibility in digital services.
- Ability to build secure digital services, with knowledge of OWASP and other vulnerabilities.
Desirable:
- Able to deliver software to utilise the features of the Azure platform, Devops and guide teams on these features.
- An understanding of Continuous Integration/Development processes.
- Able to deliver RESTFUL web services.
- An understanding of architectural patterns and principles.
- Able to develop software using SQL server as the underlying data store.
- An understanding of SOLID Principles.
- An understanding of distributed, enterprise level, applications.
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.
Our Ways of Working
Outcome-focused: We put consumers at the heart of everything we do. We take responsibility for an issue and moving it forward. We deliver results through working collaboratively.
Reaching for ways to improve: We encourage feedback and ideas. We are committed to continuous improvement and are open to trying different ways of working. We celebrate successes and take responsibility when things go wrong.
Respectful: We recognise every colleague’s contribution. We give each other timely constructive feedback. We all encourage challenge.
Communicate well: We are clear and concise. We listen and check our understanding. We explain the reasons for decisions.
Making this a great place to work: We all help to make the Commission a great place to work. We value and support each other. We demonstrate a positive attitude
About Us:
Set up under the Gambling Act 2005, the Gambling Commission is committed to safeguarding the public against any detrimental impact brought about by gambling. We do this by keeping crime out, protecting children and vulnerable people and ensuring the commercial gambling industry is run fairly and openly. We work with the legal system, the public health system, community groups and the industry itself to understand how we can protect the interests of as many people as possible, as effectively as possible.
Your Application:
We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion. We are committed to a working environment where each individual’s contribution is valued and respected, enabling our employees to thrive and reach their full potential. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
To apply for this position please see our careers website.
The closing date for this role is 10th November 2024.
The recruitment process for this role will consist of two stages; a technical assessment and a final interview.
If your application is successful, you will be invited to complete a technical assessment. In this, you are asked to complete a code-based exercise and send your completed work back to us. This will be reviewed by us and discussed in a final interview.
Interviews are likely to be held from 20th November 2024.
Please ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying. We are unable to provide sponsorship for visas currently.
Incomplete applications will be discounted from shortlisting. Please ensure your application is fully completed and submitted before logging out of your account.
As the regulator of the National Lottery, there are some roles within the Commission that are prohibited from playing the National Lottery. This does not affect your family playing. We will let you know at interview if the role you have applied for is on the Prohibited List.
This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency
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