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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Senior .NET Developer (Visio integration)

10 SME, 3 large

10 SME, 2 large

Specialist role: Developer
Summary of the work: The developer will work with the Digital Services team to provide an upgrade to the NICE Pathways importer code so that it can support the version of Visio currently offered by IT.
https://pathways.nice.org.uk
Latest start date: Monday 11 November 2019
Expected contract length: 3 Months
Location: North West England
Organisation the work is for: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Maximum day rate: 500 excluding VAT

Early market engagement: N/A
Who the specialist will work with: Digital Services is a team of c. 60 digital professionals that design, develop and maintain NICE’s portfolio of digital services including the NICE website, Pathways and NICE Evidence Services.
What the specialist will work on: The developer will ensure that:
1. The Pathways import process is fully compatible with Visio 2010 and the version of Visio provided by NICE IT.
2. The templates, stencils and macros have been updated and re-issued.
3. Unit tests covering the changes exist.
4. Documentation detailing the import process has been provided.
5. The Digital Services team have quality assured the work and have signed-off documentation and agree it is fit for purpose
6. The Publishing team have quality assured the work and agree it is fit for purpose

Address where the work will take place: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Level 1A, City Tower
Piccadilly Plaza
Manchester
M1 4BT
Working arrangements: The developer will be based onsite in the Manchester office.
Security clearance: N/A

Additional terms and conditions: Additional clause will be added to govern using the NICE servers and not allowing any data on personal laptops/equipment.

Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.

Essential skills and experience: C#, .NET, MVC

VBA macros

Unit testing (XUnit / Nunit / MSpec)

Proven analytical skills

Ability to collaborate and proactively transfer knowledge to the members of the NICE Digital Service team as required

Ability to manage work as part of planned sprints with the Digital Services team.

Being tangible in their delivery - ie regular ‘show and tells’ to users and other technical contributors to the Pathways import process with supporting documents, analysis evidence of work undertaken

Ability to work with clients with low technical expertise

Ability to fully integrate with the in-house team for hand-on and hand-off process
Nice-to-have skills and experience: Understanding of document databases (No SQL databases e.g. Raven, Mongo)

Knowledge of Visio 2010 to current – including templates and stencils

How many specialists to evaluate

Cultural fit criteria

Assessment methods

Evaluation weighting

Technical competence

45%

Cultural fit

Price

50%

1. Please could you clarify the IR35 status of this role?: NICE has done a pre-engagement test using the HMRC Employment status tool, the result on the test is "The intermediaries legislation does not apply to this engagement"
2. Do you want a specific version of.Net: .Net 4.5
3. Will they be working in an Agile environment: Yes we are working in an agile environment.
4. Is there an incumbent?: No. This is a new requirement