Health Education England
Front End Angular Developer (Revalidation)
12 Incomplete applications
12 SME, 0 large
23 Completed applications
23 SME, 0 large
Important dates
- Published
- Monday 17 August 2020
- Deadline for asking questions
- Wednesday 19 August 2020 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Monday 24 August 2020 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Specialist role
- Developer
- Summary of the work
-
Front-End Angular Developer using open source and cloud technologies such as:
- Angular 9, Cloud Hosting (AWS)
- Using a TDD approach
- Source Control: GitHub
- Working 'Agile' (using Scrum) in a pair programming environment
We work in an Agile environment using Scrum - Latest start date
- Tuesday 1 September 2020
- Expected contract length
- 4 months
- Location
- No specific location, for example they can work remotely
- Organisation the work is for
- Health Education England
- Maximum day rate
- We decided not to set a maximum day rate or disclose our budget constraints. We seek excellent value for money and affordability.
About the work
- Early market engagement
- -
- Who the specialist will work with
-
You'll be expected to work with the following:
- Scrum Master, Service Managers (Product Owners) and Team (incl. BAs, Test Lead, Front End and Full Stack Developers, Ops)
Stakeholders such as:
- Revalidation administrators
- Business Managers and subject experts
- Others involved in the education and training of the multi professional healthcare workforce
- Other squads in the wider TIS team - What the specialist will work on
-
A Front-End Angular Developer is required to develop the Trainee Information System (TIS) Revalidation microservice. It is expected that the MVP will be launched in December 2020.
This involves implementing new functionality and working closely in a small squad, sharing knowledge, pair programming and developing the understanding of the application within the current TIS team.
The Front-End Angular Developer will use open source and cloud technologies such as:
- Angular 9, Cloud Hosting (AWS)
- Using a TDD approach
- Source Control: GitHub
- Working 'Agile' (using Scrum) in a pair programming environment
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
-
This office that this person would work out of is London. The TIS team is geo-located across both London and Manchester.
HEE additionally has offices around the country that could potentially also be used for this role if London (or Manchester) did not suit.
However, with the current COVID-19 situation, the role would initially at very least be one of working from home, possibly for the duration of the contract. - Working arrangements
-
Timescales:
(Mon) 25/08/20 - Advert closes.
(Tue/Wed) 26/08/20 - Shortlisting.
(Wed/Thu) 27/08/20 - Successful candidates invited to interview.
(Wed/Thu) 27/08/20 - Unsuccessful candidates informed.
(Thu/Fri) 28/08/20 - Interviews (via Microsoft Teams).
(Mon) 31/08/20 - Contract award.
(Tue) 01/09/20 - Start date.
HEE is keen on promoting work/life balance, and protecting people's mental health. As such we expect all staff to work remotely one day a week. Further remote working is also possible subject to negotiation with line manager.
*NOTE*: During this COVID-19 pandemic, all staff work from home. This role will be similarly affected.
The role is outside of IR35. - Security clearance
- No
Additional information
- Additional terms and conditions
- The awarded supplier will also need to adhere to the principles set out in the standard NHS Terms and Conditions.
Skills and experience
Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.
- Essential skills and experience
-
- Angular 9
- AWS and DevOps knowledge
- Testing frameworks – Jasmine, Cypress
- REST, SOAP, microservices
- Experience of an Agile/Scrum environment and able to apply the Agile philosophy to your day-to-day work
- Teaching, knowledge transfer and pair-programming
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
-
- MySQL
- Docker
- Camel
- Java 11
How suppliers will be evaluated
All suppliers will be asked to provide a work history.
- How many specialists to evaluate
- 3
- Cultural fit criteria
-
- Work transparently and collaboratively in a no-blame culture, encouraging all to fail fast and learn from mistakes
- Demonstrate experience of supporting and coaching other team members
- Evidence their confidence to challenge the status quo
- Evidence of taking responsibility for their work
- Additional assessment methods
-
- Reference
- Interview
- Scenario or test
- Evaluation weighting
-
Technical competence
50%Cultural fit
20%Price
30%
Questions asked by suppliers
- 1. Is there a current incumbent?
- No. However there has been significant work carried out on this part of the codebase recently, this role is designed to complete that work towards a production-ready application
- 2. Could you please clarify whether engineers out of UK can be considered for this project?
- No. We are looking for candidates that are based in the UK
-
3. Regarding the essential requirement, "Testing frameworks – Jasmine, Cypress". Is the requirement to have experience in Jasmine and/or Cypress specifically, or were these just examples and experience in other testing frameworks will meet this requirement?
Is Jasmine and/or Cypress currently being used? - In answer to the first part of your question, we are looking for candidates with Jasmine and Cypress. Both are currently used.
- 4. Could you confirm the budget for this role?
- Please see the details in the role description above under "Maximum day rate".
- 5. Is there a current or preferred incumbent?
- No. We use the DOS framework to trawl for the best candidates we can find.
- 6. Could you please confirm that you are looking to start on 1 September and are committed to meeting it? we are asking this question as the start date looked very aggressive.
- Yes. While the turnaround is very aggressive, we are looking for candidates that are available, not ones that will become available shortly.
- 7. Can you confirm if there is a ceiling for the daily rate and what this might be? Based on the scoring matrix from DO4 guidelines this opportunity seems to be biased towards lower cost rather than higher quality and any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
-
I refer you to the description above: Maximum day rate.
Also, our scoring weighting is clearly favouring technical competence over price, with cultural fit a significant factor. -
8. In regard to Q1, who has carried out the "significant work" on the codebase recently? A permanent member of staff or a supplier?
If a supplier, is their contract ending before Sep 1st?
If their contract is continuing beyond Sep 1st, will they be available to do hand-over with the specialist? -
Contractors contracts are ending before 1 September.
A combination of contractors and permanent staff have worked on the App, so there will be some continuity.