Government Digital Service

WP1315 Developer for GOV.UK Verify

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9 SME, 2 large

Specialist role: Developer
Summary of the work: GOV.UK Verify is the new way to prove who you are digitally to interact with your personal data held by government services. We are now tasked with increasing user accounts. We require an interim Developer to facilitate this.
Latest start date: 02/05/2017
Expected contract length: An initial period of 3 months (with an extension clause for up to 9 months)
Location: London
Organisation the work is for: Government Digital Service
Maximum day rate

Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with: Technical team supporting the GOV.UK Verify hub. Technical Business Analyst and a Technical Architect (to be recruited)
What the specialist will work on: Build RESTful web services to serve a variety of citizen and government needs, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce.
Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability. Build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment. Share knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team, both developers and non-developers. Participate in our in-house (2nd line) support.

Address where the work will take place: Government Digital Service, moving this year from:
Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH to Aldgate East area
Working arrangements: Onsite full-time 5 days a week. Will require occasional travel to various local authority sites
Security clearance: BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) Security Clearance and Disclosure Scotland is required to operate on this project

Additional terms and conditions: Standard Cabinet Office terms and conditions apply

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

Essential skills and experience: Min 2 years experience in back-end development, with detailed knowledge of at least one of Java and Ruby

Understanding of software design principles

Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques (examples expected)

A systematic approach to solving problems

Experience of using testing to validate solutions (examples expected)

Understanding of agile environments and version control

Understanding about web security and secure development

Awareness of technologies used for web applications, e.g databases, backups, CDNs and search, of Unix-like operating systems, eg Linux, Mac OS experience working on, or with web technologies
Nice-to-have skills and experience: Knowledge or experience of working with SAML and Shibboleth

Experience of working with external parties

Experience or knowledge of front-end development including CSS, JavaScript, HTML

How many specialists to evaluate

Cultural fit criteria

Assessment methods

Evaluation weighting

Technical competence

65%

Cultural fit

15%

Price

20%

1. Could you please update us on the lead time for this application?: As published, we expect the worker to be available by 2nd May.
2. Has the HMRC tool been used to clarify the IR35 status of this role ? does it fall inside or outside of IR35 ?: We will assess the role using the HMRC tool before the contract will be issued.