Job Specifications
This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham , Manchester, Newcastle or Leeds.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.
Job Summary
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
Within Working Age Services Digital, we are responsible for a number of existing services which support the core of society and is the department’s highest profile benefit service, Universal Credit.
We are looking for outstanding Front End Developers who can make a positive impact and want to contribute to one of the most demanding and important Government services for the UK.
Let’s be clear about the impact of your work – the products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
We are looking for the kind of person who enjoys a challenge. Working Age Services is undergoing a period of technical change in line with our technical strategy – becoming more consistent in our ways of working, more standardised in our technical stacks, providing coherent shared capabilities to underpin the way we operate, and transforming some of our service’s monolithic architectures into microservices.
Job Description
Our Front-end Developers are experts in front-end development, with proven experience in the design and build user interfaces at scale. You will:
Work as part of a team responsible for designing and building user-centred services.
Have strong knowledge of modern web development stacks, web standards, user experience, progressive enhancement, performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, tooling and pipelines. Work with cross-functional teams to integrate into the back-end services to ensure that they are built to the same high standards.
Using both automated tooling and manual auditing of services to ensure we develop accessible user interfaces for DWP services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers.
Use modern tooling and development techniques to write and share test-driven code.
Input into, promote and ensure design standardisation processes.
Release, maintain and support the deployment of products and code packages.
Coach and mentor colleagues.
Engage with teams across different levels and capabilities.
Engage with and contribute to the engineering and user-centred design communities.
Have an excellent ability to self-organise and define priorities.
Work with containerisation tools and CI/CD pipelines to create deployable services.
Deliver end to end testing using TDD and BDD.
Our Front-end Developers are experts in front-end development, with proven experience in the design and build user interfaces at scale. You will:
Work as part of a team responsible for designing and building user-centred services.
Have strong knowledge of modern web development stacks, web standards, user experience, progressive enhancement, performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, tooling and pipelines. Work with cross-functional teams to integrate into the back-end services to ensure that they are built to the same high standards.
Using both automated tooling and manual auditing of services to ensure we develop accessible user interfaces for DWP services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers.
Use modern tooling and development techniques to write and share test-driven code.
Input into, promote and ensure design standardisation processes.
Release, maintain and support the deployment of products and code packages.
Coach and mentor colleagues.
Engage with teams across different levels and capabilities.
Engage with and contribute to the engineering and user-centred design communities.
Have an excellent ability to self-organise and define priorities.
Work with containerisation tools and CI/CD pipelines to create deployable services.
Deliver end to end testing using TDD and BDD.
Person specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Oliver.Canham1@dwp.gov.uk
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Technical Breadth
Alongside your salary of £44,447, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £12,876 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
Generous annual leave – at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata
About the Company
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the UK’s largest government department and is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. It administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits, serving around 20 million customers.
DWP is responsible for
• understanding and dealing with the causes of poverty rather than its symptoms
• encouraging people to work and making work pay
• encouraging disabled people and those with ill health to work and be independent
• pr...
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