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Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for an experienced Python Developer to support essential tooling and systems across DBT. This role is ideal for a Back End Python developer looking for career growth and be exposed to cloud native systems with an SRE touch to join a team that ensures DBT's digital services work as users expect, working with development teams giving them the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines. £55,400 to £74,600 (including allowances) plus excellent Civil Service benefits and pension. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham or Salford. DBTs Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas. As a senior SRE developing Python, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines. You'll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You'll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota. The Tech Stack includes: Python and Django framework Serverless compute (Lambda) Amazon Web Services Azure Jenkins and AWS Codepipelines Terraform & CloudFormation Kubernetes Elastic Container Service (ECS) Elasticsearch PostgreSQL Sentry Redis Essential Skills and Experience You should be able to demonstrate: Experience and fluency in Python, writing clean and effective code. Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable, and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems (eg, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi). Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP Networking. Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure changes. Desirable Skills and Experience While not essential, it would be ideal if you have demonstrable skills and experience of: Experience coding infrastructure (ie, Terraform, CloudFormation). Experience in defining and measuring Service Level Objectives. Experience in observability driven development. Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open Source components. In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits: Salary of £54,400 to £74,600 (including allowances) including annual allowance depending on location and experience Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service An excellent Civil Service pension scheme. If you are a Python Developer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Systems Administrator looking to enhance your career and make a difference across an expanding function, then apply today or contact Alison Whitehead at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information. Further Information: This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for User Researchers to champion the needs of DBT's users and help teams to design and deliver better services quickly, with less risk, and at lower cost. Salary between £48,981 - £65,600 plus excellent Civil Service benefits. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh. As a Lead User Researcher, reporting to the Head of User Research, you will be helping to reinvigorate the User Research function in DBT, as part of a broader mission to champion the needs of users. User Researchers are key figures in DBT's digital teams. They help teams develop a deep understanding of the people - citizens, businesses, or government - who use DBT's services. Their findings enable teams to design and deliver better services quickly, with less risk, and at lower cost. The User Researcher function is looking to increase their influence and impact by developing agile, pragmatic ways of working, that help teams meet the CDDO service standards while reflecting the delivery pace of the department; looking at how they set and assure research standards, how innovate their approaches, and support teams to understand and respond to user needs. Find out more on the DBT User Research blogs. In your day-to-day role as a Lead User Researcher you will: . Help plan research programmes, working with management teams and Delivery Managers to ensure a shared understanding of priorities, playing an active role in matching researchers to requirements . Oversee the work of user researchers to ensure work is meeting GDS/CDDO service standards and is being delivered pragmatically and to a high quality, intervening if research falls below expected standards . Take the lead on key research about complex services and strategic issues and synthesise findings to generate strategic insights and identify gaps in understanding . Be an advocate for agile, user-focused research and work with stakeholders to highlight the benefits of operating this way . Lead on staff recruitment, both permanent civil servants and contractors . Manage the professional development of current staff, and the capability assessments in the UR profession Essential Skills and Experience You should be able to demonstrate essential skills and experience of: . Working with management teams and stakeholders to understand business needs and aligning research prioritisation and delivery to these needs . Planning, designing and delivering user research projects and programmes in complex, challenging contexts . Managing, mentoring or leading a team, ensuring they are performing against delivery goals and working to develop their capability . Providing oversight and quality assurance of multiple user research projects at the same time . Effectively advocating for the user and for good user research, advising stakeholders and building their buy-in of the value of user-centred practice . Responding to delivery pressures of an agile environment, demonstrating good professional judgement, flexibility and pragmatism In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits: Salary of £48,981 to £65,600 (including allowances) including annual allowance depending on location and experience Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service An excellent Civil Service pension scheme. If you are a User Researcher looking to enhance your career and make a difference across an expanding function, then apply today or contact Alison Whitehead at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information. Further Information: This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for User Researchers to champion the needs of DBT's users and help teams to design and deliver better services quickly, with less risk, and at lower cost. Salary between £48,981 - £65,600 plus excellent Civil Service benefits. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh. As a Lead User Researcher, reporting to the Head of User Research, you will be helping to reinvigorate the User Research function in DBT, as part of a broader mission to champion the needs of users. User Researchers are key figures in DBT's digital teams. They help teams develop a deep understanding of the people - citizens, businesses, or government - who use DBT's services. Their findings enable teams to design and deliver better services quickly, with less risk, and at lower cost. The User Researcher function is looking to increase their influence and impact by developing agile, pragmatic ways of working, that help teams meet the CDDO service standards while reflecting the delivery pace of the department; looking at how they set and assure research standards, how innovate their approaches, and support teams to understand and respond to user needs. Find out more on the DBT User Research blogs. In your day-to-day role as a Lead User Researcher you will: . Help plan research programmes, working with management teams and Delivery Managers to ensure a shared understanding of priorities, playing an active role in matching researchers to requirements . Oversee the work of user researchers to ensure work is meeting GDS/CDDO service standards and is being delivered pragmatically and to a high quality, intervening if research falls below expected standards . Take the lead on key research about complex services and strategic issues and synthesise findings to generate strategic insights and identify gaps in understanding . Be an advocate for agile, user-focused research and work with stakeholders to highlight the benefits of operating this way . Lead on staff recruitment, both permanent civil servants and contractors . Manage the professional development of current staff, and the capability assessments in the UR profession Essential Skills and Experience You should be able to demonstrate essential skills and experience of: . Working with management teams and stakeholders to understand business needs and aligning research prioritisation and delivery to these needs . Planning, designing and delivering user research projects and programmes in complex, challenging contexts . Managing, mentoring or leading a team, ensuring they are performing against delivery goals and working to develop their capability . Providing oversight and quality assurance of multiple user research projects at the same time . Effectively advocating for the user and for good user research, advising stakeholders and building their buy-in of the value of user-centred practice . Responding to delivery pressures of an agile environment, demonstrating good professional judgement, flexibility and pragmatism In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits: Salary of £48,981 to £65,600 (including allowances) including annual allowance depending on location and experience Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service An excellent Civil Service pension scheme. If you are a User Researcher looking to enhance your career and make a difference across an expanding function, then apply today or contact Alison Whitehead at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information. Further Information: This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.

The Department for International Trade (DIT) and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an amazing opportunity to join a team at the heart of the global economy and make a difference! The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team at DIT have a newly created opportunity for a Head of Engineering to lead and build the Software Development functions, defining the strategy and, prioritising workloads and future growth for delivering products central to promoting UK trade globally. £67,700 to £83,800 inclusive of allowance depending on location and experience, plus excellent benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from London or Cardiff. The Head of Engineering at DIT is responsible for software development, web operations and testing professions. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you help define how DIT do what they do, and make sure that systems are built to be changed rapidly. The Head of Engineering will have a background in software development, who can: ? Be responsible for a large team of Software Developers, Web Operations Engineers and Testers, setting up line management frameworks where appropriate ? Work with each profession to ensure DIT build and operate maintainable and sustainable digital products ? Stay up to date with and lead the creation of standards, principles and guidance on best practices and techniques to best enable our teams to consistently deliver at pace ? Handle allocation of staff to teams, ensuring a good balance of personalities, skills and seniority, enabling the teams to deliver great services quickly ? Mentor members of your professions, helping ensure they're building things to our standards, and identifying opportunities for collaboration ? Advocate user-centric, agile approaches which focus on rapid, effective delivery of high quality digital services ? Transform government into a modern, agile development centre by embedding practices like test driven development, continuous deployment, and devOps. Essential Skills and Experience: What are we looking for from you? Well, you should have demonstrable skills and experience of: * Leadership: A visible and effective leader for engineering professions. Defines and publishes a strategy for engineering professions. Mentors and guides leading members of engineering professions to establish a good standard of work, making improvements where necessary * Building capability: Proactively participates in recruitment efforts and external engagement to attract and retain high calibre candidates * Professional standards: Defines technical standards, principles and guidance to maintain the quality of engineering outputs. Advocates and provides support for cross-government standards related to engineering professions * Performance management : Takes full responsibility for the health, morale & practice of the engineering professions. Collaborates with peers & other leaders to improve cross-profession interactions. In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits: * £67,700 to £83,800 inclusive of allowance depending on location and experience * Flexible, hybrid working from London or Cardiff * Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service * An excellent Civil Service pension scheme. If you are an experienced leader with a background in software development, looking to enhance your career and make a difference across a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Andrew Medhurst at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information. Application Process: Appointments will be made to candidates in merit order based on location preferences. The Department for International Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughout the organisation. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Technical Skills through relevant assessments and presentations. Inspire People will longlisting applications based on experience and essential criteria listed in the Job Description. If successful during the first interview, candidates may be invited to attend a second interview. Technical Skills: * Availability and Capacity Management * Development Process Optimisation * DDaT Standards Outside your Discipline * Information Security * Modern Standards Approach * Programming and Build (Software Engineering) * Prototyping * Service Support * Systems Design * Systems Integration * User Focus Behaviours: ? Leadership ? Communicating and influencing ? Developing self and others ? Seeing the big picture

This is a great opportunity for an IT Business Analyst to join the fourth largest local authority in England, who delivering a wide range of services to 15,000 staff and 1.2 million residents, businesses and organisations, who are delivering an ambitious Digital Strategy which is making a real difference to the delivery of public services. As a Business Analyst within the Digital Services team, you will translate senior client business issues into effective solutions. Remote working (candidates must be commutable distance to Preston). Starting salary £38,890 to £40,876 depending on experience, rising to £43,857 plus benefits. The role: Working in a busy, high pressured and diverse environment you will be able to effectively understand and translate business requirements from "As Is" and "To Be" into Statements of Works. You can expect to be involved in a number of requirements across differing functions and work-streams at any time, working in collaboration with other specialist disciplines and key partners - these can vary in both scale and nature, making the workload extremely interesting. About you: . Relevant IT business analysis experience in private or public sector (local government experience desirable, not essential), ideally worked in ITIL environments. . Attention to detail with excellent written and verbal communication skills. . Logical and technically capable to translate business needs into digital requirements with sufficient ICT skills to identify and suggest where technical/automation would be beneficial. . Formal training/qualifications preferred, such as Business Analysis (BSC courses), ITIL Foundation (ITIL4), Continual Service Improvement or Lean Six Sigma. Benefits The authority values staff as individuals and aim to help them achieve their full potential, offering a work environment that encourages staff engagement, team working and problem solving, recognising the importance and benefits of a good work life balance. In return for your passion and expertise a generous benefits package is provided, including: . Flexible working hours (37 hrs per week) along with opportunities for agile working. . Extremely generous Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, death in service payments, life assurance and dependents pensions. . Great Holiday Entitlement: 25 days annual leave entitlement rising to 31, after five years' continuous service. Eight bank holidays and two further additional statutory days during the Christmas and New Year period. . Family friendly employer: Help to balance family commitments, including generous maternity leave, paternity leave and support for working carers Adoption and parental leave. Childcare voucher scheme. . Great location, just a short walk from the train station and main bus route. If you are a Business Analyst looking for an exciting role within an organisation that makes a difference and where you can impact multiple enterprise level projects, then contact Andrew Medhurst at Inspire People or apply now. Inspire People is a recruitment agency providing services to individuals and organisations.

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Back End Developer with a broad knowledge of languages including Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, with hands on cloud knowledge (preferably AWS) and working within to CI/CD and principles, to produce cutting edge distributed software systems on behalf of a European Cloud based services business and AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, who are expanding their UK team to serve their high value clients. Home based. £65k upwards depending on experience. If you also have Front End development experience or are interested in gaining this experience we would love to hear from you. As the Senior Back End Developer, you will work closely with clients and development teams to deliver innovative software that provides genuine business value. You will join a skilled and motivated team, hit the ground running and think on your feet. This organisation offers flexibility and freedom in return for passion and commitment, even providing bonuses for passing accreditations! Role Guide for the Senior Back End Developer includes: * Lead the development of cutting edge distributed software systems. * Drive the uptake of new tools and technologies, introducing them to projects where appropriate. * Coach and motivate others in your team, listen and share knowledge. The Senior Back End Developer should have: * Experience as a lead software developer in an agile environment using multiple languages, including Java, JavaScript, Node.js and Python (essential), with both Front End and Back End development experience. * Knowledge and experience of cloud development, preferably AWS (desirable) * Knowledge and experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development. In return, you can expect a very competitive salary of £65k upwards depending on experience, plus excellent benefits including: * 33 days annual leave (includes bank holidays) * Training incentives * Company MacBook & accessories provided * SIM-only business mobile plan * Contributory Pension * Sickness benefit in the event of long-term illness * Death in service benefit * Private medical insurance including for dependents * Travel insurance. If you are a Senior Back End Developer with a broad knowledge of languages, (including Java, JavaScript, Node.js and Python) and hands on cloud knowledge (preferably AWS) and working within a CI/CD and Agile environment, looking to work on cutting edge solutions with an organisation that offers flexibility, freedom and incentives learning, then contact Andrew Medhurst at Inspire People or apply below. Inspire People is an employment agency providing services to employers and individuals. "Back End Developer", "Full Stack Developer"; "Lead Software Engineer"; "Lead Software Developer", Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, AWS, Agile, CI/CD, "Full Stack"

Do you want to join an organisation going through a substantial digital change programme that will positively impact the UK economy? This is an exciting time to join a UK Government Department that is transitioning from paper based/legacy systems to a digital-first environment. As a Test Engineer, you will be an integral part of the Digital Delivery team, providing manual and automated testing (candidate without Automated testing will be trained). Home working with flexible working (no core hours). £32,206 - £40,136 inclusive of allowances, 26% pension plus benefits. You will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. About the Role: * Be responsible for the design, coding, testing and documentation for robust, scalable and reusables solutions that deliver exceptional user experience using DevOps best practice * Work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level * Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to. * Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability * Build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment * Identify, incidents, risks and issues in line with ITIL standards About you: * Experience in delivering manual or automated testing. * Good understanding of a mainstream automation testing framework such as Serenity (desirable). * Experience in a mainstream development language. Desirable skills include: - Experience with API Automation tools, such as Java, Serenity, BDD-Cucumber, Spring Boot and Rest-Assured - Experience with API Performance Testing - JMeter/Java - Experience with End to End automation - Serenity, Selenium-Web driver/Java In return you can expect excellent personal development and career progression plus Civil Service benefits including: * Flexible working scheme (no core hours) * 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increases to 30 days annual leave with service) * Generous pension scheme * Bonus payments * Free on-site car parking * On site gym, restaurant If you are a Test Engineer looking for your next challenge and career/personal development, then apply today or contact Andrew Medhurst at Inspire People.

This is a great opportunity for a multi-skilled IT Business Analyst to join the IT Team of a public sector body who are embarking on a three-year transformation of learning and development supporting the construction engineering sector and the career paths of hundreds of thousands of people. Reporting to the CIO, you will play a central role in defining the technical, data and service platforms on which that transformation can be delivered. Remote working with occasional travel to Herts. Up to £50k basic plus £7,965 car allowance and benefits. It's an exciting opportunity to work innovatively at pace on a range of diverse challenges to design the future platform for construction engineering learning. What you will do: Analyse the current data model, and design a data platform model that supports today's operations and tomorrow's blended learning vision. Redesign one of the key online services from a user-centric perspective and work with vendors to develop a user-tested proof of concept. Gather requirements and evaluate multiple platforms to enable the selection of platforms for delivering Blended Learning and IT Operations vision. Conduct other diverse elements of discovery, to mobilise for implementation from 2022. What you will bring: Passion for doing something transformational that contributes to an important sector of the UK economy and the career paths of hundreds of thousands of people. Expert knowledge and experience of data modelling, data normalisation, metadata management, and related tools and data normalization. High level of communication, facilitation, interpersonal and influencing skills. Experience of UX definition, including persona development, journey mapping and task flows. Experience of defining product backlogs and requirements. Good understanding of Agile principles and practices. In return you can expect to receive a competitive salary in the region of £50,000 basic plus the following : Car Allowance of £7,965pa paid pro-rate monthly, taxable, non-pensionable 25 days holiday per year rising to 30 days during first 5 years' service. Contributory Defined Contribution pension scheme. Employee contributions range from 4.5% to 8.5% of salary. Company contributions are matched. Home office set up fund available in first 3 months of service - up to £250. Appraisal and development scheme. Corporate bonus and individual bonus (non-consolidated) normally available. If you are an experienced Business Analyst looking to develop your career in an interesting transformation that will have a positive effect on the careers of over 400,000 UK learners, then apply today or contact Andrew Medhurst at Inspire People for more information. Inspire People is a acting as a employment agency providing services to employers and individuals.

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Back End Developer with a broad knowledge of languages including Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, with hands on cloud knowledge (preferably AWS) and working within to CI/CD and principles, to produce cutting edge distributed software systems on behalf of a European Cloud based services business and AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, who are expanding their UK team to serve their high value clients. Home based. £65k upwards depending on experience. If you also have Front-End development experience or are interested in gaining this experience we would love to hear from you. As the Senior Back End Developer, you will work closely with clients and development teams to deliver innovative software that provides genuine business value. You will join a skilled and motivated team, hit the ground running and think on your feet. This organisation offers flexibility and freedom in return for passion and commitment, even providing bonuses for passing accreditations! Role Guide for the Senior Back End Developer includes: * Lead the development of cutting edge distributed software systems. * Drive the uptake of new tools and technologies, introducing them to projects where appropriate. * Coach and motivate others in your team, listen and share knowledge. The Senior Back End Developer should have: * Experience as a lead software developer in an agile environment using multiple languages, including Java, JavaScript, Node.js and Python (essential), with both front end and back end development experience. * Knowledge and experience of cloud development, preferably AWS (desirable) * Knowledge and experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development. In return, you can expect a very competitive salary of £65k upwards depending on experience, plus excellent benefits including: * 33 days annual leave (includes bank holidays) * Training incentives * Company MacBook & accessories provided * SIM-only business mobile plan * Contributory Pension * Sickness benefit in the event of long-term illness * Death in service benefit * Private medical insurance including for dependents * Travel insurance. If you are a Senior Back End Developer with a broad knowledge of languages, (including Java, JavaScript, Node.js and Python) and hands on cloud knowledge (preferably AWS) and working within a CI/CD and Agile environment, looking to work on cutting edge solutions with an organisation that offers flexibility, freedom and incentives learning, then contact Andrew Medhurst at Inspire People on or apply below. Inspire People is an employment agency providing services to employers and individuals. "Back End Developer", "Full Stack Developer"; "Lead Software Engineer"; "Lead Software Developer", Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, AWS, Agile, CI/CD, "Full Stack"

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Software Developer to join a new in-house development team within a highly visible UK Government health agency that has significant positive impact on public health during the pandemic. Working on a new greenfield project, you will have solid JavaScript development skills and React, Node...... click apply for full job details