About the job

Job summary

The Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) directorate has recently been established in UKEF, drawing together the expertise in digital currently within the organisation to provide representation of digital services, user centred design, analytics and technology at the highest levels. The areas with the directorate work closely with all areas of the business such as the Business Group, Operations and Strategy and Policy.

Job description

UKEF is committed to be a more customer-centric organisation, making it easier for customers to deal with us, offering improved response times, quicker decision-making and improved case-processing. To enable this, UKEF is committed to using digital as a primary means for managing relationships with a wider range of stakeholders. Focusing on developing end-to-end services that meet user need and enable business outcomes, this is an exciting new role showing the growth and drive of UKEFs digital ambition.

This role requires you to work with other leads and senior management to develop NodeJS applications. This role also requires you to integrate NodeJS applications with other systems, develop microservices and serverless applications and create and maintain technical documentation. Effective communication with project stakeholders is also an essential aspect of the role.

Person specification

In this role, you will:

• Work with other discipline leads and senior management to proactively plan technical delivery work, making sure to balance long term engineering sustainability with short term delivery pressures, advocating for technical quality and bringing practical considerations to high level designs
• Advocate user-centric, agile approaches which focus on rapid, effective delivery of high-quality digital services
• Build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
• Develop NodeJS applications using frameworks like Express.js or Nest.js.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for NodeJS applications.
• Ensure that NodeJS applications are optimised for scalability and maintainability.
• Develop APIs and integrate with third-party APIs.

Further duties of the role can be found in the candidate information document.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,430, UK Export Finance contributes £15,236 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.

You will be invited to complete the online application form.  The application form must be completed by 23.55 on the day of the closing date for it to be accepted.

All applications will be sifted against our minimum selection criteria outlined in the personal specification.  

You will be asked in the relevant sections of the application form to provide examples of evidence against a range of the success profiles.  You are required to provide a personal statement, in which you should fully articulate in 1000 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack. You are encouraged to use the full word count to evidence how you meet the essential criteria.

Applicants are required to upload an anonymised copy of an up-to-date CV which should include information on your employment history, experience and relevant qualifications. 

 For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

• Experience (as evidenced in your CV & personal statement)
• Knowledge (as evidenced in your CV & personal statement)
• Skills (as evidenced in your CV & personal statement)
• Technical – Addressing 2 technical questions (250 word answers):
  
  

1. Describe a challenging technical issue you encountered in your past projects. How did you diagnose the problem and what steps did you take to resolve it? Please provide a detailed walkthrough of your problem-solving process and the tools or methodologies you used.
2. Can you share an instance where you implemented a business-critical solution? What was the business need and how did your solution address it? Please describe the design and development process of the solution, the technologies you used, and the impact it had on the business.

 If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to an initial interview; this will include the following assessment:

1. Behaviours/Technical/Experience - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all four behaviours highlighted (Appendix 1) and your technical ability to successfully carry out the role.
2. Technical - a short presentation (this will be on a topic determined by UKEF and will need to be prepared in advance).
3. Technical questions relevant to the role.

 Depending on the number of candidates there may be a need for a second-round interview, should this be required details will provided to the relevant candidates.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.