Software Engineer (P0187N)

Homes England; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading government agency seeks a Software Engineer to join their Digital Directorate. You will work on innovative projects, collaborating with a talented team to deliver high-quality software solutions using Microsoft Power Platform tools. This role offers a chance to make a real impact while enjoying excellent benefits and a flexible working environment.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

Flexible working patterns

Health screening

Employee Assistance Programme

Professional development support

Family friendly benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform tools is essential.
• Ability to manage stakeholder communications effectively.
• Focus on delivering high-quality, secure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to build a skilled team.
• Deliver reusable and scalable solutions.
• Review and improve existing processes for efficiency.

Skills

Availability and capacity management

Development process optimisation

Information security

Modern standards approach

Programming and build

Prototyping

Service support

Systems design

Systems integration

User focus

Tools

Microsoft Power Apps

Power Automate

PowerBI

SharePoint Online

Microsoft Flow

Dynamics 365

Job description

Birmingham, West Midlands (England), B1 2AX : Bristol, South West England, BS1 6EH : Longstanton, East of England, CB24 3EN : Liverpool, North West England, L3 1BP : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS11 9AT : Manchester, North West England, M1 6EU : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE4 5BZ

Job Summary

The Software Engineer will play an important role in making a difference across the Digital Directorate. You will be joining our talented team of around 20 Engineers, who are committed to making a positive change in how we deliver technology.

This is a rare chance to work within a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional digital services team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of engineering challenges and the have the opportunity to help build first-class software solutions for Homes England.

You will work with digital, data and technology colleagues collaboratively, taking an innovative and creative approach to deliver key strategic projects and products. We value diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within our team.

There are exciting and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst providing an environment to learn and stay up to date with current tools and technologies.

You will be helping us extend our capabilities across the Microsoft Power Platform and continue to build high quality operational solutions.

Job Description

You are resilient and comfortable managing and communicating with stakeholders across the business. Your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as an engineering team.

You enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way while delivering high quality solutions.

You will be comfortable working with other engineers to ensure we are building a well skilled team, while also championing collaboration with external partners to uphold our process and output standards.

You will understand how to deliver high quality, secure and pragmatic solutions. You will have experience across the following Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, PowerBI, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Flow, Dynamics 365). This includes, experience working across environments and pipelines with knowledge of managing change in Power Platform.

Experience of automated Power Platform deployments would be beneficial but not essential.

Solutions you deliver should be reusable and scalable with a focus on consistency and maintainability. You will be able to review existing processes and improve them while thinking about better cost efficiency and performance. As part of this you should have a desire to learn and explore new technologies.

As a Digital professional, you’ll understand how to manage relationships with colleagues and your team and demonstrate you can work in a collaborative and inclusive way.

You are resilient and comfortable managing and communicating with stakeholders across the business. Your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as an engineering team.

You enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way while delivering high quality solutions.

You will be comfortable working with other engineers to ensure we are building a well skilled team, while also championing collaboration with external partners to uphold our process and output standards.

You will understand how to deliver high quality, secure and pragmatic solutions. You will have experience across the following Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, PowerBI, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Flow, Dynamics 365). This includes, experience working across environments and pipelines with knowledge of managing change in Power Platform.

Experience of automated Power Platform deployments would be beneficial but not essential.

Solutions you deliver should be reusable and scalable with a focus on consistency and maintainability. You will be able to review existing processes and improve them while thinking about better cost efficiency and performance. As part of this you should have a desire to learn and explore new technologies.

As a Digital professional, you’ll understand how to manage relationships with colleagues and your team and demonstrate you can work in a collaborative and inclusive way.

Person specification

Key Skills And Knowledge

• Availability and capacity management. You can manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Development process optimisation. You can explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised. You can support specific activities to improve development processes. You can spot or identify obvious deficiencies.
• Information security. You can discuss information security. You can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
• Modern standards approach. You can competently use a modern standards approach and guide others in so doing.
• Programming and build (software engineering). You collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Prototyping. You see prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You establish design patterns and iterate them. You know a variety of methods of prototyping and can choose the most appropriate ones.
• Service support. You can help fix faults following agreed procedures. You can carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
• Systems design. You can translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs. You know how to document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate. You can design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact. You can work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.
• Systems integration. You can build and test simple interfaces between systems, or work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.
• User focus. You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.
  
  

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England Is Committed To Protecting The Privacy And Security Of Your Personal Data. For Further Information Please Refer To Our Privacy Notice Which Can Be Viewed Here

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: [e-mail]

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

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.

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

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.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

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• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]