Software Developer - Met Office

Government Digital & Data; Exeter; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading governmental organization is seeking a Software Developer in Exeter to join the Data Services team. You will engineer cloud-based solutions using Python, Java, and AWS, handling large datasets and ensuring system performance. This full-time role offers flexibility in working hours, fostering a collaborative and impactful work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Opportunity for job share

Professional development events

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering, particularly in Python and Java.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS.
• Ability to handle large datasets and optimize system performance.

Responsibilities

• Translate logical designs into physical designs and document all work.
• Support activities to improve development processes and optimize efficiency.
• Collaborate to design, code, test, and document programs of medium-to-high complexity.
• Fix faults and carry out maintenance tasks on infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Java

AWS Cloud Computing

Job description

Overview

Join the Met Office's Data Services team - an innovative, friendly group at the forefront of developing scalable cloud-based solutions. We're responsible for the systems that deliver critical weather and climate data to users across the UK and beyond. Through scalable APIs and cloud-native services, our team ensures fast, reliable access to forecast and observation data, supporting everyone from emergency responders and government to businesses and the public. This is your opportunity to be part of something bigger - developing modern, cloud-based solutions that have a wide-reaching and positive impact, helping millions of people to stay safe and thrive.

As a Software Developer in Data Services, you'll be engineering solutions using Python, Java and AWS Cloud Computing to bridge the gap between advanced scientific modelling and the platforms our users rely on every day. You'll be getting hands on with the output of our cutting-edge supercomputing capabilities, handling terabytes of data daily, and making system performance, scalability, and reliability essential elements of your work.

Responsibilities

1. Systems Design: Translate logical designs into physical designs. Produce detailed designs. Effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate. Design systems characterized by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact. Work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.
2. Development process optimisation: Explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised. Support specific activities to improve development processes. Spot or identify obvious deficiencies.
3. Programming and build (software engineering): Collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications, use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
4. Service support: Help fix faults following agreed procedures. Carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
5. Systems integration: Build and test simple interfaces between systems. Work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.

What we offer

This opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 33 hours per week and we will also try our best to consider those intending to work a job share. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work: From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We\'re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We\'re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We\'re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

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