JOB SUMMARY

At Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), we supply and maintain vital equipment and services for the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. Together, we deliver a vast range of essential defence programmes, and strive for what’s next. Because it helps keep our military at the top of their game and our nation safe – for today, and tomorrow.
We offer 25+ days’ holiday, flexible and hybrid working, enhanced parental leave schemes, shopping discounts, and an exceptional employer pension contribution of 28.97%, to help make work work for you.
Nationality, visas and vetting: We’re unable to offer visa sponsorship.
This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance. Clearance must be obtained without any caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role you’ve been recruited for. If it isn’t obtained, or is obtained but with caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role, any conditional offer made to you will be withdrawn. Obtaining SC security clearance can be a lengthy process, and we reserve the right to withdraw any conditional offer made if the necessary security clearance isn’t obtained within 12 months.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are you seeking the next step in your career? Then join us as an IT Developer. You will be an integral part of a small, collaborative, and agile team delivering IT Developer activities and providing essential support for Ministry of Defence (MOD) contracts.
You will work with various software requirements to ensure the success of projects and liaise with Government departments, industry, and MOD capability Delivery Teams.
A significant part of your job will include participating in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processing. This involves conducting data extract feasibility studies, working with Engineering Through Life Support (ETLS) data, developing supply chain data projects, and sustaining data feeds to industry with external suppliers.
You will help us transition into a digital business by simplifying, clarifying, and accelerating digital services and information.
At DE&S, we champion flexible ways of working. 3 days attendance per week is required on site, to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, creating, testing and documenting new and amended software components from supplied specifications in accordance with agreed development and security standards and processes.
• Applying source code management and maintaining code repository, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a quality well-engineered result.
• Training and developing Junior & Associate Developers to build capability within the Function.
• Applying technical knowledge to design and create workable prototypes, both programs and physical outputs.
• Supporting environment management and providing Data set for Testing. - Agile Software Development, promoting the methodology, iterative build & testing.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

To be successful with your application, you’ll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Knowledge of source systems MJDI and GOLDesp.
• Basic & Advanced Sequence Query Language (SQL) for Oracle SQL Developer.
• Experience with IBM Info-Sphere products. (IBM DataStage).

• Experience of Extract Transform Load (ETL) or equivalent.

  In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

• Development and Implementation – Practitioner level

• Service Delivery and Operations - Supervised Practitioner level
• Communicating and Influencing - CSBC3
• Leadership - CSBC3

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £45,200, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,094 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• 25 days’ annual leave +1 day a year up to 30 days, 8 bank holidays and a day off for the King’s birthday
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• Market-leading average employer pension contribution of 28.97%
• Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards
• Access to specialist training and funded qualifications
• Support for progression
• Huge range of discounts
• Volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave schemes

Improving innovation and enriching our culture, diversity of thought is vital to our success. So whether you’re looking for a new opportunity, a next step, or a helping hand as you return from a career break, bring your experiences and help deliver for the defence of tomorrow. Here you’ll find a supportive, family-friendly organisation to be a part of - and if you need any assistance with your application, just let us know.

LI-Hybrid

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)

TYPE OF ROLE

Digital
Information Technology
Knowledge and Information Management

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, creating, testing and documenting new and amended software components from supplied specifications in accordance with agreed development and security standards and processes.
• Applying source code management and maintaining code repository, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a quality well-engineered result.
• Training and developing Junior & Associate Developers to build capability within the Function.
• Applying technical knowledge to design and create workable prototypes, both programs and physical outputs.
• Supporting environment management and providing Data set for Testing. - Agile Software Development, promoting the methodology, iterative build & testing

In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

• Development and Implementation – Practitioner level
• Service Delivery and Operations - Supervised Practitioner level
• Communicating and Influencing - CSBC3
• Leadership - CSBC