Job Introduction
We are looking for an exceptional Lead Developer - Manager. The role is within our Operational Technology Directorate within the Defence Tribe who work towards providing defence partners across the globe with a range of data, products and services, making use of the Met Office’s world leading science and technology capability.
This role will sit within the Senior Leadership Team for the Defence Tribe and will be representing the Met Office in the Defence Sector. Please note this role does require a certain amount of international travel mainly across Europe and North America and dependent on our commitment to sustainability and achieving carbon neutrality. This includes travel to critical events and meetings across the globe.
As Lead Developer for the Defence Tribe, you will have oversight of all the development activities across the Tribe. You will be expected to engage and help those Development Teams deliver to the Defence Programme, including mentoring, troubleshooting and supporting the work they do.
From edge computing to supercomputing, at the Met Office, we use a diverse set of cutting-edge technologies to drive our innovative projects. Our tech stack includes Python and JavaScript for a wide range of applications, from scientific computing to web development. Our cloud infrastructure spans AWS and Azure, where we embrace containerization using Docker and serverless architectures to ensure scalability and efficiency. Additionally, we are making ever greater use of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to enhance our weather and climate predictions. Join us to work with these exciting technologies and more, as we push the boundaries of weather and climate science.
To find out more about Technology at the Met Office, please take a look here.

We’re looking for someone who meets the following Essential Criteria for this role:

• Availability and Capacity Management. You will ensure the implementation of availability and capacity management standards and procedures.
• Development process optimisation. You can analyse current processes and identity opportunities and implement optimisation of services.
• Modern Development Standards. You can identify and apply modern development standards to support complex projects, and you can lead others in applying these standards.
• Programming and build. You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Systems Design, Integration and Service Support: You can design and review cost efficient systems using design standards, methods tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. you can identify risk, impact. You can apply efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. You can define the integration build; co-ordinate build activities across systems to undertake and support integration testing activities. You can identify, locate and fix faults.
• User focus. You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. Champion user research to focus on all users. Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
• Information Security: You can understand information security, design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature.