Defence Business Services DIT-AG Senior Developer05 - MoD - SEO

Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference?

Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence?

Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services, to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.

• Our Vision - To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.
• Our Mission - Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability.

DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society.

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.  This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments.  Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements

DBS has recently undertaken a review of its operational locations in the North West, and have consolidated all activities in Norcross, Blackpool. A further move, to the new Government Hub at Talbot Gateway in Blackpool, is scheduled to take place in 2026.

Come and join the DBS community today!

Job description

As a Senior Developer in the Defence Business Services (DBS) Automation Garage you will be expected to work collaboratively in small, multi-disciplinary agile scrum teams, taking Discovery Documents for Robotic Process Automations, PowerApps, etc, created by the Business Analysts, through development, testing, user acceptance testing, to live running operation.  In addition, you will be expected to investigate and assess new technologies that may offer benefits to organisation if adopted. 

Senior Developer

Technical

• Supports implementation of new systems or upgrades for RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation Solutions
• Develops good practice, ways of working
• Grows the digital community, activity encourage collaboration.
• Develops knowledge and keeps up to date with latest vendor offerings across multiple technologies including RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation 
• Innovates and improve the way processes are delivered to the business, assessing, and championing the adoption of new technologies to meet the organisations automation requirements
• Collaborate with others (service manager, technical architects, design team) to understand and review software requirements.
• Designs, codes, tests, corrects, and documents user interfaces using the right standards and tools.
• Keeps the service and project managers informed of the status of development / service support. Finds ways to improve system robustness, resilience, and stability
• Maintains and supports open Gitlab repositories - deploying and managing code changes, as well as other DevOps tasks.
• Manage Amazon Web Service storage, domain naming services and DynamoDB

   Stakeholder Management

• Builds strong relationship with outside technical teams to ensure implementation success
• Seen by Business and team as the RPA, Chatbot, Power Platforms, Cognitive, Cloud and Intelligent Automation Solutions expert
• Builds productive relationships internally and externally

Person specification

Essential Skills

• Programming and build (software engineering). You can 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 (Skill Level Required: Practitioner) 
• Development process optimisation. You can identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions (Skill Level Required: Working) 
• Service support. You can identify, locate and fix faults (Skill Level Required: Practitioner) 
• Modern standards approach. You can competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so (Skill Level Required: Practitioner) 
• 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 (Skill Level Required: Practitioner) 
• Prototyping. You can approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others; establish design patterns and iterate them; use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate (Skill Level Required: Practitioner) 
• 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 (Skill Level Required: Practitioner) 
• Availability and capacity management. You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets (Skill Level Required: Working) 
• Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity; select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively; review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology (Skill Level Required: Practitioner) 
• Systems integration. You can define the integration build; co-ordinate build activities across systems; understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities (Skill Level Required: Practitioner) 

Desirable Skills

• Experience of Government Digital Service Ways of Working

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• DDaT Senior Software Developer - Availability & Capacity Management
• DDaT Senior Software Developer - Development Process Optimisation (Management)
• DDaT Senior Software Developer - Information Security
• DDaT Senior Software Developer - System Integration