Senior Developer - Met Office - SEO

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Software Developer in our Observations Research & Development (R&D) team to help us make a difference to our planet.  

Your world of expertise  

In the Morpheus team, as part of our Observations Research & Development Technology team, your contributions will directly impact global and national networks of sensors and instruments. These systems gather essential data, powering the Met Office’s world-class forecasting models and cutting-edge research. 

As a Senior Software Developer, you'll collaborate with a passionate and dedicated DevOps team, developing and maintaining systems that process and distribute vast amounts of critical data. You'll help create innovative tools that  enable the Met Office to easily ingest, transform and distribute data from our own observing  networks or data sourced from other providers of meteorological and climate data.  

Working with exciting technologies like Python and AWS you’ll be part of a collaborative environment, where you'll design and implement modern, cloud-based solutions, while building strong relationships within the Observations community.
 

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

Job description

 Your key duties  

• Collaborate: Guide colleagues to understand what needs to be built to enable product delivery. Plan and lead development on sets of related stories to meet these requirements.
• Be an Expert: Understand the business domain and take technical ownership of the system. Champion best practices in software development and take responsibility for addressing technical debt and feature development. Share your knowledge by coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues.
• Take Ownership: Operate the production services you build. Lead the investigation and resolution of complex technical issues, ensuring minimal impact on users and services and continually improving system robustness, resilience, and stability. 

We operate an on-call roster to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements. This post may be part of an on-call roster and the postholder would be required to participate in an on-call roster where in operation. 

Person specification

Essential Criteria, skills and experience: 

The role is aligned to the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework for the Software Developer family  

1. Modern development standards: You have extensive knowledge of best practices in software development and system design. You have experience implementing best practices to improve the quality of the software produced. You can support others in adopting best practice.
2. Programming and build (software engineering): You can create high-quality, maintainable, and secure code. You have a good understanding of programming languages, frameworks, and tools. You can use these technologies to develop, debug, test and deploy secure, reliable, scalable, and performant applications and share that knowledge with others.  
3. User focus: You can identify user requirements and deliver software that accurately meets users’ needs. You understand how to identify user needs and the value of user research.
4. Systems design: you have experience of designing Cloud-based ETL systems capable of retrieving, transforming and storing data from a variety of real-time data sources.You can critically review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technologies.
5. Systems integration: You can design, build and test reliable interfaces between data-handling systems. You can make decisions based on an understanding of the system architecture.