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Diverse Perspectives and experiences are critical to our success, and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Keeping people safe and healthy matters and that’s what we do at the Health and Safety Executive. Every day, everyone on the team contributes to protecting lives and we apply our expertise to help influence change in mindsets about health and safety throughout industry. We undertake world-class science to build our knowledge about safe working practices, and then apply that understanding to the workplace, guiding every part of the economy to function safely. And when accidents happen, we investigate and hold those at fault to account whilst ensuring that lessons are learnt across industries. We are a modern, independent, data drive Regulator and we are proud to have made Great Britain one of the safest places to work in the world.

Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information, Technology and Facilities (ITF) Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. We support over 3000 colleagues working in a hybrid style at home and in 26 offices across Great Britain. Our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries.

We strive to constantly improve the technologies and services supporting the organisation. Our end user computing devices are leading edge, and we are making significant progress in delivering new cloud-based services. Our service management and information management services are very highly regarded within the organisation and pride themselves on excellent customer service. Our commercial team has built strong relationships with suppliers and our project management team is embedded in our corporate change programme, transforming the older legacy systems that have underpinned the organisation for a long time.

We are a learning team, and everyone is encouraged to undertake training, development and courses that will keep them and the team current and excited by new opportunities. The team works well because everyone’s contributions and ideas are listened to and valued, and we can only grow and improve if there is an enthusiasm to explore our disciplines and try new ways of working.

About The Role:

We’ll look to you to lead on multiple software development projects, supporting a number of digital programmes within the HSE. Using your technical experience and leadership skills, you will coordinate the development teams learning and delivery to support the on-boarding of new digital services. You will work closely with different disciplines, with your digital colleagues, and our digital partners to support a seamless delivery to our organisational stakeholders. This is an excellent opportunity to make a difference in modernising how HSE deliver new digital services.

• Lead & manage the Development Teams, delivering system development, system testing and system maintenance functions.
• Develop HSEs in-house capability to ensure delivered digital services can be maintained and improved when digital partners exit.
• Oversee the adequate transfer of knowledge between digital partners and the Development and DevOps teams, in line with the overarching strategic direction and our departmental standards
• Define, Publish & manage the execution of the Systems Development Methodologies to be used by the HSE, and provide the professional lead for all system development in the business.
• Work collaboratively with the Testing and DevOps functions to ensure modern practices and tooling are incorporated into development processes.
• Plan, Budget & account for the Development Team’s work

Person Specification

• Proven experience of developing, testing and maintaining systems
• Proven experience of line managing development teams
• Knowledge of architectural design concepts of a corporate IT environment
• Excellent planning capabilities and experience of managing systems development projects
• Working knowledge of government digital service standards

Whilst the post can be based in any HSE location (except for our London office), it should be assumed that the successful candidate will be required to attend our Bootle HQ on a regular basis. For further information about HSE locations please click here.

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting, and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

Essential:

• Experience in at least one system development language (Interpreted and/or compiled)
• Experience in delivering corporate application services
• Experience of version control systems as well as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines e.g. Azure DevOps, GitLab CI or Jenkins
• You will hold or be willing to work towards a Level 3 Service Management framework qualification or equivalent
• Good oral and written communications
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Proven experience of managing software development teams

Desirable:

• Experience of Angular development framework
• Experience of Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Leadership
• Developing Self and Others

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• Competitive rates of pay.
• Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.9%, far more than in the private sector.
• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career.
• Carer friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career.
• 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave.
• Competitive Parental leave benefits.

This post is eligible for Excess Fares Allowance. A successful internal candidate currently based at another office may be entitled to Excess Fares Allowance in line with HSE policy (http://intranet/finance/expenses/excess-fares-allowance-policy.htm)

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Recruitment team

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