Senior Python Developer for Digital Marketplace (WP1100)

Tender description

Summary of the work We're looking for a Senior Python Developer to join the Digital Marketplace team at GDS. You'll be working in a multi disciplinary agile team, continuously improving the end-to-end user journey for buyers and suppliers and architecting the platform to make it easier to open and award new framework iterations. Specialist role Developer Expected Contract Length 3 months + 3 month extension (if required) Latest start date 27/06/2016 Maximum Day Rate £450 Who Speclialist Work With Front & back end developers, technical architect, quality assurance, interaction designers, user researchers, content designers, product managers, user support, performance analyst, delivery managers, service manager What Specialists Work On Website software development work for the Digital Marketplace to: 1. Deliver and continuously improve on the end-to-end user journey, from supplier submissions through to contract award 2. Architect the service to make it easier to open and award new frameworks Skills & Experience • 3 years experience as a python developer (Scores 5) • 2 years experience developing web applications in Python (Scores 5) • Experience of pair programming (Scores 5) • Experience of working in an agile team (Scores 5) • Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques (Scores 5) • Familiarity with working practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps (Scores 5) • Awareness of HTTP, databases, backups, CDNs and search, and of Unix-like operating systems, eg Linux and/or Mac OS experience of working on, or with web technologies (Scores 5) • Basic understanding about web security (Scores 5) • Experience of using testing to validate solutions (Scores 5) • Current / most recent role mainly uses Python rather than other programming languages (Scores 5) • Current / most recent role mainly as a developer rather than a manager (Scores 5) Nice to Haves • 5 years experience as a Python developer (Scores 5) • 3 years experience developing web applications in Python (Scores 5) • Experience of AWS (EC2 and RDS) (Scores 5) • Experience of PostgreSQL (Scores 5) • Experience of AWS CloudFormation (Scores 5) • Experience of SQLAlchemy (Scores 5) • Experience of Flask (Scores 5) Work Location Government Digital Service Aviation House 125 Kingsway London WC2B 6NH Working Arrangments Monday to Friday. 7.5 hours per day + lunch time. Must start work by 09:45 and not end before 16:00. Mainly based from our office in Holborn, with opportunities to work from home part time. Security Clearance Minimum Baseline Personnel Security Standard No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Do you work well in a collaborative agile team? (Scores 15%) Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 15% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers 1. Could you please clarify how the tender will be evaluated on this; - Will it be interviews direct with the candidates? - If you will interview, will it be before the closing date of this tender? - Will you evaluate the CVs? Thanks Yes it will be evaluated by interviewing the candidates and reviewing their work histories that you provide. This will occur after the closing date of this tender. 2. Is it possible to have 1 month onsite, 1 month remote kind of delivery? Not for this requirement