DAC-029 - Senior Full Stack Developer - C8360

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Who Speclialist Work With A multi-disciplinary agile team including UX designer, front-end developer, back-end developer, content designer, dev ops, architecture, delivery manager, product manager and service manager. What Specialists Work On The developer will be required to provide cover within a feature team that is developing several different data, web, and API, based applications and services. The Data Quality capability is a service that provides reporting and analytics on Advance Passenger Information and other Aviation based data sets to Border Force Where the Work Takes Place Main location for the work will be at Bedfont Lakes Business Park for 4-5 days, with occasional other locations being central London and Croydon. Remote working may be available where necessary. Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements We expect the supplier to be flexible to our needs and can make working with a mixed team across multiple sites effective. Off site and remote working can be accommodated, however due to security considerations this would need to be discussed. Travel to regional sites to be agreed, expenses incurred from travel outside of the M25/Greater London will be subject to Home Office Travel and Subsistence Policy. Work Location Main location for the work will be at Bedfont Lakes Business Park for 4-5 days, with occasional other locations being central London and Croydon. Remote working may be available where necessary. Security Clearance All staff must be SC cleared. We will ask bidders for details of key personnel, if successful the bidder will be asked for confirmation of security clearance or we will initiate clearance process Additional T&Cs The initial term of the agreement will be for 12 Months with and option to extend for a period up to a maximum of a further 6 months. CV will be requested after short-listing responses. Skills & Experience Experience of delivering data driven web applications using node.js and python – 9% Proven experience of analysing and integrating multiple data sets in specialist domain sectors – 9% Knowledge and experience of agile software delivery and DevOps, particularly: User story creation and management, Source control (using Git), TDD/BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Documentation, Continuous Deployment – 14% Experience of multiple RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL technologies – 4% Experience of Containerised applications using Docker & Kubernetes – 4% Proven skills in developing and supporting RESTful API’s – 4% Ability to develop data models for web based applications – 4% Experienced in meeting the Government’s Digital Service Standards and understanding of how developers should follow best practice – 9% Proven skills in securing web API’s, with appropriate authentication and authorisation routines – 4% Experience in using Message Queues in a micro services architecture – 4% Nice to Haves Airline domain knowledge Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database systems Operating services in an AWS Cloud-hosted environment No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Collaborative approach to delivery – 1% Used to operating with a flat team hierarchy – 1% Full team involvement in the development of user stories and story decomposition – 2% Iterative software development methods, delivering MVPs quickly and then refactoring based on business priorities – 1% Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 5% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers Budget range £750 ex vat