HM Revenue & Customs
External Developer Support Manager
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Job Summary
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At HMRC, we are already one of the most digital advanced tax authorities in the world and have one of the largest IT infrastructures and data sources in the UK. With 50 million customers to serve, over 60 thousand colleagues to support, and £600 billion to collect to fund UK Plc, our IT operation is huge! For those who are up to the challenge, we offer unique and unparalleled opportunities to work with some of the newest technologies and make a real, lasting difference.
HMRC is made up of Customer Groups which are working independently towards one common goal. Our role sits within HMRC’s Chief Digital & Information Office (CDIO) Group that deliver in-house solutions for a broad range of technical and operational issues. Our digital delivery centres are hi-tech, state-of-the-art facilities that allow our teams to maximise their capabilities.
Enterprise Integration Services (EIS) sits in the CDIO group. EIS handle HMRC’s core integration/middleware services, taking care of over a billion transactions every year and connecting hundreds of HMRC services.
We provide platforms for delivering Application Programming Interface (API) access to HMRC systems. We also provide artefacts and support for API consumers (software developers and other Government Departments) to build and manage authorised software that seamlessly integrates with HMRC digital services.
We use modern open-source products and work in an Agile way to deliver flexible, effective integration solutions.
Job Description
As an External Developer Support Manager, you will play an important part in a team providing API delivery and support to API consumers (external software developers, other government departments, etc.). You will help them to develop and manage their software to exchange data with a growing portfolio of HMRC APIs.
As the successful candidate, you will be self-motivated, a confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills and have a commitment to continuous improvement in both yourself and others. You will also be a supportive colleague, with a passion to build trusting, productive working relationships, with business and development teams, that support and manage developer expectations.
This is an exciting opportunity suited to someone who is proactive and hardworking, is comfortable taking the lead on issues, has recent experience in a similar role and enjoys working in a dynamic environment.
Person specification
Key Responsibilities
- Providing operational support from a third-party perspective for a portfolio of existing and new API products and services.
- Ensuring service and support functions remain responsive to customer needs.
- Ensuring appropriate reporting and service standards are met for specific services.
- Ensuring technical change is managed with relevant governance and appropriately communicated.
- Working closely with internal API development teams and API consumers, predominantly third-party software developers, to ensure products meet user needs and meet appropriate API Developer Hub standards.
- Working closely with HMRC business areas to influence and shape policy and delivery of new APIs.
- Ensuring APIs are delivered with the relevant support processes in place.
- Visualising, articulating, and taking on complex problems and concepts and making or recommending focused decisions.
- Providing input to the development, review and update of product documentation, test environments and data and guidance through the Developer Hub and GOV.UK.
- Championing and mentoring colleagues.
- Possible people management responsibilities.
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Essential Criteria
- Delivering services or support services and outcomes through a team or others.
- Building and maintaining collaborative working relationships to achieve a common goal whilst improving communications.
- Reviewing and improving processes, resolving problems and issues.
- Developing and implementing service standards.
Further Location Information
Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.
Office closures
For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
These Sites Are
Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford
You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.
Leeds Locations
Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
Alongside your salary of £37,682, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £10,916 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
Pension
- We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
Family friendly policies.
Personal support.
Coaching and development.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history and key achievements from your career which reflects key responsibilities of the role. Provide specific instances from your career detailing successes where you can.
- A 500-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience from your career reflect the essential criteria of the role, using specific examples from your career were you can.
- Separate 250-word Behaviour statements on Managing a Quality Service, Making Effective Decisions, and Working Together.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Sift
In the event of a large number of applications being received, we may opt to complete a pre-sift on your CV only. Those who pass full sift will have their full application reviewed.
At full sift all behaviour statements, and your CV, and your Personal Statement, will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
The interview will be 45 minutes in duration and will be held by a 3-person panel. During the panel interview, you will be asked behaviour-based questions, behaviours outlined below. You will also be asked strengths based questions to explore what you enjoy and your motivations relevant towards the role.
This Is An Example Of a Strengths-based Question
“It is often said that the customer's needs should come first. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?”
There is no expectation or requirement for you to prepare for the strengths-based questions in advance of the interview, though you may find it helpful to spend some time reflecting on what you enjoy doing and what you do well.
Behaviours
- Managing a Quality Service
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
When answering you will be required to provide a specific instance from your career which demonstrates the technical skill, experience or behaviour in question. You would be advised prepare specific examples from you career in advance.
You will be advised to apply the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) technique when delivering examples. You would be encouraged to prepare demonstratable examples of your experience ahead of the interview to ensure meaningfulness and completeness.
Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed. Please note that circumstances may arise that require the planned interview format to change. We will endeavour to provide you with as much notice of any change as possible.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form
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