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Senior Front End Developer - Intellectual Property Office - SEO
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Senior Front End Developer
The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. In order to provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. You will have the opportunity to work on the latest cutting edge cloud technologies, use modern delivery processes and work on innovative projects some including the use of AI and ML. Working alongside experts in their fields you will have the opportunity to make valuable contributions without compromising on quality.
You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined team using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for assigned deliverables. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department.
As a multi-skilled individual with strong front end and UX skills, you will have the opportunity to develop and mature your skills even further and extend your skills set with those typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. Any back-end skills you have can also be utilised within this role.
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Working Style
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office.
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
Job Description
Main duties consist of but are not limited to:
- Be responsible for the design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale to large, complex or mission critical applications and solutions in a cloud first environment
- Build web based Front End interfaces interacting with RESTful APIs using React, Next JS and other web technologies
- Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage
- Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders
- Identify and manage problems, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to
- Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
- Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality
- Proactively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF)
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Person specification
Essential Experience
- Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of a large projects
- Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile
- Experience of working with cloud technologies including Azure
- Working knowledge of Azure DevOps
- Experience with Git
- Advocate of DevOps principles
Essential Technical
- Excellent understanding of React and experience with Next JS.
- Excellent understanding of Node JS
- Experience working with RESTful web services
- Has a good understanding of architectural principals with design patterns such as SOA and Micro-Services
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