Senior Java Developer

At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us, and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.

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.

• Have you got a working knowledge of Java?
• Can you identify, triage and fix defects?
• Are you great at offering support and mentoring others?

If yes we would like you to be part of our outstanding team within Chief Digital Product Office,

Digital Services.

Our purpose is to drive a customer centric approach to transforming services for HMRC Customers. Working closely with business stakeholders, contractors and suppliers - our aim is to drive digital innovation and to re-engineer services aligned to our IT, contractual and sourcing strategies and to deliver significantly improved digital services.

You will be a key member of an Agile Scrum Team working across our Digital Application Support Service teams who are responsible for HMRC Self-Assessment digital service, ensuring users are able to get their tax right.

The team support customers, delivering change, enhancement and support for high-volume, business-critical HMRC digital service using Java.

Working as part of a scrum team you will have a key role in designing, building, and maintaining services that have a positive impact on over 12m users across HMRC.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Plan and lead development activities supporting legislative changes, service enhancements, maintenance and problem resolution within strict timescales.
• Put users first, translating user needs and user stories into effective technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain deep knowledge of the wider service architecture and support the development of others.
• Operate and support the live services you build, using monitoring and observability tools.
• Contribute to deployment activities and take ownership of production releases.
• Proactively improve service resilience, stability, scalability and maintainability.
• Support and mentor less experienced developers within the team.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Working as part of an agile software delivery team, leading on aspects of development work, providing guidance and setting development direction for more junior members of a team.
• Demonstrable working experience using Java 8 or newer and Spring Framework to deliver user-centred digital services.
• Demonstrable experience planning and leading development on related user stories.
• Experience of Dev Ops practices such as CI/CD (unit testing, TDD, Jenkins, Git, or similar).
• Evidence of taking ownership of risks and technical debt and ensuring they’re prioritised within the team alongside stakeholders.
• Problem solving and delivering a range of possible solutions, including through technical work and process improvement.
• Experience of evaluating data against business rules through rules engines such as Apache KiE
  - Drools.
• Operating a live service, using observability tooling such as Kibana, Grafana and Google Tag Manager, managing live incidents within an ITIL Framework.
• Knowledge of web security best practices, such as OWASP top 10.
• Experience of working with tools for API, performance, accessibility and security testing.
• Working knowledge of the Digital Application Support Services
  - Self Assessment application.
• Oracle Certified Professional Qualification.
• ITIL4 Foundation…