Software Engineer – DV Cleared

Pay rate : £78ph inside IR35

Duration : 1 year

Clearance : DV Cleared - Please note standard UKSV clearance will not be accepted - clearances such as GCHQ, GCB and GCPD will be considered

The HAC is a complex platform with many technologies, frameworks, and languages. The available documentation and training resources internally are limited.

A candidate should be prepared to learn independently alongside guidance and knowledge share from the existing team.

In general, the candidates should be experienced or knowledgeable in:

1.Problem solving

2. Working independently and scoping task level work with minimal help

3.Software design and testing principles

4.Big data / data engineering

5.Database technologies

6.Basic dev Ops principles and practices

7.Basic infrastructure / system administration

SKILLS:

• Expert Has significant experience or knowledge in the skill already.
• Intermediate Has some experience or knowledge in the skill already OR can show strong understanding/experience in similar areas.
• Awareness Understands the underlying concept and can learn with minimal guidance.
• Skill sets that would be most favourable in a candidate

Languages

• Scala* Intermediate Intermediate in other object orientated, strongly typed and/or functional languages, like Java.
• Python* Intermediate Collection of other languages may prove they could learn python syntax efficiently.
• Java Intermediate Intermediate in Scala is theoretically enough to understand this skill requirement.

SQL Awareness Any query language for a relational database.

Frameworks

• Skill Level Acceptable Alternatives
• Spark Awareness Apache Flink could be transferrable as a skill.
• Spring Boot Intermediate Generic spring framework.
• Maven Intermediate SBT - dependency management specifically for scala.
• Junit/Scala Test Intermediate Any testing framework for unit testing
• Mockito Awareness Any mocking framework
• Cucumber/JMeter Awareness Any automated or integration testing framework

Technologies

• Skill Level Acceptable Alternatives
• Accumulo* Awareness Other NoSQL, key-value databases: Cassandra, AWS DynamoDb, HBase
• Git Intermediate
• Linux Intermediate
• Tekton Awareness Any CI build management tool – Bamboo, concourse etc.
• Hadoop Ecosystem* Awareness
• Kafka* Awareness Any other buffering or streaming technology
• NiFi Awareness

Technologies

• Skill Level Acceptable Alternatives
• Accumulo* Intermediate Other NoSQL, key-value databases: Cassandra, AWS DynamoDb, HBase
• Git Intermediate
• Linux Intermediate
• Jenkins Awareness Any CI build management tool – Bamboo, concourse etc.
• Hadoop Ecosystem* Awareness
• Jupyter Hub Awareness
• Trino / Presto * Awareness

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.