DDaT19120 BEIS Office for Product Safety and Standards Ruby-on-Rails Technical Lead copy

Description

Who Speclialist Work With You will work as part of the OPSS digital team. The team is a mix of OPSS permanent staff and contractors currently consisting of: Head of Digital UX Design lead Product Managers Delivery Manager User Researchers Content Designers Business Analyst Developers QA Tester We are also supplemented by 3rd party supplier delivery partners who provide specific services on our behalf. What Specialists Work On We require a Technical lead with a Ruby-on-Rails/developer background to provide technical leadership to a RoR developer team in developing services to help us build national capacity for product safety. •Product safety database (including planned work on consumers and businesses) •Submit Cosmetic Notification Portal Further information on services will be provided to short-listed suppliers. We need help completing outstanding work and developing new features and functionality as part of ongoing service development and iteration. Our tech stack includes: Rails 5.2 running on Ruby 2.4.3;GOV.UK PaaS and Notify;GOV.UK Registers (country information);Companies House API for business details; Yarn;Sidekiq;ClamAV;Postgres 9.5;Elasticsearch 6 (on AWS) Where the Work Takes Place The primary site will be 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET. However, OPSS have other sites including Birmingham and Teddington and the team may be required to work there on occasion to engage with OPSS colleagues and stakeholders. There may be a requirement for travel to other UK stakeholder sites to conduct business. Early Market Engagement N/A Working Arrangements The team is co-located at 1 Victoria Street, London and adhere to BEIS normal working hours (09:00 - 17:00). The team also work occasionally at OPSS sites in Birmingham and Teddington. OPSS will meet any additional travel costs incurred away from the London office. These will be met in line with the BEIS travel and subsistence policy. OPSS are happy to consider remote working arrangements agreed at the discretion of the OPSS Head of Digital or service product manager. Work Location The primary site will be 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET. However, OPSS have other sites including Birmingham and Teddington and the team may be required to work there on occasion to engage with OPSS colleagues and stakeholders. There may be a requirement for travel to other UK stakeholder sites to conduct business. Security Clearance Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance required. BEIS will sponsor this if necessary. Additional T&Cs N/A Skills & Experience Demonstrate your experience in leading and directing a team of Ruby-on-Rails developers to deliver successful digital services (4%) Demonstrate your experience in advising on architectural design and tools to ensure that service efficiency and effectiveness including data management is maximised (4%) Demonstrate your experience in developing responsive web applications using Ruby-on-Rails and in line with our tech stack or equivalent (4%) Demonstrate your understanding of organisation and service design priorities so that developer resource can be effectively deployed to deliver effective code (4%) Demonstrate your experience in advising on the effective use of API’s (4%) Demonstrate your experience in advising on tools that ensure services are secure and safe to use (4%) Nice to Haves Demonstrate your experience in working with and designing services that meet the GDS Digital Service Standard (3%) Demonstrate your experience in working with GOV.UK tools e.g. PaaS, Notify (3%) No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Demonstrate how you will provide leadership that provides direction and clarity of purpose (4%) Demonstrate how you will help OPSS develop long-term sustainable internal capability (3%) Demonstrate how you will work in an agile way to help identify, prioritise and deliver outputs (3%) Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 10% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range £750 per day. our budget range is £98,000 to £108,000 excl vat.