Offre d'emploi Developer (Innovation) - HO - SEO

UK residency and security requirements - You need to have lived in the UK for the past 5 years.

Essential Criteria

You’ll be a self-starter with a demonstrable passion for innovating with new technology, with the following skills or some previous experience in:

• Evaluating emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) and highlighting risks and trade-offs.

• Researching emerging technologies to ensure that any risks or trade-offs, e.g. security or privacy concerns, are factored into all Innovation Lab activities and form part of handovers into delivery.

• Proven experience in building AI/ML prototypes or proof-of-concepts to demonstrate art-of-the-possible and inform stakeholder decisions. Skilled in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.

• Applying agreed standards and tools to produce clear, well-documented code for hand-over to delivery teams, providing support throughout the lifecycle.

• Designing test approach for prototypes, ensuring test data used is representative, especially for use of AI/ML solutions, creating synthetic test data where appropriate.

• Assessing the quality and integrity of all data sources, demonstrating application of ethical principles when proposing use of artificial intelligence.

• Rapidly develop functional AI prototypes by integrating LLMs, APIs, and data sources, using lightweight CI/CD pipelines to automate demos and enable secure cloud-based experimentation.

SFIA capability framework

Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all engineering levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework:  

SFIA levels of responsibility – Use the SFIA  to understand what would be expected for each Technical Skill listed below.

SFIA Technical Skills

The essential technical skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework. Please see below for the relevant skills required for your role.

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Software design (SWDN) - Level 3

• Programming/software Development (PROG) - Level 3

• Testing (TEST) - Level 3

• Systems integration and build (SINT) - Level 3

• Data management (DATM) - Level 3

• Application support (ASUP) - Level 3

Manchester M5 3LZ, Sheffield S3 8NU, Croydon CR0 2WF, Liverpool L3 9BP, Southport PR8 6DA

Home Office Government Digital and Data designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles, and property. 

The Developer works on software components that form part of Digital Innovation Lab experimentation work. You will be involved in designing, running and improving software leveraging emerging technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. You will typically work under the guidance of senior colleagues in your team.

You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.