DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER – MO3 TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
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Job Title: DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER – MO3 TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
Salary: £43,292 to £47,380 plus a Location allowance of £1,639. You will receive £43,292 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £47,380 will be via incremental progression.
Location: Southwark
Working for the Met doesn’t have to mean patrolling the streets. Our incredible team of professional staff behind the scenes play an essential part in helping us to keep Londoners safe by ensuring everything here runs smoothly.
Seeing is believing. And that’s the only way you’ll really get to know about our sophisticated technologies and how we’re using them to fight crime in the capital. We can’t say much here, for obvious reasons, but we can promise you’ll work with emerging technologies to deliver bespoke electronic and ICT solutions for operational use by police officers in the field.
Technology, Research and Innovation (TRI) are part of Operational Technology within the Met Operations 3 command and are responsible for keeping the MPS at the forefront of new and emerging technologies. As a Development Engineer, you’ll producing unique solutions to solve business issues relating to some of the more specialist and sensitive parts of the MPS and National Policing. Your work will be highly innovative and will involve exploring new off-the-shelf tech, taking existing products and modifying them, and developing entirely new solutions. You’ll also have the opportunity to carry out research, working with academia to inform new solutions and possibilities. From bespoke IT systems and apps to electronic solutions, you’ll oversee the full lifecycle of each project with our customers.
Your responsibilities will be varied and will involve working effectively and efficiently on your own and as part of a larger project team. You’ll managing tasks and team members – using your excellent communications skills and technology expertise. You’ll need to be confident in C#, Javascript or C/C++ and to have experience of MVC framework, .NET Core or Node.js. You should also be comfortable using command-line Linux. Possess maker/creator dexterity and proficiency handling the latest tools, along with practical experience in design and manufacture, will be essentials too.
This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post; with a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post, if required.
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
To apply, please visit our website. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 31/01/2022.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Skills
- Good communication competences including the ability to easily translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Ability to work comfortably on their own or as part of a project team either at the office or out in the field.
- Possess maker/creator dexterity and proficiency when handling the latest and current tools at their disposal along with personal practical experience in design and manufacture.
- Management of staff to assist in any part of the development cycle.
- Tenacity to see a task through to completion through technical challenges.
- Logical and reasoned mentality to establish the most effective outcome amongst confusing and conflicting conditions.
- Ability to produce clear and concise documentation that is easily read and understood by both customer and technical communities.
Experience in the following areas:
Essential
- Software development using at least one of the following languages: C#, Javascript or C/C++
- Experience of at least one MVC framework or technology (for example, .NET Core, Node.js)
- Comfortable with using command-line Linux
- Knowledge of, or exposure to, version control practices
- Ability to both engage within a team and work under their own steam
- Willingness to embrace and adopt emerging technologies and frameworks
Desirable
- A desire and interest to keep up to date with emerging technologies
- Working within an Agile team
- General electro-mechanical skills
- Experience with, or interest to learn, a modern Javascript framework (e.g. Vue, Express.js)
- SQL (SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
- Mobile application development (e.g. Xamarin Forms, Android SDK)
- Machine learning (Python, tensorflow)
- Working with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure)
- Migrating older code to newer technologies
- Physical and virtual infrastructure engineering
- Network architecting and system administration
- Security and technology (vulnerability analysis, pen-testing, ethical hacking)
- Software-defined radios
- Devops/CI/CD pipeline tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform)
- TDD/Unit testing
Membership of a professional institution
Full clean UK driving license.
Willingness to drive MPS vehicles
You will be required to undertake security clearance to MV/SC level in order to perform this role and to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post, as required.
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.