Full Stack Developer - Justice Redact

We’re recruiting for a Senior Full Stack Developer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Justice Redact team. You will help us roll out a new service that will improve how personal and sensitive information is redacted from Offender Subject Access Requests (OSARs).

This role aligns against the Senior Developer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework

OSARs are one of the Ministry of Justice’s largest sources of personal data requests. The vetting staff who process these requests currently use a range of tools and processes to identify and redact personal and sensitive information from documents. We are developing an AI-assisted service to help them do this work more quickly, accurately and consistently, while keeping human oversight at the centre of the process.

You’ll join the Justice Redact team at an exciting stage of the service’s development. The product has been through Alpha and is moving towards Private Beta and wider operational use. You’ll help us strengthen, improve and scale the service based on feedback from the people who use it., Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements - Experience, Technical and the following Behaviours:

• Making effective decisions

• Working together

• Communicating and influencing

As part of your interview, you will be asked to prepare and deliver a short presentation that assesses your technical capability. Further details will be provided if successful at sift, but it will be based on the following scenario:

Scenario

Justice Redact is being rolled out to more OSAR staff. The service uses AI to identify potential personal and sensitive information in documents and presents suggested redactions to operational users for review.

The service is currently moving from Beta towards Live. As usage increases, the team need to ensure that the service is robust, scalable, secure, accessible and maintainable.

You have been asked to consider how you would approach the next stage of development and identify the technical priorities you would address.

Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the technical assessment score will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.

In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience, Technical skills and Behaviours during the assessment process., * A Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following three criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.

• Delivering complex software - demonstrate proven experience of delivering a complex software solution into production, including your contribution to the design, development, testing and deployment of the service.

• Full-stack engineering and technical practice - demonstrate experience of developing and maintaining software across the back end and web front end, including automated testing, APIs and modern continuous integration and delivery practices.

• Collaborative problem solving - demonstrate how you have worked with a multidisciplinary team to understand a complex problem, make technical decisions and deliver a pragmatic solution, particularly where requirements or the problem was not fully defined.

A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on “delivering complex software - demonstrate proven experience of delivering a complex software solution into production, including your contribution to the design, development, testing and deployment of the service”.