Job description
ICT Professionals within the NICS have a positive impact on the day-to-day lives of the people who live and work in Northern Ireland and play a pivotal role in delivering digital services that are cost effective, faster, accessible, and secure. Having the right talent in place across the NICS is critical to this delivery. We have ambitious ICT strategies to enable the NICS to radically improve service delivery through better use of efficient, effective, and fit for purpose technology and processes, and ensure value for money in the delivery of Government services.Our InfrastructureThe NICS uses a secure, resilient, and flexible infrastructure which includes Tier 3 data centres, a single, dedicated, high-speed, network service connecting all NICS locations, robust local networks, and virtualised server farms. Access devices include PCs, encrypted laptops, tablet devices and smart phones.The NICS uses a mix of industry standard and bespoke applications, with many of the latter being developed in-house. .
Request
Applicants must have by the closing date of applications: At least a level 4 qualification in Computing, Software Engineering, or other discipline relevant to Information Systems and Information Technology. Only those courses where a computing content of 50 percent or more can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the panel will be considered relevant.Or2 years experience in software development, including working with customers and/or third parties and considering their needs and technical understanding.Software Development includes the design, coding and testing of programs and program modification from supplied specifications using recognised industry standards development approaches and tools. This also covers the area of web design and development, including user interface design, coding and writing mark-up.