Junior Medical Information Officer jobs

472808

£28,600 - £31,327

Your total reward package will be up to £40,524 annually

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Permanent

Information Technology

Full-time

2

Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB

We’re looking for two Junior Software Developers to help us make a difference to our planet by using cutting edge technologies to provide world-leading meteorological information to our customers.

As our Junior Software Developer, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Are you passionate about technology? Do you love solving problems and want to grow your technical skills?

Join our friendly, innovative team developing cloud-based systems and services that help deliver critical weather and climate data to users across the UK and beyond. This is a fantastic opportunity to start your career in an agile team, learning from experienced developers while implementing technical solutions to provide critical, real-world services that make a difference.

You will engineer solutions using Python and AWS cloud computing to bridge the gap between our data services and the user platforms. You'll help build scalable APIs and cloud-native services that ensures fast, reliable access to our forecasts and observations data, supporting the systems behind the Met Office App, Public Website and other services.

You’ll get hands on with the output of our cutting-edge supercomputing capabilities and make system performance, scalability, and reliability essential elements of your work. This is your opportunity to be part of something bigger - developing modern, cloud-based solutions that have a wide-reaching and positive impact, helping millions of people to stay safe and thrive.

Your key duties:

• Develop skills while working under supervision to deliver stories in a multidisciplinary team.
• Understand and be proficient in different types of testing.
• Be aware of but not responsible for security.
• Coach and mentor more junior colleagues.

This role is aligned to the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework Junior Developer role level. Further information is available at https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/software-developer#junior-developer on the GOV.UK website.

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

• An expert by nature - Programming and build. Demonstrable experience of designing, developing, testing and debugging software or scripts, ideally using Python. Experience may have been gained through employment, education, placements or personal projects. Describe your contribution to the delivery of working software solutions and your use of cloud-native technologies where applicable. (Lead Criteria)
• You keep evolving - Modern development standards. You understand and can explain the most important principles of modern development standards and how they apply to your work.
• A force for good - Service support. With a problem-solving mindset you can help fix faults following agreed procedures and carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
• We're better together - Team work. You approach your work as a team activity, actively working with others across multi-discipline or geographically-dispersed teams, to deliver shared goals.

The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.

Alongside your salary of £28,600, Met Office contributes £8,285 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024 and 2025 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

As our Junior Software Developer, your total reward package will be up to £40,524 annually, which includes:

• £28,600 base pay.
• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA) you will be paid £2,000 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. Whilst in post, you will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2026 until March 2027 in your monthly pay.
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave.

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Job contact :

• Name : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
• Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk