D&A Microservices Support Specialist

Job Description

Job Title: D&A Microservices Support Specialist

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £50,000+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as the technical lead providing support expertise across the Microservices product range to all consumers utilising it. Providing technical leadership and support, industry best practice and deliver value on the Microservices products. There is also some focus on developing and promoting new, key functionality in the product for expanded use across BAE Systems
• Manages and challenges where appropriate internal and external suppliers to achieve agreed service levels and quality standards. Demonstrating advanced problem-solving capability, working with developers to perform problem management, incident management in relation to Microservices related issues
• Monitor and maintain Microservices service activities, including general administration, performing application maintenance and product faults. Leading on upgrades for Microservices products in line with BAE Systems requirements
• Supporting the architects & development teams with future Microservices deliverables ensuring seamless product transition into service
• To pass on and document critical skills relating to the use of Microservices for other department staff and to enhance the full spectrum of internal developers’ skill range
• Working closely with other key enablers (IM&T) and standard setters (Shared Services D&A Architecture team) to adhere to the BAE Systems relevant IT Policy, Operational and Governance framework

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Data Engineering experience & knowledge in relation to problem solving data related issues.
• Experience in using JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML and CSS & other Microservices applications.
• Good knowledge and understanding of MSSQL / SQL, writing queries using multiple tables, and interpreting results.
• Proven knowledge and understanding of front-end frameworks, such as VueJS, React
• Knowledge and understanding of back-end frameworks, such as Node, .Net
• Good communication skills – able to quickly understand and feedback best practice into proposed solutions and wider content

Desirable:

• Proven knowledge and experience of web development programming languages such as VueJS, React, Typescript
• Good knowledge and experience of unit testing and testing frameworks, such as Jest, Cypress
• Knowledge of web development CI/CD release pipelines, IDEs, Git and/or Docker
• Knowledge of architectural standards such as RESTful API
• Experience of working within a ITIL service environment

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Data & Analytics (D&A) team:

The team are focused on the delivery, support and maintenance of the Microservices service across BAE Systems.

As a Microservices Support Specialist, you will be responsible for delivering value to the customer base, providing technical support and adhering to industry best practise on all Microservices products used across the service.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 20th May 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

#LI-SH1

#LI-Hybrid