Front End Developer - Public Sector in London

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK. A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long‐term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‐learning, mentoring and coaching programmes and the chance to gain industry recognised certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and processes as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programmes for peer‐to‐peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work‐life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programmes, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities:

Join us and contribute to projects that push the boundaries of digital innovation. If you're passionate about crafting exceptional user experiences and thrive in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with UX designers, back‐end developers, and other team members to establish application functionality
• Develop application prototypes and conduct rigorous testing to identify and rectify usability issues
• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in front‐end technologies and apply them to enhance application performance
• Maintain clean, efficient code and documentation for future reference and collaboration
• Mentor developers on technical and consulting skills.

Required education:

None

Preferred education:

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Strong understanding of responsive design and development with component libraries and following design and brand guidelines.
• Proficient in some of the modern front‐end libraries and frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Proficient with version control systems, such as Git, and common workflows, such as Git flow
• Excellent problem‐solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Currently hold or eligible for Government Security Clearance.

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Experience with server‐side technologies like Node.js, or full‐stack frameworks like Next.js.
• Good understanding of branching and deployment strategies.
• Experience with mobile app development (Hybrid/iOS/Android)
• Understanding of accessibility guidelines and best practices.

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Region: London, United Kingdom

Work arrangement: Hybrid (up to 80% or 4 days a week; home on weekends – based on project requirements)

Employment type: Regular (Professional)

Company: IBM

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position? No

IBM is proud to be an equal‐opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.