Quadient Software Developer at HM Revenue & Customs, UK Offices, 3 Months, £Contract Rate

Competitive Daily Rate - Inside IR35

Initial 3 month contract

All HMRC Locations

With 50 million customers to serve, over 60 thousand colleagues to support and £600 billion to collect to fund UK Services (such as our NHS, Education System, and much more), our IT operation is far-reaching and has a direct impact on the tax collection and supporting those in need. Here at HMRC we’re looking to enhance our IT for outbound customer communications by centralising document composition and clearly delineate responsibilities between our communications and IT departments

The post has been created to support with

• Centralising one-off mailings into a single inhouse solution
• Developing a Proof of Concept for business users to change the content of customer communications

As a Quadient Software Developer, you will:

• Create and amend output, using Quadient (GMC) Inspire for composition and orchestration activities for both print and digital transmission
• Deliver technological change against a background of organisational transformation, as well as an opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives by delivering great digital and paper product
• You will be a key member of the team, collaborating with all members throughout the full delivery lifecycle to ensure delivery of highest-quality personalised omni-channel products
• You will work with data in flat, structured and print ready data formats, using Quadient Inspire to enhance print-ready data and use this knowledge and that of print stream formats, including AFP, Adobe PDF, Postscript and PCL. You will have a knowledge of testing procedures and a knowledge of configuration issues.

Essential Criteria

• Experienced direct mail and/or transactional document composition programmer with professional experience of document composition in Quadient Inspire,
• v16Proficient in Inspire Interactive, Inspire Automation, and Inspire Designer
• Skilled experience of working with coding languages, such as C++, C#, Java
• Demonstrable understanding of developing electronic (HTML) communications
• Experience in leading investigative work into problems at a senior level, driving the collection of information and creation of recommendations for improvements
• Ability to work at pace to effectively resolve issues.

Desirable criteria

• Certifications for Inspire Designer, Automation and Interactive
• Understanding of Linux operating system
• Good knowledge of Unix commands to administer the live database
• Knowledge and understanding of SQL, server and other database technologies