Working on the GDS replacement sentence calculation service to replace the legacy NOMIS desktop application for HMPPS within the Ministry of Justice

ProjectsEU Exit - Safety and Security (August 2020-)Lead BA on the HMRC EU Exit Safety and Security project delivering new Government Digital Service (GDS) standard compliant GB customs imports API's and online registration services. The API service processes 88 million customs declarations annuallyMaking Tax Digital API's - Self Assessment & VAT (June 2018 - August 2020)Lead BA across multiple scrum teams delivering new public facing GDS standard compliant API's for the Self Assessment and VAT tax regimes to allow tax returns to be submitted via third party software vendors (i.e. Quickbooks, SAGE, KPMG).Key ResponsibilitiesElicited and validated end to end TO-BE business requirements in workshops with core HMRC requirements team, policy representatives and subject matter experts.Carried out GAP analysis between AS-IS and TO-BE processes.Converted high level business requirements into epics on the product backlog.Decomposed epics into lower level deliverable user stories/job stories using INVEST principles and framing acceptance criteria in BDD Given/When/Then format.Provided business context to API Domain Driven Design sessions with end to end solution architects.Worked with interaction/content designers and user researchers to ensure user stories encapsulated user needs.Facilitated regular refinement sessions with the scrum team to ensure user stories meet the sprint definition of readyFacilitated sprint planning sessions to agree the sprint backlog and sprint goal with both the product manager and the scrum team.Created RAID logs to track risks, assumptions, issues and decisions across the duration of each project.Supported user researchers in end user research sessions from a business context.HMRC Telford Digital Delivery Centre community of practice lead from 2019-2020.Regularly interviewed potential BA candidates (over 30 in 2021 so far)

ProjectsReplicate API's for Transaction Engine (August 2016 - September 2017)A senior Scala software engineer delivering a HMRC in-house like for like replacement of the legacy Atos Government Gateway Transaction Engine public facing XML API's using Play Framework based Scala microservices. The Transaction Engine receives XML legacy tax regime (i.e. PAYE, Corporation tax) return submissions from third party software providers.Making Tax Digital (September 2017 - June 2018)A senior Scala software engineer delivering GDS compliant public facing HMRC VAT and Self-Assessment API's via HMRC's Developer Hub using Play Framework Scala based microservices.Key ResponsibilitiesPicking up user stories from the backlog, coding them, unit testing them (using TDD) and liaising with QA's to ensure they are successfully acceptance tested before deploying out to production.Providing low level technical designs for user storiesAttending sprint planning and backlog refinement sessions giving realistic story point estimates for future user stories

Senior software engineer developing Java 7 RESTful data access API's for the My Energy online customer engagement platformKey ResponsibilitiesWorked closely with the in house data insights team to use Apache Spark in combination withScala to write data loaders that would transform Data Science GLM energy prediction models into Cassandra to be served up via My Energy RESTful API'sCreated Puppet modules to provision Apache Spark data loader configuration across multiple environmentsPerformed solution analysis resulting in RESTful API endpoint design and Cassandra database design for new featuresWrote BDD automated acceptance tests using JBehave for all new functionalityWrote Axway security policies to control access to backend My Energy API services

Java developer building backend solutions to provide content and data to frontend web applications.Key ResponsibilitiesLead developer integrating the US financial provider API within the JLR car quote finance calculator web applicationPerforming backend solution analysis and design of sprint functionality after collaboration with UX / UI designers and Content AuthorsDebugging frontend QA bugs providing fix analysis to the frontend developersProviding story point estimates for user stories in upcoming sprintsEnsuring all functionality developed using Test Driven Development

Developed multi-tiered HMRC public facing Java / Java EE web based applications using the Spring framework and Spring Web MVC architectureCreated and executed JUnit tests and Selenium functional test casesLead developer on implementing the 2013/2014 PAYE tax legislation web application changesWorked closely with Project Managers and Configuration Managers to ensure developed changes were included within the correct live releasesLiaised with Technical Architects to write, implement and oversee a new mainline merging and branching strategy moving away from an aged cascading branch strategyActed temporarily as a Scrum Master for a cross-functional Agile team of 6 people implementing the Scrum Framework using JIRA and ConfluenceKey driver in transition to Agile from Waterfall of multiple separate development and test teamsSeen as a "go to" person for a variety of technical, environment and process related issues for an organisation spanning 50+ people

Performed day to day live support and maintenance of multi-tiered HMRC Java Spring and EJB public facing services including three self assessment peaks ensuring SLA targets were metDeveloped and delivered significant changes to an existing Java Spring MVC web application that gave ownership of manually run support team application incident workarounds to the client to resolve direct through the applicationSupported the transition of multi-tiered Spring MVC / Java EE development and support knowledge of HMRC applications from CACI into CapgeminiInvestigated and provided fix impacts within KPI targets for HMRC registered application problems. Supported development teams in implementing identified fixes