Job Description
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Developer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £494/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
- Continued development and support of Supporting products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps.
-Contribute to continuous discovery around finance system solutions.
- Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that is focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts. Requirement for software development services
- Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge in required, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
- Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique, and experience.
- Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests – with appropriate code coverage – and code analysis using code quality tools.
- Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc...
- Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms, from the AWS-based modern stack to the multiple strands of ETL and database (legacy and otherwise) that underpins the service.
- Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.
- Coaching and mentoring other team members, as appropriate.
- Help with out of hours production support and software patching
Essential Skills:
- AWS including CDK, Serverless (Lambda), S3, API Gateway, Cloud Formation and Aurora/Postgres
- TypeScript / Node JS
- Java / JEE / JakartaEE
- Oracle and SQL
- Modern JavaScript UI frameworks, including React.
- Strong HTML/CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations
- Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.
- Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects.
- Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.
- Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures.
- Front and back-end development.
- Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks.
- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including CloudWatch Dashboards.
- Using written, verbal, and visual communication to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems.
- Using CI/CD, Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming to produce high quality, maintainable code.
- Working in Agile delivery models.
- Defining infrastructure as code.
- Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
- Code quality, monitoring, telemetry and analytics tools
- Experience mentoring team members
Desirable Skills:
- Banking and Finance system experience
- System migration/Legacy replacement projects experience
- Windows 365 and SharePoint development
- Scripting languages, such as Bash
- Python
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.