What's involved with this role: Interim Analyst Programmer – ICT Services Job Ref: Staffordshire 5255692 Pay Rate: £281.12 per day PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2 months City: Stafford, Staffordshire This role is mainly remote working, with potential (pre-agreed occasional visits to the office). The purpose of the role is to design, develop, support and maintain ICT business systems, solutions, integrations and management reporting in an Agile environment, to support the delivery of Digital Business services and to achieve the ICT programme in-line with the ICT strategy, ICT Project and Change process, Release Management approach, Council’s development practices and enterprise architecture. Key Responsibilities: Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on technical options and take an active role in proposing technical solutions within area of expertise in line with the ICT Enterprise Architecture and ICT Strategy. Take technical responsibility for most stages of the application management life cycle for development of all types of systems covering: investigation, analysis, specification/defining user stories, design, construction, testing, implementation, support and maintenance. Take ownership and responsibility for the organisation, documentation and execution of one or more small-scale projects, providing effective leadership to team members. Monitor all activities against plan, providing regular and accurate reports to management and customer/user management as appropriate. Responsible for the delivery of standards based solutions using agreed tools to provide well engineered products which meet functional requirements such as fitness for purpose, reliability, efficiency, security, safety, maintainability and cost effectiveness. Ensure appropriate standard and methodologies are in place for system development and that all work is documented using appropriate standards, methods and tools, including prototyping where appropriate, and ensure that ICT documentation and management systems are kept up to date. Arrange, prepare and conduct meetings, workshops and presentations for a variety of technical and non-technical audiences to ensure that proposals and solutions meet business requirements. Prepare or contribute to, project and quality plans, cost benefit analyses and risk analyses taking account of the requirements for functionality versus the constraints of time, cost and quality. Assist the Business users in the Analysis stage of the software lifecycle; and provide post training user support and assist in the ICT change management process. Develop close working relationships with other ICT teams, Product Owners and key stakeholders, in order to gain valuable knowledge of the solutions and business processes in core areas. Qualifications: Educated to Degree level or equivalent in an ICT related discipline or equivalent experience. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Significant proven experience in a development environment in a similar role Demonstrable experience in the use of development tools, application development methods, techniques and standards Sound knowledge and proven experience of software development, data warehousing and reporting, integration and systems implementation, including relevant technology, techniques including Microsoft .Net, Visual Studio, SQL Server (including SSRS,SSIS, SSAS), Microsoft Office 365 (including the Power Suite) Understanding of the Agile Scrum Frameworks with proven practical experience working within such an environment Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Change Management including analysing business processes, recommending and implementing changes Basic project management skills, able to demonstrate involvement in the successful delivery of one or more small to medium sized projects Ability to facilitate and/or lead workshops and other similar gatherings Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Mosaic). 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