Senior Developer - Information Systems
| Location | London |
| Position: | Senior Developer – Permanent Position |
| Level: | Senior |
| Hours: | Full time Monday to Friday from 9am to 5.30pm |
| Location: | London office at 5 Aldermanbury Square, EC2V 7HR 3 days a week and 2 days working from home. UK travel may be required. |
| Reporting to: | IS Project Manager |
What you’ll be doing
The ideal candidate will be part of a small internal system development team delivering a range of developments.
Across the team, all members need to have the ability to move quickly, make mistakes, learn, grow and be part of a team providing the best solutions our business needs. A positive attitude is key as well as active collaboration across the team to solve problems as they arise, as well as trying to anticipate potential problems and building solutions to avoid these.
You will be responsible for…
Providing support in the development and maintenance of software applications under close supervision. Assisting in coding, testing, and debugging tasks with guidance, as required, from more experienced developers, and other IS Team members.
What we need from you
TT Group uses Microsoft Azure and we are looking for a candidate with advanced expertise across the skills and competencies listed below:
Technical
- Microsoft .NET development stack (inc C#, Blazor/ MVC/Razor)
- DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Development
- Microsoft Azure SaaS/PaaS capabilities
- Technical excellence practice and DevOps/CALMS methodologies
- Agile delivery processes/methodologies and how to implement them in a team
- The principles of good software design including SOLID principles
- Testing methodology
- Experience with version control systems such as Git
- Database design – both relational and NoSQL, along with writing queries
Should also possess:
- Excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills
- Good technical coaching and mentoring skills
- Excellent problem analysis and resolution skills
- Understanding of business processes
- Excellent attention to detail and a focus on quality
Coding Quality
- Development and maintenance of high-quality software applications according to project requirements following coding standards and best practice
- Writing clean, efficient and maintainable code across various platforms and technologies using best practices
- Lead code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices
- Lead the design and development of complex software systems, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance
- Troubleshoot and debug technical issues, ensuring the stability and integrity of applications
Problem Solving
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Can handle complex issues, debugs efficiently
- High energy and enthusiasm with a problem-solving attitude and a collaborative and accountable approach
Collaboration and Communication
Excellent communication and teamwork skills including:
- Mentoring junior developers
- Communicating with stakeholders; presenting ideas
- Contributes and when required, builds and leads collaborative teams with a clear sense of shared purpose
- Supports company culture of diversity and inclusion, personally role models inclusive behaviour
- Makes a strong positive personal impression on others, influences and persuades effectively
- Builds and supports strong team working and collaboration
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team and lead teams
Decision Making
- Makes strategic decisions, influences projects
- Contributes to architectural decisions and technical design discussions
Leadership
- May lead development project teams, and/or mentors others
- Ability to act as a facilitator, balancing enabling others with individual contributions
- Role models and encourages continuous learning and development
- Contributes innovative and creative approaches and insights
- Embraces and drives change initiatives in own area
- Creates and promotes a positive and optimistic culture at work
- Recovers quickly from and provides others with confidence to overcome adversity
- Encourages regular, honest and constructive feedback at the right time, in the right way
Management
- Takes ownership of modules and some projects, guides team members
- May have junior direct reports or contractors reporting to them
- Lead the technical planning and coordination of production releases/deployments
- Prepares, manages and adapts project plans, works in an agile and flexible way when required
- Manages development teams within projects as directed by the Lead Developer/IS Project Manager
Innovation
- Drives innovation, implements advanced features
- Stays updated on emerging technologies and industry trends to contribute fresh ideas and perspectives
- Investigate and recommend new technologies and tools to improve development processes and enhance product capabilities
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimise development workflows and increase efficiency
Self-motivation, learning and growth
- Complete e-learning training on a regular basis including any mandatory modules
- Develops competence to focus on continuous improvement of personal competence and professional development and support your colleagues and their continuous improvement where possible
- Proactively drives own career development, leveraging own strengths and addressing development needs
What skills you’ll bring to us
- Degree educated or equivalent in relevant IT subject
- 10+ years of development experience within cross-functional multi-disciplinary teams. The team could be any group of people with different expertise working towards a common goal, e.g. working with different disciplines within an IS team or a project working with business to develop a new system or piece of functionality or with external people e.g. contractors
- Proven experience of developing and deploying scalable, secure and highly available cloud applications
- Proven experience of embedding security, performance, availability and maintainability aspects in delivery
- Experience with IT development processes and delivery life cycles, development methodology, testing practices, release strategy and configuration management, development tools, and applications across full project life cycles.
- Experience working within an Agile environment, delivering within defined Sprints, familiarity with Agile principles and ceremonies
- Familiarity with Test Automation tools and the delivery of automated testing solutions using industry standard technologies
Why work at TT
Our people enjoy what they do, feel fulfilled and understand that everyone working here can make a difference. Click here to find out more about what makes TT a great place to work.
Equal Opportunities and Inclusion
TT Group is committed to promoting diversity and equal opportunity in the workplace. We strive to have a workforce that is reflective of all sections of society, where every employee feels respected and valued and can contribute to their fullest potential.
Recruitment agencies information
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Interested in joining us? Get in touch today.
If you are interested in the position, please send your CV to recruitment@ttg.co.uk with your full name and the job vacancy you are applying to in the subject line, e.g. [Asset Manager Vacancy – First name Surname].