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Description:  Participate in full lifecycle of multiple small to medium projects ensuring the solution(s) developed are able to sustain the projects' functional and business requirements.
Accountable for the consistency of application code, ensuring it meets the requirements of the functional specification/s and ensuring any issues or risks that may affect the project deliverables are raised to the Development or Project Manager.



Key Responsibilities:

• Assist as required in scope definition, technical viability scoping and best practice solution design to meet the needs of the product and / or client.

• Assist in and where appropriate review, the estimation, time and cost of a specific solution design ensuring it meets the needs of the product and the business.

• Write, deliver code and participate in code walkthroughs according to the requirements of the functional specifications and ensure junior members of the team are able to deliver code within their own capabilities.

• Using the QA bug reports, oversee the completion of assigned bugs to the junior developers, based on agreed priorities.

• Liaise with software vendors regarding bug fixes / issues.

• Where appropriate, provide guidance to the PM and / or Development Manager in the development of solutions that create innovation and have a beneficial outcome to the product or application.

• Ensure all risks and issues that affect the project are raised following set processes and are actioned appropriately. Escalate risks and issues that pose a significant impact to deliverables.

• Ensure any change request meet the criteria of the change request process.

• Provide accurate time and cost estimates for required changes, where possible provide alternative solutions to minimize time and cost.

• Work with customers both internal and external to ensure change requests meet the customer requirements.

• Where required, escalate change requests through the Change Request Board.

• Mentor and coach a small group of less experienced developers ensuring they have the skills and knowledge in order to perform their roles.

• Conduct either daily or bi-weekly reviews with junior developers to ensure all activity is monitored and address issues that require action.

• Ensure tasks / short term goals are met by the team according to the time and budget, providing guidance where required to junior developers.



Required Experience:

• University degree or equivalent preferably in Computer Science or similar.

• Minimum of 8+ years software engineering experience in a development capacity

• Minimum of 3+ years of Azure design and development experience

• Thorough understanding of the software development cycle and associated project management techniques.

• High-level designs for small to medium systems/applications.

• Understanding trade-offs and risks with programming choices.

• Understanding how to apply technical knowledge to solve business problems.

• Knowledgeable in Object Orientated development with experience in languages such as C# and/or C++.

• Knowledgeable in Microsoft Azure/cloud computing technologies

• Understanding the concept of IT security and its application to computer systems architecture.

• Knowledgeable in the concept of application design: object-oriented design, design patterns, and data structures, ASP.NET

• SOA: XML Web Services.

• Understanding of Database concepts, SQL, stored procedures.

• The practical application of software development principles, theories, programming languages, concepts and techniques.

• Working well both independently or as a member of a team.

• Version Control/Management of source code.