Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Developer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £486/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
– Continued enhancement of the customer facing product portfolio based on customer feedback.
– Continued development and support of Customer Facing products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps with a view to improving digital sustainability and tackling architectural and technical debt.
– Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that’s 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 re-quired, 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.
– Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving to-wards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY year.
Essential Skills:
Significant commercial experience with the following technology:
– Java 11+
– Python 3
– Spring Boot, Python Flask microservices
– Spring security and OAuth2.
– JavaScript UI frameworks, including React.
– Strong HTML / CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations.
– OpenShift
– Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins, and Docker.
– Designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly Mongo and Postgres.
Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:
– 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.
– Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks.
– Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.
– Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems.
– 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.
Desirable Skills:
– AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK
– Typescript
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