Senior Application Developer

Primary purpose of the role

• The Application Developer contributes to the development of software, web, and multi-media applications that facilitates the achievement of business outcomes and improves business efficiencies and processes through leveraging technology.
• Applications developers translate software requirements into workable programming code and maintain and develop programs for use in business.
• The role usually involves writing specifications and designing, building, testing, implementing and sometimes supporting applications using programming languages and development tools.
• They often work as part of a team with other IT professionals, such as software engineers and systems analysts, and write programs according to their specifications.
• They may also work on generic products or for individual clients providing bespoke solutions. 

Key accountabilities

• Prepare specialised code as required by the product definition to enable application development
• Contribute technical expertise to requirements analysis to enhance the quality of the solution design
• Complete testing and gather feedback to improve the quality and reduce operational risk of the developed application
• Undertake post-release activities to develop a base of knowledge to be incorporated in future build and release cycles
• Provide 3rd level application support and problem resolution to minimise the impact of application related service outages
• Key challenges - Balance competing demands to ensure project objectives are delivered based on business need and priority.

He knows things such as:

• What are the non-functional requirements to the system and how does the architecture reflect them,
• What are the stakeholders development plans for the application and why the architecture do not hinder this development in the future,
• What components are in the system and what are their responsibilities,
• What are the interfaces and available connections between components,
• What kind of technologies, standards and limitations are used to create the application.
• For instance, he can clearly tell where to find a certain functionality of code, as well as which components may communicate with database and how.
• The main duties and responsibilities of the application developer role are as follows:
• Work as part of a project team, reporting to a I.T managers.
• Work closely with business staff to ensure solutions adhere to client standards and fit their strategic enterprise architecture
• Definition and management of non-functional requirements, including working with others to ensure these requirements have been met
• Definition and organization of development tasks and accurate estimation of these tasks
• Work closely with members of the development team to ensure that the software design and implementation meets the architectural goals and quality standards
• Provide support to the business analysts, and other project team members, during functional requirements definition to ensure that functionality is both technically achievable and feasible within the project constraints
• Identification and ownership of technical project risks and issues, including owning mitigation activities and resolution of issues
• Undertake other duties as directed by line managers commensurate with the post
• Actively seeking opportunities to contribute improvements to Client’s applications
• Mentoring junior members of the development team including training
• Acting as a focal point of expertise on key technologies or skills
• Implement development projects of all description (either IT related or not)
• Liaising with Development Team, Test Analysts and Business Analysts for technical development
• Maintenance of projects as well as enhancements.
• Maintenance and enhancement of Legacy systems.

Education, Qualifications and  Desirable Experience and Knowledge

• B.Sc. with Information Technology or Computer Science majors OR B.Eng. or other B.Sc. degree with notable computing and mathematical content Additional relevant IT Development certification would be advantageous Other skills (bonus)
• Insurance experience
• Database design experience such as SQL and Mongo
• Network/infrastructure design experience (Optional)
• Experience of enterprise architecture definition
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle
• Experience of architecting software solutions with demanding non-functional requirements such as performance, high availability, reliability, security, etc.
• Extensive development experience
• Knowledge of a wide range of open source projects and components (Optional)
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of object oriented design techniques and patterns
• Knowledge of several standard software development methodologies
• Knowledge of integration patterns and technologies
• Client interaction experience, including experience of running workshops with clients
• (Beneficial) – Experience working in an agile environment
• (Beneficial) – Knowledge and/or experience with SOA architectures
• (Beneficial) – Knowledge and/or experience in systems such as service bus
• (Beneficial) – experience in web technologies such as angular
• Understanding of OOP and Visual Studio and Clean code
• Integration experience between front/back end
• Exposure to Version Control with Git/Subversion /Bitbucket and branching strategies
• Knowledge of multi-threaded, multi-tiered applications
• Experience with Service Orientated Architecture
• ReSharper and Domain Driven Design
• Build and continuous integration frameworks like teamcity, octopus
• Team Foundation Server
• Distributed Systems design and Reporting Structure
• Software Development Manager: Business Software Solutions

Back-End Skillset (minimum)

• C#
• Web API or MVC ( 3,4,5 )
• ASP.NET
• Working knowledge of RDBMS like MSSQL (2008 and up) and MongoDB (nice to know)

Back-End Skillset (bonus)

• Securing web applications
• Dependency Injection , IOC
• Test driven development
• IIS
• RESTFul Web Services
• Message Bus experience
• OWIN experience
• Mobile Development
• CORS experience
• Service bus

Front-End Skillset (minimum)

• UX/Usability experience a must
• Html (XHTML, HTML4 and HTML5 )
• JavaScript:
• Ajax
• Exposure to Client-size MVC Frameworks
• [knockout, backbone, ember but Angular especially]
• JQuery
• CSS2 and CSS3
• Debug tools such as Firebug / Chrome Dev Tools
• Cross Browser/Platform development
• Consuming Data formats such as JSON/XML

Front-End Skillset (bonus)

• Responsive UI Experience
• CSS Preprocessors (LESS/Sass)
• HTML5 Apis ( Video, Geolocation etc. )
• Website speed / performance optimization experience
• Twitter Bootstrap 3
• Signal R

Closing date: 05 May 2021

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