Ascent Performance Group Ltd | IT Developer

A bit about Ascent

At Ascent we place the customer at the heart of our operations, ensuring that within our customers most vulnerable times, we offer the support they deserve. You will play a huge part in the ongoing success of Ascent by providing technical and practical support when dealing with debt recovery and litigation actions on behalf of our clients.

Ascent are a highly successful legal and financial services company; we work with other large financial service companies to support individuals during uncertain times. If you want to join an agile, successful and well-established organisation, with a proven track record of colleague development and internal promotions, look no further than Ascent.

We live by our five core values:

• Be pioneering
• Be approachable and caring
• Be tenacious
• Be efficient
• Show integrity

As the IT Developer you will be responsible for the development of specific applications, as well as be involved in projects as an applications developer, which will involve all aspects of applications development, ie. Technical specification, development, documentation and unit testing.

Your key responsibilities as a residential paralegal would be:

• Supervise, train or assist as appropriate all staff with whom the post holder may be working with from time to time, in accordance with the firm\’s policies and the department\’s procedures and in consultation with others as appropriate.
• Direct and motivate the applications development team, giving clear direction and objectives during their projects to ensure that their goals can be achieved.
• Involvement and co-ordination of standards for the applications development area, communication of these to all areas within and across Irwin Mitchell’s IT and Business Change departments.
• Working as part of a team to deliver quality development and design documentation, as agreed by the project and the standards in place.
• Design and develop a wide range of different types of applications, from web enabled to client-server and legal modular systems covering all aspects of the platform (Database, Reporting, Interfaces, and 3rd Party Software).
• Co-ordination of the technical design and build within the project environment to agreed standards and technical direction, ensuring that the final product meets the agreed scope.
• Work very closely with business systems analysts, testers, trainers, project manager and the wider Business Solutions Group to ensure the project is delivered as effectively as possible.
• Ensure “time boxing”, prototyping and prioritisation techniques are followed to deliver their agreed products to time and budget.
• Assume primary responsibility for the maintenance and technical development of Debttrac platform within Irwin Mitchell supported by other colleague as required and in line with ILR’s overall IT strategy.

Candidate Requirements

Essential

• Degree qualified
• Attendance and certificated in Applications Development areas
• Excellent knowledge of development tools, techniques and methods.
• Excellent practical knowledge of leadership techniques.
• Excellent knowledge of IT technical environments and issues.

Desirable

• Relevant Applications Developer qualification.
• Sector Specific

Essential

• Use of VB, C#.NET, ASP, Business Objects Crystal Enterprise Reports, Case tools or a mixture
• Proven experience in Applications Development
• Proven experience in a position of similar responsibility and duties
• Use of SQL Server or Oracle

Desirable

• UML experience
• Relevant use of DSDM
• Data warehousing.

What we offer you

• Hybrid working model (Following initial Training period*)
• Company Pension Scheme
• 22 days holiday, plus bank holidays (We have a buying holiday scheme that allows you to buy additional holidays during the annual holiday year)
• Health cash plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted legal services
• Season ticket loans
• Discounted online shopping
• Discounted gym memberships
• Cycle to work scheme

Further Information

As part of the Ascent on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, existing employees, clients, partners and other stakeholders