Developer

We are open to considering candidates on a part time or full time basis. We have an exciting opportunity to join our Investment Data digital delivery team. The team actively engages with consultants and users across our Pensions Market business units, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment through regular meetings and pair working. Through this collaboration, we achieve a shared understanding of the problems faced by our users and clients, ensuring we deliver optimum solutions.

As a developer, you will work closely with key stakeholders on a range of software challenges and will have the opportunity to help us improve the team’s tech-stack, as well as working on cutting edge technology. This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role within our firm, with a focus on building sustainable software that drives our business. We invest in the latest technologies to facilitate the delivery of our ground-breaking business solutions. Our teams are passionate about technology. We offer the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and be part of a team that employs an agile approach to software development.

We are seeking a capable developer to help design, build, deliver and run world-class digital solutions serving the Pensions market. Though this is a varied role, your key tasks will include:

• Working alongside high-performing, highly skilled and multi-disciplinary teams. We work within a DevOps culture that promotes team autonomy and engineering excellence, using the latest technologies.
• Driving innovation and increasing the maturity of our frameworks, integrations and automations.
• Collaborating closely with developers, architects, quality analysts and data scientists to deliver sustainable solutions that deliver value for our business.
• Being involved with meaningful work - we can provide complex challenges, at scale, in novel market areas.
• Being core to the delivery teams that build, test and scale our applications and services.

To enjoy and succeed in this role, you are likely to have experience with many of the following technologies and frameworks:

• Object-oriented development patterns and approaches primarily in delivering C# .NET solutions
• Test-driven development
• Microsoft development stack and Azure Cloud computing technologies, including some of the following:

• ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core
• Web Services architecture
• Service-oriented architectures
• Microservices
• CQRS
• APIs
• SQL Server/Transact SQL
• Testing frameworks such as NUnit, FakeItEasy, and SpecFlow
• Git & Azure DevOps
• Message brokers (e.g. Azure Service Bus/RabbitMQ) and messaging patterns
• RESTful APIs
• Continuous improvement and continuous delivery practices, DevOps culture and automation within the Azure Dev Ops platform (yaml pipelines)
• Behaviour-driven test approaches and frameworks
• Relational and NoSQL data architectures and technologies
• Front-end frameworks, particularly Angular and the tools it encompasses
• RxJs
• Jest
• Angular Material

You Will Likely Be:

• Self-motivated with a drive to learn and share knowledge
• Focused on continuous learning and improvement
• An effective communicator and a great team player, able to collaborate with all the skills in your team
• Able to forge strong and professional relationships at all levels
• Able to articulate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Confident across the entire software development lifecycle

You may also be interested in developing skills in the following key areas (but not essential): R language, Financial modelling.

Please note that as part of the recruitment process for this opportunity, candidates will be expected to complete a Clean Code Challenge. We would also encourage applications from candidates who perhaps do not possess all the attributes and experience listed above but are competent with the majority and would be able to quickly develop the additional skills and experience required in post with our full support.

In addition to a competitive salary and access to our profit share scheme, we offer:

• A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs.
• A collaborative and encouraging work environment where your thinking and ideas are encouraged.
• On site mental health and wellbeing assistance.
• A commitment to helping you develop both personally and professionally, with mentoring opportunities and access to our award-winning learning portal, Aspire.
• Regular social activities, in addition to three days paid volunteering leave each year and a day’s leave to celebrate your birthday.
• Hybrid working so you can enjoy the positive wellbeing of working from home as well as the benefits of meeting colleagues in our sociable, modern office environments – with the expectation of two ‘in-office’ days per week.
• A flexible working window, allowing colleagues the freedom to work flexibly between the hours of 7am and 7pm.

Please note, we recruit on a rolling basis so early applications are recommended to avoid disappointment.

Together, we’ve been building better futures for over 100 years. For our people, our clients and their people, our communities and the environment. We thrive on tackling complex problems. And we believe those problems are best solved by diverse teams – diverse in skills, approaches and backgrounds. Our independence lets our people be themselves and think freely, while working in a collaborative, supportive environment. We love innovative, independent thinking and want everyone to share their ideas.

Working alongside employers, trustees and financial services institutions, we offer pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions. With over 1000 employees and counting, we’re one of the leading consultancies in our field and are proud to be recognised by numerous industry awards.

We’re committed to developing our people and encourage everyone to carve out their own career path. We’ve many colleagues who started out in one team in the business and have ended up somewhere completely different, having had the chance to develop new skills and explore new passions.

We are continually working to improve our inclusive culture and employ diverse talent. We therefore welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, which includes but isn’t limited to: age, disability, ethnic heritage, gender, marital or civil partnership status, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.

Our hybrid working model offers the best of both worlds – home working as well as a fun, collaborative office environment - meaning flexible working patterns to accommodate individual needs.

If you need any assistance in relation to a personal requirement, medical condition or neurological difference during our selection process then please let us know. Together, we can make this the best job you’ll ever have.

We Offer Our culture: We live and breathe our four values – friendly, confident, partnering and straightforward – and genuinely care about our people, clients, community and the environment.

Job satisfaction: Every employee can genuinely make a difference and contribute towards achieving our purpose – together, building better futures. Whether that’s helping our clients build more secure financial futures, using your 3 days volunteering or helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

Reward and wellbeing: We offer competitive salaries, a share of company profits and an award-winning benefits package. We also take your mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing seriously, both in and outside of work.

Flexible working: We trust our people to work in a pattern that suits their circumstances with a healthy balance of home and office working.

Latest technology: We use the most up-to-date technology and software to match our ground-breaking business solutions that make life easier for us and our clients.

Career development: There is no linear path – learning opportunities are plentiful and empower you to carve out your own career.