Software Engineer D

Watford - hybrid 6 month contract Inside ir35

Group expectations

• Meets customer needs related to simple products and services while following standardised protocols.
• Develops personal capabilities using formal and informal training opportunities, while also coaching others as required.
• Identifies shortcomings in existing processes, systems and procedures, then uses established change management programmes to deliver prescribed outcomes and/or provide support services.
• Reviews non-compliance issues within current IT Security processes, systems and procedures, and works with guidance to ensure solution of ad hoc problems within the assigned unit and/or discipline.
• Helps others use and benefit from the existing knowledge management systems.
• Analyses customer needs and defines and delivers prescribed products by performing designated development/engineering activities using established systems.
• Keeps track of risk parameters and identifies and reports any major deviation to more senior colleagues while working within established risk management systems.
• Performs designated supplier management activities to deliver own prescribed outcomes and/or provide support to others by using existing systems and protocols.
• Navigates a wide variety of existing processes, procedures and precedents to interpret data and identify possible answers.
• Uses product specifications to design test procedures and standards.
• Provides primary supervision to a team performing transactional work or supervises a small group performing junior professional tasks.
• Responds to individual and team objectives and invests in improving personal performance by growing own skills and capabilities, coaching others when required.
• Investigates questions related to existing programmes, processes and procedures.

Additional expectations

• Contribute to story refinement and estimation sessions.
• Attend agile ceremonies such as stand‑ups, retrospectives etc.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and build relationships with users around the business.
• Communicate with third‑party developers when we collaborate with other development houses.
• Work with members of the business, to ensure technical solutions meet business needs.
• Produce good quality, well‑structured code, always thinking about performance.
• Implement libraries and tooling to support our products.
• Collaborate with other developers and coordinate project work.
• Document technical approaches.

Key Skills

• Good knowledge of the Perl programming language as well as knowledge of other tech stacks such as JavaScript.
• Experience with architectural design patterns.
• Experience with automated unit/integration testing.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience in Oracle database design and development.
• Experience integrating with APIs.
• Expertise with version control (Git).
• Self‑motivated to complete allotted tasks.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

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