Moodle Developer

UCL is a world-leading teaching and research university, often ranked in the top ten in the world with an annual turnover of well over £1 billion. Part of UCL’s vision is to take on the hardest global challenges.

The Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions.

Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team’s capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research.

Within ISD, this post is in Digital Education, UCL’s hub for supporting, exploiting and enhancing the use of technology in education.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Moodle Developer to join the Digital Learning Environments product team within the Digital Education domain of the Information Services Division(ISD).

This role will be working within a multi-disciplinary agile product team of Moodle Developers, Analyst Developers (Ops), Learning Technologists, UX designer and Tech Leads to develop UCL’s Moodle. The team values being part of the open-source Moodle community, providing feedback and fixes upstream wherever possible to new plugins and to core Moodle.

This role will be responsible for writing and maintaining clean, secure code and software configuration, adopting a test-driven approach, and ensuring software is easy to use.

About you

The ideal candidate will be someone who has developed a variety of plugin types for Moodle, contributed to Moodle core, a great team player, with strong analytical skills and high levels of attention to detail.

You will need to have a strong working knowledge of software development lifecycle stages, application software design including the design of multi-tier solutions, data structures, security, user interfaces and web services, developing software applications using modern tools and advanced techniques.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women

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