IT Developer

Full-Time No home office possible

Development and maintenance of front-end applications and back-end databases within ULP’s Windows and Linux hosted environments, ensuring that IT solutions are high quality, efficient, and secure and that they align with the strategic application architecture.
Collaborate with business analysts and business users to gain full understanding of the business requirements.
Develop software solutions for new projects and updates to existing applications.
Ensure applications meet security and data protection requirements.
Produce and maintain appropriate technical documentation.
Participate in peer reviews of designs and code as required.
Conduct and oversee unit, system and regression testing.
Support user acceptance test and implementation of solutions.
Make recommendations to improve operation or stability.
Provide 3rd line application support expertise.
Provide application support to overnight batch runs as required.
Perform roles and activities to meet department needs, as required, including 3rd line support and callout if required.
Develop a working knowledge of all applications developed and supported within the department; effectively cross-skill within team to ensure resilience.
Ad hoc tasks as required
Comply with the FCA’s conduct (and senior conduct) and Consumer Duty rules and the PRA’s conduct (and senior manager conduct) standards as set out.
Notify the Regulators of any regulatory matters reasonably expected to be notified.

Adaptability with a keen aptitude both for learning new technologies and adapting to changing project requirements.
System analysis, including ability to further your own knowledge of any given system.
Sound understanding of change management principles and processes.
Ability to work with partial business requirements and expand to full solutions.
Logical and physical solution design, when required.
Security conscious coding, debugging, diagnostics and metrics.
Data management (data relationships determination, data modelling, database good practices).
Strong analytical critical thinking skills to solve complex technical problems independently.
Commitment to technical quality, coupled with pragmatism.
Good communication and teamwork skills to work effectively with other team members.

Proven track record of delivering successful projects on time and within budget.
Experience within financial services, preferably life and pensions, desirable.