Software Developer - Senior

Job description

Hybrid role with our Bristol office,

Job title:
Software Developer - Senior

Job Description:

Help strengthen our Team as our Senior Software Developer. Hybrid role so home based with initially being in our Bristol office and once embedded, we expect you to work at our Bristol office twice a month. More if you wish to.

Great opportunity for an experienced Software/Application Developer to join our team to take responsibility for development & delivery of our Pensions Applications developed within Capita Pensions Solutions. Based in Bristol, you will be part of the development specialists to provide product development & support services.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Designing and developing solutions for new requirements and enhancements & fixes to existing modules.
• Providing application support and bug fixing.
• Producing documentation to agreed standards.
• Maintaining high coding standards
• Delivers to agreed schedules.
• Ensures system issues and faults are resolved effectively.
• Ensure efficient escalation of higher priority calls (ie P1's and Major Incidents) to the line manager.
• Participates in standardisation, definition and adoption of development lifecycle documentation.
• Performing System Testing on new or existing systems as required.
• Ensuring system issues and faults are resolved effectively.
• Working closely with the Senior Systems Analyst to ensure delivery of client solutions.
• Communicates ideas and contributes to technical discussions.

What we're looking for:

• Good software and application development experience
• Degree in Computer Science or similar
• Experience of MS Technologies, (.Net, MVC, SQL Server, Jscript, CSS, ASP .Net, JSP)
• Experience of supporting commercial managed services/hosted solutions
• Ability to develop web-based interfaces using HTML, CSS, JSP, Javascript and JQuery.
• Ability to manage a Relational database (MS SQL Server, Sybase ASE and Oracle). Including, how to create and modify database, tables and indexes, logical and physical database layouts, database management, security, backup and recovery technique.
• Ability to manage a database for optimum performance.
• Able to use MS Excel, Outlook and Project
• Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills.
• Ability to prioritise and focus limited resources for maximum business impact.
• Operational experience on both technology application and infrastructure
• Strong fundamentals in Object Oriented programming and Database design
• Proven programming and problem solving skills.
• Ability to prioritise and manage tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Proficiency in all available IT packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Reporting and presentation skills

Desired Skills

• MS Visio- Confident with the conventions for swim lane, use case and class diagrams and able to apply hyperlinks between objects on diagrams
• Knowledge of the Solaris and/or Linux operating system
• Experience of managing and deploying applications in a Citrix environment

About Capita Technology and Software Solutions (TSS)

Capita Technology and Software Solutions (TSS) is a newly formed global shared service, responsible for delivering innovation and digital transformation for Capita's businesses and clients. We work collaboratively with Capita's divisions to shape the right digital technology solutions to help clients work differently, engage differently, sell differently and to be resilient to whatever next comes their way. We create innovative technology and software solutions for Capita's clients and businesses while ensuring secure, resilient and predictable service delivery. TSS brings together 5000+ colleagues from across Capita into a single function to deliver world-class technology and software solutions for Capita's businesses and clients.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to learn new skills and develop further
• 23 days annual leave (rising to 27 days with time) with opportunity to buy more leave
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Company matched pension, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave and plenty more

You'll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You'll be joining a network of experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we'll provide the support you need to do just that.

What we hope you'll do next:

Choose 'Apply now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

To view our Covid-19 and process adjustments information, please visit the Capita Careers site.

We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic.

Location:
Bristol
,
United Kingdom

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent