Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh/Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Developer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £494/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities:

- Continued enhancement of the Housing Management product portfolio based on customer feedback.
- Continued development and support of Housing Management products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps with a view to improving digital sustainability and tackling architectural and technical debt.
- Demonstrate excellent, sustainable and collaborative software development practice that's focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable and appropriate artefacts. Requirement for software development services
- Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge in required, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
- Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique and experience.
- Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests - with appropriate code coverage - and code analysis using code quality tools.
- Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc.
- Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.
- Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY year.

Essential Skills:

- Java 11+
- JavaScript UI frameworks, specifically React
- HTML/CSS and an awareness of accessibility considerations
- REST APIs
- AWS
- Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.
- Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects
- Designing and implementing solutions using microservice and event-based architectures
- Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
- Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks
- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana
- Working in Agile delivery models
- Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test Driven Development
- Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
- Code quality, monitoring, telemetry and analytics tools
- Defining infrastructure as code

Desirable Skills:

- AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK
- Testing tools and frameworks, eg Cypress
- Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins and Docker
- OpenShift
- Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
- Datamodelling and SQL development
- Spring Web Flow, Spring Boot and Spring MVC
- Spring security and OAuth2
- Template engines such as Thymeleaf
- Typescript

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Posted Date: 15 May 2024 Reference: JSV-53343 Employment Business: Venesky-Brown Contact: Philip Griffiths