Software Developer L2 (Talent Pool)

Overview

SBV seeks a Software Developer to develop and design products according to industry best practices and standards with a focus on re‑usability, high‑availability, and portability. Responsible for providing in‑depth analysis and technical input on a broad‑based set of challenges across the technology landscape, and providing technical assistance to Level 1 developers.

Technology Transformation & Innovation

• Assist in deployment of delivery components of the Development Functional Strategy
• Proactively drive innovation through the generation of new ideas and options made by new technologies

Analysis and Planning

• Research new innovations and solutions (includes new application, database and operating system technologies for mobile, open source and closed source domains)
• Efficiently manage and execute project plans – milestone tracking and communication checkpoints
• Provide input on the Application Roadmap in line with the Technology Strategy
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix, improve and develop new applications in accordance with SLAs
• Analyse and understand business requirements, architecture and technical documents
• Enhance applications by identifying opportunities for improvement and making recommendations
• Review and apply security principles to all development work performed
• Conduct system and impact analysis of new development changes and remedy them prior to development
• Develop the appropriate software using the relevant development tools (coding)

Implementation and Execution

• Write code according to industry best practice and standards with focus on re‑usability, high availability and portability meeting business requirements using the relevant technologies
• Consistently write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications
• Administer critical analysis of test results and deliver solutions to problem areas
• Generate statistics and prepare and write reports for management and/or team members on the status of the programming process
• Assist in the development and maintenance of user manuals and guidelines
• Install software products for end users as required
• Write programming scripts to enhance functionality and/or appearance of company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary
• Remove code script from company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary
• Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems
• Implement roll‑out, change control, release management, project and client management

Risk & Quality Management

• Strive for zero defects on any code developed from the team
• Assist design and develop unit test cases for any development work
• Perform unit testing on code developed for quality assurance and alignment with requirements
• Conduct and report on code reviews and unit testing on code written by other team members including corrective action identified to meet minimum standards
• Identify, document and manage internal risks controls with reporting into the Technology Risk Register
• Manage code deployment, fixes, updates and related processes through defect tracking in testing and evaluation of error logs
• Ensure that all artefacts are well managed and controlled in the relevant repositories as per the defined policies and procedures
• Run and monitor software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging

Effective Client Support

• Incident, problem and release management
• Ensure systems up‑time
• Monitor customer support cases
• Assist and provide support to resolve problems
• Deploy proper Help Line protocol and escalation for problem solution
• Monitor adherence to SLAs

Business Partner Engagements

• Effectively communicate and regularly engage with key stakeholders at different levels

Policy Formulation & Management

• Ability to construct policies and processes
• Ability to define the reporting content for the correct audience combined with the ability to scale the presentation of these reports to the appropriate audience

Effective Teamwork and Self‑Management

• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
• Provide guidance to junior software developers and research assistants
• Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational needs
• Manage own career development by staying abreast of any technical and industry changes
• Provide leadership, guidance and motivation to employees measured via the SBV people survey
• Drive, train and inspire the team to consistently improve their technical knowledge
• Drive the SBV values while inspiring confidence and generating excitement, enthusiasm and commitment

Requirements

Minimum Requirements: Work Experience

• 5 years’ experience as a software developer
• Web based development (HTML5, JavaScript, Angular, ReactJS, CSS)
• Object oriented development (Java, C#, .Net Core, Python)
• Database Management (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Version Control (Git, MS TFS)
• 1 year development experience of cloud applications
• Docker knowledge
• Kubernetes
• Node.js
• NGINX
• Understanding of new emerging web and mobile development frameworks and models

Minimum Requirements: Education

• Degree in Information Technology Management, Computer Science, Business Administration, Commerce or similar
• Technical certifications, e.g. SQL, .Net, Java, Python (advantageous)

Location: Selby

Work Level: Mid‑Level

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: Market Related