Apps (Application) Developer
Type: Full time (37 hours) 12 months FTC
Location: Home working

This is an exciting role for an existing Power Platform Application developer within an organisation where you will be responsible for delivering innovative solutions using some of the latest technologies/platforms, conforming to industry, regional and national standards. You will be part of a team undertaking the design and development of Front End and Back End solutions, supporting product delivery through all stages of the SDLC, following a defined route-to-live process, culminating in production environment deployment. Taking part in design/code reviews, unit/integration testing and documentation creation to ensure quality component delivery and support.

The overall purpose of the role is to: provide application development, testing, documentation and support of a wide range of new and amended software solutions and services in accordance with enterprise and system architectures and standards to meet defined business needs

Responsibilities:

1. Develop, test and document new and amended software solutions in accordance with high level solution designs and agreed standards that are capable of meeting defined business needs and ICT's objectives for developing, implementing, and maintaining high quality, resilient and performing ICT systems.
2. Review given designs, evaluate potential solutions and undertake detailed data flows/analysis and mappings that meet design parameters and conform to technical constraints.
3. Establish and execute plans for unit and system testing as agreed with senior developer on all developed products taking full remedial action as appropriate and supplying the complete technical documentation set.
4. Implements products into live operation adhering to formal change control processes (ITIL) in conjunction with team lead.
5. Delivers effective support and maintenance services for locally developed software systems/solutions and their components to meet defined business needs and that retain compatibility with enterprise and solutions architectures.
6. Work with Senior Developers to generate estimates and timescales.

The knowledge or skills required in the role are as follows (essential or desirable):

Broad and deep knowledge and experience of diverse products and business requirements, with a specialism in one of the required areas.

Intermediate software developer to work on ICT developments from initial concept through development and implementation to operation and support.

Sound knowledge of ICT infrastructure, and software development and maintenance methods, tools, and techniques and is conversant with ICT development standards.

Good practical knowledge and skills in software development methodologies and techniques intended to facilitate the structured development of applications, eg, Lean,
Agile, Objectory/UML.

Proficient in one or more application development software tools and languages, which automate or assist part of the development process eg, Oracle Developer, XML, XSLT, Business Objects, Web Services, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Proficient in database software which enables the user to create, populate and manipulate data structures eg, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL