Application Developer

Eviden, part of the Atos Group, with an annual revenue of circa € 5 billion is a global leader in data-driven, trusted and sustainable digital transformation. As a next generation digital business with worldwide leading positions in digital, cloud, data, advanced computing and security, it brings deep expertise for all industries in more than 47 countries. By uniting unique high-end technologies across the full digital continuum with 47,000 world-class talents, Eviden expands the possibilities of data and technology, now and for generations to come.

About the practice:

Within the AMS practice, Eviden provides on-going application support and development for a wide range of systems including bespoke applications and third-party COTS packages. This covers areas such as Incident Management, Problem Management, Service Request delivery, Development changes and enhancements. The latter typically require the design and documentation of a solution and proposal before the development work commences.

We have an Agile mindset and approach to our service, where we adapt to change, learn through failure, and encourage feedback to bring in consistent improvement.

We employ DevOps to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of high software quality. This compliments our Agile mindset and approach to software development.

Candidates must have BPSS clearance and be eligible for SC level.

Duties & Responsibilities:  

• Engage with clients to understand their business requirements and provide technical assistance to support teams to help resolve issues.
• Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions
• Develop detailed technical requirements and elements of low-level design documentation
• Implement both frontend & backend systems, delivered through TDD/BDD, using a variety of programming languages and tools, such C# and .NET, to meet client needs.
• Contribute to ensuring the security, confidentiality and integrity of the systems being built.
• Participate proactively as part of an Agile team, attending ceremonies and collaborating with others to deliver complex features
• Undertake quality assurance and code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and provide constructive feedback to other developers.
• Participate in release management

Person Specification
Skills we can’t do without:

• Solid programming experience in C#/.NET.
• Strong knowledge of using frameworks such as .NET Core
• Good knowledge in working with RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL or Postgres
• Practical experience using design patterns
• Practical experience of developing RESTful web services
• Proven experience of unit testing, unit testing frameworks and Test-Driven Development
• Good knowledge version control systems such as Git and associated CI/CD tooling
• Proven experience in debugging or remote debugging of applications
• Effective communication and team working skills

Skills we’d like:

• Good knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Wider practical experience with JavaScript web front end frameworks
• Practical experience developing Microservice based solutions
• Practical experience of the Behaviour-Driven Development approach

In addition, we are looking for candidates who have:

• Preferably worked within multidisciplinary teams in an Agile and DevOps environment
• Experience of delivering in a Government Digital Service (GDS) environment
• Recent experience using Project/Issue management tooling (Jira or similar)
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration pipelines (ideally with Azure DevOps, Jenkins or similar)  
• Awareness of Continuous Delivery
• Used cloud & API services to deliver applications
• Problem-solving skills and good analytical and reasoning abilities

We Care About Our Employees' Happiness By

• 25 days of Annual leave + an option to purchase more through our Flexible Benefits.
• Flex benefits system – exciting opportunity to choose your own benefits.
• Retail discounts.
• Pension - matching contribution up to 10%.
• Private Medical Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Enrolment in our Share scheme - subject to scheme eligibility criteria.
• Unlimited opportunities to learn in our Training platforms.

As a Disability Confident employer, we aim to ensure that people with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments and changes as needed to the application and assessment process to remove or reduce any disadvantage associated with a person's disability.
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