Lead Developer

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per year

Diamond Search Recruitment are delighted to be representing our client, a well-established and successful business, at an exciting point of growth and change. Recruiting for a Lead Developer, this is a great opportunity to utilise your technical skills and knowledge, in a remote based role, contributing to the success of the business.

Offering attractive remuneration, the Lead Developer serves as a central person responsible for technology and platforms within the organisation. You will create strategy and guide others in implementing technical solutions for the company. You propose innovative solutions and drive their implementation and support.

This is a specialised front-end product development role with a deep understanding of modern software architectures and development techniques. A successful candidate will be a committed and articulate individual, required to communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders to produce software and web solutions that are of enterprise quality. The team is responsible for the development and continuous delivery of a business-critical analytics web application.

The employee’s job duties fall broadly into the following categories:

·Leading the organisation in terms of technology

·Contributing to smooth business operations

·Contributing to excellent customer relations, the success of projects and our customers.

·Contributing to the development of the company’s services, expertise, quality processes and financial success

Duties include, but are not limited to:

As a lead person, the employee does due diligence as far as analysis and design of any projects they undertake. Owns technological solutions to implement designs made for our customers, including:

·Web hosting.

·Translation and localisation management

·Automation of repetitive tasks

·Owns solutions to support business strategy and service delivery, including Jira: manages work flows and set up for new projects

·Security both internal and on customer projects

·Reporting internal and to customers

·Automation in all areas

·Creates and implements short and long-term strategy in terms of technological growth

·Leads the implementation and support of technological solutions

·Works with other internal leaders to deliver services within their function

·Ensures that staff have the necessary software and that it is up to date

·Ensures staff follow processes and proposes process improvements where necessary

·Participates in creating new products and services where technology is concerned

·Ensures that the company is compliant with license agreements, GDPR, Compliance, Cyber security

·Ensures that the company and customer data is secure from leak, tampering and accidental deletion

·Proposes, implements and supports new technological solutions that improve business operations

The Ideal Candidate:

·.NET Framework knowledge essential

·Proficient in C# – strong and proven experience is essential

·Entity Framework

·Linq

·Javascript, JQuery, (Angular, React bonus)

·HTML5, CSS, LESS

·GIT (source control)

·Experience working with JSON and XML webservices

·Windows Server, IIS & FTP Experience

·SQL Server Administration

·Elastic Search

·Experience with Azure Advantageous

·Excellent understanding of the technologies, architectures, solutions, designs, implementation and underpinning technical standards

·You will be comfortable working flexibly in an agile oriented development environment, to a high degree of accuracy and within tight deadlines

·You will have the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues at all levels

·A degree or equivalent experience in either data management, information systems or computer science

·Preferably hold a relevant Microsoft qualification in Programming and development

·Experience of managing a Development Team

·Strong knowledge of developing enterprise web-based applications

·In depth understanding of writing testable software – unit test, integration tests

·Good working knowledge of version control methods

·Knowledge of customising and extending CRM’s, workflows

·Strong analysis, design and development skills and experience

·Extensive experience of commercial software development environments and experience supporting many business-critical systems across a number of platforms including HR, Finance, Marketing, Sales etc.

·Strong supplier/client relationship and commercialisation skills

·Data Modelling using appropriate tools

·Web development using.Net and.Net Core, JavaScript

·SQL database building and management with SSMS including SSRS, SSIS and SSAS

Desirable:

·AWS/Google Cloud/Azure

·Elastic Search/Software Design/Architecture

Apply today!

Diamond Search Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in regard to this vacancy.