Software Developer

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Optimity Advisors is an international advisory business working with clients in the health, media & entertainment, insurance, financial services and other industries; with offices in London, Brussels, Zurich, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC.

We help our clients maximise data practices and technologies though innovative design and proactive management to reach and exceed business goals.

Whether the challenge is identification, organisation, access, security, data distribution or integration, information or knowledge, we deliver strategy, analysis, project management, IT support and change management across our service offerings.

Our London-based development team collaborates with colleagues across the Atlantic and specialises in the design and development of data driven applications to change the way that organisations and networks better leverage data of all types to embed new operating models and create more value for clients. This includes leveraging unstructured data, semantic approaches, business rules and machine learning across multiple technologies, industries, geographies and environments.

We offer opportunities for growth and generous holidays of between 25 and 30 days depending on length of service. After successful completion of short probationary period we provide a generous pension contribution.

About you

We are looking for experienced Software Developers to join our team in London. You will play an integral role in developing new and innovative web-based, data-driven solutions for senior decision-makers in various industries. You will work in collaboration with prospective customers and sector thought-leaders to advance new ideas to working prototypes and, ultimately, to deployed solutions.

As one of our Software Developers, you will have strong team working skills, take pride in your high quality software design and keep your knowledge of new technologies and techniques up to date. You will be experienced at juggling competing priorities and deadlines and meeting them; and be creative and imaginative, with the ability to offer imaginative solutions and capacity to identify alternative approaches.

Required Skills and Experience:

Object-oriented programming, analysis and design

Developing data-driven web applications, using C# .NET 3 - 4.5, ASP.NET MVC / WebAPI and Razor

SQL Server 2008-2012: data modelling, database design

Stored procedure programming, database maintenance and optimisation

Web application security / role-based access schemes

JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, Bootstrap

CSS based web design and HTML Standards

Strong numerical and analysis skills

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Agile development and project management

Other platforms, languages and technologies, for example Python and Java