Software Engineer

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Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Located on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, a 20 minute drive south of Oxford in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Diamond Light Source conducts world-class research in virtually all fields of science and offers rewarding career opportunities covering both technical and scientific disciplines.

Over 4,000 scientists and technologists visit or interact remotely with Diamond during a year to perform their research; this necessitates the use of advanced web based software applications to administer and schedule their work thus allowing them to concentrate on the science. The role of the candidate is to work within the User Administration System (UAS) team on the full lifecycle development of the software needed to support these applications and also to implement new functionality to support ever increasing demands of the science involved. In addition there may be challenging opportunities to contribute to other related web developments including mobile technology.

Key responsibilities:

Consult with system users, analyse their requirements and make suggestions for improvements to the system

Design, code and test enterprise software to meet supplied specifications and provide estimates of own tasks

Deploy software to and configure enterprise servers to agreed designs including some database administration

Support live systems, investigating and resolving incidents subject to triage, interacting with staff and external users

Support and implement systems associated with the core User Administration Software (UAS) to interface to external dependent systems

Resolve reported faults in the system and communicate with testers

Document all work, including instructions on how to build and deploy software

Peer review other team members’ work

Produce and maintain documentation describing system operation for its users, and advise them on system use

Develop and maintain expertise in software development tools and techniques, and advise the team how they might be used.

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Closing date: 2 April 2017.

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