IT Developer - Manchester


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BCT Resourcing

Listed on

11th July 2017

Location

Manchester

Salary/Rate

£28000 - £33000

Type

Permanent

Start Date

2017-07-11

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Job Title: IT Developer

Location: Manchester

Reports to: IT Manager

Salary: 28000 - 33000 per annum

Job Description:

The Team

This role will report to the IT Manager - Run within the IT Department. You will provide operational support to the IT Department in an efficient and professional manner and in accordance with the agreed procedures and service standards. Your role will contribute to the overall success of the IT Department in achieving its objectives as part of overall Company Strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

1 Working with the IT Manager - Run, support the business as usual (BAU) operation and maintenance of business applications, primarily focused upon the Enterprise Data Warehouse / BI systems and the core underwriting pricing and workflow tool. This includes but is not limited to the activities described below.

2 Development

* Carry out development for system enhancements and defect resolution across the application suite; responsible for building, deploying, system testing and configuration changes.

* Work closely with internal IT Analyst colleagues to support the troubleshooting of technical issues, helping to identify root cause and propose technical solutions.

* Ensure that best practice source code controls are implemented and adhered to.

* Develop small-scale bespoke technical solutions as required (e.g. PowerShell scripts, SQL queries).

3 Database Administration

* Maintain a reliable and efficient database estate, performing operational database configuration and maintenance; ensuring that data integrity and security standards are upheld.

* Troubleshoot database related issues in a 3rd line capacity.

* Ensure adequate database monitoring is in place (performance, capacity).

* Control database access permissions and privileges.

* Define, maintain and periodically test database backup and recovery plans.

* Maintain database documentation - operational procedures, data quality and security standards.

4 Support the Analyst Developer in the maintenance and enhancement of the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

5 Follow best practice change management principles, ensuring development quality meets agreed release standards for production deployment.

6 Work closely with the IT Change Team to support the transition of knowledge from project teams into the BAU environment.

7 Maintain a rich and concise documentation library to facilitate knowledge sharing and retention within the team.

8 Actively contribute to/participate in the IT transformation programme to enable IT to support the agreed business goals.

Person Specification:

1 Enthusiastic, hardworking and driven individual with a focus on providing the best possible service.

2 Can demonstrate ability to work in a busy office environment, prioritise and organise workload in order to meet tight deadlines.

3 Able to learn and take on new tasks quickly and use own initiative to explore possibilities before raising queries.

4 Demonstrates pride in delivering excellent, quality service and endeavours to exceed expectations.

5 Attention to detail in producing high quality output and able to maintain this when under pressure.

6 Excellent communication skills with confidence to ask questions to ensure job requirements are understood.

7 Commitment to identify opportunities to increase efficiency and quality of operational support evidenced through previous achievements.

8 Proactive, showing initiative when completing tasks by pre-empting issues and proposing solutions for them.

9 Confidence in building rapport and trust with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

10 Academic qualifications, A Levels preferred. GSCE Mathematics C grade upwards required.

11 Confidence in working unsupervised and as part of a team to achieve personal and team objectives.

12 Flexible approach to work with a strong desire to learn and study towards relevant industry qualifications.

Required Skills:

Hands on experience of the following:

1 SQL Server 2008 - 2016 (TSQL, Stored Procedures, database/query Optimization ) / SSIS,SSAS

2 Understanding of data warehousing - ETL ,MDS,ODS, DDS

3 Practical application development experience, including troubleshooting code

4 BI Tools (Qlikview, OLAP, SSRS)

5 Schema design (UML)

6 Source Code Control software (e.g. TFS, Git)

Desired Skills:

1 Familiarity with full software development lifecycle

2 ITIL Service Management

3 Dimensional Modelling (Kimball)

4 Windows PowerShell

5 Microsoft Azure or AWS

6 Object-Oriented Programming (e.g. C#.NET, VB.NET, Python)

7 Infrastructure skills (server administration, backup procedures, networking etc.)

8 IBM iSeries platform

9 Advanced MS Office / Excel / VBA

Values:

My clients vision for 2017 has defined that one of the enablers to success is having a clear set of company values, which are as follows.

1 Recruiting and developing high quality people.

2 Getting results - by working together and outperforming the competition.

3 Keeping our promises - on time, every time.

4 Doing our best to serve our market and the community.

5 Treating the company money as if our own.

6 Working smarter and pursuing innovation.

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