Senior Software Engineer C# .NET

Senior Systems Developer to £55k plus strong benefits package

Please note that this role is hybrid working from Woolpit in Suffolk, you must be based within an hours commute of Woolpit

• Do you want a career with a company who value and work with their staff to build strong career paths?
• Can you be a point of escalation for more technically challenging software development issues?
• Do you have a naturally creative problem-solving personality?
• Can you be influential throughout an OOP SDLC using agile (SCRUM) methodologies?

If you can say yes to all the above points, then read on, this is an opportunity to use your technical and people leadership skills with a well-respected and strong company who are leaders in providing a great place to work for their staff, it is important to them.

Not only are they a great place to work, but they are also a class leading UK business who have a seven-year order book, so they are strong and good at what they do. This is an opportunity to join the right team who know how to do the right things.

What will you be doing?

The role is based in the Woolpit Head Office, and you will be expected to be on-site for two days a week. The other three days can be from home unless you prefer to work in the office full-time.

The successful candidate will be working directly with stakeholders through full lifecycle to create excellent software solutions in utilities supply and billing using .NET VB & C#,

ASP.NET MVC, Razor, React, RESTful APIs on a SQL Server backend. You will be influential in contributing to the effectiveness of the team whilst providing technicalescalation, review and mentoring of others within the team.

Software Development

• Providing software solutions to business need whilst collaborating with users and change owners to provide the best possible outcome.

Software Support

• Providing support & maintenance of BUUK group systems in coordination with the chosen ITSM framework, to ensure the effects of incidents are minimised and requests are served to expectation.

Software Development Lifecycle

• Operating throughout the SDLC including gathering requirements on smaller change, designing and developing software solutions to standards, performing testing (such as peer, automated, unit), deploy/release and subsequent support and maintenance all whilst working to standards/policies/guidelines as appropriate.

Escalation & Training

• Act as a point of escalation for complex technical issues and provide training, mentoring and coaching to share knowledge, upskill others and improve resilience.

Customer Focus

• Provide exceptional customer service and ensuring customer effort is minimised.

Service Management

• Applying principles of ITIL Service Management through day-to-day application of applicable ITIL practice such as Incident, Problem, Service Request, and Change Management in a structured and scalable way.

Obligations & Controls

• Performing day to day tasks in compliance of financial risk controls, regulatory obligations and information security objectives.

Documentation

• Providing excellent, self-serving documentation towards the resilient operations of the team ensuring scale and quality of instruction is considered.

What skills and experience do you need for the role?

This is a leadership role where you need to a strong mentor, innovator and driver of standards. Therefore, your leadership skills and standards are just as important as your technical skills.

- Degree qualified in IT or a strong history of technical leadership.

- A strong working knowledge of ITSM and ITIL processes would be beneficial

- Proven track record in full software development lifecycle for enterprise level software solutions including gathering requirements on smaller change, designing and developing software solutions to standards, performing testing (such as peer, automated, unit), deploy/release and subsequent support and maintenance all whilst working to standards/policies/guidelines as appropriate.

- Up-to-date knowledge of agile software development best practices, and development in the Microsoft technology stack

• Server-Side OO Dev using C#.Net, ASP.Net MVC and Razor some historical VB.net would be handy.
• Backend Experience of querying and managing SQL Server databases.
• Frontend REACT, jQuery or JavaScript other frameworks and CSS/Bootstrap. Understanding of responsive design, JSON, CSS pre-processors, package managers.
• APIs Experience of RESTful APIs
• Dev / Version control experience of source control for teams with multiple developers, e.g git
• Security An understanding of security threats such as SQL injection, Form spoofing, CSRF and XSS, and how to deal with them.
• A solid working knowledge of Development methodologies including Agile, Kanban, SCRUM or Waterfall.

- Attention to detail and the ability to improve and adjust processes to get the best out of your team.

- High degree of tenacity in solving problems in a logical and professional manner.

Not all jobs are with financially strong companies who care about making their working environment a great place to work. This is the opportunity to build a career, and yes, they help with that too, within a bigger IT team where they like to promote within rather than hire in new staff. As well as a good salary of up to £55k depending on experience, there is a strong benefits package.

Loyalty Growth Units - A scheme rewarding our collective efforts if we hit our profit targets. Think of it like a long-term bonus pot! Eligible for employees with 6 months service.

Life Assurance - 4x salary, after 3 months of service.

Pension Scheme - Company contributions up to 10% if employees contribute 5%. Pension contributions are made through salary sacrifice and the company re-invests the NI savings into your pension fund.

Holiday - 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) plus an extra day after 10 and 20 years. Option to buy up to an extra 10 days holiday.

Great Place to Work - ranked for as one of the UKs Best Workplaces since 2018, one of the UKs Best Workplaces for Women since 2021, and one of the UKs Best workplaces for Wellbeing since 2022.

Long Service Awards - We reward loyalty with additional holiday at 10-, 20- and 30-years service, and gift voucher awards at 15 and 25 years.

Family Friendly Policies - We offer enhanced maternity pay (12 weeks at 100%, 14 weeks 50%), paternity pay (2 weeks at 100%) and adoption (to match maternity/paternity) pay, after 6 months service.

Flexible Benefits - Including private healthcare for you and your family, discounted gym

memberships, the ability to purchase cars, bikes and more.

Flexible Working 2 days in the office, 3 days remote.

Learning & Development - Investment in people, offering technical and professional development and qualifications, personal development and leadership and management development.