Lead Developer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Capita

Capita

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity for a lead developer to join the Integrations and Systems Development Team.

As a senior member of this team, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and support of student administration services.

This is a senior technical role suiting someone with previous Banner development experience. Experience of working with other student record systems is also desirable.

We are looking for a driven, team player who is continually learning and comfortable providingtechnical leadership and mentoring to other developers in the team.

Day to day you will be working within a team of 5 developers.

You will also work closely with the other IT Services teams and stakeholders across the institution to deliver new features and services as well as supporting the day-to-day operations of studentadministration.

What you'll be doing:

Develop tactical and strategically significant digital solutions utilising multiple technologies.
Lead the use of source control systems to automate and enhance delivery processes.
Lead the use of Agile Scrum techniques to develop services.
Grow and share knowledge of specific technical areas as required within the team.
Lead the ongoing technical support and advice for services.
Lead on the identification of accessibility requirements and implement solutions to the required standard.
Lead and mentor other technical members of the team including apprentices by providing technical leadership and vision in the team's software development approach.
Initiate and manage investigation and development of new features and identify and promote their benefits to the organisation
Collaborate with other teams to share best practice, experience, and knowledge
Participate as a lead member of the team.
Collaborate with team colleagues to craft solutions together, with an ability to communicate technical needs to nontechnical colleagues.
Work within and be part of evolving the team's development standards and practices.
Keep abreast of technological practices and trends to continuously improve ways of working.
Assist the team in identifying potential solutions to user problems through Agile development practices.
Lead the development of student systems ensuring consistency with specified requirements.
Establish policy and strategy for the selection of system architecture components, and coordinates design activities.
Ensure that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.

What we're looking for:

Meaningful and relevant experience of software development on Ellucian Banner
Meaningful and relevant experience of software development on Ellucian Ethos
Meaningful and relevant experience of system integration development
Extensive knowledge of Oracle databases, Oracle PL/SQL and Unix/Linux
Experience of Oracle Apex
Experience of developing and using web APIs
Experience of leading on the design and implementation of technical solutions
Experience with Continuous Deployment/Continuous Integration (CI/CD) processes
Experience using source control
Experience of mentoring
Experience of working with end users
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent analysis and troubleshooting skills
A continuous improvement mentality
ITIL awareness

What's in it for you?

70,000 £85,000
23 days' holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy 5 days extra leave
Great worklife balance
Flexible working arrangements to suit your needs
Long term career options
The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
Pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks and plenty more
Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

What we hope you'll do next:

We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protectedcharacteristic.

We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

All interviews, assessments and background checks will continue to take place online, to completely remove the need for face-to-face contact.

All Capita colleagues who can work from home should do so; and where it is not possible for colleagues to work remotely,we have taken important steps to protect those working from Capita's offices.

Social distancing, enhanced hygiene and safety measures are already in place at all Capita locations that are open to protect our colleagues and manage the risk of COVID-19.

Thewelfare of our people is of paramount importance to us, and we're doing everything we can to keep our colleagues and customers safe during this time.