Senior Developer

Salary: £42,149 - £50,296 + Benefits

Contract: Fixed term for 2 years

Responsible to: Head of Software Development and Delivery

Location: Shawcross, University of Sussex

Download: Job description

Closing date: Monday 11th April 2022

Introduction

The University of Sussex is a leading academic institution nestled in the beautiful South Downs, on the outskirts of Brighton. With staff and students from over 100 countries, we are a diverse and innovative environment, and one of the highest performing universities in the world. We are also a major local employer, with a revenue of over £320m per year and over 3,000 employees.

Led by an award-winning Chief Digital Transformation Officer and inspirational leadership team, we are now embarking on an ambitious programme of transformational change. Over the coming years, this digital transition will be an ever-developing programme supported by senior stakeholders both financially and strategically. Put simply, whilst we are already a highly successful organisation and business, the University will be a very different world in years to come and achieve levels of performance and digital delivery as yet unseen in the sector. All of this is underpinned by major construction and estate renewal, an exciting programme of work to add thousands of accommodation spaces, and a network replacement project to install the latest digital infrastructure as part of the journey towards a fully data-enabled organisation.

We are moving to an agile world and need to take the organisation on the same journey; to be sector leading and to deliver a model of digital delivery fit for the coming years. As this programme gains momentum, we need more people to join us as we unpick our challenges and legacy systems and move towards meeting our potential.

A critical part of this is the modernisation and replacement of our legacy networks, including major civils to replace physical infrastructure, our Cyber Security Plus programme, and moving our data centres to the cloud. Reporting into the Head of Software Development and Delivery, the Senior Developer, will be a key member of the IT Services Team and play a crucial role in the ongoing digital transformation journey and providing application support to the core business systems. In this role you will be expected to:

  • Play a key role as a technical lead concerned with the delivery of systems and services that are critical to key business functions.
  • Support fellow developers within your team
  • Pro-actively promote and support the implementation of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including continual process improvement and maintenance of associated tools.
  • Design, code, document and test new applications and software components.
  • Write high-quality, secure code compliant with industry standards and regulations.
  • Have excellent experience of Oracle Forms (10 or 11) and Oracle Databases, including proven experience of database development with PL/SQL.
  • Provide experience of programming using languages such as Java and PHP.
  • Manage code changes by utilising source control tools GitHub, Visual SourceSafe (VSS) and Subversion (SVN).
  • Communicate complex technical information relating to design, development and delivery of software products to a range of stakeholders.
  • Work with Business Analysts and Product Owners to ensure understanding of business requirements.
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning and Sprint Review and on occasion lead them.

Not only do we offer flexible and remote working, a vibrant atmosphere, use of our incredible facilities, benefits, and an amazing pension; but we are offering the opportunity to be part of a transformation that will see us set the benchmark for a model of digital delivery in the HE sector.

For further information or to apply contact Tom King/Lawrence Harris at Global Resourcing: US@global-resourcing.com / 020 8253 1806.

Timetable

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Date

Application Closing date

Monday 11th April 2022

First Stage Interviews

Monday 18th April

Final Interview

Monday 25th April

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