Senior Digital Solutions Engineer

Bromley Town
9 months ago
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Location: Bromley, Kent

Salary: up to £65,000

Full Time

As our Senior Digital Solutions Engineer you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of application specialists and system technical experts. You will be involved in the end-to-end development and maintenance of our customer facing portal, internal systems, core administration systems and analytics.

You will be working with other internal IT teams to identify root cause, supporting technical and functional triage of incidents, being responsible for being the 2nd line and 3rd line for business critical applications and in responding to incoming incidents, queries and requests.

This opportunity is a mix of ensuring that both new and existing systems and services are running optimally end-to-end, analytics, and database administration. You will be involved in technical specifications, T-SQL development, deployment of SSIS packages or new releases, as well troubleshooting solutions.

Your day to day will include:



SQL Server database performance monitoring / tuning

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SQL Server database administration

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Design and develop views, stored procedures and SSIS packages using Visual Studio.

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Providing advice, guidance and estimates to the development and technical process as required to ensure proposed solutions are operationally supportable.

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Undertaking 2nd-3rd line incidents and problem management for client-facing technology services, messaging / APIs, and business applications.

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Actively participating in the resolution of major incidents, post-incident reviews and change implementation reviews.

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Liaising with external suppliers of software and services, and other specialist teams within IT to resolve incidents.

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Responsibility for ensuring resolving complex application incidents and requests.

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Working with other IT teams to extend the DevOps framework and working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.

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Systems design, development, code review, debugging, and support tests of bugs

Working hours are 40 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times are flexible from 8.00am to 9.30am. After a successful training period there is flexibility to work from home for 2/3 days a week.

What we require

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Solid experience as DBA and/or systems developer.

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Microsoft SQL Server expert, database administration, data movement, SSIS, and data analytics.

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Experience of development and deployment.

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Knowledge of concepts Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

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Passionate about providing quality service and willing to develop new skills.

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Experience of building APIs, RESTful services would be to an advantage.

What we offer you

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Basic salary up to £65,000 per annum

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Discretionary annual bonus dependent on your performance and company performance provided you are employed on bonus payment date.

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Annual holiday allowance of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

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Life Assurance (based on pensionable earnings)

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Generous contributory Pension scheme

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Season Ticket Loan

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1 days paid charitable workday

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Employee Assistance Programme

About us

Foresters Financial is not your typical financial services provider. Those who join our purpose-driven organisation enjoy a culture of collaboration, creativity, and mutual respect and are challenged to do their best to make a difference every day. We help everyday families achieve their financial goals and make a lasting difference in their lives and communities.

What we do

We help everyday families achieve their financial goals and make a lasting difference in their lives and communities. We will continue to do this by employing enthusiastic and talented Financial Advisers working across the country and equally talented people to be based at our Head Office in Bromley

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