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Hymans Robertson
Edinburgh
1 year ago
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The Vacancy

We have an exciting opportunity for a Software Developer to join our growing software development function serving the Pensions Market.

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team focussed on building sustainable software that drives our business forward. We make use of the latest technologies to facilitate the delivery of our ground-breaking business solutions, solving complex problems that allow us to deliver simple and helpful advice to our customers. Our teams are passionate about technology and adopt an agile approach to software delivery. Our DevOps culture promotes both team autonomy and engineering excellence.

You will

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that builds, tests, and maintains our software applications and services. Design and implement systems in a range of programming environments and software platforms (primarily .NET and Microsoft Azure). Be open to working with our expert groups and skills communities to evolve our best practices and experiment with new techniques. Depending on experience you may mentor, coach & provide people management for less experienced team members.

About You

To succeed in and enjoy this role you are likely to have experience with:

Object-oriented development patterns and approaches primarily in delivering C# .NET solutions Microsoft development stack and Azure Cloud computing technologies, including many of the following: ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core, web services and service-oriented architectures, microservices, CQRS, RESTful APIs, SQL Server/Transact SQL, Git & Azure DevOps BDD/TDD testing using frameworks such as NUnit, FakeItEasy, and SpecFlow Message brokers (e.g., Azure Service Bus/RabbitMQ) and messaging patterns Continuous integration and continuous delivery practices within the Azure Dev Ops platform (yaml pipelines) Relational and NoSQL data architectures and technologies

You will be

Self-motivated with a drive to learn and share knowledge. Focused on continuous learning and improvement. An effective communicator and an effective team player, able to collaborate with all the skills in your team. Able to forge strong and professional relationships at all levels. Able to collaborate successfully with client and 3rd party technical teams. Able to articulate technical concepts to a non-technical audience. Confident across the entire software development lifecycle.

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