whg Hiring for Software Engineer Job at Walsall, England Full Time

Contract: Full Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week

Closing Date: 8 November 2022

Interview Date: 18 November 2022

We have an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join the IT Team on a full time, permanent basis, to design, develop, deliver, support and maintain web and mobile software solutions. If you have strong coding skills but want to move to the next stage and deliver at pace in our low code platform and never have to write lines of code again, then we want to hear from you.

Main job responsibilities:

• Build and support web and mobile solutions that meet whg’s strategic objectives.
• Manage platform(s) to ensure solutions and scheduled jobs run successfully, and data aligns to business requirements.
• Manage data feeds and ensure platforms are tuned for optimal performance.
• Work effectively with stakeholders to communicate and translate their needs into improvements in our products.
• Develop and agree plans for the delivery of projects.
• Contribute to group discussions on design and work with Project Managers and Business Analysts to drive value.
• Translate requirements into tasks & code, delivering high quality code that can lead to rapid delivery.
• Profile and optimise code.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Degree in computer science or related discipline
• A formal training qualification in software development lifecycle (e.g. Agile practitioner).
• Relevant training and/or qualifications in web and mobile development, C#, HTML5, CSS
• Highly proficient with C#.Net, HTML, HTML5, XML, CSS, SSIS.
• Proficient with SQLServer and Oracle databases.
• Experienced user of TFS for source control.
• Experienced with webservice development (SOAP/REST).
• Knowledge of various approaches to software testing, change management and release automation.
• Experience with ‘low code’ development platforms.

What’s in it for you?

In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.

We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.

About us

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to make a difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

For more information, read the full job description and visit www.whg.uk.com