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We are currently creating a pipeline for Senior Software Developer roles that we will be recruiting for across several Government Organisations and Contracting Authorities in the coming weeks / months.

Imagine having a talent that could benefit someone you’ve never met and solve problems you didn’t even know existed. Well, you do, and you can. And we’re here to help you do just that. At PSR we are the go-to place for talented contractors and temps for a rich variety of civil service roles.

As Senior Software Developer, you will: 

• Work with teams, especially Tech Leads and Delivery Leads, to establish the most valuable enablers to pursue
• Influence senior stakeholders and support teams with technology and process enablers to support agile delivery and DevOps ways of working
• Be influential in establishing good engineering practices and have expert knowhow on Open Source, Cloud First, Microservices and DevOps principals and its associated industry commoditised technology like React, NodeJS, Rust, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Terraform and Docker
• Establish good engineering practices on integrating and delivering in low code platforms such as Appian and Mulesoft
• Lead technological decisions to guide good engineering of Microsoft’s .NET stack to develop and support software upon which CPRD’s data collection and processing services, research applications, website, and APIs depends and ensure that systems are elegant, robust, and can scale to handle very high throughput of data
• Guide multiple engineering teams to multiple, diverse projects including developing T-SQL procedures for database extract, transform, load (ETL) services, creating Python scripts for text and data analysis, and utilising Microsoft XAML user interface technologies to create user applications
• Establish delivery engineering teams for success in delivering the full tech stack

You’ll have:

• An undergraduate degree in either a maths or computer science-based subject

• Demonstrable coding experience
• At least three years direct experience of using software development patterns and best practices to create applications of medium to high complexity using an object-orientated programming language or scripting language
• Experience of building robust software through appropriate use of development, testing, and deployment frameworks such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• At least 5 years direct experience of working with multiple data technologies to create relational and nonrelational databases and schemas for storing and accessing data on premise and cloud
• Experience of delivering a software development project collaboratively within a structured software development life-cycle environment such as Agile (Scrum)

It would be great to also have:

• Microservices knowledge and skills
• Appian Development

If this sounds like you and you would be interested in being added to our pipeline, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our PSR team now.

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