Senior Developer at Sage

Must Have

Skills, know-how and experience:

• Ability to interpret and/or gather user requirements and translate these into

technical specifications and/or code

• High numerical reasoning and logic ability with strong problem-solving skills
• Extensive knowledge of the principles of database design including modelling
• logical and physical data schemas where appropriate
• Proficient with one or more relevant programming languages, frameworks and

databases

• Excellent at troubleshooting in complex software issues, including those in

unfamiliar code

• Good understanding in business processes
• Be an active and enthusiastic team player
• Be able to take responsibility for planning and delivering team activities
• Be willing to adapt to, and lead initiatives that contribute to significant changes in

either technology or environment

• Be interested in self-development including the maintenance of personal technical competence in all relevant areas
• Be a role model IT professional, demonstrating excellence in a range of general software engineering practices
• Effective communicator and influencer to technical and non-technical audiences with excellent relationship management skills.

Essentials

• Experience with appropriate technologies
• Minimum of 6 years experience in development
• Significant knowledge and development experience with appropriate

technologies in the area of responsibility

• Significant experience with multi-tiered application design and major relational databases
• Significant experience of unit and integration testing techniques
• Good working knowledge of software development lifecycles and development
• methodologies, e.g. Scrum, Waterfall.

Technical / Professional Qualifications

• Degree holder (desirable) and/or relevant professional qualification and/or
• relevant work experience in related discipline that demonstrates a proven aptitude for software development