Senior Developer at Sage

Job Description Reporting to the Development Team Manager, the Senior Developer is responsible for building and delivering, high quality applications and/or systems and services to the identified architecture that exceed customer or business stakeholder expectations. The Senior Developer will be a subject matter expert for technical solutions and business processes in their area of responsibility.

The Senior Developer will also lead selected projects or activities, as required, and will collaborate with other disciplines and teams within and outside of IT to ensure consistency, quality and successful delivery

Key Responsibilities

• Develop deliver, maintain and implement high quality technical solutions which
• may require configuration and/or maintenance of third-party applications and/or the timely provision of accurate data and/or reports
• Ensure successful delivery through proactive quality review and stakeholder engagement to derive tangible action where required
• Possess and apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of software development to the completion of difficult assignments.
• Participate fully in all phases of the project lifecycle including technical analysis, detailed design, coding/configuration and delivery, as relevant.
• Analyse, define, document and/or review technical requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interfaces with other systems and/or services, internal and external checks and controls, and outputs.
• Analyse business processes and identify opportunity to improve and align with strategic direction
• Produce relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable.
• Undertake research on best practice guidelines and continuously strive to make improvements to the existing applications and/or systems, services and processes.
• Seek out and act upon feedback received and provide quality feedback to other team members to aid their personal development.
• Where required, assist in educating others (within and outside of IT) regarding the impacts of planned deliveries and/or in the use of relevant tools
• Ensure all development is completed to the required quality standards, identify opportunities for continuous improvement of development processes and proactively transfer knowledge amongst team members.
• Keep up to date with relevant technology areas and encourage others to do likewise.

Skills, know-how and experience:

Must have:

• 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