Introduction
Evolve Energy is currently undertaking a strategic digital transformation, with the express need to improve capacity and throughput across all areas of the business and to accelerate growth over the next five years. As part of this initiative, we have a number of streams of activity underway, across legacy transformation, digital transformation roadmap, internal build and external adoption and integration. The Senior Developer will work closely alongside the multi-discipline squad (BAs; Developers; QA) in an Agile way to deliver business value via updates to existing platforms, developing new platforms and integrating with internal and existing functions.
Role Purpose
You will be responsible for assisting BAs with story shaping; developing quality, robust solutions; supporting the QA during testing and facilitating the build out of continuous integration/delivery pipelines. The development team is a strong unit and are pivotal to the success of our digital transformation journey.
You will contribute to the continuous improvement of our platforms and processes, working closely with Head of Business Technology, development and infrastructure colleagues.
Duties and Responsibilities
Work closely with the Delivery Manager to ensure the smooth delivery of quality, robust solutions
Participate in Agile ceremonies and actively contribute to the success of the development team and our wider business colleagues
Deliver tested, working solutions and support the development team in QA and deployment activities
Understand the legacy and digital transformation landscape at Evolve and effectively contribute to that, leading some initiatives where appropriate
Liaise with development and infrastructure colleagues with regards to continuous improvement activities, proposing solutions where appropriate
Working closely with Agile Development Team colleagues
Assisting colleagues in Refinement/3 Amigos sessions to ensure user stories are ready for development in an efficient manner
Delivering quality, robust and tested software solutions
Supporting QAs in the timely resolution of bugs arising from changes
Contributing to technical roadmaps, proof of concepts and the development of our service orientated architecture
Leading spike investigations into technical, process and delivery challenges
Personal skills and experience
Extensive experience in working as a Senior Developer in a commercial environment
Conversion of user stories to software applications and components to exacting standards with baked in test coverage
Experience in service-orientated architecture, API interfaces and Azure service bus backbone
Ability to contribute to technical architecture discussions and to influence decisions to achieve the stated aim
Proven record of work in Agile squads with full contribution to ceremonies
Postman/JMeter testing and automation
Strong skills in
o C#.net
o Blazor
o Html, CSS, Javascript
o Azure Functions, Service Bus, Ci/Cd Pipelines
o SQL Server; Entity Framework (Core)
o Asp .NET. Asp .NET Core
o Web API
o Mvc
o Strong Object Orientated development
The ideal candidate
You will be experienced Agile practitioner and passionate about delivering value and confident enough to identify issues and propose solutions pro-actively. Experience working in the Utilities sector would be advantageous but is by no means essential. Scrum Master and real-world experience of CRM implementation (either external or internal) would be desirable as would previous exposure to Docker or other containerisation technologies.
If you’re ready to be part of a passionate, collaborative team that’s driving change in the energy sector, we’d love to hear from you.
What’s in it for You:
We want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. So, what can we offer you as an employer? Evolve Energy offer a range of benefits such as:
An amazing team with a community feel
Opportunities to grow and develop your career
Regular recognition and reward programs
Enhanced Annual Leave
Free Refreshments & Breakfast
Cycle to work & EV scheme
Private Healthcare, Cash Health Plans & Annual fitness membership contribution
Company Sick Pay Scheme
Employee Discount Scheme
EAP – health assistance and mental health first aiders
Company pension
Volunteering Days
Social Events
Roles maybe subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard.
Evolve like many other organisations, operate a hybrid working model* with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives.
If you think you would be a great fit for us, but don't meet all the requirements of the role, please contact us at recruitment@evolve-energy.com we'd love to discuss how Evolve Energy could be the next step in your career journey.
*Qualifying criteria following successful completion of probationary period
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