C#/.NET Developer

Background
Our client has a contract vacancy, based in Taunton. You will be require to both development and support applications. The development aspect of the role could involve developments of varying sizes from project developments spanning the entire life cycle using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result, to smaller change requests. The system support aspect involves the designation of several systems for which you will act as primary support, and several for which you will provide secondary support. You need to ensure that the systems are fully supported and that any problems are dealt with quickly and effectively in order to minimise impact to "live" operations. Project coding experience is an essential for this position.

Main Duties/Responsibilities
The design, code, test, correction and documentation of software applications of various scales and complexities. Support of IT applications. Enhance existing applications. Improve the reliability and robustness of the existing systems. Reduce/Eliminate reliance on out of date/unsupported software. Provide technical advice to internal and external customers. Analyse customer requirements and problems, then generate potential solutions. Document changes to the system and application architecture overviews. Develop relationship with System Owner, Key Users and Users for their allocated systems

Outputs/Deliverables to be achieved
The majority of the departments work is in the development of small application development together with general support of existing systems. Whilst it is likely that the you will be involved in development tasks, which could range from small deliverables to potentially large project work, there will be a need for investigations to support existing systems. Documentation is also an important deliverable and the role will require producing documents ie Impact Analysts, feasibility studies, Service Transfer documentation.

Skills/Experience Required

Essential Skills
You must have demonstrable working knowledge in two or more of the following programming languages:
o C# o ASP.NET
o SQL.

Have demonstrable working knowledge of the following:
o Unit Testing (MSTest, NUnit etc.).
o Continuous Integration (TeamCity, CruiseControl, Jenkins etc.)
o Version Control(Subversion, SourceSafe, TFS etc.)

Plus a good knowledge of at least one of the following technologies:
o IIS and web site management
o XML
o HTML
o JavaScript
o Microsoft SharePoint
o UML
o SQL Server
o Oracle

Desirable Skills.
Experience of working within a service delivery environment with a good understanding of the ITIL framework.

Demonstrable working knowledge of any of the following programming languages:
o VB.NET
o C++
o VB
o Classic ASP

Or a good knowledge of at least one of the following technologies:
o Java
o INGRES
o UNIX
o W4GL (Open Road)

Formal Qualifications Required
Desirable Qualifications:
ISEB Certificate in Systems Development

Essentials
ISEB ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management Tool/product/platform specific accreditation as appropriate, such as. MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist). MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer)

Capita Resourcing welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of gender, race, disability, age or sexual orientation.

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