Episerver Web Developer

Our Client, a FTSE 100 Company, are looking for an experienced WEB DEVELOPER (EPISERVER) to join their Travel and Events department.

Overall Purpose/Scope:

To undertake the analysis, design, coding and testing of our FTSE 100 clients Travel and Events web systems in support of the build of a new online travel booking tool. To provide expertise in the use and implementation of the EpiServer Content Management System.

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Undertakes the analysis, design, coding and testing of web software products/projects as directed by the Head of Software Development.
- To work on the delivery of new product and services to enhance the Travel and Events systems
- Exercises best efforts and known best practice to ensure that software performs accurately, efficiently and reliably.
- Employs known patterns and best practice to ensure software is maintainable, reusable and logically structured.
- Exercises best efforts and known best practice to ensure that software is documented and annotated appropriately to enable the understanding and support by other software developers.
- Takes an active interest in technology.
- Makes recommendations regarding the systems and software, both voluntarily and as requested.
- Any other areas of responsibility as appropriate to meet the needs of the business.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

- Productivity completing development projects in line with agreed timelines.
- Quality ensuring that software output is reliable, scalable and highly usable.
- Accuracy ensuring that software change exactly meets client requirement (both internal and external)
- Logical approach ensuring that the approach to problem solving is logical, and results in expedient resolution.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

- Experience of the EpiServer CMS system
- Setting up new complex EpiServer solutions
- Managing ongoing EpiServer solutions
- Any experience of change management in managing an EpiServer project through stages of dev, test pre-production and production (etc).
- Requirements Analysis - Questioning, listening to, and understanding a customer in order to extract their exact requirements
- Solution Design - Taking requirements and designing a solution that meets those needs; to include selection of technology, tools, patterns/practices, maintainability, reliability, performance etc
- Problem Solving - Ability to apply logical thinking in order to quickly and accurately derive the root cause of a technical issue
- Object Oriented Design - To include knowledge and application of common design patterns
- Database design and development, including use of SQL, stored procedures, triggers etc.
- Use of or experience with mid-tier/service technologies such as web services, WCF, windows services and the like
- .net framework & C#
- Strong user interface design and build skills. This may come in the form of web development (using all the relevant skills in HTML/CSS/Scripting/etc) or Windows Desktop development
- Preferably strong in either Web or Windows UI development

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATION/EXPERIENCE

- Experience in a similar team-based software development role, developing and supporting enterprise applications

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

- Web Design
- Windows desktop application design
- Any .NET certifications
- Experience of new/emergent Microsoft development technologies