Description
Senior Developer is required for a contract position in Nottingham/Birmingham, UK. Sopra Steria Recruitment working in partnership with a major public sector client in the UK. Our Government client is looking for a Senior Developerthis will be a contract role for one year initially with possible extension.
Job Title: Digital Senior Developer
The Maximum Pay Rate: up to £480 day rate LTD
Location: Nottingham or Birmingham
Contract Length: 1 year from start date
Essential Requirements:
- 4+ Years acting as a senior developer in a strong Object Orientated PHP environment.
- Experience building Server Side web applications and detailed knowledge of at least PHP and/or detailed understanding and experience of Front End web development (HTML/CSS/JS).
- Outstanding ability to develop efficient, highly optimised and clear code.
- Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behaviour and performance.
- An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Experience working on technical projects within a team.
- Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
- Knowledge of the git version control system.
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
- Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
- Act as a tech lead on complex projects, providing support for product and delivery management and pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act.
- Experience mentoring or helping colleagues optimise their code.
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.
- System administration and configuration management skills.
- Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences.
- Understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design.
- Experience of handling large data setsand scaling their handling and storage.
- Experience of working with JavaScript libraries to produce data visualisations.
- Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs.
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.
- Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins).
Sopra Steria Recruitment Limited acts as both an employment business and as an employment agency.
Please Note: Shortlisted candidates would be contacted via Call/Email.
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