Senior Azure Developer

Job Purpose: 

The team is responsible for new development, development of Change Requests (CRs), project support and support and maintenance of production software.  This role requires a deep understanding, and extensive hands-on commercial experience of cloud-based software architecture and development techniques. Our business services involve multiple processes taking place in an event-driven, microservices architecture. Functionality delivered purely via services is significant, so this is a full stack role with an emphasis towards backend development and integrations, although frontend development is also required.

Responsibilities:

• Delivery and support of enterprise-strength solutions via the Microsoft Azure platform.

• Providing functionally correct, unit tested, deployable, and performant software artefacts.

• Working collaboratively with the Application development manager, applications support team manager, Developers, Architects, QAs, BAs, Product Owners.

• Ensuring software meets NFRs, especially for Security, Maintainability, and Performance.

• Production of technical documentation (e.g. Wikis) as required during the SDLC.

• Assisting with code quality monitoring, reporting and assurance across IB projects.

• Handovers, support and training of the Application support team currently responsible for supporting legacy non-Azure systems.

Key Requirements: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience 

• Extensive hands-on commercial experience of Object-Oriented Development (OOD/OOP) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

• Experience with Microsoft Entra (Active Directory).

• Experience of and affinity for event-driven, microservices, and serverless architectures.

• Applied knowledge of Design Patterns, SOLID principles, and Domain Driven Design (DDD).

• Expert in C# programming with longstanding experience of .NET Core and .Net framework.

• A strong portfolio of high volume, low-latency REST Services built upon ASP.Net Web API.

• Proven experience building scalable and fault-tolerant software using Message Queuing and Event-based technologies on Azure, notably Azure Service Bus.

• Skilled in the use of Azure DevOps/VSTS for source control and automated CI/CD pipelines.

• Significant exposure to Agile methodologies and unit testing frameworks like xUnit.

• Highly proficient in database development on Azure SQL/MS SQL Server.

• Comfortable with one or more ORMs, preferably Entity Framework (EF Core).

• Expertise in front-end SPA development using HTML, CSS, TypeScript/JavaScript.

• Focuses on delivering value to schedule without compromising quality.

• Willing and able to assume end-to-end ownership of technical solutions.

• High level of maturity; gives and receives constructive feedback.

• Communicative; clearly presents and articulates proposals, estimates and solutions.