Knowledge and experience

Must demonstrate proven experience and ability to:

• Develop, maintain and integrate a variety of software solutions
• Translate business requirements into software designs
• Create and maintain technical documentation to high standards
• Understand business and user requirements
• Research new and emerging software development tools and techniques
• Directly communicate with customers at a variety of levels using written and oral methods
• Participate in meetings;
• Promote equality, diversity and Human Rights in working practices
• Maintain standards for security of information
• Work effectively in an agile software development environment

Skills

• Comprehensive skills in the development of software
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to confidently interact and empathise with all levels of staff
• Good presentation skills
• The ability to be creative and innovative
• Flexibility to use a variety of supporting technologies and to be innovative
• The ability to work under pressure and be capable of balancing competing demands and priorities
• The ability to learn and adapt
• Proven track record in understanding the need of customers/users
• Good communication skills in order to work effectively throughout the organisation and with external contractors and suppliers

Software skills and experience

It is essential that the post-holder has considerable knowledge and experience of development in at least one of the two core areas:

• Mobile App Development (preferably Android, Hybrid) 
• Angular JS
• Apache Cordova
• Ionic framework
• jQuery

OR

• .NET Web Development
• C# .Net (preferably MVC)
• HTML
• CSS
• Database interaction (Oracle and/or SQL Server)
• Bootstrap
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• IIS deployment and administration