Senior Software Engineer

1 week ago

Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom International Baccalaureate Full time £50,000 - £60,000 per year
Job Description

Senior Software Engineer (ColdFusion and Oracle)

Salary: Circa £50,000 per annum (Depending on Experience)

Job Type: Full-Time, 37.5 hours, Permanent

Location: IB (International Baccalaureate) Global Centre, Cardiff

Hybrid working opportunity (office presence required once every 1-2 weeks - Thursdays)

About the Job

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (ColdFusion/Oracle) to oversee an offshore software engineering team to work on critical changes and maintenance of existing systems.

The role will primarily sit within a Scrum team in our wider IT Service Function, building and supporting new systems to be used by our IB stakeholders. This role requires a clear understanding and hands-on experience of Coldfusion with an Oracle database.

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 on backend development, although frontend development experience is also beneficial.

This role is offered on a Hybrid basis from our Cardiff office. Ideal site presence would be once per week on a Thursday.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
  • Development and delivery of enterprise-strength solutions for our IBIS platform using PL/SQL and ColdFusion.
  • Participating in Scrum ceremonies, elaboration and refinement sessions.
  • Producing functionally correct, unit tested, performant and deployable software artefacts.
  • Collaborate effectively with Developers, Architects, QAs, and Product Owners.
  • Ensuring software meets NFRs, especially for Security, Maintainability, and Performance.
  • Help coordinate and oversee the development activities of an offshore engineering team.
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation as required during the SDLC.
  • Documentation review and code review of third-party deliverables.
  • Assisting with code quality monitoring, reporting and assurance across IB projects.
  • Review and create user stories and acceptance criteria where applicable as well as supporting peer reviews for quality assurance.
  • Support software releases and deployment into production environment.
  • Performing demos to stakeholders distributed globally.
  • Handovers, support and training of the application support team for new deliverables.
Qualifications

Job Requirements:

About You
  • Proven full stack development experience, ideally within large scale enterprise solutions.
  • Comprehensive working understanding of Coldfusion, CSS, Jquery and Javascript for front-end development.
  • Oracle Database development experience including complex PL/SQL packages, data scripts, DDL statements and perform code optimisation.
  • Experience in systems design and analysis and producing high quality technical documentation.
  • Experience working in global teams, including offshore third party suppliers.
  • A good working knowledge of Agile Methodologies is desirable.
In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:
  • 10% employer pension contribution from first day of employment (minimum contribution required from yourself is 3%)
  • 25 Days annual leave, plus public holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 days additional annual leave
  • Flexi Hours with our core hours as 10am-12pm and 2pm-3pm. You can flex your 37.5 hours per week around this
  • Enhanced family friendly benefits
  • Life assurance 4x annual salary
  • Paid volunteering leave
  • Flexible benefits allowance at 1.5% of your annual salary
  • Excellent continuous professional development
  • Health and wellness schemes
  • Disability Confident Employer
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Discounts on a range of products, including days out and Gym Memberships
  • Cash back opportunities available from a wide range of retailers
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Free on-site car parking
Applications are being received until 16 November 2025

We are committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. The International Baccalaureate is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified applicants.

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