Senior Developer

Role: Senior Developer

**Salary**: £55,000

Location: Kings Hill (Hybrid)

Hours: Monday - Friday, 9-5

**About Commercial Services Group**

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is one of the largest providers of public sector and education procurement services globally, with revenues of over £400m, 800 staff and five trading divisions: Global Education Supplies, Procurement, Energy & Carbon, CommunityServices and People Services.

Wholly owned by Kent County Council, CSG supports over 15,000 customers in 86 countries and collaborates with a supply chain of c1,000 suppliers.

Due to continuous growth we are currently hiring across all sectors, including this role

**The Role**

**Key Duties**
- Development and maintenance of a suite of API's
- Propose and assess solutions to design / business problems or opportunities
- Ensure all developments fit within the overall system architecture and design strategy, and make sure code is of a consistent and appropriate standard.
- Manage and maintain the company codebase using industry best practice to provide full audit and control capabilities.
- To help lead a team of developers both off and onshore.
- To carry out investigations within the organisation and the marketplace in order to aid the formulation of requirements or to propose new methods and opportunities.
- To act as mentor and provide on the job training and support for less experienced developers as required.
- To act as a point of expertise within the department and to business users for both technological and business processes issues and opportunities.
- To aid in the User Acceptance Testing process.
- To aid in the continuous improvement of appropriate development and security standards and to keep abreast of changes in industry best practices advising senior management of relevant opportunities for improvements on internal practices.

**Communications
- Working with Stakeholders**
- To work with business users and Customer Experience Managers (CEM) through the entire development cycle from definition of systems requirements through to development of systems to meet business objectives.
- Engage the support team to manage the handover process of systems from development to an operational state.
- Collaborate with third-party suppliers and internal teams
- To work with external partners to co-develop solutions where required.

**Producing Documentation**
- Produce documentation for delivered solutions
- Create traceability records from requirements to developed solutions

**Managing Standards and Governance**
- To ensure that the Commercial Services defined development and security standards are adhered to during the developed of systems and processes.
- To standardize processes and tools across teams.
- To monitor the quality of developed software to ensure that it meets the required standards via the four eyes principle

**DefiningTools and Methodologies**
- To evaluate/introduce/create new technologies

**General Duties**
- Ability to work on several different projects at one time
- Influence the future development of a software product or service
- Such other duties, commensurate with the grading of the post that may be assigned by the Development Manager or their nominee.

**What we need from you -**
- Minimum 3 years experience in systems development.
- Experience of Azure Devops and CI
- Experience of Azure technologies and architectures (Logic Apps, Azure SQl, Azure functions)
- Experience of the complete development life cycle in a similar environment such as Agile.
- Knowledge of programming languages (Full**Stack**.NET +**Angular)** and source control
- Knowledge of fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Thorough knowledge of database technologies (SQL Server, Azure SQL)
- Web API, REST and Web UI frameworks. Experience of developing and testing APIs (using Postman or similar)

**What CSG offer**
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Birthday off work
- Life assurance cover
- Company pension
- Flexible first, hybrid working
- A culture of progression & development
- Shopping discounts & retailer offers
- Team & company events
- eLearning portal
- EAP programme
- Referral scheme
- Health & Wellbeing platform
- Health Cash Plan initiative
- Discounted gym membership