Our client in the telecoms sector is seeking a Senior: Software Engineer on a contract duration of 12 months.
Role purpose:
The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for creating prototypes designing and building modules and solutions in an iterative agile cycles develop maintain and optimize the business outcome. This role is responsible for estimating user and technical stories designing and developing code writing and executing unit and integration tests and supporting testing of deliverables against user and technical story acceptance tests. The incumbent is responsible for performing peer reviews collaborating with architects and other developers to produce just enough design and ensuring that enough technical documentation and training is provided for reference and operational support. This role is responsible for providing software-related operations support including managing level two and level three incident and problem management.
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Business Administration or other related field
- At least 5 years relevant experience of which a minimum of three years is in programming and/or systems analysis applying agile frameworks
- Experience working with agile methodologies such as Scrum & Kanban
- Strong knowledge of software architecture principles
- Experience working in cloud-native environments
- Expertise in multiple programming languages such as SQL XML JSON and Python and paradigms such as object-oriented- even-driven- procedural- functional- and declarative programming
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
- DevOps culture processes and tools
- Cloud-native architectures including public cloud PaaS / IaaS micro-services architectures API
- Strong communications skills with the ability to distil difficult technical concepts into simple and actionable modules