Job Description

• To translate and be accountable for business requirements into technical requirements, identifying any gaps.
  
• To write code to specification for one or more applications / products during the build phase of the software development lifecycle.
  
• To test the code thoroughly and liaise with business users to ensure delivery is fit for purpose.
  
• To develop a technical understanding of a component or sub-component within an application / product, providing support for technical queries, live incidents and problems.
  
• To own the technical integrity and quality of the applications / products is maintained across their lifetime, contributing to the development of any technical changes being proposed.
  
• The ability to deliver a single complex project, or multiple standard projects, as a team member or team leader, and manage multiple resources.
  
• Accountable for all service management within the live support teams across three locations.
  
• To closely work with the Service manager ensuring Incident management and service improvement plans are delivered.

Requirements

• End-to-end software development lifecycle
  

 OO Design Skills
 Software development methodologies, e.g. waterfall, agile
 Awareness of leading-edge tools, techniques and services within IT
 Ability to work with an existing body of code (maintenance, feature additions, debugging, etc).
 Ability to work in a cross-platform environment (Windows XP/Vista/7, MacOS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow).
 Working knowledge of Apple Mac systems and OS X.
 Knowledge of Object Orientated Programming and associated concepts.
 Programming abilities. (Objective C, Java, C, C++).
 Databases and related concepts.
 HTML and associated Web Technologies.
 Software development experience consisting of some of the following languages and technologies:
o Objective-C and Cocoa Frameworks
o Webservices / knowledge of WSDL
o XML & JSON
 Version Control Software (Clearcase / SVN / CVS)

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