Senior Developer

Location: Manchester/Hybrid working pattern (Occasional business-critical travel to Lytham)

Evolve Energy is currently undertaking a strategic digital transformation, with the express need to improve capacity and throughput across all areas of the business and to accelerate growth over the next five years. As part of this initiative, we have a number of streams of activity underway, across legacy transformation, digital transformation roadmap, internal build and external adoption and integration. The Senior Developer will work closely alongside the multi-discipline squad (BAs; Developers; QA) in an Agile way to deliver business value via updates to existing platforms, developing new platforms and integrating with internal and existing functions.

Role Purpose

You will be responsible for assisting BAs with story shaping; developing quality, robust solutions; supporting the QA during testing and facilitating the build out of continuous integration/delivery pipelines. The development team is a strong unit and are pivotal to the success of our digital transformation journey.

You will contribute to the continuous improvement of our platforms and processes, working closely with Head of Business Technology, development and infrastructure colleagues.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Delivery Manager to ensure the smooth delivery of quality, robust solutions
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and actively contribute to the success of the development team and our wider business colleagues
• Deliver tested, working solutions and support the development team in QA and deployment activities
• Understand the legacy and digital transformation landscape at Evolve and effectively contribute to that, leading some initiatives where appropriate
• Liaise with development and infrastructure colleagues with regards to continuous improvement activities, proposing solutions where appropriate
• Working closely with Agile Development Team colleagues
• Assisting colleagues in Refinement/3 Amigos sessions to ensure user stories are ready for development in an efficient manner
• Delivering quality, robust and tested software solutions
• Supporting QAs in the timely resolution of bugs arising from changes
• Contributing to technical roadmaps, proof of concepts and the development of our service orientated architecture
• Leading spike investigations into technical, process and delivery challenges

Personal Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience in working as a Senior Developer in a commercial environment
• Conversion of user stories to software applications and components to exacting standards with baked in test coverage
• Experience in service-orientated architecture, API interfaces and Azure service bus backbone
• Ability to contribute to technical architecture discussions and to influence decisions to achieve the stated aim
• Proven record of work in Agile squads with full contribution to ceremonies
• Postman/JMeter testing and automation

Strong skills in

• C#.net
• SQL Server; Entity Framework (Core)
• Web API
• Mvc
• Strong Object Orientated development

The ideal candidate

You will be experienced Agile practitioner and passionate about delivering value and confident enough to identify issues and propose solutions pro-actively. Experience working in the Utilities sector would be advantageous but is by no means essential. Scrum Master and real-world experience of CRM implementation (either external or internal) would be desirable as would previous exposure to Docker or other containerisation technologies.

If you're ready to be part of a passionate, collaborative team that's driving change in the energy sector, we'd love to hear from you.

What's in it for You:

We want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career.

Evolve Energy offer a range of benefits such as:

• An amazing team with a community feel
• Opportunities to grow and develop your career
• Regular recognition and reward programs
• Free refreshments and breakfast
• Cycle to work and EV scheme
• Private Healthcare, cash health plans and annual fitness membership contribution
• Company sick pay and employee discount schemes
• EAP - health assistance and mental health first aiders
• Company pension and enhanced annual leave
• Volunteering days and social events

This position offers the right salary for the right person and the opportunity for you to take an exciting step forward in your career!

Qualifying criteria

Roles may be subject to DBS and Financial checks. Any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard.

If you think you would be a great fit for us, but don't meet all the requirements of the role, please contact us as we'd love to discuss how Evolve Energy could be the next step in your career journey.

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