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Software Developer - Senior Consultant (Financial Services)
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Are you self-driven and proactive? Do you enjoy solving difficult programming challenges?
If you’re a senior .NET developer who wants to join a growing tech consultancy that delivers high quality solutions and transform services for clients and end users, we might have the role for you.
It’s a great opportunity to work on extremely technical challenges and add value as part of an established technical team with a great reputation. This role will support our work in the financial services and fintech industry, although there may be future opportunities across our whole client base.
4 days per week in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is required to enable face to face working with the project team.
What we’re looking for:
Proficient in Object Oriented Programming, with expertise in the C# .NET stack preferred.
Experience in other languages such as Java or Python is also valuable.
Experienced in working with relational databases, with strong proficiency in SQL.
Demonstrated experience focusing on data structures and implementing efficient solutions
Proven experience in algorithm implementation and analysis
Expertise in performance optimisation, with a focus on enhancing efficiency and speed.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of tackling complex technical tasks.
Experience in handling large scale data processing and working with distributed systems.
In depth knowledge of parallelism, threading, and concurrent programming, with practical experience in these areas.
Proven ability to build high performing, low latency solutions capable of processing large volumes of data efficiently.
A senior consultant in software development at Opencast is responsible for:
Driving the elaboration of their team’s backlog
Setting testing strategies to match industry standards
Being a technical expert in their team (or acting as the team lead)
Leading the technical representation in a project discovery
Mentoring and coaching others to help them achieve their full potential
Demonstrating leadership within Opencast communities of practice
What can we promise you?
We’re inclusive team players that listen and collaborate.
We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team).
We’re always willing to learn.
Salary
£60,000 - £78,000
What our offer includes
Competitive pension, healthcare, share options and discretionary bonus.
Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work
This role requires 4 days per week in Newcastle upon Tyne. However, everyone at Opencast splits their time between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and considers requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you. The recruitment process for this role includes a technical assessment, pair programming and values interview, and a technical interview.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com.
We’re not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.
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Culture overview
We want to provide our people with interesting work for organisations that matter to them – we give our people the best chance to grow with us.
Our people are honest, hardworking, open and confident – we are smart self-starters. We strive to protect our family culture and we’re not big on hierarchy.
Our internal working groups ensure progressive change to our processes and practices, covering:
• Charity
• Environmental action
• Health and wellbeing
• Inclusive change
• Social committee
• Tech sector engagement
We offer an extensive social and wellbeing calendar providing something for everyone who wants to get involved in Opencast life.
We value and empower our people, doing right by them. We work flexibly and keep hierarchy to a minimum. Our benefits include generous annual leave, training and development, pension, and other financial perks.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Company Car
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
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Hackathons
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Leadership
David Sarginson
Head of Software Development
Tech overview
Software, digital, & technical delivery
Our software, digital and technical delivery teams work across the development lifecycle, with experienced scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, testers, front-end and back-end software developers. We work with customers to deliver agile transformation and improve ways of working. We have delivered multiple complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards, from discovery through to live.
Architecture
Our growing digital architecture practice combines expertise in enterprise, solution and technical architecture. Our architects work collaboratively to create solutions in the context of our clients’ existing technology estates. We advise on the components required to deliver a new service successfully in line with business goals.
DevOps, cloud & platform engineering
Our DevOps, cloud and platform engineering practice brings together leading engineers who are true experts, driving the adoption of a DevOps culture and the benefits of cloud computing. We focus on delivering cost savings, reducing time to market, improving scalability and flexibility, as well as enhancing the quality and security of our delivery.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Configuration management
Continuous integration
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Test Driven Development
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Opencast
Software Developer - Senior Consultant (Financial Services)
£60k - £78k
Newcastle upon Tyne
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