Junior Software Engineer

Trainee Software Engineer

Management Level

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Description:

The Junior Engineer role is for someone at the start of their engineering career. They are involved in specific, defined tasks and are supported by other engineers to deliver, whilst building their domain knowledge. They are aware of and seek to fully understand the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Core Responsibilities

• Autonomy: Works under close direction. Uses little discretion in attending to enquiries. Is expected to seek guidance in unexpected situations.
• Influence: Minimal influence. May work alone or interact with immediate colleagues.
• Complexity: Performs routine activities in a structured environment. Requires assistance in resolving unexpected problems. Participates in the generation of new ideas.
• Business skills: Has sufficient oral and written communication skills for effective engagement with immediate colleagues. Uses basic systems and tools, applications and processes. Demonstrates an organised approach to work. Has basic digital skills to learn and use applications and tools for their role. Learning and professional development — contributes to identifying own development opportunities. Security, privacy and ethics — understands and complies with organisational standards.
• Knowledge: Has a basic generic knowledge appropriate to area of work. Applies newly acquired knowledge to develop new skills.

Professional Responsibilities

• Involve yourself in the implementation of software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products while ensuring you adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
• Aim for individual engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
• Show interest in the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; involve yourself in adoption of these within your squad as required
• Be proficient in and, where possible contribute towards optimization of, the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
• Participate in reviews for inculcating new ways of thinking to improve design, quality, etc. to drive higher engineering productivity and quality
• Escalate, document, and manage issues related to product design, feature set, and functionality at appropriate levels to ensure delivery goals are met as per defined plans

Technical Responsibilities SFIA Skill

• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors simple programs/scripts.
• Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Reviews own work.

Education

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.
• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems

Professional Skills and Qualities

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum
• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness

Personal Skills and Qualities

• Emotional intelligence and empathy
• Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism
• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation
• Active listening and observation
• Continuous learning

Technical Skills and Qualities, at Foundational Level

• Full Stack development
• REST Services
• Database Design
• Responsive web design
• Dependency Injection
• HTML5, CSS3
• JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI SASS, Angular, TypeScript, Vue,js
• WebForms, MVC, Blazor
• Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks
• Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
• Web accessibility standards
• Web security principles
• SAST and DAST tools
• Content Management Systems
• Message queuing systems
• Application architecture
• Containers
• Micro services
• Source code control
• Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments
• Asp.Net, .Net Core, C#, Objective Pascal
• WCF, Web Api, Windows Services
• Dapper, Entity Framework
• xUnit, Fluent Assertions
• LINQ & Lamda
• PowerShell
• RabbitMQ, Topshelf, Auto Mapper
• OAuth, Identity Server,
• XML, XSL, XQuery, XPath
• SQL, T-SQL
• Crystal Reports, Telerik reports, SSRS, PowerBi
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

Experience Level

Entry Level