Developer -PHP & Java job description

To maintain an informed interest in emerging technologies so as to assist the Digital Media team in deciding how web content should be implemented.
• To drive and participate in the setting of departmental standards in the areas of Configuration Management, Tool Adoption, Coding Disciplines.
• To design software systems, providing suitable specifications and task breakdown of the system design.
• To ensure the accurate and up-to-date logging of time by the team.

• To provide a professional customer face for the team.
• To provide a running plan of tasks and ensure the completion of tasks in the timeframes committed to.
• On a rotating basis with other members of the development team:
o Monitor and log new day-to-day requests coming in to the development team
o Ensure that the team’s task board and electronic task tracking system are an accurate reflection of one another
• Demonstrate a logical and structured approach to time management and task prioritisation
• Proactively keep abreast of industry developments, skills and technologies and share information, ideas and best practice with other design team members and divisions
• Participate in team activities and team planning with the aim of improving team skills, awareness and quality of work
• Engage professionally with customers when required
• Work independently and/or within a team as the work requires
• Work within the boundaries of our agile working methodology

Technical experience / skills required

• Significant exposure working on B2C websites, or equivalent B2B sites or applications
• Ability to understand business requirements and provide creative and technical solutions that work within the technical boundaries
• Excellent working knowledge of cross-browser issues on both PC and Mac
• Experience of working within an agile software development environment
• Good attention to detail
• Experience in commercial interactive coding
• Competent in Java, PHP, Spring, Hibernate, Restful web services, Java Rest Frameworks and appropriate Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
• Knowledge of configuring and deploying applications to web application containers such as tomcat, Sun Java system Application Server and BEA Weblogic
• Ability to assist in producing functional specification and project timescales for new projects
• Knowledge and experience of using content management systems
• Proven experience of TDD and/ BDD
• Experience of unit testing tools such as JUnit
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving code defects and system issues under time pressure
• Ability to fully document all application work undertaken
• Experience in carrying out quality reviews of other developers’ code
• Interest in mature and emerging interactive technologies
• Ability to manage a team, allocate tasks and report on progress.
• Knowledge of application design modelling languages such as UML
• Experience working with application frameworks such as Struts and Hibernate
• Experience of other programming languages such as C++, C#/.NET, PHP, Python and Ruby on Rails
• Linux and Solaris administration skills, apache skills

Personal Skills
• Ability to manage and facilitate the change process
• Ability to manage a variety of conflicting time and resource demands
• Flexibility in thinking, with the ability to embrace changes in the business
• A high level of interpersonal skills, with an ability to build relationships
• Ability to work effectively as a team
• Ability to produce innovative ideas which are practical and imaginative
• Takes a proactive and focussed approach and personal responsibility for getting things done.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Ability to lead and coach a team.