Java Developer / Software Engineer

Java Developer / Software Engineer. A Chippenham based IT solutions provider needs a talented Java developer with knowledge of systems integration and cutting edge continuous delivery to join a forward-thinking development team.

Based just outside Chippenham at Kington Langley, in a lovely rural setting, away from the rat-race with excellent facilities, such as a Gym and shower room, a 60" TV with a Nintendo Switch, pool and foosball tables, music jam room and a large garden complete with a BBQ. Due to their location, your own transport is essential and they have plenty of car parking space.

The Java Developer / Software Engineer will be working in an innovative and inclusive team creating and supporting products and services that help improve healthcare workers' ability to deliver great patient service by using your experience of:

• Java development of scalable and fault tolerant applications;
• Microservice architecture and development
• Continuous Delivery;
• Continuous Integration; and
• Data serialisation languages

The Java Developer will have skills in Java (V8+) / J2EE, XML, JSON, YAML, API development and PostgreSQL. The company is in the process of building their Continuous Delivery pipeline, and containerising their products as they go ready for cloud operation, so this is a fantastic opportunity to develop modern skills.

The Java Developer / Software Engineer will need:

• Java 8 upwards
• Data serialisation languages: e.g XML, JSON, YAML
• Relational Databases: PostgreSQL, Oracle
• Experience of designing and implementing scalable and fault tolerant Java applications
• API Development
• Continuous Integration e.g Team City, Bitbucket/GIT, Jenkins etc
• Working to defined standards and code quality reviews

It's desirable the Java Developer / Software Engineer will have:

• Cloud based deployments.
• Continous Delivery e.g. Kubernetes, Docker
• Software Testing Frameworks: e.g. JUnit, TestNg, M
• ORM Framworks: Hibernate/JPA
• Spring Boot or other IOC Application Framework
• Microservice Architectures and development
• Experience of other programming and scripting languages
• Knowledge/experience of deploying to and/or managing cloud service environments, e.g. Microsoft Azure
• Experience of writing Technical Documentation.
• Experience of working within a Quality System.
• Experience of High Availability architectures

The Java Developer / Software Engineer will work 37.5 hours per week.

The Java Developer / Software Engineer salary is around £45,000 pa depending on skills and experience along with an excellent benefits package.

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Java Developer / Software Engineer

Java Developer / Software Engineer. A Chippenham based IT solutions provider needs a talented Java developer with knowledge of systems integration and cutting edge continuous delivery to join a forward-thinking development team.

Based just outside Chippenham at Kington Langley, in a lovely rural setting, away from the rat-race with excellent facilities, such as a Gym and shower room, a 60" TV with a Nintendo Switch, pool and foosball tables, music jam room and a large garden complete with a BBQ. Due to their location, your own transport is essential and they have plenty of car parking space.

The Java Developer / Software Engineer will be working in an innovative and inclusive team creating and supporting products and services that help improve healthcare workers' ability to deliver great patient service by using your experience of:

• Java development of scalable and fault tolerant applications;
• Microservice architecture and development
• Continuous Delivery;
• Continuous Integration; and
• Data serialisation languages

The Java Developer will have skills in Java (V8+) / J2EE, XML, JSON, YAML, API development and PostgreSQL. The company is in the process of building their Continuous Delivery pipeline, and containerising their products as they go ready for cloud operation, so this is a fantastic opportunity to develop modern skills.

The Java Developer / Software Engineer will need:

• Java 8 upwards
• Data serialisation languages: e.g XML, JSON, YAML
• Relational Databases: PostgreSQL, Oracle
• Experience of designing and implementing scalable and fault tolerant Java applications
• API Development
• Continuous Integration e.g Team City, Bitbucket/GIT, Jenkins etc
• Working to defined standards and code quality reviews

It's desirable the Java Developer / Software Engineer will have:

• Cloud based deployments.
• Continous Delivery e.g. Kubernetes, Docker
• Software Testing Frameworks: e.g. JUnit, TestNg, M
• ORM Framworks: Hibernate/JPA
• Spring Boot or other IOC Application Framework
• Microservice Architectures and development
• Experience of other programming and scripting languages
• Knowledge/experience of deploying to and/or managing cloud service environments, e.g. Microsoft Azure
• Experience of writing Technical Documentation.
• Experience of working within a Quality System.
• Experience of High Availability architectures

The Java Developer / Software Engineer will work 37.5 hours per week.

The Java Developer / Software Engineer salary is around £45,000 pa depending on skills and experience along with an excellent benefits package.

Proactive People is an employment agency and employment business

Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant - Business Analyst, Analyst Programmer, Guidewire (Insurance Claims Management Software). Permanent. £45k - £65k. Home Based / Consultancy on client sites (UK wide) +1 day work from home.

Consultancy organisation seeks an Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant to work on Guidewire integration consultancy assignments within Insurance Companies across the UK. The company is a Guidewire Gold Partner/Reseller/Consultancy with a broad range of high profile insurance clients. You will play a key role in the delivery of the industry standard Guidewire Claims Management application and integration of the system into the end-user client's existing infrastructure prior to the decommission of legacy systems (by the end-user's teams).

We welcome applications from candidates from across the UK and further afield (Europe) providing that you are prepared to travel to client sites across the UK (largely in London) and stay in temp accommodation on a weekly (4 - 5 nights) basis for up to 18 months. All expenses paid.

To achieve these goals you will work onsite at client sites (Insurance/Reinsurance Companies, Underwriters, Brokers) largely in the City of London but occasionally at other sites across the UK. You will work as part of the end-user client's team during an assignment (4 days per week) liaising with the client's technical teams and work from home on Friday's. Between assignments you will be "on the bench" (home based) but continue to be paid your salary whilst you await a new assignment.

The Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant will work within a pure AGILE/Scrum methodology, use their Business Analysis skills and experience to work with end user clients to gather requirements, produce requirement and functional design documents, estimate time scales and demonstrate features to key personnel within the end user environments. The Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant will then support the integration process but conducting configuration work of Guidewire and make amendments utilising Java/GOSU or changes based on OO principles developed with skills such as C#. Finally UAT testing will form a part of this role.

We are searching for an Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant who has been working in a similar capacity. This position is largely BA focussed with an element of Guidewire Configuration and programming. Experience gained as an Analyst Programmer / Consultant with Guidewire experience is required. Understanding of the Insurance/Claims management process and Guidewire itself will be critical in the delivery of your consultancy services to the end user clients. You will have an understanding of Database Structures and Data Modelling and be able to read an Entity Relationship Diagram as well as XML data used to describe objects and attributes and programming.

Ideally you will have been working within a consultancy capacity engaging end-user clients' technical and business personal although experience gained within a purely development capacity is happily considered. Excellent communication skills are pre-requisite.

You may have been working within an Insurance Company that has implemented Guidewire, for the vendor itself or another gold partner in the Guidewire Partner network. Alternatively you may be working for one of the big 4 consultancies: KPMG, Ernst & Young (EY), Cap Gemini (CG) or Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC).

This is an excellent opportunity for career progression, technical advancement and commercial reward for a technically astute and commercially aware individual. Stable consultancy environment.

Please note that this role requires travel to sites across the UK and should you not be able to commute to a client's location you will need to stay in the area on a weekly basis for up to 12-18 month stints. All expenses will be covered by the company including hotels, rental accommodation, train fares, car travel etc and subsistence.

Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant - Business Analyst, Analyst Programmer, Guidewire (Insurance Claims Management Software). Permanent. £45k - £65k. Home Based / Consultancy on client sites (UK wide) +1 day work from home.

Consultancy organisation seeks an Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant to work on Guidewire integration consultancy assignments within Insurance Companies across the UK. The company is a Guidewire Gold Partner/Reseller/Consultancy with a broad range of high profile insurance clients. You will play a key role in the delivery of the industry standard Guidewire Claims Management application and integration of the system into the end-user client's existing infrastructure prior to the decommission of legacy systems (by the end-user's teams).

We welcome applications from candidates from across the UK and further afield (Europe) providing that you are prepared to travel to client sites across the UK (largely in London) and stay in temp accommodation on a weekly (4 - 5 nights) basis for up to 18 months. All expenses paid.

To achieve these goals you will work onsite at client sites (Insurance/Reinsurance Companies, Underwriters, Brokers) largely in the City of London but occasionally at other sites across the UK. You will work as part of the end-user client's team during an assignment (4 days per week) liaising with the client's technical teams and work from home on Friday's. Between assignments you will be "on the bench" (home based) but continue to be paid your salary whilst you await a new assignment.

The Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant will work within a pure AGILE/Scrum methodology, use their Business Analysis skills and experience to work with end user clients to gather requirements, produce requirement and functional design documents, estimate time scales and demonstrate features to key personnel within the end user environments. The Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant will then support the integration process but conducting configuration work of Guidewire and make amendments utilising Java/GOSU or changes based on OO principles developed with skills such as C#. Finally UAT testing will form a part of this role.

We are searching for an Analyst Programmer / Guidewire Consultant who has been working in a similar capacity. This position is largely BA focussed with an element of Guidewire Configuration and programming. Experience gained as an Analyst Programmer / Consultant with Guidewire experience is required. Understanding of the Insurance/Claims management process and Guidewire itself will be critical in the delivery of your consultancy services to the end user clients. You will have an understanding of Database Structures and Data Modelling and be able to read an Entity Relationship Diagram as well as XML data used to describe objects and attributes and programming.

Ideally you will have been working within a consultancy capacity engaging end-user clients' technical and business personal although experience gained within a purely development capacity is happily considered. Excellent communication skills are pre-requisite.

You may have been working within an Insurance Company that has implemented Guidewire, for the vendor itself or another gold partner in the Guidewire Partner network. Alternatively you may be working for one of the big 4 consultancies: KPMG, Ernst & Young (EY), Cap Gemini (CG) or Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC).

This is an excellent opportunity for career progression, technical advancement and commercial reward for a technically astute and commercially aware individual. Stable consultancy environment.

Please note that this role requires travel to sites across the UK and should you not be able to commute to a client's location you will need to stay in the area on a weekly basis for up to 12-18 month stints. All expenses will be covered by the company including hotels, rental accommodation, train fares, car travel etc and subsistence.

Site Reliability Engineer | Bromley | Up to £70,000

A leading insurer are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team in Bromley. As an SRE you will be helping to improve the reliability and performance of the underlying platform environment (AWS/Linux), providing incident response, Monitoring the environment, and capacity planning. The SRE will sit as part of a new division within the business, and will involve working in a collaborative manor with multiple teams and businesses within the wider brand.

For this role they are looking for an infrastructure generalist specialist with experience in the following :

• Applications monitoring, troubleshooting, and reliability.
• Knowledge of AWS platforms for CI
• Middleware knowledge (WebSphere / Tomcat / Apache)
• Oracle Databases
• Java / .Net / SAS applications

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Site Reliability Engineer | Bromley | Up to £70,000

A leading insurer are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team in Bromley. As an SRE you will be helping to improve the reliability and performance of the underlying platform environment (AWS/Linux), providing incident response, Monitoring the environment, and capacity planning. The SRE will sit as part of a new division within the business, and will involve working in a collaborative manor with multiple teams and businesses within the wider brand.

For this role they are looking for an infrastructure generalist specialist with experience in the following :

• Applications monitoring, troubleshooting, and reliability.
• Knowledge of AWS platforms for CI
• Middleware knowledge (WebSphere / Tomcat / Apache)
• Oracle Databases
• Java / .Net / SAS applications

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Profile:

• 5+ years of experience designing and building a production-level web application, including:

o Great experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in Java- Deep architectural understanding of web applications

o Great creative and innovative problem-solving skills

o Initiative and the ability to work independently and in a team

o Interest to learn more about new technologies (such as languages and frameworks)

o Great experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in two of the following technologies: Java and Javascript (ReactJS)

The candidate needs to show:

• Keen interest in open source and learning new technologies
• Understanding of how to build performant, decoupled, testable, maintainable code
• Enjoyment of sharing knowledge with teammates, and working collaboratively when you need help

Aside from strong technical prowess including hands-on coding ability, the candidate should have a deep understanding of architecture and an ability to plan for changes. Personality-wise, good with "fixing the plane while in flight" (not just greenfield solutions. Finally, the candidate should be an effective communicator, able to articulate technical & architectural know-how in a way that will influence other members of the team

Nice to have:

• Some Industry experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)
• Strong SQL (RDBMS)
• Having experience in writing apps for the Atlassian marketplace.
• Experience with monitoring techniques and tools.
• Experience with continuous delivery for production environment.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies like Kanban or Scrum

Profile:

• 5+ years of experience designing and building a production-level web application, including:

o Great experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in Java- Deep architectural understanding of web applications

o Great creative and innovative problem-solving skills

o Initiative and the ability to work independently and in a team

o Interest to learn more about new technologies (such as languages and frameworks)

o Great experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in two of the following technologies: Java and Javascript (ReactJS)

The candidate needs to show:

• Keen interest in open source and learning new technologies
• Understanding of how to build performant, decoupled, testable, maintainable code
• Enjoyment of sharing knowledge with teammates, and working collaboratively when you need help

Aside from strong technical prowess including hands-on coding ability, the candidate should have a deep understanding of architecture and an ability to plan for changes. Personality-wise, good with "fixing the plane while in flight" (not just greenfield solutions. Finally, the candidate should be an effective communicator, able to articulate technical & architectural know-how in a way that will influence other members of the team

Nice to have:

• Some Industry experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)
• Strong SQL (RDBMS)
• Having experience in writing apps for the Atlassian marketplace.
• Experience with monitoring techniques and tools.
• Experience with continuous delivery for production environment.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies like Kanban or Scrum

Python Developer - Telford

My client isn't just looking for a Python Developer, we are looking for somebody with a consultants mindset who has experience developing complex applications at enterprise-level.

As a Python Developer you will have the opportunity to deliver a wide range of solutions to a broad spectrum of clients. You will have direct access to clients and will act as a subject matter expert within the data space and working in an agile environment you will deliver rapid and responsive solutions. As with all roles in the business, you will be expected to be creative and innovative when delivering high quality results.

As well as Python experience, you will ideally have exposure to other languages such as Java, Scala and C#.

Methodologies and software best practices such as Agile, TDD, CI/CD should all be second nature to you.

You will need strong database skills like MongoDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL and/or similar.

This is a great opportunity for somebody looking to work with the very best technologists in the UK!

If you are interested please send your CV ASAP for immediate consideration.

Python Developer - Telford

My client isn't just looking for a Python Developer, we are looking for somebody with a consultants mindset who has experience developing complex applications at enterprise-level.

As a Python Developer you will have the opportunity to deliver a wide range of solutions to a broad spectrum of clients. You will have direct access to clients and will act as a subject matter expert within the data space and working in an agile environment you will deliver rapid and responsive solutions. As with all roles in the business, you will be expected to be creative and innovative when delivering high quality results.

As well as Python experience, you will ideally have exposure to other languages such as Java, Scala and C#.

Methodologies and software best practices such as Agile, TDD, CI/CD should all be second nature to you.

You will need strong database skills like MongoDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL and/or similar.

This is a great opportunity for somebody looking to work with the very best technologists in the UK!

If you are interested please send your CV ASAP for immediate consideration.