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Software Developer
  • Letchworth Garden City
  • Competitive salary
    • Permanent
  • 28 Jan 2020

Are you looking for the Career of a Lifetime? There couldn't be a better time to join Willmott Dixon's IT department at our Head Office in Letchworth. We are currently going through a strategic IT transformation to move to the cloud (Azure) and are rapidly adopting the latest concepts of BI (Power BI) and digital construction.

As a part of this we are undertaking an organisational, operational and service transformation. We are therefore recruiting for key new roles that are tasked with the important job of establishing new capabilities, using IT best practices.

We also aim to be world class in offering agile and flexible working practices. This offers you a great working environment and a genuine work-life balance.

We would welcome applications from people who are looking for an exciting challenge in IT transformation, who understand "what good looks like" and who enjoy a lively and fun place to work. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a talented IT team and take on a role in which you will be able directly implement change and shape the strategy and vision of the IT function in the years ahead.

We are currently recruiting for a Software Developer to join our busy in-house development team. We follow the Scrum methodology and work closely with our internal customers to deliver high quality software. Our projects span across Finance, Operations, Purchasing, Legal and Sales. We believe in following industry standard best practices. Our technology stack includes C#, ASP.Net, .Net Core, Typescript, MVC, Web API, Angular, TDD, Entity Framework, MS SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio 2015 and TFS.

Key Responsibilities / Objectives

  • Provide high quality software development expertise for Willmott Dixon software applications.
  • Recommend solutions to identified requirements using the most appropriate communication method.
  • Build and maintain good collaborative working-relationships with internal and external project stakeholders.
  • Organise and manage own workload effectively to meet all project timescales and manager's expectations.
  • Actively contribute to IS projects as required.
  • Collaborate with the Digital Business Partner in identifying areas for improvement and maintain a good knowledge of emerging best practices in the field of software development.
  • Provide a designated level of application support to end users and other IS personnel.
  • Perform unit testing of developments prior to release.
  • Maintain database views, tables and data mapping in support of software development requirements.



Essential and Desirable Criteria

Technical

Knowledge of:

  • Experience using .NET, .NET CORE and C#.
  • Experience using Angular, Typescript, CSS, SCSS.
  • Application development using TDD.
  • Experience using Entity framework, SQL server, Lamar, Unity.
  • Experience working in Agile/scrum environment.
  • Experience in SDLC.

Desirable:

  • Cloud development experience - Azure.
  • Experience using Azure DevOps.
  • Experience using Frontend test framework jasmine, karma.
  • PowerShell, DSC.

Training offered:

Willmott Dixon offer over 100 top-class learning programmes designed to provide individuals with the opportunity for personal growth. In particular the Willmott Dixon Management and Leadership Programmes are designed to provide development for our next generation of leaders. They are designed to support all individuals whether they are joining us mid-career or as graduates, trainees or apprentices. We offer personal Pluralsight and MSDN accounts to train on latest technologies in Web development. We also offer different Microsoft and BCS certifications as part of a personal development plan.



Personal Qualities



Additional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace.

Flexible working will be considered.



About Us

Willmott Dixon is one of the largest privately owned Construction businesses in the UK. Our unique selling point is our people. We are passionate about people, with a real focus and drive around continuous development. We strongly believe that this passion has allowed us the success we have enjoyed in recent years. Above everything else you will be joining a values based business: our values are at the centre of every activity we undertake. Having the right talent, coupled with the right culture and values, ensures that we have a sustained future and a trusted brand in our respective markets.

Willmott Dixon has very recently been awarded 5th place in the Sunday Times Best Companies Top 100 to work for and is the first major contractor and developer to win a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development. We have also been recognised for outstanding investment in communities with a CommunityMark from Business in the Community.

We offer a competitive salary in addition to a comprehensive benefits package* including a company pension scheme, company car or car allowance, life assurance, discounted private medical cover, incentive/bonus schemes, employee trade discounts, and many more. We offer you a bright future, one where you will have the opportunity to develop your career with a fast moving, forward thinking company, who recognize and reward your achievements.

* Benefits may vary dependent upon the role and type of employment contract.



Software Developer
  • Letchworth Garden City
  • Competitive salary
    • Permanent
  • 28 Jan 2020

Are you looking for the Career of a Lifetime? There couldn't be a better time to join Willmott Dixon's IT department at our Head Office in Letchworth. We are currently going through a strategic IT transformation to move to the cloud (Azure) and are rapidly adopting the latest concepts of BI (Power BI) and digital construction.

As a part of this we are undertaking an organisational, operational and service transformation. We are therefore recruiting for key new roles that are tasked with the important job of establishing new capabilities, using IT best practices.

We also aim to be world class in offering agile and flexible working practices. This offers you a great working environment and a genuine work-life balance.

We would welcome applications from people who are looking for an exciting challenge in IT transformation, who understand "what good looks like" and who enjoy a lively and fun place to work. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a talented IT team and take on a role in which you will be able directly implement change and shape the strategy and vision of the IT function in the years ahead.

We are currently recruiting for a Software Developer to join our busy in-house development team. We follow the Scrum methodology and work closely with our internal customers to deliver high quality software. Our projects span across Finance, Operations, Purchasing, Legal and Sales. We believe in following industry standard best practices. Our technology stack includes C#, ASP.Net, .Net Core, Typescript, MVC, Web API, Angular, TDD, Entity Framework, MS SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio 2015 and TFS.

Key Responsibilities / Objectives

  • Provide high quality software development expertise for Willmott Dixon software applications.
  • Recommend solutions to identified requirements using the most appropriate communication method.
  • Build and maintain good collaborative working-relationships with internal and external project stakeholders.
  • Organise and manage own workload effectively to meet all project timescales and manager's expectations.
  • Actively contribute to IS projects as required.
  • Collaborate with the Digital Business Partner in identifying areas for improvement and maintain a good knowledge of emerging best practices in the field of software development.
  • Provide a designated level of application support to end users and other IS personnel.
  • Perform unit testing of developments prior to release.
  • Maintain database views, tables and data mapping in support of software development requirements.



Essential and Desirable Criteria

Technical

Knowledge of:

  • Experience using .NET, .NET CORE and C#.
  • Experience using Angular, Typescript, CSS, SCSS.
  • Application development using TDD.
  • Experience using Entity framework, SQL server, Lamar, Unity.
  • Experience working in Agile/scrum environment.
  • Experience in SDLC.

Desirable:

  • Cloud development experience - Azure.
  • Experience using Azure DevOps.
  • Experience using Frontend test framework jasmine, karma.
  • PowerShell, DSC.

Training offered:

Willmott Dixon offer over 100 top-class learning programmes designed to provide individuals with the opportunity for personal growth. In particular the Willmott Dixon Management and Leadership Programmes are designed to provide development for our next generation of leaders. They are designed to support all individuals whether they are joining us mid-career or as graduates, trainees or apprentices. We offer personal Pluralsight and MSDN accounts to train on latest technologies in Web development. We also offer different Microsoft and BCS certifications as part of a personal development plan.



Personal Qualities



Additional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace.

Flexible working will be considered.



About Us

Willmott Dixon is one of the largest privately owned Construction businesses in the UK. Our unique selling point is our people. We are passionate about people, with a real focus and drive around continuous development. We strongly believe that this passion has allowed us the success we have enjoyed in recent years. Above everything else you will be joining a values based business: our values are at the centre of every activity we undertake. Having the right talent, coupled with the right culture and values, ensures that we have a sustained future and a trusted brand in our respective markets.

Willmott Dixon has very recently been awarded 5th place in the Sunday Times Best Companies Top 100 to work for and is the first major contractor and developer to win a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development. We have also been recognised for outstanding investment in communities with a CommunityMark from Business in the Community.

We offer a competitive salary in addition to a comprehensive benefits package* including a company pension scheme, company car or car allowance, life assurance, discounted private medical cover, incentive/bonus schemes, employee trade discounts, and many more. We offer you a bright future, one where you will have the opportunity to develop your career with a fast moving, forward thinking company, who recognize and reward your achievements.

* Benefits may vary dependent upon the role and type of employment contract.



Lead Frontend Developer (React)
  • Bedfordshire
  • £65K to £70K per Year
  • 21 Jan 2020

Lead Frontend Developer (REACT)

Luton

Up to £68,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits

Lead Frontend Developer required to join a booming travel business based in Luton. You will be using UI technologies built on React to make significant improvements across multiple websites.

Ideally, your skills and experience will include:

  • Experience working as part of an agile team in a senior or lead role
  • 5+ years of frontend development experience
  • Extensive react experience
  • UI HTML CSS etc

I

 

Lead Frontend Developer (React)
  • Bedfordshire
  • £65K to £70K per Year
  • 21 Jan 2020

Lead Frontend Developer (REACT)

Luton

Up to £68,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits

Lead Frontend Developer required to join a booming travel business based in Luton. You will be using UI technologies built on React to make significant improvements across multiple websites.

Ideally, your skills and experience will include:

  • Experience working as part of an agile team in a senior or lead role
  • 5+ years of frontend development experience
  • Extensive react experience
  • UI HTML CSS etc

I

 

Front End Developer at amicable
  • London
  • 06 Jun 2019

amicable is a new and innovative approach to divorce, separation and co-parenting. Our vision is to change the way the world divorces and disrupt the family law market with a unique new approach.

We are already helping thousands of couples to separate in a better, more positive way that doesn’t cost the earth. amicable has won multiple awards since launching including the British Legal Technology award for Social Impact, The Sunday Times Maserati 100 and Startup.co.uk’s top 100 start-ups list. We’ve been featured in the UK’s main media outlets including The Times, The Telegraph and the Guardian and are now scaling up and looking to expand.

If you’re excited by the thought of joining a fast-moving business working with a progressive, supportive team then this is the role for you. We’re now looking for a driven front-end developer who can take our online solution to new heights. Additionally, as the technical team is small there is a massive opportunity to expand your skills in either backend development or product manager skillset.

Specifically, on a day to day basis you will:

  • Support the development and improvement of existing systems on the front end
  • Design, build and deploy front end changes
  • Work closely with the team and write well-designed, simple, clean code
  • Be genuinely interested in learning new technology i.e. Alex our chatbot
  • Help to make the website as user centric as possible
  • Support the rest of the team to convert more visitors on the site

You and your experience:

  • Excellent working knowledge of React (Essential)
  • Expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Familiar with PHP
  • Web and mobile applications development
  • Quick learner with an ambitious and results driven personality
  • You believe you will thrive in a fast-paced, agile, start-up environment
  • Excellent communication skills, able to manage the expectations of stakeholders
  • Confident in sharing your knowledge and views in order to make the business more successful
  • Strong organisational skills and ability to forward plan

Front End Developer at amicable
  • London
  • 06 Jun 2019

amicable is a new and innovative approach to divorce, separation and co-parenting. Our vision is to change the way the world divorces and disrupt the family law market with a unique new approach.

We are already helping thousands of couples to separate in a better, more positive way that doesn’t cost the earth. amicable has won multiple awards since launching including the British Legal Technology award for Social Impact, The Sunday Times Maserati 100 and Startup.co.uk’s top 100 start-ups list. We’ve been featured in the UK’s main media outlets including The Times, The Telegraph and the Guardian and are now scaling up and looking to expand.

If you’re excited by the thought of joining a fast-moving business working with a progressive, supportive team then this is the role for you. We’re now looking for a driven front-end developer who can take our online solution to new heights. Additionally, as the technical team is small there is a massive opportunity to expand your skills in either backend development or product manager skillset.

Specifically, on a day to day basis you will:

  • Support the development and improvement of existing systems on the front end
  • Design, build and deploy front end changes
  • Work closely with the team and write well-designed, simple, clean code
  • Be genuinely interested in learning new technology i.e. Alex our chatbot
  • Help to make the website as user centric as possible
  • Support the rest of the team to convert more visitors on the site

You and your experience:

  • Excellent working knowledge of React (Essential)
  • Expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Familiar with PHP
  • Web and mobile applications development
  • Quick learner with an ambitious and results driven personality
  • You believe you will thrive in a fast-paced, agile, start-up environment
  • Excellent communication skills, able to manage the expectations of stakeholders
  • Confident in sharing your knowledge and views in order to make the business more successful
  • Strong organisational skills and ability to forward plan

Software Engineer - Financial Wellbeing Lab
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • GBP45000 - GBP55000 per annum + Bonus
    • Permanent
Deliver business value through sound and fully rounded engineering methods and principles, ensuring platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices. Able to continually develop themselves with industry best practice methods and tooling used across their engineering teams.

Working within the Financial Wellbeing Lab you'll play a pivotal role in the next stage of our transformation journey. The Lab's purpose is to create an industry leading experience to help our customers before, during and after financial difficulty. We'll ensure we help them become more financially resilient and improve their overall financial wellbeing.

We aim to achieve this purpose through improving colleague tools, creating solutions to allow customers to better manage their day-to-day finances, and by simplifying the Customer Financial Assistance systems through an increased focus on Test Automation, DevOps Cloud technologies and Rationalisation.

Our aim is to build a forward-thinking engineering culture delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for our customers. The role of the Software Engineer is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect.

What you'll do:

  • Work in cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software.
  • Showcase excellent interpersonal and communications skills whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended
  • Work in a highly collaborative way to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are well defined, complex and often non-routine.
  • Continually develop with industry leading methodologies in order to advance the direction of Software Engineering in Lloyds.
  • Work with Lab Engineer (& chapter) to ensure platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices.
  • Be a strong contributor to the Engineering Communities & Guilds, helping to build the community and building the capabilities of others

Key Experience

  • Front end development - Enables us to build applications for the colleague & customer. Typically via the creation of the visual interface of an online or digital asset using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS or UI development
  • Back end development - Makes sure everything works well for our colleague & customers and helps us use data in the right way. It is the coding of scripts in web sites and applications that interact with servers and databases so that their functionality is delivered to the end user. Typically we use c#, Mainframe (COBOL/JCL), SQL, Oracle/Unix and JAVA/CICS/DB2.
  • Business Rules - This development brings to life the various functional aspects of our systems to drive interaction between our colleagues and customers and also support our colleagues in servicing customer needs.
  • Agile Delivery - Agile delivery methods encourage teams to focus on collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement and the delivery of the highest value item first. It is useful when going after a complex problem that requires experimentation and continued adaption. Scrum is a key method we use which advocates a series of meetings (ceremonies) and activities known as sprints to help teams deliver change

Desirable

  • Understand and direct how components and services are developed, tested and progressed within Chapters
  • DevOps Knowledge - Helps us link our teams operating in agile delivery models with our operations teams who are running live services. Enabling us to create a culture of 'own what you build'.

Our group values of Keeping it Simple, Making a Difference Together and Putting customers First is at the heart of our ethos so a commitment to improvement, combined with adaptability, a love of learning, and a collaborative approach are key for us.

We're passionate about equal opportunities across all facets of our organisation. If you're self-motivated, passionate about delivering phenomenal solutions and interested in joining us at a critical and exciting time, then we'd love to hear from you.

Together we make it possible.

Software Engineer - Financial Wellbeing Lab
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • GBP45000 - GBP55000 per annum + Bonus
    • Permanent
Deliver business value through sound and fully rounded engineering methods and principles, ensuring platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices. Able to continually develop themselves with industry best practice methods and tooling used across their engineering teams.

Working within the Financial Wellbeing Lab you'll play a pivotal role in the next stage of our transformation journey. The Lab's purpose is to create an industry leading experience to help our customers before, during and after financial difficulty. We'll ensure we help them become more financially resilient and improve their overall financial wellbeing.

We aim to achieve this purpose through improving colleague tools, creating solutions to allow customers to better manage their day-to-day finances, and by simplifying the Customer Financial Assistance systems through an increased focus on Test Automation, DevOps Cloud technologies and Rationalisation.

Our aim is to build a forward-thinking engineering culture delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for our customers. The role of the Software Engineer is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect.

What you'll do:

  • Work in cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software.
  • Showcase excellent interpersonal and communications skills whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended
  • Work in a highly collaborative way to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are well defined, complex and often non-routine.
  • Continually develop with industry leading methodologies in order to advance the direction of Software Engineering in Lloyds.
  • Work with Lab Engineer (& chapter) to ensure platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices.
  • Be a strong contributor to the Engineering Communities & Guilds, helping to build the community and building the capabilities of others

Key Experience

  • Front end development - Enables us to build applications for the colleague & customer. Typically via the creation of the visual interface of an online or digital asset using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS or UI development
  • Back end development - Makes sure everything works well for our colleague & customers and helps us use data in the right way. It is the coding of scripts in web sites and applications that interact with servers and databases so that their functionality is delivered to the end user. Typically we use c#, Mainframe (COBOL/JCL), SQL, Oracle/Unix and JAVA/CICS/DB2.
  • Business Rules - This development brings to life the various functional aspects of our systems to drive interaction between our colleagues and customers and also support our colleagues in servicing customer needs.
  • Agile Delivery - Agile delivery methods encourage teams to focus on collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement and the delivery of the highest value item first. It is useful when going after a complex problem that requires experimentation and continued adaption. Scrum is a key method we use which advocates a series of meetings (ceremonies) and activities known as sprints to help teams deliver change

Desirable

  • Understand and direct how components and services are developed, tested and progressed within Chapters
  • DevOps Knowledge - Helps us link our teams operating in agile delivery models with our operations teams who are running live services. Enabling us to create a culture of 'own what you build'.

Our group values of Keeping it Simple, Making a Difference Together and Putting customers First is at the heart of our ethos so a commitment to improvement, combined with adaptability, a love of learning, and a collaborative approach are key for us.

We're passionate about equal opportunities across all facets of our organisation. If you're self-motivated, passionate about delivering phenomenal solutions and interested in joining us at a critical and exciting time, then we'd love to hear from you.

Together we make it possible.

Web Designer
  • London - West
  • £50,000
    • Permanent

A well-established business based in Richmond is looking for an accomplished Web Designer to join its sizeable technology team.   

In order to be suitable for this role, you MUST be a personable UI Developer with demonstrable expertise in the design and development of web-based applications using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript frameworks, ideally ReactJS or Angular.  
Working alongside a large team of software developers within an agile (Scrum) environment you will build up a detailed knowledge of business requirements displaying the ability to recommend, implement and develop cutting edge solutions. You will play a critical role in the development of responsive highly functional websites, delivering first-class user experience. 

This is a great opportunity for a capable Developer with an established track record of analytical thinking and well-developed people skills to join a household name that offers a great working environment and outstanding benefits. Please CLEARLY state all relevant technology experience on your CV to stand the best chance of securing an interview. 

Web Designer
  • London - West
  • £50,000
    • Permanent

A well-established business based in Richmond is looking for an accomplished Web Designer to join its sizeable technology team.   

In order to be suitable for this role, you MUST be a personable UI Developer with demonstrable expertise in the design and development of web-based applications using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript frameworks, ideally ReactJS or Angular.  
Working alongside a large team of software developers within an agile (Scrum) environment you will build up a detailed knowledge of business requirements displaying the ability to recommend, implement and develop cutting edge solutions. You will play a critical role in the development of responsive highly functional websites, delivering first-class user experience. 

This is a great opportunity for a capable Developer with an established track record of analytical thinking and well-developed people skills to join a household name that offers a great working environment and outstanding benefits. Please CLEARLY state all relevant technology experience on your CV to stand the best chance of securing an interview.