The right candidate will be responsible for UI software development life cycle, primarily focused on improving the user experience. You will also work closely with the other developers in determining and providing solutions to new business requirements whilst building the new strategic platform which will transform the way in which the bank performs risk assessments. This involves proposing and providing feedback from experience/knowledge improving UX and user workflow.

Candidates wishing to apply must demonstrate advanced knowledge around the skills mentioned below:

• Multiple years software development experience building required functionality and front-end UI.
• Strong development skills and experience with React, Redux, JavaScript and HTML.
• Excellent knowledge of programming best practices, design patterns.
• Strong interest in continuous improvement and all aspects of software development and delivery.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment and experience working with Jira.
• Strong understanding of test-driven development and continuous integration practices (Team City experience beneficial).
• Good communication skills, both orally and in writing. Comfortable interacting with front office users.
• Good analytical skills; able to understand, formalise and explain complex problems.
• Confident numeracy and solid academic background.

Your International Talent Provider

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The right candidate will be responsible for UI software development life cycle, primarily focused on improving the user experience. You will also work closely with the other developers in determining and providing solutions to new business requirements whilst building the new strategic platform which will transform the way in which the bank performs risk assessments. This involves proposing and providing feedback from experience/knowledge improving UX and user workflow.

Candidates wishing to apply must demonstrate advanced knowledge around the skills mentioned below:

• Multiple years software development experience building required functionality and front-end UI.
• Strong development skills and experience with React, Redux, JavaScript and HTML.
• Excellent knowledge of programming best practices, design patterns.
• Strong interest in continuous improvement and all aspects of software development and delivery.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment and experience working with Jira.
• Strong understanding of test-driven development and continuous integration practices (Team City experience beneficial).
• Good communication skills, both orally and in writing. Comfortable interacting with front office users.
• Good analytical skills; able to understand, formalise and explain complex problems.
• Confident numeracy and solid academic background.

Your International Talent Provider

iKas International Limited is providing recruitment services for this role. By clicking 'APPLY NOW', you confirm that you understand that any personal data you submit through your application will be used to provide you with our recruitment services. For further detail on how iKas International Limited process your data, please read the iKas Privacy Statement.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required

• Extensive experience of Salesforce, preferably in Salesforce Lightning in Financial industry.
• Hands-on experience integrating Salesforce with 3rd party vendors, API integration, RESTful services
• Hands on experience configuring Salesforce or similar CRM Product, including Workflows, Dashboard, Reports, validation rules and security controls.
• Experience in building applications using C#.NET or other object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with APEX / HTML / JavaScript / CSS.
• Experience with database including SQL and SOQL
• Knowledge of DevOps best practices (Version Control, CICD tools, Salesforce DX etc.)
• Leveraging previous consulting industry experience to conceptualize, design and lead the development of further functional and technical capabilities
• Work with the Salesforce BA, team members and relevant business sponsors to evaluate future products, ensuring they align with projects already in progress and the overall strategic ecosystem roadmap.
• Experience in managing the initial engagement with key business and corporate (IT Security, Compliance, Legal) stakeholders to define deliverables, the working groups to test and refine the functionality and deliver the end product to a global user base
• Taking responsibility of project deliverables within an agile environment, seeing projects through to successful release into to the core product.
• Strong written and verbal communication

Desired Qualifications

• Salesforce Certified Certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer 2, Sales Cloud – Architects certifications are a plus)
• Experience with Salesforce Lightning UI /Web component.

Experience of integrating with cloud applications, e.g. Amazon, Google

Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required

• Extensive experience of Salesforce, preferably in Salesforce Lightning in Financial industry.
• Hands-on experience integrating Salesforce with 3rd party vendors, API integration, RESTful services
• Hands on experience configuring Salesforce or similar CRM Product, including Workflows, Dashboard, Reports, validation rules and security controls.
• Experience in building applications using C#.NET or other object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with APEX / HTML / JavaScript / CSS.
• Experience with database including SQL and SOQL
• Knowledge of DevOps best practices (Version Control, CICD tools, Salesforce DX etc.)
• Leveraging previous consulting industry experience to conceptualize, design and lead the development of further functional and technical capabilities
• Work with the Salesforce BA, team members and relevant business sponsors to evaluate future products, ensuring they align with projects already in progress and the overall strategic ecosystem roadmap.
• Experience in managing the initial engagement with key business and corporate (IT Security, Compliance, Legal) stakeholders to define deliverables, the working groups to test and refine the functionality and deliver the end product to a global user base
• Taking responsibility of project deliverables within an agile environment, seeing projects through to successful release into to the core product.
• Strong written and verbal communication

Desired Qualifications

• Salesforce Certified Certifications (Administrator, Platform Developer 2, Sales Cloud – Architects certifications are a plus)
• Experience with Salesforce Lightning UI /Web component.

Experience of integrating with cloud applications, e.g. Amazon, Google

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

What we’re building 

We now need Software Developers and Senior Software Developers to support the transformation and the future growth of the business within the Information Services function, so we can simplify our IT architecture by removing our legacy systems and deliver new solutions providing market-leading services for our colleagues, customers and advisers

Job summary

The Software Developer is responsible for the design and development of strategic software solutions, ensuring that requirements are met, best practices are followed and that all software developed is of a high quality and of a robust nature.

The successful .Net Developer will be have the ability to work positively and effectively within teams of mixed abilities and experience. Be fully adaptable within changing and perhaps stressful environments.

They will partner with Project Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Business Analysts and Testers in shared responsibility for project feasibility, requirements, design, development, quality and delivery.

What you’ll do

•Develop software that meets requirements following best practices.
•Build reusable, well-documented, extensible code including unit tests.
•Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, auditing, security and on-going support) are considered during development.
•Identify development risks.
•Participate in technical design and review
•Build components to integrate with existing applications
•Develop black box services/libraries (reusable pieces)
•Design and build Prototypes/Proofs of Concept
•Facilitate automated testing, integration and deployment (TDD, CI and CD)
•Support acceptance testing
•Participate in problem analysis and help resolve technical problems
•Provide regular information on progress to project management and team leaders to allow regulation and reviewing of tasks.
•Participate in mentoring, code reviews and pair programming
•Participate in Agile ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Regular Scrum, Show and Tell, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. Estimate task complexity.
•Contribute to the Scrum Artifacts by keeping the Product and Sprint backlog up to date.
•Complete or contribute to company standard documentation.
•Take part in continuous learning and professional development

 Who you are

•Have significant experience building bespoke applications (including commercial development) with emphasis on Azure PaaS, DevOps, .NET Core, RESTful Web API, C# (Win-Forms, Asp.Net), GIT and CI/CD, T-SQL.
•Strong understanding of Object Oriented (OO) Programing, SOLID Principles and Design Patterns
•Experience with distributed systems and architecting strategic solutions (e.g SOA,  Microservices)
•Expert practitioner of TDD, agile development
•Have the ability to work positively and effectively within a team of mixed abilities and experience.
•Good analysis, problem solving and decision making skills.
•Excellent time and self-management through effective planning & prioritisation of tasks
•Experience of the following is desirable: Angular, MVC, Entity Framework, TDD frameworks (e.g NUnit, MSTest), HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JSON/XML

What you’ll like about working here

As a Canada Life colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance, along with a generous pension and bonus scheme. You’ll also receive the support you need with your personal and professional development.

Our focus is to have an engaged, committed and motivated work force, operating in a high performing and collaborative culture. We want to create an organisation that offers opportunities for all our people to develop their skills and talent, and build rewarding careers with us.

Diversity and inclusion

Canada Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our role as an employer of choice is to provide the right environment for talented people to do their best work, by respecting, understanding and valuing individual differences.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

What we’re building 

We now need Software Developers and Senior Software Developers to support the transformation and the future growth of the business within the Information Services function, so we can simplify our IT architecture by removing our legacy systems and deliver new solutions providing market-leading services for our colleagues, customers and advisers

Job summary

The Software Developer is responsible for the design and development of strategic software solutions, ensuring that requirements are met, best practices are followed and that all software developed is of a high quality and of a robust nature.

The successful .Net Developer will be have the ability to work positively and effectively within teams of mixed abilities and experience. Be fully adaptable within changing and perhaps stressful environments.

They will partner with Project Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Business Analysts and Testers in shared responsibility for project feasibility, requirements, design, development, quality and delivery.

What you’ll do

•Develop software that meets requirements following best practices.
•Build reusable, well-documented, extensible code including unit tests.
•Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, auditing, security and on-going support) are considered during development.
•Identify development risks.
•Participate in technical design and review
•Build components to integrate with existing applications
•Develop black box services/libraries (reusable pieces)
•Design and build Prototypes/Proofs of Concept
•Facilitate automated testing, integration and deployment (TDD, CI and CD)
•Support acceptance testing
•Participate in problem analysis and help resolve technical problems
•Provide regular information on progress to project management and team leaders to allow regulation and reviewing of tasks.
•Participate in mentoring, code reviews and pair programming
•Participate in Agile ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Regular Scrum, Show and Tell, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. Estimate task complexity.
•Contribute to the Scrum Artifacts by keeping the Product and Sprint backlog up to date.
•Complete or contribute to company standard documentation.
•Take part in continuous learning and professional development

 Who you are

•Have significant experience building bespoke applications (including commercial development) with emphasis on Azure PaaS, DevOps, .NET Core, RESTful Web API, C# (Win-Forms, Asp.Net), GIT and CI/CD, T-SQL.
•Strong understanding of Object Oriented (OO) Programing, SOLID Principles and Design Patterns
•Experience with distributed systems and architecting strategic solutions (e.g SOA,  Microservices)
•Expert practitioner of TDD, agile development
•Have the ability to work positively and effectively within a team of mixed abilities and experience.
•Good analysis, problem solving and decision making skills.
•Excellent time and self-management through effective planning & prioritisation of tasks
•Experience of the following is desirable: Angular, MVC, Entity Framework, TDD frameworks (e.g NUnit, MSTest), HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JSON/XML

What you’ll like about working here

As a Canada Life colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance, along with a generous pension and bonus scheme. You’ll also receive the support you need with your personal and professional development.

Our focus is to have an engaged, committed and motivated work force, operating in a high performing and collaborative culture. We want to create an organisation that offers opportunities for all our people to develop their skills and talent, and build rewarding careers with us.

Diversity and inclusion

Canada Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our role as an employer of choice is to provide the right environment for talented people to do their best work, by respecting, understanding and valuing individual differences.