Description
Location: Edinburgh/Remote
Duration: 6 months
Rate: Circa £480 per day (Outside IR35)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Assignment Description:
An experienced developer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to accelerate the organisation's move away from their Legacy finance systems. The focus of the work will be the collaborative development of new serverless microservices using AWS Lambda functions and Typescript/JavaScript. However, the Supporting domain also supports several Legacy systems, hence a working knowledge of Shell Scripting languages, such as Bash, and Oracle databases, would be a plus.
Essential Skills:
- Significant commercial experience in the following technology:
- AWS including:
- CDK
- Serverless (Lambda)
- S3
- API Gateway
- Cloud Formation
- Aurora/Postgres
- Typescript (or modern JavaScript) and Node.
- Vanilla ReactJS and/or NextJS.
- Java and SpringBoot.
- Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:
- Making excellent quality software with other people.
- Working with business stakeholders to understand the context and to focus on delivering value.
- Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills.
- Experience working in Agile delivery models such as Scrum and/or Kanban.
- Developing within GDS or Digital First (or similar) quality standards.
- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools, and processes.
- Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test Driven Development.
- Defining infrastructure-as-code.
Desirable Skills:
- Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.
- Testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Cypress).