IT Software Engineer

Location: Taunton
Salary: £35k-38k
Type: Full-time
Reporting to: Head of ITDovetail and Slate are recruiting on behalf of a leading education provider based in Taunton.

Role Purpose

To lead agile development, ideally with commercial experience or a post-grad background in Software Engineering.
Responsible for managing the full application lifecycle in Azure, working with technologies like .Net 8 (C#), Azure SQL, serverless functions, and MVC.
Collaborate within the DevOps team on CI/CD, contribute to AI projects, and receive support for Microsoft Certifications, fostering career growth.

Responsibilities

Analyse user requirements, design, research, write, test, and document software solutions to professional standards.
Develop middleware solutions (console applications, azure functions) to integrate different systems utilised by the organisation.
Participate in collaborative development practices within the team to produce robust, maintainable, and resilient solutions.
Fault find and debug existing / legacy software.
Implement appropriate security processes/protections against common and contemporary vulnerabilities in source code and artefacts.
Liaise with and provide advice, support, training, and guidance to users.
Clearly and regularly communicate with development and technical support colleagues
Maintain and develop new automated processes where possible to create efficiencies
Assist in the designing and deploying web-based datasets, dashboards, and interactive reports

Requirements

Relevant experience in a similar setting
Knowledge of the Microsoft .NET development stack
Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery
Knowledge and experience of Microsoft ASP.NET MVC web development
Experience of troubleshooting
Able to work independently, be responsible and able to use own initiative

If this job is of interest, please apply to this advert with your CV.

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