Analyst Developer

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious educational institution in London is seeking an experienced Moodle Developer (Senior Analyst Developer) to join their Core Teaching Platforms product team. The ideal candidate will have experience in developing Moodle plugins and a strong understanding of software development principles. This role offers a variety of benefits including 41 days of annual leave and on-site facilities, and aims to innovate within the educational sector through advanced technology solutions.

Benefits

41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holiday, and 6 closure days)

Defined benefit pension scheme

On-site gym

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience developing a variety of plugin types for Moodle.
• Ability to write and maintain clean, secure code.
• Understanding of multi-tier application software design.

Responsibilities

• Develop UCL's Moodle and contribute to the open-source community.
• Adopt a test-driven approach in software development.
• Ensure software is user-friendly and integrates with third-party platforms.

Skills

Moodle development experience

Strong analytical skills

Attention to detail

Knowledge of software development lifecycle

Knowledge of video content management systems

Job description

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Moodle Developer (Senior Analyst Developer) to join the Core Teaching Platforms product team within the Digital Education domain of the Information Services Division (ISD). This role will be working within a multi-disciplinary agile product team of Moodle Developers, Analyst Developers (Ops), Learning Technologists, UX designer and Tech Leads to develop UCL's Moodle. The team values being part of the open‑source Moodle community, providing feedback and fixes upstream wherever possible to new plugins and to core Moodle. This role will be responsible for writing and maintaining clean, secure code and software configuration, adopting a test‑driven approach, and ensuring software is easy to use.

The ideal candidate (Senior Analyst Developer) will be someone who has developed a variety of plugin types for Moodle, contributed to Moodle core, a great team player, with strong analytical skills and high levels of attention to detail. Key requirements: You will need to have a strong working knowledge of software development lifecycle stages, application software design including the design of multi‑tier solutions, data structures, security, user interfaces and web services, developing software applications using modern tools and advanced techniques. Knowledge of and support experience with video content management systems used for education, specifically Panopto. Knowledge of Moodle, its site administration, and its integration with third‑party platforms through LTIs/plugins. Moodle development experience desirable.

Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information‑ and technology‑related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions. Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team's capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

Benefits

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On‑Site nursery
• On‑site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

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As London's Global University we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under‑represented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.