Senior Azure Full Stack Engineer

Avature; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Azure Full Stack Developer, where you will leverage your skills to design and implement innovative solutions for a diverse range of clients. This role offers the opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with talented professionals to tackle real-world challenges. You will utilize cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, ensuring high-quality applications that meet public sector standards. With a strong emphasis on career growth, continuous learning, and a culture of inclusion, this position is ideal for those who are eager to make a meaningful impact in the tech industry.

Benefits

Flexible Working Approaches

Sabbatical Programs

Paid Paternity Leave

Fully Paid Maternity Leave

Gym Discount Scheme

Online Shopping Discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Group Personal Pension Plan

Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives

Training Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure cloud services and full stack development.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy high-quality applications on Azure.
• Collaborate with product managers to define and ship new features.

Skills

Azure Cloud Services

Full Stack Development

RESTful APIs

Agile/Scrum Methodologies

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Advanced Degree (Preferred)

Tools

Git

Azure App Services

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Functions

Job description

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

• Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
• A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
  · Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Azure Full Stack Developer at IBM you see the big picture, able to imagine successful technology-driven solutions from start to finish. As a Full-Stack Application Developer, you’ll help design, develop, and integrate solutions using best practice technologies, tools, techniques, and products our clients demand today.

You’ll work with clients, co-creating solutions to major real-world challenges by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. In your role you may be responsible for:

• Use IBM’s Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability.
• Work with a variety of relational and NoSQL databases (SQL, Postgres, DB2, MongoDB), operating systems (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android), and modern UI frameworks (Backbone.js, AngularJS, React.js, Ember.js, Bootstrap, and JQuery).
• Work across the entire system architecture, from backend to front end, to design, develop, and support high quality and scalable products.
• Help maintain and improve code quality, organization, and automatization
• Create everything from mockups and UI components to algorithms and data structures as you deliver a complete minimally viable product

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy high-quality applications on Azure, utilizing services like Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, etc.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and security of applications.
• Work closely with the DevOps team to manage, deploy, and monitor Azure resources.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Write clean, well-structured, and thoroughly tested code.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Specifically, ensure all application development follows public sector regulations and standards.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. An advanced degree is a plus.
• Professional experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Extensive experience in Azure cloud services and related technologies.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Experience with version control systems (Git).
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Knowledge of public sector regulations and standards relevant to software development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with serverless architectures and containerization technologies (Azure Functions, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines).
• Familiarity with security best practices in cloud computing.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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Job ID

13735

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Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 60% or 3 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

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