Senior Developer

Hymans Robertson LLP.; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy is seeking a Senior Developer to join their DB Member Valuations team in Glasgow. This permanent full-time role offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative environment, tackling innovative software challenges and improving tech stacks. You will mentor a team and engage with stakeholders to deliver exceptional digital solutions for the pensions market, embracing a flexible working culture that values both professional development and employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Flexible employee benefits

On-site mental health assistance

Three days paid volunteering leave

Access to an award-winning learning portal

Hybrid working opportunities

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Experience with C# and .NET solutions.
• Ability to drive innovation and team development.
• Self-motivated and a strong communicator.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement systems across various platforms.
• Mentor and manage junior team members.
• Drive improvements to frameworks and integrations.

Skills

Object-oriented development patterns

DevOps culture

Continuous improvement practices

Team collaboration

Tools

.NET

Microsoft Azure

ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core

SQL Server/Transact SQL

Git

Azure DevOps

Angular

Job description

This is a permanent, full-time vacancy that will close in 20 days at 23:59 BST.

The Vacancy

The DB Member Valuations team is a close-knit group dedicated to developing our in-house final salary pension scheme valuation systems. The team actively engages with consultants and users, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment through regular meetings and pair working. Through this collaboration, we achieve a shared understanding of the problems faced by our users, ensuring we deliver optimum solutions. As a developer, you will work closely with key stakeholders on a range of software challenges and will have the opportunity to help us improve the team’s tech-stack, as well as working on cutting-edge technology. This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role within our firm, with a focus on building sustainable software that drives our business.

We seek a senior developer to help design, build, deliver, and run world-class digital solutions serving the pensions market.

We are open to considering candidates on a part-time or full-time basis.

What will your role look like?

• Work alongside high-performing, highly-skilled, and multi-disciplinary teams. We work within a DevOps culture that promotes team autonomy and engineering excellence, using the latest technologies.
• Drive innovation and increase the maturity of our frameworks, integrations, and automations.
• Mentor, coach, and provide people management for less experienced team members.
• Design and implement systems in a range of programming environments and software platforms (primarily .NET and Microsoft Azure).
• Pragmatically and effectively assess trade-offs and barriers which will emerge in the delivery of any significant software system.
• Lead non-functional improvement efforts (such as performance profiling).
• Be involved with meaningful work - we can provide complex challenges, at scale, in novel market areas.
• Be core to the delivery teams that build, test, and scale our applications and services.

Though this is a varied role, you are likely to have experience with:

• Object-oriented development patterns and approaches primarily in delivering C# .NET solutions
• Microsoft development stack and Azure Cloud computing technologies, including many of the following:
  • ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core
  • Web Services architecture
  • Service-oriented architectures
  • Microservices
  • CQRS
  • APIs
  • SQL Server/Transact SQL
  • Testing frameworks such as NUnit, FakeItEasy, and SpecFlow
  • Git & Azure DevOps
• Message brokers (e.g., Azure Service Bus/RabbitMQ) and messaging patterns
• RESTful APIs
• Continuous improvement and delivery practices, DevOps culture, and automation within the Azure DevOps platform (YAML pipelines)
• Behaviour-driven testing approaches and frameworks
• Relational and NoSQL data architectures and technologies
• Experience using a front-end framework (preferably Angular) and associated design patterns

To succeed in this role, you will be:

• Self-motivated with a drive to learn and share knowledge
• Focused on continuous learning and improvement
• An effective communicator and a great team player, able to collaborate with all skills in your team
• Able to forge strong and professional relationships at all levels
• Able to collaborate successfully with client and third-party technical teams
• Able to effectively articulate technical concepts with senior stakeholders
• Confident across the entire software development lifecycle

You may also be interested in developing skills in the following key areas (but not essential):

• F#

Please note that as part of the recruitment process for this opportunity, candidates will be expected to complete a clean code exercise.

In addition to a competitive salary and access to our profit share scheme, we offer:

• A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs.
• A collaborative and encouraging work environment where your thinking and ideas are encouraged.
• On-site mental health and wellbeing assistance.
• A commitment to helping you develop both personally and professionally, with mentoring opportunities and access to our award-winning learning portal, Aspire.
• Regular social activities, in addition to three days paid volunteering leave each year and a day’s leave to celebrate your birthday.
• Hybrid working so you can enjoy the positive wellbeing of working from home as well as the benefits of meeting colleagues in our sociable, modern office environments – with the expectation of two ‘in-office’ days per week.
• A flexible working window, allowing colleagues the freedom to work flexibly between 7 am and 7 pm.

Please note, we recruit on a rolling basis, so early applications are recommended to avoid disappointment.

About Us

Together, we’ve been building better futures for over 100 years. For our people, our clients, and their people, our communities, and the environment.

We thrive on tackling complex problems. And we believe those problems are best solved by diverse teams – diverse in skills, approaches, and backgrounds. Our independence lets our people be themselves and think freely, while working in a collaborative, supportive environment. We love innovative, independent thinking and want everyone to share their ideas.

Working alongside employers, trustees, and financial services institutions, we offer pensions, investments, benefits, and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions. With over 1000 employees and counting, we’re one of the leading consultancies in our field and are proud to be recognized by numerous industry awards.

We’re committed to developing our people and encourage everyone to carve out their own career path. We have many colleagues who started in one team and ended up somewhere completely different, having had the chance to develop new skills and explore new passions.

We are continually working to improve our inclusive culture and employ diverse talent. We therefore welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, including but not limited to: age, disability, ethnic heritage, gender, marital or civil partnership status, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.

Our hybrid working model offers the best of both worlds – home working as well as a fun, collaborative office environment – meaning flexible working patterns to accommodate individual needs. Find out more about our careers here.

If you need any assistance in relation to a personal requirement, medical condition, or neurological difference during our selection process, please let us know.

Together, we can make this the best job you’ll ever have.

We Offer

Our culture

Our culture

We live and breathe our four values – friendly, confident, partnering, and straightforward – and genuinely care about our people, clients, community, and the environment.

Job satisfaction

Job satisfaction

Every employee can genuinely make a difference and contribute towards achieving our purpose – together, building better futures. Whether that’s helping our clients build more secure financial futures, using your 3 days volunteering, or helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

Reward and wellbeing

Reward and wellbeing

We offer competitive salaries, a share of company profits, and an award-winning benefits package. We also take your mental, physical, social, and financial wellbeing seriously, both in and outside of work.

Flexible working

We trust our people to work in a pattern that suits their circumstances with a healthy balance of home and office working.

Latest technology

Latest technology

We use the most up-to-date technology and software to match our ground-breaking business solutions that make life easier for us and our clients.

Career development

There is no linear path – learning opportunities are plentiful and empower you to carve out your own career.