Jobs in Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Introduction

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.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

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 processes 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 managers 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

Your Role And Responsibilities

As an AWS Full Stack Developer, you’ll participate in many aspects of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code implementation, testing, and support. You will create software that enables your clients’ hybrid-cloud and AI journeys.

You’ll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, ensuring the applications delivered are high performing, highly available, responsive, and maintainable.

Your Primary Responsibilities Include

• Analyze, validate, and propose improvements to existing failures, with the support of the architect and technical leader.
• Involvement in every step of the process, from design, development, testing, release changes, and troubleshooting where necessary, providing excellent customer service.
• Drive key discussions with your stakeholders and analyze the current landscape for opportunities to operate and code creative solutions.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Key Responsibilities

Required technical and professional expertise

• Design, code, test, and launch new features for web applications using AWS services.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Work closely with the DevOps team to manage, deploy, and monitor AWS 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.
• Ensure all application development follows public sector regulations and standards.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. 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.

Required Qualifications

Preferred technical and professional experience

• 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 AWS cloud services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.
• Proficient in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React or Angular) and back-end languages (Java, Python, Node.js, etc.).
• 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 (AWS Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI).
• Familiarity with security best practices in cloud computing.