Solutions Developer

Job Title: Solutions Developer 
Salary: £45,000 - £48,000
Location: Birmingham / Hybrid (3 days a week on-site)
Tech Required for the role: SQL, C#, Web API


A fantastic opportunity has come up to join a truly innovative and exciting organisation located in central Birmingham, as they look to expand their team again due to continued progression.

This organisation is listed on the AIM market with an ambition for growth and success; focussed on becoming the No.1 within their professional services business in the UK (Currently 10th).  They currently have over 1,450 people in their team, across 22 offices, servicing some 25,000+ clients across the full spectrum of legal and professional services.

They believe that everyone has an important role to play in the success of the company, with the inclusive culture, as well as their collaborative, flexible and friendly environment, making it a great place to work.  
They are now seeking a talented individual to join their busy IT Team.  The successful candidate will be an experienced Solutions Developer who can hit the ground running and take on a variety of projects.

Main Duties:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Competencies: 

• Responsible for the development and improvement of our Practice Management Systems
• Build browser based web solutions that meet the changing needs of the business and drive efficiency as part of our ongoing automation program
• Ensure that industry standards and best practices are applied across the development and database environments, leading to systems that are secure, robust and optimised
• Produce and maintain documentation contributing towards the wider development infrastructure
• Produce estimates (high-level and detailed) for development work
• Balance work on multiple projects at one time
• Integrate with third party providers by consuming API’s. This could extend building out API wrappers
• Maintain databases and objects such as tables, stored procedures, views, triggers, Indexes
• Handle common database procedures such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration
• Profile server resource usage, and optimise as necessary
• Maintain interfaces with other systems both internal and external 
• Collaborate within a cross functional team to help shape technical solutions and direction
• Work well with ever-changing processes to meet our company needs and requests

Experience and Skills:

• .NET framework / .NET Core (C#)
• ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Functions
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft SQL Server 
• Expert-level T-SQL skills
• Ability to write clean, efficient, readable and well documented code
• Proven experience of creating and implementing effective testing plans
• Experience of using code repositories
• The ability to prioritise high volumes of responsibilities without delays in deliverables
• Capable of troubleshooting common databases issues and debugging stored procedures
• Skilled at optimising large, complicated SQL statements
• Familiar with tools that can aid with profiling server resource usage and optimization
• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success
• Previous experience of helping to deliver projects accurately and on time
• Critical thinker and strong problem-solving skills
• A proven team player, who can support others and who can adapt to changing and conflicting priorities
• A confident and effective communicator who is proactive, self-motivated with a can-do attitude
• Strong attention to detail and willing to expand your skill set to overcome existing challenges

Additional Desirable Skills:

• Experience of Legal Sector
• Agile development principles
• Experience of using Continuous Integration
• Azure Stack; Power Automate, Microsoft Power Apps
• Azure DevOps pipelines
• Microservice Architecture
• HTML, JavaScript
• KNIME

If you feel you have the required skills and experience and are interested in the opportunity, please apply by forwarding an up-to-date version of your CV, and if we feel you meet the requirements, someone will contact you back within 24 hours.