Purpose:
The purpose of the Developer role is threefold; To produce software assets from functional and technical specifications; To produce associated assets (such as documentation) for a software system and; To provide technical expertise for system design, implementation and support.

Responsibilities:
Within the context defined above, the responsibilities of a Developer are as follows:

 

• To produce code assets adhering to departmental development standards.
• To produce associated assets adhering to departmental development standards.
• To provide input into the design of software systems, offering advice and thoughts and providing feedback.
• To adhere to departmental development standards for all activities.
• To provide support for a system including analysis, tracking and resolution.
• To utilise approved technologies for the development of systems.
• To understand and actively engage with departmental processes.
• To demonstrate a logical and structured approach to time management and task prioritisation.
• To ensure current skills are up-to-date through research and practice.
• To participate in team activities and team planning with the aim of improving team skills, awareness and quality of work.

Experience and Skills:

Core Skills:

• C#
• ASP .NET
• MS SQL Server (2005)
• XML
• Web Services (evidence may include WSE, WCF)
• HTML (cross browser)
• Javascript/JSON, Javascript Libraries (evidence may include JQuery, Prototype, Ajax.Net)

Essential Skills:

• OO Design (evidence may include UML, Design Patterns)
• TDD (evidence may include NUnit, MbUnit, CsUnit, NCover, NDepend, Rhino Mocks)
• Refactoring (evidence may include Resharper, Refactory)
• Continuous Integration (evidence may include Cruise Control, NAnt, MSBuild, TeamCity)
• Version Control (evidence may include SourceSafe, Team Foundation Server, CVS, Subversion)
• Software Development Lifecycle (evidence may include Team System, SourceForge Enterprise Edition, Methodologies; e.g. Waterfall, RUP, Scrum, Agile)

Desirable Skills:

• Object Relational Mapping (evidence may include NHibernate, IBatis .NET, EntityBroker, Linq To Sql / Entity Framework)
• Third party libraries - including open source (evidence may include dotLucene/Solr, Memcached, Spring.NET, Castle project, Rhino)
• Web development frameworks (evidence may include Asp MVC, Monorail, Rails, Django)
• Load testing (evidence may include WAS, ACT, OpenSTA)
• Automated testing (evidence may include Selenium, Fitnesse, Watir/Watin, RSpec)
• Scripting Languages - Ruby, Python
• Experience with Linux, & Cloud Infrastrucures (e.g. EC2/S3)