Senior Solutions Developer (Digital Experience)

About ARU:ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). ARU’s research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK’s leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK. About the role:This is an exciting opportunity to support the University in achieving its strategic objectives by working in the Digital Experience Development team as a senior solution developer. Digital Experience is an established and well-formed team. This role will assist in delivering solutions for the external website, in Sitecore CMS, primarily using technical skills in C# .Net, MVC, Web-Services, web-APIs. We use an agile approach to our software development, organising our work using agile methodologies. We are also exploring how we can use DevOps into what we do, following the recent successes we have had using Azure DevOps. You will be involved in many of the activities within the software development lifecycle, including designing, developing and unit-testing to ensure solutions are delivered to a high level of quality that add real value. As an excellent communicator with substantial and relevant experience as a software developer, you will have worked with a range of technologies and possess logical analysis and team working experience. Key Skills C# .net (Framework & Core) Entity Framework Web-Services/API MVC SQL-Server Desirable Skills Sitecore CMS Development Agile/Scrum GIT You will have a degree and appropriate level of experience and evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role or be part qualified in a relevant professional qualifications appropriate to the specific role being appointed to and appropriate level of experience and evidence of CPD. Experience in Agile/Scrum software development and object-oriented programming techniques are essential for the role. Informal enquiries can be made to David Fowler, Lead Solution Developer of the Digital Experience Development team at David.Fowler@aru.ac.uk. Find out more about working with us. We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including a generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that ARU will carry out online searches as part of the due diligence on short listed candidates. We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.