Application Support Developer
Posted 1 day ago by Network IT Recruitment Limited
£55,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Application Support Developer role in Birmingham involves leading application support for a critical service within a dynamic organization. The position requires a blend of technical skills and interpersonal abilities to ensure high performance of systems and applications. This is an 18-month fixed-term role with a hybrid working arrangement, requiring one day in the office each week. Experience with library management systems is desirable but not mandatory.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead application support for a specific subset of applications and systems.
- Ensure the environment performs to high standards.
- Involve in application support for users and broader environment projects.
- Contribute to system implementations, upgrades, and integrations.
- Utilize software development skills for continuous improvement of systems.
Key Skills:
- Commercial application support experience.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of ITIL.
- Problem, Change, and Incident management.
- Application testing lifecycle.
- Proven technical/development skills: Linux, Python, XML, Perl or similar scripting language, JavaScript.
Salary (Rate): £55,000 yearly
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Role: Application Support Developer
Location: Birmingham (Hybrid – 1 Days A Week In-Office)
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 (Up to £55,000 with Library Systems Experience)
Benefits: Competitive Pension and Annual Leave
Employment Status: Fixed-Term (18 Months Initially)
Network IT are looking for an Application Support Developer , someone who will join a leading Birmingham-based organisation to support a dynamic application support function. You will lead a specific subset of applications and systems for a critical service, ensuring the environment continues to perform to high standards. This role is initially a 18-Month Fixed-Term opportunity and will require you to be on-site in Birmingham once a week, please ensure you are OK with both criteria before applying.
Role Overview
In leading against the systems and applications of this specific function, you will be involved in application support for their users, alongside broader environment projects such as system implementations, upgrades and integrations. Due to the technical nature of the environment, support of their systems will require you to have some level of software development skills so you can ensure said systems remain performative, and you can contribute to continuous improvement. Additionally, if you have any experience managing library management systems , this is highly desirable , but not mandatory.
Experience Required
- Commercial application support experience.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills.
- A knowledge of ITIL.
- Problem, Change and Incident management.
- Application testing lifecycle.
- Proven technical / development skills: Linux, Python and XML Perl or similar scripting language JavaScript
As mentioned above - this role is initially a 18-Month Fixed-Term opportunity and will require you to be on-site in Birmingham once a week, please ensure you are OK with both criteria before applying.