.Net Full Stack Developer

On behalf of Homes England, we are looking for a .NET Full Stack Developer (Inside IR35) for a 7 Month contract based REMOTELY with occasional vists to offices UK wide.

As a .NET full stack developer you will have experience of developing and operating highly usable and accessible services that meet the needs of their users. You will be a full stack developer with technical experience across several domain areas: Front End, Back End, database, cloud infrastructure, on-premise, systems integration, greenfield and Legacy solutions. You will adapt to the needs of your multi-disciplinary team, will be pragmatic, will have the experience needed to work on a variety of systems and to solve complex problems.

As a full stack developer you will deliver and integrate software to form complete services by:
. Contributing to assuring the quality of development across teams
. Contributing to the development of complex services
. Being proficient in a range of technical systems
. Being involved in identifying and assessing appropriate technology and approaches
. Contributing to the developer community

Job accountabilities and responsibilities:
. You will develop and support complex digital services as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working to user needs, service design expectations and agreed priorities.
. You will ensure that security, data protection, performance, capacity, recovery, logging, monitoring and other non-functional design needs and operational requirements are baked into the implementation of our digital services, protecting our customer data and minimising cybersecurity threats.
. You will prototype emerging technologies, or technical solutions to user needs and measure the effectiveness of these changes on our end-to-end services.
. You will update and upgrade our services, ensuring they are effectively maintained, and that technical debt is managed and addressed appropriately throughout their lifetime.
. You will apply your problem-solving skills both to the resolution of issues with the services you support, and to continuously improve on the working practices within your team.
. In keeping with Homes England values and as a member of technical staff within Digital you will embody our spirit of collaboration and support colleagues by undertaking other reasonable duties when required to ensure we provide excellent services to our customers.

Key experience
. Experience contributing to software solutions and resolving complex issues within a large and complex digital transformation programme.
. Experience of working with technical delivery within a multi-disciplinary agile team.
. Experience in the use of several of the following technologies: .NET Framework and .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, T-SQL, Azure, Angular, Power Apps, Power Automate, PowerBI, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Flow, Dynamics 365.
. Proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with experience of building accessible, secure and scalable Internet services that conform to WCAG.
. Experience building and managing secure APIs and microservices that integrate with third-party solutions and Legacy systems
. Experienced in the application of SOLID principles and the use of software design patterns that create sustainable solutions and support reuse
. Experienced in best practice software development, Test Driven Development and with experience of using CI/CD pipelines and environments

Desirable education & qualifications
. Degree in a computing related subject or equivalent experience
. Professional certifications in Azure or .NET development or Power Apps

Skills and knowledge:
. Development process optimisation. You can explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised. You can support specific activities to improve development processes. You can spot or identify obvious deficiencies.
. Information security. You can discuss information security. You can design solutions and services with security controls Embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
. Programming and build (software engineering). You collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
. Prototyping. You see prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You establish design patterns and iterate them. You know a variety of methods of prototyping and can choose the most appropriate ones.
. Systems design. You can translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs. You know how to document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate. You can design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact. You can work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.
. User focus. You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.