Job Location: Cardiff
Salary: Competitive
Contract type: Permanent
Posting End Date: 12/06/2026
Purpose of this role
To provide systems development, integration, and support for the BU-UK group.
Your Key Responsibilities
* Support and maintenance of in‑house systems, intranets and web sites.
* Analysing user requirements or where appropriate supporting colleagues performing the Analysis role.
* Design and development of in‑house systems and integration with current and future OTS (off the shelf) systems and technologies.
* Database design and support.
* Liaising with colleagues performing database administration roles.
* Ensuring data integrity in company systems.
* Maintaining security controls relevant to company systems and databases.
* Development and support of in‑house reporting and collaboration systems.
* Adhering to appropriate policies, procedures and standards.
* Helping to develop these where appropriate.
* Adhering to best practice in all aspects of the job.
* Maintaining all software and database objects in the appropriate source/version control systems and working with colleagues to ensure these are secured adequately.
* Any other duties as required by the manager.
Experience / Knowledge
* Experience with and excellent working knowledge of PHP.
* Experience with and excellent working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
* Experience with and excellent working knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax.
* Good understanding of Object Oriented programming.
* Good understanding of Responsive Web Design concepts using media queries.
* Experience with version control systems (e.g. git).
* Experience of systems development methods (e.g. waterfall/Agile/prototyping).
* Experience working with relational databases.
* Good understanding of XML and JSON.
* Commercial experience of building websites.
Abilities / Skills
* Maintain Customer Focus – support end‑user and department colleagues in a professional, friendly and helpful manner.
* Supporting the Business – strive to meet Business Requirements through the use of appropriate technology in an efficient and timely manner.
* Show initiative – keep abreast of technologies and support Applications Development Team Leader in the delivery of innovative, quality solutions, delivering real value to the business.
* Work with colleagues in the ICT department to improve and maintain levels of efficiency.
* Ensure that all relevant information is recorded accurately and submitted on time.
Desirable
* A bachelor’s or master’s degree in the field of computer science with software development experience.
* Experience of developing web‑based applications using PHP MVC frameworks.
* An understanding of security threats such as SQL Injection, Form Spoofing and XSS, and how to deal with them.
* Experience working in a Linux environment.
* Experience working with Docker.
* Experience with package managers (e.g. npm, composer, bower).
* Experience with JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React).
* Experience using CSS pre‑processors (e.g. LESS, SASS).
* Experience of setting up Apache and PHP.
* Experience of SOAP/RESTful web services.
* Experience using Jenkins.
* Experience using JIRA.
* Knowledge of the utility industry.
Benefits
* Cost of living annual pay review.
* Company pension contributions up to 10% if employees contribute 5%.
* 33 days holiday including bank holidays with the ability to purchase an additional 2 weeks.
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
* Referral payment of £1000 (net of tax) for each successful referral.
* Hybrid working for eligible roles.
* Development opportunities to reach your career aspirations.
Equal Opportunity
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we respect each other and advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion in all we do.
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