Salary: £47,389 - 56,535 per year Requirements: Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience. Strong technical expertise in Moodle (including plugin development and integrations) and Echo360, with experience of related digital learning tools. Solid knowledge of Linux command-line tools and system administration. Experience using modern development practices, including Agile, version control, CI/CD, test-driven development, and change control. Proven experience with PHP, JavaScript, CSS, NodeJS, and jQuery (Python desirable). Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs. PRINCE2 Foundation, ITIL4 Foundation, or equivalent qualifications (desirable). Experience working within a Higher Education environment (desirable). Working knowledge of Azure or other cloud platforms (desirable). Active involvement in the Moodle or wider e-learning community (desirable). Responsibilities: Respond to escalated ServiceNow calls and JIRA bugs with professionalism and timeliness. Provide expert advice and operational support to users of the Universitys core VLE service (Moodle), Echo360 lecture capture system, and complementary digital learning technologies. Play a hands-on role in a small, specialist team to design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality web applications and backend/frontend services. Work collaboratively to design, develop, and test solutions. Write documentation of new processes and products to facilitate knowledge sharing. Define and execute practices such as continuous integration and test-driven development. Communicate positively with users/customers, avoiding technical jargon. Solve technically complex challenges and implement clean fixes. Ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability for data while following information security and data management policies. Factor appropriate levels of business continuity into solutions and maintain them during the solutions lifecycle. Monitor systems and react to alerts and abnormal behavior. Liaise and escalate issues with internal developers and 3rd party vendors. Identify recurring issues and deliver root-cause improvements. Provide technical leadership on medium and large projects and support change management. Technologies: Azure Backend CI/CD Cloud CSS Frontend Support JIRA JavaScript Linux NodeJS PHP Python React Security ServiceNow Web jQuery TDD More: We are looking for a Senior Analyst/Developer to join our team on a 6-month fixed-term contract, offering a salary between £47,389 and £56,535 per annum, depending on experience. The role will provide technical leadership in enhancing and supporting our core Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and various digital learning solutions. We encourage a collaborative environment where your ideas will contribute to our products. Benefits include holiday pay, and we offer a hybrid working model that allows for both on-campus and remote work. last updated 5 week of 2026