**This vacancy is only available to existing University of Essex staff**
Digital Innovation and Technology Services (DITS) provides outstanding IT services and facilities and enables excellence in their use, across the University’s three UK-based campuses, and our international campuses & partner institutions. Our services range from underlying infrastructure technologies, provision of a modern Media Centre, to digital skills training for staff and students. Our vision is of a university where students and staff are provided with the digital tools and processes to enable excellent Education and Research.
We are a community of over 140 staff, working in partnership with our colleagues across the University to deliver Digital Innovation and Technology services to meet the needs of the University. DITS is organised into five service groups including Infrastructure Services, IT Customer Experience, Software Development Services, Commercial Applications and Strategic Project Delivery.
We are seeking a Software Developer to join our highly successful Software Development Services group, working in one of seven development teams, to develop and support critical institutional systems.
You will work closely with colleagues within their own and other teams, including end users and will have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
You will help to develop and support in-house software systems relating to institutional operations including Student Records, Admissions, Batch Jobs, Web Applications, Document Storage & Statistics.
Working to a philosophy of facilitating solutions not just software, you will play a vital role in the objectives of your team. As such, you will be directly involved in all aspects the product life cycle, from requirement definition, design and analysis, coding, testing, deployment, documentation and support. Where appropriate, you will contribute to the progression and advancement of the team’s working practices and methodologies.
You will require strong communication skills and an organised approach whilst adhering to project timescales.
This is a substantive grade 8 post but will be considered as a developmental opportunity at grade 7 with potential for progression subject to performance.
A full list of duties and responsibilities and applicant requirements (both at Grade 7 and Grade 8) can be found within the attached job pack.
This is a fixed-term, full-time appointment until December 2026.
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