Job Title: Senior Developer
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £44,800 - £67,200
Location: Any location within the UK
Closing Date for applications: Tuesday 10th March
Senior Developer: In this role you will lead on technical design and development, support best practice across the team, and help deliver high quality, secure applications that support our business and customers.
Main Responsibilities as Senior Developer:
Design and maintain core business applications hosted on the IBMi platform and developed in RPG
Deliver solutions that meet business needs and deliver tangible value
Act as the development lead for multiple projects and change initiatives
Work closely with other Senior Developers to stay aligned and deliver strong solutions
Ensure all code is efficient, secure and easy to maintain
Contribute to the definition and promotion of technical standards and ways of working across the team
Create and maintain good quality and accurate documentation such as functional design documents and user or troubleshooting guides
Communicate clearly, openly and in a timely manner with all colleagues, modifying your style to suit both technical and non-technical audiences
Embrace modernisation and proactively seek and suggest improvements
Demonstrate pragmatism over perfection
Create strong relationships both within IT and across the wider organisation to help build a clear understanding of all business areas, systems and user needs
Skills and experience you need as Senior Developer:
Excellent knowledge and practical experience in developing and maintaining RPG applications using free format RPG IV syntax and ILE techniques such as procedures, service programs, binding directories and embedded SQL.
Familiarity with RPG400/RPG III
Experience with the following tools is an advantage:
Rational Developer for i (RDi), CA 2E (formerly Synon), RPG Smartpages, HTML / CSS / JavaScript, Interform & Interword
Demonstrate a deep understanding of the IBMi platform and architecture
Take accountability and responsibility – own a problem through to resolution
Display a positive and can-do attitude – act as a role model for others
Be highly organised and able to multi-task efficiently
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.
About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.
We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.
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