Senior Developer

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

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.

• 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

• 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 RPG
  400/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

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.

Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well‑Being Activities – Mindfulness.

50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Well‑being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non‑pregnant parent/co‑adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Return to work programme after maternity leave.

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…