Software Engineer

Job Description: Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. Key Responsibilities: - Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. - Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organisation?s planning and operations. - Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. - Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organisation. - Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. - Contributes to the creation of reports, technology roadmapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights. - Requirement and Definition Management - Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for smallscale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives. - Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements. - Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required. - Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source. - Reviews requirements for errors and omissions. - Provides input to the requirements base-line. - Investigates, manages and applies authorised requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy. - Software design - Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns and methodology. - Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. - Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. - Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems. - Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others? designs. - Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. - Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Programming/software development - Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. - Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. - Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes. - Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues? work. Database design - Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities. - Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, in order to evaluate alternative options. - Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability. - Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.