Associate Technical Developer

The University and UIS

University Information Services (UIS) provides the digital infrastructure, business information and computing services at the heart of one of the world's top universities. The University of Cambridge has a bold ambition to use digitalisation to transform education and research, and UIS' team of developers, designers, testers, analysts and support staff is leading this exciting work.

The role

The Associate Technical Developer will join a supportive and collaborative team, working to help 60,000 students and staff to become competent and confident users of the teaching, learning and assessment (TLA) systems across the University.

You will play a key role in any projects to evaluate new TLA service offerings or to integrate with other systems. Your duties will include adapting and adopting appropriate systems design methods, tools and techniques to design large and/or complex systems. You will also undertake impact analysis on major design options and trade-off and finally make recommendations, assessing and managing risks. 

You will maintain application support processes and check that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures. You will initiate and monitor actions to investigate and resolve problems in systems, processes and services.

At the end of the probation period, the expectations of the role holder include:

• Able to design, develop and test new Moodle plugins written in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL and other appropriate web languages, and in compliance with Moodle standards.
• Able to design and write SQL database reporting
• Design and write Unit and Automated testing scripts
• Use GIT, JIRA, Confluence and other development, task management and agile management tools.
• Contribute to problem solving, ideation and design of solutions to new change requests and bug fixes.
• Contribute to change evaluation of new version releases, security enhancements integration enhancements, and policy questions.
• Work with functional analysts to build, test and deploy change in a user centred agile way. 
• Design and build new API and integration methods

Some examples of projects we are working on:

• Contributing to the technical evaluation of new 3rd party plugin requests from users
• Designing and developing new PHP housekeeping data cleansing scripts
• Problem solving for new methodologies of system integrations on new infrastructure, considering new regulation and policy. 

This position is a permanent, full-time role, usually based on the University's West Cambridge Site.

The benefits

You can expect to receive:

• a competitive salary with automatic service-related progression and annual cost-of-living increases
• a generous annual leave allowance of 41 days per year (including bank holidays)
• access to a hybrid pension scheme with attractive employer contributions
• access to a range of shopping and travel discounts through the Cambens scheme.

We welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for part-time working or other flexible working arrangements.

We particularly welcome applications from women and /or candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our department.

To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please click the 'Apply' button above. 

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to know more, please contact recruitment@uis.cam.ac.uk.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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