Software Engineering Scala Developer Professional Leicester, GB

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM CIC is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

This role is to join an emerging team and programme of works that will define, test, and prove a process for delivery of centrally controlled and de-centrally developed set of digital capabilities that will transform and enhance enterprise systems and ultimately improve government services.

Teams follow:

• User centred design
• Cloud native architecture and development techniques and tooling will be used by all teams.

Appropriate IBM Services methodology artefacts processes and experiences will be adapted and leveraged to drive high-quality delivery and achieve targeted business outcomes.

The Developer will be part of the scrum team and responsible for:

• Completing development tasks on project specific backlogs.
• Be accountable for writing code that meets pre-defined coding standards and guidelines.
• Write, adapt, maintain and support code; as well as look to continually improve the service with new tools and techniques.
• Development and implementation of applications using Scala.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and test applications that meet business requirements.
• Follow best practices in code quality testing and deployment throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to decision-making and improvement ideas.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, translating technical concepts into clear and understandable language.
• Actively participate in customer craft communities, sharing IBM best practices and thought leadership.

You'll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, ensuring the applications delivered are high performing, highly available, responsive, and maintainable.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Systems administration experience for SCALA
• J2EE applications JBoss, Jenkins, Ansible, Git, Agile, Scrum Experience.
• Technologies: Java, Spring Framework, Web Services, JMS, MDB, Junit, JIRA
• A passion for solving technical problems and advising on the technical feasibility of designs.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

About Business Unit

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners, and the planet.

Your

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that dedication to our clients' success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, live in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment every day, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth-minded, always staying curious, open to feedback, and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide ongoing feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team-focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions every day is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude, and always striving for an outcome-focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason, and science, we can improve business, society, and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Other Relevant Job Details

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title: Developer

Job ID: 10749

City / Township / Village: United Kingdom

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Software Engineering

Employment type: Regular

Position type: Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand.

Company: IBM

Shift: General (daytime)

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