Harvey Nash have partnered exclusively with the University of Sheffield as they continue revolutionise their solutions and solidify its position as a leading Russell Group university. They are looking for a Senior Developer to join them.

IT Services are advertising a challenging and rewarding role as part of our growing Integration Team. We are building a modern API led approach to Integrations across our estate with the design and implementation of Spring Boot REST APIs using KONG API Gateway Enterprise Products, as well as AWS Infrastructure and tools. Over time we will have a Full Lifecycle API Management Framework in place as part of this work. The team also designs and builds ETL pipelines using a modern data and event driven architecture.

We provide a central point of expertise to own and manage our integration tools, processes and standards, and set our future approach to integration. As part of this we provide support to colleagues and suppliers who use our tooling to build their own integrations

Essential criteria:

• Experience in developing systems using a variety of technologies.
• SpringBoot and Java are our current stack.
• Experience with Python is a bonus.
• Expertise with relational and non-relational databases.
• Expertise in designing and building APIs (REST, GraphQL, etc)
• Understanding of the life cycle of API management issues such as Security and Traffic Management, Access Control, etc.
• Expertise in effective collaborative working as part of a team, and the associated tools (Git, Jira, etc) and practices (Agile).
• Experience of driving continual improvements to systems, processes and working practices to deliver increased performance, efficiency and quality on the systems we maintain.
• Experience developing, monitoring, debugging and fault handling complex integrations between different systems using a variety of methods and approaches.
• Wide range of knowledge of tools and techniques for developing high quality software (eg continuous integration/deployment, software testing, containerisation, dependency management, etc.)
• Ability to learn new technologies and techniques, set standards and support team members on their use.
• Manage own time when working on several projects simultaneously, with an ability to prioritise and complete urgent fixes as they occur.
• Ability to support and mentor more junior members of the team.

What we offer

• A minimum of 41 days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more
• Generous pension scheme
• A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, eating out and travel
• A commitment to your development access to learning and mentoring schemes
• A range of generous family-friendly policies
• + more!

The University of Sheffield is a certified Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident is a recognition given by the Government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to employers based in Great Britain who have agreed to take action to meet thirteen commitments regarding the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees. One of these commitments is to offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. A false declaration of disability to obtain an interview will result in the invalidation of any offer made.

If you consider yourself to have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and would like your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme, please make this visible in your application or send an email to the consultant (see below)

Criminal record

A basic DBS check will be needed for this role. More details on the checks can be found on the Government website: gov.uk/criminal-record-checks-apply-role.

Possession of a criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment at the University of Sheffield. We recognise the value of steady employment in the rehabilitation process and examine each case in its own right. More information can be found on our Information for candidates page