Software Developer

Description:

Designs, runs and improves software that meets user needs. Responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach; create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse. Delivers software components that form part of a product. Develop software to meet user needs; follow best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines; write clean, secure and well-tested code; operate the services they build and identify issues in production.

Typical Skills:

• Manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs.
• Support specific activities to improve development processes.
• Design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threat.
• Competently use a modern standards approach.
• Review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity.
• Know a variety of methods of prototyping and can choose the most appropriate ones.
• Fix faults following agreed procedures.
• Design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity.
• Build and test simple interfaces between systems.
• Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story.