IS Integration Developer

Home Group

Location: Tyne & Wear
Salary: £50,000
Closing Date: 16 June 2019
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Job Description

IS Integration Developer
Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)
Salary circa £50,000 negotiable based on skills and experience
You also get to use our award winning benefits package


Supporting the business through technology and innovation. Thats when it hits home


As an IS team we are setting out to be more digitally focussed, using the latest technologies, whilst ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Our strategy is set, our direction is clear. What comes next is to apply our skills and experience through brilliant team work to innovate, design, and implement systems that deliver real business value. Weve got an excellent team foundation to build upon as our technical portfolio develops and expands; thats where you come in.


Joining the IS technical delivery team, youll be responsible for developing Home Groups technical integration solutions. You'll play a key part by defining, developing, testing and implementing cutting edge integrations. These solutions will help Home Group €œjoin up€ our various key systems and help us transition towards a more digitally focussed customer experience. Youll be working with technology such as Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, Oracle, Azure, API Languages (OpenAPI for example) and much more!


About our team
Youll be working with our fabulous colleagues in the IT Architecture, IT Engineering and project delivery teams who are passionate about solving Home Groups technical challenges. When you join, youll discover we are a close knit bunch with a passion for doing things right.


Youll be working for Matt, our IS Technical Delivery Manager who is a massive football fan (both as an armchair watcher and on the pitch in his weekly 5 a side kickaround). When not watching or playing footie, Matt loves hard rock and heavy metal and is already planning his next gigs and festivals. He is also responsible for ensuring that we deliver the IS Services the business needs to succeed, driving continual service improvement and ensuring IS adds real value€¦
While you'll report in to Matt, you will have key relationships with a number of key teams in the business. Youll discover that were a diverse bunch from the more thoughtful to the downright outgoing, but we never take ourselves too seriously!


Working hours
Here at Home Group we believe flexibility works both ways. Our focus is on getting the job done, not your working hours! Its important to us that youre in the office so we can work collaboratively and share best practices amongst the team. However there will be times, when you might work from home to concentrate on a particular piece of work. Throughout it is the teams unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life, be it your childs school play, your partners graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered. You can elect to fit these around your working day or use your flexi to take the time off.


About you
This is a very hands on role, so well be looking for you to have significant and proven commercial experience developing software. Our integration needs are varied, so youll have a breadth of exposure to technologies like XML, XQuery, JSON, OpenAPI, SOAP, Windows Server, Docker, Azure. Youll also have worked with relational databases and it would totally especially awesome if youve also worked with iPaaS platform (but that would be the icing on the cake!)
You are the critical element, so dont worry if you cant tick every box, well support you wityh amy knowledge gaps.


Here at Home Group were passionate about doing things well and making things better for our customers. So in addition to the above core technical skills youll also have knowledge of development best practices such as test-driven development and automated testing. Ideally youll have used one of the various Git based tools, but again, dont worry if you havent, we can talk about that as well!


As well as building and testing, youll work with our fantastic business teams to understand their requirements and contribute to reusable designs. Your designs and code will be peer reviewed by the team, do not panic, were a friendly bunch! Weve invested heavily in our future and use current and up to date equipment. Youll be issued with the latest kit, which could include a Surface Pro and mobile.


Want to know more?
If youre not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! Youll be able to download the IS Integration Developer job description, and find out more about Home Group. Weve also got these brilliant videos that show you what its like to work here, and we know youll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!


To apply
Dont delay applying for this brilliant job, as we may close it early if we get lots of applications! Just upload your CV and your covering letter (dont forget to attach this, as we really want to know more about you!) If you need help, weve also got some great templates available.


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