Software Developer
6-month contract
Edinburgh
Hybrid
Outside IR35
£480 per day
Harvey Nash's public sector client is currently looking to recruit a Developer to join their team based in Edinburgh for an initial 6-month period.
Description:
An experienced developer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to accelerate a move from legacy on-prem registers to new cloud-native solutions. The focus of the work will be the collaborative development of new serverless micro-services using AWS Lambda functions and TypeScript/JavaScript.
Essential Skills:
- AWS including:
- CDK
- Serverless (Lambda)
- S3
- API Gateway
- CloudFormation
- TypeScript (or modern JavaScript)
- Making excellent quality software with other people.
- Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context, and to focus on delivering value.
- Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
- Excellent collaboration, communication and teamwork skills
- Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
- Developing within GDS or Digital First (or similar) quality standards
- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes
- Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development
- Defining infrastructure-as-code
Desirable Skills:
- Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
- Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress
- Use of UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces