Job Description

Your new company

Working for a well known and award winning Higher-education institute in Leicester.

Your new role

You will be working on an initial 2-year FTC on a new project to reimplement its Unit4 ERP finance system (previously known as Agresso). This is a huge project which will have a large impact across the organisation. working with the Corporate Systems Team to undertake assigned software development, business analysis, package implementation and user support tasks, according to agreed standards and guidelines, focussed on the Finance ERP.

What you'll need to succeed

Experience of developing software for corporate applications in an enterprise database development environment e.g., Oracle, SQL-Server, MySQL.

Having worked on analysing complex, large, corporate information systems, and business processes.

Web development using a Web Services approach, e.g., RESTful APIs and SOAP, JSON, and XML

Ability to estimate and prioritise work packages

Ability to work across multiple workstreams at the same time.

Ability to work to agreed technical standards and procedures.

Ability and eagerness to meet new objectives and learn new skills.

Ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally with IT and non-IT staff.

Degree with relevant IT content, or relevant professional IT qualification coupled with industry experience.

What you'll get in return

Generous holiday allowance of 30 days per year and 14 closure days

Good pension, USS for Software Developer (Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) where you pay 6.1% (for which you don't pay tax) and the university contributes 13.9% of your salary with defined benefits.

Hybrid working 1-2 days on site per week

There is an automated annual increment to your pay each year

The university pays sickness allowance

The university offers a reward framework to its staff, with opportunities for vouchers, lump sum bonuses, additional increments and excellence rewards

Season ticket loans & Smartgo discounted travel

Employer supported volunteering

Health and wellbeing support

Access to work class sporting facilities and reduced cost gym membership

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