Senior Software Engineer, Glasgow (ID: wCYL2piv)

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

About the role:

Working within our Digital Services Practice as a Senior Software Engineer you will work within a talented team who are passionate about software development and delivering business value to our customers. You will create new cloud-first solutions and modernise legacy applications, migrating from on-prem to the cloud.

As Sword are an established Microsoft Gold partner, you will experience the latest Microsoft technologies and grow your skills through exciting and challenging projects and the opportunity to attain Microsoft certification.

Requirements:

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:

We’ve outlined some of the tech stack that you can expect to work with and experience in some of these areas will be highly beneficial although we are also happy to provide support in up-skilling in developmental areas if you don’t have experience across all of these areas

Back-end skills:

• C#, .NET (Core, Framework)
• Azure cloud (Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service)
• Cloud-native development
• RESTful services, APIs
• Databases (SQL, NoSQL)

Front-end skills

• C#, .NET (Core,Framework) web apps
• JavaScript SPAs
• TypeScript
• HTML 5, CSS
• Responsive, accessible user interfaces

Solution delivery

• Agile delivery and principles
• Service-oriented architecture
• Test automation
• SOLID, DRY, DDD principles
• DevOps (desirable)
• Build and deployment automation (Azure DevOps, Octopus)
• CI, CD (preferably with Azure DevOps)
• Azure Infrastructure-as-Code (ARM templates, PowerShell scripting, DSC)
• Bicep

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more….

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.