Software Developer - Senior Consultant (Financial Services)

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Are you self-driven and proactive? Do you enjoy solving difficult programming challenges?

If you're a senior .NET developer who wants to join a growing tech consultancy that delivers high quality solutions and transforms services for clients and end users, we might have the role for you.

It's a great opportunity to work on extremely technical challenges and add value as part of an established technical team with a great reputation. This role will support our work in the financial services and fintech industry, although there may be future opportunities across our whole client base.

4 days per week in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is required to enable face to face working with the project team.

What we're looking for:

• Proficient in Object Oriented Programming, with expertise in the C# .NET stack preferred. Experience in other languages such as Java or Python is also valuable.

• Experienced in working with relational databases, with strong proficiency in SQL.

• Demonstrated experience focusing on data structures and implementing efficient solutions

• Proven experience in algorithm implementation and analysis

• Expertise in performance optimisation, with a focus on enhancing efficiency and speed.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of tackling complex technical tasks.

• Experience in handling large scale data processing and working with distributed systems.

• In depth knowledge of parallelism, threading, and concurrent programming, with practical experience in these areas.

• Proven ability to build high performing, low latency solutions capable of processing large volumes of data efficiently.

A senior consultant in software development at Opencast is responsible for:

• Driving the elaboration of their team's backlog

• Setting testing strategies to match industry standards

• Being a technical expert in their team (or acting as the team lead)

• Leading the technical representation in a project discovery

• Mentoring and coaching others to help them achieve their full potential

• Demonstrating leadership within Opencast communities of practice

£60,000 - £78,000 a year

And what can we promise you?

We're inclusive team players that listen and collaborate.

We're always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team).

We're always willing to learn.

Salary

£60,000 - £78,000

What our offer includes

Competitive pension, healthcare, share options and discretionary bonus.

Flexible hours and 25days' holiday.

People to support you every step of the way.

Where you'll work

This role requires 4 days per week in Newcastle upon Tyne.However, everyone at Opencast splits their time between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and considers requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We'll make any adjustments to help you. The recruitment process for this role includes a technical assessment, pair programming and values interview, and a technical interview.

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com.

We're not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.