Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

A market leader in the development and provision of Retail software environments, addressing single or multi-Retail operations, for specialist Distribution, Wholesale, Merchant, and Retail industry sectors, addressing single or multi-branch operations, aswell as catering for organisations with point-of-sale showrooms and warehouses, currently has a position available for an experienced senior or lead Software Engineer.Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Deal with multiple concurrent projects, prioritising and resolving conflicting demands as required.
• Collaborate on development objectives and initiate action toward meeting them.
• Ensure that all work is implemented to specification, on schedule, with good quality and within the effort estimated.
• Monitor on-going progress and report on exceptions to project and team management
• Ensure KCS programming standards, best practice and industry guidelines are adhered to
• This role will involve development of applications, and delivering fixes for customers
• Carry out programming tasks from specifications against specific project timescales
• Conduct unit testing on own code
• Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received
• Participate in peer review of code and specification, making suggestions to increase quality
• Schedule own time to deliver against assigned priorities in line with agreed project timescales
• Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks
• Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workarounds
• Mentor other members of the development team

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive programming experience in .NET
• Requires a good understanding SQL database design and query design
• C# and web-based programming skills
• Must be comfortable been able understand use VB.NET for supporting some older components and services
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Project Management/Or Agile development skills and experience of having delivered software projects to specification, on time and of good quality
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools and processes for software development
• Knowledge of software project lifecycles
• Knowledge of development tools and modern database technologies
• Good general management skills in a fast-paced technical operation
• Empathy with software QA and QC processes
• Has a passion for architecting and writing proficient clean code
• Ability to mentor and support more inexperienced team members
• A good understanding/experience of some or all of the following: .NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, .NET Core, JavaScript
• Use of ALM tools such as Azure Devops, including boards, pipelines and artifacts or equivalent products
• Drive collaboration and high standards through collaborative code reviews
• A passion and drive for clean, automated delivery processes
• Experience and exposure to Microsoft Azure:
  • Web Apps
  • Storage
  • Azure Sql
  • Cosmos Db

Equal OpportunitiesKCS Group is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.Development Team

• Operates a hybrid modal of working: 3 days in and 2 days at home.
• Have full access to development server and work with other team members on code merge
• Assist QA staff members on testing and documentation
• Assist with software releases
• Assist support members with customer queries

Health and SafetyThe Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 puts a legal obligation on KCS as an employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of its employees at work.Employees also have a duty to take reasonable care for their own health and safety and of others who could be affected by their actions. Understanding the safety policies and co-operating with the arrangements that are in place is therefore an essentialpart of your employment.