Job Details

Main Duties and Responsibilities
• Working as part of an Agile team or independently on own initiative dependent upon size of deliverables
• Ensure work assignments are delivered on time and budget
• Working with business and technical stakeholders to deliver business benefit
• Ensure solutions are robust and technically fit for purpose.
• Ensure that development projects are carried out in accordance with the organisation’s agreed standards, methods and procedures.
• Ensure Service Delivery acceptance and handover procedures are followed for all new developments.
• Develop and foster knowledge and skills transfer, to remove key person dependencies.
• Reporting to management on a weekly basis, detailing status of ongoing developments, highlighting issues/blockers in plain English.
• Test driven development

PERSON SPECIFICATION
Qualifications / Competencies / Skills / Experience
Essential
• Proven experience as a developer specialising in Java or Perl, which should include:
o Java EE or mod_perl development
o Production deployment experience of Tomcat and/or Apache
o SQL and experience of either Oracle or MySQL
o XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax
o Test Driven Design/Development and experience with testing frameworks.
• Good working knowledge of HTTP/1.1
• An appreciation of SEO, accessibility, and web standards.
• Agile methodology exposure, preferably Scrum, or a keenness to adopt Agile principles.
• Problem analysis and resolution.
• Able to work alone and use own initiative, engaging with others when needed.

Interpersonal skills:
• Ability to build effective working relationships with technical peers
• Ability to build effective working relationships with a wide range of semi and non-technical customers
• Good general written and verbal business communication skills.


Desirable
• Experience of working with an MVC Framework, i.e. Struts or Spring
• Hibernate or other ORM tools
• XML/XSL, JSP/JSTL, Velocity, Apache Ant, Maven 2
• Subversion and anthillpro
• EidosMedia Mèthode
• Flash/ActionScript/FLEX
• Enthusiasm to embrace new skills both hard and soft including agility in new ways of working and technologies used by Financial Times.

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