Software Developer (Data)

Software Developer (Data)/Crewe, Cheshire

The Company:

Assurant, one of the leading providers of mobile device protection in Europe, serves over 11 million European customers. Its businesses develop, underwrite, market and administer specialty insurance including mobile phone insurance, gadget insurance and extended service contracts through collaborative relationships with mobile network operators, retail banks, electronic goods and household appliance manufacturers and retailers.

As a partner we provide solutions which assist our corporate clients to support their customer engagement, growth and loyalty aspirations.

The Role:

To develop tailored solutions that support and deliver the Development roadmap for both Assurant and Assurant clients across multiple platforms.

Work as part of a team to; deliver projects to meet the needs of the business, correcting issues, and carry out enhancements as logged through our service desk

Assist other developers in the department in their day to day work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership for the delivery in year objectives aligned to required performance standards
• Influence, shape and execute solutions to realise objectives
• Effectively uses all resources to ensure optimisation of delivery
• Delivers positive engagement with stakeholders
• Constructively challenges drivers for change and takes ownership of change activity ensuring implementation is timely, to quality within budget and risks are mitigated.
• Identify PI/CI opportunities both embracing and encouraging change
• Ownership for the delivery and management of TCF initiatives to ensure fair customer outcomes
• Manage risks, including identification, mitigation and controls within department/span of control
• Drive and support a compliant and customer centric culture
• Builds on capability and talent opportunities for all staff
• Drives delivery through the engagement of people and cross functional teams
• Engages employees by demonstrating company values and behaviours and ensuring key business messages are cascaded where relevant
• To embed and live the company values in everything you do
• Adhere to Information Security policy

Role Requirements:

• Graduate with IT related degree with Programming covered as part of degree

OR

• 2 years' experience working in a Software development environment
• Good communications skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication

At least one of;

• Experience/Knowledge of Waterfall Methodologies
• Experience/Knowledge of Agile Methodologies & usage of appropriate Tools ie Jira, Trello etc
• Knowledge of using SQL evidenced through the experience above.
• Ability to query data sets for a given criteria
• Understanding of basic Database concepts
• Normalisation
• Entity Relationship Models

Other Technologies (Advantageous)

• C# or VB.NET
• MySQL
• Java
• Web Services
• PHP
• Java
• IOS development
• Android Development

Desirable

• Some .NET an advantage, basic programming in C# and/or VB
• Some knowledge of SSIS/SSRS evidenced through the experience above an advantage

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a market leader