Systems Development Engineer

SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER - PERMANENT - CHELMSFORD
Fantastic opportunity to join a market leading Insurance Underwriter, specialising in Commercial Motor for the UK and Ireland, as a Systems Development Engineer. You will be joining a business where employees and customers are always at the core of their values and practices, where you will be offered excellent opportunities to develop and progress your career, alongside a competitive salary and benefits package.
Key Responsibilities (include, but are not limited to):

Responsible for the development and maintenance of applications, databases and information systems of varying sizes and complexity
Undertake various application and infrastructure development projects
Ensure the highest levels of application, systems, and infrastructure availability
Monitor and test application and systems performance for potential issues, identify possible solutions, and work with vendors to implement fixes
Troubleshoot areas of improvement or poor performance in order to identify effective solutions
Identify best practices in IT change/problem/service management through continuous improvement initiatives
As required, assist in other areas of the IT department: technical support escalations and troubleshooting systems technical issues.

Essential Skills

Degree educated in Computer Science or Software Engineering
Commercial experience using bespoke and/or commercial financial products
Expert knowledge of MS SQL or other data analysis/mining tools
A solid understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress (not all mandatory, but desirable)
High degree of IT literacy, specifically around Microsoft Excel, Power Pivot & Power BI.
Ability to develop dashboards showing overall data performance (for example, using Microsoft Power BI or similar reporting frameworks)
Project management skills
Excellent organisational and time management skills
Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
Understand the demands of a deadline-driven, top-tier professional company and how the IT team should function to support it
Self-motivated achiever who gains satisfaction from providing excellent service
Excellent verbal and written communication and listening skills
Create positive working relationships throughout the organisation
Able to work using own initiative, in a team and work under pressure
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.

Desirable Skills

Any .Net MCP, MCAD or MCSD qualifications are a definite advantage.
General understanding of Insurance industry practices & principles.

A Successful Candidate Will:

Be proactive, self-motivated, logical, and organised.
Be a team player with the ability to work independently.
Be able to effectively manage and prioritise a busy workload.
Be able to work to deadlines whilst continually strive for improvements in quality, efficiency, and presentation.
Possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Have experience interpreting and manipulating data and large volume data sets.
Have excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly in the presentation of complex data and analytical findings to non-technical audiences.
Be highly numerate & analytical with excellent attention to detail.
Understand the constraints of using sensitive and confidential data.
* Actively always exhibit and develop professionalism and respect confidentiality where required by the business and others.

Have a can-do attitude, demonstrate attention to detail, be able to spot irregularities and challenge them.

Pre-employment checks:
Any employment will be subject to background screening checks prior to your start date.

Employment Type
Full-time and office based