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Job Title Software Engineer
Job Reference 0037/16/CH
Post Type Full time / Fixed term for 2 years
Division Life Science
Salary information £32,158 to £37,833
Application deadline 13/09/2016


Job Description

Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Located on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire a 20 minute drive south of Oxford in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Diamond Light Source conducts world-class research in virtually all fields of science and offers rewarding career opportunities covering both technical and scientific disciplines.

To work within the User Administration System team on the full lifecycle development of the software needed to enable effective user administration at Diamond.

Key responsibilities:

  • Consult with system users and analyse their requirements, and make suggestions for simple improvements to the system
  • Design, code and test enterprise software to meet supplied specifications, providing estimates of own tasks
  • Deploy software to and configure enterprise servers to agreed designs, including database administration
  • Support live systems, investigating and resolving straightforward incidents, interacting with staff and external users
  • Support and implement systems associated with the core UAS to interface to external dependent systems
  • Resolve reported faults in the system, and communicate with testers
  • Document all work, including instructions on how to build and deploy software
  • Peer review other team members’ work
  • Produce and maintain documentation describing system operation for its users, and advise them in system use
  • Develop and maintain expertise in software development tools and techniques, and advise the team how they might be used.

Qualification & Experience - Essential

  • Postgraduate degree or appropriate experience in the disciplines required;
  • Ability and initiative to get to the heart of the problem and take it effectively through to the heart of the problem;
  • Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
  • Self-motivated;
  • Java development experience;
  • Experience of UNIX-like and Windows operating systems;
  • Willing and able to perform support activities when necessary.

Qualification & Experience - Desirable

  • Postgraduate degree or 3 years of appropriate experience in the disciplines required;
  • Ability to interact effectively with staff at all levels to collect feedback and isolate new requirements;
  • Must be able to work in a team environment to established operational principles such as “Agile”;
  • Able to travel occasionally within the UK and overseas including overnight absences;
  • Experience of Web Front and Middleware development technologies such as GWT, Spring and Hibernate;
  • Knowledge of code development platforms such as Eclipse and/or Netbeans;
  • Experience of interaction with databases;
  • Experience of full cycle application development including unit testing, code repositories and deployment.

Further Information

Applying for employment

For further details on applying for employment at Diamond, please visit our 'Application Form' page.

Appointments will be made depending on the skills and experience of the candidate. Electronic Diamond application forms in MS-Word are preferred. These should be emailed to recruitment@diamond.ac.uk



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