Smart421 provides flexible, responsive and cost effective solutions that deliver business results from IT investment and meet your needs. Providing Outcome Assurance: Smart421 makes successful, repeatable delivery the standard.

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Microsoft Developer

Reporting To: Head of Delivery
Location: Ipswich base (UK wide on client sites)
Rate/Salary: £dependent upon experience

We are looking for an experienced Microsoft Developer, ideally with a Consultancy background, to play a key role on a range of high profile Microsoft projects with our blue chip client base. Ideally with MCPD/MCTS/MCSD qualifications to compliment your commercial experience, you will have extensive n-tier or SOA experience in a Web-forms, Win Form or Web Service Development environment using C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net v1.1 & 2.0 of the .NET framework, XML and SQL Server 2000 & 2005. With first class customer facing skills and a genuine passion for quality / professional delivery, you will be looking for a new challenge with a company that genuinely recognises and rewards its star performers.

Role and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will either be working on client sites or in our Ipswich development centre; this may be as an individual or as an integral part of a multi-skilled team.

Technical Experience
Essential

  • Good hands-on coding skills in C#, VB.NET and ASP.Net coupled with a good knowledge of the .NET Framework v1.1 & 2.0
  • Good experience with and knowledge of UML and Microsoft design patterns and Practices, Enterprise Application blocks, UML Component, Class, Sequence diagrams
  • Involvement across the full project lifecycle (to successful deployment)
  • Strong experience in SQL Server 2000/2005
  • Other Microsoft technologies (including XML, WSE, FXCop).
Desirable
  • Experience with Enterprise Application Integration technologies (particularly BizTalk Server 2006 R2, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, .NET 3.0 WCF and Web Services, SOA approaches)
  • Experience of leading a technical team
  • Relational Databases experiences such as Oracle or DB2
  • 3rd Party tools such as FXCop, NUnit, NCover, CruiseControl.

Qualifications
  • MCTS.Net (or relevant MCP's)
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Other Skills / Experience

  • A delivery focused attitude with the ability to drive tasks forward and meet demanding deadlines
  • Extremely capable of picking up new technologies quickly and a very proactive self educator
  • A willingness to be flexible in terms of work location and to undertake work at client sites as and when required
  • Ability to deal successfully with staff at all levels within an organisation
  • The ability to communicate clearly to a wide range of people both internally and externally to the organisation (as well as the ability to influence / negotiate)
  • Exceptional customer facing skills
  • Strong written and presentation skills

Training

Smart421 actively encourages and supports staff in the pursuit of relevant certifications and training

Benefits

25 days holiday, Contributory Pension, Flexible Insurance scheme (includes Life Cover, Critical Illness Cover and Income Replacement options), Share Scheme.