R&D Member of Technical Staff II, Product Development

The job

The software developer will be responsible for developing solutions to satisfy asset lifecycle management requirements, helping other developers during the development process, giving attention to usability and consistency across the AVEVA product suite.

You will participate in software development, provide development documentation, and ensure work is reviewed and tested at all stages of development; always striving to support the overall aim of AVEVA products to be market leaders.

Key responsibilities

• Research possible product enhancements.
• Participate and comment in review sessions.
• Implement approved enhancements to products; reporting on progress against estimate and highlighting unexpected technical issues.
• Help other developers during the whole development lifecycle.
• Write development documentation and create promotion material for implemented product enhancements.
• Provide 3rd level support to customers, for issues relating to the usage of the developed products in production releases.
• Providing Technical Analysis within Projects.
  • Preparation of detailed task breakdown and estimates.
• Ensuring that content matches the approved specification.
• Consideration of security aspects during development.
• Merge changes into the Configuration Management system and ensure the subsequent integrity of code.
• Report inconsistencies across AVEVAs design and security standards to management.

Essential requirements

• A Computer Science, Math or equivalent Degree or experience.
• At least three years of experience in software development.
• Experienced in using the Visual Studio development environment.
• Competence in object-oriented software design, with appreciation of coding and design for maintainability, extensibility, testability, and reuse.
• Familiar with agile software development processes especially Scrum.

Desired skills and competencies

• Good communication skills, working with a broad range of people, including Product Owners, Testers & Product Support across sites.
• Task based, multi-site configuration management, e.g. ADO and Git.
• Developing software deployed to the Azure or on-premises.
• Test Driven Development.
• Technical depth in one of the following disciplines:
  • Desktop application development
  • Web frontend development
  • Web backend development
• Good breadth of knowledge across all the design patterns.
• Pair Programming, Continuous Integration.
• Public speaking and presentation skills.
• User interface and user experience design.
• Ability to deliver against content, quality and date.
• Ability to estimate tasks, using task breakdown and advice from colleagues.
• Methodical and organized.
• Self-starter, demonstrating ownership of tasks from inception to delivery.
• Responsive to the needs of management, colleagues, and business representatives.