Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Background
Bridgeall is the longest-serving software company in the UK deregulated water markets. We designed and developed the central systems in the Scottish market and the market settlements system in the English market. We also develop and maintain trevi, our own suite software products for both markets. Our trevi product family comprises of solutions for wholesale charge forecasting and revenue recovery and a market-leading water billing solution.

The trevi products are built using the latest Microsoft Azure technologies and as a senior engineer you will be expected to lead development projects when required to supplement the products with new features and enhancements. Furthermore you will be expected to liaise with customers to gather and confirm requirements and also ensure excellent customer satisfaction with the products and services.

Purpose
Ensure that client expectations are met and exceeded in terms of software and service quality and lead others in the delivery of product excellence.

Salary
Up to £60,000 + bonus + pension + private health care

Essential Job Functions
Elicit and document customer needs and requirements
Accurately plan and price development work
Write customer proposals for enhancements and new features
Communicate directly with customers for development or support activities
Investigate and resolve complex data issues for customers
Advise customers on best use of product to maximise value
Lead small teams to deliver quality product
Mentor and provide guidance to less experienced development team members
Identify and evaluate new development technologies
Full lifecycle and agile application development;
Designing and coding of applications
Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD);
Front end graphical user interface design;
Software testing and quality assurance as needed, documenting internal process control;
Performance tuning and improvement
Support and maintenance of developed software
Documenting software functionality;
Integration of developed software with existing systems;
Continuously improve the company’s service offerings
Comply with and develop company standards and guidelines

General Requirements
Essential
Minimum of 10 years software development experience
Minimum of 4 years dealing directly with customers
Degree level education
Good presentation skills
Ability to multitask, work under pressure & meet deadlines
Excellent customer service skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Innovative problem solver
Personally motivated to develop your skills
High attention to detail & consistently following procedure
Work well within a team, sharing information and helping others when required
Flexible approach to time management

Desirable
Ideally, knowledge of the processes and transactions in the English and/or Scottish non-household water markets
Experience of developing products or custom applications in the UK Utilities sector

Technical Skills
Essential
Minimum of 5 years of experience in each of the following (unless otherwise stated):

C#
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Core (3 years)
Azure SQL
SQL Server
Azure DevOps
.Net (Core, latterly .Net 6)
Database schema design
SQL Management Studio
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Microsoft Azure Services (3 years)
Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure AD B2C
Azure Monitor Application Insights

Desirable
Containers (Kubernetes, Docker)
Test Driven Development
Agile/SCRUM
Selenium and/or other automated testing tools
jQuery
VueJS and/or React
KQL (Kusto Query Language)
Azure Data Factory