Full Stack Developer

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.

Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About The Business Unit

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Job Specification

We are looking for a Senior Digital Consultant to join our enthusiastic, ambitious and growing Information Management team.

You will be part of our Information Management network responsible for implementing the latest digital design delivery methods and improved ways of working across our major infrastructure projects. Our team works with a range of major project clients, predominantly in the transportation sector in the UK and North America. Our focus is in the development of innovative digital project solutions to drive efficiency improvements during the delivery of our built environment projects.

This is an opportunity to apply and further hone your development skills within the civil engineering sector, actively working on solutions that help our clients in achieving their objectives towards Net Zero. You’ll work as part of a highly successful and innovative team, helping to advise our infrastructure-owning clients in the delivery of their civil engineering assets, predominantly in transportation systems, from railways and roads to bridges and tunnels.

It’s an opportunity to be creative in developing information and technology-based solutions to real-world problems, obtaining, organising and extracting value from data, and using the resulting information to help our clients make good decisions. To do this you’ll be responsible for leading our team of digital consultants to develop and deliver these solutions and make a positive contribution to the safety, performance and sustainability of our clients’ infrastructure, for the benefit of society.

Due to this role being a lead role within the team, we’re looking for someone who has extensive Full Stack experience, and a previous history of management / mentorship within this remit.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development of responsive and scalable high-quality software using agile methodologies
• Architecting web applications, reviewing design and coding standards
• Providing estimates and delivering to agreed timeframes
• Leading a team of developers to help define and develop approaches to getting value from data and working independently on specific analysis tasks.
• Keeping up to date with technology and best practices in web development and share knowledge with wider teams
• Cleaning, structuring and querying asset data, building and using tools for analysis, identifying patterns and trends.
• Applying rigorous quality procedures for management of version control and audit trail in code development.
• Researching and evaluating the potential application of new and emerging technologies for infrastructure data capture and analysis.
• Helping to create decision support tools that combine, contextualize, and create value from collected data.
• Communicating findings to both technical and non-technical people, verbally, statistically, in writing, through visualizations and presentations.

Candidate Specification

Essential Skills

• Python, React JS, TypeScript, JavaScript
• MS SQL and NoSQL databases, MongoDB
• Git command and team workflows
• API design for streaming data
• Azure services
• Agile delivery methodology
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Team leadership and effective communication skills

Desirable Skills

• Experience or understanding of the architectural, engineering and construction industry
• NET / C#
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

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