Job Description

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Senior Consultant, Front End Developer - Digital Engineering - UKI
New innovations and technologies are disrupting the business environment. Organizations that want to remain competitive must embrace innovation or risk being left behind. At EY, we help our clients solve large and complex end-to-end business transformation challenges through a combination of human-centred design thinking, business innovation and digital technology.
In Digital Engineering we shape, concept and build innovative solutions that address the most important issues and opportunities for our clients. Our consultants work in agile, cross-functional teams addressing some of most significant issues facing society today, such as transition to sustainable energy, digitisation of government, scaling high-growth businesses, exploiting the potential of AI, moving to a post-Covid world and improving wellness with digital healthcare.
The core capabilities of our team include:

• Digital strategy, horizon scanning, and strategic planning. Working in combined teams with Business Designers, Researchers, Strategists, Industry and Functional Specialists, we develop a vision, roadmap and case for change to address fundamental issues facing our clients, such as "how can we grow?", "how do we respond to disruption?" and "what can we do next?"

• Digital technology delivery management. Using principles of lean start-up and agile, we manage large-scale delivery programmes that include custom software and SaaS solutions, using an ecosystem of EY, client and partner agency resources. We have a range of skills across programme management, solution architecture, product management, business analysis and delivery management,

• Digital software engineering. Many of our solutions involve custom engineering of unique solutions and experiences created from modern web-scale technologies, such as HTML5, JavaScript, Micro-Services, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning.

As a technology specialist, EY offers you the opportunity to apply your skills in a highly strategic context, working on meaningful and impactful solutions that build a better working world. EY is a leader in Business Transformation services and the Digital Engineering team is a rapidly growing to enable us to deliver more of our technology work without needing to rely on ecosystem partners. This is an exciting time and new joiners will have many opportunities to make their mark on the business and accelerate their personal and professional growth.
The opportunity
As a Full-stack Developer, you will leverage your development experience to build out the next generation of our client's platforms. You will be involved in the design, development and roll out of products and applications, solving technical problems and building innovative solutions for our clients. You will apply your strong, first-hand expertise in a variety of applications and languages to deploy robust and scalable solutions, working in an agile environment. You will embody a passion for continuous improvement and test-driven development.
You will work alongside the team to help shape and build our software development capability and market proposition by contributing to a range of practice development initiatives. As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.
Your key responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop compelling, commercially viable digital products for our clients
• Leverage software engineering best practices in design, coding standards, performance, security, delivery, maintainability, and culture to build new software features
• Perform the technical implementation and development of solutions and products, ensuring alignment with the business to meet their requirements, while in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Configure, develop and integrate SaaS, cloud and microservices solutions
• Write and test code, refining and rewriting it as necessary and communicate with any developers involved in the project

Work closely with other teams, such as project managers, scrum masters, UX designers and other developers to design optimal solutions, often trading-off technical and operational considerations
Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to build innovative full stack software solutions with the latest technology and agile development practices
• Understanding of DevOps technologies and practices, cloud native development and API design and development
• Ability to develop software packages in both imperative and declarative programming paradigms
• Agile mindset and an advocate and practitioner of XP practices
• Balance the trade-offs of delivering sustainable code that provides an excellent customer experience
• Ability to have productive conversations with both business and technical audiences
• Commitment to continuous improvement and a drive to better the software development lifecycle regime
• Attention to detail and strong structured problem-solving skills
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelors and / or master's degree in technology subject areas (e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering) or relevant experience
• A minimum of 2+ years' experience as a software developer working across the full product/ software lifecycle (design, implementation, testing)
• Experience in modern architecture, latest open source technologies and programming e.g. Microservices, Docker, AngularJS, Node.js, Java, Python, Scala etc.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React and Amber.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, PHP and .Net.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD), Pair Programming skills and automated testing frameworks
• Experience working in an agile environment, where agile and/or lean practices and approaches are applied as a way of working to deliver technology products
• Excellent communication skills and ability to produce high-quality written deliverables in fluent English
• A willingness to travel and work in client sites, both in the UK and overseas as and when required

What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

About EY
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we're using the finance products, expertise and systems we've developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we'll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2022 a reality.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
Join us in building a better working world.
Apply now.
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