Job Description

AWE have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Analyst to join our growing team.

Location - Reading / Basingstoke Area

Salary: \xc2\xa342,700 - \xc2\xa367,500 based on experience

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
• Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
• Life Assurance
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site

AWE is currently recruiting a System Analyst with a good knowledge of PL/1 for server-side scripting with a task to design and implement a graphical frontend display of system health and live system metrics for users. The role will join a small team of Software Analysts and the successful candidate will undertake all aspects of 1st line system support and customer requests.

As a System Analyst you will be required to:

• Undertake a new project to extract data from a central server that uses a \'flat file\' database and import the data into a relational database
• Create a system that extracts information from the Relational Database to create:

• Daily/Weekly and Quarterly reports
• System Health Check reports
• Bespoke reports

• Develop a way of extracting data from the central server when the central server application becomes obsolete
• Handle queries from internal customers and work as part of a small group to solve the query
• Undertake minor application updates in PL/1
• Undertake daily health checks on a central server
• Peer review software code of other programmers
• Design, as well as undertake, system testing, module testing, regression testing and validate user acceptance testing

To succeed in this role, you\'ll have:

• Possess knowledge of BS, EN 61508 programming standards
• Good working knowledge of Relational databases
• Server-Side scripting: Java, PHP, Perl, Python etc.
• HTML and page design
• PL/1 programming or Cobol program skills
• C, C++ and Fortran programming skills would be beneficial
• Operating systems: VOS, Linux and Windows

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for this role.

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