Senior Software Engineer (C# / SQL / SSIS)

Senior Software Engineer (C# / SQL / SSIS)

Birmingham / Hybrid
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 (DOE)

A fantastic opportunity has come up to work for a genuine market leader located in Birmingham city center who has invested heavily within the Data and Analytics teams recently, and they are looking for a number of SQL / C# Developers to join them.

This opportunity is for anyone who is passionate about their work, and wishes to progress in their career, as the manager for this opportunity genuinely takes pride in helping his team grow, as does so in a friendly and caring manner.

They are looking for people who are keen to pick up new skills, and work well together in a team (currently a team of SQL, BI, and C# Developers), and in this opportunity, you can genuinely progress and do cross-over project-based work in other teams, so you can always improve and pick up new skills or change your career route into other areas of the business while you work with the new skills.

Main Duties:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible for the development and improvement of our Practice Management Systems
• Ensure that industry standards and best practices are applied across the development and database environments, leading to systems that are secure, robust and optimised
• Produce and maintain documentation contributing towards the wider development infrastructure
• Produce estimates (high-level and detailed) for development work
• Balance work on multiple projects at one time
• Maintain databases and objects such as tables, stored procedures, views, triggers, Indexes
• Handle common database procedures such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration
• Profile server resource usage, and optimise as necessary
• Maintain interfaces with other systems both internal and external
• Deliver browser-based data solutions on IIS as part of our ongoing automation program
• Collaborate within a cross functional team to help shape technical solutions and direction
• Work well with ever-changing processes to meet our company needs and requests

Experience and Skills:

• Extensive SQL Server knowledge
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft SQL Server
• C# and API practices
• SSIS
• Ability to write clean, efficient, readable and well-documented code
• Proven experience of creating and implementing effective testing plans
• Experience of using code repositories
• Capable of troubleshooting common databases issues and debugging stored procedures
• Skilled at optimising large complicated SQL statements
• Familiar with tools that can aid with profiling server resource usage and optimization
• SQL Support
• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success
• Previous experience of helping to deliver projects accurately and on time
• Critical thinker and strong problem-solving skills
• A proven team player, who is able to support others and who can adapt to changing and conflicting priorities
• The ability to prioritise high volumes of responsibilities without delays in deliverables
• A confident and effective communicator who is proactive, self-motivated with a can-do attitude
• Strong attention to detail and willingness to expand your skill set in order to overcome existing challenges

Applying for the opportunity:
If you like the sound of this opportunity and wish to apply, please forward an up-to-date version of your CV, and someone will contact you back within 24 hours