Solution Developer (SITS)

Please note a full application including a covering letter detailing your experience alongside a CV is required for applications to be considered. Please be advised applications made without providing a cover letter will not be accepted.

Our SITS Teams are responsible for the design, build, test and support of the University's SITS configuration. We have separate teams for the development, test and first line support of our SITS solution.

This role will be flexible being primarily remote. The role will provide you with the opportunity to work within a SITS and related technologies framework hosted in a cloud environment. Your role will be to design and build solutions based on requirements elicited from the business.

As a self-motivated flexible Solution Developer, you'll join a mid-size professional team that has initiatives underway to transform our digital student journey using SITS.

We need someone who can:

Engage and coordinate with our service owners, business analysts, and technical staff to help design our SITS services.
Work at a detailed technical level with colleagues across IT and elsewhere; ensure business requirements and challenges are understood and catered for.
Work with stakeholders to ensure service designs deliver the expected benefits.
Provide guidance to more junior staff in their delivery of SITS components and issue resolution.
Produce clear and concise documentation to support underlying configuration and developments.

Have a proven background in SITS development.
Produce specifications and technical documentation based on requirements from the business.
Suggest best methods to deliver functionality within the SITS toolset and to develop SITS configuration to meet specification.
Be responsible from conception right through to delivery and support and have excellent communication skills in being able to convey technical information to non-technical users.
Be capable of coding solutions to a very high standard and within the set business deadlines.
Take advantage of rapid prototyping to ensure that your solutions offer maximum benefit and encourage opportunities for a review, improve and innovate cycle.
Release in accordance with deployment strategies
Be logical and methodical, capable of planning and leading complex work.
Be a team player, happy to contribute, lead and be led.
Be confident and positive, with a degree or professional qualification
Have a desire to add value, and to continually improve processes.

If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, this is a great chance to develop your career in a professional environment that offers benefits.

Canterbury Christ Church University truly welcomes fresh perspectives and new voices. We want you to bring the real you to work, so we are committed to building a genuinely inclusive working environment where everyone is welcomed and where everyone can have a true sense of belonging. Our spirit of community will help us to eliminate discrimination and will enable us all to thrive in a culture that is underpinned by fairness and justice. We therefore seek people to join us who will proactively support and shape this aim and contribute in their own unique way. If this is you, then we are waiting to hear from you.

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