PHP Developer

TN United Kingdom; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Our team at Skilltech is searching for a PHP developer who is a digital innovator, passionate about how technology can enable business change, and loves to deliver unique solutions. The role will allow you to use your existing skills and experience to influence both the design decisions, and it will require good inter-personal and collaboration skills to work with both technical and business stakeholders.

Responsible for bringing ideas to life, this role will collaborate with the wider development team and stakeholders in the business to conceive and deliver innovative solutions to a high standard.

What will you be doing?

Scope:

• Working with the development team to ensure that high quality solutions are delivered on time.

Coding Standards:

• Understand and work within our standards framework
• Peer review colleagues' code to ensure consistency and reduce bugs
• Seek and identify opportunities for improvement in the codebase wherever appropriate

Agile Process:

• Participate in, or lead if appropriate, daily stand-up meetings with the team as appropriate
• Help identify and work to remove bottlenecks
• Embrace and support Agile methods and techniques.
• Produce specifications which deliver against acceptance criteria as described in user stories and requirement documentation
• Promote full business engagement in the Agile development process.
• Support User Acceptance Testing

Validation, Release and Deployment:

• Understand the approach for validating the solution and work with the Development team to ensure that work is of a consistent high standard before release.
• Co-ordinate the use of non-production environments to ensure the release schedule of IT is maintained.
• Work with the Development team to deliver regular updates and fixes.
• Ensure release notes are clear and informative.

What will you bring to the role?

• Object-oriented PHP development with 2 years’ experience developing applications in a commercial environment
• Experienced with version control (Git, SVN)
• A logical thinker and problem solver

Giving back to you – our Group Benefits

• 25 days' holiday rising with service and your birthday off.
• Holiday purchase scheme for those life-changing trips and moments.
• Long service reward and recognition
• Enhanced Pension
• Group Life Assurance – 3 x Annual salary
• Unlimited access to six Smart Health services including a 24/7 virtual GP
• Health Cash Plan
• Access to curated wellbeing content and our Employee Assistance Programme
• To support your work/life balance we give you the opportunity of flexibility within our core working hours (9.00 – 5.30).
• Enhanced Maternity/Shared Parental and Adoption packages leave
• A reward programme and recognition programme and annual awards event

Who are Skilltech?

Skilltech is part of the Lifetime Training Group. As a Group, we are passionate about learning and creating life-changing opportunities for our learners. We are made up of four unique businesses, two of which focus on apprentice training across a range of professions, one that focuses on awarding qualifications, and one which develops the awarding software.

Skilltech Solutions was created by a group of passionate, highly experienced individuals with over 15 years of experience in the education and EdTech sector. Since founding, our team has gone on to release our industry-leading EPAPro flagship software specifically for the end-point assessment organisations in the apprenticeships sector.

We are at the forefront of innovative training and awarding and as a larger group network we can offer a broad range of development opportunities, great benefits, and a people-focussed reward and recognition offering.

At Lifetime Training Group, we are committed to broadening the diversity of our workforce and creating a sense of belonging for all. In this way, we will better represent our learners and partners to greater understand and fulfil their needs.

Your experience is invaluable to us, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable recruitment environment for all candidates. We welcome any feedback on how we can enhance our approach to an inclusive process; please feel free to share your ideas with us here:

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