Senior Analyst Programmer Job in City Of London, London Uk

A Senior Analyst Programmer is required to undertake a 12 month contract vacancy based in London for a government end client.
You will design and develop new software development applications, major enhancements to existing applications and application corrections to defined time, cost and quality targets.

Key accountabilities
• Design and develop new applications and make changes to existing applications in accordance with quality processes and technical standards
• Deliver new/amended software to agreed timescales, costs and quality standards
• Provide support for 'live' applications deployed, ensuring highest availability through urgent correction of problems and issues
• Unit test all new software thoroughly to ensure highest quality levels possible
• Produce updates to system documentation for completed developments to support defect resolution.
• Utilise system analysis skills to translate business requirements into use cases and produce system designs to agreed standards
• Provide expertise in the estimating and planning delivery of new software
• QA / audit products for compliance to standards, peer to peer code reviews, design reviews and compliance with standard software development/testing techniques
• Take a lead role on development projects, either working alone or overseeing a team of technical personnel
• Provide effective leadership and management of a technical team within an operational matrix project structure.
Skills
• Ability to take a lead role on a development assignment, either working alone or by leading a small team of developers
• Excellent communication skills and professional approach to dealing with users/stakeholders up to director level within the business
• Well developed management and motivational skills, setting performance standards
Microsoft .Net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
C#
WCF services
ASP.NET MVC
Dynamic Data
Entity Framework
HTML/JavaScript
SQL Server 2000/2005 Development

Essential (At least a mix of 3)
Software Design patterns
Automated Test Frameworks (nUnit, Rhino Mock)
UML Use cases, Domain Models
Oracle Warehouse Builder
SQL Server Integration Services - SISS
MSMQ
Desirable
Database Design
Websphere
Dependency Injection Containers (unity, castle, spring)
SOA design
Business objects
SharePoint

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