• Design and develop software components for IDBS products within the IDBS ISO certified process.
• To deliver commercially desirable solutions to business problems supplied as part of a project team.
• To either produce or assist in the production of requirements, functional designs and/or project plans.
• Carry out maintenance work on existing code bases as required or as a result of new implementation work.

• Five or more years working in a commercial software development environment demonstrating an all round competency in software development. In particular, experience with graphical user interface design is required to meet the expectations of this job.
• Good interpersonal skills in dealing with programme managers and team members within and external to your own group.
• Ability to estimate longer software development tasks with reasonable accuracy and be able to justify and explain estimates to programme managers.
• Productive and trusted software developer, generating consistently high quality work
• Experience in producing functional specifications (or use cases, story-boards) and system level design (UML an advantage).
• Willingness to work within and help improve quality systems. This includes diligent unit testing.
• Extensive Java skills in producing software using Java 5, J2EE, EJB and Swing. Extensive experience of database technologies, including Oracle and JDBC. Applicants are expected to be expert Java developers and capable of picking up unfamiliar APIs or components very quickly.
• Good honours degree in a numerate discipline.

• Strong supporting skills in XML, Ant, Eclipse are an advantage.
• Knowledge and/or experience in the Life-Sciences domain or in a domain involving technical software coupled with databases or multi-tier applications

Human Resources
IDBS
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GU2 7QB
UK
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email: careers@idbs.com