Database/ Software Engineer

Role: Database/ Software Engineer
Contract Length: Until 31/03/2020
Location: Fareham
IR35: In Scope
Pay Rate to Candidate: £355.00
Security Clearance: SC cleared

Interview Process: face to face

Skills:
Essential
• Understanding of the software lifecycle and different development approaches including Agile methods (for example Scrum).
• Proficiency in modern programming tools
o Scripting languages, including Python.
o Database technologies and database architecture, including
 MongoDB and its Aggregation Pipeline, and
 SQL database organisation and query
 Document Orientated Database design
o Issues tracking software (for example JIRA, Bugzilla etc)
o Proficiency in using configuration management software (for example Git, Subversion etc)
o Proficiency in using modern configuration management tools

• Either a degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering
• Or Demonstrable, relevant experience in place of a degree qualification.

Desirable
• Understanding of military units and their use
• Experience of Military Analytical Wargame and/or Model use and/or design
• Understanding of PHP
• Understanding of MySQL / MariaDB
• Experience with working using the Agile development methodology (Scrum preferred)
• Experience of distributed configuration management (e.g. GIT)
• Experience of command-line Linux
• Experience using front-end web-based technologies, including JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS.
• Experience of component-oriented web frameworks (such as ReactJS, VueJS etc.)
• Experience of CSS frameworks (such as Bulma, SemanticUI etc.)
• Experience of using automated testing tools, test-driven development and continuous integration

• Relevant professional qualifications (e.g. formal training or chartership).

Modern Databasing and web-based development technologies offer the possibility to
significantly upgrade the client's capability to manage the information and data input and output from its models. One current solution for this is “the WISE Data Warehouse” based on a SQL database, which is specific to the models it is currently used for. A new version, the “Models Data Warehouse”, potentially applicable to many more models, is being developed using MongoDB and associated technologies. It is now required that the data in the existing warehouse be migrated to the Models Data Warehouse and the functionality
demonstrated successfully.

You are expected to work on, inter alia, Database and other software development tasks. Particularly, to ensure the correct transfer of data from an existing data warehousing solution based on a SQL database to a developmental one being built using MongoDB.