Developer

Why we need you

As a Developer at Consumer Intelligence, you’ll join a fantastic team dedicated to powering the business and accelerating our insight through critical IT infrastructure. Operating in a small business with the opportunity to make a huge impact.

You’ll help us transform strategic goals into the reliable, secure, and modern software that underpins our business operations. The Development team is essential in maintaining high levels of system stability while also guiding the research and development that keeps our technology effective and forward-looking.

At Consumer Intelligence, we’re primarily utilising a Microsoft stack with a mix of platforms for front and backend systems; this role would be ideal for a candidate with a mix of experience across these technologies, and/or a keenness for learning new systems.

What you’ll achieve

• Project Delivery: Deliver robust, scalable, and secure system solutions that directly execute the business's technology roadmap and strategic goals.
• Operational Excellence & Security: Support the technical integrity of business-critical systems, implementing best practices to ensure uptime, mitigate security risks, and support our compliance obligations.
• Technical Innovation: Invest in R&D that explores emerging technologies, including AI and Machine Learning, transforming concepts into tangible prototypes and solutions.
• Team Enablement & Resilience: Be immersed in a culture of knowledge sharing and teamwork, eliminating key-person dependencies and elevating the team's collective technical capabilities.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Strengthen collaboration by acting as a primary technical lead on internal projects, translating business needs into clear technical specifications

What you’ll do

• Project Support: Support the end-to-end delivery of development projects, including the design, testing, and implementation of cost-effective automated system solutions.
• System Integrity: Provide ongoing support and enhancement for all existing business platforms and embed security into the development lifecycle (DevSecOps), ensuring system resilience and full business continuity
• Solution engineering: Help translate business and client requirements into efficient technical solutions, leading the research and validation of new technologies and libraries to solve complex problems.
• Knowledge Sharing: Embrace a culture of high-quality code, continuous learning, and clear documentation to remove single-person dependencies.
• Quality & Monitoring: Implement and manage monitoring for systems to ensure performance against KPIs, tackle quality problems and report on technical progress and risks.
• Internal Collaboration: Operate as a technical contact on projects and manage relationships with internal stakeholders, translating technical information for non-technical audiences.

Who you are

• Systematic & Conscientious: You apply a logical and systematic approach to problem-solving, with the persistence to see tasks through to completion. You place a high value on security, quality, and good governance in your work.
• Collaborative & Clear Communicator: You are a skilled communicator and an attentive listener, able to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences. You enjoy working as part of a team and seeing how your work influences broader activities. [OR consider the impact of your work on others.]
• Responsive & Composed: You can respond quickly and effectively to problems or urgent situations, maintaining a calm and focused approach to find a resolution.
• Innovative & Autonomous: You are comfortable working with a degree of autonomy and proactively explore new ideas. You have a forward-looking perspective and an interest in testing new procedures to improve how we work.

What you’ll need

• Proficient programming and IT skills, across a broad tech stack
• Experience in software development, including end to end project implementation
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience of collaborating effectively with remote teams.
• Ability to apply technical best practices, including DevSecOps principles, to ensure consistency across solutions.
• Responsive to changing business and client needs.

Who you’ll work with

• IT Director: To help plan the technology roadmap, agree on project targets, report on progress and technical risks.
• Operational Teams: Working closely to ensure they are fully aware of progress on all relevant development projects and changes.
• Business & Client Stakeholders: To understand requirements, manage expectations, and collaborate on planning and implementing solutions.

You don’t need to meet all the above criteria to be a great candidate for this role! We’re looking for passionate and motivated people to make this role their own; if you have less or more direct experience in the areas relevant to this role we’d encourage you to put forward your interest.

What you'll get

This is role is a permanent, full time vacancy (37.5 hours per week). We're based in Bristol and are happy to accommodate hybrid or remote working as part of our outcome only working practices.

If you have any questions about the particulars of our compensation and benefits for this role, please contact us at [email protected]​

• Competitive salary
• Private Medical Insurance after 3 months service/completion of probationary period
• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing by one day each year up to 28 days
• Flexible, Outcome Only Working culture & Hybrid Working

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not tolerate discrimination in any form. If you would like to read more about how we protect the integrity of our recruitment process, take a look at our inclusive recruitment policy.

If you would like to talk to us about any adjustments or other requirements you may have that will enable you to be best supported through your application and beyond, please contact our Head of People & Culture, Alice, by emailing: [email protected].

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds, or with different experiences and attributes, to apply and join our team.

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