SCR Assistant Application Developer

Job summary

The Assistant Application Developer role acts as a liaison between Application Development and Customer Support teams for various support related technical tasks such as dealing with complex customer support calls, deployments and migrations.

The post holder will also be responsible for less complex development within the main development sprint lifecycle and will work with other teams through the analysis, specification and design phases of changes or new functionality whilst also creating technical documentation where required.

The post holder will be required to work remotely out of hours to deal with system upgrades on a regular basis.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be undertaking the following roles & responsibilities:

• Performing third line support activities working with support staff to resolve client issues.
• Implementation of the Somerset Cancer Register (SCR) product, releases and fixes to external customer sites.
• Managing Customers moving from premise to Azure cloud environment.
• Working with other developers and test teams to ensure efficient build and pipeline releases.
• Performing system testing when required by the testing team in preparation for releases.
• Carrying out bug fixes, system maintenance and server migrations

About us

Somerset Cancer Register is a unique and very successful NHS software business. We are the market leading cancer system supplier in England supporting over 100 Trusts. Our products have a good reputation which is a reflection on the quality of our work. We are a small, dynamic and flexible team covering all aspects of software development. We are going through a large modernisation programme moving our products into a cloud service environment, so this is an exciting time to join us.

As an organisation, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits including flexible working, NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance and a commitment to career development. You will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a wide range of NHS exclusive shopping & leisure discounts. We are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer we welcome applications from all backgrounds. Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London. There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. Somerset offers the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!