Engineer - Housing & Asset

Job Title: Job Title: Engineer - Housing & Asset
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £54,221.07 per annum.
Working Hours: 35 hours per week.
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday 
Location: Liverpool - Hybrid 

If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.

The difference you will make as Engineer - Housing & Asset
In this role you will design and develop appropriate software applications to meet functional and non-functional business requirements and project scope, in line with pre-defined development and unit testing standards and controls. also you will be collaborating with key business stakeholders and project colleagues to ensure software design and development aligns with business requirements and project scope, seeking expertise and guidance as required from the Lead Engineers or other technical specialists.

About you
We are looking for someone with:

• Experience and confidence to resolve a variety of technical challenges, e.g., escalations for advice and guidance from support and/or support issue resolution, supplier due diligence for support.
• Experience of conformance to software development standards, tools and techniques.
• In-depth understanding of mainstream development languages, such as Java, C#, .Net, etc.
• Experience of Software Development and Defect Management Systems, such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Experience of working with development standards tools and techniques.
• Experience of working with various database technologies including SQL Server.

Why Riverside?

At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives. 

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

Working with us, you’ll enjoy:

• Competitive pay & generous pension 
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits

Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside:
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues. 
This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview. 
Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Role Profile 

Role requires you to:

• Design and develop appropriate software applications to meet functional and non-functional business requirements and project scope, in line with pre-defined development and unit testing standards and controls.
• Collaborate with key business stakeholders and project colleagues to ensure software design and development aligns with business requirements and project scope, seeking expertise and guidance as required from the Lead Engineers or other technical specialists.
• As appropriate, collaborate with other developers (including 3rd party), to ensure ‘fit for purpose’ solutions are developed, in terms of quality, standards, timescales, costs and appropriate testing of new software.
• Contribute to the development of the project business case, providing design and development estimated time and costs, following the change control process for re-estimation as required.
• Maintain knowledge of industry standards and best practice to ensure identification and selection of the most appropriate solutions, including cloud-based solutions, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Collaborate with Test Analysts to ensure software testing standards are met and provide an efficient and effective defect resolution response as required.
• Provide progress updates as required.
• Ensure documented handover to the support teams of newly developed software, for software maintenance and housekeeping.
• Provide application support as required including incidents and problem management, maintaining applications, databases, keeping up to date with vendor supported releases (and in-house upgrades for bespoke elements), patches and maintenance/upgrades, proactively managing performance, availability, and resilience.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of software development processes and procedures.
• Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required to support the effective operation of the service.
• Work alongside IT Solutions Architecture colleagues to document the detailed application and interface design across individual...