Next Plc
Lead Developer - C# | .NET | Azure
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The Role:
While you’ll have heard our name, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about NEXT. Like how we create most of our systems ourselves – whether it’s a website, mobile app or application. What’s more, we’re growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business.
Our eCommerce websites and apps have grown steadily over the past 10 years to become one of the largest online retail platforms in the UK. We currently sell to 70 international markets, offering our 6 million active customers a personalised shopping experience and the ability to purchase from a wide range of products using multiple delivery methods and payment types.
What You’ll Take On:
- You'll be helping develop our cloud platform and assisting with the transformation of the current monolithic system to one based upon a micro-service Architecture.
- You'll work on various exciting and high profile projects, to ensure our systems/applications support the portfolio of products we have now and into the future. Making sure as Next expands or adopts new initiatives, our systems evolve and grow to support it every step of the way.
- Working with us would mean exposure to new technologies and ways of working, getting involved in forcing through change and ultimately providing our customers with a better service.
- You will help provide the analysis and development skills we need to create and enhance our systems and applications, as well as offering out-of-hours call out on a rota basis. You’ll also use your expertise and experience to help us continually improve our processes, improve our quality and working practices, actively enabling the team to become as efficient and effective as it can be.
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Essential Criteria
- Able to speak, read and write English at a level that enables you to complete your role, for example, to understand instructions and communicate effectively with stakeholders and/or other team members
- Experienced in effectively working in a collaborative manner in a large scale, fast paced environment within a multifunctional technical team
- This is a hands-on development role where your time will be split equally in cutting code, using your subject matter expertise in the technology to deliver solutions at a fast pace to a high standard, as well as leading the team in their tasks and future task planning and design.
- An in-depth knowledge of the following:
- Azure Web Services, with additional focus on Azure Data Functions and Azure Build Pipelines
- Databases, with focus on Cosmos, MongoDB and SQL Server
- SQL Stored Procedure and Script implementations
- C# /.NET8+
- Microsoft Azure Devops
- REST APIs and GraphQL
- Micro service architecture
- TDD
- Agile
- System design/architecture
Desirable Criteria
- Kubernetes
- Dynatrace Monitoring
- IAC (Terraform)
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You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
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- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
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