Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. Key Responsibilities Specialist advice - Actively maintains recognized expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s). - Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organizational objectives. - Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organization. Emerging technology monitoring Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats and opportunities to the organization. Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights. Systems development management - Defines systems development projects which support the organization’s objectives and plans. - Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. - Ensures that senior management is both aware of and able to provide the required resources. Facilitates availability and optimum utilization of resources. - Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects, ensuring that projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and procedures (including secure software development). - Develops road maps to communicate future development activity. Systems design - Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology .Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. - Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements. - Models, simulates or prototypes the behavior of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders. -Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems. - Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications Software design - Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns and methodology. - Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. - Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. - Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems. - Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. - Leads reviews of others’ designs. - Models, simulates or prototypes the behavior of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Programming/software development - Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. - Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. - Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes. - Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work. Database design - Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities. - Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, in order to evaluate alternative options. - Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability. - Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics. Testing - Accepts responsibility for creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications (such as reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability and portability). - Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. - Produces test scripts, materials and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services. - Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources and tools. - Interprets, executes and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards. - Records and analyses actions and results and maintains a defect register. - Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary. - Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with the overall project. - Reports on system quality and co