Glencore - Senior Software Developer - C#/.Net

About the IT Team :

Glencore's Information Technology group develops and supports a range of IT applications and infrastructure to meet the needs of a fast moving, international commodity trading business.

The London-based team is primarily focused on energy trading (oil and gas) and supports business users across a number of offices globally.

The team covers activities across the IT lifecycle including architecture; project management; business analysis; software design, development and support; infrastructure design; and vendor management.

Glencore uses a wide range of modern IT technologies in London and its other offices and also uses a number of leading commercial applications, providing a diverse set of opportunities and challenges.

This role will suit an experienced full-stack analyst/developer with a broad, yet modern skill set and a proven track record, who ideally has knowledge and experience of the commodity or financial trading sectors.

Key Responsibilities :

Senior Developer (around 10 years development experience, perhaps with recent team lead responsibilities) working in a scrum team to deliver robust enterprise-wide solutions utilising industry standard practices.

- Design, develop, enhance and maintain applications using agreed coding standards and quality targets.

- Ensure quality code reviews and thorough unit tests are executed by the team.

- Liaise with immediate scrum team, other scrum/project teams, line manager and development leads to ensure accurate and complete delivery.

- Contribute to the development and implementation of software development best practices within Glencore IT.

- Support and mentor other developers in all areas of the development lifecycle.

- Contribute to the development and implementation of software development best practices within Glencore IT.

- Support and mentor junior developers in all areas of the development lifecycle.

Key Competencies & Skills :

- Expertise of web front-end and back-end development to include most of the following :

1. C# and .NET8+

2. Rest APIs incorporated with SQL Server or Sybase DB.

3. Angular 16+

4. Typescript, ES6, HTML5, CSS3

- Experience with Git, Jira and Confluence.

- Experience with ORMs : NHibernate and/or Entity Framework.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

- Strong problem-solving skills.

- Ability to grasp complex multi-part systems.

- A willingness to engage with be interested in the trading and commercial activities of the business.

- Delivery focused and strong team player.

- Working independently without close supervision.

- Demonstrate expertise of :

1. Building modern-web applications with Angular 16+

2. Modern UI design principles.

- Able to take initial design direction and interpret those guidelines to finalise the design through to a solution.

- API Design and development fundamentals.

- Good SQL/Sybase knowledge.

- Functional and functional-reactive programming in Typescript.

- Functional requirements and system design specifications.

- Test case preparation and execution.

- Setup of development environments to include source code and version control.

- Software builds procedures.

Education & experience requirements :

- Extensive experience of designing and developing applications both individually and as part of a team.

- Knowledge of a commodity or financial trading environment useful but not a pre-requisite.

- Strong inter-personal and communication skills (both verbal and written).

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to develop innovative solutions to technical problems.

- Ability to coach and mentor peers within the scrum team.

- Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum team environment.

- Educated to Degree-level (or equivalent), as a minimum.