Product Development Engineer

Department: Sonetto Software Development

Reports to: Development Manager

Location: West London and on customer sites as required

We are currently looking for a strong Product Development Engineer to join the Sonetto Software Development practice focusing on our award winning Information Management Software and working with an exceptionally strong team. A pragmatic approach coupled with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines' is a must for this role.

Responsibilities

• Analyse, design, develop and maintain sub-systems of the Sonetto product, either alone or as part of a project-team


• Assist project stakeholders in the definition of requirements by offering technical guidance


• Plan and organise own work, in collaboration with the project manager or team lead


• Interact with other product developers to ensure design decisions for individual work fit within the architecture


• Mentor and share knowledge with colleagues

Required Skills & Experience

• Good Computer Science Degree


• Experience of analysis, design, development and implementation of e-business architectures based on the Microsoft .NET platform


• Strong development experience with OO languages (including C#)


• Strong database skills (SQL Server)


• Experience of agile development/design methodologies i.e. Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Refactoring

Characteristics

• A "can-do" attitude with a passion and general curiosity for technology


• Ability to communicate technical and business issues


• Methodical with good attention to detail


• Able and keen to use initiative to identify and take ownership for additional tasks that add value to the customer or team


• Able to work in a team or independently and manage own time

Desirable Skills

• Experience in enterprise product development, preferably full lifecycle


• Knowledge representation: Conceptual Graphs, RDF, Semantic Web


• Experience in developing of Rule-engines


• Experience in developing Search-engines


• Usage of Workflow systems (eg. BizTalk)


• Experience in writing high-performance code (C# and algorithmically)


• Visual C++


• Front end development: ASP.NET, XML/XSL, HTML, CSS


• Good understanding of Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)