Posted in Other 30+ days ago.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Please note: We're all currently working remotely due to Covid-19. We hope to be back in the office later this year.
As a team, we transform our client's businesses using a combination of strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices. We do this at internet scale - driving innovation, and enriching people's lives. Our skills and talent enable PA's purpose of creating positive a human future in a technology driven world.
As part of our Digital team, you'll work alongside colleagues from across PA - delivering transformative digital solutions to today's most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome. We're an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner.
Our clients have a vast array of technologies, but we aren't expecting you to have exposure to the whole toolkit!
You could be developing new back-end business logic in one sprint, and then looking at implementing a new MVC approach in the next. You probably have a core skillset, either in Java, .NET, or JavaScript, but it's your understanding of data structures, algorithms, libraries and development methods that are most important.
Working in an agile development team is highly sought after, where you're applying development practices such as;
* Agile sprints to deliver incremental code
* TDD and/or BDD approaches, considering outcome at design. Knowledge of test automation
* Secure development and architectural practices, as well as knowledge of non-functional considerations
* JIRA for tracking progress and traceability
* Working alongside others in the team to develop design, elaborate user stories and deliver estimates during story pointing
* Reviewing code with your teammates to provide assurance on a release
* Working against a branching strategy, contributing code regularly to repo E.g. git, svn or cvs.
* Resolving root cause analysis and troubleshooting solutions
* Using your working knowledge of OOP
* Implementing design and concurrency patterns
* Writing clean, readable, maintainable and reusable code
* Appreciating scalability, high availability and disaster recovery requirements
* Using fundamental tools and languages E.g. SQL, Unix, CLI tools, PowerShell, Shell Scripting,
HTML and CSS
* Web application frameworks E.g. ASP.NET, PHP, PERL, Ruby, Python, Play, Spark
* External and embedded databases, relational and NoSQL, E.g. MongoDB, MySQL, Flink,
Cassandra, SQL Server, Postgres. Developing schema for supporting business logic and data
* Microservices architecture, including containers and serverless implementation. E.g.
Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AWS Lambda, Cloud Functions (GCP and Azure)
PA's core technology stacks:
Java
* Java 8+
* MVC, JDBC and RESTful
* Knowledge of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
* Building tools such as Ant, Maven and Gradle
* Using a range of technologies and libraries in the Java ecosystem
JavaScript/MVC
* Client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery
* Various MVCs, understanding the difference between them, and when one makes more
sense than another. E.g. Backbone.js, Angular.js, React.js, Vue.js, Node.js.
* Pushing business logic into browser rather than server
* Image authoring tools
* SEO principles and developing compliant applications
.NET
* C#
* .NET Web Framework
* .NET Core
Your Accountability
Collectively the team are responsible for delivering functioning solutions to our clients.
* You'll have the support of experienced professionals within the team, who can give you
guidance and help you make decisions
* You will have responsibility for owning and delivering on specific tasks, being the design
authority and accountable for creating solutions
* You'll be a trusted member of the team, and you'll be empowered to move things forward
on your own steam
* You may also be expected coach more junior analysts in the team, working with them to
build their expertise
* It's important you feel comfortable having team discussions with the client on the project
and contributing your thoughts and ideas into the team
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.
As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,200 specialists in consumer, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe, and the Nordics.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skill sets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment - one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We're committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA's goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com
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