Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Category: IT
Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: Birmingham West Midlands
Posted on: 02/07/2009

The UK§s leading supplier of Library Management Systems who are recognised for delivering innovative solutions that support and enrich education, learning and local communities is seeking a Web Application Technical Lead to join their team in Solihull. Today more than one quarter of UK academic and public libraries have successfully implemented their library management suite, enabling libraries to deliver the dynamic services required by their users.

There is an opening at the company within the Library Division for a Web Application Technical Lead to drive the continuing development of their next generation library catalogue product. This role makes technical decisions around the architecture, design and implementation of the
product and manages a small team.

To be successful as Web Application Technical Lead you will:

•Be passionate about software business and software design/architecture.
•Have an appreciation for the importance of delivering high quality work and experience of agile methodologies.
•Be a good communicator, being able to interact and share information openly with other teams including Sales and our Technical Infrastructure teams.
•Have a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
•Have experience of leading and motivating a small team, as well as offering guidance and support.
•Have a technical vision and enjoy high level decision making, debate and negotiation.
•Have strong programming experience, including web services, UI design and SAAS systems.
•Be willing to learn new skills and work with a variety of programming languages.
•Ideally have a background in software engineering and a relevant degree, although evidence of the ability to learn is more important.

The ideal Web Application Technical Lead will have the following technical skills:

•Well versed in several popular development languages (for example Java C, C++ C#)
•Web development languages such as PHP and Perl
•Understanding of databases (SQL-based and others)
•RDF and data optimisation
•Understanding of how software and databases interact for performance
•Logical and clear communicator
•Developed and strong organisational skills
•Previous evidence of leading in the development of software - possibly as a programme Manager

The starting salary for this post is between £45 - £50k, depending on skills and experience, a contributory pension scheme, BUPA (after probation), immediate cover on an exceptional Health Cash Plan, including dental and optical cover.

How to apply:
Take a look at the problems below and answer two of them. Then send your answers (together with
your CV and an application letter) via the apply now button

1. Ensuring web applications work effectively across different browsers is hard. Explain how
you would go about ensuring a web application functions correctly with Yahoo's list of Agrade
browsers, covering both development and testing approaches.
2. URIs play a very significant role in the way a site appears on the web; WordPress blogs, for
example, have a variety of URI schemes they can use. HttpRange-14 adds further
implications for the use of # based URI schemes. Outline a URI scheme for a car dealership
website and explain the trade-offs made?
3. If you were asked to write a book based on your technical expertise, what would the title be
and what chapters would it contain?

Job Reference: 28147014
Contact Details: Spire