The Engineer role is a key role within the team. With some domain knowledge, they are involved in the full lifecycle of features, often working with other engineers to deliver. They ensure continuous improvement, understand the department strategies and provide some input to some practices, toolkits and processes.

Core Responsibilities

SFIA Responsibility Level: 2 - Assist

Autonomy

Works under routine direction. Uses limited discretion in resolving issues or enquiries. Determines when to seek guidance in unexpected situations. Plans own work within short time horizons.

Influence

Interacts with and may influence immediate colleagues. May have some external contact with customers, suppliers and partners. Aware of need to collaborate with team and represent users/customer needs.

Complexity

Performs a range of work activities in varied environments. May contribute to routine issue resolution. May apply creative thinking or suggest new ways to approach a task.

Business skills

Has sufficient oral and written communication skills for effective engagement with colleagues and internal users/customers.

Understands and uses appropriate methods, tools, applications and processes.

Demonstrates a rational and organised approach to work.

Has sufficient digital skills for their role.

Learning and professional development — identifies and negotiates own development opportunities.

Security, privacy and ethics — is fully aware of organisational standards. Uses appropriate working practices in own work.

Knowledge

Has gained a basic domain knowledge. Demonstrates application of essential generic knowledge typically found in industry bodies of knowledge. Absorbs new information when it is presented systematically and applies it effectively.

Professional Responsibilities

• Involve yourself in the implementation of software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products while ensuring you adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
• Show individual engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality and promote these qualities in more junior members of your Squad and Home
• Show interest in the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; involve yourself in adoption of these within your squad as required
• Contribute towards optimization of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
• Participate in code reviews for inculcating new ways of thinking to improve design, quality, etc. to drive higher engineering productivity and quality
• Escalate, document, and manage issues related to product design, feature set, and functionality at appropriate levels to ensure delivery goals are met as per defined plans

Technical Responsibilities

SFIA Skill: Level 3
Programming/software development PROG

• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors moderately complex programs/scripts.
• Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Monitors and reports on progress. Identifies issues related to software development activities. Proposes practical solutions to resolve issues.
• Collaborates in reviews of work with others as appropriate.

Education

Relevant Experience

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.
• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems

• Significant experience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisation

Professional Skills and Qualities

Personal Skills and Qualities

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum
• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness
• Documentation / technical writing
• Process, data, system engineering

• Emotional intelligence and empathy
• Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism
• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation
• Active listening and observation
• Continuous learning
• Language and communication
• Creative thinking

Technical Skills and Qualities, at Intermediate Level

Domain Skills and Qualities, at Intermediate Level

• Full Stack development
• REST/WCF Services
• Database Design
• Responsive web design
• Dependency Injection
• Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks
• Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
• Web accessibility standards
• Web security principles
• SAST and DAST tools
• Content Management Systems
• Message queuing systems
• Application architecture
• Containers
• Micro services
• Source code control
• Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments
• Investigating and resolving issues
• Devising permanent or temporary corrections and workarounds for faults
• Capturing user feedback for subsequent analysis to inform future application development
• Assists in the investigation and resolution of issues relating to applications

• WCF, REST, Microservices, API Gateway, Messaging
• Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• TFSVC, GIT
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (Preferred)
• Identity Acces (e.g. ADFS,Oauth,Okta, Identity Server, Certificates)
• ORM Tools (Entity Framework, Dapper, etc.)
• Umbraco
• SharePoint
• JSON, XML, XSLT,XPath,XQuery
• LinQ, Lambda
• Powershell
• Dependency Injections (Autofac)
• HTML5, CSS3, SASS
• Bootstrap
• JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI
• SQL Server
• T-SQL/SQL Server
• Unit Test Tools (e.g. MS Unit Test Framework, Nunit, Xunit)
• .NET Core
• .NET Framework
• C#
• ASP.NET core, Web API, MVC, WebForms
• Visual Studio
• Redgate Tools (SQL Prompt, SQL Search, etc.)

• Experience in Financial Services

At Endava, we’re committed to creating an open, inclusive, and respectful environment where everyone feels safe, valued, and empowered to be their best. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives—because we know that inclusive teams help us deliver smarter, more innovative solutions for our customers. Hiring decisions are based on merit, skills, qualifications, and potential. If you need adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know.