Application Developer

Job Introduction

** At Saga we’re radically flexible which means our colleagues have total autonomy over where they work – home, hybrid or hub. This role has a hybrid element which means our team come together when we need to collaborate. **

As an Application Developer at Saga, you will play a key role in the team, using your technical ability in delivering alongside the team large scale and interesting projects for the business, to help deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers.

A typical day as an Application Developer would involve being attending agile sprint stand ups, followed by partaking in ticket refinement and sprint planning sessions. Offering support and guidance to others in troubleshooting problems. Working and demoing on assigned tickets within sprint, all while keeping a watchful eye on monitoring the health of customer facing systems with the support of a highly experienced team.

Currently with a significant emphasis on collaboration, we are in the process of redefining our web architecture and web processes to build a new best-in-class website. Aligned closely to our business colleagues, our collective objectives are to drive efficiencies in our ways of working, removing duplication of effort to fuel the curiosity of what’s achievable for our colleagues and customers. Some of the benefits we will achieve are:

• Improved Site speed and SEO benefit
• Shared component functionality
• Defining a consistent way of working for web development processes
• UX/UI design consistency

Role Responsibility

• Helping to deliver the design, build and modification of new and existing software solutions to deliver against the business needs and requirements. Ability to adapt and deliver with precision and pace.
• Working collaboratively with other colleagues across Saga’s Technology community to deliver technology programs, projects and workstreams. Establishing and maintaining a good working relationship with internal and external teams.
• Ensuring code is secure, in line with best practice and aligned to policy to ensure quality deliverables
• Participating within regular sprint planning and supporting the team to plan and estimate the project tasks and demoing your outputs to the wider project team
• Troubleshooting and monitoring our systems and work collaboratively with the team to resolve and prevent any defects, risks, or issues.
• Working closely with the UAT team to help troubleshoot and support testing of your tickets
• Producing and maintaining technical documentation

The Ideal Candidate

People Skills:

• A desire to continuously develop your skills
• An advocate for people success
• An eye for detail and identifying problems
• Have drive, enthusiasm and a good energy
• Proactive attitude and self-motivated
• Join in team discussions, sharing ideas and suggest improvements

Technical Skills:

• Good knowledge of coding languages and frameworks relevant to area these include C#, .NET, SQL, Web languages, design patterns such as MVC
• Good experience in producing and consuming web services using Web API or other REST frameworks
• Ability to learn new coding languages and technologies

Bonus Technical skills:

• Knowledge of JIRA or other ticketing systems
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines
• An understanding of Agile development and other methodologies
• Exposure to IIS and Windows Server
• Knowledge of Sitecore or any other content management systems

At Saga we believe in exceptional experiences everyday whilst being a driver for positive change in our markets and communities. Our values are precision pace, empathy, curiosity, collaboration. If this resonates with you then it’s time to do the best work of your life!

Our Saga Values:

• Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen. 
• Empathy – Always aware of others. 
• Curiosity – Always asking why.
• Collaboration – Always one team, the Saga team!

Package Description

The standard benefits when you join Saga include: 

• Remote working available where possible

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the choice to buy a further 5 days annual leave per year 

• Free private medical insurance after 1 years' service 

• Workplace Pension 

• AXA Be Supported 

• A range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies

About the Company

Having spent our first 30 years focused on travel, Saga launched Saga Magazine and developed home and motor insurance and financial services in the 1980s. Private medical and pet insurance followed in the 1990s, along with the launch of our own cruise ship operation. The strength of the Saga brand provides the Group with the ability to develop in-house or partner with suppliers to offer our customers and members highly differentiated, competitively priced products which meet their evolving needs.

Saga exists to help our customers and members lead the life they want to lead. To succeed in this, we know that the most important thing to do is to listen to our customers and members. At the heart of our business model is our drive to know more about our customers’ wants and needs so we are best placed to serve them.

Applying this approach over the past 70 years has enabled us to become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic and is recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.

When you join Saga you will see that we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement.

We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better. Creating a culture in which everyone feels welcome and offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement is incredibly important to us. Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity.

We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.

We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Women Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.

We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme. 

To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Any engagement with employees or provision of CVs to employees within Saga where you have not engaged with the Talent Acquisition Team will be considered speculative and Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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