We are looking for a Software Developer to join the Frontier team, on a permanent, full-time basis. This is a fully homebased role but there will be a requirement to attend sites when needed.
You will manage reporting requirements received by the team and develop dashboards and reports that allow the end user to find solutions based on the desired outcome. You will maintain the existing set of dashboards and reports, improving with each new technology release, and fix any bugs raised. Working with other Developers, Product Managers, and Delivery Leads in Scrum teams, you will build efficient programs and systems that serve Customer needs.
At Frontier, the Technology Team strive to deliver brilliant experiences for customers and colleagues. We want to hear from passionate, enthusiastic people from any background. We work with a variety of technologies from front-end native and web applications through to the backend systems that hold our organisation together and the hardware they run on. We are a data-driven organisation. We are transforming our technology landscape and the way we work, and this is a fantastic opportunity to join a team at the start of a change journey. Join us to make a real and valuable difference as you build your career at Frontier.
The Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Work from home anywhere within the UK
- 25 days holiday per calendar year with option to purchase 5 more days
- Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career
- Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)
- Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees
- Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%
- Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers
About You
- Strong skills in PowerBI and SQL database queries
- Experience with Azure
- You will be able to review existing Power BI artifacts and consider improvements
- You will be able to review legacy reporting solutions and suggest migration strategies into PowerBI
- You will seek to understand the various sources and the differences between them, their integrity and how they can or cannot be compared to one another
- You will provide dashboards that can tell a full story, and which enable analysts and managers to gather insights and draw conclusions from them.
- You will stay up-to-date with the newer version of Power BI and look at providing a suitable balance of self-service to alleviate your own workload by providing the users enough ability to carry out analysis for themselves.
- You shall identify the business value of new reports, prove the concept and be able to influence stakeholders on why they should be built.
- You will look backwards at the data warehouse process and enable reports that can monitor the ETL estate.
Your Role
As a Software Developer your role will involve:
- Actively participate in all Agile ceremonies
- Working with other developers to design algorithms and process design documents
- Producing clean, efficient code based on specifications
- Integrating software components and third-party programs
- Troubleshooting, debugging, and upgrading existing software
- Recommending and executing improvements
- Maintaining and supporting allocated products and applications and continually improving the performance of the software
- Contributing to the knowledge base of agreed design and development artefacts in Frontier KB systems
- Working with fellow team members to ask for help, improve overall knowledge, and output of the team
- Contributing to development standards and measures
- Collaborating with the team and stakeholders to build new product features
- Documenting Customer Requirements
- Gathering and evaluating Customer feedback
About Us
Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion.
With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.
Award winning for our commitment to people, we have been recognised by Great Place to Work institute since 2012 and we are proud to be ranked by them in the top 30 UK best large places to work.
Our business approach is underpinned by our core values Integrity, Customer focus and Expertise or ‘ICE’. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.
