Perl Developer
Location: Cardiff
Salary (Band C (IT)): £23,389 – £28,306
Number of Posts: 2
These are Permanent Opportunities
Hours of Work: Full Time/Job Share

Companies House is the foundation of company information exchange in the UK: helping business, informing the public and benefiting the UK economy. Our vision is to be a world-class information provider – accessible, easy to use and customer focused.

Main Team Role:

The Business Solutions Delivery Development Team is looking for individuals with the necessary aptitude to develop the current and future elements of various Companies House systems. Working with analysts, customers and support teams is essential to enable requirements to be developed into the IT systems (primarily the front end systems).

The Front End/Web systems are built around the following technologies:

Perl, Tuxedo, Oracle, CSS and HTML.

A broad range of skills will be required for the role with training and mentoring being provided to fill any gaps in candidates required skill-set and knowledge.

Core & Job Specific Competencies:

Essential

• Experience developing in an OO language
• 2 years sound experience in OO software engineering that can be transferred to a Perl environment
• 2 years experience developing with Perl
• Recent experience developing for Unix
• Team working and interpersonal skills
• Experience of XML services and schemas
• Excellent communication (written and oral) with personnel at a variety of levels
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines whilst dealing with conflicting demands
• Self motivated

Desirable

• Experience developing with Java or C
• Understanding and experience developing for n-tier and middleware systems
• Experience developing database driven applications - ANSI SQL
• Some experience of HTML and internet protocols
• Some experience of Apache, Linux and Tuxedo
• Strong problem solving skills
• Familiarity of source control tools (SVN)

Opportunities Offered:

This post offers you the opportunity to work in a challenging IT environment interacting with a variety of Companies House users.  You will also be able to consolidate and develop skills in a variety of technologies.

Additional Information:

The nature of the post will require a willingness to work out of hours for support, maintenance and implementations – weekdays and/or weekends

Benefits will include pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlements, family friendly policies and the opportunity to work in a friendly environment in a progressive organisation

To apply

To apply please download the full job description and application form, and complete this providing the necessary and relevant information to help support your application.  You will also find some additional forms, which you will need to download, complete and return to us with your application form

Completed applications should be returned to: hrrecruitment@companieshouse.gov.uk

Alternatively, for a full job description and an application pack please email hrrecruitment@companieshouse.gov.uk or telephone 029 2038 0506 quoting reference number SR/09/43

Closing date for applications:  16th February 2010

Candidates will be required to undertake an activity as part of the recruitment selection process. 

Companies House is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from men and women of all backgrounds and ethnic groups, including those with disabilities.

You will find that we have included a range of background information about Companies House and the challenges that lay ahead of us for your information.

Application form (PDF 0.42MB)

Monitoring forms to be completed (PDF 0.24MB)

Job description (PDF 0.15MB)

Annual Report and Accounts 2008-2009 (PDF 2.91MB)

Companies House Strategic Direction for 2010 (PDF 0.15MB)

Business Plan Summary 2009/2010 (PDF 0.16MB)

Register (PDF 4.00MB)

BIS

If you require any additional information, then please contact the HR team via email hrrecruitment@companieshouse.gov.uk or telephone 029 2038 0803.