Senior Application Engineer - Delphi

Salary £55,000 - £60,000, Plus Fantastic Benefit Package
Location – North Greenwich, London, UK/ Hybrid working
UK Sponsorship Available

The Role
The Senior Application Engineer will be accountable for the provision of Level 2 and 3 (Delphi) support for the Applications running within TfL's environments. This includes business critical services e.g. asset management, ERP, commercial off the shelf, in-house developed software, transport maintenance and planning systems, online services.
Out of Hours support, support of weekend or out of hour’s maintenance or release activities will be required for certain applications.

• Design, develop, and configure applications, components and tools according to the technical plans set by the Technical Delivery Manager on agreed programmes and projects
• Follow and contribute to the Software Development Standards and Best Practices in the agile team and specialist area, taking ownership of complex technical development problems in support of the Technical Delivery Manager
• Organize, conduct or participate in meetings / delivery events and follow processes defined for their team to ensure quality of work and efficiency of the team
• Uphold the principles and standards of Technology and Data to ensure that work delivered is of high quality, well rounded, robust, very high performing, and meets the priorities set by the agile process
• Responsible for development plans, forecasts and development budgetary estimates, to ensure projects can be planned in a consistent and timely fashion
• Create technical material in support of governance processes such as architecture and change review
• Provide development expertise and insight to support the effective evaluation of new technologies
• Fixing software application defects in accordance with agreed developer operations practices

• Expert in software engineering techniques
• Expert in implementing design patterns that lead to flexible, and easily maintained solutions
• Expert in configuring off the shelf systems/software to minimise customisation
• Broad knowledge and understanding of planning and management tools and techniques
• Broad knowledge and understanding of relevant industry standards, such as security.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of cloud platforms
• Knowledge and understanding of 3rd party contractual requirements working in a multi-vendor environment
• Knowledge of electronic document control systems is desirable
• Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject area is desirable

• Expert in recent version of at least one development language such as: Delphi, C#, Java, Javascript, Oracle, and Power Shell, Pascal, Ranorex
• Ability to translate specifications to software implementation of large, complex distributed systems involving a vast range of stakeholders
• At least one of the following four general or specialist skills:
• Expert in industry standard development methodologies and tools
• Expert in industry standard content management tools and practices
• Expert in analysing and optimising database and application performance
• Ability to code/configure hands-on using a variety of Agile methods
• Ability to develop incremental software for solutions in large scale and complex environments
• Ability to produce estimates for own tasks with an appropriate accuracy and precision
• Ability to build effective working relations with people at all levels across the organisation and outside
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including ability to explain complex information with senior management and directors, produce summary and feasibility reports on complex technical and business issues
• Ability to analyse complex systems, spot trends, draw conclusions, and produce specifications and decisions

• Extensive experience of developing software systems in multi-vendor environments to incrementally deliver systems that are of high quality, to specification, and to budget
• Extensive experience of developing software of complex systems under significant pressures of time and cost
• Extensive experience of appropriate documentation techniques for software designs that match customer expectation and that can be used by systems development teams in the future for ongoing software related activities
• Broad experience of the full systems development lifecycle in an Agile environment
• Knowledge and "hands-on" experience in cloud implementations is desirable
• Knowledge and "hands-on" experience of systems integrations is desirable

Advert closes Sunday 5th March 2023 at 23.59

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest free loan
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

Additional Information
Please apply supplying both your CV and a covering letter preferably in “.docx” format. Both documents should be A4, in Arial 12 font, and a maximum of 2 pages per document.

If you are shortlisted you will be invited to take part in a Video interview. We endeavour to give candidates as much notice as possible however some interviews/ assessments will be organised at short notice and will require a degree of flexibility. We reserve the right to close the application window early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.