Website Venesky-Brown Recruitment
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation with various locations across Scotland, are currently looking to recruit an ICT GIS Developer for an initial 4 month contract on a rate of £450-£500/day (Outside IR35). This role will be largely home based with occasional travel for in person meetings likely to be held within the Central belt.
Responsibilities:
– Provide assistance on projects, working on multiple .Net based web applications including
- Adding enhancements as per requirement specification
- Fault analysis and remediation
iii. Following change control processes
- Documentation and handover
– Conduct full quality assurance including regression testing of all components impacted by the upgrade or new features.
– Browser and device compatibility testing.
– Functionality testing of the search, forms and content rendering.
– Deploy all changes to a staging environment for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
– Manage all migration to production in line with change‑control procedures.
– Undergo peer review of development work by Digital and Technology Services (DaTS) colleagues.
– Provide updated technical documentation including a summary of changes introduced by the upgrade and new features. In addition, to providing supporting documentation, complete a handover of all work completed to the Digital and Technology Services (DaTS) team to aid future development.
– Highlight any known issues and recommendations for future improvements.
– Notify of any updated processes for content editors, systems developers and administrators.
– Record all future code changes and store them in the DevOps repository, ensuring technical documentation remains accurate and up to date.
– Access to existing Devops and servicedesk queues, server environments, and code repositories.
– Visual Studio license and AD access accounts.
– Laptop with connectivity to networks for the duration of the contract.
Essential Skills:
– Experience of GIS application in the ESRI ArcGIS enterprise platform
– Practical experience using Azure DevOps, including managing code changes and deploying updates to staging and production environments.
– Strong knowledge of tools and techniques to build and maintain web based applications including .NET Core / .NET 8, C#, Angular, MVC, REST web services and dependency injection patterns.
– Good understanding of SQL relational database development and SQL scripting.
– Good understanding of accessibility requirements, including WCAG 2.1 AA and experience applying this across public-sector websites.
– Ability to produce clear, practical technical documentation, such as upgrade notes, known issues and guidance for editors.
– Confident in delivering training and knowledge transfer for developers, end users etc
– Awareness of change‑management processes and working within structured governance.
Desirable Skills:
– Experience working on public-sector digital services.
-Collaborative working style, with the ability to contribute effectively within mixed technical and non‑technical teams.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.