Role: Senior Java Analyst-Developer (full time)

Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery

Location: Rotherham, UK. 

Salary: £50-56k, plus target bonus of 8%

 

About Pearson

Our purpose: At Pearson we ‘add life to a lifetime of learning’ so everyone can realise the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. Our Purpose | Add Life to a Lifetime of Learning

Our company: Pearson was founded in 1844 and has been built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market. Our 20,000+ employees are dedicated to creating the high-quality, digital-first, accessible and sustainable resources for lifelong learning.

Diversity: At Pearson we value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We promote a culture where differences are embraced as strengths and opportunities are equal and accessible.

Flexible working: Pearson is committed to hybrid working practices and has adopted flexible remote and virtual working. Where possible our employees can choose to manage their attendance to the office more flexibly.

 

About UK Assessment & Qualifications

We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable and resilient services.

 

About the job

The position is for a Senior Analyst-Developer to work on a business critical AWS-hosted Marking Platform, as we transition ownership of the platform from another Pearson team. The role will focus on both knowledge transfer and strategic development.

 

About you

We’d expect that you can demonstrate delivery of several business-critical projects as a full-stack developer, developing solutions that provide real benefit to users and working in an Agile project delivery environment using Scrum or Kanban. Additionally, we’d expect you to demonstrate experience of creating technical documentation and knowledge repositories to support knowledge transfer. 

 

Key Skills & Experience

Experience in Java & J2EE principles, Spring Core, JPA, and Hibernate frameworks. Experience in RDBMS and involve in writing SQL queries (MySQL 8.0), Procedures, and NoSQL queries using Mongo DB. Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services like EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Cache, Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Dynamo DB, AWS APIs for S3 Experience in developing the user interface screens with JSF Prime Faces, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript (ES5+), Backbone JS / React JS / Node JS and Bootstrap. Experience in Restful API for producing and consuming web services. Technical documentation and knowledge transfer. Excellent Problem-Solving Skills and Working in Teams.

 

Desirable Skills & Experience

Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS Step Functions. Microservices Architecture with Spring Boot and Docker. Jasper Framework. Selenium Framework for automated testing. Docker JMeter Maven

 

The role is aligned to our Rotherham office, located at Junction 1 of the M18, making it commutable from Sheffield, Leeds, Doncaster, Derby or Nottingham. 

This role is mainly hybrid working, meaning visiting your base office no more than once a week with the possibility of occasional travel to other Pearson sites, however, there is a requirement to be present in your base office 4 days per week during the business critical period of May to July. There is also a requirement to provide on-call out of hours support during this period.

We work a 37.5 hour week, with all our team free to flex their day around our core hours, which are Monday to Friday, 10 to 4 GMT/BST. School runs, etc can be accommodated. Other flexible working patterns can be considered, including part-time working and non-traditional hours. As we regularly work with global teams, particularly in India and the US, there may be the occasional need to accommodate meetings outside of core hours. 

 

Your benefits and rewards

Here at Pearson we offer a range of benefits, which include:

25 Days annual leave (increasing by 1 day with every year of continuous service up to 30 days); annual leave trading, +/- 5 days Annual Bonus Private Pension plan scheme where we pay in double what you contribute, up to 16% depending on your age Life, private medical and dental care insurance options, plus free eye tests Stock/share purchase options Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible working policies An employee wellbeing assistance programme Cycle to work program, volunteering days, gym membership concessions in selected office locations, along with retail and leisure discounts