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Located within the London Commuter belt with excellent travel links, Chelmsford City Council is a forward thinking, award warning employer, authority based in the heart of England’s newest city.

With a wealth of history, green spaces, theatres and a diverse culture, Chelmsford is a bright, lively, sociable friendly city. The council have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and talented developer to join their Digital Services Team.

Accountability, creativity, learning and encouraging, collaborative and trust…..Our Values are at the heart of how we work and were developed by our Team, by joining us you will be part of a valued team who are committed to providing the best service for our residents and the thousands of people visiting Chelmsford each year.

A role you’ll love

Chelmsford City Council are on an exciting journey of digital transformation. Through the implementation of new technologies and application development, we are completely reinventing the way our business teams work and the way the Council delivers services to all our customers, both internal and external. Our programme of change will move the organisation to a single platform built on Microsoft technologies

This is an incredible opportunity to join Chelmsford City Council as a level 2. You will deliver high-end development using Agile methodology within a mixed ability development team. You will confidently contribute to analysis and technical solution designs and improvement in efficiency and quality, technology and tooling.  

Primarily we are looking for candidates that have the following experience in:

• Customising and integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Microsoft Azure Services
• Database Principals and SQL
• Using Azure DevOps for source control and VSTS for build and release management
• C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Angular

What you’ll get in return
Offering a competitive salary of £38,517 - £42,441 you’ll also enjoy a range of benefits including: secure and flexible pension, flexible working, enhanced annual leave entitlement, employee healthcare cash plan, subsidised parking, childcare vouchers, season ticket loads, employee assistance programme and workplace discounts for leisure, retail and restaurants. A full list of benefits can be found on the Chelmsford City Website.

Please note should sufficient applications be received prior to the closing date, we may close the role for applications early.

Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment vetting which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with the Disclosure and Barring Service process.