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Senior .NET Developer (Initial 3-6 month day rate contract)

London

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

Why we're hiring:

This program of work is central to WPPs’ continued success, helping augment world class AI with a back-office workflow platform. The value add is to enable agencies to manage their work end to end within our innovate platform.  

This is a greenfield program of work to replace their existing workflow system with bespoke .Net development using a microservice architecture in Azure and Kubernetes. 

What you'll be doing:

 This role will report into the Team Engineering Lead.  

  • Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages  
  • Write unit tests and drive code from those tests 
  • Remain up to date with the terminology, concepts and best practices for coding 
  • Contribute to architecture and software design with other team members 
  • Contribute to cloud design in Azure 
  • Create proof of concepts to prove assumptions 
  • Develop client displays and user interfaces  
  • Assist software personnel in handling project related work and other requirements  
  • Coordinate with other software professionals and developers 

What you'll need:

  • Familiarity with design patterns and pattern of enterprise application architecture 
  • Expert knowledge of SOLID principles 
  • 5+ years of development experience using C#  
  • Proven track record of software design from Test Driven Development 
  • Knowledge of at least one other OO language (e.g. C++, Java) and HTML5/CSS3  
  • Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, gRPC) 
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies  
  • Strong attention to detail 
  • Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills  
  • Able to work well in a team setting 

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

 

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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