IT Principal Data Interface Developer

Bournemouth University’s vision is worldwide recognition as a leading university for inspiring learning, advancing knowledge, and enriching society through the fusion of education, research, and practice. Our highly skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the globe, who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences that help to build our global learning community.

The Data Interfaces team at Bournemouth University are responsible for the design, development, and support of the universities Hybrid Integration Platform.  The platform provides data integrations between the universities business systems using service bus, web services and database technologies.   The team collaborate with the Solutions Architect, project teams, IT colleagues and 3rd party software suppliers to implement secure and reliable data integration solutions that help the university meet its digital transformation ambitions.

The team are looking for an experienced data interface developer, to increase our delivery capability and help evolve our integration architecture and strategy.

You will have experience integrating cloud-hosted and on-prem enterprise systems, with practical knowledge of database development and Azure IPaas technologies, including Functions, Service Bus, Logic Apps and API Manager.   Your skillset will include developing with XML, JSON, API’s, C# and SQL.   

As a member of the team, you will contribute through all stages of a project lifecycle, encompassing analysis, design, development, testing and implementation.  You can translate complex data models and business processes into well-designed integration solutions.  You will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an attention to detail.   You will also be adept at diagnosing and resolving faults to maintain service stability.

You will be dynamic, driven, work to high standards and be able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues.  You must have experience of working successfully in a similar role.

This is an exciting time to join the team.  With more business systems migrating to the cloud, the opportunity and demand for efficient data integration between them is increasing.  Your knowledge and experience will help us both meet that demand and shape the architecture.

This position does not meet the eligibility requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Route within the UK Visa and Immigration service’s Points Based System .  Therefore, BU will not be able to sponsor individuals who require permission to work to carry out this position.  

For an informal discussion, please contact Andrew Fundrey, Data Interface Specialist at [email protected] .

BU values and is committed to an inclusive working environment.  We seek a diverse community through attracting, developing and retaining staff from different backgrounds to contribute to inspirational learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society.  To support and enable our staff to achieve a balance between work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.