Senior .NET Developer

Why we're hiring:

WPP is at the forefront of the marketing and advertising industry's largest transformation. Our Global CIO is leading a significant evolution of our Enterprise Technology capabilities, bringing together over 2,500 technology professionals into an integrated global team. This Team will play a crucial role in enabling the ongoing transformation of our agencies and functions.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, develop, and maintain applications, modules, and common functionality. 
• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed software infrastructure and integration with applications and user interfaces 
• Analyze and improve performance and efficiency characteristics of platform components used with the applications. 
• Perform code review of team members to learn new techniques while providing code quality review. 
• Assist in analysis of interacting systems to ensure changes made to one system will not impact other systems. Work closely with the Business Analyst to ensure proper documentation of requirements. 
• Prepare technical specifications and other system and programming documentation in accordance with internal standards. 
• Provide knowledge transfer to Support and Operations personnel related to changes to systems. 
• Work with Quality Analysts to ensure changes are thoroughly tested before release. Write unit and integration tests for new code. Assist with the diagnosis of problematic applications and system testing. 
• Stay informed of advances and pertinent changes in hardware and software technologies. 
• Work with the system and application product engineering groups to define new common functionality and diagnose problems. 

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of full stack development experience – .NET/C# preferred with features such as Web API, .NET Core, and Azure Web hosting solutions 
• 2+ years of React/Angular development, web services and usage of frameworks 
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines 
• Proficient with API/microservice architecture development 
• Proficient with HTML5, Single Page Applications, CSS, Redux, Typescript, JavaScript, and JavaScript libraries such as React. 
• An understanding of and ability to use Git 
• Experience with Applications Performance Monitor (APM) 
• Database experience (SQL Server) and good knowledge in query optimization. 
• Experience with distributed architectures, REST and GraphQL APIs. 
• Cloud technology experience – Azure and GCP 
• Good knowledge in Cybersecurity best practices 
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) 
• Proficient with database technologies, relational or NoSQL 
• Strong organizational skills 
• Experience working in an Agile scrum-based environment 
• Experience working with Azure DevOps and Git 
• Media / advertising industry experience is a plus