Location: Newbury, UK
The Company
Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO.L) provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk.
With over 75% of the world’s business transactions processed by COBOL, Micro Focus is the industry leader in state-of-the-art COBOL development solutions. Our market leading products span traditional business applications development, application understanding, and user-interface transformation to transactional systems, and integration with contemporary technologies & platforms such as SOA, Web Services, J2EE, .NET & XML. With over 1 million end-users worldwide, and 70,000 licensed products at more than 5,000 customers around the world, Micro Focus offers unsurpassed breadth of platform support, performance and scalability, enabling customers to take full advantage of the inherent power & value of their legacy systems.
Overview
The Application Development Group is responsible for producing leading edge development tools within the Visual Studio and Eclipse IDE frameworks. The successful applicant will be joining a team of highly skilled software developers as they extend the features and functionality of the Visual COBOL for Visual Studio Product. Working in an Agile development environment the team is responsible for extending Visual Studio to provide a leading edge development environment for COBOL developers.
This is a technical development role so the successful applicant will be involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including design, development, testing and support.
The role is in the Newbury office but will involve working closely with teams in other design centres.
Requirements
- Education to Degree Level in Computer Science or similar subject.
- At least 5 years technical experience in software development.
- Strong technical software skills.
- A highly personable team player who is able to work effectively with colleagues and customers.
- An effective communicator who is able to explain complex technical issues.
- Able to demonstrate innovative and creative thinking.
- Flexible and adaptable attitude.
- Quality focused.
Essential technical skills
- Strong C# skills
- Strong development skills using the .Net Framework
- Experience of developing plug-ins for Visual Studio highly advantageous
- Experience of VC++ and COM desirable
- Experience of an Agile development methodology desirable
- Experience of COBOL highly advantageous.
To apply
Micro Focus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination because of race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status. Please send your CV to Irene.Tichy@microfocus.com.