System Developer (Digital Workspace)

IT Services has a fixed-term vacancy for a full-time System Developer to work on the Digital Workspace Programme, which seeks to establish an online place which will support more modern ways of working, connecting staff and students across our University, increasing productivity and making working together easier. The programme will deliver a new suite of tools to enable this; email and calendar, intranet, collaboration sites, personal file store, online document collaboration, social media, text/voice and video communication. The technology will be Microsoft O365.

The role holder will become part of the Systems Development team in IT Services, and will work on messaging and calendar within the Digital Workspace programme. They will be key to the successful migration to Office 365. The project will set up Profiles and Groups in Microsoft Office 365 and move Staff and Students emails and calendars from Google to Outlook. This includes migration from Google to Microsoft Office 365 and integration with legacy systems. Development requirements include the interfaces to the account provisioning and registration processes, the replacement of Google apps, the migration of delegated accounts and associated access rights, an opt-in application for student account migration, and the migration of Sympa lists.

You will have experience of software and systems development, service composition and service integration.  Information system services may be composed of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf), SaaS (Software as a Service), Open Source or bespoke software development. You will also have experience of service management (incident, change and configuration management), preferably with some knowledge of ITIL, and have ideally worked in a project environment before.

You will have technical skills in Microsoft platforms and associated scripting with some Unix and associated scripting.

The Digital Workspace System Developer post is available on an 18-month fixed term, fulltime basis, with an expected start date of March 2017. For project critical reasons successful candidates must be available straight away or not more than 3 months from offer.

For informal enquiries, please contact Carla Hill, Project Manager (carla.hill@bristol.ac.uk).

The University is committed to creating and sustaining a fully inclusive culture.  We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities.