Perl Developer (onsite), United Kingdom, Berkshire & London

Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/4603

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Posted: September  1, 2006

Job title: Perl Developer

Location: United Kingdom, Berkshire & London

Pay rate: Up to 45K

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Length of employment: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
My client has a unique set-up and breadth of technology makes this a
stimulating challenge, certain to present excellent career development
opportunities.
You will take on the development and evolution of their current reporting
system, which:
*Maintains a separate reporting database, built from the live databases and
other sources;
*Generates regular reports (daily, weekly, monthly) in various formats and
mails them to interested parties;
*Provides a ‘dashboard’ summary which is displayed on a plasma screen in
the office, to give everyone awareness of live service;
*Will provide web interface for viewing reports, and signing up for report
delivery.
The reporting system is built in Perl and runs on Linux. It uses the
Template Toolkit and various other Perl modules from CPAN.
Your responsibilities will include:
*Working with people around the business on clarifying requirements for new
reports.
*Identification of new reports that will give insight into business
operations, customer behaviour, system performance, etc.
*Evolve existing reports as the system changes, and the data model evolves.

*Bespoke one-off reports, as needed.


Required skills:
*Good software engineering skills.
*Strong Perl programmer, with 4+ years development experience.
*Modern web page standards, including XML, HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc.
*Database design and programming, particularly for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
*CVS, or familiarity with a similar revision control system.


Desired skills:
*Reporting experience.
*Good data modelling skills.
*SOAP, both client and server.
*More advanced & emerging web technologies, such as XSLT, XPATH, XUL, etc.
*Experienced with agile methods, in particular automated testing and
refactoring.
*Apache – familiar with configuration; for example comfortable setting up
vhosts.
*Experienced at developing resilient high-availability systems.
*A degree in computer science, maths, physics, or numerate degree.
*Have worked in a start-up environment.


Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4603#contact