# Senior Developer

You’re an experienced developer who can see the big picture. You write elegant code and can communicate with technical and non-technical peers to share your ideas.  

You’re always a team player and know when to ask for help when you need it, and you know when to escalate a potential future issue.  

You build great relationships and are trusted by your team as well as clients in your technical brilliance.

**Technical** 

You have demonstrated the ability to craft software that delivers value to our clients. You: 

* Understand the scope of the engagement and follow guidance 
* Confidently make recommendations encompassing technical and non-technical concerns, such as: 
  * infrastructure,
  * identity management,
  * security,
  * scalability,
  * concurrency, and
  * taking maintainability into consideration 
* Understand operational and support cost, and risks such as business continuity, and disaster recovery
* Can apply a basic cost/benefit analysis on the projects and specific work you're involved in
* Can confidently have a healthy debate with clients and peers around technical decisions while maintaining composure 
* Primarily your role is to write elegant code, escalating any blockers to this with your Principal Consultant 

**Team, Clients and Peers** 

You’ve demonstrated the ability to establish great relationships with team, managers and clients. You can: 

* Communicate technical concepts to non-technical people 
* Effectively steer technical and non-technical conversations to positive outcomes over any medium 
* Confidently contribute to project and team meetings 
* Confidently position the value of the SixPivot approach using agile processes and why it is an effective way to deliver software 
* Thrive through respectful feedback when giving and receiving constructive or positive comments 

**Project Delivery** 

You’ve demonstrated the ability to work as part of a team from proposal to production. You can:  

* Confidently deliver against a customer vision  
* Comfortably provide input into estimates and manage your time against your commitments 
* Actively track your progress of a project and raise concerns if there is an impact to expected delivery time with your Principal Consultant 
* Recognise delivery or personnel issues early and escalate to your Principal Consultant 

**Company and Culture** 

You have demonstrated our team values while growing the business within the community and clients. You: 

* Encompass company values and vision 
* Foster and uphold our commitments around mental health and an inclusive culture 
* Subscribe to the Ten Principles of the [United Nations Global Compact](https://unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/mission/principles) that SixPivot is a signatory of 
* Subscribe to the [SixPivot Consulting Manifesto](/how-we-work/consulting-manifesto.md)  
* Actively participate in the SixPivot recruitment process and embraces a culture of feedback 
* Proactively call out opportunities for SixPivot with clients  
* Are trusted to take ownership and encourage ownership in the team 
* Are open minded and have a learner mindset 


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