Junior Software Developer

Junior Software Developer

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About the job

WPP is the transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 109,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 317 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 8th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards. WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 109,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN.

WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands

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Why we're hiring:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through a number of agencies, for example Mindshare, EssenceMediaCom, Wavemaker, and Kinetic, as well as the outcomes-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis and data and technology company Choreograph. GroupM’s portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment and Services, all united in a vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business.

The GroupM IT team in WPP IT are the technology solutions partner for the GroupM group of agencies and are accountable for co-ordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life-cycle and innovation pipeline.

This role will work as part of the Local Systems Team for EMEA. It will be responsible for the implementation, support, and maintenance of various local applications. It will be responsible for developing and designing user interactive applications, automated workflows for various business initiatives which would allow the business to achieve their KPIs and goals. It will also play a crucial role, by working with the business, in gathering requirements and translating complex technical requirements into effective and succinct requirements.


What you'll be doing:


  • Design, develop, implement, and maintain application phases, codes and software.
  • Conduct software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging, as well as recommending changes to improve the established process.
  • Prepare detailed technical design documents for requirements to be implemented.
  • Involve in user story refinement process.
  • Participate in code reviews.
  • Support incident investigation fix and documentation for issue resolution.
What you'll need:


  • 1-3 years’ experience in application development.
  • In depth experience with Microsoft products and tools, such as VB6, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Azure
  • Experience in working with REACT
  • Experience in working with the Azure Platform
  • Experience with O365 SaaS development applications, such as PowerApps, Power BI, MS Flow, etc is a plus.
  • Familiar in working with Agile/Scrum/Scrumban methodologies
  • Ability to quickly learn and understand new products, new IT systems and tools.
  • A proactive, “can do” (initiative), “flexible” mindset with a desire to help the team wherever the needs are (team player).
  • Desire to join a dynamic team and grow by learning and doing


Who you are:


You're open : We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.


You're optimistic : We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.


You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.


What we'll give you:


Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
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