Applications Support Developer; PHP

Overview

As part of Global Vehicle Group (GVG) – the UK’s largest and most diverse B2B leasing broker – Fleet Alliance is a multi-award-winning fleet management and salary sacrifice scheme provider. We manage over 70,000 vehicles with a combined funded value exceeding £2.5 billion. Our market-leading Fleet 360 model combines expert advice, innovative products, competitive pricing and outstanding service. Through our cloud-based fleet management suite e-Fleet and award-winning e-Fleet Mobile app, we deliver exceptional support to our clients – backed by dedicated account management and award-winning customer service.

The Role

As an Application Support Developer, the role focuses on maintaining and enhancing Fleet Alliance’s core operational business systems, including CRM, eFleet, Concilium and associated integrations. The role is responsible for investigating and resolving application issues, delivering system enhancements and operational improvements, supporting reporting and data requirements, and ensuring the stability and continuity of business-critical platforms. Alongside the legacy operational systems, the role also contributes to the ongoing development and support of the organisation’s modern Salary Sacrifice platform and associated business integrations.

The role combines application support and software development responsibilities, balancing day-to-day operational priorities with continuous platform improvement and business change delivery. Over time, the role will also contribute towards Fleet Alliance’s wider technology transformation programme as legacy systems are progressively replaced by newer strategic platforms and technologies.

• Provide application support and maintenance across Fleet Alliance’s operational business systems including CRM, eFleet, Concilium, the Salary Sacrifice platform and associated integrations. Deliver development projects including new functionality, feature enhancements, workflow improvements and configuration changes.
• Develop and maintain integrations between internal systems, third-party platforms and external APIs. Carry out bug fixes, data maintenance, configuration updates and user access related changes across operational systems.
• Participate in deployment, testing and release activities across operational systems and platforms. Collaborate with developers, analysts and third-party suppliers to deliver system improvements and operational changes.
• Transition to supporting newer strategic platforms and technologies as legacy operational systems is progressively decommissioned and replaced.
• Balance operational priorities alongside ongoing development and enhancement activities across multiple systems and work streams.
• Contribute to regular technology and development team meetings.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand operational challenges and deliver effective technical solutions.
• Troubleshoot and debug application issues to improve system stability, performance and operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain CSV, ad-hoc and operational reports including modifications to existing custom CRM reports.
• Maintain existing systems, recommending improvements to technology and optimising processes where appropriate.
• Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve application issues, defects and operational problems across business-critical platforms.

The successful candidate will work across a mixture of legacy and modern technologies including:

• PHP (Code Igniter and Laravel)
• React and jQuery
• SQL, Postgre
  
  SQL and Oracle PL/SQL
• LML (Bespoke HTML based language)
• REST APIs, JSON and SFTP integrations
• JS
• Bootstrap and Tailwind
• Bash scripting
• Git Hub and Git Hub Actions
• CI/CD pipelines
• HTML and CSS
• CSV data imports and exports
• Jira

• A minimum of 3 years development experience supporting and maintaining business-critical applications.
• Experience working across both application support and software development activities.
• Strong PHP development experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Experience delivering software enhancements, bug fixes and operational system improvements.
• Experience working with Git-based…