Salary 70,000 - 95,000 GBP per year Requirements: - Key Duties & Responsibilities: You are a team member on projects with the remit to deliver successful outcomes for our clients by demonstrating capability in the following areas. Consulting Behaviours You regularly interact with client stakeholders on behalf of the team You take ownership of your own deliverables and you are aware of how your own work contributes to the outcomes of the whole team You can challenge constructively and appropriately, both externally and internally You demonstrate good task estimation skills to meet deadlines You manage expectations and commit to a realistic amount of work You understand priority and urgency of tasks You escalate blockers and delays in a timely manner Commercial mindset You take a client-centric approach and develop a deep understanding of what the client is trying to achieve, so as to deliver relevant, impactful outcomes and ROI You can describe the impact of your work in commercial terms and use this understanding to drive client-engagement You have solid stakeholder management, troubleshooting and conflict resolution skills to support successful outcomes Leadership You use data and methodical self-review to make project decisions, contribute to OKRs, and to improve your own capability You proactively offer support and coach / mentor more junior colleagues You actively seek to contribute towards AL Mission, Vision, Goals and OKRs Contribute in other areas of the business such as Interviewing and recruitment processes Supporting the bid processes with written content on your specialist knowledge Knowledge-sharing and contributing to AL repositories Responsibilities: - You will deliver hands-on, business-oriented strategic and technical consulting to our clients for cloud infrastructure and data centre automation solutions. Our Automation Engineers and Architects come from a DevOps background and are technically adept in configuration management tools, continuous development, Linux environments and have experience of delivering cloud infrastructure and cloud automation. Key Duties & Responsibilities: You will join a project engineering team and focus on adding hands-on technical expertise, ensuring outcomes meet the highest technical and agile standards. We expect our engineers to understand the client's project aims and to offer professional and commercial insight to ensure client satisfaction as well as representing the commercial interests of Automation Logic. We always expect our engineers to be very self-sufficient when engaged in smaller assignments representing Automation Logic by themselves, always ensuring customer satisfaction through high-quality work and outstanding client care. Technologies: - Azure - Security - CI/CD - Linux More: About Automation Logic: Automation Logic is a leading professional services business delivering technology-enabled transformation to enterprise clients through the delivery of Cloud, Automation and DevOps solutions. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Automation Logic has successfully delivered over 60 Cloud and Automation projects for some of the largest and most prestigious organisations in both the public and private sectors across Europe. Automation Logic offers competitive compensation packages and benefits.
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
Salary 70,000 - 95,000 GBP per year Requirements: - Key Duties & Responsibilities: You are a team member on projects with the remit to deliver successful outcomes for our clients by demonstrating capability in the following areas. Consulting Behaviours You regularly interact with client stakeholders on behalf of the team You take ownership of your own deliverables and you are aware of how your own work contributes to the outcomes of the whole team You can challenge constructively and appropriately, both externally and internally You demonstrate good task estimation skills to meet deadlines You manage expectations and commit to a realistic amount of work You understand priority and urgency of tasks You escalate blockers and delays in a timely manner Commercial mindset You take a client-centric approach and develop a deep understanding of what the client is trying to achieve, so as to deliver relevant, impactful outcomes and ROI You can describe the impact of your work in commercial terms and use this understanding to drive client-engagement You have solid stakeholder management, troubleshooting and conflict resolution skills to support successful outcomes Leadership You use data and methodical self-review to make project decisions, contribute to OKRs, and to improve your own capability You proactively offer support and coach / mentor more junior colleagues You actively seek to contribute towards AL Mission, Vision, Goals and OKRs Contribute in other areas of the business such as Interviewing and recruitment processes Supporting the bid processes with written content on your specialist knowledge Knowledge-sharing and contributing to AL repositories Responsibilities: - You will deliver hands-on, business-oriented strategic and technical consulting to our clients for cloud infrastructure and data centre automation solutions. Our Automation Engineers and Architects come from a DevOps background and are technically adept in configuration management tools, continuous development, Linux environments and have experience of delivering cloud infrastructure and cloud automation. Key Duties & Responsibilities: You will join a project engineering team and focus on adding hands-on technical expertise, ensuring outcomes meet the highest technical and agile standards. We expect our engineers to understand the client's project aims and to offer professional and commercial insight to ensure client satisfaction as well as representing the commercial interests of Automation Logic. We always expect our engineers to be very self-sufficient when engaged in smaller assignments representing Automation Logic by themselves, always ensuring customer satisfaction through high-quality work and outstanding client care. Technologies: - Azure - Security - CI/CD - Linux More: About Automation Logic: Automation Logic is a leading professional services business delivering technology-enabled transformation to enterprise clients through the delivery of Cloud, Automation and DevOps solutions. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Automation Logic has successfully delivered over 60 Cloud and Automation projects for some of the largest and most prestigious organisations in both the public and private sectors across Europe. Automation Logic offers competitive compensation packages and benefits.
This is a role for a sector specialist who has experience working as Business Intelligence or Data Management Lead in a fast-paced environment and for someone who is friendly, approachable and proactive in bringing new ideas to the table. Working within the IT department, the Head of Business Intelligence owns the reporting and analysis platform to design and deliver enterprise operational reporting, management information and analytics solutions. Capability Development: Develop a strategy to transition from manual desktop reporting to a unified business intelligence platform. Act as a Solution Architect for reporting and analytics, prioritizing activities aligned with business goals. Lead development teams, coordinate deliverables, and communicate progress. Establish a Data Governance Framework and ensure data quality and ownership. Own the Data Dictionary and standard reporting services, promoting understanding within the firm. Strategize self-service reporting and analysis, fostering business intelligence skills across functions. Provide training and documentation for effective technology usage. Business Intelligence Solution Delivery: Analyze reporting requirements and design solutions to meet objectives. Simplify, standardize, and optimize processes using BI and data tools. Identify data needs aligned with business priorities. Advise on data solution designs for performance and accuracy. Prototype, demonstrate, and document solutions. Refine delivery methods, automation, and QA processes. Manage external development teams and align delivery with cloud and change management processes. Oversee testing and contribute to solution architecture and frameworks. Performance & Quality: Update technical knowledge and skills regularly. Ensure development meets quality and timeliness standards, providing feedback and coaching. Manage time effectively between new solutions and support. Act as an IT ambassador, facilitating communication on software and service delivery and building cross-departmental relationships. Core Qualities and Skills: Proficient in leading business intelligence platforms/tools (e.g., Qliksense, PowerBI, Tableau). Expertise in business intelligence concepts, data visualization, and analytics. Skilled in data modeling for optimized reporting and analysis. Extensive experience in business analysis and process optimization. Comprehensive understanding of Azure platform and its services. Strong background in data engineering, including ETL, data cleaning, and warehousing. Hands-on experience with Azure data services like Azure SQL Database and Data Factory. Proficiency in SQL databases, particularly Azure SQL Database. Understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines, with experience in related tools. Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on technical troubleshooting and long-term strategies. Experience in Technology and Data teams within financial sectors. Desired Qualities and Skills: Stakeholder relationship management, maintaining effective communication and understanding needs. Familiarity with big data technologies like Apache Spark and Hadoop. Understanding of broader cloud architecture principles and services from AWS or Google Cloud. Additional relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Tableau certification. Experience with project management methodologies like Agile, Scrum, or Kanban.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
This is a role for a sector specialist who has experience working as Business Intelligence or Data Management Lead in a fast-paced environment and for someone who is friendly, approachable and proactive in bringing new ideas to the table. Working within the IT department, the Head of Business Intelligence owns the reporting and analysis platform to design and deliver enterprise operational reporting, management information and analytics solutions. Capability Development: Develop a strategy to transition from manual desktop reporting to a unified business intelligence platform. Act as a Solution Architect for reporting and analytics, prioritizing activities aligned with business goals. Lead development teams, coordinate deliverables, and communicate progress. Establish a Data Governance Framework and ensure data quality and ownership. Own the Data Dictionary and standard reporting services, promoting understanding within the firm. Strategize self-service reporting and analysis, fostering business intelligence skills across functions. Provide training and documentation for effective technology usage. Business Intelligence Solution Delivery: Analyze reporting requirements and design solutions to meet objectives. Simplify, standardize, and optimize processes using BI and data tools. Identify data needs aligned with business priorities. Advise on data solution designs for performance and accuracy. Prototype, demonstrate, and document solutions. Refine delivery methods, automation, and QA processes. Manage external development teams and align delivery with cloud and change management processes. Oversee testing and contribute to solution architecture and frameworks. Performance & Quality: Update technical knowledge and skills regularly. Ensure development meets quality and timeliness standards, providing feedback and coaching. Manage time effectively between new solutions and support. Act as an IT ambassador, facilitating communication on software and service delivery and building cross-departmental relationships. Core Qualities and Skills: Proficient in leading business intelligence platforms/tools (e.g., Qliksense, PowerBI, Tableau). Expertise in business intelligence concepts, data visualization, and analytics. Skilled in data modeling for optimized reporting and analysis. Extensive experience in business analysis and process optimization. Comprehensive understanding of Azure platform and its services. Strong background in data engineering, including ETL, data cleaning, and warehousing. Hands-on experience with Azure data services like Azure SQL Database and Data Factory. Proficiency in SQL databases, particularly Azure SQL Database. Understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines, with experience in related tools. Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on technical troubleshooting and long-term strategies. Experience in Technology and Data teams within financial sectors. Desired Qualities and Skills: Stakeholder relationship management, maintaining effective communication and understanding needs. Familiarity with big data technologies like Apache Spark and Hadoop. Understanding of broader cloud architecture principles and services from AWS or Google Cloud. Additional relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Tableau certification. Experience with project management methodologies like Agile, Scrum, or Kanban.
Exciting opportunity for an experienced AWS Solution Architect to join our growing team here at VeUP! 13th March, 2024 Solution Architect - AWS London - £70,000 to £110,000 + Benefits About VeUP Established in 2022, VeUP is a results-oriented global team of former startup founders, cloud and technical experts, go-to-market specialists, venture capitalists, and business operations leaders. We have built a global team of industry experts that are aligned by one goal: to help startups scale UP. As experienced tech founders ourselves, we understand that startups can use help on their scale UP journey. VeUP's unique business model enables us to surround tech startups with a limitless range of value-added services, at costs that startups can afford. VeUP has thoughtfully combined unparalleled expertise, services, and infrastructure under one roof. About the role As a trusted startup advisor, VeUP Solution Architect's provide architectural and technical guidance to help founders and their teams understand the cloud and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) (and other cloud platforms in the future) cloud computing platform to build scalable, robust, and secure applications. You will focus on customer solutions that span across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, and migrations, HPC amongst many others. We work with world class startups and scaleup teams, where you will communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to establish technical credibility and help deliver business outcomes to VeUP's SaaS/ISV customers. Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers across a broad variety of complex technical and business challenges. Own the technical relationship with your customer and provide technical guidance on architecture, strategy, roadmap and enablement while translating business requirements into technical solutions. Educate startups and scale ups on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment and growth in the cloud. Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges. With your experience and technical skills, you will proactively guide customers through technical transitions to allow them to take advantage of changing business environments, maximise opportunities available to them, and support them in addressing challenges. Support the building and delivery of Marketplace listings and admin support. Support customers with training in Marketplace self-management. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals across our customer base and enable them to become cloud and VeUP advocates. In collaboration with sales, marketing and account management teams, you will help deliver customer value, excellent customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a key member of the services team, ensure any architected solution brings customer success in building and migrating customer applications. Pre-Sales support for our Sales/AM teams i.e. technical discovery and qualification, solutioning, proposal/SOW creation, workshops, Presentations etc. 13th March, 2024 Solution Architect - AWS London - £70,000 to £110,000 + Benefits About VeUP Established in 2022, VeUP is a results-oriented global team of former startup founders, cloud and technical experts, go-to-market specialists, venture capitalists, and business operations leaders. We have built a global team of industry experts that are aligned by one goal: to help startups scale UP. As experienced tech founders ourselves, we understand that startups can use help on their scale UP journey. VeUP's unique business model enables us to surround tech startups with a limitless range of value-added services, at costs that startups can afford. VeUP has thoughtfully combined unparalleled expertise, services, and infrastructure under one roof. About the role As a trusted startup advisor, VeUP Solution Architect's provide architectural and technical guidance to help founders and their teams understand the cloud and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) (and other cloud platforms in the future) cloud computing platform to build scalable, robust, and secure applications. You will focus on customer solutions that span across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, and migrations, HPC amongst many others. We work with world class startups and scaleup teams, where you will communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to establish technical credibility and help deliver business outcomes to VeUP's SaaS/ISV customers. Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers across a broad variety of complex technical and business challenges. Own the technical relationship with your customer and provide technical guidance on architecture, strategy, roadmap and enablement while translating business requirements into technical solutions. Educate startups and scale ups on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment and growth in the cloud. Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges. With your experience and technical skills, you will proactively guide customers through technical transitions to allow them to take advantage of changing business environments, maximise opportunities available to them, and support them in addressing challenges. Support the building and delivery of Marketplace listings and admin support. Support customers with training in Marketplace self-management. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals across our customer base and enable them to become cloud and VeUP advocates. In collaboration with sales, marketing and account management teams, you will help deliver customer value, excellent customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a key member of the services team, ensure any architected solution brings customer success in building and migrating customer applications. Pre-Sales support for our Sales/AM teams i.e. technical discovery and qualification, solutioning, proposal/SOW creation, workshops, Presentations etc. About you AWS Solution Architect Associate certification is a must, professional and specialties a plus. Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers. Proficient in engaging with clients, representing AWS in their operational landscape, and effectively leading conversations with key decision-makers. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology pre-sales and consulting. Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures. Broad technology experience including cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, IT transformation. At least 4 years of experience delivering modern technology stacks using cloud, such as microservices and Infrastructure-as-Code. Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud. Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers. Experience with architecting, designing, and developing cloud native applications and microservices in AWS Cloud environment. Hands-on experience in designing and implementing continuous integration platforms and solutioning highly available distributed systems. Experience in developing with containers, Kubernetes, serverless, or relevant application frameworks. Comfortable with one or more popular full stack programming languages such as Java, Golang, Typescript or Python. Working directly with VeUP service teams to ensure services align with the needs of customers. Experience leading certification or accreditation of cloud workload(s) to meet regulatory or industry standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO26262. Highly favourable: experience with emergent technologies such as High-Performance Computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT), AI/ML. Application development experience on Linux and/or Windows based systems as a plus. Multi cloud (Azure, GCP) experience is a plus. This role represents a superb opportunity for any AWS specialist Solution Architect to join a fast-growing London based founder friendly consulting business. A solid base salary of £70,000-110,000 DOE is supplements by generous holidays, pension and private health care. This role will have flexibility between WFH and being in the office and you will be expected into the office 3 days per week as a minimum. For applications . click apply for full job details
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Exciting opportunity for an experienced AWS Solution Architect to join our growing team here at VeUP! 13th March, 2024 Solution Architect - AWS London - £70,000 to £110,000 + Benefits About VeUP Established in 2022, VeUP is a results-oriented global team of former startup founders, cloud and technical experts, go-to-market specialists, venture capitalists, and business operations leaders. We have built a global team of industry experts that are aligned by one goal: to help startups scale UP. As experienced tech founders ourselves, we understand that startups can use help on their scale UP journey. VeUP's unique business model enables us to surround tech startups with a limitless range of value-added services, at costs that startups can afford. VeUP has thoughtfully combined unparalleled expertise, services, and infrastructure under one roof. About the role As a trusted startup advisor, VeUP Solution Architect's provide architectural and technical guidance to help founders and their teams understand the cloud and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) (and other cloud platforms in the future) cloud computing platform to build scalable, robust, and secure applications. You will focus on customer solutions that span across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, and migrations, HPC amongst many others. We work with world class startups and scaleup teams, where you will communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to establish technical credibility and help deliver business outcomes to VeUP's SaaS/ISV customers. Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers across a broad variety of complex technical and business challenges. Own the technical relationship with your customer and provide technical guidance on architecture, strategy, roadmap and enablement while translating business requirements into technical solutions. Educate startups and scale ups on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment and growth in the cloud. Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges. With your experience and technical skills, you will proactively guide customers through technical transitions to allow them to take advantage of changing business environments, maximise opportunities available to them, and support them in addressing challenges. Support the building and delivery of Marketplace listings and admin support. Support customers with training in Marketplace self-management. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals across our customer base and enable them to become cloud and VeUP advocates. In collaboration with sales, marketing and account management teams, you will help deliver customer value, excellent customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a key member of the services team, ensure any architected solution brings customer success in building and migrating customer applications. Pre-Sales support for our Sales/AM teams i.e. technical discovery and qualification, solutioning, proposal/SOW creation, workshops, Presentations etc. 13th March, 2024 Solution Architect - AWS London - £70,000 to £110,000 + Benefits About VeUP Established in 2022, VeUP is a results-oriented global team of former startup founders, cloud and technical experts, go-to-market specialists, venture capitalists, and business operations leaders. We have built a global team of industry experts that are aligned by one goal: to help startups scale UP. As experienced tech founders ourselves, we understand that startups can use help on their scale UP journey. VeUP's unique business model enables us to surround tech startups with a limitless range of value-added services, at costs that startups can afford. VeUP has thoughtfully combined unparalleled expertise, services, and infrastructure under one roof. About the role As a trusted startup advisor, VeUP Solution Architect's provide architectural and technical guidance to help founders and their teams understand the cloud and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) (and other cloud platforms in the future) cloud computing platform to build scalable, robust, and secure applications. You will focus on customer solutions that span across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, and migrations, HPC amongst many others. We work with world class startups and scaleup teams, where you will communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to establish technical credibility and help deliver business outcomes to VeUP's SaaS/ISV customers. Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers across a broad variety of complex technical and business challenges. Own the technical relationship with your customer and provide technical guidance on architecture, strategy, roadmap and enablement while translating business requirements into technical solutions. Educate startups and scale ups on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment and growth in the cloud. Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges. With your experience and technical skills, you will proactively guide customers through technical transitions to allow them to take advantage of changing business environments, maximise opportunities available to them, and support them in addressing challenges. Support the building and delivery of Marketplace listings and admin support. Support customers with training in Marketplace self-management. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals across our customer base and enable them to become cloud and VeUP advocates. In collaboration with sales, marketing and account management teams, you will help deliver customer value, excellent customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a key member of the services team, ensure any architected solution brings customer success in building and migrating customer applications. Pre-Sales support for our Sales/AM teams i.e. technical discovery and qualification, solutioning, proposal/SOW creation, workshops, Presentations etc. About you AWS Solution Architect Associate certification is a must, professional and specialties a plus. Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers. Proficient in engaging with clients, representing AWS in their operational landscape, and effectively leading conversations with key decision-makers. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology pre-sales and consulting. Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures. Broad technology experience including cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, IT transformation. At least 4 years of experience delivering modern technology stacks using cloud, such as microservices and Infrastructure-as-Code. Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud. Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers. Experience with architecting, designing, and developing cloud native applications and microservices in AWS Cloud environment. Hands-on experience in designing and implementing continuous integration platforms and solutioning highly available distributed systems. Experience in developing with containers, Kubernetes, serverless, or relevant application frameworks. Comfortable with one or more popular full stack programming languages such as Java, Golang, Typescript or Python. Working directly with VeUP service teams to ensure services align with the needs of customers. Experience leading certification or accreditation of cloud workload(s) to meet regulatory or industry standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO26262. Highly favourable: experience with emergent technologies such as High-Performance Computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT), AI/ML. Application development experience on Linux and/or Windows based systems as a plus. Multi cloud (Azure, GCP) experience is a plus. This role represents a superb opportunity for any AWS specialist Solution Architect to join a fast-growing London based founder friendly consulting business. A solid base salary of £70,000-110,000 DOE is supplements by generous holidays, pension and private health care. This role will have flexibility between WFH and being in the office and you will be expected into the office 3 days per week as a minimum. For applications . click apply for full job details
Domesday Book. Shakespeare's will. Tweets from Downing Street. War time records. These are just some of the 13 million items held by The National Archives. We are the official archive and publisher for the UK government and guardians of over 1,000 years of iconic national documents, one of the largest and most important archival collections in the world. IT Operations is a welcoming department of 36 staff made up of several multidisciplinary teams, focused on delivering services that make it possible for everyone to use up to-date, secure and efficient technology services. The IT Infrastructure Services Lead manages a team in the IT Operations department with overall responsibility for the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services and the effective deployment of resources. About the Role We are looking for an accomplished IT Infrastructure Lead to join our team in IT Operations and lead a team of engineers tasked with designing, implementing, administrating and supporting our infrastructure technologies, solutions and services, including computing, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, corporate cloud, and software solutions. This is a great opportunity for you to apply your broad technical skills across a range of infrastructure systems and to provide technical leadership, working collaboratively with key stakeholders and external parties in supporting and working closely with IT Operations & Digital teams, security advisors and senior management to provide IT infrastructure solution design consultancy, expertise and assurance to projects, programmes and business as usual activities. You will develop and maintain IT infrastructure policies and procedures and work with senior management to develop the IT security strategy. SC-level Security Clearance or willingness to obtain SC clearance is mandatory for this role and requires that you have lived in the UK for the last 3 years. The length of required residency may depend on individual circumstances. About You We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic person who will play a major role in the delivery of IT services, from legacy system improvements through to digital and IT transformation. You will work closely with the IT Operations delivery and IT Security teams to design, create and improve new and existing products and services and you will work with business users, delivery teams and suppliers to identify and resolve issues and user need. You must have very good, broad experience and knowledge of working in a technology support environment using a variety of tools to support the management and delivery of production services. You should have experience across all IT service delivery activities including service management, incident management, change management, release management, configuration management, continual service improvement and customer satisfaction as well as playing a role in ensuring the highest levels of operational service delivery. In addition to the activities outlined above, you must have people management experience to lead a team of infrastructure engineers, delivering a range of IT services. This is a full-time post, however, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the department. A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site. We would particularly like to encourage applicants from backgrounds currently underrepresented in archives, including those who identify as Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT+), from Black, Asian and minority ethnic cultural backgrounds, those who are neurodivergent, and those with hidden or visible disabilities. Benefits You will be based in a beautiful setting by the River Thames in Kew with staff parking and good transport links. An opportunity to work a hybrid working pattern with a minimum of 3 days a week working on site at Kew. A comprehensive benefits scheme including a generous Civil Service pension, an on-site coffee shop and restaurant, season ticket loans, on-site gym and clubs. 25 days leave rising incrementally to 30 days after six years (plus 10.5 days public and privilege holidays each year) Excellent training and development opportunities tailored to your role and an agreed development plan. Influencing the strategic objectives and the opportunity to define, design and implement improvements. An opportunity to use or learn a wide range of skills. How to apply If you are an internal applicant : please do not use the link on this page. Please apply via your employee Workday account. If you are an external applicant : to submit your application please click the 'Apply now' button on this page. You will be asked to provide details of your work experience and write a personal statement. Important tip - please ensure that your personal statement includes how you meet the skills and experience listed in the three criteria given below. Please note selection for interview will largely be based on the information you provide in this section. Essential criteria for personal statement: Significant expert knowledge and hands-on experience in designing, implementing, administering, supporting and developing infrastructure solutions and services Experience of line management and developing staff Skilled communicator and negotiator to a range of audiences, including senior management, technical specialists, suppliers and professional bodies; fostering and maintaining relationships and specialist networks Applicants will be assessed on the three criteria given above for the first round of short informal interviews. Candidates invited to the second round of interviews, will be assessed against the full criteria for the role: Significant expert knowledge and hands-on experience in designing, implementing, administering, supporting and developing infrastructure solutions and services Good knowledge and experience of information security processes Effective and confident persuasion, influencing and decision-making skills Experience of line management and developing staff Skilled communicator and negotiator to a range of audiences, including senior management, technical specialists, suppliers and professional bodies; fostering and maintaining relationships and specialist networks Critical thinking and problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Domesday Book. Shakespeare's will. Tweets from Downing Street. War time records. These are just some of the 13 million items held by The National Archives. We are the official archive and publisher for the UK government and guardians of over 1,000 years of iconic national documents, one of the largest and most important archival collections in the world. IT Operations is a welcoming department of 36 staff made up of several multidisciplinary teams, focused on delivering services that make it possible for everyone to use up to-date, secure and efficient technology services. The IT Infrastructure Services Lead manages a team in the IT Operations department with overall responsibility for the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services and the effective deployment of resources. About the Role We are looking for an accomplished IT Infrastructure Lead to join our team in IT Operations and lead a team of engineers tasked with designing, implementing, administrating and supporting our infrastructure technologies, solutions and services, including computing, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, corporate cloud, and software solutions. This is a great opportunity for you to apply your broad technical skills across a range of infrastructure systems and to provide technical leadership, working collaboratively with key stakeholders and external parties in supporting and working closely with IT Operations & Digital teams, security advisors and senior management to provide IT infrastructure solution design consultancy, expertise and assurance to projects, programmes and business as usual activities. You will develop and maintain IT infrastructure policies and procedures and work with senior management to develop the IT security strategy. SC-level Security Clearance or willingness to obtain SC clearance is mandatory for this role and requires that you have lived in the UK for the last 3 years. The length of required residency may depend on individual circumstances. About You We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic person who will play a major role in the delivery of IT services, from legacy system improvements through to digital and IT transformation. You will work closely with the IT Operations delivery and IT Security teams to design, create and improve new and existing products and services and you will work with business users, delivery teams and suppliers to identify and resolve issues and user need. You must have very good, broad experience and knowledge of working in a technology support environment using a variety of tools to support the management and delivery of production services. You should have experience across all IT service delivery activities including service management, incident management, change management, release management, configuration management, continual service improvement and customer satisfaction as well as playing a role in ensuring the highest levels of operational service delivery. In addition to the activities outlined above, you must have people management experience to lead a team of infrastructure engineers, delivering a range of IT services. This is a full-time post, however, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the department. A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site. We would particularly like to encourage applicants from backgrounds currently underrepresented in archives, including those who identify as Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT+), from Black, Asian and minority ethnic cultural backgrounds, those who are neurodivergent, and those with hidden or visible disabilities. Benefits You will be based in a beautiful setting by the River Thames in Kew with staff parking and good transport links. An opportunity to work a hybrid working pattern with a minimum of 3 days a week working on site at Kew. A comprehensive benefits scheme including a generous Civil Service pension, an on-site coffee shop and restaurant, season ticket loans, on-site gym and clubs. 25 days leave rising incrementally to 30 days after six years (plus 10.5 days public and privilege holidays each year) Excellent training and development opportunities tailored to your role and an agreed development plan. Influencing the strategic objectives and the opportunity to define, design and implement improvements. An opportunity to use or learn a wide range of skills. How to apply If you are an internal applicant : please do not use the link on this page. Please apply via your employee Workday account. If you are an external applicant : to submit your application please click the 'Apply now' button on this page. You will be asked to provide details of your work experience and write a personal statement. Important tip - please ensure that your personal statement includes how you meet the skills and experience listed in the three criteria given below. Please note selection for interview will largely be based on the information you provide in this section. Essential criteria for personal statement: Significant expert knowledge and hands-on experience in designing, implementing, administering, supporting and developing infrastructure solutions and services Experience of line management and developing staff Skilled communicator and negotiator to a range of audiences, including senior management, technical specialists, suppliers and professional bodies; fostering and maintaining relationships and specialist networks Applicants will be assessed on the three criteria given above for the first round of short informal interviews. Candidates invited to the second round of interviews, will be assessed against the full criteria for the role: Significant expert knowledge and hands-on experience in designing, implementing, administering, supporting and developing infrastructure solutions and services Good knowledge and experience of information security processes Effective and confident persuasion, influencing and decision-making skills Experience of line management and developing staff Skilled communicator and negotiator to a range of audiences, including senior management, technical specialists, suppliers and professional bodies; fostering and maintaining relationships and specialist networks Critical thinking and problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems
Digital Audit is a specialist team within our Audit practice that combines a mix of technology, data, business and accounting expertise to how we audit clients across all industries. There are two sides to Digital Audit which include; using our latest tools to help digitise the way we deliver audits through automation, AI, data analytics and innovation - known as Digital Auditing. The other side is Auditing Digital which involves auditing our client's technology to give them assurance that security and controls are in place. This includes infrastructure, Cloud, and applications. As part of the team you'll have the opportunity to work with a variety of clients, industries and technologies and you'll develop the business skills, knowledge and relationships you need to build a career that's more than just numbers. We're constantly investing in audit technology and the skills of our people to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to deliver trust that is deeper, broader and more forward-looking The passion of our people, combined with access to the latest technology, helps us deliver the highest quality audits and build trust in society. We pride ourselves on our global reputation as a trusted place to do business, whilst giving our people access to the best opportunities and lots of variety through your home team, internal secondments and international assignments. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: The day to day management of our digital audit work across a wide range of sectors and a base of complex, high profile audit clients. Building and maintaining strong relationships both in the UK and with overseas teams, broader client liaison and management of technical issues. Assist with project management of the job including managing the staffing of the job, the financial performance and ensuring that key deadlines are met. Training and coaching junior audit team members and likely to have wider coaching and people management responsibilities. Develop industry and technical expertise in audit and business advisory areas and use state of the art analytical tools and practice methods in your role to undertake digital audit work to the highest possible standards. Support our business development team on client proposals and work to establish new relationships within the local marketplace and are expected to build relationships with other specialist teams within PwC to ensure that a full service offering can be provided to our clients. Preferable experience and qualifications: CA / ACA / ACCA/ICAS qualified (or international equivalent) Or part Qualified and working towards your full CA / ACA / ACCA / ICAS (or equivalent) qualification Or have equivalent work experience in Audit (you're an international candidate who technically qualifies in your home country by experience) Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualification, or equivalent; Specialist system experience (i.e. SAP, Oracle, SQL, Python).
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Digital Audit is a specialist team within our Audit practice that combines a mix of technology, data, business and accounting expertise to how we audit clients across all industries. There are two sides to Digital Audit which include; using our latest tools to help digitise the way we deliver audits through automation, AI, data analytics and innovation - known as Digital Auditing. The other side is Auditing Digital which involves auditing our client's technology to give them assurance that security and controls are in place. This includes infrastructure, Cloud, and applications. As part of the team you'll have the opportunity to work with a variety of clients, industries and technologies and you'll develop the business skills, knowledge and relationships you need to build a career that's more than just numbers. We're constantly investing in audit technology and the skills of our people to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to deliver trust that is deeper, broader and more forward-looking The passion of our people, combined with access to the latest technology, helps us deliver the highest quality audits and build trust in society. We pride ourselves on our global reputation as a trusted place to do business, whilst giving our people access to the best opportunities and lots of variety through your home team, internal secondments and international assignments. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: The day to day management of our digital audit work across a wide range of sectors and a base of complex, high profile audit clients. Building and maintaining strong relationships both in the UK and with overseas teams, broader client liaison and management of technical issues. Assist with project management of the job including managing the staffing of the job, the financial performance and ensuring that key deadlines are met. Training and coaching junior audit team members and likely to have wider coaching and people management responsibilities. Develop industry and technical expertise in audit and business advisory areas and use state of the art analytical tools and practice methods in your role to undertake digital audit work to the highest possible standards. Support our business development team on client proposals and work to establish new relationships within the local marketplace and are expected to build relationships with other specialist teams within PwC to ensure that a full service offering can be provided to our clients. Preferable experience and qualifications: CA / ACA / ACCA/ICAS qualified (or international equivalent) Or part Qualified and working towards your full CA / ACA / ACCA / ICAS (or equivalent) qualification Or have equivalent work experience in Audit (you're an international candidate who technically qualifies in your home country by experience) Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualification, or equivalent; Specialist system experience (i.e. SAP, Oracle, SQL, Python).
We are seeking a Junior Developer for UK Power Networks in central Ipswich. This will be for 6-6 months but could become long term. JOB PURPOSE: To play a key role in the implementation of UK Power Networks Digital Strategy by transforming the way the business utilises technology and data to sustain and increase business performance. As a Junior Developer your primary focus will be to Support the Technology Specialists to define, build and continuously improve the core systems and data infrastructure of the business. You will be involved in designing solutions for on-premise and cloud-based technologies. You will be a vital part of a dynamic team defining and delivering continuous change into our systems and data architecture driven increasingly by cloud-based solutions. What you deliver will drive the realisation of the Digital Strategy through enabling technology services that allow true business agility, robust systems resilience, and excellent data intelligence. Specifically, you will be maintaining in house business applications and also working on minor bug fixes, including front-end user interface design, server-side code, any business logic, and database integration. This role is vital to enable the delivery of the UK Power Networks digital strategy and being able to set UK Power Networks up to operate within the expectations of the RIIO-ED2 regime. investment. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: This role will be responsible for the following: Supporting technology change • Take a Supporting role in the customer service agile team, prioritising own workload. • Be primary contact in the customer service agile team, prioritise workload according to agreed attributes including understanding the impact of not delivering. • collaboration with representatives from across the business in the delivery of change for on-premises and cloud-based solutions. • Support waterfall project delivery for certain projects and scope, working with project managers and team members to achieve the required outcomes. Technology solving business challenges. • Showing thought approach in how to rapidly assess and select relevant technology solutions to deliver business needs in a scalable and supportable manner. • Showing deep understanding to keep abreast of technology advances and identifying how and when such capabilities can be tested and utilised to drive digital innovation. • Being passionate about how tech works and getting hands-on to develop cloud-based prototypes to rapidly prove business value and drive learning through action . Driving data change • Ensure your work is done with robustness, scalability and best practices in mind. • Advocating best practices in data governance, ownership and stewardship within the team Ensuring standards and controls • Document customer service technology system strategies, roadmaps and standards and ensuring their alignment and support of UK Power Networks business vision and objectives. • Support the development and adherence to technology principles and guardrails to support the realisation of the enterprise architecture and the corresponding business vision and strategy. Managing Communication • Maintain key stakeholder relationships in the business to continuously understand their biggest challenges and data needs, incorporating these needs into technology design and implementation. NATURE AND SCOPE: UK Power Networks is UK's largest electricity distribution network operator, delivering electricity to approximately 18 million customers, including critical infrastructure and businesses across the country. As we face new opportunities and challenges such as smart meters, electric vehicles and a carbon neutral future, we need to simultaneously transform the way use technology to evolve the service we offer to customers & the platform our teams use to serve them. It is the purpose of this initiative to drive this transformation, by complimenting the digital strategy that will seek to make UK Power Networks a in data driven decision making. You will have the opportunity to have a major impact across the company and change the way technology and data is utilised by employees and customers of UK Power Networks. We are accountable in supporting the business in achieving its vision of becoming an 'employer of choice', 'a respected and trusted corporate citizen' and 'sustainably cost efficient'. SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Qualifications • Education to degree level is desirable but not essential. Experience • Knowledge or experience in working in Agile Delivery Teams and/or leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFE) • Experience is required in the creation and maintenance of databases within SQL server. This includes schema normalisation, production of views, stored procedures, triggers and user access control. • Extensive experience with Office 365 and Azure as well as data visualisation tools such as PowerBI • Knowledge of the energy and utilities sector is very much preferred. Technical Skills • Writing clean, concise, commented and exceptional code standards within, but not limited to (C# / JavaScript / VBA/HTML / Razor mark-up/SQL) • Using and deploying Microsoft O365 and Azure cloud services utilising SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models • Designing and delivery of solutions on or integrating with real-time systems • Architecting, designing and delivery of packaged solutions including integration into the wider IT estate. • Designing and implementing cloud-based solutions data engineering solutions, including designing the networking and security arrangements. Using technologies such as Azure Data Lakes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Data Warehouse/Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, NoSQL DBs • Championing an automation data driven mindset and knowledge of any programming/scripting (e.g. PowerShell, Go, Python, Ruby, .NET,) • Regularly using data analytics technology and scripting (e.g. SQL, Python/R, NoSQL, PowerBI, Notebooks, machine learning) • In depth understanding of Windows, Linux and Networking systems. • Working with real-time event ingestion engines such as Azure Event Hubs or Apache Kafka, have developed connectors for a range of different data sources. • Excellent range of communication skills, including being able to translate technical issues into non-technical terms and attain complex details from stakeholders quickly and easily.
Mar 28, 2024
Contractor
We are seeking a Junior Developer for UK Power Networks in central Ipswich. This will be for 6-6 months but could become long term. JOB PURPOSE: To play a key role in the implementation of UK Power Networks Digital Strategy by transforming the way the business utilises technology and data to sustain and increase business performance. As a Junior Developer your primary focus will be to Support the Technology Specialists to define, build and continuously improve the core systems and data infrastructure of the business. You will be involved in designing solutions for on-premise and cloud-based technologies. You will be a vital part of a dynamic team defining and delivering continuous change into our systems and data architecture driven increasingly by cloud-based solutions. What you deliver will drive the realisation of the Digital Strategy through enabling technology services that allow true business agility, robust systems resilience, and excellent data intelligence. Specifically, you will be maintaining in house business applications and also working on minor bug fixes, including front-end user interface design, server-side code, any business logic, and database integration. This role is vital to enable the delivery of the UK Power Networks digital strategy and being able to set UK Power Networks up to operate within the expectations of the RIIO-ED2 regime. investment. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: This role will be responsible for the following: Supporting technology change • Take a Supporting role in the customer service agile team, prioritising own workload. • Be primary contact in the customer service agile team, prioritise workload according to agreed attributes including understanding the impact of not delivering. • collaboration with representatives from across the business in the delivery of change for on-premises and cloud-based solutions. • Support waterfall project delivery for certain projects and scope, working with project managers and team members to achieve the required outcomes. Technology solving business challenges. • Showing thought approach in how to rapidly assess and select relevant technology solutions to deliver business needs in a scalable and supportable manner. • Showing deep understanding to keep abreast of technology advances and identifying how and when such capabilities can be tested and utilised to drive digital innovation. • Being passionate about how tech works and getting hands-on to develop cloud-based prototypes to rapidly prove business value and drive learning through action . Driving data change • Ensure your work is done with robustness, scalability and best practices in mind. • Advocating best practices in data governance, ownership and stewardship within the team Ensuring standards and controls • Document customer service technology system strategies, roadmaps and standards and ensuring their alignment and support of UK Power Networks business vision and objectives. • Support the development and adherence to technology principles and guardrails to support the realisation of the enterprise architecture and the corresponding business vision and strategy. Managing Communication • Maintain key stakeholder relationships in the business to continuously understand their biggest challenges and data needs, incorporating these needs into technology design and implementation. NATURE AND SCOPE: UK Power Networks is UK's largest electricity distribution network operator, delivering electricity to approximately 18 million customers, including critical infrastructure and businesses across the country. As we face new opportunities and challenges such as smart meters, electric vehicles and a carbon neutral future, we need to simultaneously transform the way use technology to evolve the service we offer to customers & the platform our teams use to serve them. It is the purpose of this initiative to drive this transformation, by complimenting the digital strategy that will seek to make UK Power Networks a in data driven decision making. You will have the opportunity to have a major impact across the company and change the way technology and data is utilised by employees and customers of UK Power Networks. We are accountable in supporting the business in achieving its vision of becoming an 'employer of choice', 'a respected and trusted corporate citizen' and 'sustainably cost efficient'. SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Qualifications • Education to degree level is desirable but not essential. Experience • Knowledge or experience in working in Agile Delivery Teams and/or leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFE) • Experience is required in the creation and maintenance of databases within SQL server. This includes schema normalisation, production of views, stored procedures, triggers and user access control. • Extensive experience with Office 365 and Azure as well as data visualisation tools such as PowerBI • Knowledge of the energy and utilities sector is very much preferred. Technical Skills • Writing clean, concise, commented and exceptional code standards within, but not limited to (C# / JavaScript / VBA/HTML / Razor mark-up/SQL) • Using and deploying Microsoft O365 and Azure cloud services utilising SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models • Designing and delivery of solutions on or integrating with real-time systems • Architecting, designing and delivery of packaged solutions including integration into the wider IT estate. • Designing and implementing cloud-based solutions data engineering solutions, including designing the networking and security arrangements. Using technologies such as Azure Data Lakes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Data Warehouse/Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, NoSQL DBs • Championing an automation data driven mindset and knowledge of any programming/scripting (e.g. PowerShell, Go, Python, Ruby, .NET,) • Regularly using data analytics technology and scripting (e.g. SQL, Python/R, NoSQL, PowerBI, Notebooks, machine learning) • In depth understanding of Windows, Linux and Networking systems. • Working with real-time event ingestion engines such as Azure Event Hubs or Apache Kafka, have developed connectors for a range of different data sources. • Excellent range of communication skills, including being able to translate technical issues into non-technical terms and attain complex details from stakeholders quickly and easily.
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Southampton, Hampshire
Professional Services Resource ManagerSouthampton - Hybrid. 2-3 day per week onsitePermanent salary £45,000 - £50,000 Role Purpose: Your role as a Professional Services Resource Manager is to work in partnership with our customers and project management office to manage, schedule and deliver professional services to the customer base. The PS Resource Manager is responsible for planning and coordinating the professional service resources needs to function effectively. They will work with multiple teams, from consultants to Managed Services Specialists to the project management office. Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills: Essential 1. The ability to forecast the resource requirements for the entire department. 2. The Professional Services Resource Manager will often work on multiple projects at once, so it's important to be able to manage their time effectively. To meet deadlines and complete work on time. 3. Excellent communication skills to communicate with clients and other stakeholders for the successful delivery of project-related tasks. 4. Successful proven track record in the delivery of technical projects to customers 5. Minimum of 24 month's work experience in a similar role in a managed service provider environment 6. A demonstrable experience in working with multiple technologies within a Managed Service Provider 7. Excellent computing and technical skills 8. Exceptional coordination and planning skills 9. Be able to acquire new knowledge and skills quickly and apply them to business situations 10. Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills 11. Knowledge and experience of Microsoft-based solutions Desirable 1. Degree-level education or equivalent experience 2. Recognised project management qualification, e.g., PRINCE2, MSP, APMP 3. Demonstrable experience in Service introduction and 'Go to Market' processes 4. Experience in an IT, Cloud or service-related industryResponsibilities: 1. Deliver a high team performance level. Accountable for effective people management to ensure a high level of team morale, timely customer incident management and consistent achievement of operational targets including KPIs, SLA and OLAs. 2. Responsible for managing all direct reports through PDP program and regular 1:1's, identifying training needs, and performance improvements and ensuring all training is completed in line with an individual's PDP. 3. Onboard new resources and provide orientation to company policies and procedures. 4. Monitor resource utilisation and performance levels and take corrective action as necessary. 5. Completing and creating detailed plans for resource management 6. Managing employees to ensure that all workers are using current procedures and equipment. 7. Working with clients to schedule projects, including providing updates throughout the process. 8. Monitoring project revenues, identifying potential cost overruns, and creating contingency plans to prevent spending overruns. 9. Coordinating with the procurement team and partners to schedule deliveries of materials needed for projects. 10. Scheduling the professional services engineers for projects 11. Ensuring that all materials arrive on schedule and are in good condition. 12. Reviewing project plans to ensure that they meet delivery standards and other requirements. 13. Maintaining inventory records of all materials required for projects. 14. Keep up to date with best practices in our key products and suggest and recommend changes to the business and processes to improve the performance of a customer's IT service. 15. Proactively assisting with recommendations and delivery of solutions to its customers maximising customer satisfaction and revenue growth. 16. Keep up to date with best practices in the key service solutions. Suggest and recommend changes to the business and processes to improve the performance of products and Managed Services. "In applying for this position, you consent to your personal data being shared with the specified employer and for your details to remain with GTS for as long as is necessary to process your application. See our Privacy Notice for full informationGlobal Technology Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Professional Services Resource ManagerSouthampton - Hybrid. 2-3 day per week onsitePermanent salary £45,000 - £50,000 Role Purpose: Your role as a Professional Services Resource Manager is to work in partnership with our customers and project management office to manage, schedule and deliver professional services to the customer base. The PS Resource Manager is responsible for planning and coordinating the professional service resources needs to function effectively. They will work with multiple teams, from consultants to Managed Services Specialists to the project management office. Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills: Essential 1. The ability to forecast the resource requirements for the entire department. 2. The Professional Services Resource Manager will often work on multiple projects at once, so it's important to be able to manage their time effectively. To meet deadlines and complete work on time. 3. Excellent communication skills to communicate with clients and other stakeholders for the successful delivery of project-related tasks. 4. Successful proven track record in the delivery of technical projects to customers 5. Minimum of 24 month's work experience in a similar role in a managed service provider environment 6. A demonstrable experience in working with multiple technologies within a Managed Service Provider 7. Excellent computing and technical skills 8. Exceptional coordination and planning skills 9. Be able to acquire new knowledge and skills quickly and apply them to business situations 10. Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills 11. Knowledge and experience of Microsoft-based solutions Desirable 1. Degree-level education or equivalent experience 2. Recognised project management qualification, e.g., PRINCE2, MSP, APMP 3. Demonstrable experience in Service introduction and 'Go to Market' processes 4. Experience in an IT, Cloud or service-related industryResponsibilities: 1. Deliver a high team performance level. Accountable for effective people management to ensure a high level of team morale, timely customer incident management and consistent achievement of operational targets including KPIs, SLA and OLAs. 2. Responsible for managing all direct reports through PDP program and regular 1:1's, identifying training needs, and performance improvements and ensuring all training is completed in line with an individual's PDP. 3. Onboard new resources and provide orientation to company policies and procedures. 4. Monitor resource utilisation and performance levels and take corrective action as necessary. 5. Completing and creating detailed plans for resource management 6. Managing employees to ensure that all workers are using current procedures and equipment. 7. Working with clients to schedule projects, including providing updates throughout the process. 8. Monitoring project revenues, identifying potential cost overruns, and creating contingency plans to prevent spending overruns. 9. Coordinating with the procurement team and partners to schedule deliveries of materials needed for projects. 10. Scheduling the professional services engineers for projects 11. Ensuring that all materials arrive on schedule and are in good condition. 12. Reviewing project plans to ensure that they meet delivery standards and other requirements. 13. Maintaining inventory records of all materials required for projects. 14. Keep up to date with best practices in our key products and suggest and recommend changes to the business and processes to improve the performance of a customer's IT service. 15. Proactively assisting with recommendations and delivery of solutions to its customers maximising customer satisfaction and revenue growth. 16. Keep up to date with best practices in the key service solutions. Suggest and recommend changes to the business and processes to improve the performance of products and Managed Services. "In applying for this position, you consent to your personal data being shared with the specified employer and for your details to remain with GTS for as long as is necessary to process your application. See our Privacy Notice for full informationGlobal Technology Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Business Unit: Chief Operating Office Career Direction: Digitising Our Future Role Focus: Digital Innovation Peer Group: Management and senior specialists (A) Salary range: £60,000 - £65,000 per annum Take control of your career Our Team Our Front-End Mobile Chapter is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a wide range of Mobile applications & services, both customer-facing experiences and internal staff tooling. These cover the full range of customer types within the bank, including retail customers & business clients. Our systems are designed to be accessed via Mobile & Tablet, let's face it, it's never been more important to access your banking needs on the go, so come and join our team, and help to make the magic happen! What you'll be doing Imparting your skills and knowledge to colleagues, stakeholders and team members to drive the mobile channel forward. Contributing to the Mobile strategy ensuring it aligns with the overall digital channel strategy. Sharing your knowledge and experiences of the latest mobile dev tools and technology to best fit the Business needs Assist in the delivery of technical improvement and training for the mobile team, advising and devising training plans as needed Ensuring developers are following best practises, along with producing clean secure code and conducting code reviews Facilitating innovation within the Mobile team to help develop a forward-thinking culture. Helping to improve, optimise & modernise our tech stack, leveraging your previous experience to avoid potential pitfalls & promote positive patterns! We need you to have A significant and successful proven track record as a Senior Developer as well as supporting, training and mentoring junior team members A proven and successful track record in a Senior Developer role with SME experience programming commercial apps SME development experience of Apps using latest technology in your given field; iOS/Android/Flutter An in depth understanding of the latest tools within your specialist Platform ie. SwiftUI/Compose/Flutter Extensive platform knowledge of platform specific design patterns and how they differ between mobile platforms An in-depth understanding of the nuances and differences between different testing approaches. E.g. TDD, BDD and be familiar with automated testing In depth experience of communicating with Microservice REST APIs, and a deep understanding of Networking/HTTP protocols. Experience using version control tooling & repositories within larger scale operations, and design of a merging strategy e.g. git, GitHub, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps A good understanding of agile work tracking/ticketing software such as Jira, Azure Boards. Previous experience of identifying & mitigating against potential security vulnerabilities, within mobile software development. An understanding of the software product development lifecycle An in depth understanding of Architectural patterns for mobile, including cloud, and how to apply these It's a bonus if you have but not essential Experience of utilising testing tools within mobile cloud platform Knowledge of Commercial scale cloud platform tools Red Hot Rewards Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more Up to five extra paid well-being days per year 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt Market-leading pension Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows) And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one. Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin , so happy to talk flexible working with you. Say hello to Virgin Money We're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, 'Making You Happier About Money', underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard. As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team Now the legal bit Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks. Advertised: 15 Mar 2024 GMT Standard Time Applications close: 31 Mar 2024 GMT Daylight Time
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
Business Unit: Chief Operating Office Career Direction: Digitising Our Future Role Focus: Digital Innovation Peer Group: Management and senior specialists (A) Salary range: £60,000 - £65,000 per annum Take control of your career Our Team Our Front-End Mobile Chapter is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a wide range of Mobile applications & services, both customer-facing experiences and internal staff tooling. These cover the full range of customer types within the bank, including retail customers & business clients. Our systems are designed to be accessed via Mobile & Tablet, let's face it, it's never been more important to access your banking needs on the go, so come and join our team, and help to make the magic happen! What you'll be doing Imparting your skills and knowledge to colleagues, stakeholders and team members to drive the mobile channel forward. Contributing to the Mobile strategy ensuring it aligns with the overall digital channel strategy. Sharing your knowledge and experiences of the latest mobile dev tools and technology to best fit the Business needs Assist in the delivery of technical improvement and training for the mobile team, advising and devising training plans as needed Ensuring developers are following best practises, along with producing clean secure code and conducting code reviews Facilitating innovation within the Mobile team to help develop a forward-thinking culture. Helping to improve, optimise & modernise our tech stack, leveraging your previous experience to avoid potential pitfalls & promote positive patterns! We need you to have A significant and successful proven track record as a Senior Developer as well as supporting, training and mentoring junior team members A proven and successful track record in a Senior Developer role with SME experience programming commercial apps SME development experience of Apps using latest technology in your given field; iOS/Android/Flutter An in depth understanding of the latest tools within your specialist Platform ie. SwiftUI/Compose/Flutter Extensive platform knowledge of platform specific design patterns and how they differ between mobile platforms An in-depth understanding of the nuances and differences between different testing approaches. E.g. TDD, BDD and be familiar with automated testing In depth experience of communicating with Microservice REST APIs, and a deep understanding of Networking/HTTP protocols. Experience using version control tooling & repositories within larger scale operations, and design of a merging strategy e.g. git, GitHub, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps A good understanding of agile work tracking/ticketing software such as Jira, Azure Boards. Previous experience of identifying & mitigating against potential security vulnerabilities, within mobile software development. An understanding of the software product development lifecycle An in depth understanding of Architectural patterns for mobile, including cloud, and how to apply these It's a bonus if you have but not essential Experience of utilising testing tools within mobile cloud platform Knowledge of Commercial scale cloud platform tools Red Hot Rewards Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more Up to five extra paid well-being days per year 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt Market-leading pension Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows) And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one. Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin , so happy to talk flexible working with you. Say hello to Virgin Money We're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, 'Making You Happier About Money', underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard. As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team Now the legal bit Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks. Advertised: 15 Mar 2024 GMT Standard Time Applications close: 31 Mar 2024 GMT Daylight Time
Digital Audit is a specialist team within our Audit practice that combines a mix of technology, data, business and accounting expertise to digitally audit clients across all industries. We're constantly investing in audit technology and the skills of our people to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to deliver trust that is deeper, broader and more forward looking. The role As a Senior Associate you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. You'll be auditing our client's technology to give them assurance that security and controls are in place. This includes infrastructure, Cloud and applications. You'll gain an understanding of end-to-end processes and how business applications are utilised, controlled and optimised. You will have a strong understanding of the role that digital plays in the modern audit, and how technologies are deployed and controlled within business. You'll gain an understanding of end-to-end processes and how business applications are utilised, controlled and optimised across our banking and capital markets, private equity, insurance and consumer market clients Role Responsibilities Digital Audit is a national business unit and you'll therefore have the opportunity to work with a variety of clients, industries and technologies. You'll develop the business skills, knowledge and relationships you need to build a career that's more than just numbers to deliver trust that is deeper, broader and more forward looking. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Using feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas Delegating to others to provide stretch opportunities and coaching to help deliver results Developing new ideas and proposing innovative solutions to problems Using a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current trends in the business area Reviewing your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance Sharing relevant thought leadership Using straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing others Ability to read situations and modify behaviour to build quality, diverse relationships Upholding the firm's code of ethics and business conduct Delivering complex technology audits Proactively assisting in the management of several clients and teams; Training, coaching and leading junior staff; Establishing effective working relationships directly with clients Contributing to the development of your own and your team's technical acumen Essential Skills and Experience Experience of working effectively in a team, building good working relationships with both colleagues and client personnel at all levels Experienced in coaching junior staff Experience in evaluating technology that supports financial and operational systems and related business processes; External auditing experience, including evaluating controls over financial and/or IT/operational processes; Experience in managing junior colleagues and an interest in developing others; Experience in working in complex environments; Industry experience is preferable (e.g. Banking and Capital Markets or Retail) Project management and analytical skills; Preferable experience and qualifications CA / ACA / ACCA/ICAS qualified (or international equivalent) Or part Qualified and working towards your full CA / ACA / ACCA / ICAS (or equivalent) qualification Or have equivalent work experience in Audit (you're an international candidate who technically qualifies in your home country by experience) Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualification, or equivalent; Specialist system experience (i.e. SAP, Oracle, SQL, Python).
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
Digital Audit is a specialist team within our Audit practice that combines a mix of technology, data, business and accounting expertise to digitally audit clients across all industries. We're constantly investing in audit technology and the skills of our people to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to deliver trust that is deeper, broader and more forward looking. The role As a Senior Associate you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. You'll be auditing our client's technology to give them assurance that security and controls are in place. This includes infrastructure, Cloud and applications. You'll gain an understanding of end-to-end processes and how business applications are utilised, controlled and optimised. You will have a strong understanding of the role that digital plays in the modern audit, and how technologies are deployed and controlled within business. You'll gain an understanding of end-to-end processes and how business applications are utilised, controlled and optimised across our banking and capital markets, private equity, insurance and consumer market clients Role Responsibilities Digital Audit is a national business unit and you'll therefore have the opportunity to work with a variety of clients, industries and technologies. You'll develop the business skills, knowledge and relationships you need to build a career that's more than just numbers to deliver trust that is deeper, broader and more forward looking. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Using feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas Delegating to others to provide stretch opportunities and coaching to help deliver results Developing new ideas and proposing innovative solutions to problems Using a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current trends in the business area Reviewing your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance Sharing relevant thought leadership Using straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing others Ability to read situations and modify behaviour to build quality, diverse relationships Upholding the firm's code of ethics and business conduct Delivering complex technology audits Proactively assisting in the management of several clients and teams; Training, coaching and leading junior staff; Establishing effective working relationships directly with clients Contributing to the development of your own and your team's technical acumen Essential Skills and Experience Experience of working effectively in a team, building good working relationships with both colleagues and client personnel at all levels Experienced in coaching junior staff Experience in evaluating technology that supports financial and operational systems and related business processes; External auditing experience, including evaluating controls over financial and/or IT/operational processes; Experience in managing junior colleagues and an interest in developing others; Experience in working in complex environments; Industry experience is preferable (e.g. Banking and Capital Markets or Retail) Project management and analytical skills; Preferable experience and qualifications CA / ACA / ACCA/ICAS qualified (or international equivalent) Or part Qualified and working towards your full CA / ACA / ACCA / ICAS (or equivalent) qualification Or have equivalent work experience in Audit (you're an international candidate who technically qualifies in your home country by experience) Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualification, or equivalent; Specialist system experience (i.e. SAP, Oracle, SQL, Python).
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Southampton, Hampshire
Professional Services Resource Manager Southampton - Hybrid. 2-3 day per week onsite Permanent salary £45,000 - £50,000 Role Purpose: Your role as a Professional Services Resource Manager is to work in partnership with our customers and project management office to manage, schedule and deliver professional services to the customer base. The PS Resource Manager is responsible for planning and coordinating the professional service resources needs to function effectively. They will work with multiple teams, from consultants to Managed Services Specialists to the project management office. Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills: Essential 1. The ability to forecast the resource requirements for the entire department. 2. The Professional Services Resource Manager will often work on multiple projects at once, so it's important to be able to manage their time effectively. To meet deadlines and complete work on time. 3. Excellent communication skills to communicate with clients and other stakeholders for the successful delivery of project-related tasks. 4. Successful proven track record in the delivery of technical projects to customers 5. Minimum of 24 month's work experience in a similar role in a managed service provider environment 6. A demonstrable experience in working with multiple technologies within a Managed Service Provider 7. Excellent computing and technical skills 8. Exceptional coordination and planning skills 9. Be able to acquire new knowledge and skills quickly and apply them to business situations 10. Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills 11. Knowledge and experience of Microsoft-based solutions Desirable 1. Degree-level education or equivalent experience 2. Recognised project management qualification, eg, PRINCE2, MSP, APMP 3. Demonstrable experience in Service introduction and 'Go to Market' processes 4. Experience in an IT, Cloud or service-related industry Responsibilities: 1. Deliver a high team performance level. Accountable for effective people management to ensure a high level of team morale, timely customer incident management and consistent achievement of operational targets including KPIs, SLA and OLAs. 2. Responsible for managing all direct reports through PDP program and regular 1:1's, identifying training needs, and performance improvements and ensuring all training is completed in line with an individual's PDP. 3. Onboard new resources and provide orientation to company policies and procedures. 4. Monitor resource utilisation and performance levels and take corrective action as necessary. 5. Completing and creating detailed plans for resource management 6. Managing employees to ensure that all workers are using current procedures and equipment. 7. Working with clients to schedule projects, including providing updates throughout the process. 8. Monitoring project revenues, identifying potential cost overruns, and creating contingency plans to prevent spending overruns. 9. Coordinating with the procurement team and partners to schedule deliveries of materials needed for projects. 10. Scheduling the professional services engineers for projects 11. Ensuring that all materials arrive on schedule and are in good condition. 12. Reviewing project plans to ensure that they meet delivery standards and other requirements. 13. Maintaining inventory records of all materials required for projects. 14. Keep up to date with best practices in our key products and suggest and recommend changes to the business and processes to improve the performance of a customer's IT service. 15. Proactively assisting with recommendations and delivery of solutions to its customers maximising customer satisfaction and revenue growth. 16. Keep up to date with best practices in the key service solutions. Suggest and recommend changes to the business and processes to improve the performance of products and Managed Services. In applying for this position, you consent to your personal data being shared with the specified employer and for your details to remain with GTS for as long as is necessary to process your application. See our Privacy Notice for full information Global Technology Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Mar 26, 2024
Full time
Professional Services Resource Manager Southampton - Hybrid. 2-3 day per week onsite Permanent salary £45,000 - £50,000 Role Purpose: Your role as a Professional Services Resource Manager is to work in partnership with our customers and project management office to manage, schedule and deliver professional services to the customer base. The PS Resource Manager is responsible for planning and coordinating the professional service resources needs to function effectively. They will work with multiple teams, from consultants to Managed Services Specialists to the project management office. Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills: Essential 1. The ability to forecast the resource requirements for the entire department. 2. The Professional Services Resource Manager will often work on multiple projects at once, so it's important to be able to manage their time effectively. To meet deadlines and complete work on time. 3. Excellent communication skills to communicate with clients and other stakeholders for the successful delivery of project-related tasks. 4. Successful proven track record in the delivery of technical projects to customers 5. Minimum of 24 month's work experience in a similar role in a managed service provider environment 6. A demonstrable experience in working with multiple technologies within a Managed Service Provider 7. Excellent computing and technical skills 8. Exceptional coordination and planning skills 9. Be able to acquire new knowledge and skills quickly and apply them to business situations 10. Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills 11. Knowledge and experience of Microsoft-based solutions Desirable 1. Degree-level education or equivalent experience 2. Recognised project management qualification, eg, PRINCE2, MSP, APMP 3. Demonstrable experience in Service introduction and 'Go to Market' processes 4. Experience in an IT, Cloud or service-related industry Responsibilities: 1. Deliver a high team performance level. Accountable for effective people management to ensure a high level of team morale, timely customer incident management and consistent achievement of operational targets including KPIs, SLA and OLAs. 2. Responsible for managing all direct reports through PDP program and regular 1:1's, identifying training needs, and performance improvements and ensuring all training is completed in line with an individual's PDP. 3. Onboard new resources and provide orientation to company policies and procedures. 4. Monitor resource utilisation and performance levels and take corrective action as necessary. 5. Completing and creating detailed plans for resource management 6. Managing employees to ensure that all workers are using current procedures and equipment. 7. Working with clients to schedule projects, including providing updates throughout the process. 8. Monitoring project revenues, identifying potential cost overruns, and creating contingency plans to prevent spending overruns. 9. Coordinating with the procurement team and partners to schedule deliveries of materials needed for projects. 10. Scheduling the professional services engineers for projects 11. Ensuring that all materials arrive on schedule and are in good condition. 12. Reviewing project plans to ensure that they meet delivery standards and other requirements. 13. Maintaining inventory records of all materials required for projects. 14. Keep up to date with best practices in our key products and suggest and recommend changes to the business and processes to improve the performance of a customer's IT service. 15. Proactively assisting with recommendations and delivery of solutions to its customers maximising customer satisfaction and revenue growth. 16. Keep up to date with best practices in the key service solutions. Suggest and recommend changes to the business and processes to improve the performance of products and Managed Services. In applying for this position, you consent to your personal data being shared with the specified employer and for your details to remain with GTS for as long as is necessary to process your application. See our Privacy Notice for full information Global Technology Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Chief Technology Officer - Healthcare and Life Sciences, Digital Transformation, Cloud Reference: SK/CTO/63 Sector: Change & Digital Transformation, Development and Integration Competitive Hybrid Working Town/City: London Contract Type: Permanent Closing Date: 08/03/2024 Role: Chief Technology Officer- Healthcare and Life Sciences Location: Hybrid - London Contract: Permanent Our client has an interesting career opportunity for a highly experienced CTO with extensive Healthcare and Life Sciences experience to help them accelerate their growth ambitions for the organisation. You will act as the executive technical leader for Healthcare products and services division. This will include product developer, technical architecture and acting as a specialist advisor to executive leaders. The ideal candidate will have a proven background in working for Consultancy's and will be passionate about leading growth opportunities in deliver large scale Digital Transformation and Cloud adoption solutions. You will have strong client facing skills, have history leading large technical teams. This role could suit a leader who came from a Chief Architect / Lead Technical Architect background and would suit a passionate technologist. Suited candidates will be comfortable in communicating, engaging and influencing with technical and non-technical executives. Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. If you are a proven CTO that has the gravitas and credentials to influence at exec level within the Healthcare & Life Sciences community, then please apply immediately ,or give Bangura Solutions a call onto discuss this job further. Interviews will take place next week.
Mar 26, 2024
Full time
Chief Technology Officer - Healthcare and Life Sciences, Digital Transformation, Cloud Reference: SK/CTO/63 Sector: Change & Digital Transformation, Development and Integration Competitive Hybrid Working Town/City: London Contract Type: Permanent Closing Date: 08/03/2024 Role: Chief Technology Officer- Healthcare and Life Sciences Location: Hybrid - London Contract: Permanent Our client has an interesting career opportunity for a highly experienced CTO with extensive Healthcare and Life Sciences experience to help them accelerate their growth ambitions for the organisation. You will act as the executive technical leader for Healthcare products and services division. This will include product developer, technical architecture and acting as a specialist advisor to executive leaders. The ideal candidate will have a proven background in working for Consultancy's and will be passionate about leading growth opportunities in deliver large scale Digital Transformation and Cloud adoption solutions. You will have strong client facing skills, have history leading large technical teams. This role could suit a leader who came from a Chief Architect / Lead Technical Architect background and would suit a passionate technologist. Suited candidates will be comfortable in communicating, engaging and influencing with technical and non-technical executives. Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. If you are a proven CTO that has the gravitas and credentials to influence at exec level within the Healthcare & Life Sciences community, then please apply immediately ,or give Bangura Solutions a call onto discuss this job further. Interviews will take place next week.
Infrastructure Engineer - Linux, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Agile. The Company & Opportunity: Specialist technology provider, providing Real Time solutions, utilising leading-edge technology, delivering transportation technology, are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer, to play a pivotal role in supporting their core products and associated systems, working in a hybrid role with occasional visits on-site, ensuring the on-prem infrastructure and AWS cloud estate are ready and available to support the teams, digital services, and customers. The company offers Hybrid working with 1 day week in their Derby office. The role is split as 70% on-prem (with occasional trips to client sites) and 30% cloud-based (AWS/Azure). *Candidates must work within a reasonable commuting distance of Derby. Core technical skills, responsibilities & attributes for the Infrastructure Engineer role: Minimum 7+ years commercial experience as an Infrastructure Engineer. Docker/Kubernetes (containerisation), Git (or similar), AWS, Azure (DevOps pipelines), Terraform. Linux support/administration (strong understanding of the Linux Ecosystem). Proven experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, working with Development/QA Teams, with a strong understanding of the development life cycle (Sprints/Scrum and/or Agile etc). Commercial experience supporting On-Prem applications/tools. MUST HAVE a strong Infrastructure Engineering background, encompassing - Server Configurations, Cabinets, Network Components, Data Centers, Switches & Firewalls etc. The company offers a Hybrid working environment working from home and 1 day per week in the Derby office, with a base salary range of £55-60K, depending on experience and a fantastic benefits package. Please apply now for a comprehensive specification on the position: Infrastructure Engineer - Linux, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Agile.
Mar 25, 2024
Full time
Infrastructure Engineer - Linux, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Agile. The Company & Opportunity: Specialist technology provider, providing Real Time solutions, utilising leading-edge technology, delivering transportation technology, are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer, to play a pivotal role in supporting their core products and associated systems, working in a hybrid role with occasional visits on-site, ensuring the on-prem infrastructure and AWS cloud estate are ready and available to support the teams, digital services, and customers. The company offers Hybrid working with 1 day week in their Derby office. The role is split as 70% on-prem (with occasional trips to client sites) and 30% cloud-based (AWS/Azure). *Candidates must work within a reasonable commuting distance of Derby. Core technical skills, responsibilities & attributes for the Infrastructure Engineer role: Minimum 7+ years commercial experience as an Infrastructure Engineer. Docker/Kubernetes (containerisation), Git (or similar), AWS, Azure (DevOps pipelines), Terraform. Linux support/administration (strong understanding of the Linux Ecosystem). Proven experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, working with Development/QA Teams, with a strong understanding of the development life cycle (Sprints/Scrum and/or Agile etc). Commercial experience supporting On-Prem applications/tools. MUST HAVE a strong Infrastructure Engineering background, encompassing - Server Configurations, Cabinets, Network Components, Data Centers, Switches & Firewalls etc. The company offers a Hybrid working environment working from home and 1 day per week in the Derby office, with a base salary range of £55-60K, depending on experience and a fantastic benefits package. Please apply now for a comprehensive specification on the position: Infrastructure Engineer - Linux, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Agile.
Shawbrook is a specialist bank driven by a purpose to power up ingenuity to create opportunity, every single day. We offer a diverse range of savings and loan products. From personal and business savings accounts and loans for wedding and new cars, to complex financial credit facilities for businesses requiring significant investment and mortgages for landlords with multiple properties - no two customers are ever the same. We give our customers the best-of-both worlds; uniquely combining strong digital capabilities with human expertise and ingenuity to deliver the best outcomes. We rise to the challenge of a complex case or unconventional circumstances, and we love to make things happen. By being creative, practical, and personal, we know we can always find the right solution for our customers The Role & Responsibilities Purpose & Scope of role You will be working as a Senior Software Engineer in the product team to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features, enhancements and functionality using Agile methodologies, ensuring that quality standards are met and that a product delivery focused approach is applied throughout You'll work with the QA team, to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of the software and will participate in understanding business requirements during agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sessions taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution, bearing in mind, non-functional requirements around performance and security. Working with the support team, you'll assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production. You will also take responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both your code comments and our online documentation system You must be able to work across multiple facets of projects and be able to juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time. You will engage directly with IT management, development teams, technical delivery teams, and vendors to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions Key Role Responsibilities Working as part of a Product focused team this role is responsible for building and maintaining application software to further our product delivery objectives. As a growing team with a broad remit, this role offers excellent exposure to business users and management where you will be able to clearly see the impact of the work you and the team are doing. Determine root cause for complex software issues and develop practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions. Assist in task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing Mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities Be a strong voice in all team ceremonies, including planning, estimation and backlog refinement. Provide a technical view point in discussions on resource assignment Working with the support team to deployment and monitor services in production. Taking responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both code comments and online documentation system Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications. Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes Strict adherence to Shawbrook technical standards The Person What you'll need .NET 5/6 /.NET core- You will use .NET and C# to build out the back end that feeds through to the front-end presentation layers. Cloud Experience (ideally Azure)- You will need a solid understanding of cloud fundamentals for the wider migration to the cloud as part of our technical transformation. SQL- You will need experience with data, both front and back end, to run queries, pull data back, build new tables, index tables. Microservices- You will use microservice technology to build our systems using modern design to drive scalability and efficiency. Engineering best practice- You will need familiarity with concepts such as DTO / TDD / Unit Testing and SOLID principals to drive high quality coding practices. Shawbrook is committed to providing opportunities to all candidates, and understand that not all candidates may possess a qualification or education aligned to the role. We will assess each candidate on their individual experience and skills, and not solely on level of education. Reward Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include: Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health Cycle to work scheme Discounts on gym membership Your Lifestyle - It's important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you're enjoying your leisure time. Minimum of 27 days holiday per year Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme Discounts on gym membership nationwide Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands Community support and charitable giving Your Contribution - We're focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals. Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done
Mar 25, 2024
Full time
Shawbrook is a specialist bank driven by a purpose to power up ingenuity to create opportunity, every single day. We offer a diverse range of savings and loan products. From personal and business savings accounts and loans for wedding and new cars, to complex financial credit facilities for businesses requiring significant investment and mortgages for landlords with multiple properties - no two customers are ever the same. We give our customers the best-of-both worlds; uniquely combining strong digital capabilities with human expertise and ingenuity to deliver the best outcomes. We rise to the challenge of a complex case or unconventional circumstances, and we love to make things happen. By being creative, practical, and personal, we know we can always find the right solution for our customers The Role & Responsibilities Purpose & Scope of role You will be working as a Senior Software Engineer in the product team to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features, enhancements and functionality using Agile methodologies, ensuring that quality standards are met and that a product delivery focused approach is applied throughout You'll work with the QA team, to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of the software and will participate in understanding business requirements during agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sessions taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution, bearing in mind, non-functional requirements around performance and security. Working with the support team, you'll assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production. You will also take responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both your code comments and our online documentation system You must be able to work across multiple facets of projects and be able to juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time. You will engage directly with IT management, development teams, technical delivery teams, and vendors to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions Key Role Responsibilities Working as part of a Product focused team this role is responsible for building and maintaining application software to further our product delivery objectives. As a growing team with a broad remit, this role offers excellent exposure to business users and management where you will be able to clearly see the impact of the work you and the team are doing. Determine root cause for complex software issues and develop practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions. Assist in task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing Mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities Be a strong voice in all team ceremonies, including planning, estimation and backlog refinement. Provide a technical view point in discussions on resource assignment Working with the support team to deployment and monitor services in production. Taking responsibility for documenting details of system amendments / enhancements in both code comments and online documentation system Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications. Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes Strict adherence to Shawbrook technical standards The Person What you'll need .NET 5/6 /.NET core- You will use .NET and C# to build out the back end that feeds through to the front-end presentation layers. Cloud Experience (ideally Azure)- You will need a solid understanding of cloud fundamentals for the wider migration to the cloud as part of our technical transformation. SQL- You will need experience with data, both front and back end, to run queries, pull data back, build new tables, index tables. Microservices- You will use microservice technology to build our systems using modern design to drive scalability and efficiency. Engineering best practice- You will need familiarity with concepts such as DTO / TDD / Unit Testing and SOLID principals to drive high quality coding practices. Shawbrook is committed to providing opportunities to all candidates, and understand that not all candidates may possess a qualification or education aligned to the role. We will assess each candidate on their individual experience and skills, and not solely on level of education. Reward Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include: Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health Cycle to work scheme Discounts on gym membership Your Lifestyle - It's important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you're enjoying your leisure time. Minimum of 27 days holiday per year Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme Discounts on gym membership nationwide Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands Community support and charitable giving Your Contribution - We're focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals. Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done
Role Title : Senior Data Scientist Duration: 7 months Location: Remote Rate: £500 - £670 per day depending on experience Umbrella only (inside IR35) Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation? Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Role purpose / summary The Analytics and Insights team is a key part of the wider CTO organisation and is responsible for driving DevOps transformation through our Data, Analytics, Insight and Practices. The successful candidate will join the team as a specialist focused on primarily owning and delivering insight reports on key analytics across the bank. Key Responsibilities: Owning the relationship with at least 2 global businesses and / or functions and writing insight reports in partnership Owning at least one section of the State of DevSecOps report across all reports Actively identifying and owning new opportunities to highlight key metrics across the bank Building data models to deliver insights into how we can improve as a bank Essential skills required: Excellent communication and analytical skills An ability to collaborate with relevant technical and non-technical colleagues to constructively, and without judgment, facilitate free flow of knowledge Deep hands-on understanding of DevSecOps delivery / transformation Ability to take complex analytics and turn them into easy to consume insight through simple story telling Data Modelling & Visualization including ETL BI / Analytics Aptitude to learn and quickly pick up new technologies when required Comfortable working in rapidly changing and ambiguous situations Desirable Skills Python Qlik Data Engineering (LLM, Gen AI) Data architecture Data Governance Proactive and willing to lead initiatives for improvement and to resolve issues Proactive and All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
Mar 25, 2024
Full time
Role Title : Senior Data Scientist Duration: 7 months Location: Remote Rate: £500 - £670 per day depending on experience Umbrella only (inside IR35) Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation? Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Role purpose / summary The Analytics and Insights team is a key part of the wider CTO organisation and is responsible for driving DevOps transformation through our Data, Analytics, Insight and Practices. The successful candidate will join the team as a specialist focused on primarily owning and delivering insight reports on key analytics across the bank. Key Responsibilities: Owning the relationship with at least 2 global businesses and / or functions and writing insight reports in partnership Owning at least one section of the State of DevSecOps report across all reports Actively identifying and owning new opportunities to highlight key metrics across the bank Building data models to deliver insights into how we can improve as a bank Essential skills required: Excellent communication and analytical skills An ability to collaborate with relevant technical and non-technical colleagues to constructively, and without judgment, facilitate free flow of knowledge Deep hands-on understanding of DevSecOps delivery / transformation Ability to take complex analytics and turn them into easy to consume insight through simple story telling Data Modelling & Visualization including ETL BI / Analytics Aptitude to learn and quickly pick up new technologies when required Comfortable working in rapidly changing and ambiguous situations Desirable Skills Python Qlik Data Engineering (LLM, Gen AI) Data architecture Data Governance Proactive and willing to lead initiatives for improvement and to resolve issues Proactive and All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
Cloud Security Consultant (Azure) This is working for a global European bank on their large scale cloud migration project. Sector: Financial Services (Banking) Length of project: 12 Months rolling Day rate: Up to 1000 (Inside) Location: Fully remote Disclaimer: Applicants must have prior FS or banking experience, specifically working on large scale cloud migrations. This will be working within the Security Change Team, providing Cloud Security Subject Matter Expertise to the Bank's change portfolio. You willl be an InfoSec SME across multiple cloud technology areas such as M365, Azure (Identity, Security and Compliance), Defender, Azure DevOps, Azure IaaS, etc Main Responsibilities Act as an InfoSec subject matter expert, primarily focussed on cloud security across the Bank's core cloud technology platforms; Assess whether the current (and proposed) configuration of these core cloud technologies meet the Bank's security requirements, regulatory requirements and good industry practice; Define, document and agree security improvements/enhanced configurations where these are necessary; Define, document and agree security improvements/enhanced configurations as part of changes to the existing core technologies and the implementation of new capabilities, systems and technologies; Represent Information Security with Business stakeholders as a trusted advisor, finding pragmatic and cost-effective security solutions that efficiently support customer needs. Act as a specialist owner of 1 or more of the team's security processes, systems or frameworks, maintaining specialist knowledge and continually evolving the process, system or framework with reference to the bank's global and local system & process owners, regulation & good practice; Provide specialist advice as part of structured risk & control assessments, for example external supplier due diligence; Respond to queries from our branches and other colleagues on information security to ensure effective risk management of information security; Deputise for elements of the reporting manager's role, on an ad-hoc basis, to cover absences, periods of increased workload, etc. Ideal Candidate Security subject matter expert in multiple cloud technology areas such as M365, Azure (Identity, Security and Compliance), Defender, Azure DevOps, Azure IaaS, etc. Solid, practical and demonstrable experience of information security (technical and non technical aspects), ideally with an understanding of privacy ; able to influence decision making to surface and mitigate issues and risks across a wide range of stakeholders; positive, collaborative and builds and maintains effective relationship with others pragmatic, and effectively balances risk and control requirements with commercial drivers; If you would like to know more, please apply and we can set up a confidential chat to discuss the opportunity further. E: (url removed) GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Mar 24, 2024
Contractor
Cloud Security Consultant (Azure) This is working for a global European bank on their large scale cloud migration project. Sector: Financial Services (Banking) Length of project: 12 Months rolling Day rate: Up to 1000 (Inside) Location: Fully remote Disclaimer: Applicants must have prior FS or banking experience, specifically working on large scale cloud migrations. This will be working within the Security Change Team, providing Cloud Security Subject Matter Expertise to the Bank's change portfolio. You willl be an InfoSec SME across multiple cloud technology areas such as M365, Azure (Identity, Security and Compliance), Defender, Azure DevOps, Azure IaaS, etc Main Responsibilities Act as an InfoSec subject matter expert, primarily focussed on cloud security across the Bank's core cloud technology platforms; Assess whether the current (and proposed) configuration of these core cloud technologies meet the Bank's security requirements, regulatory requirements and good industry practice; Define, document and agree security improvements/enhanced configurations where these are necessary; Define, document and agree security improvements/enhanced configurations as part of changes to the existing core technologies and the implementation of new capabilities, systems and technologies; Represent Information Security with Business stakeholders as a trusted advisor, finding pragmatic and cost-effective security solutions that efficiently support customer needs. Act as a specialist owner of 1 or more of the team's security processes, systems or frameworks, maintaining specialist knowledge and continually evolving the process, system or framework with reference to the bank's global and local system & process owners, regulation & good practice; Provide specialist advice as part of structured risk & control assessments, for example external supplier due diligence; Respond to queries from our branches and other colleagues on information security to ensure effective risk management of information security; Deputise for elements of the reporting manager's role, on an ad-hoc basis, to cover absences, periods of increased workload, etc. Ideal Candidate Security subject matter expert in multiple cloud technology areas such as M365, Azure (Identity, Security and Compliance), Defender, Azure DevOps, Azure IaaS, etc. Solid, practical and demonstrable experience of information security (technical and non technical aspects), ideally with an understanding of privacy ; able to influence decision making to surface and mitigate issues and risks across a wide range of stakeholders; positive, collaborative and builds and maintains effective relationship with others pragmatic, and effectively balances risk and control requirements with commercial drivers; If you would like to know more, please apply and we can set up a confidential chat to discuss the opportunity further. E: (url removed) GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
About us Here at the FT, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning. 500-people strong, our Product & Tech team keeps us ahead of the ever-changing digital landscape by delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers every day. Our plans for growth rely on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists - everyone's welcome in this friendly, forward-thinking team. And with entrepreneurial spirit, intelligence and opportunity at every turn, there are no limits to where your FT career will take you. The FT is one of the world's leading business news and information organisations. We are recognised globally for our authority, integrity and accuracy. We provide a broad range of essential services, including news, comment, data and analysis, to the growing audience of internationally minded business people. The role and department context The Financial Times is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the technical leadership team in our Engineering Enablement group. This group defines standards and best practices, provides tooling and guidance in order that product & technology teams at the FT can achieve engineering and operational excellence. We are a multi-disciplinary, co-located team with around 25 engineers and 50 people total. We value transparency, accountability, shared responsibility and teamwork. We deploy many times a day. We're focused on the engineering community and supporting the FT's mission to provide engaging world-class journalism. Engineering Enablement sits within FT's Product & Technology function, and brings together people from Delivery and Technology. This leadership role will span a range of teams that support all of the technology teams at the FT, including our Cloud estate (most notably our usage of PaaS systems), our engineering tooling (both bespoke and off the shelf) and our Front End Component system, Origami. Position summary This role will report into the Technical Director for Engineering Enablement. You will work alongside our other Principal Engineers, each of whom leads two or three teams in a single product area, as will you. Principal Engineers take on a range of responsibilities across the managerial/technical spectrum, and individuals' skillsets are different and complementary. For this specific vacancy we are looking for someone with a particular strength in people and process issues. Each of your teams has a technical lead and other talented engineers. You will need to ensure they are steered effectively, and are generally building systems productively and with technical integrity. Additionally, as someone with a strength in people and process issues, you will be responsible for management issues across Engineering Enablement, such as our quarterly promotions round, and (with our Talent Acquisition team) leading recruitment. You will also proactively look for ways to improve the experience of being an engineer at the FT. Engineering Enablements' technologies integrate and in some cases are the basis for services managed by other groups, and Engineering Enablement is part of the FT's wider journalistic and commercial mission. Therefore a critical part of this role is to help your teams work effectively within FT's greater context. This means you will be a key player in building a world class engineering capability at the Financial Times. This includes an active commitment to and championing of our values and our goal of delivering a truly diverse team and building an inclusive environment. Key duties This role has responsibilities and accountabilities both within Engineering Enablement and beyond. You will oversee two to three teams and line manage at least three senior engineers in those teams. You will: Provide technical direction and support, being able to switch from one area to another Ensure the right people are hired into your teams, and are appropriately rewarded and promoted when they're in them Lead on creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive culture, ensuring strong engagement and motivation Across the Technology function of Engineering Enablement you will: Ensure our retention and reward processes are fair, effective and work within our budget. This includes leading on calibration activities alongside other principal engineers and bringing together insight from line managers across the group. Proactively identify and lead on initiatives to improve the experience of being an engineer in Engineering Enablement and at the FT; whether that is to do with productivity, diversity and inclusion, technical competence or other areas. Previous examples of work in this area include career competency frameworks; moving to durable teams and improving our recruitment processes to be fairer to people of colour. Oversee staff allocations across Engineering Enablement, working with other principal engineers and line managers to support activities such as people moves between teams. Maintain and improve our positive and inclusive culture, and proactively identify activities that help our people to be engaged and motivated. Look for ways to ensure Engineering Enablement engineers have the skills they need to do their job and progress. As part of this, identify training needs and organise training where needed. Ensure our recruitment process is fair and effective. This involves working closely with our Talent Acquisition team, plus reviewing our data to ensure we are reaching a diverse selection of candidates and being inclusive in our approach. Lead on strategic technical initiatives across Engineering Enablement and/or working with other technical groups. Characteristics we value Modelling and helping set and reinforce our inclusive, respectful, multidisciplinary and open culture Continuous improvement of technology, process and culture, and take ownership of problems and seeing solutions through to completion Dedication to performance, accessibility, security and reliability Ability to understand a complex business problem and to build or lead a team to solve that problem Effective communication and collaboration Ability to decide appropriately when to buy or build, and to communicate the reasons to stakeholders A respect for all disciplines involved in an excellent product, and a commitment to improving customer experience In return we'll give you: Interesting tech where your input is valued in both product and technical choices A good work / life balance and rewarding work environment Motivated, smart, kind colleagues you can learn from Benefits Our benefits vary depending on location, but we are committed to providing best in class perks across all our offices as well as an inclusive environment to develop your career. Examples of our benefits include; generous annual leave allowances, flexible working (including working from home), medical cover, enhanced maternity & paternity packages, subsidised gym memberships and Giving Back opportunities. Full details of our benefits can be found here . Our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace The FT is committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We believe that a supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves at work and have the flexibility they need to meet their personal needs. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any questions, please contact and a member of our team will be happy to help.
Mar 23, 2024
Full time
About us Here at the FT, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning. 500-people strong, our Product & Tech team keeps us ahead of the ever-changing digital landscape by delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers every day. Our plans for growth rely on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists - everyone's welcome in this friendly, forward-thinking team. And with entrepreneurial spirit, intelligence and opportunity at every turn, there are no limits to where your FT career will take you. The FT is one of the world's leading business news and information organisations. We are recognised globally for our authority, integrity and accuracy. We provide a broad range of essential services, including news, comment, data and analysis, to the growing audience of internationally minded business people. The role and department context The Financial Times is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the technical leadership team in our Engineering Enablement group. This group defines standards and best practices, provides tooling and guidance in order that product & technology teams at the FT can achieve engineering and operational excellence. We are a multi-disciplinary, co-located team with around 25 engineers and 50 people total. We value transparency, accountability, shared responsibility and teamwork. We deploy many times a day. We're focused on the engineering community and supporting the FT's mission to provide engaging world-class journalism. Engineering Enablement sits within FT's Product & Technology function, and brings together people from Delivery and Technology. This leadership role will span a range of teams that support all of the technology teams at the FT, including our Cloud estate (most notably our usage of PaaS systems), our engineering tooling (both bespoke and off the shelf) and our Front End Component system, Origami. Position summary This role will report into the Technical Director for Engineering Enablement. You will work alongside our other Principal Engineers, each of whom leads two or three teams in a single product area, as will you. Principal Engineers take on a range of responsibilities across the managerial/technical spectrum, and individuals' skillsets are different and complementary. For this specific vacancy we are looking for someone with a particular strength in people and process issues. Each of your teams has a technical lead and other talented engineers. You will need to ensure they are steered effectively, and are generally building systems productively and with technical integrity. Additionally, as someone with a strength in people and process issues, you will be responsible for management issues across Engineering Enablement, such as our quarterly promotions round, and (with our Talent Acquisition team) leading recruitment. You will also proactively look for ways to improve the experience of being an engineer at the FT. Engineering Enablements' technologies integrate and in some cases are the basis for services managed by other groups, and Engineering Enablement is part of the FT's wider journalistic and commercial mission. Therefore a critical part of this role is to help your teams work effectively within FT's greater context. This means you will be a key player in building a world class engineering capability at the Financial Times. This includes an active commitment to and championing of our values and our goal of delivering a truly diverse team and building an inclusive environment. Key duties This role has responsibilities and accountabilities both within Engineering Enablement and beyond. You will oversee two to three teams and line manage at least three senior engineers in those teams. You will: Provide technical direction and support, being able to switch from one area to another Ensure the right people are hired into your teams, and are appropriately rewarded and promoted when they're in them Lead on creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive culture, ensuring strong engagement and motivation Across the Technology function of Engineering Enablement you will: Ensure our retention and reward processes are fair, effective and work within our budget. This includes leading on calibration activities alongside other principal engineers and bringing together insight from line managers across the group. Proactively identify and lead on initiatives to improve the experience of being an engineer in Engineering Enablement and at the FT; whether that is to do with productivity, diversity and inclusion, technical competence or other areas. Previous examples of work in this area include career competency frameworks; moving to durable teams and improving our recruitment processes to be fairer to people of colour. Oversee staff allocations across Engineering Enablement, working with other principal engineers and line managers to support activities such as people moves between teams. Maintain and improve our positive and inclusive culture, and proactively identify activities that help our people to be engaged and motivated. Look for ways to ensure Engineering Enablement engineers have the skills they need to do their job and progress. As part of this, identify training needs and organise training where needed. Ensure our recruitment process is fair and effective. This involves working closely with our Talent Acquisition team, plus reviewing our data to ensure we are reaching a diverse selection of candidates and being inclusive in our approach. Lead on strategic technical initiatives across Engineering Enablement and/or working with other technical groups. Characteristics we value Modelling and helping set and reinforce our inclusive, respectful, multidisciplinary and open culture Continuous improvement of technology, process and culture, and take ownership of problems and seeing solutions through to completion Dedication to performance, accessibility, security and reliability Ability to understand a complex business problem and to build or lead a team to solve that problem Effective communication and collaboration Ability to decide appropriately when to buy or build, and to communicate the reasons to stakeholders A respect for all disciplines involved in an excellent product, and a commitment to improving customer experience In return we'll give you: Interesting tech where your input is valued in both product and technical choices A good work / life balance and rewarding work environment Motivated, smart, kind colleagues you can learn from Benefits Our benefits vary depending on location, but we are committed to providing best in class perks across all our offices as well as an inclusive environment to develop your career. Examples of our benefits include; generous annual leave allowances, flexible working (including working from home), medical cover, enhanced maternity & paternity packages, subsidised gym memberships and Giving Back opportunities. Full details of our benefits can be found here . Our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace The FT is committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We believe that a supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves at work and have the flexibility they need to meet their personal needs. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any questions, please contact and a member of our team will be happy to help.
HealthHero is on a mission to 'Simplify Healthcare - Improving Lives' by using a combination of digital tools and clinical services, provided by HealthHero or our partners, in a seamless, digital first, patient and clinician experience. We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Enterprise Architect to join our dynamic team. As a Technology leader, you will play a pivotal role in aligning business objectives with technology strategies, ensuring the scalability, security, and efficiency of our systems. Emphasis in the role will be taking ownership of our architecture strategy and implementation - starting from understanding and shaping client's business requirements as well as internal strategic roadmap, to ensuring delivery as per your defined enterprise architecture principles and framework. What will you be doing? As an Enterprise Architect you will: Develop and maintain an enterprise architecture strategy aligned with organizational goals. Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand business objectives and strategic vision and translate them into technology solutions. Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure enterprise-level systems. Ensure seamless integration of new and existing technologies, applications, and infrastructure. Evaluate emerging technologies and trends to make recommendations for their integration. Conduct feasibility studies and impact analyses for proposed technology solutions. Establish and enforce technology standards, best practices, and governance processes. Identify potential risks in technology implementations and propose mitigation strategies. Stay abreast of industry trends and security threats to proactively address potential vulnerabilities. Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of enterprise architecture, including diagrams, processes, and guidelines. Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to our clients for architectural frameworks, solution approach, delivery methods and tools. Act as coach to assist product owners, consultants, analysts, technical specialists and delivery leads, ensuring squads are sufficiently informed and guided to ensure a strategic implementation. To succeed as an Enterprise Architect, you will need: Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect in complex, large-scale environments. Strong leadership and clear, concise communication style with ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders effectively. Demonstrable experience of digital architecture analysis and design, including definition of digital architecture strategies & roadmaps. Ability to accurately document and create appropriate technical architectural diagrams. Experience with Event Driven Architecture. Passion for improving consumer experience. Demonstrable working experience in a geographically distributed, culturally diverse, cross disciplinary environment. Experience with different cloud environments, esp. MS Azure cloud services and AWS. Experience with FHIR based medical data exchange and system integrations in a similar role in healthcare. Desired: Additional European language (preferably French). Pension scheme Bonus Access to HealthHero healthcare services Medical Cash Plan Discount schemes
Mar 23, 2024
Full time
HealthHero is on a mission to 'Simplify Healthcare - Improving Lives' by using a combination of digital tools and clinical services, provided by HealthHero or our partners, in a seamless, digital first, patient and clinician experience. We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Enterprise Architect to join our dynamic team. As a Technology leader, you will play a pivotal role in aligning business objectives with technology strategies, ensuring the scalability, security, and efficiency of our systems. Emphasis in the role will be taking ownership of our architecture strategy and implementation - starting from understanding and shaping client's business requirements as well as internal strategic roadmap, to ensuring delivery as per your defined enterprise architecture principles and framework. What will you be doing? As an Enterprise Architect you will: Develop and maintain an enterprise architecture strategy aligned with organizational goals. Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand business objectives and strategic vision and translate them into technology solutions. Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure enterprise-level systems. Ensure seamless integration of new and existing technologies, applications, and infrastructure. Evaluate emerging technologies and trends to make recommendations for their integration. Conduct feasibility studies and impact analyses for proposed technology solutions. Establish and enforce technology standards, best practices, and governance processes. Identify potential risks in technology implementations and propose mitigation strategies. Stay abreast of industry trends and security threats to proactively address potential vulnerabilities. Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of enterprise architecture, including diagrams, processes, and guidelines. Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to our clients for architectural frameworks, solution approach, delivery methods and tools. Act as coach to assist product owners, consultants, analysts, technical specialists and delivery leads, ensuring squads are sufficiently informed and guided to ensure a strategic implementation. To succeed as an Enterprise Architect, you will need: Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect in complex, large-scale environments. Strong leadership and clear, concise communication style with ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders effectively. Demonstrable experience of digital architecture analysis and design, including definition of digital architecture strategies & roadmaps. Ability to accurately document and create appropriate technical architectural diagrams. Experience with Event Driven Architecture. Passion for improving consumer experience. Demonstrable working experience in a geographically distributed, culturally diverse, cross disciplinary environment. Experience with different cloud environments, esp. MS Azure cloud services and AWS. Experience with FHIR based medical data exchange and system integrations in a similar role in healthcare. Desired: Additional European language (preferably French). Pension scheme Bonus Access to HealthHero healthcare services Medical Cash Plan Discount schemes
MunichRe is a global market leader in re-insurance, global specialty insurance and digital solutions. New technologies are disrupting the insurance value chain. Our innovative minds in IT spearhead the transformation and make change happen. We support clients with a comprehensive range of insurance and risk management products. Our goal is to become even more digital through the expertise of our IT & Tech specialists, and by leveraging data and insights to support innovation and client service. We are therefore making targeted IT investments and helping our insurance clients and partners to tackle problems in the modern digital world with innovative and forward-looking solutions. As a Senior Solutions Architect you will design end-to-end solutions for London market specialty insurance companies, that ensure consistency with specified requirements agreed with customers, while integrating with existing systems, adhering to industry best practices, and following Munich Re Architecture standards and patterns. In this role, you will enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions in large and complex projects, often with a global scope. You will be responsible for taking ownership of an entire Technology Landscape supporting an end to end insurance value chain, and co-ordinate various activities with multiple IT and Business stakeholders. Lead Solution architect for London Market Specialty Insurance Companies (Great Lakes and MR Specialty Group) consulting on and designing technology solutions as a core team member of the Global Specialty Solution architecture practice. Close collaboration with business architects and change teams during the inception and development of architecture and product requirements, including with executive stakeholders. Design and implement technology solutions and mapping of customer requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure alignment with the Global Specialty insurance Target architecture and technology roadmaps. Accountability for detailed component specifications and translating these into detailed designs for implementation. Engaging with and providing technical oversight of the work of analysts and software developers, to provide technical expertise and guidance. Guiding solutions through the appointed Architecture Review Board and Solution Design Forum, ensure production of artifacts necessary to meet our architectural governance processes. Achieve the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Oversee the adherence to appropriate standards (performance, monitor capability, audit acceptability, secure environment). Support the strategic direction of technology investments to help develop the enterprise architecture and maximizing the return on technology investments Proficiency in data modeling, data integration, and data analytics, as data is a crucial aspect of insurance operations. Design business solutions that compliment and support our data strategy throughout the Technology landscape. Your profile Preferably a University degree in Computer engineering / IT or similar qualification Experience in delivery of IT solutions in the specialty insurance industry, preferably London markets Experience in designing and developing solutions (Solution Development life cycles, and the application of IT risk & security considerations) Proven experience in designing and developing solutions (Solution Development life cycles, and the application of IT risk & security considerations) Insurance Domain Knowledge: A solid understanding of the insurance industry, particularly the unique aspects and complexities of the Lloyd's London Market, including insurance underwriting, claims processing, risk management, and regulatory requirements. Ability to understand and interpret Business Requirements and convert them into Technology implementation specifications for the development and integrations teams to follow; thus, solving business programs using Technology platforms and tools available within our environment. Strong focus on delivery and execution IT Architecture and Systems: Strong knowledge of IT architecture principles, enterprise architecture frameworks, and various technology platforms. Familiarity with core insurance systems like policy administration, claims management, reinsurance, and reporting systems used in the insurance industry. Strong knowledge of cloud-based solutions and emerging technologies in the insurance industry. Understanding how these technologies can be applied to improve processes and enhance customer experiences. Familiarity with insurance regulatory requirements in the London Market and other relevant jurisdictions. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with various stakeholders, including business users, IT teams, vendors, and senior management. The ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders is essential. The ability to lead and inspire a team of architects and technical professionals, providing direction, guidance, and mentorship. Strong communication and presentation skills to articulate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical stakeholders and senior management. Thought leadership - able to monitor market trends and to guide creative thinking on future technology capabilities which will help increase the business value of Munich Re. The ability to foster collaboration and teamwork among cross-functional teams, breaking down silos and encouraging knowledge sharing. A willingness to mentor and coach junior architects and team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. About us As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 11,000 employees at over 50 locations, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into a manageable risk, we enable fundamental change. Join us working on topics today that will concern society tomorrow, whether that be climate change, major construction projects, medical risk assessment or even space travel. Together we embrace a culture where multiskilled teams dare to think big. We create the new and the different for our clients and cultivate innovation. Sounds like you? Push boundaries with us and be part of Munich Re. Our employees are our greatest strength. That's why we offer them a wide range of benefits. You can find some examples below. For more insights about working at Munich Re please click here . Unlock your potential Professional Training & Certification: We accompany you in building up your professional profile by supporting with customized professional training and certification opportunities. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: We embrace the power of differences and are convinced that diversity fosters innovation and resilience and enables us to act braver and better. Continuous Learning: We believe that continuous learning is a key differentiator and critical for building new skills and accelerating growth. Career Mobility: We actively support career mobility, and our strong global and regional presence offers a wealth of career growth opportunities for you.
Mar 23, 2024
Full time
MunichRe is a global market leader in re-insurance, global specialty insurance and digital solutions. New technologies are disrupting the insurance value chain. Our innovative minds in IT spearhead the transformation and make change happen. We support clients with a comprehensive range of insurance and risk management products. Our goal is to become even more digital through the expertise of our IT & Tech specialists, and by leveraging data and insights to support innovation and client service. We are therefore making targeted IT investments and helping our insurance clients and partners to tackle problems in the modern digital world with innovative and forward-looking solutions. As a Senior Solutions Architect you will design end-to-end solutions for London market specialty insurance companies, that ensure consistency with specified requirements agreed with customers, while integrating with existing systems, adhering to industry best practices, and following Munich Re Architecture standards and patterns. In this role, you will enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions in large and complex projects, often with a global scope. You will be responsible for taking ownership of an entire Technology Landscape supporting an end to end insurance value chain, and co-ordinate various activities with multiple IT and Business stakeholders. Lead Solution architect for London Market Specialty Insurance Companies (Great Lakes and MR Specialty Group) consulting on and designing technology solutions as a core team member of the Global Specialty Solution architecture practice. Close collaboration with business architects and change teams during the inception and development of architecture and product requirements, including with executive stakeholders. Design and implement technology solutions and mapping of customer requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure alignment with the Global Specialty insurance Target architecture and technology roadmaps. Accountability for detailed component specifications and translating these into detailed designs for implementation. Engaging with and providing technical oversight of the work of analysts and software developers, to provide technical expertise and guidance. Guiding solutions through the appointed Architecture Review Board and Solution Design Forum, ensure production of artifacts necessary to meet our architectural governance processes. Achieve the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Oversee the adherence to appropriate standards (performance, monitor capability, audit acceptability, secure environment). Support the strategic direction of technology investments to help develop the enterprise architecture and maximizing the return on technology investments Proficiency in data modeling, data integration, and data analytics, as data is a crucial aspect of insurance operations. Design business solutions that compliment and support our data strategy throughout the Technology landscape. Your profile Preferably a University degree in Computer engineering / IT or similar qualification Experience in delivery of IT solutions in the specialty insurance industry, preferably London markets Experience in designing and developing solutions (Solution Development life cycles, and the application of IT risk & security considerations) Proven experience in designing and developing solutions (Solution Development life cycles, and the application of IT risk & security considerations) Insurance Domain Knowledge: A solid understanding of the insurance industry, particularly the unique aspects and complexities of the Lloyd's London Market, including insurance underwriting, claims processing, risk management, and regulatory requirements. Ability to understand and interpret Business Requirements and convert them into Technology implementation specifications for the development and integrations teams to follow; thus, solving business programs using Technology platforms and tools available within our environment. Strong focus on delivery and execution IT Architecture and Systems: Strong knowledge of IT architecture principles, enterprise architecture frameworks, and various technology platforms. Familiarity with core insurance systems like policy administration, claims management, reinsurance, and reporting systems used in the insurance industry. Strong knowledge of cloud-based solutions and emerging technologies in the insurance industry. Understanding how these technologies can be applied to improve processes and enhance customer experiences. Familiarity with insurance regulatory requirements in the London Market and other relevant jurisdictions. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with various stakeholders, including business users, IT teams, vendors, and senior management. The ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders is essential. The ability to lead and inspire a team of architects and technical professionals, providing direction, guidance, and mentorship. Strong communication and presentation skills to articulate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical stakeholders and senior management. Thought leadership - able to monitor market trends and to guide creative thinking on future technology capabilities which will help increase the business value of Munich Re. The ability to foster collaboration and teamwork among cross-functional teams, breaking down silos and encouraging knowledge sharing. A willingness to mentor and coach junior architects and team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. About us As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 11,000 employees at over 50 locations, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into a manageable risk, we enable fundamental change. Join us working on topics today that will concern society tomorrow, whether that be climate change, major construction projects, medical risk assessment or even space travel. Together we embrace a culture where multiskilled teams dare to think big. We create the new and the different for our clients and cultivate innovation. Sounds like you? Push boundaries with us and be part of Munich Re. Our employees are our greatest strength. That's why we offer them a wide range of benefits. You can find some examples below. For more insights about working at Munich Re please click here . Unlock your potential Professional Training & Certification: We accompany you in building up your professional profile by supporting with customized professional training and certification opportunities. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: We embrace the power of differences and are convinced that diversity fosters innovation and resilience and enables us to act braver and better. Continuous Learning: We believe that continuous learning is a key differentiator and critical for building new skills and accelerating growth. Career Mobility: We actively support career mobility, and our strong global and regional presence offers a wealth of career growth opportunities for you.
For over 50 years we have been helping its clients deliver better business financing. Today, our products and services are used by over 120 banks and finance providers worldwide. Our flexible end-to-end platform offers them everything they need to provide an extensive range of financing products, smoothly and securely. From institutional lenders to SME specialists, our software gives our clients the agility to create new and innovative finance products that help their customers thrive. Headquartered in London, and with regional offices in California and Singapore, Lendscape employs over 200 people around the world. We continue to grow and evolve, building on our heritage while keeping pace with the changing demands of the financial software sector. About the role and our Engineering team Joining our team is an exciting opportunity to be apart of a growing bunch. As a member of a team that is spread across various parts of the world, you will gain exposure to diverse cultures and perspectives. Being a part of Lendscape while we are venturing into new countries puts you at the forefront of expansion! Our Software Engineering team is our biggest function, with 80 colleagues spread across 9 squads they play a key role ensuring we continue to be leaders in our field. We have some exciting new developments and are committed to introducing 3 additional teams to take us to over 100 colleagues in Engineering. You will be responsible for both manual and automated testing, using analytical and technical skills to have a direct impact of the quality of the software we create and deliver. How you will make a difference The Quality Lead will be responsible for leading and managing the quality assurance function within the Engineering department. The primary focus of the role is to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products through the implementation and continuous improvement of quality processes and methodologies. You are responsible for Developing and executing a comprehensive quality strategy aligned with organisational goals. Leading and mentoring a team of quality assurance professionals. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Defining, implementing and continuously monitoring quality standards, procedures, and best practices with emphasis on rigour across the three. Establishing and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and improve software quality. Conducting regular audits and assessments to identify areas for improvement. Overseeing the creation and execution of test plans, test cases, and test scripts. Staying abreast of industry trends and advancements in quality assurance and software testing. Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance overall software development efficiency and quality. Technical requirements In-depth understanding of quality assurance methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, and DevOps. Experience in implementing and managing QA processes throughout the software development lifecycle. Proficiency in using testing tools and frameworks for both manual and automated testing. Knowledge of automation tools such as Cypress, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or equivalent. Very strong expertise in test automation, including the ability to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts. Competency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Python, C#) to facilitate automated testing and scripting. Experience with bug tracking and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Bugzilla) to manage and prioritize quality issues. Proficient in version control systems (e.g., Git) to ensure proper code management and collaboration within development teams. Understanding of performance testing concepts and tools (e.g., Apache JMeter, LoadRunner) to assess software scalability and performance. Knowledge of security testing practices and tools to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities in software applications. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their testing capabilities. Experience in testing mobile applications on various platforms (iOS, Android) and devices. Understanding of data management principles and proficiency in SQL for database testing. Skills and experience Proven experience in a leadership role within quality assurance or software testing. In-depth knowledge of quality assurance methodologies, tools, and best practices. Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Minimum of five years of experience in quality assurance/testing roles. Experience in a leadership or managerial position advantageous. What's in it for you Private medical care and cash plan Flexible working hours Continuous training Cycle scheme and sponsored gym Learning and development Wellness and mindfulness perks Colleague volunteering Life assurance Work alongside a team developing and delivering innovative technology that creates huge value for a variety of local and international clients Our culture We are very proud of our culture and our way of working. Below are our shared values and behaviours that make up our work environment and our day-to-day experience at Lendscape. Achieve great things, together: We are supportive and empathetic, always available to lend a hand when needed. Go above and beyond for customers: We are customer centric and give 100% to deliver exceptional outcomes. Everyone is willing to go the extra mile to solve the customer's biggest challenges and help them get ahead. Embrace every opportunity: We're inspired by opportunities to sustainably grow ourselves. Lendscape and our customers. Rise to the challenge: We are self-motivated, empowered with flexibility and autonomy to work in our best way. What to expect We appreciate you taking the time to apply to this role with us, and we are committed to making your journey with us as positive as possible. Interviews are a team effort and we're keen to address any queries you may have and to determine if you equally feel if we are the right choice for your career. Should your application be selected for an interview the process will be an initial conversation with our Talent Partner Safa Mohamoud. During this conversation we will explore your background, a broad overview of your skillset and what drives you. This will be followed by a conversation with our Head of Engineering, Jon Jenkins to dive deeper into your experience and equally for you to ask in depth questions about the role. You will also have the opportunity to meet with some of the members of the Engineering team to understand our ways of working a bit better. Lendscape is for everyone Lendscape is passionate about ensuring that we remain a top performing business and a fantastic place to work - a place where everyone is comfortable to work. We're a business that values equal opportunities for all and we celebrate the unique and diverse backgrounds and experiences of each individual. Interested but not sure you tick every box? We recognize that skills and experience can be gained in various ways, and we encourage you to apply for a role at our company, even if you feel your background might not perfectly align with the position. We look forward to connecting with you.
Mar 22, 2024
Full time
For over 50 years we have been helping its clients deliver better business financing. Today, our products and services are used by over 120 banks and finance providers worldwide. Our flexible end-to-end platform offers them everything they need to provide an extensive range of financing products, smoothly and securely. From institutional lenders to SME specialists, our software gives our clients the agility to create new and innovative finance products that help their customers thrive. Headquartered in London, and with regional offices in California and Singapore, Lendscape employs over 200 people around the world. We continue to grow and evolve, building on our heritage while keeping pace with the changing demands of the financial software sector. About the role and our Engineering team Joining our team is an exciting opportunity to be apart of a growing bunch. As a member of a team that is spread across various parts of the world, you will gain exposure to diverse cultures and perspectives. Being a part of Lendscape while we are venturing into new countries puts you at the forefront of expansion! Our Software Engineering team is our biggest function, with 80 colleagues spread across 9 squads they play a key role ensuring we continue to be leaders in our field. We have some exciting new developments and are committed to introducing 3 additional teams to take us to over 100 colleagues in Engineering. You will be responsible for both manual and automated testing, using analytical and technical skills to have a direct impact of the quality of the software we create and deliver. How you will make a difference The Quality Lead will be responsible for leading and managing the quality assurance function within the Engineering department. The primary focus of the role is to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products through the implementation and continuous improvement of quality processes and methodologies. You are responsible for Developing and executing a comprehensive quality strategy aligned with organisational goals. Leading and mentoring a team of quality assurance professionals. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Defining, implementing and continuously monitoring quality standards, procedures, and best practices with emphasis on rigour across the three. Establishing and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and improve software quality. Conducting regular audits and assessments to identify areas for improvement. Overseeing the creation and execution of test plans, test cases, and test scripts. Staying abreast of industry trends and advancements in quality assurance and software testing. Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance overall software development efficiency and quality. Technical requirements In-depth understanding of quality assurance methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, and DevOps. Experience in implementing and managing QA processes throughout the software development lifecycle. Proficiency in using testing tools and frameworks for both manual and automated testing. Knowledge of automation tools such as Cypress, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or equivalent. Very strong expertise in test automation, including the ability to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts. Competency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Python, C#) to facilitate automated testing and scripting. Experience with bug tracking and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Bugzilla) to manage and prioritize quality issues. Proficient in version control systems (e.g., Git) to ensure proper code management and collaboration within development teams. Understanding of performance testing concepts and tools (e.g., Apache JMeter, LoadRunner) to assess software scalability and performance. Knowledge of security testing practices and tools to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities in software applications. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their testing capabilities. Experience in testing mobile applications on various platforms (iOS, Android) and devices. Understanding of data management principles and proficiency in SQL for database testing. Skills and experience Proven experience in a leadership role within quality assurance or software testing. In-depth knowledge of quality assurance methodologies, tools, and best practices. Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Minimum of five years of experience in quality assurance/testing roles. Experience in a leadership or managerial position advantageous. What's in it for you Private medical care and cash plan Flexible working hours Continuous training Cycle scheme and sponsored gym Learning and development Wellness and mindfulness perks Colleague volunteering Life assurance Work alongside a team developing and delivering innovative technology that creates huge value for a variety of local and international clients Our culture We are very proud of our culture and our way of working. Below are our shared values and behaviours that make up our work environment and our day-to-day experience at Lendscape. Achieve great things, together: We are supportive and empathetic, always available to lend a hand when needed. Go above and beyond for customers: We are customer centric and give 100% to deliver exceptional outcomes. Everyone is willing to go the extra mile to solve the customer's biggest challenges and help them get ahead. Embrace every opportunity: We're inspired by opportunities to sustainably grow ourselves. Lendscape and our customers. Rise to the challenge: We are self-motivated, empowered with flexibility and autonomy to work in our best way. What to expect We appreciate you taking the time to apply to this role with us, and we are committed to making your journey with us as positive as possible. Interviews are a team effort and we're keen to address any queries you may have and to determine if you equally feel if we are the right choice for your career. Should your application be selected for an interview the process will be an initial conversation with our Talent Partner Safa Mohamoud. During this conversation we will explore your background, a broad overview of your skillset and what drives you. This will be followed by a conversation with our Head of Engineering, Jon Jenkins to dive deeper into your experience and equally for you to ask in depth questions about the role. You will also have the opportunity to meet with some of the members of the Engineering team to understand our ways of working a bit better. Lendscape is for everyone Lendscape is passionate about ensuring that we remain a top performing business and a fantastic place to work - a place where everyone is comfortable to work. We're a business that values equal opportunities for all and we celebrate the unique and diverse backgrounds and experiences of each individual. Interested but not sure you tick every box? We recognize that skills and experience can be gained in various ways, and we encourage you to apply for a role at our company, even if you feel your background might not perfectly align with the position. We look forward to connecting with you.
The Head of Engineering (HoEng) is responsible for leading and managing the Master System Integrator (MSI) function within FPC Digital, which comprises a team of specialist engineers, solutions architects and global delivery partners. The Head of Engineering is responsible for delivering highly specialised technical digital building projects to our clients globally, and for ensuring that the MSI function is aligned with our company's overall strategy and vision. Responsibilities Reporting to the FPC Digital Director on all aspects within our MSI capability, the Head of Engineering shall: Develop and implement our MSI strategy in-line with FPC Digital's overall strategy. Lead our MSI function in the development and implementation of execution strategies, partner programs, policies, and procedures. Manage our team of solutions architects, engineers and partners, ensuring the team has the skills and knowledge to meet the needs of the business and our clients. Work with clients to understand their needs and develop deliverable solutions that meet their specific requirements. Manage the delivery of our project portfolio, ensuring the MSI function has the resources it needs to deliver projects on time and within budget. Ensure highest quality of service and deliverables Manage the commercial performance of the MSI function, including generating new business and ensuring that projects meet or exceed commercial performance margin requirements. Collaborate with our development and operations teams to create, test, deploy, and operationalize FPC Digital solutions. The ideal candidate will be a demonstrated stand-out business leader with outstanding technical expertise within the digital buildings and OT technology markets. They will have a strong understanding of the latest trends and technologies in this field, and be able to apply this knowledge to develop innovative solutions for clients. In addition, they will have a proven track record of delivering successful projects, and be able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders both internally and externally. In addition, the ideal candidate should possess strong commercial acumen and be able to manage function, program and project commercials to ensure profitability and close management of project finances throughout delivery. Finally, the ideal candidate will share our vision of accelerating the global digital buildings revolution, will be passionate about the Digital Buildings industry, and be excited about the opportunity to help shape the future of our clients real estate globally. The responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to, the following: Program and Project Management: Delivery of consultancy and engineering services and projects for clients in accordance with the Proposal, Scope of Work (SoW), and/or Engagement Letter Client Management: Understand and develop customer requirements and business objectives and work proactively with FPC, the client, and other stakeholders to meet and deliver them. Build and manage positive client stakeholder relationships Services and Solutions Delivery: Provide support, advise, and collaborate on Digital Building systems integration, technologies, initiatives and solutions, processes and standards for FPC and our clients Design Digital Building systems and architectures to provide optimum performance, functionality, and value Review Digital Building systems architectures and designs, identifying issues and suggesting improvements Produce service delivery, technical and project related reports as required Business Development: Identify potential revenue opportunities for the FPC business line, communicate them to FPC management and, where required, support the business development activity for them Industry Expertise: Maintain expertise, knowledge, and understanding of industry trends, developments, and initiatives Identify, develop, deliver and support opportunities for continuous improvement for FPC FPC Responsibilities: Represent FPC in a professional manner internally and externally, and achieve a high level of customer satisfaction for all work performed Be an effective Digital Building Services team member, communicating with colleagues and working collectively to contribute to the development of Digital Building Services team and the FPC business Report to line manager, acting in accordance with their requests and direction and those of FPC management Manage own workload, communicating and escalating any issues to line manager accordingly Act in accordance with all FPC employment policies and procedures, including FPC Employee Handbook, Health & Safety, and Time and Expenses Reporting Carry out any other duties reasonably requested by FPC Management Experience and Qualifications The Digital Buildings Consultant Engineer should possess experience and qualifications in the following: Minimum 5 years Digital Building and IoT industry experience Proven track record in Digital Building related roles e.g. Consultant, Designer, Project Manager or Engineer Required Bachelor's or Master's degree in Controls, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. Effective Stakeholder Management and communication skills, including attending project, client and team meetings, document writing and presentation skills Strong technical expertise in Digital Building technologies including some or all of the following: Digital Building Systems Integration design, development and implementation Digital Building Controls Systems including: Building Management Systems (BMS) Automation Systems Lighting Controls Systems (LCS) Audio Visual Systems (AV) Controls Strategies Control Protocols (BACnet, MQTT, Modbus, LON, MBus, DALI, Fox, SMI, etc.) Systems Specifications System Architectures Schematic Drawings & Wiring Diagrams Description of Operations Point Naming and Addressing Asset Records Cybersecurity best practices IP Networking (IPV4, IPV6, Switching, Routing, DHCP, WiFi, Structured Cabling, etc.) System Audits & Site Surveys Digital Building / IoT Industry training and professional qualifications Experience as working as part of a Design Team to develop coordinated designs, including: Client requirements gathering and documentation Technical Submittal Creation / Review SoW and Specification Development Competent using Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office software applications In addition to the above, it is desirable for the Digital Buildings Consultant Engineer has experience or qualifications in the design, delivery and operation of IoT Systems: Use of Cloud Platforms (Google, Microsoft, Amazon) and Data Analytics AutoCAD / BIM / Visio RIBA/AIA Stages of Work or international equivalents Construction Projects and Contracting Systems Testing & Commissioning, FDD and Automated Commissioning Systems Discretionary Bonus Private Healthcare Plan Annual Salary Reviews 25 days holiday Pension Plans Life Assurance Work From Home Training & Development Employee Assistance Programme
Mar 20, 2024
Full time
The Head of Engineering (HoEng) is responsible for leading and managing the Master System Integrator (MSI) function within FPC Digital, which comprises a team of specialist engineers, solutions architects and global delivery partners. The Head of Engineering is responsible for delivering highly specialised technical digital building projects to our clients globally, and for ensuring that the MSI function is aligned with our company's overall strategy and vision. Responsibilities Reporting to the FPC Digital Director on all aspects within our MSI capability, the Head of Engineering shall: Develop and implement our MSI strategy in-line with FPC Digital's overall strategy. Lead our MSI function in the development and implementation of execution strategies, partner programs, policies, and procedures. Manage our team of solutions architects, engineers and partners, ensuring the team has the skills and knowledge to meet the needs of the business and our clients. Work with clients to understand their needs and develop deliverable solutions that meet their specific requirements. Manage the delivery of our project portfolio, ensuring the MSI function has the resources it needs to deliver projects on time and within budget. Ensure highest quality of service and deliverables Manage the commercial performance of the MSI function, including generating new business and ensuring that projects meet or exceed commercial performance margin requirements. Collaborate with our development and operations teams to create, test, deploy, and operationalize FPC Digital solutions. The ideal candidate will be a demonstrated stand-out business leader with outstanding technical expertise within the digital buildings and OT technology markets. They will have a strong understanding of the latest trends and technologies in this field, and be able to apply this knowledge to develop innovative solutions for clients. In addition, they will have a proven track record of delivering successful projects, and be able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders both internally and externally. In addition, the ideal candidate should possess strong commercial acumen and be able to manage function, program and project commercials to ensure profitability and close management of project finances throughout delivery. Finally, the ideal candidate will share our vision of accelerating the global digital buildings revolution, will be passionate about the Digital Buildings industry, and be excited about the opportunity to help shape the future of our clients real estate globally. The responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to, the following: Program and Project Management: Delivery of consultancy and engineering services and projects for clients in accordance with the Proposal, Scope of Work (SoW), and/or Engagement Letter Client Management: Understand and develop customer requirements and business objectives and work proactively with FPC, the client, and other stakeholders to meet and deliver them. Build and manage positive client stakeholder relationships Services and Solutions Delivery: Provide support, advise, and collaborate on Digital Building systems integration, technologies, initiatives and solutions, processes and standards for FPC and our clients Design Digital Building systems and architectures to provide optimum performance, functionality, and value Review Digital Building systems architectures and designs, identifying issues and suggesting improvements Produce service delivery, technical and project related reports as required Business Development: Identify potential revenue opportunities for the FPC business line, communicate them to FPC management and, where required, support the business development activity for them Industry Expertise: Maintain expertise, knowledge, and understanding of industry trends, developments, and initiatives Identify, develop, deliver and support opportunities for continuous improvement for FPC FPC Responsibilities: Represent FPC in a professional manner internally and externally, and achieve a high level of customer satisfaction for all work performed Be an effective Digital Building Services team member, communicating with colleagues and working collectively to contribute to the development of Digital Building Services team and the FPC business Report to line manager, acting in accordance with their requests and direction and those of FPC management Manage own workload, communicating and escalating any issues to line manager accordingly Act in accordance with all FPC employment policies and procedures, including FPC Employee Handbook, Health & Safety, and Time and Expenses Reporting Carry out any other duties reasonably requested by FPC Management Experience and Qualifications The Digital Buildings Consultant Engineer should possess experience and qualifications in the following: Minimum 5 years Digital Building and IoT industry experience Proven track record in Digital Building related roles e.g. Consultant, Designer, Project Manager or Engineer Required Bachelor's or Master's degree in Controls, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. Effective Stakeholder Management and communication skills, including attending project, client and team meetings, document writing and presentation skills Strong technical expertise in Digital Building technologies including some or all of the following: Digital Building Systems Integration design, development and implementation Digital Building Controls Systems including: Building Management Systems (BMS) Automation Systems Lighting Controls Systems (LCS) Audio Visual Systems (AV) Controls Strategies Control Protocols (BACnet, MQTT, Modbus, LON, MBus, DALI, Fox, SMI, etc.) Systems Specifications System Architectures Schematic Drawings & Wiring Diagrams Description of Operations Point Naming and Addressing Asset Records Cybersecurity best practices IP Networking (IPV4, IPV6, Switching, Routing, DHCP, WiFi, Structured Cabling, etc.) System Audits & Site Surveys Digital Building / IoT Industry training and professional qualifications Experience as working as part of a Design Team to develop coordinated designs, including: Client requirements gathering and documentation Technical Submittal Creation / Review SoW and Specification Development Competent using Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office software applications In addition to the above, it is desirable for the Digital Buildings Consultant Engineer has experience or qualifications in the design, delivery and operation of IoT Systems: Use of Cloud Platforms (Google, Microsoft, Amazon) and Data Analytics AutoCAD / BIM / Visio RIBA/AIA Stages of Work or international equivalents Construction Projects and Contracting Systems Testing & Commissioning, FDD and Automated Commissioning Systems Discretionary Bonus Private Healthcare Plan Annual Salary Reviews 25 days holiday Pension Plans Life Assurance Work From Home Training & Development Employee Assistance Programme