Opportunities

As a Business Analyst, you work as part of an Agile Scrum Team, having responsibility for understanding user needs, working closely with our business partners, translating problems or requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria. Business Analysts are highly customer focused and are responsible for building highly collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships, supporting their scrum teams to achieve team goals. Analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills are core to effective business analysis.

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Within my client’s Agile Scrum Teams, Lead Developers provide hands-on technical expertise and take responsibility for code-quality. Leadership and direction for the development activities, delivered with sufficient quality to underpin outstanding new digital services for millions of users. The Lead Developer will make important technical decisions during the agile sprints and drive selection of the team’s development approach. The Lead Developer will work closely with Solutions Architects, Product Managers, Digital Service Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters and the development team throughout the duration of development.

As a Lead Developer at our client, you will:

• Work with Digital Service Manager and Product Manager, Technical and Solution Architects to build and run outstanding digital services that meet well-defined user needs;
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• Lead the rapid development of user-driven digital prototypes to identify technical options and inform architectural approaches, collaborating with other team members to write tests, code and documentation for new and existing systems;
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• Work with Solutions Architects to design and implement RESTful APIs for seamless integration with internal and external systems;
•  
• Ensure new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for performance and are able to handle specified load;
•  
• Ensure systems are robust, scalable, open and secure, with appropriate overall system design and integration points/APIs in order to deliver a high quality digital user experience;
•  
• Provide mentorship for members of the development team (software developers, Agile Test Engineers) and feedback on staff performance;
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• Build a culture of continuous service improvement, ensuring that key systems “owned” by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved;
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• Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly develop strong working relationships in high pressure environments;
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• Collaborate with Solutions/Technical Architects, Agile Test Engineers and Software Developers to build up a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment;
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• Be involved in the wider web development community (outside of HMRC and the government) identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences;
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• Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider HMRC digital team and across government;
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• Providing ‘second-line’ support and occasional ‘on-call’ support.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience leading a team of developers, providing overall guidance and setting overall development direction;
• Demonstrable experience in programming and back-end software development in either Java, C#, Scala, Python or Ruby;
• Excellent commercial experience in programming and back-end software development in Java;
• Good understanding of web technologies & protocols;
• Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs);
• Demonstrable experience of automated testing solutions;
• Experience with open source solutions and community;
• Experience working on technical projects within an agile team;
• A proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
• Demonstrable understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10;
• Excellent demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems;
• Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites;
• Understanding of the use of responsive web design.

Desirable

• Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences;
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• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage;
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• Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques;
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• Experience of other  programming languages such as Scala, Python, Ruby, C#;
•  
• Use and implementation of modern front end web programming techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON;
•  
• Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring;
•  
• Experience using automated testing / continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit;
•  
• Experience using Confluence & JIRA;
•  
• Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms;
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• Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion.

Competences

Leading and Communicating

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions

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Within my client’s Agile Scrum Teams, Lead Developers provide hands-on technical expertise and take responsibility for code-quality. Leadership and direction for the development activities, delivered with sufficient quality to underpin outstanding new digital services for millions of users. The Lead Developer will make important technical decisions during the agile sprints and drive selection of the team’s development approach. The Lead Developer will work closely with Solutions Architects, Product Managers, Digital Service Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters and the development team throughout the duration of development.

As a Lead Developer at our client, you will:

• Work with Digital Service Manager and Product Manager, Technical and Solution Architects to build and run outstanding digital services that meet well-defined user needs;
• Lead the rapid development of user-driven digital prototypes to identify technical options and inform architectural approaches, collaborating with other team members to write tests, code and documentation for new and existing systems;
• Work with Solutions Architects to design and implement RESTful APIs for seamless integration with internal and external systems;
• Ensure new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for performance and are able to handle specified load;
• Ensure systems are robust, scalable, open and secure, with appropriate overall system design and integration points/APIs in order to deliver a high quality digital user experience;
• Provide mentorship for members of the development team (software developers, Agile Test Engineers) and feedback on staff performance;
• Build a culture of continuous service improvement, ensuring that key systems “owned” by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved;
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly develop strong working relationships in high pressure environments;
• Collaborate with Solutions/Technical Architects, Agile Test Engineers and Software Developers to build up a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment;
• Be involved in the wider web development community (outside of HMRC and the government) identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences;
• Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider HMRC digital team and across government;
• Providing ‘second-line’ support and occasional ‘on-call’ support.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience leading a team of developers, providing overall guidance and setting overall development direction;
• Demonstrable experience in programming and back-end software development in either Java, C#, Scala, Python or Ruby;
• Excellent commercial experience in programming and back-end software development in Java;
• Good understanding of web technologies & protocols;
• Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs);
• Demonstrable experience of automated testing solutions;
• Experience with open source solutions and community;
• Experience working on technical projects within an agile team;
• A proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
• Demonstrable understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10;
• Excellent demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems;
• Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites;
• Understanding of the use of responsive web design.

Desirable

• Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences;
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage;
• Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques;
• Experience of other  programming languages such as Scala, Python, Ruby, C#;
• Use and implementation of modern front end web programming techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON;
• Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring;
• Experience using automated testing / continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit;
• Experience using Confluence & JIRA;
• Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms;
• Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion.

Competences

• Leading and Communicating
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions

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Our client are looking for a number of UX Designers work with user researchers and front end developers, designing in the browser, to deliver highly user focused and successful services. UX designers produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts.

The ideal candidate will have a love of the web and its possibilities, a passion for design and its history and an understanding of how form and function work together. You will proactively seek new learning opportunities and welcome constructive criticism of your work.

As an interaction designer you will:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services;
• Produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts;
• Work with user researchers to ensure all output, internal and external, is well designed and user focused;
• Design and create communication material ensuring all elements are well designed, consistent and user focused;
• Partner with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience, including by designing reusable elements of a digital service;
• Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts;
• Deliver high quality finished digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles, ensuring that elements such as accessibility are built into designs from the outset;
• Proactively seek new learning opportunities and look to continually improve by gaining feedback from your peers and the business;
• Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Practical experience in designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web;
• Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser;
• A good basic understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility;
• Experience of web and mobile application interface design. Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS, rapid prototyping;
• Responsive web interactions design for mobile devices.

Desirable

• A degree in design or equivalent qualification;
• Experience in researching design with users;
• Service design experience, including user journey mapping;
• Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team.

Competences

• Leading and Communicating
• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Delivering at Pace

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Agile Delivery Managers/Scrum Masters are an essential component of our client’s multi-disciplinary agile teams. You will ensure Agile techniques are adhered to by the Scrum team, acting as a mentor and coach on best practices to ensure that the team maximises the benefits that the Agile development methodology provides. Your priorities will be set by your team members, under the leadership of their Service/Product Manager, and your role is to help them get things done by removing impediments and blockers. This is one of the most challenging roles in the entire client digital team, but our Agile Delivery Managers/Scrum Masters will play a crucial role in the Department becoming digital by default.

As an Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master at our client you will:

- Enable your team members to create and run outstanding large-scale digital services using the appropriate agile project management methodology; learning and iterating frequently, and capturing Sprint metrics
- Remove impediments/blockers to the Scrum team in order for continuous smooth development
- Work with the Service/Product Manager to define the roadmap for your service, and work with the Scrum team and other areas of the business to translate this into actionable user stories and sprint-by-sprint plans.
- Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process for each sprint, helping Scrum team members to prioritise and self-organise around the work that needs to be completed against their capabilities and capacities
- Facilitate the regular team agile meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives. Mentoring and coaching members to ensure all are focused on a common goal and working with an Agile mind-set
- Actively participate in the Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master Community, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and introducing best practice.

Skills and Experience

Essential

- Proven experience in delivering high quality digital projects and products.
- Proven experience using agile project management methods.
- Proven experience working in a similar role
- Proven experience balancing multiple priorities on large-scale, high-visibility projects and employing techniques to deal with ambiguity.
- Proven ability to challenge and remove any unnecessary barriers to service delivery.
- Demonstrable experience in coaching and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams in Agile best practice techniques.
- Highly articulate and credible at a senior level, consistently delivering accurate reporting as to the current state of play with regard to the delivery of your service
- Strong negotiation skills and the proven ability to influence external partners, stakeholders and customers to secure mutually beneficial outcomes.

Desirable

- Excellent understanding of the digital landscape and the opportunities for service improvement and innovation offered by digital technology.
- A high degree of market awareness, with demonstrable experience of innovative approaches to procuring services and of managing relationships with suppliers.
- Ability to identify strengths and weaknesses of individuals, communicating this in a constructive manner to support their overall personal development

Competences

- Leading and Communicating
- Collaborating and Partnering
- Delivering at Pace

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Within my client’s Agile Scrum Teams, Lead Developers provide hands-on technical expertise and take responsibility for code-quality. Leadership and direction for the development activities, delivered with sufficient quality to underpin outstanding new digital services for millions of users. The Lead Developer will make important technical decisions during the agile sprints and drive selection of the team’s development approach. The Lead Developer will work closely with Solutions Architects, Product Managers, Digital Service Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters and the development team throughout the duration of development.

As a Lead Developer at our client, you will:

• Work with Digital Service Manager and Product Manager, Technical and Solution Architects to build and run outstanding digital services that meet well-defined user needs;
• Lead the rapid development of user-driven digital prototypes to identify technical options and inform architectural approaches, collaborating with other team members to write tests, code and documentation for new and existing systems;
• Work with Solutions Architects to design and implement RESTful APIs for seamless integration with internal and external systems;
• Ensure new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for performance and are able to handle specified load;
• Ensure systems are robust, scalable, open and secure, with appropriate overall system design and integration points/APIs in order to deliver a high quality digital user experience;
• Provide mentorship for members of the development team (software developers, Agile Test Engineers) and feedback on staff performance;
• Build a culture of continuous service improvement, ensuring that key systems “owned” by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved;
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly develop strong working relationships in high pressure environments;
• Collaborate with Solutions/Technical Architects, Agile Test Engineers and Software Developers to build up a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment;
• Be involved in the wider web development community (outside of HMRC and the government) identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences;
• Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider HMRC digital team and across government;
• Providing ‘second-line’ support and occasional ‘on-call’ support.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience leading a team of developers, providing overall guidance and setting overall development direction;
• Demonstrable experience in programming and back-end software development in either Java, C#, Scala, Python or Ruby;
• Excellent commercial experience in programming and back-end software development in Java;
• Good understanding of web technologies & protocols;
• Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs);
• Demonstrable experience of automated testing solutions;
• Experience with open source solutions and community;
• Experience working on technical projects within an agile team;
• A proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
• Demonstrable understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10;
• Excellent demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems;
• Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites;
• Understanding of the use of responsive web design.

Desirable

• Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences;
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage;
• Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques;
• Experience of other  programming languages such as Scala, Python, Ruby, C#;
• Use and implementation of modern front end web programming techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON;
• Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring;
• Experience using automated testing / continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit;
• Experience using Confluence & JIRA;
• Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms;
• Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion.

Competences

• Leading and Communicating
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions

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Collaborates primarily with UX/UI Designers and User Researchers to design written content for transactional services. Reports to Scrum Master, Product Lead and Digital Service Manager.

Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand.

Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services.

Collaborate with Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey.

Write high quality content for clients new digital services that will encourage people to use them. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Work with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to refine the services in light of external factors such as changes to policy, legislation, technology or user requirements. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.

Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts.

Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.

Leads on all aspects of content design. Tasks include: Research of subject, Discussion with stakeholders and experts, Initial draft of content to fix with UX Design, Collaborating with user-researchers to test customer understanding, Iterating content based on customer feedback. contributes to: the look and feel of the service design in collaboration with UX/UI designer, the customer journey through the service and between the service and static content.

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As a Digital Software Architect, you will be joining our clients rapidly expanding digital delivery centre.

You will be tasked with designing a microservice-based digital service on a national scale, you will be delivering web based UI’s and ReST API’s.

You will make use of open source technologies and be involved in the business strategy and supporting the solution throughout it’s construction.

Technologies

Scala
Java
JSON
Microservices
Agile Scrum Methodology
MongoDB
JavaScript

Demonstrable experience in the above is key to your selection in joining this revolution within the digital space.

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The role will involve working in a team of testers on the preparation and execution of the ST & ISIT test support phases of one or more release based projects, The work is extremely varied, very challenging and requires a good level of testing skills. Activities include analysing customer requirements, identifying test cases, writing test scripts, test data preparation and running/recording tests, This role requires an excellent understanding of test techniques and Risk Based Testing (RBT) in order to verify outcomes against the expected results, and record results for use in audit trails, using quality processes and procedures.

Checking and assessing requirements, including assessing testability of designs.

Creating low-level test plans, test scripts and setting up test data.

Running tests, collecting and recording results and then retesting to prove that errors identified have been corrected.

Providing regular status reports to the test manager as well as identifying and raising project risks and issues.

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Are you currently not enjoying work? Not picking up enough Vacancies? Not making enough calls? Not sending out enough CV’s for your managers KPI’s? Having your territory broken up? Commission structure changing that rewards only the highest billing recruiters? Not with us… We have a need for a number of Delivery Recruitment Consultants.

Would you like to work in an environment that is conducive to success? With no crazy KPI’s? smart working is how we operate here at Stealth, we want to hear from candidates who have excellent communication skills and who are confident and comfortable interacting with new people, if you can demonstrate all of this, then you will be happy to come to work. Equally if you are currently working in a customer focussed environment and have always thought about working in recruitment but can’t seem to get an opportunity, why not send in your cv in the first instance, what do you have to lose… All we ask is that you are able to display a strong team work ethic, show a desire to work in an environment where you can fast track your careers.

We have a number of open opportunities for Delivery Recruitment Consultants all remote working, you will join our National based team in this exciting opportunity, your role will focus on delivering candidates into existing and well-established accounts, live vacancies on day 1, you will be working with clients who value what we do. Ideally you will come from a recruitment background, (although a desire to recruit is more important to us) if you do have previous experience we will expect to hear about you successfully sourcing and placing candidates into both contract and permanent opportunities.

You should be confident in your ability to be effective with time management and be comfortable in meeting multiple deadlines and targets, whilst remaining thorough at all times, we have a proven methodology that works, if you can bring a ‘can do’ attitude, with a logical approach to situations and respond in a non-confrontational manner to difficult situations… then you are our ideal applicant.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with candidates on social media and professional networks (e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Github and various job boards)
   
• Identify candidate profiles using various sourcing techniques (e.g. Boolean search)
   
• Ask for referrals from current applicants and external networks
   
• Coordinate with Account Directors to determine position requirements
   
• Develop talent pipelines for future hiring needs
   
• Promote our employer brand online and offline
   
• Maintain internal databases via our award winning Applicant and Client Tracking System

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Collaborates primarily with UX/UI Designers and User Researchers to design written content for transactional services. Reports to Scrum Master, Product Lead and Digital Service Manager.

Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand.

Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services.

Collaborate with Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey.

Write high quality content for clients new digital services that will encourage people to use them. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Work with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to refine the services in light of external factors such as changes to policy, legislation, technology or user requirements. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.

Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts.

Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.

Leads on all aspects of content design. Tasks include: Research of subject, Discussion with stakeholders and experts, Initial draft of content to fix with UX Design, Collaborating with user-researchers to test customer understanding, Iterating content based on customer feedback. contributes to: the look and feel of the service design in collaboration with UX/UI designer, the customer journey through the service and between the service and static content.

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My client are a world leading consultancy who are currently undertaking a large digitisation of key government services and are currently looking for a number of talented Android Developers, they key attributes we are looking for are:

• Experience of building Android applications in Java using Android SDK
• Minimum 5 years hands on development experience with Android
• Strong understanding of object-oriented software development
• Must have Kotlins experience
• Experience working within a large organisation preferable
• Mobile application development experience (Android, J2ME or Blackberry)
• Understanding of large and complex code bases, including API design techniques to help keep them clean and maintainable.
• Programming experience in Java and related frameworks
• Knowledge of multi-threading and memory management specific to mobile devices and caching mechanisms

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Collaborates primarily with UX/UI Designers and User Researchers to design written content for transactional services. Reports to Scrum Master, Product Lead and Digital Service Manager.

Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand.

Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services.

Collaborate with Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey.

Write high quality content for clients new digital services that will encourage people to use them. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Work with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to refine the services in light of external factors such as changes to policy, legislation, technology or user requirements. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.

Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts.

Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.

Leads on all aspects of content design. Tasks include: Research of subject, Discussion with stakeholders and experts, Initial draft of content to fix with UX Design, Collaborating with user-researchers to test customer understanding, Iterating content based on customer feedback. contributes to: the look and feel of the service design in collaboration with UX/UI designer, the customer journey through the service and between the service and static content.

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As a Digital Software Architect, you will be joining our clients rapidly expanding digital delivery centre.

You will be tasked with designing a microservice-based digital service on a national scale, you will be delivering web based UI’s and ReST API’s.

You will make use of open source technologies and be involved in the business strategy and supporting the solution throughout it’s construction.

Technologies

Scala
Java
JSON
Microservices
Agile Scrum Methodology
MongoDB
JavaScript

Demonstrable experience in the above is key to your selection in joining this revolution within the digital space.

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You will join a software development team that uses cutting edge technology to provide applications that put the client first for online content, customer service and sales.

As a Software Developer you'll be knowledgeable and passionate about technology, see value in established practices such as XP, TDD and BDD, have experience in CI/CD and be versed in Agile methodologies to ensure your projects succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop excellent quality software using agile techniques such as Test Driven Development and Pair Programming
• Take an active role in Story definition, assisting QAs and business stakeholders with Acceptance criteria
• Help the team choose the best solution and technologies for the task in hand
• Take a pro-active role with production issues and release management
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team
• Strive for continuous improvement within the team

Requirements:

• Knowledge and experience of a wide range of best of breed open source and commercial technologies
• Experience of software development for high capacity, high traffic, high availability websites/systems
• Delivery experience within an agile project is essential
• Bachelors' degree or equivalent industry experience

Technologies / Skills Sought:

• Scala
• Java
• TDD and BDD
• RESTful web services
• SQL
• JPA / Hibernate
• Agile Best Practices
• Architectural/Integration Design Patterns
• Git
• Linux

Beneficial skills

• Spray / Play frameworks
• Spring MVC
• Javascript

• Cloud based delivery of services
• Spring Boot

• Node.js frameworks such as Angular
• Gradle
• CI Build systems (Hudson/Jenkins)
• HTML 5
• CSS 3

Behaviours sought

• A track record of getting the job done
• An enthusiasm and aptitude for learning new skills and practices
• Take pride and ownership in your work
• Good team player
• Great at communicating

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Within my client’s Agile Scrum Teams, Developers provide hands-on technical expertise and take responsibility for code-quality. Leadership and direction for the development activities, delivered with sufficient quality to underpin outstanding new digital services for millions of users. The Developer will make important technical decisions during the agile sprints and drive selection of the team’s development approach. The Developer will work closely with Solutions Architects, Product Managers, Digital Service Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters and the development team throughout the duration of development.

As a Developer at our client, you will:

• Work with Digital Service Manager and Product Manager, Technical and Solution Architects to build and run outstanding digital services that meet well-defined user needs;
• Assist with the rapid development of user-driven digital prototypes to identify technical options and inform architectural approaches, collaborating with other team members to write tests, code and documentation for new and existing systems;
• Work with Solutions Architects to design and implement RESTful APIs for seamless integration with internal and external systems;
• Ensure new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for performance and are able to handle specified load;
• Ensure systems are robust, scalable, open and secure, with appropriate overall system design and integration points/APIs in order to deliver a high quality digital user experience;
• Provide mentorship for members of the development team (software developers, Agile Test Engineers) and feedback on staff performance;
• Build a culture of continuous service improvement, ensuring that key systems “owned” by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved;
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly develop strong working relationships in high pressure environments;
• Collaborate with Solutions/Technical Architects, Agile Test Engineers and Software Developers to build up a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment;
• Be involved in the wider web development community (outside of HMRC and the government) identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences;
• Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider HMRC digital team and across government;
• Providing ‘second-line’ support and occasional ‘on-call’ support.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience leading a team of developers, providing overall guidance and setting overall development direction;
• Demonstrable experience in programming and back-end software development in either Java, C#, Scala, Python or Ruby;
• Excellent commercial experience in programming and back-end software development in Java;
• Good understanding of web technologies & protocols;
• Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs);
• Demonstrable experience of automated testing solutions;
• Experience with open source solutions and community;
• Experience working on technical projects within an agile team;
• A proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
• Demonstrable understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10;
• Excellent demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems;
• Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites;
• Understanding of the use of responsive web design.

Desirable

• Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences;
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage;
• Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques;
• Experience of other  programming languages such as Scala, Python, Ruby, C#;
• Use and implementation of modern front end web programming techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON;
• Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring;
• Experience using automated testing / continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit;
• Experience using Confluence & JIRA;
• Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms;
• Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion.

Competences

Leading and Communicating

Seeing the Big Picture

• Making Effective Decisions

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As a Software Developer you’ll be knowledgeable and passionate about technology, see value in established practices such as XP, TDD and BDD, have experience in CI/CD and be versed in Agile methodologies to ensure your projects succeed. 

You will be conversant in:

- Develop excellent quality software using agile techniques such as Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming
- Take an active role in Story definition, assisting QAs and business stakeholders with Acceptance criteria
- Help the team choose the best solution and technologies for the task in hand
- Take a pro-active role with production issues and release management
- Contribute to the technical direction of the team
- Strive for continuous improvement within the team

You’ll have:

- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of best of breed open source and commercial technologies
- Experience of software development for high capacity, high traffic, high availability websites/systems
- Delivery experience within an agile project is essential
- Bachelors’ degree or equivalent industry experience 
- Experience in Scala, Java, TDD and BDD, RESTful web services, SQL, JPA, Hibernate, Agile Best Practices, Architectural/Integration Design Patterns, Git and Linux
- A track record of getting the job done and an enthusiasm and aptitude for learning new skills and practices
- Take pride and ownership in your work, good team player and great at communicating.
- Some experience in Spray / Play frameworks and Spring MVC
- Knowledgeable in Cloud based delivery of services, Spring Boot, JavaScript and Node.js frameworks such as Angular

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We are looking for a versatile Business Analyst with experience working within Agile teams to develop business analysis products including user journeys, value streams, detailed process maps / operating procedures, well defined User Stories and acceptance criteria, in order to deliver a more efficient, user-focused service. The successful candidate will work on projects within the Immigration Portfolio which focus on improving the technology services used to deliver the visa and immigration service for the UK. Deliverables will include value streams, customer journeys, business processes, delivery roadmaps, volumetrics, business cases and user stories. run workshops, engage closely with business users.

The successful candidate will be working with Home Office civil servants, contractors and suppliers. Other roles within the team: Back end and Front end developers, BA, Interaction Designer, User Researcher, DevOps, Technical Architect, Delivery Manager, Product Owner and Product Manager and should have Security Clearance – Prefer someone with SC level, if not, what level do you have and are you able to go through SC?

Essential skills and experience:

• Significant experience in Business Analysis (Minimum 5 years) 

• Proven-Experience in decomposing and simplifying complex problems (National-Scale) 

• Significant experience working with Senior Stakeholders with proven ability to influence and manage expectations on deliverables 

• Epic and Story writing in accordance with standard Agile best-practice 

• Data analysis and modelling experience 

• Rules-Based Management System experience 

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) 

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Experience working in the public sector

• Government Digital Service experience

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We are working with a global digital transformation consultancy, and are looking for a GDS Business Analyst to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. They are looking for multiple experienced Business Analysts who have a background of working with GDS and taking products through Government Digital Services. Therefore, having GDS is essential.

They are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across clients. To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance.

This role is fully remote but will require some visit to the UK offices- office locations are London, Leeds, Newcastle, Worthing and Edinburgh.

Responsibilities:

•Strategic business analysis services to business partners,

•Responsible for reviewing assigned business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial, and technological risks.

•Identify opportunities to improve efficiency.

•Managing a small team and mentoring junior team members.

Requirements:

•Previous experience working in Agile Methodology

•Experience of GDS/UK Gov

•Familiarity with Jira and Confluence tools as well as MS office

•Client facing skills and ability to establish and maintain good client relationships.

•Previous experience in leading a small team of Business Analysts

•Excellent knowledge of CX, previous experience working with UX/UI.

•Good communication and organizational skills.

•Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

•Flexibility and understanding IT and business environments

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We are working with a global digital transformation consulting firm, looking for a Product Owner to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. They are looking for experienced Product Owners who have a background of working with GDS and taking products through Government Digital Services. Therefore, having GDS is essential.

They are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across clients. To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance.

This role is fully remote but will require some visit to the UK offices- office locations are London, Leeds, Newcastle, Worthing and Edinburgh.

The role

You will be working for a improves people’s lives by helping our clients to transform – digitally, culturally, innovatively, and inclusively. We’re trusted to do some of the most important and exciting work in a generation.

That’s why we need you – we're looking for people who bring the passion, talent and vision needed to drive sustainable change with better outcomes for society and for the environment.

The largest part of their business is in Government and the wider public sector. They retain our clients, and they love our people. So, our business is all about the customer – and it’s all about you:

•Bring your ideas, be brave, be bold, learn, and drive opportunities for growth and to try new things

•Have autonomy, with as much support as you need

•Work with people from lots of different backgrounds to help us drive new thinking and do better work.

Package: Excellent renumeration, plus many benefits that focus on wellbeing, quality of life and family.

The Practice manages, enhances, and maintains custom applications or packaged software by infusing smart automation & robotics, the usage of Agile and DevOps methodologies, and a drive towards continuous delivery & deployment. With an integrated, comprehensive application development, application management and testing approach, we focus on adding business and IT value to our clients.

They assign product managers from our practice to customer projects. Working within an agile multidisciplinary team to create, support and continuously improve products that meet user needs. You will take products through discovery, alpha, beta and live phases of development with the goal of making services and products simpler, easier and faster to use. We are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across our clients.

The role may require frequent travel to client sites, several days a week.

Signs of success

To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for.

You'll be expected to travel to customer and client sites UK wide, working from client/office/home locations as appropriate. Flexible working arrangements will be available.

Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance

Essential Duties & Responsiblites:

As Product manager you will:

- You’’ll be responsible for the quality of the products.

- You will be expected to use your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for your delivery teams.

- Define, explain and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders.

- You will be a champion for user needs, managing a backlog, documenting product knowledge, and communicating plans and progress through various channels including blogs, stakeholder meetings and demos.

- Communicating efficiently and work together within a multi-disciplinary team, fostering the open and collaborative culture to deliver a product and continuously improve it through several iterations.

- engage with users and stakeholders through a range of channels to encourage awareness and use of your product

- Presenting and depicting the rationale of findings in simple, engaging and easy to understand business terms to a diverse group of stakeholders.

- Set measurable goals for your product and report against these to demonstrate progress against stated benefits

- Play an active role in the product manager community, sharing your learning and celebrating progress made by other people and team

Person Specification

Skills we can’t do without:

- You know about agile methodology and can apply an agile mindset to all aspects of your work. You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery.

- User-Centred Design Services which can be demonstrated through successful project delivery and the achievement of key success measures for projects.

- You understand and can work within given constraints (including but not limited to technology and policy, and regulatory, financial and legal constraints).

- You can secure funding for agile delivery through a business case and through delivering a good pitch . You can prioritise spending based on return on investment and strategic intent.

- You understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan or run these. You can maintain a product or process through the delivery phases, into live and then into retirement. You understand incident management and service support so that products are built effectively.

- You can manage the operational process of designing and running a product or service throughout its entire product life cycle.

- You can understand and identify problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution. You can classify and prioritise problems, document their causes and implement remedies.

- You know how to use a range of product management principles and approaches. You can capture and translate user needs into deliverables. You know how to define the minimum viable product and make decisions about priorities. You can write user stories and acceptance criteria.

- You know how to work with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.

- You understand users and can identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs. You can engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users. You put users first and can manage competing priorities.

- Help support the vision, roadmaps and delivery of other products in your programme

- You will have experience of delivering/working in a large-scale software delivery and support organisation.

- Good collaboration and communication skills, particularly with Development teams and influencing them.

- Passion about learning new development technologies and ways of working to improve the outputs of teams and improve customer outcomes.

- Designing and delivering end-to-end digital products in government, Government Digital Service (GDS) agile delivery framework

Skills we’d like:

- SC (security cleared) Cleared or ability to obtain SC Clearance

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We are working with a global digital transformation consulting firm, looking for a Scrum Master to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. They are looking for experienced Scrum Masters who have strong experience in Agile. Background of working for a consultancy is preferred

They are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across clients. To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance.

This role can be based remote but you will get opportunity to work in offices situated across the country.

Job specification:

As a Scrum Master, you'll:

• Guide teams and organisations on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
• Assess the Agile Maturity of teams and organisations and coach them to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable
• Identify and support the scrum team and stakeholders in dealing with blockers and impediments
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem-solving and continual learning
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency and information flow
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially on refining and maintaining the product backlog
• Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example
• Facilitate reviews, retrospectives, daily stand ups and planning meetings
• Foster a culture of collaboration with other scrum masters, and building a network with other agile champions across the organisation
• Put into practice agile values and principles from the Agile Manifesto.
• Contribute to the further growth and expertise of Digital Factory and the Business Technology unit within the client through business and practice development activities (E.g. Enhancing learning and development materials, publishing thought leadership articles and mentoring others)

Skills you'll need:

• Proven experience in undertaking the Scrum Master role in a team that has been applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Experience in delivery of multi-disciplinary projects and working in cross-functional teams
• Experience of Agile project management tools such as Team Foundation Server or the Atlassian suite of products such as Jira, Confluence
• Understanding and experience of widely accepted successful Agile techniques
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, increasing transparency and measuring success
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to connect and engage across multiple teams, business units and organisations at multiple levels of seniority
• Previous experience of mentoring colleagues
• Knowledge of business requirements prioritisation techniques
• Ability to lead a team of resources across multiple sites, whilst building solid business relationships
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills; must be capable of focusing and maintaining project direction and be able to lead and motivate a team of specialist technical and/or business resources, as well as management of stakeholders
• Experience of managing projects with business and technology deliverables and / or changes involving external third-party providers

We are hiring all levels of experience. Whether you have been working as part of a small team or leading large or complex engagements, we have the role for you. Potential is also just as important to us as having the required skills. If you have the right mindset and you’re passionate about the role, we will be able to provide you with bespoke training and the support to build all the skills you need.

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We are working with a global digital transformation consulting firm, looking for a Digital Business Analyst to work on exciting digital projects, across the UK, within the public sector. They are looking for experienced Digital Business Analyst who have strong experience in Agile. Background of working for a consultancy is preferred

They are looking for professionals with demonstratable evidence of working with Agile/Scrum. The role will work as part of a multiple disciplinary teams ensuring the accelerated application development across clients. To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for. Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC clearance.

This role can be based remote but you will get opportunity to work in offices situated across the country.

As a Digital Business Analyst Consultant, you’ll:

•Help our clients understand and explore how, where and why to apply new digital technologies & platforms.

•Advising, designing and delivering excellent products and services for our clients to transform their businesses and deliver real value.

•Play a pivotal role in end-to-end user centred design projects, working between design, product, development and test.

•Work as part of a multi-disciplinary Agile Scrum team, having responsibility for understanding user needs, working closely with our business partners, translating problems or requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria.

•Be highly customer focused and responsible for building stakeholder relationships and using your analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills to help achieve the Scrum teams’ goals.

Skills you will need:

•Experience in a user-centred product or service development projects.

•Experience working in a multi-disciplinary Agile Scrum team, facilitating and supporting the end-to-end delivery, from research and design through to development and testing.

•Ability to lead the translation of user needs and business requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.

•Ability to be the intermediary between both business requirements and user needs, and between waterfall and Agile delivery.

•Proficient in the use of requirements capturing methodology toolsets e.g. JIRA.

•Experience in technical business analysis with a familiarity of architectural concepts such as microservice and legacy architecture, API’s and cloud infrastructure.

•Responsible for building highly collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships, with both the ability to deal with conflict management and to influence key stakeholders.

•Support and lead scrum team activities and ceremonies to ensure delivery of team goals.

•Support effective business analysis through analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills.

Bonus Skills:

•Experience across different sectors, including in Public Sector, Utilities, Financial Services, Consumer Products and Retail

•Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards

•Experience supporting internal operations of the team through activities such as recruitment, client development, line management, delivering trainings and mentoring

•Certifications across Business Analysis, Agile Delivery, User Centred Design etc.

We are hiring all levels of experience. Whether you have been working as part of a small team or leading large or complex engagements, we have the role for you. Potential is also just as important to us as having the required skills. If you have the right mindset and you’re passionate about the role, we will be able to provide you with bespoke training and the support to build all the skills you need.

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As a member of of our clients Digital Transformation Team, you will operate within a fast-paced Consulting environment, comprised of more than 850 diverse and high performing experts worldwide. Their teams work on challenging digital projects that deliver creative and innovative solutions across multiple industries and sectors.

They deliver results for their clients by exploiting digital opportunities, ethically. Year on year they have delivered multiple award-winning projects recognised by the UK Management Consultancies Association. Their work is centred on corporate social responsibility, to ensure that what they deliver enables their clients and members of society to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.

About our client

You will be part of an organisation that is a strategic leader in Decarbonisation.  They are Europe’s number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing and the worldwide Information Technology partner for many sporting organisations. With over a 100,000 employees in more than 70 countries there is no shortage of routes to develop and be your best self.

What they offer

With this role you will join the Digital Workplace Sub-practice within the Digital Transformation team.  This practice is responsible for working with clients to define, design and implement the next generation of workplace solutions which provide employees with tools to drive efficiency and accelerate business performance. The Digital Workplace team works across different industries and sectors, including Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Defence, Retail, Media, Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications, and Transportation, supporting our clients in their digital workplace journey.

What are we looking for

We are looking for an individual who can demonstrate excellent problem solving and analytical skills, with an understanding of modern Workplace technologies e.g. M365, G Suite, etc. and passion for expanding their knowledge in this field. The range of work we can win is quite wide in defining, designing and implementing the next generation of workplace solutions and hence we are looking for a wide range of skills along with some experience in engaging in projects that have transformed the workplace environment.

Required skill set and experience

• Well-rounded set of consulting skills at intermediate levels
• Able to take responsibility for deliverables, with an aptitude for identifying opportunities
• Experience working independently with clients leading stakeholder interviews to analyse current services and identify issues or pain-points and potential improvements
• Experience defining and integrating digital solutions into an organisation’s strategy, vision, and aspirations
• Competence in collecting and analysing customer data to produce insights and reports
• Preparing, supporting and leading workshops to play-back findings and explore solutions to specific issues
• Report writing and presentation skills – ability to summarise the key findings and recommendations
• Problem solving skills

Desired skill set and experience

• Experience in supporting development of workplace strategies, rollout strategies and roadmaps
• Documenting requirements, Persona development, and producing user experience/journey Maps
• Insight of modern workplace technologies and willingness to learn modern technologies

This role is UK based and may require UK domestic and international travel, as the need arises. Candidates must meet all visa and work permit requirements to successfully reside and work within the UK.

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