Senior Devops Lead Architect

Southampton

£80-100k salary

Our client is a leading software development house with an international reach. Due to a large client utilising their development services, they are now looking to appoint an Inhouse Devops lead.

What are we looking for?

• Experience architecting /designing infrastructures
• Strong experience in Devops and IaC
• IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation
• Kubernetes - strong knowledge of k8s from both the development and administration perspectives. 
• Docker containerization skills as well as devsecops skills in securing k8s applications and deployments
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as IAM,EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, RDS, S3, Route 53, NAT gateways, VPCs, Cloudwatch, Lambda, DynamoDb, or their equivalents for Azure /GCP highly desirable
• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes and tools (Gitlab CI, Jenkins etc)
• Version control system (specifically Git)
• Linux, Bash - multiple years
• Programming - Python, Bash, Javascript (must have programming skills in one of these)
• Networking: must be able to demonstrate a competent understanding of the OSI networking model, inclluding basic IP routing and firewalling

Desirable skills:

• Hashicorp tools: terraform, vault, consul etc
• Configuration management tools: Puppet, Ansible, Salt etc
• In-depth knowledge working with and managing Git repos and artifact repositories
• Security - Experience automating certificate renewal e.g. ACME

What's on offer:

• A highly competitive salary
• Part office and part remote working
• 25 days holiday plus bank holiday
• Opportunity for oversea travel

Junior Software Developer

Belfast

Circa £25,000 

Do you have a love and passion for sports AND coding? If so, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

My client has built a platform for professional sports clubs to streamline planning and optimise performance.

We are now looking for an eager junior engineer to join the team to help build out the next generation of scheduling and communications APIs for professional sports clubs.

What you'll be doing

• Helping to develop the platform, building out scheduling, communications and analytics functionality.
• Learning new things - they use a raft of technologies including; Ruby, JavaScript + React, React Native, Postgres, Kubernetes and a lot more. You won't be expected to take all of this on at one time instead the important thing is you're eager to learn the tools that will help you build whatever you're working on. The senior engineers will be there to help and guide you along your way.
• Day-to-day you'll be helping add new functionality to the GraphQL API as well as adding new features to the web and mobile apps.
• You'll have the opportunity to learn and interact with cloud and third party service providers
• Writing technical proposals and solution documents.
• Engaging with users, direct engagement between engineering and  end users is critical to the success so you'll be engaging with professional athletes and coaches to gain insight into the challenges they face.

What we expect from you

• While they develop most of their API with Ruby on Rails, knowing Ruby isn't a prerequisite, although obviously a big advantage. But we would expect you to be familiar with some object orientated language such as Javascript, Java or C#.
• Some professional experience such as a placement or internship in a software development team.
• A willingness to learn and an eagerness to build new things. You'll be immersed in new technologies which can be daunting but they will provide you with all the assistance you need to get up and running. All we ask is you come with a positive attitude.

What is on offer

• An excellent salary
• Share options
• A lot of creative freedom
• Professional development, conference budget, training resources.

Senior Software Developer

Dorset - but also remote (South Coast preference)

Salary up to £55k

Set up by two software developers and a qualified doctor, our client definitely falls in to the "tech for good"sector.  If you are someone who wants to make a difference to patients and to work with groundbreaking technology, this could be the role for you. Due to increases in new projects and growth, an opportunity has arisen to join the team which currently sits at around 15 heads.

The company:

• C#
• ASP.NET (Web forms and MVC)
• .net core 2.1/3.1
• Azure
• Web API
• HTML and CSS
• Javascript /jQuery /Angular JS
• SQL Server and Relational Database Design
• Web services including WCF Services, REST APIs
• Entity Framework /Linq to SQL /SQL first
• NUnit (ire equivalent)
• Agile working environment

Additional desirable skills

• Experience of the healthcare sector (private or NHS), HL7 Integration, Networking Programming (TCP) and Windows Services
• Xamarin app development
• Jenkins
• Spec Flow
• Bitbucket (or any Git based source control e.g. Github, Azure DevOps)
• CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities:

• Delivering high quality, well tested code on both existing products and new greenfield projects
• Participation in duty developer rota helping with customer technical queries
• Supporting more junior members of the technical team
• Work on technical debt reduction programme

What is in it for you?

• A subscription to an online training provider with 12 days per year personal development
• Working from home allowance for remote workers
• Employee of the month voucher scheme
• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Generous pension

Commercial /Data Analyst

Fareham /part remote

Up to £40k

I am seeking a bright and determined candidate with formal technical training and deep technical experience in the area of Data Reporting on complex databases with SQL and Business Intelligence and Insight tools for a critical role. My client is an energetic and ambitious business with strong financial backing and a unique digital model.

This role will produce the reports, dashboards and insights for the business and for the new Commercial and Strategy Lead role.

The aim is to sell more services to existing customers, increase the pace of growth in new accounts and win higher value sales from longer term service relationships with organisations across a broad range of market sectors both private and public.

The role:

The candidate will:

• Build deep knowledge of databases and a comprehensive understanding of the business and its relationship with the data
• Use Tableau Business Insight and Intelligence tool to develop reports, analysis and insights
• Respond to requests to produce new reports information and insight
• Suggest reports and analysis in support of the growth and efficiency aims of the business.
• Own the insight platform, which aggregates information from external and internal data systems
• Ensure all ETLs / data transfers are running efficiently and are up to date
• QC audit of input data from online analytics and internal file management systems
• Governance of management system data, ensuring the quality of data going in enriches the output and insight
• Support the marketing and finance functions with ad-hoc reporting via Tableau or SQL
• Work with the in-house marketing team to review, implement and maintain a clean tracking set up for all channels
• Work with key stakeholders to produce daily, weekly and monthly reports to drive day-to-day trading decisions
• Support the finance and marketing functions to build dashboards which surface actionable insight on commercial trading performance
• Deliver meaningful insights and hypothesis led analysis to feed back in to the distribution of marketing spend, website conversion and enquiry to meeting performance
• Create a strong working relationship with the finance, commercial and marketing teams to understand the broader picture of how data flows around the business
• Research and suggest new analytics products to help improve visibility of performance

This role will report to the new Commercial and Strategy Lead role. The role requires someone who is deeply inquisitive, has a meticulous nature, an eye for spotting trends in sets of data and a want to drive real commercial change.

This is essentially a technical role that will use the data to present information, analysis and insight to the business as requested and as offered. The role will develop a deep commercial understanding of the business.

The person:

This role will suit a candidate who foremost, has the technical competence to interrogate data and build reporting/dashboard suites to deliver insight.  The candidate will be naturally proactive & inquisitive – someone who interrogates the data and feeds insight back into the business along with better ways of working. 

• At least 3 years' experience in a commercial analytics role
• Advanced Excel capabilities (allowing rapid manipulation of data to drive insights)
• Direct experience of working with SQL (essential), Tableau (advantage but not essential), reporting tools such as Power BI, Qlik, Datastudio
• Examples of delivering key insights which have led to commercial performance improvement
• Formal qualifications in SQL / Excel etc

Senior Digital Data Analyst and Strategy consultant

Hampshire /Remote

To £70k salary 

My client is looking for an analytical and commercially minded candidate for a newly created senior role within their business. With strong finanical backing and a unique digital model, the individual will develop strategy to help drive the growth of the business with a move to Commercial Director within 4 years. 

With a new technology platform and data analytics platform being introduced in Feb 2021 (Tableau at it's core) this information will be used to spot trends, optimise customer acquisition and LTV and to develop new pricing, commercial and product strategies.

The role:

With a share already of 2.5% of the market, there is significant potential to increase this to 5% within 3 years. We are looking for a proven analyst and strategy developer to focus on:

• Analyse data to determine which aspects and trends in the business will deliver optimal customer acquisition and life time value (LTV)
• Develop strategies to exploit these trends across product, pricing, process and profit
• Play a senior and key role in driving the growth and success of the business
• Develop proposals with supporting business cases for new propositions, models and improvements to the current strategy
• Build a deep understanding of the current data available in the business and build appropriate analysis using tools that include SQL and Tableau
• Conduct regular analysis of competitors in the marketplace, to search for trends and develop appropriate response strategies and proposals
• Conduct regular analysis of customer acquisition, retention, development and LTV to optimise investment in these areas

What are we looking for?

• A 1st or 2:1 degree from a top tier University and ideally in a STEM subject
• Ideally you will have spent 4-5 years at a top strategy house (such as PWC etc)
• Proven ability to work independently, lead teams and engage with senior stakeholders across the business
• Experience and competency in digital data analysis and related tools is essential
• Demonstrable experience or knowledge of customer acquisition and life time value would be a benefit

The role could be remote but with around 50% of the time spent in the office at least for the first 6 months. There is also the potential for equity in the business based upon performance.

UX designer

Salisbury /remote within 30 miles

Salary circa £35,000

Our client is changing the face of agriculture and we are now looking to hire a UX designer. The business was founded on heavily researched customer needs and everything is driven by experience principles. This role will work within the service design team focusing on the UX and visual design elements, but enjoy user research methods and translating them in to design. 

The role:

Helping to deliver the best possible experience for users and the related Human Robot Interaction, you will also work on the integrated engagement and retention end to end experience. This will include social, outbound, content and corporate web experiences.

You will be integral in designing, testing and implementing an evolving service using single screen complex interfaces (like a better Google Maps), a multi-platform end to end customer engagement experience, and an integrated human robotic interaction experience.

The Experience Designer will work with the Head of Experience and the Head of Brand to also create ongoing quantification and benchmarking of the overarching effectiveness of the core experiences, and how they track alongside the evolution of the company and the service and tie back to the experience principles.

The Experience Designer will also support the Head of Innovation to explore and test new concepts and innovations with customers, interactors, investors and other audiences. While the Experience Designer will eventually work within a growing team, they will be expected to be able to initially research, pick up and use the tools necessary to get the job done. 

Responsibilities

● Understand the evolving vision of the end to end customer engagement, service and HRI experiences.

● Sketch, prototype, design and user test, before passing the design onto the development team

● Meet clients and stakeholders to gather information about their requirements and to find out what needs researching, designing or usability testing

● Put users at the centre of a design to make it simple, easy to use and good looking

● Understand and implement qualitative research methods

● Have an understanding of the costs and budgets of implementation, and understand the financial implications of design decisions

● Be confident in your presentation skills in order to present the stages of the design development to business users, stakeholders and partners

● Work closely within a multidisciplinary team, including developers, robotics engineers and data scientists.

● Have technical knowledge to be able to explain what needs doing to programmers

● Ensure websites comply with the law and equal opportunities policies, and HRI experiences conform to local and national implementation legislations

What are we looking for?

● A Bachelor or Masters in user experience, design, psychology, or similar (not vital – a great portfolio and attitude trumps formal qualifications)

● Strong experience in mapping, and designing end to end services

● A desire to engage with; and define nascent HRI experiences and paradigms

● Some experience in qualitative research methodologies including interviews, one on one testing, surveys, and persona creation

● Some experience with quantitative research methodologies including tree testing, A/B testing, questionnaires, clustering, and analytics.

● Proven ability using techniques and products for rapid concepting, experience design and prototyping.

● Confident use of tools for concept sketching and testing (eg Marvel), UI implementation and high fidelity prototypes (eg Sketch, InVision etc)

● Confident use of tools for visual design (eg, Adobe Suite, Affinity or similar)

● Some experience of definition and execution of test processes and test planning

● Knowledge of converting test results into actionable design iterations.

Software Engineering Manager

Plymouth

Established over 20 years ago,my client has built an enviable reputation in the software world and now employs around 60 staff. In order to continue with their growth plans in to 2021, we are now looking for a highly competent Software Engineering Manager to join the business. As a leading web and digital platform company, they have won numerous awards for both their technical and creative work.

The role:

You will inherit a team of around 10 software developers reporting directly in to the CEO. Working closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, UCD/UX experts and Network Support Engineers to deliver a powerful platform that other applications and websites can be built upon. 

• Working on a large-scale digital platform using many technologies (Java, .Net, Javascript and more)
• Selecting, evaluating and extending technology components to work as a unified platform of services
• All aspects of the platform from designing and delivers APIs, specifying and building backend services through to delivery of the front-end
• Responsibility for maintaining an extensive heavily used codebase, including refreshing and improving where required
• Research and develop new and innovative services from idea to delivery and implementing amazing new features to attract new business
• Contribute towards the goal of continually improving development processes and delivering outstanding software

What are we looking for?

• An experienced Software Team Leader or Manager with a strong engineering background
• A true problem solver
• An accomplished developer with a good understanding of many languages both OO and functional programming, now looking for a hands off technical role with more focus on people management and working with your team
• A good motivator
• An understanding of system design and the ability to orchestrate systems and workflows as well as having a good knowledge of web services and APIs
• Experience of automated testing would be an advantage
• A solid degree in Computer Science or related field

What's on offer?

• Flexible working hours and location although time spent in the office in Plymouth will be a huge advantage
• 31 days holiday including bank holidays
• Company performance bonus
• Long service awards
• Free refreshments

Mobile Developer (Frontend React Native)

Bristol /Remote

Up to £60k

Our Agtech client is looking for a React Native developer to join their mobile team.

The role:

With the Mobile app being at the core of their user experience, you will be responsible for delivering high quality code that enriches the app for customers. You will work directly with the mobile and product teams to take requirements through refinement, development, testing, delivery and maintenance. We are looking for an experienced, mid to senior level developer who can join the team and start to take ownership.

• You will be agile and will use lean processes, working with skill and pace to deliver the most appropriate Mobile solutions
• You will be delivering functionality in to the mobile app that meets design patterns and quality standards
• You will be using your technical skill and experience to increase the user experience for farmers

What are we looking for?

• Excellent knowledge of Javascript (ES6 and beyond)
• Good knowledge of React Native, JSX and Typescript
• Knowledge of Native Mobile development for iOS and Android
• Excellent knowledge of translating interaction and visual designs intro production quality front-end experiences
• Excellent knowledge of Git
• Experience with GraphQL and Apollo client
• Experience with Javascript Pacakge Managers (Yarn)
• Experience with testing tools (Jest)
• Experience with ReactJS and Web frameworks
• Experience with HTML,CSS and SCSS
• Knowledge of responsive layouts, grid systems and design systems

Package and Benefits

• Salary, up to £60K depending on experience
• Share options

• Healthcare      
• Flexi-day 
• Axa PPP Healthcare
• Gym

Development Team Leader

Portsmouth

To circa £65,000 basic

Our client is looking to hire an experienced Development Team Leader with experience of Ruby on Rails. in this role, you will work with some of the world's largest brands. Although established now for over 10 years, they are still very much in a startup /scaleup phase as all staff are given the opportunity to play a key role in idea generation and regular two way feedback to shape the company culture.

The role:

As the leader of a small development team of circa 5-8, you will have a lot of freedom in designing software, as well as choosing your tools, projects and processes. You will be empowered to lead work into production, with great support from all Tech Teams. Last but not least, there is an appraisal process performed roughly twice a year, which not only gives everyone a chance to provide/receive feedback, but also to get a bonus payment for your contributions.

• To have a significant experience with various technologies and paradigms, as you need to know their toolkit in order to choose the tool for the job.
• To be deeply engaged in helping others grow, because at some point even you won't save the world by yourself.
• To improve the entire business and question the status quo, as your contribution may be the difference between signing the client or not.
• To have a great intuition, because at some point the best way to be more effective is to develop an excellent gut feeling.
• To be able to work well without any supervision, as now you are the one supervising.

Working with the following tech stack:

- Backend: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, GDK
- Frontend: JavaScript, React, Flux
- Provisioning, hosting & deployment: Ubuntu, Docker, GKE, Capistrano, Chef, Terraform
- Others: GSuite, GitHub, CircleCI, NewRelic, Slack & Jira

What are we looking for?

• To be reliable, thorough and pay attention to the details, as it is a matter of personality, not training.
• To be motivated, engaged and ambitious, because inspired people inspire others.
• To be sharp, because if you make sure to learn something new on every opportunity, you will quickly find your way to the top.
• To be communicative, as imprecise arrangements lead to unnecessary yet very expensive mistakes.

What's in it for you?

• 33 days of holidays (including bank holidays), increasing by one after each complete year of service up to 36.
• Social events, eg yacht trips, bowling, summer and Christmas parties, laser clay, escape rooms and many more
• Opportunities to attend the conferences around Europe
• Private health insurance
• Comfortable offices, which can be arranged and decorated as the team see fit
• Various initiatives within the working hours: Dev Club, Yoga, BBQ lunches, etc.