Software Engineering Manager (TLP Seconded to Toyota) £75-85,000 negotiable for the right candidate plus package Epsom (Burgh Heath), Surrey (Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite) TLP have been working with Toyota (GB) PLC for over 25 years and are a trusted partner. We are recruiting for a Software Engineering Manager to be seconded to support Toyota's Used Vehicle Team onsite at their EcoHQ in Epsom, Surrey. You will be coaching and leading a highly experienced, cross-functional Scrum team as a role model in demonstrating agile principles and engineering excellence. You'll enable the delivery of high-quality software products built on the Azure cloud platform with consistent focus on our customers, business value and technical excellence. You won't need to be hands on these days, but you will have come from a solid background in agile software engineering with 5+ years' experience in a variety of systems and technologies. The team and business are very MS focussed with an emphasis on Data Engineering and Cloud Solutions so your background may contain the following tech: Engineering Platforms: MS Azure Data engineering tools; Data Factory, Data Flow, Databricks, Azure SQL, Elastic Search, Synapse Application development: .NET C#, ASP.NET, App Services, Azure API Management Services CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Atlassian Suite Your team will initially have 8 direct reports (3 Front End, 3 back, 1 QA and 1 BA) as well as others you work with including a Senior Solutions Architect and a Senior Product Manager. Toyota's EcoHQ is a fantastic place to work with onsite café and restaurant, gym and shower facilities as well as a cutting-edge work environment to make your day as productive as possible. Please feel free to call for a chat prior to submitting your CV Sadly no visas can be accepted for this role, only ILR or British passports.
27/09/2024
Full time
Software Engineering Manager (TLP Seconded to Toyota) £75-85,000 negotiable for the right candidate plus package Epsom (Burgh Heath), Surrey (Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite) TLP have been working with Toyota (GB) PLC for over 25 years and are a trusted partner. We are recruiting for a Software Engineering Manager to be seconded to support Toyota's Used Vehicle Team onsite at their EcoHQ in Epsom, Surrey. You will be coaching and leading a highly experienced, cross-functional Scrum team as a role model in demonstrating agile principles and engineering excellence. You'll enable the delivery of high-quality software products built on the Azure cloud platform with consistent focus on our customers, business value and technical excellence. You won't need to be hands on these days, but you will have come from a solid background in agile software engineering with 5+ years' experience in a variety of systems and technologies. The team and business are very MS focussed with an emphasis on Data Engineering and Cloud Solutions so your background may contain the following tech: Engineering Platforms: MS Azure Data engineering tools; Data Factory, Data Flow, Databricks, Azure SQL, Elastic Search, Synapse Application development: .NET C#, ASP.NET, App Services, Azure API Management Services CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Atlassian Suite Your team will initially have 8 direct reports (3 Front End, 3 back, 1 QA and 1 BA) as well as others you work with including a Senior Solutions Architect and a Senior Product Manager. Toyota's EcoHQ is a fantastic place to work with onsite café and restaurant, gym and shower facilities as well as a cutting-edge work environment to make your day as productive as possible. Please feel free to call for a chat prior to submitting your CV Sadly no visas can be accepted for this role, only ILR or British passports.
Senior Product Manager Senior Level - SFIA5 Salary: £55k-75k dependent on experience Location: London About Scrumconnect: Scrumconnect is a leading force in technology consultancy, proudly contributing to over 20% of the UK's most significant citizen-facing public services. Our award-winning team has made a substantial impact, delivering more than 64 services in the past two years alone. This work has not only reached over 50 million citizens but also achieved considerable savings for the taxpayer, amounting to over £25 million. At Scrumconnect, we foster a community of talented consultants who thrive on collaboration, sharing knowledge, and continuous learning to address and solve complex challenges. Our mission is to combine advanced software engineering, human-focused design, and data-driven insights to deliver unparalleled service to our clients. About the role: We are looking for a strategic and experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the development and delivery of high-quality digital services. The role requires someone who can manage a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with key stakeholders and ensure that the product vision aligns with user needs and organisational goals. As a Senior Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving product strategy, managing roadmaps, and delivering digital services that are simple, accessible and effective. At this level you will: Shape the overall product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and user needs. Lead and support agile, cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products iteratively, using agile principles to continuously improve delivery. Influence and build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across policy, technical, and operational teams to align on goals and outcomes. Promote a user-centred design approach, ensuring that services are built to meet the needs of users, with a focus on usability, accessibility, and inclusivity. Provide clear leadership and direction, ensuring that the product roadmap and priorities are understood by your team and stakeholders. Drive performance metrics and analysis, using data to track the success of the product and make evidence-based decisions for improvement. Coach and mentor junior product managers, developing their skills and fostering a collaborative environment within the team and the broader product management community. This role requires a proactive individual who thrives in an agile environment and can drive the product process from research to execution. You'll be responsible for: Defining and delivering the product roadmap, ensuring it balances business needs, technical feasibility, and user requirements. Prioritising the product backlog, making trade-offs between different features and enhancements based on user value, business goals, and development effort. Engaging with stakeholders to gather feedback, clarify requirements, and ensure that the product vision is aligned across teams. Leading product discovery and research, validating ideas through user research, testing, and prototyping before committing to development. Managing the end-to-end product life cycle, from concept to delivery, including continuous iteration and improvement based on user feedback. Experience with and ensuring compliance with GOV.UK service standards, including performance, accessibility, security, and legal requirements. Managing risks and issues, proactively identifying potential blockers and taking action to mitigate them in collaboration with the team and stakeholders. Skills needed for this role: Product management expertise: Proven experience in managing the end-to-end product life cycle, including strategy development, roadmap creation and delivery in an agile environment. Agile methodologies: Deep understanding of agile principles and hands-on experience leading cross-functional teams in an iterative product delivery process. Stakeholder management: Strong ability to engage, influence, and manage relationships with senior stakeholders across different departments and disciplines. User-centred design: Familiarity with user research, usability testing and incorporating user feedback to build products that meet the needs of diverse users. Data-driven decision making: Ability to use data and metrics to drive product decisions, assess product performance, and inform future improvements. Communication and leadership: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas clearly and motivate teams. Problem-solving: Analytical mindset with the ability to think strategically and resolve issues that arise during product development and delivery. Governance and compliance: Knowledge of GOV.UK service standards and an understanding of accessibility, security and legal compliance in the public sector context. Mentorship and coaching: Ability to guide and mentor junior team members, fostering their professional development and growth. Join us at Scrumconnect, where your highly demonstrable skills and expertise will drive the future of user-centred design in public services.
27/09/2024
Full time
Senior Product Manager Senior Level - SFIA5 Salary: £55k-75k dependent on experience Location: London About Scrumconnect: Scrumconnect is a leading force in technology consultancy, proudly contributing to over 20% of the UK's most significant citizen-facing public services. Our award-winning team has made a substantial impact, delivering more than 64 services in the past two years alone. This work has not only reached over 50 million citizens but also achieved considerable savings for the taxpayer, amounting to over £25 million. At Scrumconnect, we foster a community of talented consultants who thrive on collaboration, sharing knowledge, and continuous learning to address and solve complex challenges. Our mission is to combine advanced software engineering, human-focused design, and data-driven insights to deliver unparalleled service to our clients. About the role: We are looking for a strategic and experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the development and delivery of high-quality digital services. The role requires someone who can manage a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with key stakeholders and ensure that the product vision aligns with user needs and organisational goals. As a Senior Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving product strategy, managing roadmaps, and delivering digital services that are simple, accessible and effective. At this level you will: Shape the overall product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and user needs. Lead and support agile, cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products iteratively, using agile principles to continuously improve delivery. Influence and build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across policy, technical, and operational teams to align on goals and outcomes. Promote a user-centred design approach, ensuring that services are built to meet the needs of users, with a focus on usability, accessibility, and inclusivity. Provide clear leadership and direction, ensuring that the product roadmap and priorities are understood by your team and stakeholders. Drive performance metrics and analysis, using data to track the success of the product and make evidence-based decisions for improvement. Coach and mentor junior product managers, developing their skills and fostering a collaborative environment within the team and the broader product management community. This role requires a proactive individual who thrives in an agile environment and can drive the product process from research to execution. You'll be responsible for: Defining and delivering the product roadmap, ensuring it balances business needs, technical feasibility, and user requirements. Prioritising the product backlog, making trade-offs between different features and enhancements based on user value, business goals, and development effort. Engaging with stakeholders to gather feedback, clarify requirements, and ensure that the product vision is aligned across teams. Leading product discovery and research, validating ideas through user research, testing, and prototyping before committing to development. Managing the end-to-end product life cycle, from concept to delivery, including continuous iteration and improvement based on user feedback. Experience with and ensuring compliance with GOV.UK service standards, including performance, accessibility, security, and legal requirements. Managing risks and issues, proactively identifying potential blockers and taking action to mitigate them in collaboration with the team and stakeholders. Skills needed for this role: Product management expertise: Proven experience in managing the end-to-end product life cycle, including strategy development, roadmap creation and delivery in an agile environment. Agile methodologies: Deep understanding of agile principles and hands-on experience leading cross-functional teams in an iterative product delivery process. Stakeholder management: Strong ability to engage, influence, and manage relationships with senior stakeholders across different departments and disciplines. User-centred design: Familiarity with user research, usability testing and incorporating user feedback to build products that meet the needs of diverse users. Data-driven decision making: Ability to use data and metrics to drive product decisions, assess product performance, and inform future improvements. Communication and leadership: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas clearly and motivate teams. Problem-solving: Analytical mindset with the ability to think strategically and resolve issues that arise during product development and delivery. Governance and compliance: Knowledge of GOV.UK service standards and an understanding of accessibility, security and legal compliance in the public sector context. Mentorship and coaching: Ability to guide and mentor junior team members, fostering their professional development and growth. Join us at Scrumconnect, where your highly demonstrable skills and expertise will drive the future of user-centred design in public services.
Head of Solutions Development and Delivery - Birmingham Hybrid working two days per week onsite - Salary up to £75k Head of Solutions Development and Delivery required for a leading client based in Birmingham. My client is currently seeking Head of Solutions Development and Delivery to come on board to oversee the planning, execution, and transition of IT changes across the organization, ensuring a smooth handover to Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations. You will spearhead initiatives aimed at optimizing processes, improving efficiency, and enhancing quality. Your ability to engage and influence senior managers and stakeholders will be crucial in ensuring that our project portfolio meets business objectives. With budget responsibility, you will track and control resources, revenue, and capital expenditures, ensuring they align with portfolio budgets and managing stakeholder expectations. You will also lead the end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring it is well-defined and adhered to. Keys skills and responsibilities, Strong Solutions and Delivery experience Leading software development life cycles (SDLC) Experience in work management using Microsoft Azure DevOps for Agile delivery. Proven track record in delivering projects involving web applications/portals, mobile apps, client applications, and cloud-based solutions. Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and Dynamics Finance capabilities Oversees and manages resources, revenue, and capital expenditures in line with the portfolio budget while addressing the expectations of all portfolio, program, and project stakeholders. Ensures the end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is established, agreed upon, and adhered to. Accountable for the processes within the Solutions Development & Delivery function. Holds budgetary responsibility for Solutions Development & Delivery, monitoring spend against targets and identifying opportunities to reduce ongoing capital (capex) and operational (opex) costs. Demonstrated leadership of project and IT technical teams, with expertise in all phases of project governance, from initiation through delivery and handover. Extensive experience in delivering technology changes across multiple interdependent products, utilizing both waterfall and agile methodologies. Strong relationship-building skills with clients, project sponsors, and stakeholders. Proven ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously. Skilled at motivating and engaging both technical and business teams. Interested!?! Please send your up to date CV to Dean Parkes at Crimson for immediate review Not interested?! Do you know anyone that might be? Refer a friend for this role to earn £250 worth of vouchers. Crimson are acting as an employment business in regards to this vacancy.
27/09/2024
Full time
Head of Solutions Development and Delivery - Birmingham Hybrid working two days per week onsite - Salary up to £75k Head of Solutions Development and Delivery required for a leading client based in Birmingham. My client is currently seeking Head of Solutions Development and Delivery to come on board to oversee the planning, execution, and transition of IT changes across the organization, ensuring a smooth handover to Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations. You will spearhead initiatives aimed at optimizing processes, improving efficiency, and enhancing quality. Your ability to engage and influence senior managers and stakeholders will be crucial in ensuring that our project portfolio meets business objectives. With budget responsibility, you will track and control resources, revenue, and capital expenditures, ensuring they align with portfolio budgets and managing stakeholder expectations. You will also lead the end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring it is well-defined and adhered to. Keys skills and responsibilities, Strong Solutions and Delivery experience Leading software development life cycles (SDLC) Experience in work management using Microsoft Azure DevOps for Agile delivery. Proven track record in delivering projects involving web applications/portals, mobile apps, client applications, and cloud-based solutions. Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and Dynamics Finance capabilities Oversees and manages resources, revenue, and capital expenditures in line with the portfolio budget while addressing the expectations of all portfolio, program, and project stakeholders. Ensures the end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is established, agreed upon, and adhered to. Accountable for the processes within the Solutions Development & Delivery function. Holds budgetary responsibility for Solutions Development & Delivery, monitoring spend against targets and identifying opportunities to reduce ongoing capital (capex) and operational (opex) costs. Demonstrated leadership of project and IT technical teams, with expertise in all phases of project governance, from initiation through delivery and handover. Extensive experience in delivering technology changes across multiple interdependent products, utilizing both waterfall and agile methodologies. Strong relationship-building skills with clients, project sponsors, and stakeholders. Proven ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously. Skilled at motivating and engaging both technical and business teams. Interested!?! Please send your up to date CV to Dean Parkes at Crimson for immediate review Not interested?! Do you know anyone that might be? Refer a friend for this role to earn £250 worth of vouchers. Crimson are acting as an employment business in regards to this vacancy.
Node.Js - Full Stack Developer - Lead/Senior Permanent Location: Ideally Berkshire with x1 day per week in the office but other locations around the UK will be considered. Sponsorship Available Salary: £65,000 - £77,000 + benefits Angular & Node.Js Full Stack Developer is sought by my Plc client who are growing a new continuous improvement, development and support team. This Agile team are responsible for maintaining and enhancing in-house developed applications across the organisation. The Lead Angular and Node.js Developer plays a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of applications and infrastructure to facilitate speedy software development and deployment, whilst supporting the current team. With a unique combination of development, technical support and IT operations, they ensure that the critical applications and products are consistently improved and updated to align with business requirements. They also help to identify and resolve complex incidents and problems while devising technical solutions that cater to the needs of the business. Day to day: - Design, develop and maintain web applications (Node.js & Angular) as part of an agile team in a DevOps environment, with a focus of whole application systems and services (Front End and Back End). - Diagnose and resolve problems with application systems in the production environment, collaborating with team members in the fixing of faults as appropriate. This includes troubleshooting and resolving issues related to infrastructure, applications, and data. - Code according to industry standards and specifications. This includes writing secure, clean, maintainable, and efficient code that meets the organisation's coding standards and best practices. - Participating in all stages of the software development life cycle, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. - Ccommunicate with team members, including the Delivery Manager and Product Owner in addition to collaborating with other team members and stakeholders to ensure that requirements are understood and that everyone is working toward the same goals. Skills & Experience Required: - Considerable experience in software engineering using Node.js and Azure components. Other technologies such as Anjular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and Selenium would be advantageous. - Excellent technical computing, analysis, design and development skills to a proven professional level including understanding the impact to business. - Understanding of software release processes: from receipt of incidents, analysis and then through the testing and release processes. - Extensive experience of developing within an Azure cloud environment. This will require you to have experience of some of the following: Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure Blobs, AppInsights, Azure Keyvault, API Management, Azure Active Directory, Azure Functions, AppGateway, CosmosDB. - Fully conversant with Agile and DevOps development methodology and concepts, including CI/CD coding, security testing best practice and standards . This must include a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and development repositories such as Git. If you feel that this role is of interest, please get in contact by sending your CV with your contact number, and we will be in touch to discuss the role and our client in detail.
27/09/2024
Full time
Node.Js - Full Stack Developer - Lead/Senior Permanent Location: Ideally Berkshire with x1 day per week in the office but other locations around the UK will be considered. Sponsorship Available Salary: £65,000 - £77,000 + benefits Angular & Node.Js Full Stack Developer is sought by my Plc client who are growing a new continuous improvement, development and support team. This Agile team are responsible for maintaining and enhancing in-house developed applications across the organisation. The Lead Angular and Node.js Developer plays a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of applications and infrastructure to facilitate speedy software development and deployment, whilst supporting the current team. With a unique combination of development, technical support and IT operations, they ensure that the critical applications and products are consistently improved and updated to align with business requirements. They also help to identify and resolve complex incidents and problems while devising technical solutions that cater to the needs of the business. Day to day: - Design, develop and maintain web applications (Node.js & Angular) as part of an agile team in a DevOps environment, with a focus of whole application systems and services (Front End and Back End). - Diagnose and resolve problems with application systems in the production environment, collaborating with team members in the fixing of faults as appropriate. This includes troubleshooting and resolving issues related to infrastructure, applications, and data. - Code according to industry standards and specifications. This includes writing secure, clean, maintainable, and efficient code that meets the organisation's coding standards and best practices. - Participating in all stages of the software development life cycle, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. - Ccommunicate with team members, including the Delivery Manager and Product Owner in addition to collaborating with other team members and stakeholders to ensure that requirements are understood and that everyone is working toward the same goals. Skills & Experience Required: - Considerable experience in software engineering using Node.js and Azure components. Other technologies such as Anjular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and Selenium would be advantageous. - Excellent technical computing, analysis, design and development skills to a proven professional level including understanding the impact to business. - Understanding of software release processes: from receipt of incidents, analysis and then through the testing and release processes. - Extensive experience of developing within an Azure cloud environment. This will require you to have experience of some of the following: Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure Blobs, AppInsights, Azure Keyvault, API Management, Azure Active Directory, Azure Functions, AppGateway, CosmosDB. - Fully conversant with Agile and DevOps development methodology and concepts, including CI/CD coding, security testing best practice and standards . This must include a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and development repositories such as Git. If you feel that this role is of interest, please get in contact by sending your CV with your contact number, and we will be in touch to discuss the role and our client in detail.