Job Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
You'll collaborate with the product manager and team to lead the delivery of services and products that deliver our clients' strategic outcomes. You'll facilitate people's work in roles spanning design, development, and research, playing a key leadership role in multidisciplinary agile teams.
You'll lead the team in agreeing delivery milestones to deliver on behalf of our clients. You'll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy in often complex client stakeholder groups and governance structures.Essential experience
You're comfortable working on complex or multiple projects. You define and deliver the work without much direction.
In your CV and the interview, please show how you have:distributed work and set milestones for others to achieve simplified complex problems into smaller, manageable deliverables for your team created a team charter, agreed ways of working and collaboratively iterated throughout the project organised your team and its ceremonies, encouraged team engagement and self-organisation connected team and stakeholder perspectives when making decisions influenced your team to achieve greater outcomes and remain focused on the project's vision selected communication tools appropriate for stakeholder and team dynamics created and facilitated workshops fostered transparency and alignment through building trust
There are other essential skills you'll need to be a great senior consultant. At interview, please show how you:are proactive, and can work autonomously challenge appropriately and resolve conflict help others to successfully work through challenges support and develop teams, and build impactful relationships contribute to communities and client teams beyond project work Desirable experience
There are some other desirable areas of experience for this role. If you don't have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas. These are:The Service Standard (UK Government) use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools calculating metrics and using outcomes to effectively manage the team demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management
If you have experience in these areas, please show it on your CV and talk about it at interview.
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Culture overview
We want to provide our people with interesting work for organisations that matter to them - we give our people the best chance to grow with us.
Our people are honest, hardworking, open and confident - we are smart self-starters. We strive to protect our family culture and we're not big on hierarchy.
Our internal working groups ensure progressive change to our processes and practices, covering:
o Charity
o Environmental action
o Health and wellbeing
o Inclusive change
o Social committee
o Tech sector engagement
We offer an extensive social and wellbeing calendar providing something for everyone who wants to get involved in Opencast life.
We value and empower our people, doing right by them. We work flexibly and keep hierarchy to a minimum. Our benefits include generous annual leave, training and development, pension, and other financial perks.
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Bonus Scheme
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Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
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Learning Allowance
Pension
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Leadership
David Sarginson
Head of Software Development
Tech overview
Software, digital, & technical delivery
Our software, digital and technical delivery teams work across the development lifecycle, with experienced scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, testers, front-end and back-end software developers. We work with customers to deliver agile transformation and improve ways of working. We have delivered multiple complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards, from discovery through to live.
Architecture
Our growing digital architecture practice combines expertise in enterprise, solution and technical architecture. Our architects work collaboratively to create solutions in the context of our clients' existing technology estates. We advise on the components required to deliver a new service successfully in line with business goals.
DevOps, cloud & platform engineering
Our DevOps, cloud and platform engineering practice brings together leading engineers who are true experts, driving the adoption of a DevOps culture and the benefits of cloud computing. We focus on delivering cost savings, reducing time to market, improving scalability and flexibility, as well as enhancing the quality and security of our delivery.

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Engineering principles
AGILE PROCESS
CODE REVIEWS
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
MENTORING
MICRO SERVICES
PAIR PROGRAMMING
TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
UNIT TESTING
Company tech stack
Microsoft Azure


Java


Node.js


MySQL


Microsoft SQL server (MSSQL)


Spring Boot


Spring Data


Spring


Ruby on rails


Spring MVC


Adobe XD


Scalatra


Scala


Splunk


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