Expleo UK

• As a senior member of the Agile practice, you will help it to provide a supportive environment for our Agile practitioners through one-to-ones, regular calls and meetups.
•  You will take the lead and be responsible for a specific area within the Agile practice which will help support your own area of interest or your professional development.
•  Your responsibilities will also include mentoring and helping less experienced colleagues to develop their skills, knowledge and experience.
• You will be key to identifying changes which we can test out to help make the organization a great place for Agile practitioners to work.

Desired Skill:

• A desired skill would be to create courses and deliver training.

• As Scrum is the most popular Agile delivery framework, you will have helped many Scrum teams to deliver successful outcomes.
• Experience of a variety of approaches from strict adherence to the Scrum Guide.
• Adding practices to Scrum to deliver success.
• Pragmatically changing Scrum to such an extent, to work within the constraints of your client’s context.
• You will have experience beyond Scrum of other team-level approaches all the while focusing on helping the team to achieve engineering excellence.
• Achieve stable velocity and also helping the business to identify the features which will deliver benefits which they can understand and validate.
• You will have experience of multi-team or scaled Agile approaches, helping the teams to evolve and improve their intra-team   orchestration while delivering business value.

Other areas of your experience are:

• Helping clients to use lean and Agile techniques to develop and validate their strategy to deliver proven business value and to   make organisational changes so that lean and Agile ways of working exist within a supportive and safe environment.
• Encountering problems and working through them in a transparent way to deliver a successful outcome and to be able to share the experience and learning points with others.
• Presenting at conferences, you will be supported continuing to do this in doing this in your role.
• Sharing your knowledge, this could be through books, papers, videos, blogs, guides and training materials.
• Being widely read,and not just limited to the key lean and Agile texts, but be attuned to the books which are exciting the Agile community, such as Slack, Lean Startup, The Goal, the Chimp Paradox, Liminal Thinking, Good Strategy Bad Strategy, Agendashift,  The Principles of Product Development Flow, Turn the Ship Around, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Thinking Fast and Slow and The Leaders Guide to Radical Management. We’d be interested to hear what you’d add to the list.
• You will also have a ‘second string to your bow’, a non-Agile skill such as UX design, project management or development. You will also have an Agile specialism, or two, which will define you as a thought leader within the organisation and with our clients.
• Ability to engage at all levels of the client organisation from working with junior members of delivery teams all the way up to the senior management team. This will not just be a presentation of a slide deck but working to gain an understanding the current issues of a constituent group and their problems and then helping them to deal with these to achieve success.
• Involvement in bid responses, commercial discussions and decisions about what products and services we will sell and which opportunities we’ll decline.

• Leads multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments, responsible for a certain area and conditions.
• Applies standards and methodologies.
• Develops service models and prototypes and creates and implements customer feedback mechanisms.
• Responsible for needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modeling and/or logical database design with relational databases.
• Agrees the project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.
• Sets up project files, compiles and distributes reports. Provides guidance on procedures, processes, tools and techniques.
• Maps full business processes and implements solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes.
• Identifies relationships and linkages with data. Anticipates issues and identifies root causes and effects.
• Elicits and discovers requirements from key business stakeholders and selects appropriate techniques for the elicitation of detailed requirements.
• Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks.
• Provides inputs on effort estimation.
• Handles training and builds competency within the vertical practice.
• Supports developing domain reusable assets – repositories, utilities, etc.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Additional course or certification in Business Analysis
• Project Management qualification
• Management qualification or relevant years of experience

• Strong technical background with exposure to Agile.
• Experience in Energy and Utilities and or Finance would be a huge benefit.
• Ideally you will be able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills.
• Have previous experience of working on multiple projects within a consultancy / professional services organisation.

• You must be interested in a permanent opportunity
• Be willing to work throughout multiple locations throughout the UK (we pay travel and accommodation expenses)
• Eligible to work in the UK

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Long service awards
• Private medical insurance
• eye care
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Laptop and mobile phone
• Clubs and societies
• Birthday hampers
• Fantastic training facilities - 5-7 days access to our training academy per year

• Develop and write copy for key strategic content Work with writers (internal and external) to create excellent written content for our marcomms channels (e.g. social, blog, email, newsletters)
• Chair the Group content committee, and coordinate key business contributors to our content pipeline across the Group’s geos and service lines
• Chair our global content committee and manage our global content calendar
• Manage our global social content calendar
• Manage internal content plan and development for social platform “Yammer”
• Manage and update our website content (for content and lead generation) 
• Manage analytics and establish benchmarks for our content performance
• Work with our affiliate companies on mutually beneficial content
• Provide copywriting review of group marcomms content
• Input to overall Marcomms strategy and yearly tactical plan, from a content management point of view

• Qualified to at least Bachelours degree or equivalent

• Confident copywriter with extensive experience of briefing external writers
• Strong attention to detail in all aspects of work
• Self-motivated and good at creating and maintaining relationships
• Seeks and enjoys responsibility and autonomy
• Strong communicator that is confident in engaging multiple stakeholders
• Great organisational, prioritisation and , project management skills

• 3+ years of marketing experience within a b2b environment
• Evidence of social media planning, execution and measurement
• Previous experience of working with external agencies – including copywriters, creatives and digital agencies
• Both English & French language skills would be highly beneficial
• Experience of office 365 tools – Yammer, MS Teams in particular would be highly beneficial
• Experience in technology or engineering sector would be advantageous

• You must be eligible to work in the UK & France
• The role will require a degree of flexibility to travel

• 25 days leave increasing to 27 following 2 years service
• Pension
• Private medical care with Vitality Health
• Life Assurance
• Corporate events, seminars, clubs and societies

• Needs to manage, deliver and performance engineering project from proposal to final review, including, specification, estimations, planning, preparation of scripts, environments.
• Complete data execution of tests, possibly in interactive sessions with the client on production systems.
• Produce reports of test project progress and test execution results.
• Conduct performance engineering health checks.
• Coach and mentor less experienced engineers on performance engineering techniques.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
• ISTQB Foundation.
• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering.
• Certification in NFT Tools such HP QTP, Selenium, HP LR etc.

• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client-facing skills, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Has an innovative approach, develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
• Excellent communication skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.

• Good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge with practical experience of engineering/development tools and platforms required to deliver.
• Solid understanding with respect to analysis and design, implementation and system integration, execution as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Experience in designing, coding, testing and correcting scripts from agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Experience in implementing robust error handling and clear/consistent reporting functionality.
• Experience in providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues.
• Knowledge of relevant performance testing tools such as:
  • For Load generation - LoadRunner, Jmeter, Gatling.
  • Front end – Dev tools, WebPageTest, Yslow, Selenium
  • Monitoring – Perfmon, *Nix tools, AppDynamics, New Relic, mPulse
  • Visualisation – ELK stack, Grafana, Datadog,
  • Others - Jenkins, python,
• Programming knowledge and technical expertise in script languages.
• Knowledge on Cloud concepts, service vitalisation and network vitalisation.
• Experience on SQL database and handling queries.
• Good interpersonal skills, experience of introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other.
• Good self-management. Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results.
• Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and looking for ways to beat previous standards.

• All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship (unless stated otherwise in the job description).

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs.
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects .
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo.

• Works on multiple phases of a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments.
• Takes responsibility for a certain area and conditions as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Selects appropriate standards, methods, tools and applications for project use.
• Applies data analysis and data modelling techniques to modify or maintain a data structure and its associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Creates and executes basic non-functional test scripts following a given set of guidelines and sets up test environments, data and monitors.
• Designs, codes, tests and documents simple programs or scripts and assists in the implementation of software which forms part of a properly engineered system.
• Co-ordinates the information gathering and reporting process, conducting research to define problems and preparing responses to anticipated questions.
• Accurately identifies project risks and reports effectively to relevant stakeholders. Manages issues, risks, actions, dependencies, and defects to the success of the project.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. Can report on system quality and collects metrics on test cases.
• Produces test scripts, materials and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services.
• Maintains the status of project and provides guidance to the work of junior team members, works across teams to achieve group goals.

Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Foundation

Desirable:

• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering
• Certification in NFT Tools such HP QTP, Selenium, HP LR etc.

• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in quality engineering methodologies and has awareness of opportunities provided by new and emerging technologies and products.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of engineering tools and platforms required to deliver.
• Experience and knowledge in any of the performance testing, data and test automation tools such as HP Performance Centre/ LoadRunner, HP UFT /QTP, HP Service Test, Service Vitalize, SoapUI, CA LISA, CA GridTools Data Maker/ DataManager, JMeter, Neoload, Selenium, IBM Rational Integration Tester, Rational Robot, Borland SilkTest, TOSCA, Atlassian Jira, Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin etc.
• Programming knowledge (ideally VB, Java, C#) and technical expertise in script languages (Shell, Perl, etc.).Good knowledge on Cloud concepts and virtualisation.

• Professional attitude, has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• Good client-facing skills, experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Good problem solving skills, has experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
• Adaptable and responds positively to changing business issues, sees change as an opportunity to improve performance.
• Excellent communication skills, adapts style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective. Uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
• Good people skills, with experience in supporting others in raising their performance and working out their development goals.
• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high.
• Good self-management.
• Can set and work to quantified goals and standards. Delivers by being aware of and considering the commercial impacts.
• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship (unless stated otherwise in the job description).

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs.
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects .
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo.