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.

• 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

• Responsible for the strategic direction and profitable delivery of Prefessional Services across the Expleo portfolio of accounts.
• Utilising a consultative engagement sales and delivery process to propose and deliver Expleo Value Propostion based solutions to new and existing clients.
• Managing delivery quality to meet both Gross Profit targets and to ensure client expectations are met/exceeded.
• Developing trusted relationships with clients for Expleo service delivery.
• Intervening where there are any delivery challenges to resolve delivery issues quickly and effectively, managing customer perception.
• Ensuring that the client engagement team are developing account growth plans, and executing to ensure we add more value to our clients.

• Excellent professional services and client management skills at executive level, leading and enabling teams across the business to exceed client expectations.
• Excellent communication and relationship skills, highly articulate and credible at all levels internally and externally, consistently delivering inspiring, engaging and meaningful messages about current strategy and future direction.
• Excellent talent recruitment and development skillset creating a culture of employee engagement and empowerment to progress the company objectives.
• Experience in conflict management, engages constructively in conflict by creating an environment that supports honest, robust and creative dialogue.
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation. 
• Strong ability to work collaboratively with the relevant areas within the organisation to achieve the right solution for clients.
• Very strong people leadership skills with experience in providing strategic input to structure the company.
• Experience of fostering a culture that supports intra-organisational relationships throughout the business in order to move the client experience forward.

• You must be eligible to work in the UK
• You must be able to demonstrate previous success in a simular role
• UK based with some flexibilty to travel will be required

• 25 days holiday rising to 27 following 2 years service
• Private medical care
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Maternity and paternity
• Flexible retail discounts

• Working with Product Owners and/or Business Analysts to understand user needs.
• Staying current with software development technologies, including low-code platforms.
• Designing, implementing, testing and deploying responsive, accessible and maintainable systems.
• Refactoring and optimising existing systems for performance, scalability and reliability.
• Collaborating with architects and UX specialists to provide the best possible solutions while considering requirements, technical debt, and other deployments.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering team and community.
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organisation, and diversity.

• Bachelors degree in relevant Computer Science subject or equivalent work experience. 
• 1+ years of recent hands-on coding and software design in web application.  

• Good client-facing skills, with experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations. 
• Professional attitude. Has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor. 
  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. 
• Keeps up to date with emerging technologies and products and has awareness of opportunities these provide.
• Demonstrates an understanding of system architecture. 
• Strong technical skills as outlined in the Experience and Qualifications section.

Essential:

Hands experience of the following technologies in the development of interactive web applications:

• 1 year web development experience
• XML and JSON
• Javascript
• HTML and CSS

Desirable:

Experience in the following technologies and techniques would advantageous, but not essential:

• REST APIs
• low code tools and approaches for example Neutrinos, Out Systems, IBM Web Content Manager,
• Microsoft Power Apps
• working in an agile team (especially SCRUM)
• workflow design experience or UML

• 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.

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

Expleo NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Applicants should note Expleo NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

• Design, implement and deploy responsive, accessible and highly modular code.
• Refactor and optimise existing systems for performance, scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and business owners to provide the best possible solutions while considering roadmap requirements, technical debt, and other rollouts.
• Work with product owners to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Design and develop systems with high availability, resilience, and scalability.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering team and community.
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organisation, and diversity.

• Bachelors degree in relevant Computer Science subject or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of recent hands-on coding and software design.
• 5+ Design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)

• Good client-facing skills, with experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Professional attitude. Has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• 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.
• Keeps up to date with emerging technologies and products and has awareness of opportunities these provide.         
• Demonstrates an understanding of system architecture.
• Strong technical skills as outlined in the Experience and Qualifications section.

• Experience of developing applications for example Java 8, Spring Framework (MVC, Data JPA, Security, etc), Spring-boot 2.0, JPA (EclipseLink/Hibernate/etc implementation), Gradle, SQL (RDBMS), MongoDB experience.
• Hands-on experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, TestNG, etc.
• Professional experience designing and consuming ReSTful APIs.
• Previous experience work with agile development methodologies
• Previous experience of cloud services for example AWS, Azure or other.

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.

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

Expleo NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Applicants should note Expleo NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

• Write test scenarios, test cases, test plans and contribute towards design notes
• Interact closely with Scrum team
• Attend daily stand up meetings, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospectives
• Be involved in estimating scope and size of testing effort for PBI’s
• Be involved in designing and executing automated and manual tests including exploratory testing, testing at component, end to end and feature level
• Perform System testing, Integration testing, End to End testing and Regression testing
• Occasionally expected to test non-functional requirements such as security/performance testing
• Able to identify, raise and update bugs/defects in Azure DevOps
• Contribute to test reporting and daily defects and updates
• Looking for opportunities to automate tests wherever possible

• Minimum 3-5 testing experience (preferred Agile experience)
• Strong working knowledge of testing fundamentals such as TDD (Test Driven Development)
• Apply basic and fundamental testing knowledge
• Able to adapt to new environments and become productive in a short time than average
• Think analytically and ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of systems under test
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Able to communicate well to the Scrum Team
• Able to work in a Scrum team i.e. Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development team
• Able to be part of self -organising team to accomplish and manage own work rather than being directed by others at all time.
• Able to follow the principles of agile testing
• Ability to move across various projects within the DnA team
• Some experience in Cloud Azure Testing (preferred Azure)
• Some experience in using the Azure analytics components including:
  • Storage accounts
  • Power BI
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
• Some experience working with SQL Server and databases
• Preferred knowledge of Power Shell
• Some experience using Azure DevOps Board and Test Plans
• Although knowledge of the energy industry will be useful, it is not essential

• Minimum 4 days on site.
• Tester will be required in the office during test execution phases.
• This will vary based on DnA projects. Need to be agreed with onsite Test Lead