Expleo UK

• 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.

• Responsible for the timely planning, coordination and efficient management of the PQQ/RFP/Bid generation and submissions.
• Have a clear understanding and interpretation of the questions and requirements within PQQ/RFP/Bid documentation.
• Maintain and update the library of company standard documentation for submissions; ensure project and employee profiles are updated on an ongoing basis.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams including sales, heads of service and support staff to ensure a library of associated content is stored and readily available.
• Review content of bids, pricing sheets and formatting, achieved assuring that all material is responded to, through the review of the response and acting as a back board to the total solution.
• To manage the bid qualification (bid go/no go) process for new opportunities.
• Manage inputs from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from sales, marketing, product teams, finance, commercial, legal and delivery.
• Preparing and reviewing the commercial aspects of the bid, ensuring all services are included in the final price to the customer.
• Implement a risk tracking process and manage throughout the bid process.
• Contributing to the written proposal - both in terms of content and presentation (such as preparation of a management summary).
• Full management and review of the bid budget.
• Ensure timely delivery of compliant and commercially sound bids working with a number of internal resources to ensure deadlines are adhered to.
• Responsible for ensuring all post bid reviews with customers are completed and documented, post contract award or unsuccessful.
• Lead lessons learned session from bids and use these lessons to continuously improve the approach to bids, frameworks, sales material, and presentations.
• Responsible for managing the strategy of the overall Bid response process across all target areas.

Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Desirable:

• Additional course or certification in Sales
• MBA or equivalent experience
• Management certification or qualification

• Excellent client facing skills, as an expert in their field has experience of influencing client decision making and direction, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Applies insight, originality and a broad perspective to generate revolutionary technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.
• Good people management skills. Acts as a role model for continuous learning and development. 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 looks for ways to beat previous standards.

• Proven capability in delivering winning, multi-million-pound product or complex services opportunities.
• Must be comfortable working at CEO/Director Level (internal and external customers).
• Experience of solutions, financial, commercial and legal contributors in achieving the bid win.
• Sound commercial understanding, P&L and risk management skills.
• Time management, efficiency, the ability to meet deadlines and work with minimal supervision.
• Proven experience in solutions and services and experience of bid management from opportunity identification through to project delivery.
• Able to provide valuable input into opportunity qualification, win strategies, commercial discussions, and solution design.
• Have the ability to manage complex, multi-workstream opportunities. Solid understanding and implementation of internal governance procedures.

Budget:

• Ability to manage own expenses and ensure adherence of others to the expense policy.
• Proposes project specific requirements to be included in the budget.
• Proposes investments to be made in the POC, R&D, tools and technologies

• 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

• Develops strategies and directs teams with diverse scope on complex programmes of work.
• Facilitation of workshops and requirement gathering sessions and able to describe the level of risk associated with various projects.
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off, proactively aims to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
• Uses project planning tools and participates in the identification of and planning for future resource needs. Develops a fit-for-purpose reporting mechanism.
• Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, defining standards for the development of test scripts, deployment and reuse.
• Specifies the test environment for the whole life-cycle testing and ensuring it reflects business requirements for execution. Consults with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability.
• Allocates and co-ordinates test schedules, work and resource plans; managing progress of all activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines.
• Provides quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
• Diagnoses problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitates buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues. Identifies potential consequences and risk levels.
• Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach. Defines and implements quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level.
• Inputs into proof of concept exercises and assists sales with pre-sales collateral. Identifies opportunities to expand client assignments

Essential:

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

Desirable:

• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
• Project Management qualification
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced
• Programming skills

• Extensive technical knowledge and experience with complex IT programmes.
• Strong theoretical knowledge in quality assurance methodologies, applying standards and specialist quality assurance expertise to deliver whilst providing effective management to teams.
• Extensive application/technology and domain knowledge and has recognised expertise in QA Management including participating in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
• Strong knowledge of new and emerging technologies based on own area of expertise.
• Experience in managing the change control procedure.
• Experience in providing technical management and being responsible for overall test plan design and processes and experience in quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects.
• Experience in diagnosing problems using formal problem-solving tools and techniques from multiple angles and probing underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Experience in advising clients and clearly communicating the benefits of implementing specific quality assurance solutions and identifying areas to add value.

• Lead the Data Migration stream, ensuring successful migration of all master and transactional data into Oracle Cloud Fusion ERP.
• Create and maintain a data migration strategy and produce/quality migration deliverables.
• Identify risks and issues in a timely manner and escalate for resolution as needed.
• Manage data quality across different phases of the data migration and making sure that data is fit for purpose.
• Lead and work collaboratively to ensure data is cleansed in a timely manner.
• Provide technical expertise and produce necessary documentation on Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) activities including data cleansing and testing.
• Perform data migration audit, reconciliation and exception reporting.
• Work with subject matter experts and project team to identify, define, collate, document and communicate the data migration requirements.
• Work across multiple functional work streams to understand data usage and implications for data migration. Develop and communicate best practices, processes, and standards for effectively carrying out data migration activities.
• Lead initiatives for data integrity and governance.
• Perform source data identification and analysis in order to manage source to target data mapping.
• Managing master and transactional data, including creation, updates, and deletion.
• Assist the ERP Programme Technical Lead planning and executing the Oracle ERP implementation programme.
• Assist/coach/teach a junior Data Migration Engineer as required.
• Provide expert knowledge and leadership in solving complex data migration challenges.
• Responsible for team management, scheduling and coordinating resources for all data ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), mapping and cleansing activities.
• Manage/Develop migration dress rehearsals, migration cutover plan and post go-live support.
• Engage with the Solution Architect to ensure the alignment of the broad architecture viewpoint.
• Ensure data migration solutions meet the strategic, financial, reporting and operational requirements of the business.
• Responsible for ensuring good data quality, both pre and post migration.
• Produce all necessary data migration documentation including overarching strategy, data mapping specifications, data quality metrics and test plans.
• Accountable for all data migration artefacts and other deliverables, including migration activity design and rehearsals.
• Ensure all deliverables are aligned to all relevant governance requirements, including Design Authorities.
• Lead/Participate in programme workshops, meetings and formal events.
• Produce robust yet simple data migration routines that are both logical and maintainable.
• Produce robust test plans that validate the quality of the migrated data.
• Ensure the data migration meets the strategic, financial, reporting and operational requirements.
• Ensure successful handover to BAU team. Provide input in to ERP Programme communications.
• Accountable for meeting ERP Programme standards.

• Experience of leading the data migration stream during a full cycle Oracle Cloud ERP project (with projects, procurement and financials).
• Preferably strong Oracle fusion FBDI, OTBI and ADFdi skills Experience of data migration, including data cleansing and data transformation using SQL Scripts.
• Strong SQL Server skills including SQL, stored procedures and functions.
• SSIS beneficial too.
• Strong logical understanding of relational data concepts.
• Good general development skills including windows permissions file shares and scheduled jobs.
• Experienced in working with both software vendors and system integrators.
• Experience of working through all phases in the Project lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with diligent attention to detail and quality of output

• Manage and deliver end to end performance testing actives from Requirements gathering > Scoping > Planning> Scripting> Test execution> Analysis and Tuning> Reporting
• Review performance test requirements if not available provide steering /advise on how to define performance testing requirements to the projects
• Strong knowledge of visual studio web performance test and c# skills. knowledge or experience with other tools like Load runner, Neoload, JMeter will be beneficial
• Be able to analyse the performance test results and assist the project in identifying the root cause of performance issues and help tune the systems for performance
• Ability to write sql queries on MS SQL db and Oracle dbs
• Experience in using perfmon, Newrelic and OEM for monitoring purposes
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage and lead an offshore team.

• 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