Technical Architect - eCommerce, Headless, Remote, OUTSIDE IR35

Technical Lead with experience in developing and designing complex software systems, a background in eCommerce is essential to the role. You will act as the technical lead on E-commerce projects ensuring that best practice is adhered to whilst being able to deliver value quickly with a high degree of quality.

You need to have strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to manage and work well within a team environment. Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks and make sound decisions whilst keeping a keen eye on all details.

Experience Required

• Hands on experience working with cloud-based systems (AWS or GCP)
• Understanding of serverless patterns
• Proven ability to work and lead a team of developers and foster a peer driven approach to development
• Familiarity with DevOps and infrastructure as code

Director of Architecture - Technical Architecture Consulting

Are you a driver of change with the talent to inspire clients and colleagues?

We are looking for a new Director of Architecture - Technology Transformation, working with high profile clients, delivering improvements to complex systems that make the everyday simpler.

As Director of Architecture, you'll help shape customers technology road maps, and take responsibility for some of the world's most ambitious transformation projects. As a compelling communicator and a natural motivator, you get the very best from enthusiastic teams of experts whose professional growth you nurture. Your vision, sector expertise and professional acumen delivers innovation with a customer focus that is absolute. From Legacy systems to cutting-edge commercial projects, the work has a wide reach, helping make the everyday easier, for everyone.

Duties and responsibilities:

Your role will be to develop and deliver leading digital transformation programmes of work for clients within the UK; this will include managing key relationships with our clients, advising them on strategy, proposing and supporting appropriate solutions, negotiating engagements, dealing with any escalations, and ensuring seamless delivery of projects to help our clients modernise their applications.

Furthermore, you'll also be responsible for identifying and growing your business through organic growth of existing programmes, as well as developing new project wins through business relationships within our clients. You will be responsible for the people management of several members within your group, assigning, recruiting, and supporting the career development of team members as well as helping to foster the development of their capabilities and expertise in line with client needs/market evolution.

You will be able to demonstrate significant successful experience in the following:

• Technology Consulting background
• Business growth (organic and new)
• Experienced in Leading, designing, managing, and delivering Agile and Technical programmes.
• Significant commercial acumen
• Team/people management skills

Please make contact for full details and immediate consideration.

For me,

• The personal skills are communication and people skills,
• with documentation and presentation of clear, unambiguous requirements.
• Asking the right questions to clarify what's needed and make clear statements to get it done
• And you talk my language with people who know the perfect textbook process by heart, and the people who know real life, real experiences and can think on their feet.
• To do this job you have to be a person first, ideally with some operational nouse and not just project to bring experience and empathy
• This is an IT change rather than business/process change BA. But;
• Understanding inputs, actions, outputs in process always helps.
• ERP, IoT, sfdc, pbi as core apps.
• The role is advertised up to 40k.
• It's based remotely with some office (Lutterworth) based days each week, but pretty flexible.

I like to see my team when I can. I'll give him a nudge.

Digital Project Manager ( Digital Agency) 

Digital Project Manager is being urgently sought out for a Digital Agency working closely within the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare sector.

You will have experience of managing digital focused projects, working closely with and managing technical design and development teams within an agile environment.

The role is paying up to £45k for the right Project Manager and will be working with one of the digital agencies’ most important London based clients.

As the Digital Project Manager, you will have experience of:

• Working with Digital Agencies (with Pharma focused clients being a bonus)
• Managing multiple projects continuously  - Being well organised is key
• Working to an iterative approach
• Being client facing and so also having a commercial awareness
• Manging internal and external stakeholders as well as technical teams - Adapting your approach as needed to get things done
• Autonomy - Manging your own environment and being able to deliver projects successfully with minimal supervision  

This is an urgent requirement interviewing now in view of starting ASAP – Send your CV immediately for more information and I shall be in touch to discuss further

Product Owner 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Product Owner with a very successful and growing start-up company to work as part of a new pillar within the business based around Finance solutions and products.

This is a great opportunity for a Business Analyst or Junior Product Owner wanting to develop their career within the product space as a Product Owner and with a company that  invests in its people in terms of training and development.

You do not need to have worked within Finance although any knowledge and experience of payment & invoicing solutions would be a bonus.  What is a  MUST though is for you to have Scrum Product Owner experience in terms of Prioritisation and refining backlogs.

As the Product Owner you will have experience of:

• Gathering business requirements and translating these into functional requirements for the technical teams

• Working closely with technology teams to deliver software.
• Comfortable working across multiple cross-functional teams when capturing requirements.
• Managing; creating and maintaining product backlogs
• Defining release and/or sprint goals and prioritising the work with teams
• Managing stakeholders effectively and articulating clearly and concisely progress updates, issues etc.
• Working in agile i.e. scrum
• Being pro-active and using your self-initiative including challenging stakeholders as needed but,  also being challenged constructively.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written, being clear and concise when articulating and working with stakeholders.

Desirable Experience includes:

• Any experience working on  finance solutions, fintech, finance products.

Send your CV now to be considered and for further information  – Interviews will be happening ASAP

Generic Job description:

• You will be required to work on all aspects of digital project delivery including, project scoping, functional specifications, project timescales, risks and assumptions
• As an experienced project manager you will be responsible for the production of project plans, management of workload and ability to keep production on-track Liaise with internal departments and external suppliers including UX, design and in-house and off-shore development teams Support the Commercial / Operations team in all aspects of project delivery as directed with strong commercial understanding and the ability to write and contribute to sales proposals

Data Engineering Manager 

Fast growing Cyber SAAS company providing privacy and security protections to consumers around the world seek a Data Engineering Lead.

With a large global customer base, which brings many challenges and opportunities, millions of users who rely on our service 24/7/365 for a broad range of use-cases has created a position for a leader of Data Engineering. The company’s data pipelines, and responsible engineers are currently spread across multiple teams; your joining the company will mark the beginning of a dedicated data engineering team to support processing the enormous amount of data we collect through all of our marketing properties.

If you have experience in the following:

•  Be excellent at Data Engineering.
• Enjoy managing people and be very good at it.
• Be an experienced agile project manager.
• Requirements gathering and solution architecture
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills.

 We would love to hear from you.

Please make contact for full details and immediate consideration.

An Integrations Project Manager is needed to manage a new and  complex global transformation programme, looking at managing some key system API integrations between an LMS platform and legacy systems ( including Salesforce and SAP)

The role is an initial 6-month contract at the starting stages of a large global  transformation programme  - An exciting opportunity which is likely to extend (subject to you performing well of course) , and is paying up to £500/day inside IR35 , with an ASAP start

As the Integrations Project Manager, you will be working in an iterative approach:

• Delivering strategic complex projects for a large global organisation
• Working closely with the Product Manager translating road map into user stories
• Leading the planning whilst prioritising and allocating tasks that need to be completed in line with the capability and capacity of the team
• Bringing in best practice by knowledge sharing
• Developing business cases and benefit realisation
• Matrix managing large multi-disciplinary teams across multiple locations on a global basis

You must have experience of :

• Delivering projects and products using agile methods
• Deling with ambiguity whilst also being able to prioritise activities
• Working in an digital landscape
• Matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Working collaboratively, encouraging team input whilst still challenging & comprising ideas and managing diverse and conflicting input
• Leading and communicating a team through strong engagement
• Identifying gaps for improvements to be made and so delivering quality
• Being pro-active and using self-initiative whilst also encouraging innovative and creative ideas from others

Desirable experience includes:

• Experience of delivering Payment Gateway capability
• Experience of LMS platform integrations with BYD (SAP) and Salesforce
• API integration project work

CV’s will be shortlisted in the next few days and send your CV now to considered and I shall be in touch to discuss further