Candidates

Agile Delivery Managers/Scrum Masters are an essential component of our client’s multi-disciplinary agile teams. You will ensure Agile techniques are adhered to by the Scrum team, acting as a mentor and coach on best practices to ensure that the team maximises the benefits that the Agile development methodology provides. Your priorities will be set by your team members, under the leadership of their Service/Product Manager, and your role is to help them get things done by removing impediments and blockers. This is one of the most challenging roles in the entire client digital team, but our Agile Delivery Managers/Scrum Masters will play a crucial role in the Department becoming digital by default. As an Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master at our client you will: - Enable your team members to create and run outstanding large-scale digital services using the appropriate agile project management methodology; learning and iterating frequently, and capturing Sprint metrics - Remove impediments/blockers to the Scrum team in order for continuous smooth development - Work with the Service/Product Manager to define the roadmap for your service, and work with the Scrum team and other areas of the business to translate this into actionable user stories and sprint-by-sprint plans. - Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process for each sprint, helping Scrum team members to prioritise and self-organise around the work that needs to be completed against their capabilities and capacities - Facilitate the regular team agile meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives. Mentoring and coaching members to ensure all are focused on a common goal and working with an Agile mind-set - Actively participate in the Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master Community, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and introducing best practice.

Skills and Experience

Essential

- Proven experience in delivering high quality digital projects and products. - Proven experience using agile project management methods. - Proven experience working in a similar role - Proven experience balancing multiple priorities on large-scale, high-visibility projects and employing techniques to deal with ambiguity. - Proven ability to challenge and remove any unnecessary barriers to service delivery. - Demonstrable experience in coaching and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams in Agile best practice techniques. - Highly articulate and credible at a senior level, consistently delivering accurate reporting as to the current state of play with regard to the delivery of your service - Strong negotiation skills and the proven ability to influence external partners, stakeholders and customers to secure mutually beneficial outcomes.

Desirable

- Excellent understanding of the digital landscape and the opportunities for service improvement and innovation offered by digital technology. - A high degree of market awareness, with demonstrable experience of innovative approaches to procuring services and of managing relationships with suppliers. - Ability to identify strengths and weaknesses of individuals, communicating this in a constructive manner to support their overall personal development

Competences

- Leading and Communicating - Collaborating and Partnering - Delivering at Pace .

Collaborates primarily with UX/UI Designers and User Researchers to design written content for transactional services. Reports to Scrum Master, Product Lead and Digital Service Manager. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Write high quality content for clients new digital services that will encourage people to use them. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Work with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to refine the services in light of external factors such as changes to policy, legislation, technology or user requirements. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally. Leads on all aspects of content design. Tasks include: Research of subject, Discussion with stakeholders and experts, Initial draft of content to fix with UX Design, Collaborating with user-researchers to test customer understanding, Iterating content based on customer feedback. contributes to: the look and feel of the service design in collaboration with UX/UI designer, the customer journey through the service and between the service and static content. .

Collaborates primarily with UX/UI Designers and User Researchers to design written content for transactional services. Reports to Scrum Master, Product Lead and Digital Service Manager. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Write high quality content for clients new digital services that will encourage people to use them. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Work with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to refine the services in light of external factors such as changes to policy, legislation, technology or user requirements. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally. Leads on all aspects of content design. Tasks include: Research of subject, Discussion with stakeholders and experts, Initial draft of content to fix with UX Design, Collaborating with user-researchers to test customer understanding, Iterating content based on customer feedback. contributes to: the look and feel of the service design in collaboration with UX/UI designer, the customer journey through the service and between the service and static content. .

My client are a world leading consultancy who are currently undertaking a large digitisation of key government services and are currently looking for a number of talented Android Developers, they key attributes we are looking for are:

• Experience of building Android applications in Java using Android SDK
• Minimum 5 years hands on development experience with Android
• Strong understanding of object-oriented software development
• Must have Kotlins experience
• Experience working within a large organisation preferable
• Mobile application development experience (Android, J2ME or Blackberry)
• Understanding of large and complex code bases, including API design techniques to help keep them clean and maintainable.
• Programming experience in Java and related frameworks
• Knowledge of multi-threading and memory management specific to mobile devices and caching mechanisms

Collaborates primarily with UX/UI Designers and User Researchers to design written content for transactional services. Reports to Scrum Master, Product Lead and Digital Service Manager. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Write high quality content for clients new digital services that will encourage people to use them. Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand. Develop content in such a way that it will encourage people who rarely go online to use the new services. Collaborate with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to define the messages that the new service should convey. Work with the Product Manager, Digital Service Manager, Business Analysts and User Researchers to refine the services in light of external factors such as changes to policy, legislation, technology or user requirements. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally. Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts. Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally. Leads on all aspects of content design. Tasks include: Research of subject, Discussion with stakeholders and experts, Initial draft of content to fix with UX Design, Collaborating with user-researchers to test customer understanding, Iterating content based on customer feedback. contributes to: the look and feel of the service design in collaboration with UX/UI designer, the customer journey through the service and between the service and static content. .

Within my client’s Agile Scrum Teams, Lead Developers provide hands-on technical expertise and take responsibility for code-quality. Leadership and direction for the development activities, delivered with sufficient quality to underpin outstanding new digital services for millions of users. The Lead Developer will make important technical decisions during the agile sprints and drive selection of the team’s development approach. The Lead Developer will work closely with Solutions Architects, Product Managers, Digital Service Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters and the development team throughout the duration of development.

As a Lead Developer at our client, you will:

Work with Digital Service Manager and Product Manager, Technical and Solution Architects to build and run outstanding digital services that meet well-defined user needs; Lead the rapid development of user-driven digital prototypes to identify technical options and inform architectural approaches, collaborating with other team members to write tests, code and documentation for new and existing systems; Work with Solutions Architects to design and implement RESTful APIs for seamless integration with internal and external systems; Ensure new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for performance and are able to handle specified load; Ensure systems are robust, scalable, open and secure, with appropriate overall system design and integration points/APIs in order to deliver a high quality digital user experience; Provide mentorship for members of the development team (software developers, Agile Test Engineers) and feedback on staff performance; Build a culture of continuous service improvement, ensuring that key systems “owned” by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved; Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly develop strong working relationships in high pressure environments; Collaborate with Solutions/Technical Architects, Agile Test Engineers and Software Developers to build up a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment; Be involved in the wider web development community (outside of HMRC and the government) identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences; Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider HMRC digital team and across government; Providing ‘second-line’ support and occasional ‘on-call’ support. Skills and Experience

Essential

Experience leading a team of developers, providing overall guidance and setting overall development direction; Demonstrable experience in programming and back-end software development in either Java, C#, Scala, Python or Ruby; Excellent commercial experience in programming and back-end software development in Java; Good understanding of web technologies & protocols; Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs); Demonstrable experience of automated testing solutions; Experience with open source solutions and community; Experience working on technical projects within an agile team; A proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience; Demonstrable understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10; Excellent demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems; Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites; Understanding of the use of responsive web design.

Desirable

Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences; Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage; Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques; Experience of other programming languages such as Scala, Python, Ruby, C#; Use and implementation of modern front end web programming techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON; Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring; Experience using automated testing / continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit; Experience using Confluence & JIRA; Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms; Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion.

Competences

Leading and Communicating Seeing the Big Picture Making Effective Decisions .

The role will involve working in a team of testers on the preparation and execution of the ST & ISIT test support phases of one or more release based projects, The work is extremely varied, very challenging and requires a good level of testing skills. Activities include analysing customer requirements, identifying test cases, writing test scripts, test data preparation and running/recording tests, This role requires an excellent understanding of test techniques and Risk Based Testing (RBT) in order to verify outcomes against the expected results, and record results for use in audit trails, using quality processes and procedures. Checking and assessing requirements, including assessing testability of designs. Creating low-level test plans, test scripts and setting up test data. Running tests, collecting and recording results and then retesting to prove that errors identified have been corrected. Providing regular status reports to the test manager as well as identifying and raising project risks and issues. .

Our client are looking for a number of UX Designers work with user researchers and front end developers, designing in the browser, to deliver highly user focused and successful services. UX designers produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts. The ideal candidate will have a love of the web and its possibilities, a passion for design and its history and an understanding of how form and function work together. You will proactively seek new learning opportunities and welcome constructive criticism of your work.

As an interaction designer you will:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services;
• Produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with front end developers to implement those concepts;
• Work with user researchers to ensure all output, internal and external, is well designed and user focused;
• Design and create communication material ensuring all elements are well designed, consistent and user focused;
• Partner with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience, including by designing reusable elements of a digital service;
• Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts;
• Deliver high quality finished digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles, ensuring that elements such as accessibility are built into designs from the outset;
• Proactively seek new learning opportunities and look to continually improve by gaining feedback from your peers and the business;
• Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Practical experience in designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web;
• Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser;
• A good basic understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility;
• Experience of web and mobile application interface design. Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS, rapid prototyping;
• Responsive web interactions design for mobile devices.

Desirable

• A degree in design or equivalent qualification;
• Experience in researching design with users;
• Service design experience, including user journey mapping;
• Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team.

Competences

• Leading and Communicating
• Seeing the Bigger Picture
• Delivering at Pace