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Job Description Qualifications:

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equality and inclusion are shared value. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every colleague that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for personal development. Boeing Defence UK is responsible for delivering IT services to a number of customers both internal and external throughout the UK.

Boeing Defence UK’s Ministry of Defence Information Services platform combines 24/7/365 sustainment, maintenance, support and analysis of the critical logistics apps and associated petabytes of data for the UK’s armed forces around the world, coupled with continuous programmes of review and renewal. MoD IS ensures the UK Ministry of Defence can plan, deploy and control with the utmost confidence in its logistics information, anywhere in the world, now and in the future. We deliver mission critical solutions to the defence and security sector by integrating innovative technology.

Role Purpose:

We have an exciting Manager opportunity for our MoD IS Programme. The Digital Delivery Manager is responsible for overseeing the technical delivery team and ensuring the quality of the product.

This role will lead, inspire and manage a Team of some 30 permanent staff, working with the Authority and end Customer to ensure the delivery of all changes for the MoD IS Programme.

The Manager is responsible for the day-to-day activities and outputs of the team and shall ensure that staff are performing to the highest levels and accurately recording activity and delivering outputs that are aligned to the agreed requirements of any project or change. The manager will ensure that team members have the necessary skills; or shall liaise with the wider organization to obtain them to ensure that changes can be delivered consistently and on time according to the BtG Contract SLAs.

This role will have an important bearing in BDUK and partnering is a key to the success of current and future programmes, which must be continually developed and maintained. The Manager is responsible for all of the performance management of the team and will do so in accordance with Boeing policies and procedures.

The individual must have a keen eye for detail and the ability to address ever-changing priorities and demands whilst maintaining a cast iron focus on the strategic direction of the team ensuring it is fit for the future and able to cope with demands from customers in a rapid, responsive and iterative manner.

You will be joining a Programme currently undergoing restructuring to ensure ongoing management and delivery of Services and change is Agile and efficient to continue with this success of the current programme and ensure that delivery is in line with expectations and continuously improved according to both industry standard approaches and the requirements of our customers. There will be a need to be able to work in a high-paced environment, and you will be required to use your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for the programme.

Key Responsibilities:

• Validating change requests that come through the programme.
• Liaising with the customer to ensure suitable and appropriate information is provided within Change Requests
• Ensuring that impact assessments are fully reviewed, actioned and signed off appropriately
• Fully assessing the needs of the end-user.
• Proceeding with the most appropriate and cost-effective way forward.
• Checking that change requests are fully coherent with full life-cycle planning.
• Contributing towards product strategy and vision.
• Meeting regularly with relevant stakeholders to drive the product forward.
• Involvement in a range of programme management activities in support of the programme lead.
• Controlling sprint scope and activity prioritisation within the sprint.
• Input into Programme level prioritisation of projects
• Closely working with Head of Project Management
• Handing off projects into the live environment (ensuring quality and supporting documentation is in place) and interaction with Technology Service Manager and service transition to agree on sign-off and acceptance of change
• Identifying skill gap in support of forward forecast of change
• Support in the creation and deliver against Operational Line Agreements (OLAs) in support of delivery against SLAs to our customers.
• Manage resource through appropriate tooling.
• SAFe Agile Experience preferred
• Ensure all business processes are followed.
  • Including but not limited to ISO20000, ISO27000, ISO9000 and ITIL4
• Responsible for the PnL of your team.
• Financial accountability to the programme
• RIO management and escalation to the programme as appropriate
• Communicate effectively, in an open and engaging manner, what is expected of each team member, and to wider stakeholders as necessary, the status of any work in a timely and clear fashion
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders at the MoD, acting as the interface between the Delivery and Technical BDUK teams and senior customer stakeholders.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within their team’s responsibilities or liaise with senior management to resolve
• Interact and manage third-party suppliers in conjunction with the Supply Chain Management team as necessary to achieve the service levels and the desired outcomes of the services
• Negotiate, where appropriate, with other MoD IS managers or functional / department managers for the requisition, and loan of required personnel from within BDUK
• Identify and actively manage opportunities, risks and issues to ensure effective and efficient resolution
• Manage the personnel assigned to the team. To include but not limited to Development and mentoring to ensure continual personal growth. Personal HR requirements, including leave, appraisal and workday reporting. Organizational HR requirements including individual refocusing of effort where required.
• Ensure the health and safety of the workforce.
• Develop your team to ensure they receive the training and develop for them to achieve individual and team priorities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.
• Development of a team culture that emphasises quality, Seek, Speak and listen habits, team unity, continuous improvement and high performance.
• Ongoing self-development and personal growth as an employee and as a manager.
• Ensure you and your team complete all mandatory training set by the company
• Effective resourcing of team ensuring future recruits meet the current and future skills and experience needed
• Empower and motivate your team to take responsibility for their roles and priorities. Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback.
• Approve and manage employee work schedules including but not limited to: vacation, paid/unpaid time off, virtual working, flexible working requests and sickness absence.
• Maintain transparent 2-way communication. Appropriately communicate organisation information through department meetings, one-on-one meetings, and appropriate email, IM (Instant Messaging), and regular interpersonal communication.

Key Competencies:

• Agile Working | coach and lead teams in SAFe Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project. You can think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes. You can act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team.
• DDAT Perspective | show knowledge of the wider digital economy and advances in technology. You can understand Agile working at an organisational level. You can create the environment for success. You can initiate and support working with other digital, data and technology roles, job families and professions.
• Financial Ownership | you can understand the marketplace. You can realise the benefit of a product and persuade others that it’s the right one to use. You can integrate a product with other services. You can ensure that products get used. You can realise benefits by linking work in progress back to the business case. You can build business cases based on user needs.
• Lifecycle Perspective | successfully lead teams through the full product life cycle. You can identify which tools and techniques should be used at each stage. You can develop sustainable support models. You can identify and deal with potential risks across or between all stages of the product life cycle. You can coach others. You can contribute to the assessment of other teams, providing guidance and support as they move through stages of the product life cycle.
• Product Ownership | Use a range of product management principles and approaches. You can capture user needs and translate them into deliverables. You can define the minimum viable product (MVP) and make decisions about priorities. You can write user stories and acceptance criteria. You can effectively work with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.
• Strategic Ownership | effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions. You can develop ambitious visions and strategies. You can get the organisation and team to buy in. You can translate the vision into prioritised deliverable goals.
• User Focus | give direction on which tools or methods to use. You can demonstrate experience in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels. You can bring insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure they’re met by the business. You can apply strategic thinking to provide the best service for the end user.
• Working within Constraints | influence, challenge and coach. You can anticipate how constraints might change and know where to challenge or remove constraints.

Supervises Employees:

Within your role, you will support the Programme Manager to lead a multi-disciplined team, comprising of a range of matrix resources across the MoD IS Programme:

• QA.
• Supply Chain Management / Procurement Agents.
• Commercial.
• Finance.
• Safety
• Security & Assurance.
• Capability / Functional Resources.

Please apply asap for this role, as recruitment may commence before the end date.

Candidates must have current legal authorization to work immediately in the United Kingdom.  Boeing will not attempt to obtain immigration and labour sponsorship for any applicants.

Due to the nature of the role and the programme of work this position is supporting, the successful candidate should be a UK national only (no Dual citizenship) and have either a current, valid and active Security clearance or be eligible to go through Security clearance vetting process

All information provided will be checked and may be verified.

Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

Job Description Qualifications:

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equality and inclusion are shared value. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every colleague that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for personal development. Boeing Defence UK is responsible for delivering IT services to a number of customers both internal and external throughout the UK.

Boeing Defence UK’s Ministry of Defence Information Services platform combines 24/7/365 sustainment, maintenance, support and analysis of the critical logistics apps and associated petabytes of data for the UK’s armed forces around the world, coupled with continuous programmes of review and renewal. MoD IS ensures the UK Ministry of Defence can plan, deploy and control with the utmost confidence in its logistics information, anywhere in the world, now, and in the future. We deliver mission critical solutions to the defence and security sector by integrating innovative technology.

The Digital Services Manager is accountable for the quality of their service. In this role, you will manage end-to-end services that include multiple products and channels.

This role requires a dynamic, diligent and organized individual who has strong Stakeholder Management, negotiation and diplomacy skills. This role will manage customer expectations and deliver in line with operational needs with a customer first mind-set.  There will be a need to be able to work in a high paced environment, with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple streams of work at one time.

You will be joining a Programme currently undergoing restructuring to ensure ongoing management and delivery of Services and change is Agile and efficient to continue with this success of the current programme and ensure that delivery is in line with expectations and continuously improved according to both industry standard approaches and the requirements of our customers. There will be a need to be able to work in a high paced environment, with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple streams of work at one time.

You will be accountable for managing the end-to-end delivery/sustainment of multiple Services in line with agreed SLAs and KPIs by leading, motivating and driving a team of some 30 individuals across the following processes, and incidents, delivering service requests & core contract activity.

This role will have an important bearing in BDUK and partnering is key to the success of current and future programmes, which must be continually developed and maintained. The overall objectives are to ensure the utility and warranty of services in meeting Service Level Agreements and key Performance Indicators across the programmes which are supported.

The individual must have a keen eye for detail and the ability to address ever-changing priorities and demands whilst maintaining a cast iron focus on the strategic direction of the team ensuring it is fit for the future and able to cope with demands from customers in a rapid, responsive and iterative manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate at scale and provide the connection between multidisciplinary business areas and stakeholders.
• Ensure all business processes are followed and compliance with external standards.
  • Including but not limited to ISO20000, ISO27000, ISO9000 and ITIL4
• Participate in the governance of the service, including acting as a point of escalation for the delivery teams.
• Own the budget and allocate funding to areas of the service based on your decisions about priorities.
• Communicate the benefits and performance of your service.
• RIO management and escalation to programme as appropriate.
• Be responsible for the successful operation and continuous improvement of all services Full end-to-end ownership of all service support items (full stack management), including but not limited to:
  •  Obsolescence.
  •  Security.
  • Contractual deliverables and obligations.
  • Through life management.
  •  Financial.
  • Technological Deliverables.
  • Knowledge Management.
  • Incident Management & Escalation as appropriate.
• Responsible and Accountable for the Services within role scope.
• Providing support to impact assessments for change when appropriate.
• Responsible for all components of the live environment.
• Working closely with the Head of Service Management.
• Proceeding with the most appropriate and cost-effective way forward.
• Working knowledge of the Services (to be provided to candidate).
• Responsible for PnL of your team.
• Financial accountability to the programme.
• Interaction with Technology Delivery Manager to sign-off and accept change.
• Manage resource through appropriate tooling.
• Contributing towards product strategy and vision.
• Input into Programme level prioritisation of projects.
• Role to be available on-call.
• Manage the personnel assigned to the team. To include but not limited to Development and mentoring to ensure continual personal growth. Personal HR requirements, including leave, appraisal and workday reporting. Organizational HR requirements including individual refocusing of effort where required.
• Ensure the health and safety of the workforce.
• Develop you team to ensure they receive the training and develop for them to achieve individual and team priorities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including overseeing new employee on boarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.
• Development (Embodiment) of a team culture that emphasises quality, Seek Speak & Listen habits, team unity, continuous improvement and high performance.
• Ongoing self-development and personal growth as an employee and as a manager.
• Ensure you and your team complete all mandatory training set by the company.
• Effective (contributing to) resourcing of team ensuring future recruits meet the current and future skills and experience needed
• Empower and motivate your team to take responsibility for their roles and priorities. Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback.
  Approve and manager employee work schedules including but not limited to: vacation, paid/unpaid time off, virtual working, flexible working requests and sickness absence.
• Maintain transparent two way communication. Appropriately communicate organisation information through department meetings, one-on-one meetings, and appropriate email, IM (Instant Messaging), and regular interpersonal communication.

Key Competencies:

• Agile Working | coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project. You can think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes. You can act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team.
• DDAT Perspective | demonstrate an advanced understanding of design, technology and data principles. You can identify and implement solutions for assisted digital. You can apply knowledge to work with other digital, data and technology job families.
• Financial Ownership | develop an agile business case and own and iterate it throughout the product life cycle. You can develop benefits with others within the portfolio. You can understand the granularity of financial costs per changes and the value delivered.
• Lifecycle Perspective | apply experience in multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward in terms of and when it is right to stop. You can recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet them. You can work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. You can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
• Operational Management | keep abreast of industry best practice and can cascade ways of working. You can make operations efficient. You can act as the escalation point for major operational issues and champion operational management across the community. You can work closely with leaders of operational delivery teams in digital, data and technology.
• Problem Management | anticipate problems and defend against them at the right time. You can understand how the problem fits into the larger picture. You can articulate the problem and help others to do it. You can build problem-solving capabilities in others.
• Product Ownership | Use a range of product management principles and approaches. You can capture user needs and translate them into deliverables. You can define the minimum viable product (MVP) and make decisions about priorities. You can write user stories and acceptance criteria. You can effectively work with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.
• Strategic Ownership | effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions. You can develop ambitious visions and strategies. You can get the organisation and team to buy in. You can translate the vision into prioritised deliverable goals.
• Customer Focus | give direction on which tools or methods to use. You can demonstrate experience in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels. You can bring insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure they’re met by the business. You can apply strategic thinking to provide the best service for the end user.
• Incident Management | be accountable for the managing the resolution of all Major and High Business profile incidents through to successful conclusion.

Supervises Employees:

Within your role, you will support the Programme Manager to lead a multi-disciplined team, comprising of a range of matrix resources across the MoD IS Programme:

• Operations.
• QA.
• Supply Chain Management / Procurement Agents.
• Commercial.
• Finance.
• Project Management Staff.
• Safety
• Security & Assurance.
• Capability / Functional Resources.

Please apply asap for this role, as recruitment may commence before the end date.

Candidates must have current legal authorization to work immediately in the United Kingdom. Boeing will not attempt to obtain immigration and labour sponsorship for any applicants.

Due to the nature of the role and the programme of work this position is supporting, the successful candidate should be a UK national only (no Dual citizenship) and have either a current, valid and active Security clearance or be eligible to go through Security clearance vetting process.

All information provided will be checked and may be verified.

Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world

Job Description Qualifications:

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equality and inclusion are shared value. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every colleague that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for personal development. Boeing Defence UK is responsible for delivering IT services to a number of customers both internal and external throughout the UK.

Boeing Defence UK’s Ministry of Defence Information Services platform combines 24/7/365 sustainment, maintenance, support and analysis of the critical logistics apps and associated petabytes of data for the UK’s armed forces around the world, coupled with continuous programmes of review and renewal. MoD IS ensures the UK Ministry of Defence can plan, deploy and control with the utmost confidence in its logistics information, anywhere in the world, now and in the future. We deliver mission critical solutions to the defence and security sector by integrating innovative technology.

Role Purpose:

The Digital Services Manager is accountable for the quality of their service. In this role, you will manage end-to-end services that include multiple products and channels.

This role requires a dynamic, diligent and organized individual who has strong Stakeholder Management, negotiation and diplomacy skills. This role will manage customer expectations and deliver in line with operational need, with a customer first mind-set. There will be a need to be able to work in a high paced environment, with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple streams of work at one time.

You will be joining a Programme currently undergoing restructure to ensure ongoing management and delivery of Services and change is Agile and efficient to continue with this success of the current programme and ensuring that delivery is in line with expectations and continuously improved according to both industry standard approaches and the requirements of our customers. There will be a need to be able to work in a high paced environment, with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple streams of work at one time.

You will be accountable for managing the end to end delivery/sustainment of multiple Services in line with agreed SLAs and KPIs by leading, motivating and driving a team of some 30 individuals across the following processes, incidents, delivering service requests & core contract activity.

This role will have an important bearing in BDUK and partnering is a key to the success of current and future programmes, which must be continually developed and maintained. The overall objectives are to ensure the utility and warranty of services in meeting Service Level Agreements and key Performance Indicators across the programmes which are supported.

The individual must have a keen eye for detail and the ability to address ever changing priorities and demands whilst maintaining a cast iron focus on the strategic direction of the team ensuring it is fit for the future and able to cope with demands from customers in a rapid, responsive and iterative manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate at scale and provide the connection between multidisciplinary business areas and stakeholders.
• Ensure all business processes are followed and compliance with external standards.
  • Including but not limited to ISO20000, ISO27000, ISO9000 and ITIL4
• Participate in the governance of the service, including acting as a point of escalation for the delivery teams.
• Own the budget and allocate funding to areas of the service based on your decisions about priorities.
• Communicate the benefits and performance of your service.
• RIO management and escalation to programme as appropriate.
• Be responsible for the successful operation and continuous improvement of all services Full end to end ownership of all service support items (full stack management), including but not limited to:
  •  Obsolescence.
  •  Security.
  • Contractual deliverables and obligations.
  • Through life management.
  •  Financial.
  • Technological Deliverables.
  • Knowledge Management.
  • Incident Management & Escalation as appropriate.
• Responsible and Accountable for the Services within role scope.
• Providing support to impact assessments for change when appropriate.
• Responsible for all components of the live environment.
• Working closely with the Head of Service Management.
• Proceeding with the most appropriate and cost-effective way forward.
• Working knowledge of the Services (to be provided to candidate).
• Responsible for PnL of your team.
• Financial accountability to the programme.
• Interaction with Technology Delivery Manager to sign-off and accept change.
• Manage resource through appropriate tooling.
• Contributing towards product strategy and vision.
• Input into Programme level prioritisation of projects.
• Role to be available on-call.
• Manage the personnel assigned to the team. To include but not limited to Development and mentoring to ensure continual personal growth. Personal HR requirements, including leave, appraisal and workday reporting. Organizational HR requirements including individual refocusing of effort where required.
• Ensure the health and safety of the workforce.
• Develop you team to ensure they receive the training and develop for them to achieve individual and team priorities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including overseeing new employee on boarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.
• Development (Embodiment) of a team culture that emphasises quality, Seek Speak & Listen habits, team unity, continuous improvement and high performance.
• Ongoing self-development and personal growth as an employee and as a manager.
• Ensure you and your team complete all mandatory training set by the company.
• Effective (contributing to) resourcing of team ensuring future recruits meet the current and future skills and experience needed
• Empower and motivate your team to take responsibility for their roles and priorities. Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback.
  Approve and manager employee work schedules including but not limited to: vacation, paid/unpaid time off, virtual working, flexible working requests and sickness absence.
• Maintain transparent two way communication. Appropriately communicate organisation information through department meetings, one-on-one meetings, and appropriate email, IM (Instant Messaging), and regular interpersonal communication.

Key Competencies:

• Agile Working | coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project. You can think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes. You can act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team.
• DDAT Perspective | demonstrate an advanced understanding of design, technology and data principles. You can identify and implement solutions for assisted digital. You can apply knowledge to work with other digital, data and technology job families.
• Financial Ownership | develop an agile business case and own and iterate it throughout the product life cycle. You can develop benefits with others within the portfolio. You can understand the granularity of financial costs per changes and the value delivered.
• Lifecycle Perspective | apply experience in multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward in terms of and when it is right to stop. You can recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet them. You can work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. You can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
• Operational Management | keep abreast of industry best practice and can cascade ways of working. You can make operations efficient. You can act as the escalation point for major operational issues and champion operational management across the community. You can work closely with leaders of operational delivery teams in digital, data and technology.
• Problem Management | anticipate problems and defend against them at the right time. You can understand how the problem fits into the larger picture. You can articulate the problem and help others to do it. You can build problem-solving capabilities in others.
• Product Ownership | Use a range of product management principles and approaches. You can capture user needs and translate them into deliverables. You can define the minimum viable product (MVP) and make decisions about priorities. You can write user stories and acceptance criteria. You can effectively work with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.
• Strategic Ownership | effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions. You can develop ambitious visions and strategies. You can get the organisation and team to buy in. You can translate the vision into prioritised deliverable goals.
• Customer Focus | give direction on which tools or methods to use. You can demonstrate experience in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels. You can bring insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure they’re met by the business. You can apply strategic thinking to provide the best service for the end user.
• Incident Management | be accountable for the managing the resolution of all Major and High Business profile incidents through to successful conclusion.

Supervises Employees:

Within your role, you will support the Programme Manager to lead a multi-disciplined team, comprising of a range of matrix resources across the MoD IS Programme:

• Operations.
• QA.
• Supply Chain Management / Procurement Agents.
• Commercial.
• Finance.
• Project Management Staff.
• Safety
• Security & Assurance.
• Capability / Functional Resources.

Please apply asap for this role, as recruitment may commence before the end date.

Candidates must have current legal authorization to work immediately in the United Kingdom. Boeing will not attempt to obtain immigration and labour sponsorship for any applicants.

Due to the nature of the role and the programme of work this position is supporting, the successful candidate should be a UK national only (no Dual citizenship) and have either a current, valid and active Security clearance or be eligible to go through Security clearance vetting process.

All information provided will be checked and may be verified.

Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world

If the idea of building a product that empowers citizens with their own data, that’s fair, ethical, transparent in its approach to democratising affordable credit for all, with a diverse team who understands humans & human data excites you as much as it does us, we’d love to meet you.

Who we are:
Good With is an award-winning early-stage Fintech4Good startup. We deliver personalised psychology-based financial guidance via a chatbot app to support our young adult learners’ money and mental health needs as they manage their financial lives; building their financial capability and giving them an alternative credit score to help them access fairer finance. (www.goodwith.co)

The role:
(Please don’t be put off applying because you aren’t a perfect match for our job description. If you are excited about the opportunity, think you can achieve the outcomes we are looking for, but aren’t sure if you tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you.)

We’re looking for an experienced Full Stack Software Developer who will work at the heart of a dynamic, multidisciplinary and agile team. As the more senior developer on the team, you’ll develop the platform and infrastructure connecting a text-enabled intelligent mobile app, financial OpenBanking data sources, behavioural data, state of the art intelligent analytics and real-time recommendation engine.

Key responsibilities:
1. To develop the server (backend) applications and databases:
The applications will support a mobile app, providing secure user
authentication, profile information, user financial data including summary
overviews, analytics and recommendations.
Core applications will synchronise data from banking and finance sources
through the OpenBanking API.
Development of secure databases of user and financial data, supporting
real-time conversational interactions with mobile app users, and architected to scale with user growth.

2. To develop a scalable cloud hosted infrastructure:
Secure cloud hosted environments for the applications.
Support for hosted firewalls, proxies, databases, backups, and API
interfaces.
Monitoring for health, performance, and security.
Automated continuous build, test, integration and deployment of applications
and data.

Role Summary:
Working closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team
Planning and documenting technical specifications for features or system design
Designing, building, and configuring applications to meet business process and application requirements
Directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications
Writing testable, scalable, and efficient code and leading code reviews
Mentoring junior team members and ensuring they adhere to determining software quality standards
Assessing current systems and processes, and developing ways to improve them
Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
Writing specification documents
Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results
Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions

We’d really like to hear from you, if you have…
Demonstrable experience developing server applications that have been successfully adopted by users, maintained security and performance with growth in users.
Experience working in an agile team, doing iterative development, and monitoring both infrastructure and user experience. Knowledge or experience of CI/CD will be helpful.
Experience working with a security function to design and develop secure applications and infrastructure, assess and mitigate risks, and support formal security assurance processes, ideally in a financial services sector.
Server application development using frameworks such as Django and Flask
API development, with gateways deployed using, for example, nginx
Experience of at least two additional leading languages
Continuous build and integration tools such as Git, Jenkins
Infrastructure tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, or Amazon/Google equivalents.
Experience with Chatbots / ML / NLP, AI led development
A degree in a mathematical, scientific or computing subject
AWS and/or Google Cloud Certifications

If you have alternative relevant qualifications and applicable technology certifications we encourage you to apply.

The Good Stuff
A few things that make Good With an amazing place to work…
🌴 30 days holiday, plus your birthday off 🎁
👩🏽‍💻 Remote-first working environment, with quarter team meets near the beach. We meet quarterly in the South West, where GWHQ is based – surfing, climbing and water sports optional at these meets. 🏄‍♀️
📅 Flexi-time, you decide with your team, what works best for you all
🧠 Commitment to personal development and career growth. Think upskilling, coaching workshops and progression plans
🏆 Award-winning recognised innovative Finteh4Good startup, with internationally renowned advisor/mentor support who support our team members
🙌 A people focused, inclusive culture

If you’re looking for your next challenge and opportunity to move up in your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Send your cover letter and CV to get@goodwith.co

About Us

Advancing Analytics is a market leader in delivering bleeding edge analytical solutions for customers all over the world specialising on the Microsoft Azure Platform.

We know that to thrive in today’s market, businesses need to implement and deploy AI solutions that are cost effective and reliable, we are looking to you to help them build them!

On an average day working with us, you could be helping a customer implement a large language model to solve complex and advanced business challenges, the next you could be deploying an end-to-end ML pipeline to streamline and automate the AI offerings of some of the largest organisations in the world.

What skills do we want you to have?

We work with a lot of tech and we’d love to speak to you if you have knowledge of:

• Developing high-quality machine learning models to solve business challenges using Databricks ML, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
• Developing production quality code and support data science projects from start to production

• Understanding and ability to apply data science and machine learning operations methodologies and principles
• Carrying out basic automated builds and deployments – including well written, comprehensive documentation that meets our needs
• Teamwork makes the dream work! Identify tasks and dependencies, and track progress together. Share your ideas, listen to suggestions, and collaborate effectively with your teammates
• Engaging in dialogue with partners to meet their request

Other tech and skills we like in this field but isn’t essential:

•  Machine Learning in Azure – Azure Machine Learning Services, Bot Framework, Cognitive Services
• Shallow Learning – Python | SKLearn, XGBoost etc
• Deep Learning Frameworks – Tensorflow, PyTorch
• ML Model Deployment Options – Realtime & Batch in different technologies e.g. Azure Functions, Kubernetes etc

• CI/CD pipelines e.g. DevOps pipelines, Git actions
• Infrastructure as code e.g. Terraform, ARM Template
• Advanced machine learning techniques – Graph based processing, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Simulation modelling
• Generative AI and LLMs
• Understanding of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum)

We know this is a big list, and we’re not expecting you to tick off everything! The #1 attribute we are looking for is that you are passionate about your work and keen to learn! We’re also looking for you to be aware of/keeping up with the latest and greatest trends in AI and Machine Learning.

Consultancy experience is important too, but not a deal breaker and we’re committed to invest in nurturing your “soft skills” as well as your technical ones.

What will it be like to work for Advancing Analytics?

Working with us will provide you the opportunity to work alongside our supportive and multi-talented team, including Microsoft MVPs and industry experts, on exciting and challenging projects using the latest tech.

As we have grown from a small company, we still encourage everyone to have an independent voice within our collaborative and inclusive team from day one.

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI and Azure, with specialisms in Analytics and AI & Machine Learning, as well as a Databricks Select Partner (and part of the Partner Network), you will have access to the latest tech and training opportunities the industry has to offer.

We are aware this is a rapidly changing market and are committed to investing in the long-term passion of our employees.

We love being engaged in the wider tech community and have sponsored events such as SQL Bits and the Global AI Bootcamp. We encourage our team to get involved in the community, whether that’s in the form of a personal blog, or an initiative you are passionate about championing, we will support you!

PS: We also offer a speaker bonus for anyone who presents a talk at an event!

Aside from offering a competitive salary, we have a great set of benefits and perks including, but not limited to:

• Private Medical & Dental
• Health & Wellbeing fund
• Birthday leave

• Charity leave
• Salary Sacrifice Pension
• Annual Bonus scheme
• Electric Car scheme

Interested? Apply today and have a chat with us. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Interview process: Two rounds. 1: Get to know you chat; 2: Technical competency – no tests/whiteboards or coding exercises. Just us talking about tech.

Our Values: Opinionated about tech, inclusive, people over profit, sustainable, career focused and open.

Learn more about us: YouTube, Totally Skewed Podcast & Data Science in Production. Read our Blogs.

Jisc is the UK higher, further education and skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for digital services and solutions. We believe education and research improves lives, and technology improves education and research.

Our vision is for the UK to be a world leader in technology for education and research and our mission is to power and empower our members with the technology and data they need to succeed. We know that digital technology has the ability to transform the student experience. We have the experience, expertise and know-how to drive that transformation.

About the role:

The Enterprise Data Warehouse team ingests, shapes, stores and facilitates the provision of operational data to support product owners, data analysts and business users across Jisc’s business. Our mission is to provide a set of well-managed, reliable data platforms, associated data access technologies and advice to help exploit business value from them. These assets are also used to help fulfil the company’s traditional statutory reporting obligations.

Our core services include:

• Managed data platforms integrating data from core CRM, Employee and Finance systems with 100’s of data sources across the business, allowing actionable information and insights from those data assets to be exploited by the wider business.
• Dashboard design, prototyping, and development and supporting business intelligence users within Jisc.
• Support and mentoring colleagues wanting to self-serve their own data needs for internal use or as a component of Jisc service offerings

The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst will lead projects to deliver Tableau dashboard solutions and manage implementation of that work through analysis, planning, testing and release phases of a project.

• Working with other technical professionals to develop specifications for integrating data to meet complex business intelligence and analytic requirements
• Identify opportunities for data analysis to exploit Jisc’s wider data assets to support strategic decision making
• Develop Jisc’s business intelligence strategy and help develop the Group CTO Analytics and Data Projects team into a centre of excellence
• Foster collaborative relationships to enable multi-disciplinary and cross-functional working with significant teams and stakeholders across Jisc
• Maintain an up to date understanding of best practices and innovations relating to business intelligence to support the development of our solutions and approaches
• Design training workshops, maintain the self-service reporting environment and lead uptake of self-service reporting
• Support team members with data investigations and other support activities including root cause analysis and use of ML/AI tools (Einstein, Chat-GPT, Co-Pilots) as they evolve

Specific duties may vary without changing the general character of the duties or level of responsibility entailed.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Working with Tableau Server to publish workbooks, data source and manage permissions.
• Working with data systems, including relational databases, and querying with SQL query language.
• Data visualisation design and implementation with a modern business intelligence tool (e.g. Tableau, Power-BI).
• Strong analytical skills and thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs to provide actionable insight from data.
• intelligence developer producing high quality dashboards and support materials.
• Experience managing solutions from requirements through user-acceptance to release.
• Experience in applying technology to solve business problems and learning new tools or languages to help solve those problems.
• Experience strategic leader giving thought leadership in this area

Please refer to the job description for full details.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box but we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Why work at Jisc:

At Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career. We want to create a culture of lifelong learning. You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors.

We celebrate diversity, embrace our differences and know that this is critical for our success. We work hard to make sure we’re inclusive and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. So, if you are great at what you do and share our values, we want to hear from you.

At Jisc we believe a balance between your personal and professional life is essential to your happiness and fulfilment. We work flexibly at Jisc and focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.

We offer hybrid working and although the majority of our staff work from home, getting face to face is something we value and find time for when we can. If you prefer an office environment all our hubs are open and offer a great space to work.

Our benefits are great too. We offer:

• Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and an additional three closure days over Christmas
• A generous pension scheme with above average employer contributions
• A range of leave options, including parental leave, volunteer leave and even career breaks.
• A generous budget to attend conferences and in-person training
• Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
• A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning
• Mental health first aid trained staff and supportive environment, plus your own Wellbeing allowance to spend on wellbeing for you
• Financial well-being support
• Discounts on big-name high-street stores
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee recognition awards and travel loans

Additional Flexible benefits include Holiday Buying – Purchase 1-5 days’ additional holiday per annum, Healthcare Cashplan, Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech

Equality, diversity and inclusion:

At Jisc, we strive to be best in practice and are working hard to achieve progressive change. ‘Always inclusive’ is one of our six guiding principles – a principle which actively encourages acceptance of differences within individuals.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, neurodivergence, trans status, veteran status or gender identity.

Application process:

Please do let us know what reasonable adjustments you need made to the application or selection process so you can do your best. We will be happy to help you.

Just so you know, we review CVs as soon as we can and aim to provide an update on your application within 4 weeks of receiving it. However, you may hear from us a lot sooner, so please keep an eye out for our emails or calls!

We advertised this role on 14/07/2023