Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a HIL Test Verification Engineer – Steering to join their team on an Inside IR35 contract.
Umbrella Pay Rate: ÂŁ27.03 per hour.
Duties:
- Develop test cases to be executed within the Steering System HIL.
- Implement existing client Vehicle test procedures in Steering HIL environment.
- Operate the Steering System HIL rig.
- Develop analysis methods and metrics to judge test case results.
- Liaise with internal customers to satisfy test requests.
- Characterise and compare different steering systems and generate reports.
- Correlate Virtual models with Steering System HIL data and vehicle data.
Skills Required:
- Extensive experience in HIL testing: DSPACE, XPACK4 or similar.
- Good knowledge of Vehicle Dynamics Principles.
- Significant experience in Mechatronic Systems Validation and Verification.
- Experienced in Vehicle Simulation Software Packages such as Matlab/Simulink, IPG Carmaker or similar.
- Experience in programming is essential.
- Problem Solving skills and knowledge (6-Sigma or similar).
- Knowledge of Machine Learning techniques.
- Strong Analytical skills.
- Team Player.
- Good understanding of AGILE Methodology.
Education Required:
- BSc or MSc in Engineering or Data Science.
Role: Power Pages Developer
Location: Birmingham *(Hybrid 2 Days Per Month Onsite)
Salary: ÂŁ36,000 - ÂŁ46,000
Contract: Fixed-Term (12 Months)
Network IT are supporting our client as they continue to expand and mature their Microsoft Power Platform capability. Were looking for a Power Pages Developer to take ownership of designing and delivering modern, secure, and scalable applications and portals that drive real business impact.
This role offers genuine influence over platform direction, standards, and best practice, within a collaborative and forward-thinking digital team.
Role Overview and Responsibilities
As a Power Pages Developer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Power Platform solutions, working across applications, automation, integrations, and architecture. Youll work closely with stakeholders to translate business needs into elegant, maintainable solutions while helping shape the organisations Power Platform strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and building applications and web portals using Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven) and Power Pages.
- Automating business processes with Power Automate and integrating solutions across Dataverse, Dynamics 365 CE, SharePoint, and Azure.
- Acting as a technical authority on Power Platform architecture, coding standards, security, and governance.
- Collaborating directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver scalable, user-focused solutions.
- Supporting solution lifecycle management, including environments, deployments, and ongoing optimisation.
- Mentoring and supporting other developers, promoting continuous improvement and innovation across the team.
Essential Skills and Experience
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- Proven commercial experience across the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 CE.
- Strong hands-on experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages (Portals).
- Solid technical skills including Dataverse design, JavaScript, C#, plugins, and custom APIs.
- Experience integrating enterprise systems using Azure services such as Logic Apps, Functions, and Service Bus.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments with exposure to DevOps and CI/CD practices.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Role: SIEM Application EngineerType: Contract (3 Months)
Location: Birmingham/Manchester, UK (Hybrid 3 days a week)
Payrate: ÂŁ450 - ÂŁ550 per day INSIDE IR35 Umbrella
- Elastic Stack Mastery: 5+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience, specializing in the end-to-end delivery, optimization, and operation of the Elastic Stack (ELK), with a focus on Elastic Security.
- Detection & Compliance Expert: Proven ability to engineer high-fidelity detection rules based on the MITRE ATT&CK Framework, alongside implementing essential security controls like RBAC, encryption, and data governance to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Performance & Tuning Specialist: Deep technical skill in fine-tuning Elasticsearch indices and mappings and optimizing Logstash pipelines for maximum performance, throughput, and efficient resource utilization.
- Outcome Ownership: Results-driven professional focused on owning security outcomes, leveraging Kibana for critical data visualization, real-time monitoring, and system health tracking.
This is an urgent vacancy with a deadline where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it praveen. sukkala2 @ randstaddigital. Com
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Security Engineer to join our growing engineering team. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality services across IP CCTV systems (both wired and wireless) and access control solutions. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys working on a variety of installations and supporting clients.
What Youll Be Doing
- Installing, maintaining, de-fitting and commissioning temporary and permanent CCTV systems on a national basis.
- Configuring systems to meet design specifications and customer requirements
- Responding to fault calls across all types of CCTV systems
- Completing routine and reactive call-outs
- Ensuring all company documentation is completed accurately on a job-by-job basis
- Carrying out additional reasonable tasks as requested by management
The candidate we are looking for is to have:
- 3+ years experience with CCTV installation (analogue & IP) and access control
- Strong technical knowledge
- Excellent attention to detail, strong organisation and efficiency
- Clear verbal and written communication skills
- Confidence engaging with clients and stakeholders
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a structured team
- A strong work ethic and the ability to encourage and support others
- Motivation to contribute to a growing team and work on exciting client installations
Essential Skills & Qualifications
- Strong understanding of CCTV and access control systems, including detection methods and analytics
- IT literacy
- Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers
- Ability to read and understand technical drawings and specifications
- Strong fault-finding capability
- Practical knowledge of general electrical and electronic principles
- CSCS/ECS Operatives Card (provided if not already held)
- Full UK driving licence (maximum 6 points)
- CCTV qualifications (desirable)
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to work on high-profile installations
- Part of a growing and supportive engineering team
- Varied and rewarding work across the South region
- Professional development and long-term prospects
Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a Human Factors Engineer to join their team on an Inside IR35 contract.
Umbrella Pay Rate: ÂŁ33.64 per hour.
Duties:
As modern vehicles evolve, our client’s customers are experiencing and interacting with vehicles in new and innovative ways. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Human Factors Ergonomics team to deliver our customer requirements for our future vehicles.
This role is ideally suited to a skilled individual with a background in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Anthropometrics, Product Design or Design Engineering.
Additional Duties:
- Lead development of Human Factors requirements, in order to deliver the best customer experience.
- This will include collaboration with key stakeholders around the business including Engineering, Design, Programme, Commercial and many more Lead Human Factors input into the development of our future vehicles and brands - evoking empathy for the impact to the Human Factors Attribute of vehicle development decisions using innovative and visual communication methods.
- Lead the timely completion of Human Factors assessments &/or gateway testing, to aid in issue resolution.
- Support collaboration with colleagues to resolve ergonomic related issues on our vehicles using customer data and Human Factors science to drive discussions.
- Analyse customer feedback relating to ergonomics and use it to support requirement development and issue resolution.
Essential Skills Required:
- Proven ability to work in a demanding environment and combine interpersonal skills with technical decision-making.
- Ability to analyse technical data and customer feedback to support programme discussions & Ergonomics requirement development.
- A knowledge of human physiology, anatomy or anthropometrics.
- A good communicator with the ability to explain complex ideas to others.
Desirable Skills Requested:
- CAD experience (e.g. CATIA / 3D Experience).
- Familiarity with Agile Methodology implementation and using JIRA Knowledge of whole vehicle engineering and working with teams across an organisation.
- Resilient and enthusiastic, an individual able to deliver results under pressure.
Education Required:
- Experience in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Anthropometrics, User-Centred Design, Product Design, User Experience Design or a related field, educated to degree level.
Our OEM Client based in Solihull, is searching for an Acoustic Engineer to join their team on an Inside IR35 contract.
Umbrella Pay Rate: ÂŁ33.64 per hour.
Duties:
- Responsible for monitoring and minimising the variability of wind noise performance on current production vehicle lines.
- Be an in-plant representative for the wind noise attribute, acting as a voice of the customer in the manufacturing environment.
- The role is to detect where attribute performance could vary away from target (via objective measurement, subjective drive, static assessment/measurement, over checking build conformance to assembly process, etc.).
- Perform initial root cause investigation and drive issues through to resolution with the relevant responsible areas.
- This role will liaise closely with core aeroacoustics team to understand future products entering plant launch and their critical attribute characteristics as well as ongoing quality actions on current products.
- Flexibility to work across various sites (Gaydon / Coventry / Solihull / Halewood) is required.
Skills Required:
- Experience of working in an automotive production plant quality role.
- Experience applying engineering problem solving methodologies (six sigma / 8D / Root Cause Analysis) to complex issues.
- Full driving licence and ability to subjectively assess driven attributes.
- Experience of plant attributes (S&R / Wind Noise / Water Test) / NVH development and measurement / vehicle testing and assessment / automotive component development.
Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a Senior Towing & Carrying Engineer to join their team on an Inside IR35 contract.
Umbrella Pay Rate: ÂŁ33.64 per hour.
Working in the growing Towing and Carrying team within the Vehicle Capability and Dependability department, the aim of the senior towing and carrying engineer role is to ensure efficient delivery of products that meet or exceed all customer expectations for Towing and Carrying performance. Following system engineering principles, this is achieved through attribute target setting, requirement decomposition and verification and validation sign off using both virtual and physical test methods. To ensure optimum design and delivery the role will strive to continuously improve processes, methods and solutions.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Ownership, management, validation and development of a number of vehicle level towing and carrying requirements and targets.
- Ensure robust SMART requirements and targets are cascaded and accepted within all relevant engineering teams including function groups, system and component teams.
- Champion through systems engineering principles the development, integration and design verification (DV) plans to ensure accumulating evidence through vehicle programme to ensure delivery of vehicle sign off on time to requirements.
- Ensure clear status for towing attribute across all programme panel charts.
- Ensure zero towing issues at programme job 1.
- Support the development of towing and carrying features and designs for future vehicle solutions.
- Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices, industry movements and future trends.
- Ensure robust championing and closeout prevent recurrence actions.
Skills/Experience Required:
- Experience in towing trailers and using trailer towing hardware.
- Knowledge / experience of automotive technologies or systems.
- Knowledge / experience of engineering test activities.
Skills / Experience Preferred:
- Experience in Features development, delivery and validation.
- Broad knowledge of vehicle and towing technologies.
- Project management of complex engineering test activities.
- Understanding of Systems engineering principles and delivery.
- Knowledge of whole vehicle engineering and cross functional experience.
- Microsoft package elements Power Point and Excel.
- Experience in vehicle level Towing & Carrying development, testing and validation.
- Knowledge/Experience of AGILE working principles.
- Working knowledge CAD visualisation systems (e.g. 3Dx, TeamCentre etc.).
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred.
PT SE Engineer Sensors & Fuel Path (Contract)
We are recruiting an experienced Powertrain / Fuel Systems Engineer to support the design, development and release of fuel path and evaporative systems for a leading UK automotive OEM project.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on component ownership and delivery, working across the full systems engineering lifecycle from concept through launch.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and release fuel system components including fuel tank, fuel delivery module (FDM), filler pipe/hose, charcoal canister, EVAP and leak detection systems
- Act as component or system owner, ensuring performance, quality, cost and safety targets are met
- Apply systems engineering principles including requirements management, verification and validation
- Lead failure mode avoidance (FMA) and 8D problem solving, including root cause analysis and warranty prevention
- Support programme delivery using APQP, CCDS and EBER processes
- Apply GD&T, tolerance and variation management to ensure robust design and release
- Work closely with suppliers, manufacturing and cross-functional engineering teams
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in fuel systems / fuel path / EVAP engineering
- Proven component or design release experience within an OEM or Tier-1 environment
- Knowledge of APQP, 8D, FMA and systems engineering
- Experience with GD&T and tolerance analysis
- Automotive background essential
Desirable
- OEM onsite experience
- Supplier management exposure
- Launch or production support experience
Contract role | Market rate | Immediate start available
We are currently recruiting Gas Service & Repair Engineers to take on a service and repair contract on behalf of a market leading company. all works will be in the private sector and all jobs will be sent via a pda. The successful Gas Service & Repair Engineer will receive 6-8 jobs a day all based in your chosen working location. in order to take on this position as a service and repair engineer, the successful gas engineer must meet the following criteria:
3-5 Days a week
Weekly Pay
Parts Supplied
Flexible work on a long term contract
Essential Requirements:
- OwnGasSafe Registration - Including Fires & Cookers
- Own Van and Tools
- Criminal Background Check
- Domestic experience
- MINIMUM 2 years experience with all boiler diagnostics, servicing, installation, maintenance & repairs, across all major brands
- Strong customer skills
Desired:
- Experience managing own workload
- Qualified installer of vented and unvented cylinders
- Confident driving and working in and around Central London
- Ability to work confidently in high end properties
- Experience with power-flushing heating system
- Experience in Plumbing maintenance
- Experience in bathroom installations
Please get in touch to apply now! Quick Starts Available
Network Web Proxy Infra Engineer - Investment Banking - Proxy Tech (F5 BIG-IP, McAfee, Skyhigh, Bluecoat)
Our client is looking for a Web Proxy Network Engineer on a contract basis to support the delivery and enhancement of their EMEA network.
This role is ideal for someone who already has hands-on experience working with Proxy technologies (such as McAfee, Skyhigh, Blue Coat, or similar), and is ready to step into a fast-paced enterprise environment where you can further deepen your expertise.
You will:
- Support the implementation and configuration of Access Policies, routing and Management of Web Proxies
- Contribute to change and incident activities within a complex network infrastructure
- Collaborate with senior engineers and architecture teams to deliver stable, secure, and scalable services
We are not looking for someone brand new to the technology - you should already be familiar with the key tools and concepts and be ready to contribute from day one, even if you’re still developing full mastery.
Core Skills & Experience
Required:
- Hands-on experience supporting or configuring Proxy platforms (eg McAfee, Skyhigh, Blue Coat)
- Experience or knowledge of Load Balancing technologies such as F5 BIG IP (LTM/GTM) VMWare Next Gen Load Balancer (formerly AVI Networks)
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/S, SSL certificates, NAT, DNS, and Layer 7 protocols
- Comfort using CLI and GUI interfaces for network appliance configuration
Preferred:
- Experience building from base and upgrading firmware of Web Proxies
- Experience of DLP/Malware Protection & Mitigation infrastructure
- Experience writing or editing iRules, health monitors, or similar load balancing policies
- Awareness of certificate management, TLS handshake flow, and debugging tools (Wireshark, Fiddler)
Contract Role inside IR35 - initial 12 month contract - 3 days a week in office (candidate can be based near Manchester/Liverpool/Stoke/Birmingham)
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Ready to work somewhere that cares more about how you build software than how fast you can ship it?
At Opencast, we don’t measure developers by the number of tickets you complete. We care about engineering craft, clean design and thoughtful problem-solving.
Opencast consultants deliver in complex environments, pairing often and working with others who take pride in doing things properly: TDD, emerging design, refactoring and leaving code better than they found it. We build software we are proud of, and our clients trust us not just to code but to think, challenge and guide. If you value simple and robust solutions and want a role where your judgment matters as much as your keyboard, you will fit right in.
The role
We’re looking for Contractors in Software Development (consultant level) to help our major clients transform.
Software developers at Opencast care about building products right and combine their own experience and approach with our company values. They are tech agnostic, have expertise in agile methodologies, extreme programming practices and use industry-leading programming languages to deliver agile transformation.
Our approach to software development is collaborative, focused on keeping things simple, and we use test driven development and pair programming as best practice.
Working with clients and key stakeholders is a crucial part of a consultancy role. Our developers are inclusive team players that listen, collaborate, can positively challenge and manage expectations when needed but most of all are always willing to teach and help others. Leaving a client with improved ways of working, working technology and a good experience from discovery through to live is the priority.
Contractors at Opencast follow the same principles as permanent consultants. The roles are varied, technical, and never confined to any one provider or solution.
Requirements
Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.
Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days.
As attendance at client sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves occasional travel, travel expenses are not covered.
Experience in delivering digital services for the UK government is highly valuable for many of our projects. Therefore, familiarity with the GDS toolkit will be beneficial.
Technical Skills
- Expertise in Java and/or Scala is required
- Experience with Javascript, Typescript, Kotlin, Python or Ruby is also valuable
- Understanding of Object Oriented Programming
- In depth knowledge of concepts and uses of testing
- Knowledge or experience of delivering complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards
- Being comfortable with new technology, t-shaped and comfortable with ongoing learning and development is key to success
- Experience with agile methodology
A contractor in software development at Opencast is responsible for:
- Delivering in the upkeep of their team’s backlog
- Collaborating with the teams testing effort
- Leading on the implementation of user stories
- Embracing mobbing and pairing
- Working with others in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment
Salary
Up to ÂŁ450 per day (working inside IR35)
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website for more details.
Ready to work somewhere that cares more about how you build software than how fast you can ship it?
At Opencast, we don’t measure developers by the number of tickets you complete. We care about engineering craft, clean design and thoughtful problem-solving.
Opencast consultants deliver in complex environments, pairing often and working with others who take pride in doing things properly: TDD, emerging design, refactoring and leaving code better than they found it. We build software we are proud of, and our clients trust us not just to code but to think, challenge and guide. If you value simple and robust solutions and want a role where your judgment matters as much as your keyboard, you will fit right in.
The role
We’re looking for Contractors in Software Development (Senior level or Technical Lead) to help our major clients transform.
Software developers at Opencast care about building products right and combine their own experience and approach with our company values. They are tech agnostic, have expertise in agile methodologies, extreme programming practices and use industry-leading programming languages to deliver agile transformation.
Our approach to software development is collaborative, focused on keeping things simple, and we use test driven development and pair programming as best practice.
Working with clients and key stakeholders is a crucial part of a consultancy role. Our developers are inclusive team players that listen, collaborate, can positively challenge and manage expectations when needed but most of all are always willing to teach and help others. Leaving a client with improved ways of working, working technology and a good experience from discovery through to live is the priority.
Contractors at Opencast follow the same principles as permanent consultants. The roles are varied, technical, and never confined to any one provider or solution.
Requirements
Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.
Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days.
As attendance at client sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves occasional travel, travel expenses are not covered.
Experience in delivering digital services for the UK government is highly valuable for many of our projects. Therefore, familiarity with the GDS toolkit will be beneficial.
Technical Skills
- Expertise in Java and/or Scala is required
- Experience in other languages such as Javascript, Typescript, Kotlin, Python or Ruby is also valuable
- Experience in a technical leadership role
- Deep understanding of programming paradigm, code design, testing, accessibility, performance and security
- Proven ability to apply different testing tools and methods in practice
- Knowledge or experience of delivering complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards
- Being comfortable with new technology, t-shaped and comfortable with ongoing learning and development is key to success
- Experience with agile methodology
A senior level contractor in software development at Opencast is responsible for:
- Driving the elaboration of their team’s backlog
- Setting testing strategies to match industry standards
- Being a technical expert in their team (or acting as the team lead)
- Leading the technical representation in a project discovery
- Acting as a technical lead in the team, enabling them to achieve their full potential
Salary
ÂŁ450 - ÂŁ600 per day (working inside IR35)
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website for more details.
12-month contract
Based in Gaydon (Hybrid working)
36 per hour (Inside IR35)
Applicants MUST have proof of immediate, on-going and valid eligibility, to work full time, and travel within, the UK
About the company
I am currently recruiting on behalf of an automotive OEM, based in Gaydon, who are looking for a Demand & Portfolio Coordinator to join the team.
Job Description
As Demand & Portfolio Coordinator, your main responsibilities will include:
- Support the capture, validation, and assessment of digital demand submissions.
- Contribute to governance forums and demand syncs.
- Support visibility of the digital portfolio.
- Act as a reliable partner between demand requestors and delivery teams.
- Contribute to refining demand and portfolio processes, driving efficiency and consistency.
Qualifications/Skills needed
- Good understanding of digital ecosystems and technical landscapes
- Ability to recognise digital complexity and highlight potential delivery risks.
- Experience supporting portfolio or PMO processes in large, complex organisations.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices and ways of working.
- Professional PMO qualification (e.g., PRINCE2 , MSP , P3O ) desirable.
Why work through Contechs?
Contechs is a leading Automotive, Design, Engineering, Technology and Innovation Recruitment Consultancy. Founded in 1997, with an inhouse Contractor Care Team to support all external employees, acts as an employment agency for permanent and contract recruitment.
How to Apply
If you’re interested in applying for this position, submit your application and one of our recruiters will be in touch.
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Ready to turn curiosity into impact?
Do you want to use research to shape services that make a real impact? Are you ready to bring curiosity and insight to projects that improve people’s lives?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a User Researcher, you’ll uncover the needs and voices of people, work in multi-disciplinary teams to feed these needs into design decisions shape impactful services, and bring curiosity, pragmatism and insight to projects. You’ll enjoy, a supportive community whilst working across public sector clients, to solve real problems that impact people’s lives.
What you’ll do within our teams
- Plan research approaches for complex projects that might have multiple research activities running at the same time whilst being delivered by other researchers
- Offer oversight of research conducted by other people, either formally or informally, to improve research practices
- Identify where research points to areas that need more investigation and, where necessary, help to re-define the project scope and priorities in response to this
- Produce the required documentation and materials for research activity, including discussion guides and consent forms
- Recruit participants in line with GDPR and MRS guidelines
- Use your excellent communication skills to clearly explain your approach to your team and stakeholders
You’ll suit this role if you:
- Use a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including things like interviews, surveys, workshops, focus groups, shadowing, diary studies, usability testing, eye tracking, A/B testing, and analytics
- Have a strong understanding of GDS and designing to government service standards, preferably on projects that passed assessment(s)
- Can identify key themes, user needs, business needs, and personas through analysis
- Can explain findings to a range of audiences and translate these into areas of the service that need design focus
- Can produce user research deliverables like personas and journey maps
- Make sure your research is inclusive and includes people with disabilities and those who need support to use digital services
- Can build strong relationships with clients and persuade stakeholders of the importance of research to a project
- Thrive in a multidisciplinary team and encourage teammates to shadow and take part in research
- Understand agile processes
- Enjoy working with clients as they evolve and adapt
- Are naturally curious and able to champion your own learning and development
- Are an advocate for user-centred design
- Are respectful and tactful in your approach to clients who perhaps aren’t as familiar with user-centred design
- Are proactive and will take the initiative to solve a problem rather than seeing it and ignoring it
- Are keen to share your knowledge and experience
If you have any of this experience, please show it on your CV and in the interview.
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Want to solve meaningful problems?
Are you looking to make a positive impact in your work? Do you want to work in an environment where you can grow, while solving problems to help improve government, healthcare and private sector services?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business. As a Business Analyst, you’ll listen, ask questions and turn needs into plans usingstrong analysis, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
The role
You’ll lead business analysis activities within projects and be responsible for planning and achieving deliverables for our clients.
You’ll provide expert advice to our consultants and contribute towards building the BA community at Opencast.
You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.
Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.
Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.
Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you will have experience as a business analyst across different industries and/or clients. You will also ensure BA activities and outcomes align across multiple work streams and/or projects. Please show how you have:
• Experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines.
• Analysed and evaluated complex business systems and processes to recommend improvement opportunities or change initiatives.
• Planned and executed the business analysis deliverables to meet the objectives of a project.
• Delegated and managed the tasks of others.
• Successfully worked within unfamiliar industries and/or clients and quickly adapted to understand the business domain and project needs.
• Built meaningful and lasting relationships with stakeholders to elicit and manage requirements and facilitate the path to delivery.
• Shaped the requirements management approach, including methodology, tools, and processes to enable successful delivery and value.
• Used a variety of BA techniques to solve complex problems and present ideas to stakeholders.
• Coached junior members of a team, sharing your knowledge of best practice and ways of working.
• Experience working in agile delivery teams
In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Salary
Inside IR35 - from ÂŁ490 per day
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
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Open to a new challenge?
Do you enjoy shaping products and services which positively impact people?
Are you looking for empowerment to deliver for some of the most important services in the UK?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re an independent UK technology consultancy specialising in designing, building and running user-centred digital and technology solutions that make a positive difference to people’s lives.
The role
You’ll already be working as a business analyst in your current role.
You’ll work with our clients to help them achieve their business goals.
You’ll work with other disciplines such as developers and user researchers to solve complex and interesting problems.
You’ll create relationships with stakeholders to understand what they need, then translate these into the requirements of the project.
You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.
If you take more of a leadership role on projects, you may be more suited to our senior business analyst role.
Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.
Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.
Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you need experience of working as a business analyst. You’ll need to show how you have:
• Applied business analysis techniques to solve problems in a methodical and considered way
• Elicited and managed business requirements using different methods
• Presented complex information in a way that is easy to understand
• Built effective working relationships within cross functional teams and across business stakeholders
• Shared knowledge and best practice with BAs and other disciplines
• Planned and managed your own workload to achieve the objectives of your project
• Experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines.
• Working in agile delivery teams
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in agile delivery management and/or product management
As well as business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant. You’ll need to show how you have:
• Contributed to improving ways of working within teams
• Positively challenged decisions or solutions you don’t agree with
In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Salary
Inside IR35 - from ÂŁ380 per day
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
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Ready to design products and services that make a difference?
Do you want to create products that make a meaningful impact? Are you ready to lead strategy and delivery on projects that reach large audiences?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Product Manager, you’ll lead product strategy and delivery, balancing user needs and business goals across sectors, to create services that are used by millions of UK citizens.
The role
You’ll work on complex business challenges to help deliver solutions that deliver our clients’ goals. You will develop an understanding of those goals to define products and their priority features.
You’ll design, support and lead discovery and ideation workshops with clients and internal teams to devise innovative and impactful solutions. You’ll be responsible for managing relationships with stakeholders and development teams.
You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.
Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.
Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.
Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.
Essential experience
To succeed as a senior consultant product manager, you will need to demonstrate a breadth and depth of experience working in product management roles, on complex projects, across the full product lifecycle in different sectors.
You will have in-depth knowledge of software development, with experience in agile and user-centred design.
In your CV and the interview, you should show how you have:
• Led cross-functional, agile teams to deliver successful products
• Developed product visions, minimum viable products and roadmaps, understanding business problems and contexts
• Communicated objectives, plans and progress to a range of stakeholders
• Used boundary objects to synthesise many different perspectives
• Facilitated conversations to align large groups of diverse stakeholders
• Cultivated high performing, constructive and trusting team environments
As well as product management skills, there are other essential skills you’ll need to be an effective senior consultant.
In your CV, please show how you have:
• Methodically solved complex problems across a range of contexts and environments
• Taken the lead on projects, setting tasks and objectives to get the best out of others
• Adapted ways of working to suit the specific needs of projects
• Supported the development of others through coaching and/or mentoring
• Demonstrable experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines
Desirable experience
There are some areas of experience which are not essential but are relevant to this role.
• Active contribution in wider product community events and workshops
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or agile delivery management
In the interview we’ll ask you to that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
The Role
You’ll lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping open communication channels.
You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
You’ll be keen to understand our clients’ ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
Essential experience
We want you to have demonstrable experience in DevOps practices and appreciate that Cloud & Platform Engineering are big topics. Ultimately, we’re looking for talented engineers who can learn modern technologies in the digital space.
In the interview, please show your experience in:
· Designing, building, and testing software release processes that cover the entire SDLC.
· Creating, modifying, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines.
· Creating dashboards and visualisations for application performance that proactively identify and address potential problems before they occur.
· Using automated testing to detect security issues/vulnerabilities in application and/or infrastructure code, thereby detecting issues before it reaches production (aka Shift-Left).
· Strong experience in operating and maintaining services primarily in any of the BIG three public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
Desirable experience
Some other areas of experience that are not essential but still relevant to the role:
· Identifying problems using RCA or 5-Whys methods and suggesting solutions to reduce the likelihood of incidents reoccurring.
· A strong understanding of cloud networking and security concepts.
· Understanding the principles of containerisation, and how to control and orchestrate groups of containers in production environments.
· Writing clean, organised, structured and version-controlled code.
· Knowledge of at least one scripting language that enables you to perform more complex automation tasks thereby reducing manual toil.
· Preference for using CLI tools over relying on web portals.
· Understanding SRE (live services) ways of working, that enables you to better increase reliability and availability of the service you support.
· Auditing your service for FinOps and SecOps related compliance issues.
Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance.
If you don’t have all this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.