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Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
You’ll collaborate with the product manager and team to plan the delivery of services and products that deliver our client’s strategic outcomes. You’ll work in multidisciplinary agile teams alongside people in design, development, and research.
You’ll play a key role in determining the milestones to efficiently deliver for our clients. You’ll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy within our clients’ governance structures.
Essential experience
You need to comfortably deliver work against a fairly well-defined outcome, where you understand the context you’re delivering in.
In your CV and the interview, please show how you have:
• organised a scrum team, facilitated ceremonies and workshops to reach delivery milestones
• used a range of collaboration tools
• knowledge of Agile, plus Scrum or Kanban
• worked in an ambiguous environment and methodically broken down complex problems
• supported the team to tackle problems make progress in challenging situations
• created and iterated a team charter and ways of working
• encouraged teams to refer their work back to the project’s vision and commitments
• identified risks and dependencies within and outside the influence of your team, and had strategies to work towards their mitigation
• identified milestones and created plans towards delivery, and presented these to stakeholders
In addition to these Agile delivery skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to work effectively as a consultant.
In your interview, please show how you:
• have good presentation skills and confident verbal communication
• build strong relationships and resolve conflict
• provide feedback and challenge appropriately
• are proactive and can work autonomously
Desirable experience
There are some other desirable areas of experience for this role. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas. These are:
• The Service Standard (UK Government)
• remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• calculating metrics and using the outcomes to effectively manage the team
• knowledge of team coaching and other techniques to support team development
• demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management
If you have any of this experience, please show it on your CV and talk about it in the interview.
Life at
Opencast
Culture overview
We want to provide our people with interesting work for organisations that matter to them – we give our people the best chance to grow with us.
Our people are honest, hardworking, open and confident – we are smart self-starters. We strive to protect our family culture and we’re not big on hierarchy.
Our internal working groups ensure progressive change to our processes and practices, covering:
• Charity
• Environmental action
• Health and wellbeing
• Inclusive change
• Social committee
• Tech sector engagement
We offer an extensive social and wellbeing calendar providing something for everyone who wants to get involved in Opencast life.
We value and empower our people, doing right by them. We work flexibly and keep hierarchy to a minimum. Our benefits include generous annual leave, training and development, pension, and other financial perks.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Company Car
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
Share Options
Office vibe
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
Tech at
Opencast
Leadership
David Sarginson
Head of Software Development
Tech overview
Software, digital, & technical delivery
Our software, digital and technical delivery teams work across the development lifecycle, with experienced scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, testers, front-end and back-end software developers. We work with customers to deliver agile transformation and improve ways of working. We have delivered multiple complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards, from discovery through to live.
Architecture
Our growing digital architecture practice combines expertise in enterprise, solution and technical architecture. Our architects work collaboratively to create solutions in the context of our clients’ existing technology estates. We advise on the components required to deliver a new service successfully in line with business goals.
DevOps, cloud & platform engineering
Our DevOps, cloud and platform engineering practice brings together leading engineers who are true experts, driving the adoption of a DevOps culture and the benefits of cloud computing. We focus on delivering cost savings, reducing time to market, improving scalability and flexibility, as well as enhancing the quality and security of our delivery.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Configuration management
Continuous integration
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
Company tech stack
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