Scrum Master – Digital Media – London

Scrum Master, ideally Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile Project Manager, high-transactional websites / E-Commerce, Broadcasting, Digital Media

On behalf of my client, a large Broadcaster, I am looking for a Scrum Master, Agile Project Manager to implement and coach Agile best practice across both on and off-shore development teams. As Scrum Master you will take responsibility for the planning and execution of software delivery using Agile principles with a demonstrable approach to using Agile methods, processes and activities. This will also incorporate formal project management to ensure projects are delivered to time-scales and expectations.

Required skills and experience:
 In depth knowledge of one or more Agile project management frameworks preferably Scrum
 Managing project dependencies across related work-streams within an Agile approach
 Solid communication skills both oral and written with the capacity of working with both business and technical stakeholders
 Ability to create a collaborate Agile approach within both on and off-shore development teams
 Solid coaching, mentoring and team leadership skills within an Agile approach
 Experience of the facilitation and leadership of workshops and the gathering and communicating of Agile metrics
 Agile mentoring and coaching skills
 Agile training certification:
 Certified ScrumMaster – minimum
 Certified Scrum Professional – preferred
This is an excellent opportunity within a large well known company within the Digital Media / Broadcasting space.

Contract Robin Carton – 01920 877111 or rjc@arcamresources.com

Web Business Analyst – London – £55k

 

Job Description: Web Business Analyst
Core Job Purpose
The role is Web Business Analyst, reporting in to the Head of Products. The role will be approx 70% working within the Websites Team and approx 30% to wider Business Analysis for further web product development.
The Websites Team forms a critical part of the Online function, planning, managing and delivering the websites as well as measuring performance of Group and website delivery. As a Business Analyst, this role is essential in letting us fulfil our business requirements. The role is also critical in ensuring that an appropriate level of support and stability is delivered to our website project.
The Websites Team:
• Is responsibility for the continued development of Online Products, Provides Reporting, Analytics and Business Intelligence across online portfolio
• Owns and drives a number of key projects that aim to directly improve product performance
• Executes bespoke analysis on an ad hoc basis to answer critical business questions across the Group
Job Description
Websites (70%):
• Provide business analysis and support to two critical projects in the Websites team:
• Develop and provide regular management and operational reporting. Provide insight into the performance of the website product
• Carry out bespoke in-depth analysis to help improve efficiency in the fulfillment process
• Work with management to set KPI’s and targets across the business on a quarterly basis
• Conduct competitor analysis and identify market trends to help shape the websites strategy
Wider Business Analysis (30%):
• Carry out bespoke in-depth analysis on critical business questions on products and markets.
The successful candidate will be working in a high calibre team, with direct operations exposure from day one.
Candidate Requirements
Functional knowledge & skills
• Intelligent and strategic thinker
• Strong background in analytics and business intelligence
• Strong Experience working with Microsoft Excel. Experience working with large data sets, and ideally will have experience with data management tools (such as Microsoft Access)
• Pro-active in drawing out the “So What?” from analysis
• Preferably web-savvy with some experience working on online projects
General competencies
• Quality focus, results driven, with good attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex issues in simple terms
• Ability to provide constructive, well thought out and timely feedback
• Continuous improvement focus
• Proven skills in delivering management and stakeholder reports
• Ability to work within a large global team, and manage and prioritize workload alongside production support issues
• Strong organizational and time management skills
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in a numerical discipline is preferred though not required.
At least 2-3 years work experience in consulting or a corporate environment

Please contact Robin Carton : 01920 877111 – rjc@arcamresources.com

Project Manager – Asset Management / Hedge Fund – c£100k

Job Description
Position:
Based in prestigious offices in Central London, you will manage a growing team of implementation consultants. This team will manage the full life cycle implementation of Asset Management, Hedge Fund and Compliance solutions in respect of front-office investment processes. You will also manage general consultancy services around these related products such as installations, training, business and technical reviews and configuration of new functionality.
Responsibilities will include:
• Managing the team of Implementation Consultants for Asset Management and Hedge Fund Solutions
• Plan resource allocation
• Act as a Project Manager and Lead for complex implementation projects
• Manage the transition of clients from Projects to Operational Support
• Mentor, motivate and lead the team
• Take ownership for continuous process improvement
Required Skills
• Strong team leadership & people management ability
• Excellent communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills are essential
• Convey engaging, informative and well-organised presentations
• Excellent Structured Project Management skills are required

For a full Job Desciption, please contact Robin Carton – rjc@arcamresources.com – 01920 877111

 

Lead Architect – to £100k – London – BANKING

As lead architect you will help to establish best practices, supporting critical issues and serve as counsel for other architects.
You will partner with other senior architecture leaders to align enterprise, domain and solution architecture areas of work. Heading the team you will define overall strategy and co-ordinate work within a divisional unit.
With ownership of high level design you will be responsible for all aspects of architecture to drive the correct balance between business need and total cost of ownership.
Experience of:
* Has proven solution architect and technical leadership skills of complex integration projects.
* Working within agile and iterative project delivery methodologies, eg Scrum
* Experience and proven knowledge of system architecture frameworks and process, and the concepts of loosely coupled architectures based on Service Orientated Architecture (SOA)
* A range of platforms and solid skills across several enterprise technologies, including J2EE multi-tier architectures, and Portal technologies
* Database and data models
* Content management and search
* Experience with customer and stakeholder management
* Integration with front to back banking platforms
* Security implications
* TOGAF beneficial
* Ideally a business management or IT qualification
* Estimating, project planning and scheduling
Java, J2EE
* Application Servers, eg Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere
* Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services technologies, ESB
* JSF
* Spring
* Struts
* Ajax
* Apache

Please contact Robin Carton; rjc@arcamresources.com — 01920 877111

 

User Experience Architect – CONTRACT – CITY

On behalf I am looking for a User Experience Architect for involvement on the initial stages of an online/Website best of breed refresh.
With a good background across all aspects of information Architect and Interface Design, you will work closely with Senior business and IT Stakeholders in respect of providing strategic, creative input and ideas for their new and improved customer experience. You will be responsible for refining the design and usability of their websites and online applications.
Ø Good background with Senior Stakeholder interaction and working with cross-functional teams with ability to facilitate and steer discussion workshops
Ø Articulate your recommendations and ideas around User Experience Journeys etc, taking into account business objectives
Ø Proven experience of producing User Experience Journey definition, Use Cases, Functional Spec’s.
Ø Usability Audit/Studies
Ø Sitemaps, Wireframes, Prototyping, Mock-ups etc User Experience Architect, User Interface Architect, User Experience Journeys, Usability, Sitemaps, Siteflows, Wireframes.

Please contact Robin Carton 01920 877111 OR rjc@arcamresources.com

Web Business Analyst – London – £55k

Job Description: Web Business Analyst
Core Job Purpose
The role is Web Business Analyst, reporting in to the Head of Products. The role will be approx 70% working within the Websites Team and approx 30% to wider Business Analysis for further web product development.
The Websites Team forms a critical part of the Online function, planning, managing and delivering the websites as well as measuring performance of Group and website delivery. As a Business Analyst, this role is essential in letting us fulfil our business requirements. The role is also critical in ensuring that an appropriate level of support and stability is delivered to our website project.
The Websites Team:
• Is responsibility for the continued development of Online Products, Provides Reporting, Analytics and Business Intelligence across online portfolio
• Owns and drives a number of key projects that aim to directly improve product performance
• Executes bespoke analysis on an ad hoc basis to answer critical business questions across the Group
Job Description
Websites (70%):
• Provide business analysis and support to two critical projects in the Websites team:
• Develop and provide regular management and operational reporting. Provide insight into the performance of the website product
• Carry out bespoke in-depth analysis to help improve efficiency in the fulfillment process
• Work with management to set KPI’s and targets across the business on a quarterly basis
• Conduct competitor analysis and identify market trends to help shape the websites strategy
Wider Business Analysis (30%):
• Carry out bespoke in-depth analysis on critical business questions on products and markets.
The successful candidate will be working in a high calibre team, with direct operations exposure from day one.
Candidate Requirements
Functional knowledge & skills
• Intelligent and strategic thinker
• Strong background in analytics and business intelligence
• Strong Experience working with Microsoft Excel. Experience working with large data sets, and ideally will have experience with data management tools (such as Microsoft Access)
• Pro-active in drawing out the “So What?” from analysis
• Preferably web-savvy with some experience working on online projects
General competencies
• Quality focus, results driven, with good attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex issues in simple terms
• Ability to provide constructive, well thought out and timely feedback
• Continuous improvement focus
• Proven skills in delivering management and stakeholder reports
• Ability to work within a large global team, and manage and prioritize workload alongside production support issues
• Strong organizational and time management skills
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in a numerical discipline is preferred though not required.
At least 2-3 years work experience in consulting or a corporate environment

Please contact Robin Carton : 01920 877111 – rjc@arcamresources.com

Web Designer / Developer – Russian speaking – London

Job Description – Web Designer / Developer

Candidate Profile:
The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years web design and some development experience in a Microsoft environment using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.Net Web Forms and Visual Studio.
The candidate will be required to communicate extensively with colleagues in Russia and Eastern Europe as well as translating requirements written in Russian to English. Hence the candidate should be fluent in the Russian language, both written and oral. Some customer communication will also be required.

Education/Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have degree level education with computing qualifications. Web design and development experience in a Microsoft environment using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.Net Web Forms, Visual Studio, with experience of C# and Web Services. Fluent Russian, both written and oral, would be a significant advantage

IT Skills:
To include 2-3 years’ experience in the following fields:
• HTML;
• CSS;
• JavaScript;
• ASP.Net Web Forms;
• Visual Studio;
• Photoshop.
Also the following would be desirable:
• C#;
• Web Services.
• AJAX;
• JQuery (or similar);
• Flash;
• Flex;
• Silverlight;
• Subversion;
• Visual Source Safe;
• IIS;
• SQL.

The candidate must be able to use JavaScript / AJAX to create dynamic interface elements reusing existing OO APIs.

Skills:
• The ability to balance both productivity and creativity based on the number of work requests in the pipeline.
• Personal project management skills – ability to create and maintain project plans for the customisation work assigned and to communicate those plans to clients and responsible managers.
• Good estimation skills.
• Strong Analytical skills
• Must demonstrate attention to detail and strong job completion skills.
• Able to prioritise workloads and respond to tight deadlines – good timekeeping is essential.
• Willing to take responsibility for ensuring delivery of a quality service.
• Interested in learning new applications, products and techniques.
• Language skills – fluency in Russian is preferably both oral and written
Experience:
Ideal candidates will have extensive web site design experience, good personal project management skills.
Personal Attributes:
Candidates should be confident, self-motivated and results driven, with a flexible, professional attitude and acting as a good team player that wants to work towards meeting expectations and providing solutions.

Please contact Robin Carton: rjc@arcamresources.com : 01920 877111

Agile Project Manager – Banking – London

On behalf of my client, a niche Consultancy within the Retail Banking and Finance space, I am looking for an Agile Project Manager to help my client to adopt an agile approach to their projects.

As project manager you will;
Take responsibility for determining the project timescales, approach and resources required
Drive the team and available resources in line with this plan.
Creation of the Project Plan, Requirements/Design Spec, UAT and all other project documentation in line with agreed templates.
Ensure daily and weekly measurement of the plan against actuals, taking corrective measures where appropriate.
Instigate and manage processes for managing change to project requirements.
Ensure appropriate commercial cover is in place for any work we undertake on its clients or partners behalf.
Report progress internally and with the customer weekly. Document achievements, highlight risks and issues. Detail next steps and actions to achieve project goals.
Manage escalations promptly and sensitively through to resolution
Ensure with the team the compliance of the final solution to the agreed acceptance criteria and liaison with customer for the same
Manage and arrange the team members from a technical perspective, feeding into the Resource Manager with input for Performance Reviews
Mentor the project team and client as appropriate.
Complete project closure and produce project review documentation for internal distribution

Please call Robin Carton for a full job-description on 01920 877111 or rjc@arcamresources.com