Project Manager required by our client a SAAS solutions provider with experience of IT Software project implementation – responsible for planning, designing, executing, monitoring and controlling all aspects of projects – ensuring that it is completed on time and to budget.

Our client is based on the Cheshire/North Wales border region with some remote working (1/2 days per week) as an option this is a great opportunity to join a close-knit team working on exciting projects in a stimulating international environment. In return you will enjoy a salary up to £50k plus benefits including 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, Company pension scheme, Life Assurance, income protection, Medical Cash Plan, Staff Discount Scheme, internal and external training and development, supporting both personal and business development.

Project Manager (IT / Software) – Key Skills and experience

• Proven experience within a similar Project Implementation role
• Working knowledge of producing project plans using Microsoft Project
• Ability to manage multiple and large scale projects
• Confident communicating at all levels of the business
• Superb leadership and people management skills
• Industry experience in Supply chain/Logistics or a Warehouse environment would be advantageous

Project Manager (IT / Software) – Responsibilities:

• Developing and updating the project scope documents, as well as developing and reviewing detailed project work plans
• Conducting regular status meetings with the Project Team, and presenting high level reports at Project Steering meetings
• Monitoring the project progress and risk, in addition to the overall performance of Project Team members
• Communicating with customers and effectively managing relationships
• Complying with the relevant requirements of ISO 9001
• Assisting, advising, and supporting team members

Please forward your CV to us ASAP and we will contact you to discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail. You will also achieve career development and the chance to earn a salary up to £50k plus benefits including 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, Company pension scheme, Life Assurance, income protection, Medical Cash Plan, Staff Discount Scheme, internal and external training and development, supporting both personal and business development.

Business Project Manager opportunity required by longstanding financial services company seeking proven project management skills responsible for a small number of financial digital business transformation projects centred on dashboards and auditing processes, whilst managing communication with and expectations of senior internal and client stakeholders.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation which is embracing major financial innovations, as the company grows and further develops its financial services offering.

The hybrid role is offered for an initial six-month period (either on a daily rate or as a fixed term contract) with some flexible remote working out of their Leeds offices in Yorkshire.

If you are a LTD company we offer an attractive day rate and for the Fixed Term Contract option offers an attractive salary to c£57K plus bonus and attractive benefits package.

Business Project Manager – Skills and knowledge

• Qualification in project management and evidence of exposure to leading a diverse range of financial service projects and work streams with the credibility to manage relationships with senior and diverse stakeholders.
• Experience of digital business transformation and managing multiple third-party relationships.
• Strong and robust project / portfolio reporting including raising and management of risks, issues and mitigation plans.
• Expert planning, judgment and analytical skills including financial cost benefit analysis.
• Critical thinking, problem solving, planning, organizing and decision-making skills with the ability to delegate and manage conflict.
• Strong understanding of business functions and structures, with experience of working with IT teams on complex projects.
• Excellent interpersonal and situational leadership skills with a customer centric approach.
• Resilient, robust, challenging with the ability to influence.

Business Project Manager – Areas of Responsibility:

• To support Senior Management stakeholders across the business in the delivery of key business projects designed to accelerate business development and growth in line with the business strategy.
• To design, develop and implement project and programme plans ensuring visibility and reassurance for required sponsors
• Lead the planning and implementation of project plans, facilitate the definition of project scopes, objectives, outcomes, dependencies and risks and accurately identify project tasks and resource requirements.
• Take the lead as Project Manager where required and work with sponsors and project teams to define and impact assess requirements, gain the appropriate approvals to proceed with projects and produce the required documentation for projects to expected quality standards.

Please forward your CV at the earliest convenience to our Consultant Elaine Hallworth for further information on this exciting career opportunity for Business Project Manager. To further discuss our client, the contract basis and the daily rate/package which includes a salary to £57K plus bonus and attractive benefits package including hybrid/remote working.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.

Senior Software Engineer X 2 required by our client, to join their Integration team based on the Chester/North Wales border. One Senior Engineer will lead the new CRM Squad and the second role will work on integration and data. Our client is offering a competitive salary to £60/65K + attractive benefits including Flexible working (minimum 2 days in the office), pension, discount benefits, Free parking onsite, Onsite electric car charging ports, and a highly subsidised restaurant onsite

The team follow a cloud first approach developing micro services hosted in MS Azure focussing heavily on Azure’s Serverless portfolio and following modern engineering practices and methodologies.

Senior Software Engineer Key Skills and Experience:-

• An experienced C#, .NET Engineer, who is looking to make that step up to a senior lead position.
• Experience of mentoring junior engineers.
• Proven experience with Microsoft Azure, Terraform, and C# in an integration team.
• Knowledge of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including MongoDB, especially in a Cloud environment would be advantageous.
• Knowledge and experience with team collaboration platforms: e.g.  Azure DevOps and strong problem solving and communication skills.

Senior Software Engineer Role:-

The Senior Engineers will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Azure based integration services and to provide line management and mentoring support to the more junior members of the team. The role is hands-on, and you will be expected to work to best practices in Integration and Cloud engineering, driving and ensuring high quality solutions.

Collaboration is key to the role and the Senior Engineer must work closely with the Principal Engineers, the Software Development Manager, and the Solutions Architect to help the team meet its goals and objectives.

For further details on these exciting positions please contact Elaine Hallworth by forwarding your CV to us and we will contact you to provide further information on this exciting opportunity offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

Agile Delivery Lead ideally with financial services experience required to co-ordinate the delivery of bespoke and packaged systems, facilitating and driving forward the business change process with the effective delivery of solutions to our client. We are looking for a candidate with Scrum Master experience who can also stretch this role to further develop a strong SCRUM working practice across the organisation.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established organisation based in LEEDS, West Yorkshire with strong growth plans to further develop its financial services offering.

The role is hybrid with some flexible remote working however you will be required to be in the LEEDS OFFICE at least two days each week with an excellent salary to plus bonus and attractive benefits package including: 26 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays, Death in service x 4, Permanent health insurance, Private medical insurance or contribution towards gym membership and a generous Pension scheme (up to 12%).

Agile Delivery Lead – Key Skills and Experience

Essential Technical Skills

• Experience working in an agile software delivery environment
• Experience as a scrum-master of co-ordinating, guiding and mentoring scrum teams
• At least 2 years relevant experience working in a commercial environment.
• Ability to stretch and further develop the Scrum set up for the team to the next level
• Strong communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholder relationships
• Capable of identifying and challenging the effectiveness of existing processes; of proposing improvements; and of achieving buy-in from stakeholders.
• Ability to work at a detailed level across complex business processes.

Desirable Technical Skills

• Scrum Master qualifications.
• Good knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Project management and Prince 2 experience.
• Risk management.
• Experience of Change and Issue management processes.
• Experience using Azure DevOps server, Jira, Confluence or other similar tooling.
• Working in the financial services industry or other regulated environment

Scrum Master – Areas of responsibility:

• Run scrums and manage project deliverables / allocate tasks
• Act as Scrum Master facilitating development delivery through Agile methodologies, with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, refinements and sprint demos with the assistance of Product Owners.
• Work in close collaboration with the various product owners, system owners and development team; support the Product Owners with emphasis on maintaining and processing the product backlog.
• Guide the Development team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum concepts and principles and ensure they are adhered to.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within the scrum teams.
• Assess technical and resource constraints and their impact on our products and teams.
• Facilitate impediments / blockers and guide the team to remove them.
• Produce and maintain relevant metrics that help the scrum teams measure their performance, providing MI detailing the progress on development and delivery.
• Facilitate the IT business change process, ensuring design and delivery follows the process and identifying improvements to how things can be done

Please forward your CV at the earliest convenience to our Consultant Elaine Hallworth for further information on this exciting career opportunity for Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master. To further discuss our client, the attractive package which includes an attractive plus bonus and attractive benefits package including hybrid/remote working.

AWS Cloud Engineer required by our client, an exciting international software solutions company based in Denbighshire just off the A55 expressway (c20 mins drive from Chester), with Remote working only needed to be in the office C2 days a week.

AWS Cloud Engineer role requires significant traditional infrastructure experience especially AWS Cloud and ideally Azure experience as well as Linux, information security and debugging skills to implement continuous integration, delivery and deployment for our clients’ platform.

AWS Cloud Engineer would benefit working in a professional, hybrid working environment including c 2 days per week in the client’s offices based a couple of minutes from the A55 in North Wales. The client offers a competitive salary with a good benefits package.

AWS Cloud Engineer – skills required:

· AWS cloud services

. Solid infrastructure background

· Linux systems

· Networking experience

· Domain management

· Ideally Azure

· Jenkins

· Jira

The role would suit candidates with a strong Infrastructure Engineer background having moved into a Cloud Engineer role looking to further develop their skills with an expanding, international software company. Ideally you will have 2-3 years’ commercial experience in large-scale system administration and familiarity with Open Source and Cloud services technologies, such as AWS, Azure, Jenkins, or Docker.

Please forward your CV to us and we will contact you to provide further information on this exciting opportunity offering a competitive salary and benefits package.