BI Developer
Ipswich or Northampton

GBP35k-GBP40k DOE + Group Performance Bonus & Benefits

As we look to grow our Systems of Integration team, we're now looking for a BI Developer to join our Customers IT team based at either our Ipswich or Northampton sites.

Reporting to the Lead Developer, this role will be tasked with developing new and enhancing existing technical in-house Business Intelligence solutions for a variety of uses across Drax Customer. The role is wide and varied and will cover both analytics development and DevOps.

In this role your key responsibilities will include;

* Completing designs, codes, estimates and testing changes of varying complexity and size to satisfy functional and non-functional product requirements
* Working closely with Analysts, Business Contacts and Architecture functions to ensure understanding of Business priorities and adherence of high-level designs
* Utilising your broad understanding of our systems in order to assist in the support of existing solutions to keep our services operational
* Utilising relevant tools and technologies in order to write high-quality, scalable code that is compliant with secure coding industry practices
* Supporting test and deployment activities including the provision of a deployable solution to ensure releases are of high quality and business risks are managed carefully

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a background of working across the full software development cycle and will possess a solid understanding of development practices and procedures. Technically you'll be able to display experience in Cloud DevOps (AWS/Azure), SQL, SSIS Deployment pipelines (Azure DevOps/Atlassian) and Git Source control. An understanding of data warehousing and Python would also be highly beneficial.

The role will require in-depth analysis and problem-solving skills allowing you to act as a subject matter expert, building solutions that support our complex business operations. A personable individual, you'll be comfortable working across functions and teams in order to collaborate with employees across a variety of disciplines.

note there may be the occasional need to travel other sites or customer/partner sites as part of our wider technology community.

To get a copy of the full job description, please get in touch with Resourcing on or alternatively apply today!

Closing date for applications: Friday 21st February

BI Developer
Ipswich or Northampton

GBP35k-GBP40k DOE + Group Performance Bonus & Benefits

As we look to grow our Systems of Integration team, we're now looking for a BI Developer to join our Customers IT team based at either our Ipswich or Northampton sites.

Reporting to the Lead Developer, this role will be tasked with developing new and enhancing existing technical in-house Business Intelligence solutions for a variety of uses across Drax Customer. The role is wide and varied and will cover both analytics development and DevOps.

In this role your key responsibilities will include;

* Completing designs, codes, estimates and testing changes of varying complexity and size to satisfy functional and non-functional product requirements
* Working closely with Analysts, Business Contacts and Architecture functions to ensure understanding of Business priorities and adherence of high-level designs
* Utilising your broad understanding of our systems in order to assist in the support of existing solutions to keep our services operational
* Utilising relevant tools and technologies in order to write high-quality, scalable code that is compliant with secure coding industry practices
* Supporting test and deployment activities including the provision of a deployable solution to ensure releases are of high quality and business risks are managed carefully

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a background of working across the full software development cycle and will possess a solid understanding of development practices and procedures. Technically you'll be able to display experience in Cloud DevOps (AWS/Azure), SQL, SSIS Deployment pipelines (Azure DevOps/Atlassian) and Git Source control. An understanding of data warehousing and Python would also be highly beneficial.

The role will require in-depth analysis and problem-solving skills allowing you to act as a subject matter expert, building solutions that support our complex business operations. A personable individual, you'll be comfortable working across functions and teams in order to collaborate with employees across a variety of disciplines.

note there may be the occasional need to travel other sites or customer/partner sites as part of our wider technology community.

To get a copy of the full job description, please get in touch with Resourcing on or alternatively apply today!

Closing date for applications: Friday 21st February

The role

Are you a creative problem solver passionate about new technology and making stuff work? Do you want to work with a diverse team making a real impact for our retailers? We are always on the lookout for great PHP developers and we definitely want to hear from you.

We are a technical agency who work solely with Magento Enterprise. If you are a Magento developer, fantastic! If you have not worked with Magento before, don't worry, we will train you up. If you have experience with OOP, MVC and database design such as MySQL, Oracle or EAV, let's chat.

Day-to-day you will

• Write good quality code to written technical specifications.
• Work with our project and testing team to find the best technical solution for our clients.
• Investigate, analyse, document and correct reported bugs.
• Build complex and challenging web applications.
• Create, document and implement unit tests and scripts.
• Create and maintain technical documentation using defined technical templates.

Who do we look for?

The team has a broad range of abilities and experience. We don't believe that one-size-fits-all but here are a few things we typically look for in our Devs:

• Commercial experience with PHP and PHP-based frameworks (eg. Zend, CodeIgniter, Expression Engine).
• Ability to produce clean, well-documented, efficient, and standards-compliant code.
• Technical experience working with: MySQL; Linux; PHPUnit; Basic HTML; XML; Git/SVN (including feature branching, deploying, merging).

And here are some things we love to see but are not essential:

• Experience with E-commerce development (preferably Magento).
• Systems administration background.
• Experience of the full software development life cycle.
• Contribution to creating an open source project.
• Technical experience with: Basic CSS; Javascript; p erformance optimisation (especially SQL); Composer; d developing custom Magento extensions; Magento performance improvements.

The good stuff

Our office is based in Blackfriars House, a few minutes' walk from Deansgate and right in the heart of the hustle and bustle of Manchester City Centre. Our large, open plan premises boasts a dining room, games area with a pool table and several creative break out areas to get those ideas flowing!

The perks

• Competitive salary
• 32 days' holiday (inc. of public holidays) plus an extra day's holiday for every year you work with us
• Flexible working
• Regular appraisals and personal development plans
• Aviva Pension scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Employee discount scheme
• Bike to work scheme
• GBP150 contribution for eye tests and glasses/contact lenses
• Social events

The role

Are you a creative problem solver passionate about new technology and making stuff work? Do you want to work with a diverse team making a real impact for our retailers? We are always on the lookout for great PHP developers and we definitely want to hear from you.

We are a technical agency who work solely with Magento Enterprise. If you are a Magento developer, fantastic! If you have not worked with Magento before, don't worry, we will train you up. If you have experience with OOP, MVC and database design such as MySQL, Oracle or EAV, let's chat.

Day-to-day you will

• Write good quality code to written technical specifications.
• Work with our project and testing team to find the best technical solution for our clients.
• Investigate, analyse, document and correct reported bugs.
• Build complex and challenging web applications.
• Create, document and implement unit tests and scripts.
• Create and maintain technical documentation using defined technical templates.

Who do we look for?

The team has a broad range of abilities and experience. We don't believe that one-size-fits-all but here are a few things we typically look for in our Devs:

• Commercial experience with PHP and PHP-based frameworks (eg. Zend, CodeIgniter, Expression Engine).
• Ability to produce clean, well-documented, efficient, and standards-compliant code.
• Technical experience working with: MySQL; Linux; PHPUnit; Basic HTML; XML; Git/SVN (including feature branching, deploying, merging).

And here are some things we love to see but are not essential:

• Experience with E-commerce development (preferably Magento).
• Systems administration background.
• Experience of the full software development life cycle.
• Contribution to creating an open source project.
• Technical experience with: Basic CSS; Javascript; p erformance optimisation (especially SQL); Composer; d developing custom Magento extensions; Magento performance improvements.

The good stuff

Our office is based in Blackfriars House, a few minutes' walk from Deansgate and right in the heart of the hustle and bustle of Manchester City Centre. Our large, open plan premises boasts a dining room, games area with a pool table and several creative break out areas to get those ideas flowing!

The perks

• Competitive salary
• 32 days' holiday (inc. of public holidays) plus an extra day's holiday for every year you work with us
• Flexible working
• Regular appraisals and personal development plans
• Aviva Pension scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Employee discount scheme
• Bike to work scheme
• GBP150 contribution for eye tests and glasses/contact lenses
• Social events

We have a start-up mentality within a 150-year-old organisation
What we're looking for
Are you a strong Senior Developer with the experience, ability and ambition to help us as we scale our digital product development team? We are growing our team and so are recruiting senior developers with expertise in building cloud-scale, web and native consumer-grade products to help lead and build the technical delivery.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact for our team and our industry. Our products are used by millions of English language users globally, but we are just at the beginning of achieving our ambitions.
You will be working on a combination of API, web and native products. Our core stack a combination of Node and Java on the backend, React and React Native on the frontend, all deployed on AWS increasingly using infrastructure as code. While we are comfortable on these, we are looking for your experience to help us accelerate our development and make use of new technologies and techniques.
About the New Product team in Cambridge Assessment English
The New Product team is focused on delivering new products and capabilities through user centred design, agile development, R&D and collaboration with university research. The cross-functional team brings product owners, UX, assessment and market expertise along with a strong development team to build impactful digital learning and assessment technology. To give us an edge in finding and developing great ideas, we constantly research new, emerging and maturing technology and combine this with industry standard practices such as serverless, cloud-native architectures and CI/CD. We collaborate with deep, fundamental research in machine learning while building products for a global audience. This demanding but exciting combination is unusual in any team.
Our work involves experimenting in hackathons with new technologies such as AR, VR, Minecraft, blockchain, stress sensors and more. This keeps us innovative and brings fresh new ideas to our team and the organisation.
Work on global products
Cambridge Assessment English develops and produces Cambridge English qualifications, courses and tests, taken by over 5 million people every year in 130 countries and recognised by more than 20,000 universities, employers and governments. Ultimately your contribution will enable the world's leading education specialist to make a real difference to learners worldwide.
In your toolkit

• You will have strengths in either front- or backend technologies, but should be comfortable working or collaborating in either to keep the team moving.
• If backend, solid Node or Java in production and at scale.
• If frontend, React and React Native as well as the associated libraries, frameworks and tooling
• Solid dev tooling knowledge such as Git, Linux command line, scripting, build tools and similar
• You will be comfortable being the tech lead on product development, making decisions with the team and the Product Owners and Product Managers.
• Experience of collaborative software projects and processes such as branching, build processes, codebase conflict resolution, refactoring. You will be able to bridge the tech-business discussions.
• All roles will require modern architecture built across multiple cloud services. Experience of AWS an advantage.

Ambitious deadlines
You must understand how to structure code to be clear and understandable, while being pragmatically refactored. You will be working in an agile team with ambitious deadlines, so you will have experience of modern CI/CD processes and following scrum.
Surprise yourself - and shape your future
Working in a tight-knit team you'll grow your skills and grow further than you thought possible on challenging and stimulating projects that will enrich your career.
Who we are
Cambridge Assessment English is a part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge. We are the global leader in English language assessment. We help people learn English and prove their skills to the world. We provide exams in English for speakers of other languages taken by over 5 million candidates worldwide each year, as well as the leading range of qualifications for language teachers.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive package of benefits to help with your life both inside and outside of work:

• Generous contributory pension
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Annual salary review and discretionary company bonus
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• Employee discount and cash back scheme at 2,500 retailers
• Cycle scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Subsidised staff restaurants
• Support for professional qualifications
• Discounted access to the University of Cambridge Sport Centre, along with various other local gyms.

This role closes on 16 March. There are a number of roles available and this campaign is therefore being recruited on a continuous basis until the roles are filled. Please apply ASAP to avoid missing out as it could close at any time. Please include descriptions and/or links to recent work.
We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches lead to innovation and create an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued. As well as wanting to create diverse teams, we also value diversity in the way our people approach their work. Work/life balance is important to us at Cambridge Assessment and we offer our colleagues a range of flexible working options according to the needs of the business and the individual, so please let us know of any flexible working requirements when applying and we can see how we can support you.
To apply, please upload your CV and covering letter please click the APPLY button.
If you're successful at interview stage we will ask you to undergo background screening (carried out by Credence Background Screening Ltd), to ensure that all information provided to us is accurate. We wish you all the very best with your application.
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

We have a start-up mentality within a 150-year-old organisation
What we're looking for
Are you a strong Senior Developer with the experience, ability and ambition to help us as we scale our digital product development team? We are growing our team and so are recruiting senior developers with expertise in building cloud-scale, web and native consumer-grade products to help lead and build the technical delivery.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact for our team and our industry. Our products are used by millions of English language users globally, but we are just at the beginning of achieving our ambitions.
You will be working on a combination of API, web and native products. Our core stack a combination of Node and Java on the backend, React and React Native on the frontend, all deployed on AWS increasingly using infrastructure as code. While we are comfortable on these, we are looking for your experience to help us accelerate our development and make use of new technologies and techniques.
About the New Product team in Cambridge Assessment English
The New Product team is focused on delivering new products and capabilities through user centred design, agile development, R&D and collaboration with university research. The cross-functional team brings product owners, UX, assessment and market expertise along with a strong development team to build impactful digital learning and assessment technology. To give us an edge in finding and developing great ideas, we constantly research new, emerging and maturing technology and combine this with industry standard practices such as serverless, cloud-native architectures and CI/CD. We collaborate with deep, fundamental research in machine learning while building products for a global audience. This demanding but exciting combination is unusual in any team.
Our work involves experimenting in hackathons with new technologies such as AR, VR, Minecraft, blockchain, stress sensors and more. This keeps us innovative and brings fresh new ideas to our team and the organisation.
Work on global products
Cambridge Assessment English develops and produces Cambridge English qualifications, courses and tests, taken by over 5 million people every year in 130 countries and recognised by more than 20,000 universities, employers and governments. Ultimately your contribution will enable the world's leading education specialist to make a real difference to learners worldwide.
In your toolkit

• You will have strengths in either front- or backend technologies, but should be comfortable working or collaborating in either to keep the team moving.
• If backend, solid Node or Java in production and at scale.
• If frontend, React and React Native as well as the associated libraries, frameworks and tooling
• Solid dev tooling knowledge such as Git, Linux command line, scripting, build tools and similar
• You will be comfortable being the tech lead on product development, making decisions with the team and the Product Owners and Product Managers.
• Experience of collaborative software projects and processes such as branching, build processes, codebase conflict resolution, refactoring. You will be able to bridge the tech-business discussions.
• All roles will require modern architecture built across multiple cloud services. Experience of AWS an advantage.

Ambitious deadlines
You must understand how to structure code to be clear and understandable, while being pragmatically refactored. You will be working in an agile team with ambitious deadlines, so you will have experience of modern CI/CD processes and following scrum.
Surprise yourself - and shape your future
Working in a tight-knit team you'll grow your skills and grow further than you thought possible on challenging and stimulating projects that will enrich your career.
Who we are
Cambridge Assessment English is a part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge. We are the global leader in English language assessment. We help people learn English and prove their skills to the world. We provide exams in English for speakers of other languages taken by over 5 million candidates worldwide each year, as well as the leading range of qualifications for language teachers.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive package of benefits to help with your life both inside and outside of work:

• Generous contributory pension
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Annual salary review and discretionary company bonus
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• Employee discount and cash back scheme at 2,500 retailers
• Cycle scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Subsidised staff restaurants
• Support for professional qualifications
• Discounted access to the University of Cambridge Sport Centre, along with various other local gyms.

This role closes on 16 March. There are a number of roles available and this campaign is therefore being recruited on a continuous basis until the roles are filled. Please apply ASAP to avoid missing out as it could close at any time. Please include descriptions and/or links to recent work.
We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches lead to innovation and create an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued. As well as wanting to create diverse teams, we also value diversity in the way our people approach their work. Work/life balance is important to us at Cambridge Assessment and we offer our colleagues a range of flexible working options according to the needs of the business and the individual, so please let us know of any flexible working requirements when applying and we can see how we can support you.
To apply, please upload your CV and covering letter please click the APPLY button.
If you're successful at interview stage we will ask you to undergo background screening (carried out by Credence Background Screening Ltd), to ensure that all information provided to us is accurate. We wish you all the very best with your application.
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

This market leading case and matter management software provider is looking for a Software Tester to join their growing, Bristol based team.

Description of Role:
Part of the wider R&D Team, as a Software Tester you are responsible for the planning, development and carrying out of both manual and automated test scripts to qualitatively analyse new releases of desktop and web applications. Working to Agile methodology and principles, you are responsible for designing and executing tests and tracking software defects through to resolution.

Responsible for:
- Planning, designing and executing manual and automated tests based on software requirements
- Detecting, reporting and tracking software defects through to resolution
- Reviewing test plans, defects and test results with a view to continually improving the testing process and the quality of software product
- Communicating test progress, results and providing constructive feedback at appropriate Agile ceremonies

Primary Objectives:
- Devise test plans based on Acceptance Criteria in User Story and provide time estimation for testing activities on desktop and web applications
- Execute tests applying appropriate testing types, levels or techniques in different situations
- Creation and maintenance of value driven test documentation
- Ensure the quality of new software features and releases by testing to the required standard
- Record unexpected results from testing and feedback into the Sprint meetings and share findings with the R&D team
- Review test documentation and revised as needed to improve testing function and practices
- Share knowledge and skills with other teams in the business to provide a robust software product for clients
- Proactive management of workload and participation at Agile ceremonies

Skills and Experience
- Manual and automated testing of desktop and web applications
- Capable to use a variety of testing types, levels and techniques
- Testing web applications across multiple platforms with use of web developer tools for inspecting UI elements
- Knowledge of WCAG and other relevant standards
- Understanding of User stories, personas and example mapping
- Experience with Ranorex, Git, TFS
- Basic SQL knowledge
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Systematic and organised approach to work
- Thorough attention to detail whilst maintaining awareness of bigger picture
- Working in an Agile Scrum environment

Person Specification:
- Solution oriented and self organised
- Creative thinker and questioner
- Tactful and diplomatic approach to contentious conversations
- Proactive, logical and analytical approach to removing impediments and problem solving
- Ability to explain a technical concept concisely to both technical and non-technical individuals

Benefits include:
- Home Working
- Flexible Working
- 24 days holiday excl. bank holidays, increasing with length of service up to 34 days
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- 6% Employer Contribution Workplace Pension Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers
- Perkbox

This market leading case and matter management software provider is looking for a Software Tester to join their growing, Bristol based team.

Description of Role:
Part of the wider R&D Team, as a Software Tester you are responsible for the planning, development and carrying out of both manual and automated test scripts to qualitatively analyse new releases of desktop and web applications. Working to Agile methodology and principles, you are responsible for designing and executing tests and tracking software defects through to resolution.

Responsible for:
- Planning, designing and executing manual and automated tests based on software requirements
- Detecting, reporting and tracking software defects through to resolution
- Reviewing test plans, defects and test results with a view to continually improving the testing process and the quality of software product
- Communicating test progress, results and providing constructive feedback at appropriate Agile ceremonies

Primary Objectives:
- Devise test plans based on Acceptance Criteria in User Story and provide time estimation for testing activities on desktop and web applications
- Execute tests applying appropriate testing types, levels or techniques in different situations
- Creation and maintenance of value driven test documentation
- Ensure the quality of new software features and releases by testing to the required standard
- Record unexpected results from testing and feedback into the Sprint meetings and share findings with the R&D team
- Review test documentation and revised as needed to improve testing function and practices
- Share knowledge and skills with other teams in the business to provide a robust software product for clients
- Proactive management of workload and participation at Agile ceremonies

Skills and Experience
- Manual and automated testing of desktop and web applications
- Capable to use a variety of testing types, levels and techniques
- Testing web applications across multiple platforms with use of web developer tools for inspecting UI elements
- Knowledge of WCAG and other relevant standards
- Understanding of User stories, personas and example mapping
- Experience with Ranorex, Git, TFS
- Basic SQL knowledge
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Systematic and organised approach to work
- Thorough attention to detail whilst maintaining awareness of bigger picture
- Working in an Agile Scrum environment

Person Specification:
- Solution oriented and self organised
- Creative thinker and questioner
- Tactful and diplomatic approach to contentious conversations
- Proactive, logical and analytical approach to removing impediments and problem solving
- Ability to explain a technical concept concisely to both technical and non-technical individuals

Benefits include:
- Home Working
- Flexible Working
- 24 days holiday excl. bank holidays, increasing with length of service up to 34 days
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- 6% Employer Contribution Workplace Pension Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers
- Perkbox