Vocative Consulting

M365 Development Lead - London (hybrid 1dpw) - £75K+ - Permanent role Lead a small team and manage external partners to ensure the successful delivery of multiple projects across a multi-year M365 transformation. Based in London, this financial services business is engaged in a large and complex cloud transformation. As part of that work, they have a multi-year roadmap for M365. With a small internal team and third party offshore partners delivering the bulk of the technical work, they are looking for an experienced candidate to join them to lead the team and manage the partners. You'll need to be an experienced candidate with deep technical know-how across the M365 landscape; Exchange, Sharepoint, InTune, SCCM, Teams and AVD plus other relevant technologies. You'll have had previous experience of implementing 365, and migrating from existing on-prem systems into new cloud environments. You don't need to have had significant managerial experience - this is an opportunity to grow your skills in that area - but working directly with stakeholders, challenging and managing the work of external vendors, and scoping and agreeing roadmaps will be a core part of your skill set, alongside your technical capability. The role is London based - you'll need to be in the office once every week or two. It's a permanent role and will pay around £75K base. For more details, and a confidential discussion, please contact Justin Sleep with a copy of your resume.

Technical Business Analyst - Security - London (Hybrid) - £75K - Perm An excellent opportunity to join a financial services business and work as part of their technical team, working specifically with their Security Projects team to deliver a variety of cloud security implementations. Initially the role will be focussed on IAM/IDAM project work. You'll need previous, specific experience working with Identity and Access Management or related projects (IDAM, PAM etc), as well as broader experience across the security landscape: particular experience in cloud security would be highly advantageous. You'll work with stakeholders at all levels to turn business requirements into technical specs and a deliverable roadmap, and will stay engaged through the implementation phases to ensure delivery aligns with requirements. The role is London based although it will need only a couple of days a week in the office - it will pay around £75K base. For more details and a confidential discussion please contact Justin Sleep with a copy of your resume.

Backend Software Engineer - C# / .net - Reading (Hybrid) - Permanent - £60K An excellent opportunity to join a growing software business with a well established customer based, and continue the development and maintenance of their core product. You'll be part of an Agile team, focussed on analysis and development of new features, improving scalability and performance of existing code and refactoring legacy code, and reducing technical debt. You'll be hands on in development and responsible for writing unit tests, and you'll work closely with other team members as well as with offshore QA teams. You'll need excellent experience of C#, .net framework, SQL and other relevant technologies, as well as knowledge of Visual Studio and Git. You'll need to have had demonstrable experience of commercial development and have worked in agile teams in fast paced environments. The role is based near Reading and you will need to be in the office a couple of days a week. It's a permanent role and will pay a base salary of up to £60K. For more details please contact Justin Sleep with a copy of your resume.

Software Engineering Team Leader - C# / .net - Reading (Hybrid) - Permanent - £75K An excellent opportunity to join a growing software business with a well established customer based, and continue the development and maintenance of their core product. You'll lead an Agile team, focussed on analysis and development of new features, improving scalability and performance of existing code and refactoring legacy code, and reducing technical debt. You'll be hands on in development and responsible for writing unit tests, and you'll work closely with other team members as well as with offshore QA teams. You'll be responsible for line and performance management of the team - around 4-5 people. You'll need excellent experience of C#, .net framework, SQL and other relevant technologies, as well as knowledge of Visual Studio and Git. You'll need to have had demonstrable experience of commercial development and have worked in agile teams in fast paced environments. You'll need to have had demonstrable experience of managing other developers; running 1:1s, being responsible for performance and career development, and ensuring the team delivers against requirements. The role is based near Reading and you will need to be in the office a couple of days a week. It's a permanent role and will pay a base salary of up to 75K. For more details please contact Justin Sleep with a copy of your resume.

Applications Manager Hybrid (Bristol 2 days/week) £60, (with truly excellent benefits) Our client are going through a period of exciting change and transformation. This role will be to lead the teams responsible for a broad area of the organisation s digital applications and business services portfolio. You will be accountable for ensuring the delivery of high-quality operational services, that are operated in compliance with architectural and security standards, and that meet the requirements of the organisation and its digital strategy. • Manage and lead IT technical applications and services teams, ensuring these teams deliver effective digital solutions to the required service levels. • Oversee the overall operational management of the portfolio of services provided by the teams, ensuring professional levels of lifecycle management, regulatory adherence, and compliance with architectural and security standards. • Ensure the proactive monitoring and management of the availability and performance of applications and services, measured against SLAs • Support the Head of Applications with section-level budget planning, management and reporting activities. • Support the Head of Applications in the development and continuous improvement of an innovative and customer focussed service, driving the team to produce greater consistency and efficiency through use of standard procedures, processes and use of systems, alongside bespoke innovative solutions as required. • Work with the Head of Applications to develop and implement applications strategies regarding the future direction of the service portfolio in line with the organisations s overall strategic requirements. • Develop and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders, both internal and external. • With your Team Managers, manage third party suppliers to collectively deliver high-quality and cost-effective services, taking action where suppliers are not meeting contractual requirements. • Identify and manage risk to services using the risk management framework and ensure mitigations are in place, including disaster recovery plans to maintain critical applications and services. • Lead and manage projects with an organisation wide impact or are complex in nature and be responsible for the time, cost and quality of deliverables including managing project budgets. • Undertake professional mentoring and coaching of team members, ensuring that the capabilities of the team develop alongside industry change. • Embed a team culture which promotes the use of collaboration and software management tools and programming best practices to ensure development is managed in a controlled environment as standard practice. This is great time to join the organiosation and be part of their exciting journey. Please send us your CV now.

Angular UI Developer - Reading - Permanent - £50K An excellent opportunity for a Front End developer to join a successful and growing business. Working as part of the product team, you'll play a critical role in creating innovative and visually appealing user interfaces for web applications. Working closely with the UI designer you will be responsible for turning the designs into software, developing, implementing, and maintaining high-quality web applications using Angular. You'll translate wireframes and designs into functional and responsive user interfaces, and optimise them for speed and scalability. Working in an Agile/Scrum environment, you'll contribute to sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, and will work closely with back end developers and be involved in testing and QA. The role is based close to Reading and the team are in the office twice a week. It's an excellent opportunity to grow your career within an environment that offer numerous opportunities; it will pay a base of £50K. For more details and a confidential discussion please contact Justin Sleep with a copy of your resume.

IT Compliance Manager - Yorkshire / Hybrid - Permanent Role - £75-80K An excellent opportunity to join a financial services business and lead a small team, taking responsibility for IT Audit and Compliance across a wide range of disciplines. You'll work closely with stakeholders to improve compliance to policy across departments and environments, and will lead annual compliance activity around SOX, CASS etc. You'll ensure compliance with internal data privacy and NIST policies and provide reporting to senior management. In particular you'll be responsible for working closely with external auditors, understanding requirements and providing information as required, as well as leading the team through internal and external compliance work. The role is hybrid - you can be based anywhere in the UK, but a Yorkshire base would be ideal. It's a permanent role and will pay around £75-80K base. For more details please contact Justin Sleep with a copy of your resume.