Inspire People

Company Name: Inspire People
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Job Description: Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering to bring an exciting opportunity for Senior Business Analysts who will define, analyse and document business problems across one of two major portfolios whilst helping to even further grow a sustainable, diverse and engaged Business Analyst community within DBT. Salary up to PS65,600 plus 28% pension contribution and other excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh.

If you would like to find out more about the role, the Business Analyst team and what it's like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Monday 4th November at 12.30pm. Follow the apply link where you will find instructions to join.
Job Description
DBT's Senior Business Analysts lead on mapping how user and organisational needs align with the business architecture and fit with the service vision and business strategy. You will sit across one of five major portfolios in the department.
You will lead business analysis, working closely with service owners, product managers and delivery teams. You should be a critical thinker and adaptable to confidently engage key stakeholders from different functions from across DBT.
You will be encouraged to challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose, while facilitating collaboration with all stakeholders to support the design, build and delivery of products and services that meet user needs.
This role will support the Head of Profession to build a sustainable, diverse Business Analyst community within DBT and line manage a small team of Business Analysts providing advice and direction on their activities.

Responsibilities
In your day-to-day role, you will:
Articulate business and user problems, identifying opportunities and ways to address them and providing recommendations
Gather requirements and user needs related to all aspects of the services you are supporting
Work with Service Owners, Product Managers and Delivery Managers to assess how your analysis should inform the team's activities
Lead on business process analysis and re-engineering where applicable and write and edit the relevant documentation
Apply proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to ensure that the team's plans and objectives are achieved
Work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions and ensure they are sufficiently tested and meet business and user needs
Contribute to an active and supportive community of practice and support the development of junior business analysts
Essential Skills and Experience
You should be able to demonstrate essential skills and experience of:
Applying Agile and waterfall methodologies to work
Advising on the best business analysis approaches/techniques to investigate and assess complex business problems. Feasibility assessments and ensuring proposed solutions align with business objectives and user needs
Requirements gathering using the most appropriate elicitation techniques, prioritising and ensuring requirements traceability throughout the lifecycle.
Stakeholder Management on all levels in challenging situations, clarifying needs and commitments through consultation and resolving conflict where required
Mapping and modelling business processes then identifying opportunities to improve business performance.
Leading the analysis, design, prioritisation and implementation of process changes, and support business process testing and usability evaluations.
You will be flexible, with ability to move and work effectively across a number of services within the portfolio, adaptable to engage wit key stakeholders from various functions and proactive to identify solutions to problems.
Desirable Experience
Experience of working at portfolio level or across multiple products
Benefits
In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

* Salary of PS53,560 to PS65,600 depending on skills as assessed at interview
* Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford
* Best-in-class training and development tailored to your role with study days and certifications expensed
* Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service
* An excellent Civil Service pension scheme starting at 28.8% employer contribution
Further information:
This role requires you to undergo SC clearance where the requirement is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
DBT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
If you are an experienced Business Analyst looking to enhance your career and make a difference across a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Zymante Gintalaite at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

On site

18-10-2024

Company Name: Inspire People
Job Title: Network Infrastructure Engineer Lead
Job Description: HM Land Registry ("HMLR") and Inspire People are partnering to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Lead Network Infrastructure Engineer to help shape the technical direction of HMLR's established network function and infrastructure across all 14 UK offices. You will actively engage in series of network re-designs and upgrades including new office topology, Firewalls and routing designs. Salary of PS54,388 to PS68,900 dependent upon interview assessment plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28% pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from several locations including Croydon and Plymouth.
The IT Operations Practice contains an established network function who are responsible for the design, delivery, and maintenance of HM Land Registry network infrastructure. This encompasses data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure. These services underpin all of HMLRs IT services.
The team are actively engaged in a series of exciting network re-designs, consolidations and upgrades including new local office topology and design, new switching, Firewalls and routing designs.
If you would like to find out more about the role, the Network Engineering team and what it's like to work at HMLR, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Monday 21st of October at 12:30pm. Use the 'Apply' button which will provide the link to book onto this session.
Responsibilities include:
Be the subject matter expert on networks within HM Land Registry, taking accountability for design and management of network infrastructure.
Provide technical leadership to the practice, working as a Lead Infrastructure Engineering team to provide guidance and technical decision making within BAU and change portfolio deliverables
Support HM Land registry Network Infrastructure, encompassing data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure.
Use networking skills to continually design and develop the network topology to meet business needs
Maintain effective relationships with other practices in order to meet operational requirements and service levels agreements.
Contribute to the continual improvement of the practise and the IT Operations community, supporting community members to build and maintain cohesion
Occasional hands-on with reconfiguration, troubleshooting, rolling out new equipment and quality assurance.
Essential skills:
CCNP qualification or equivalent experience
Routing configurations using standard enterprise routing protocols including OSP and BGP.
Firewall configuration including policy, routing and design.
Switching protocols (HSRP/VLAN/port-channels)
Physical network design.
Design and operation of cloud network solutions (Any cloud)
Experience of planning and leading on the delivery of large-scale network infrastructure change
Experience of technical leadership in an enterprise technical environment.
Effective communication skills, including the ability to interact and build working relationships with stakeholders.
Location
Expectation is to be working from the Plymouth, Croydon, Peterborough office 60% of your time across the month (typically 3 days/week).
Benefits
Salary between PS54,388 - PS68,900 depending on skills assessed at interview and location
Alongside your salary, HM Land Registry contributes PS9,881 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
Annual leave of 28.5 days' paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 days public holidays
Personalised training and development plans including expensed accreditations with training days set aside
Flexi-time scheme (You decide what working hours work best for you)
Social and sports club
Access to our employee assistance programme for counselling and support on a wide range of issues
Interest-free loan for season tickets
Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).
HMLR have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development and flexible ways of working.
Further information
This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.
This post may include participation in an on-call rota, subject to additional pay.
If you are a Network Engineer with experience of providing technical leadership to Network teams, keen to make significant impact to over 6000 users and work on Critical National Infrastructure then apply today or contact Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

On site

18-10-2024

Company Name: Inspire People
Job Title: Lead Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Description: HM Land Registry ("HMLR") and Inspire People are partnering to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Lead Network Infrastructure Engineer to help shape the technical direction of HMLR's established network function and infrastructure across all 14 UK offices. You will actively engage in series of network re-designs and upgrades including new office topology, firewalls and routing designs. Salary of £54,388 to £68,900 dependent upon interview assessment plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28% pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from several UK locations.
The IT Operations Practice contains an established network function who are responsible for the design, delivery, and maintenance of HM Land Registry network infrastructure. This encompasses data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure. These services underpin all of HMLRs IT services.
The team are actively engaged in a series of exciting network re-designs, consolidations and upgrades including new local office topology and design, new switching, firewalls and routing designs.
Responsibilities include:
Be the subject matter expert on networks within HM Land Registry, taking accountability for design and management of network infrastructure.
Provide technical leadership to the practice, working as a Lead Infrastructure Engineering team to provide guidance and technical decision making within BAU and change portfolio deliverables
Support HM Land registry Network Infrastructure, encompassing data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure.
Use networking skills to continually design and develop the network topology to meet business needs
Maintain effective relationships with other practices in order to meet operational requirements and service levels agreements.
Contribute to the continual improvement of the practise and the IT Operations community, supporting community members to build and maintain cohesion
Occasional hands-on with reconfiguration, troubleshooting, rolling out new equipment and quality assurance.
Essential skills:
CCNP qualification or equivalent experience
Routing configurations using standard enterprise routing protocols including OSP and BGP.
Firewall configuration including policy, routing and design.
Switching protocols (HSRP/VLAN/port-channels)
Physical network design.
Design and operation of cloud network solutions (Any cloud)
Experience of planning and leading on the delivery of large-scale network infrastructure change
Experience of technical leadership in an enterprise technical environment.
Effective communication skills, including the ability to interact and build working relationships with stakeholders.
Location
Expectation is to be working from the Plymouth, Croydon or Peterborough office 60% of your time across the month (typically 3 days/week).
Benefits
Salary between £54,388 - £68,900 depending on skills assessed at interview and location
Alongside your salary, HM Land Registry contributes £9,881 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
Annual leave of 28.5 days' paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 days public holidays
Personalised training and development plans including expensed accreditations with training days set aside
Flexi-time scheme (You decide what working hours work best for you)
Social and sports club
Access to our employee assistance programme for counselling and support on a wide range of issues
Interest-free loan for season tickets
Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).
HMLR have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development and flexible ways of working.
Further information
This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.
This post may include participation in an on-call rota, subject to additional pay.
If you are a Network Engineer with experience of providing technical leadership to Network teams, keen to make significant impact to over 6000 users and work on Critical National Infrastructure then apply today or contact Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.

Croydon, United Kingdom

On site

29-10-2024

Company Name: Inspire People
Job Title: Performance Test Engineer
Job Description: Would you like the opportunity to work with the latest technologies reaching 50 million users? The DVLA and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Senior Performance Test Engineer to work on analysing and assuring the quality of DVLAs software to build products quickly and safely. As a Senior Performance Test Engineer at DVLA, you will help build world class digital services that pave the way for DVLAs business transformation. £40,808 plus up to £16,592 allowance and excellent Civil Service benefits and 28.97% pension. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, a great place to work, live and play, with a healthy work-life balance on how and where you work.

DVLA's Senior Performance Test Engineers are building service level performance test suites that ensure our digital services are thoroughly exercised to ensure they can perform at very high volumes and within agreed response times as expected for modern digital Government services. You will be a key member of a small but highly specialised testing function with responsibility for performance testing all DVLA digital service offerings. You will design, build and execute suites of performance tests for DVLA services that operate across both Legacy and Cloud infrastructure.

DVLA use a range of performance test tooling and methodologies which can vary to suit the services under test (including APIs, Web-based UIs and often a mix of Cloud hosted services that rely on Legacy Back End systems and data).

Job description
This test role will require you to join a small but very specialised test team that sits within the Quality Engineering (QE) function - in DVLA's Information Technology Service Creation (ITSC) department. This specialised performance test team can be called upon to assist with testing of new services, transformation initiatives, technical upgrades or applications changes with focus on performance requirements that usually include high volume services and measuring response times. The role will also provide specialist performance test support as required to our numerous Development Squads delivering these changes. As a key member of the Performance Test team, you will continuously strive to develop an increased understanding of new and emerging tools and approaches with a view to improving the test services offered.

Responsibilities
Include but are not limited to:
Performance testing activities across the full development lifecycle; from requirements gathering though to test execution, as part of the wider approach to QA and performance engineering.
Collaboration with different delivery partners to reduce the need to rework and refactor the application in later development cycles, optimising the value of design, development and testing.
Working in complex and highly integrated technical environments with other agile and DevOps product teams.
Using analytical techniques, including risk-based testing, and applying formal test analysis and design techniques where appropriate to the implementation of performance testing.
Promoting development of performance testing capabilities within the ITSC organisation, including continuous professional development and understanding of new and emerging industry leading technologies.
Working closely with other performance team members, the wider ITSC community plus project and business stakeholders on all aspects of Quality Assurance with particular attention to performance testing.
Applying knowledge and experience of different technical and product domains.
Person specification
The DVLA is at the cutting edge of cloud-first technologies and at the forefront of digital within government, providing new and improved services that are reliable, easy to use and offer value for money for our customers. With over 50 million driver records and over 40 million vehicle records, the opportunity to work at this scale is unrivalled across the region. DVLA's services generate billions in revenue and make a difference to the lives of 9 out of 10 households in the UK. As a member of the Performance test team you will be directly contributing to the success of these outcomes.

You will have a demonstrable passion for Performance Testing, with the following skills and experience:
Using JMeter, Influx, Grafana - these form the current toolset in use though extensive experience in any other industry recognised performance tooling may be considered.
Using Scripting languages such as Groovy.
Using SQL or other DB Scripting languages.
Using Unix or Linux systems and Shell or other similar.
Using AWS and/or Azure hosting platforms.
Performance test of Legacy infrastructure and applications or hybrid of Legacy with Cloud.
Setting up performance tests from requirements gathering through to test execution, using performance test to anticipate issues that might arise during different load conditions.
Analysing NFRs, technical designs and business requirements.
Establishing and maintaining relationships with multiple delivery partners and actively engaging stakeholders.
Developing yourself and the wider team through a range of activities that achieve current business goals, help to meet future challenges and build a capacity for change.
Strong team working and collaboration experience alongside proven ability to work independently to drive performance test requirements, execution and investigations as necessary.
Delivering performance test function across a range of Private and Public Sector organisations.
Working for the DVLA Digital Team
At DVLA, licensing is just the start. Every project you implement, touch and deliver has a ripple effect that'll wash across the nation. Here the work you're doing has the capacity to change the way 50 million people interact with our services. As DVLA aim to keep our roads some of the safest in the world, our innovative, transformative digital-led services help optimise a nation of individuals and business every single day.
How to Apply
You will be required to submit a CV providing detailed evidence of your experience of the following essential criteria:
Demonstrable hands-on experience of designing and writing performance test scripts for complex solutions.
Demonstrable experience of performance test tooling and methodologies.
Demonstrable experience of extensive team working and managing stakeholder expectations.
If you are an experienced Performance Test Engineer looking for your next career move, please apply or contact Charys Colchester for a confidential conversation.

Swansea, United Kingdom

On site

30-10-2024

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