Technology Vacancies
Javelin Group is Europe's leading specialist retail and ecommerce consultancy. Our extensive UK and international client base includes some of the most successful retailers and best known brands operating in the world today, including Tesco, B&Q, ASDA, Lakeland, Boots, New Look, Molton Brown, PlayStation, Radley, Durex, Oakley.
The Javelin Group Technology practice divides into the following disciplines:
. Technology Consulting - we advise retailers on enterprise architecture, application strategy, package selection and programme execution
. Application Delivery - we design, build and deliver retail solutions such as transactional ecommerce websites, Product Information Management (PIM) solutions, Order Management Systems (OMS) and retail middleware via Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integrations.
Our reputation as a premium brand in retail and ecommerce and continued strong demand for our services has driven significant growth over the last four years.
As a result, we are looking for passionate and talented individuals in the following areas:
Applications Architect
Business Analyst
Technology Delivery Manager
Technology Support Manager
Java Lead Developer
Applications Architect
The architect is responsible for the overall technical design of the solution and for making all technical decisions within the project.
This is a highly technical role providing the leadership and technical competence to deliver excellent client solutions. You will work alongside the business analysts, who will write and deliver the functional specification, a project manager who will organise the team and ensure that the projects are delivered to time and budget, and a development team. While there is likely to be limited, if any, hands on development, exceptional development skills are required in order to make sure the optimal solution is designed and that the developers work to the highest standards.
Education
Computer Science degree, 2.1 or above
Work Experience
- Comprehensive industry experience
- Full life cycle in a java based environment
- Retail or ecommerce experience
- Experience of at least one major ecommerce platform (e.g. ATG, Websphere Commerce, hybris, Demandware)
- (Desirable) Expertise in search and navigation, and merchandising solutions (e.g. Endeca, Fredhopper, Omniture Merchandising/Mercado)
- (Desirable) Experience of Order Management systems such as Sterling
- EAI and integration technologies (for example, Websphere MQ, ESBs)
- Client interaction experience
Person Requirements
- Confident and proactive
- Articulate and literate, and professional at all times
- Self-motivated, disciplined and able to work on own initiative
- Committed to the achievement of excellence
- Keen to progress within the role and within Javelin Group
Please apply with CV to recruitment@javelingroup.com and include the job title in the subject line of the email.
Business Analyst
The business analyst (BA) is responsible for defining what the solution will do and how it will interface with the users.
You will lead user workshops to capture functional requirements and help to translate them into an easy-to-use solution that delivers those requirements, be responsible for writing and updating the functional and test specifications for the system, and work alongside the technical architect and the project manager to ensure that the system does what the client expects.
Education
Relevant degree, 2.1 or above
Work Experience
- Experience of defining user requirements for ecommerce websites
- Experience of testing developed solution to ensure it meets requirements
- Client facing experience and comfortable in challenging client to truly understand detailed requirements and arrive at the best possible solution
- Exceptionally clear communicator, ability to communicate the specified solution back to the client as well as to the technical/development team
- Highly numerate, good written and presentation skills
- (Desirable) Experience of usability and accessibility
- (Desirable) Numeracy and process development skills
- (Desirable) Retail sector experience
- (Desirable) Exposure to the software testing process including the preparation of test plans and execution of test scripts
Person Requirements
- Confident and proactive
- Articulate and literate, and professional at all times
- Self-motivated, disciplined and able to work on own initiative
- Strong attention to detail
- Highly numerate, good written and presentation skills
- Committed to the achievement of excellence
- Keen to progress within the role and within Javelin Group
Please apply with CV to recruitment@javelingroup.com and include the job title in the subject line of the email.
Technology Delivery Manager
The Technology Delivery Manager is a senior role managing the full lifecycle of up to four concurrent projects, working closely with the account director (who has overall project responsibility), the architect (who is responsible for technical aspects of the project) and the project manager who is responsible for the day to day execution of the project and management of the team.
You will need to set-up a new projects from scratch without the need for support from a more senior member of the team, and manage much of the relationship with the client. You will be responsible for the financial accountability for delivery and you will create, identify and realise opportunities for on-sell of Javelin Group services.
Projects are typically an implementation of an ecommerce, order management, product information management or integration platform. In all cases, management of business process design and implementation will form a key part of the role. A willingness to travel and work away from home will be required. Projects are typically 3-9 months in duration, with a mix of work on client site and in our central London offices.
Responsibilities
- Day-to-day client relationship and expectation management while ensuring that the project delivers to time and budget
- Holding the delivery team to account to ensure the project is being delivered in accordance with Javelin Group processes and to a high quality
- Overall quality of deliverables from the project team
- Q.A. of project plans to ensure they are achievable
- Continuous improvement of the Javelin Group project delivery method and processes
Education
Honours degree
Work Experience
- Established project and delivery management experience, ideally in both larger and smaller companies
- Experience of implementing ecommerce solutions
- Previous experience in client facing (i.e. consulting) environment
- Managed numerous projects in the £0.1m to £2m range
- Experience of leading project teams of up to 25 members
- Experience of the full development lifecycle including requirements gathering, analysis and design, development, testing and roll-out including user training and documentation
- Highly numerate, good written and presentation skills
- Demonstrable experience of getting projects off the ground
- Experience of managing the commercial aspects of a project
- (Desirable) Knowledge of development methodologies (PRINCE-2, RUP and UML)
- (Desirable) Retail or ecommerce experience
- (Desirable) Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
- (Desirable) Capability to enforce and continuously improve development methodologies
Person Requirements
- Confident and proactive
- Articulate and literate, and professional at all times
- Self-motivated, disciplined and able to work on own initiative
- Committed to the achievement of excellence
- Keen to progress within the role and within Javelin Group
Please apply with CV to recruitment@javelingroup.com and include the job title in the subject line of the email.
Technology Support Manager
The Technology Support Manager leads the solution support team and the delivery of support services to Javelin Group clients. You will establish standard support practices and procedures, manage and recruit the support team, and manage client issues to resolution. It is expected, as a practice head, that the support manager will drive the uptake of new clients on support and grow the support service to a profitable aspect of Javelin Group’s business. In addition, the support manager will work with an account manager to identify on-sell opportunities with support clients as well as having an active role in pre-sales to new clients. Success will be measured by adherence to agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs), client satisfaction, and revenue contribution of the team. A willingness to work away from home will be required.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for delivery of all support services to Javelin Group clients including:
- Owning the quality, timeliness and meeting of agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for support services delivered to Javelin Group clients
- Owning the relationship with clients who are on support
- Owning the support process and procedures, their development and continuous improvements
- Managing the support team members including recruitment, training and ongoing management
- Working with other practice leads to secure additional resource required to deliver aspects of managed support
- Supporting the pre-sales process for selling of support services
- Providing subject matter expertise
- Owning the relationship with clients for support delivery
- Managing relationships with third party vendors where their products form part of the solution set being supported
- Financial accountability for support services delivery
Education
Honours degree, 2.1 or higher
Work Experience
- Experience of working for a services, software or similar company
- Primary ownership of services delivery and support processes
- Experience of managing support team in multiple locations, i.e. off-shore
- Experience of building client relationships (external and internal clients)
- Experience of ecommerce and an understanding of multi-channel retailing
- Hands on experience of delivering solution support and hosting services
- Knowledge of best practice support function and process
- Exceptional written, phone and presentation skills
- (Desirable) Detailed knowledge of retail and ecommerce
- (Desirable) Experience of selling support and managed services
Person Requirements
- Confident and proactive
- Articulate and literate, and professional at all times
- Self-motivated, disciplined and able to work on own initiative
- Committed to the achievement of excellence
- Focused upon client satisfaction, delivering quality solutions and committed to resolving client issues as rapidly as possible
- Keen to progress within the role and within Javelin Group
Please apply with CV to recruitment@javelingroup.com and include the job title in the subject line of the email.
Java Lead Developer
The Lead Developer role is the most experienced developer role we recognise at Javelin Group. You will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of technical solutions as part of our client projects. Working closely with a technical architect, business analyst and project manager, you will help to define technical solutions based on client requirements during the early phases of a project to deliver a world class solution.
As the technical lead on a project, you will achieve this by both steering and directly contributing to the development efforts of the team. A technical lead is responsible for the distribution of development work and the quality of the development outcome managed by focusing upon technical dependencies, hands-on coaching and code reviews. Your team may be distributed, with two teams of Javelin developers based in London and Sofia, Bulgaria and third parties involved in projects from different countries, companies and backgrounds.
With a solid foundation of experience to build upon, you will bring thought leadership and a strong motivation for achievement to your team and those around you.
You will be responsible for a number of direct reports in a line management capacity, so a passion for getting the best out of people, harnessing their best qualities and developing them into your best asset are essential qualities of the role.
Education
Computer Science degree, 2.1 or above
Work Experience
- Extensive industry experience
- Full life cycle in a Java environment, including in a team lead capacity
- Development within a Java application server framework (ATG, hybris, Websphere, Demandware)
- Working knowledge of SQL to any of the main database servers (Oracle, DB2, SQLServer) including standard developer toolkits
- Experience of using XML (in data loading or messaging, for example)
- Knowledgeable in standard tools used in software development - source control, unit testing. etc
- Demonstrable usage of methodology (Agile, Iterative, SCRUM)
- Working knowledge of Unix and Linux systems
- (Desirable) Retail or ecommerce experience
- (Desirable) EAI and integration technologies (for example, Websphere MQ)
- (Desirable) Client interaction experience
- (Desirable) Line management experience
Person Requirements
- Confident and proactive
- Articulate and literate, and professional at all times
- Self-motivated, disciplined and able to work on own initiative
- Committed to the achievement of excellence
- Keen to progress within the role and within Javelin Group
Please apply with CV to recruitment@javelingroup.com and include the job title in the subject line of the email.