This leading ecommerce retailer of entertainment products is looking for a  Senior Java Developer to work on development and enhancement of their ecommerce offering.

You’ll have knowledge of current and upcoming digital technologies. You will be encouraged to use the latest designs and frameworks. You will work closely with the Digital Director and Head of Development to enhance the design and architecture of the web application and it would be useful for you to have some DevOps experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop new features to existing web application.
• Redesign/refactor legacy code using standard coding practices and rules.
• Front end changes based on business demand.
• Practice TDD and improve test coverage of existing and new code.
• Use latest technologies to improve/replace the current designs and implementations.
• Function independently or/and in a team environment and deliver results.
• Configure and maintain development, test and live server environments.

You will need experience in as many of the following Technical Skills as possible:

• Java 8, JEE
• Spring 4, Hibernate, Logback, caching frameworks (EhCache/Redis)
• Templates (preferably Pebble), JSP, JSTL, Javascript, Jquery, Ajax, HTML, CSS.
• Good to have an understanding of Node, Gulp and Angular JS
• DB PostgreSQL(preferred)/Oracle/HSQL DB, query optimisation and tuning, experience of working with large volume of data and feeds
• Tools Build Management (Gradle), CI (Jenkins), Version Control (SVN, GIT) JIRA, Bitbucket, Sonar, Nexus
• Junit / TestNG, Selenium, Phantom JS
• Apache, Tomcat
• Good DevOps skills, Angular and jQuery, Unix
• Nice to have Docker, Go Lang, Perl, Awk & shell scripts, any api based CMS

Experience needed:

• Experience developing large scale web applications – e-commerce applications
• Developing restful web services
• Working in an agile environment.
• Transactional websites development experience.
• Knowledge of QA and testing processes

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Senior UX (User Experience) Designer - Remote Working

An international organization that works over 100 countries across the world are looking for a User Experience Designer.

They need a User Experience Designer to deliver high quality user experience and design solutions which meet the business needs of the online activity, in line with the vision of the Digital Director and Global Head of User Experience and Visual Design. Working with stakeholders, the UX Designer will contribute to the development of user experience solutions for online products and complex projects across the organisation, leading their implementation as required.

This will involve working closely with a range of stakeholders, as well as leading regular user research or testing activities to ensure designs are truly user centred. He/she will play a key role within a multidisciplinary team working to define the UX for a new, flexible (component-based), CMS. This will integrate and transform a number of global systems, extending to both our public-facing information/transactional websites and staff editor experience
Main responsibilities: UX (User Experience) Designer

• Advanced Axure prototyping skills
• Leading workshops (remotely with dispersed global teams) to conduct typical UX activities e.g. user needs profiling, user journey mapping, gathering feedback on sketches
• Managing complex / senior stakeholder groups, presenting concepts, handling feedback
• Commercial / conversion-focussed UX design (e.g. products / sales journeys, registration/booking/payment systems)
• Experienced in planning and leading remote online user testing (lookback.io)
• Desirable: knowledge/experience of blockchain, ensuring it is baked into agile iteration cycle, conversion-rate optimisation (CRO / AB testing)

Primary Responsibilities

Generates, analyzes, and manages accurate and timely client proposals by

• Reading, analyzing, and collaboratively working with the functional team owners to understand client’s Request for Proposal (“RFP”) & protocol.
• Providing guidance and driving pricing toward standard or complex parameters based on RFP and protocol.

• Coordinating & collaborating with team members to review Fee Schedules for large trials and/or Programs to determine best pricing strategy in conjunction with Sales, Finance, Product Leads and/or Science teams.
• Reviewing all proposals with final approvers and ensuring his/her agreement of the strategy & pricing logic.
• Working with Project Management Team on change of scope and client change order requests; updating budgets accordingly.
• Working with Project Management and Sales team on client requested Price Estimates.

• Ensuring all reviews, approvals, documents and analysis are filed in accordance to team requirements.
• Incorporating any required sponsor revisions into cost formulas and documenting same.
• Formulating and drafting official proposal revision documents.
• Ensuring all RFPs are submitted within gross margin (GM) guidelines.
• Updating backend gross margins calculations, effort estimates and costs as assigned by management.
• Updating Redbook/List Pricing as assigned by management
• Other tasks and projects as assigned

Ensures pricing and proposals timelines are met by

• Managing workload and ETA’s for assigned requests
• Special Projects team member as assigned by management

Maintains Quality Service and Departmental Standards by

• Ensuring ongoing understanding of Bioclinica, Inc.’s services

• Reading, understanding and adhering to organizational Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

• Assisting in establishing and enforcing departmental standards

• Participating in the modification of company SOPs related to the Contracts & Proposal team

Secondary Responsibilities

Contributes to team effort by

• Exploring new opportunities to add value to organization and departmental processes

• Helping others to achieve results

• Performing other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred but may be substituted for experience

Experience:

• 1-3 years relevant experience in a pharmaceutical or CRO environment required
• Knowledge of medical and pharmaceutical industry, terminology and practices preferred
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel & Word required
• Basic knowledge of Salesforce or another CRM preferred

Additional skill set:

• Ability to work independently or in team setting; ability to adjust to changing priorities
• Excellent attention and orientation toward meticulous work
• Strong organization skills and ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to project and maintain a professional and positive attitude

A career at T. Rowe Price says you want to contribute and make a difference at a leading global investment management firm where success results from the dedication our associates have in building success for our clients. We are a growing organization of associates from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
We take a long-term view on associates and their careers. Our associates do phenomenal work with purpose, and as a result, we provide growth opportunities through in-person and online training, management development programs, and career development on the job.
If you are seeking a meaningful work experience along with a workplace culture that thrives on teamwork, we invite you to explore the opportunity to join us.

Position Purpose:

You are a talented Senior User Interface Designer with a strong understanding of what constitutes best in class experiences. With a demonstrable high level of commerciality in your decision-making process, you are able to evidence that maximum value is gained from the work you deliver; confident in applying these skills at a range of altitudes - from large, enterprise initiatives through to more detailed and specific experience optimisations. You will be responsible for ensuring that the digital products you’re accountable for will continue to meet the needs of both our clients and associates across all regions, in support of our overall Global Distribution goals.

Familiar with all phases of the digital product lifecycle, you will be engaged with and contribute fully to all stages; navigating the problem space or strategic objective through to concepting, design, deployment and ongoing operational activities. Adept at working in both an agile, lab-style environment as well as large-scale production and delivery environments, you will play a key role in transforming our company’s digital capability, culture and the way we work, using user-centred and Design Thinking methods to serve our global customers.

Overview:

Whether delivering solutions for external clients and prospects or internal associates, you will develop a strong empathy for the users you are crafting experiences for.

You will translate any insight you have into actionable design ideas and criteria, crafting design concepts that meaningfully improve the user experience of those products. Able to take your concepts from paper or whiteboard sketches through to high fidelity, detailed design prototypes that allow developers to fully understand the detail behind your proposals. You are a confident presenter, adept at explaining user needs and design ideas to a range of stakeholders to drive alignment and buy in on the initiatives you are accountable for.

You will support the Design Manager to drive adoption of the T. Rowe Beacon global design standards in any work you are accountable for, identifying opportunities to supplement these best in class standards with high fidelity design prototypes to bring the standards to life. You will have a good working understanding of SEO and Accessibility considerations, and will understand what’s required to create fully immersive, mobile optimised experiences.

As part of a growing digital team, you have the opportunity to contribute fresh ideas and approaches, in partnership with our embedded agency designers, digital experience consultants, product owners and technical teams. You will support the Design Manager with setting the benchmark for and delivering work against quality and suitability measures, to ensure our digital products and services don’t only remain fit for purpose, but offer enriched, optimised and industry leading experiences.

Day to day you can expect to:

Develop compelling and innovative interactive experiences that solve for customer needs enhance customer relationships.
Work in a collaborative environment with editorial, design, product owners, marketers and development teams to influence, define and produce effective and delightful user experiences.
Contribute to GDEO Digital and global T. Rowe Beacon digital design standards and guidelines for ideal state approaches, methodologies, engagement models and implementation practises
Drive economies of scale in the work you deliver throughout our digital estate
Build relationships and partner with shared service teams to ensure the consistent and successful delivery of the experiences to meet our digital vision
Create and document specifications and solutions including storyboards, designs, interactions and prototypes.
Evolve the brand story by leveraging brand assets and personality to define the user experience, and maintain a cohesive brand presence across all touch points
Maintain knowledge in web and mobile trends and best practices. Employ a combination of qualitative methods to understand customer behaviour and leverage testing to inform recommendations and measure solutions.

Personal Attributes/ Skills/ Qualifications:

You will be at the top of your game with extensive, proven experience in delivering successful user-oriented experiences of the highest quality. You will be a high achiever looking for your next big challenge and aiming to make a difference within the organisation. The essential skills and qualities we will be looking for are:

5+ years’ experience driving innovative and compelling front-end experiences for clients across multiple sectors, countries and languages
Bachelor’s degree in a design, human-computer interaction, visual communication, anthropology, psychology, or a related discipline (but equivalent professional experience is most valuable).
Strong knowledge of user centred-design approaches and usability principles
Outstanding information design skills with an acute ability to problem solve
An inquisitive mind, staying current with many best-of-breed technologies
Ability to prototype proficiently to a range of tools/ fidelities
Proficiency of multimedia design tools including Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, etc.
Experience using web analytics and research to drive design decisions
Ability to analyse customer needs and define strategies for meeting needs
Mastery of fundamental design disciplines such as layout, colour, and animation
Ability to work within project teams in a collaborative, dynamic environment
Able to compromise without undermining the core principles of a given design or implementation
Professional client-relationship management skills and commitment to client service
Excellent verbal, written, communication and presentation skills, with strong attention to detail
Ability to manage/organize multiple tasks at once and deliver high-quality output every time, on time

Positive and constructive personality with a commitment to learning, sharing and coaching

Employer description:

Sitekit Apps delivers digital transformation for the NHS. Building a health and care system that is integrated, secure and built around individuals and their needs.

Vacancy description:

We are looking for a keen individual to provide marketing administrative support. The role will support the Business Development Manager in providing an efficient and streamlined service to the business regarding all marketing-related administrative tasks. This role has a wide remit which includes input to all marketing admin and is an important support role to the business.

Main role / Responsibilities: [will include but not be limited to]:

• Social Media management and interacting with others online
• • Twitter profiles – meaningful tweets
  • LinkedIn – engaging interesting posts
• Copywriting and drafting news articles
• Assisting with campaigns
• General marketing and Business Development administration

Desirable skills / Personal qualities

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels and build rapport with others
• Interested in working with people and wanting to learn more about Marketing
• Excellent organisational skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
• Confident
• Excellent written English
• Warm, engaging individual
• Creative
• Works to own initiative

Desired qualification requirements: 

Must have 5 GCSE at A*-C grade including Maths and English

Working week: Monday to Friday 9 am - 5.30 pm

Salary: £14,000 Per Annum

Future prospects:

92% of QA Apprentices secure permanent employment after finishing their apprenticeship. Additionally, there may be opportunities to undertake further apprenticeship training as many of our programs offer on-going development tracks.

Important Information:

QA’s apprenticeships are funded by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), an executive agency of the Department for Education.

To be eligible for a Government funded apprenticeship you must have lived in the UK or European Economic Area (EEA) for the last 3 consecutive years.

We're looking for a service designer to help drive service and process understanding across teams within the eCommerce space at Cazoo. You'll work across our eCommerce teams, the product leadership team and various stakeholders to map out services and employee as well as user needs. In this role you will collaborate with the Head of Product and Principal Engineers in understanding the users and service interactions across eCommerce at Cazoo.

You should be able to facilitate discovery with multiple teams across a single domain and have a developed toolkit of workshops and practices that support you. You will ensure the quality of service design across eCommerce teams, balancing the needs of our users with needs of the business.

You should be comfortable with some travel to prep centres, Cazoo Customer Centres to understand manual and physical processes that power our services.

You Will:

• Document systems interactions, integrations and dependencies in service blueprints, system maps, etc. so that product leadership, designers, engineers, and stakeholders can understand user needs and service boundaries across a complex operational domain
• Maintain artefacts in collaboration with designers, product managers, principal engineers and user researchers
• Drive service alignment across a domain and clarify system design tradeoffs across varying levels of complexity by pairing with principal engineers
• Create a clear system vision for products and services in a single domain; maintain these documents as a strategic partner to teams
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with key internal and external stakeholders, with a focus on system mapping
• You will be laser focused on team alignment and strategy, and help the team succeed across multiple inter-dependent needs
• Support and mentor other members of the team and key stakeholders in Service Design best practices

You should apply if: 

• You are an expert practitioner who has worked on large-scale and complex projects.
• You are skilled with service design, interaction design and user research, you regularly facilitate workshops and align teams on outcomes
• You are comfortable with understanding and mapping operational processes and the practices of modern software delivery teams
• You have specialised in user-centred design practices, with a focus on systems thinking and experience mapping
• You demonstrate a working knowledge of product design in a software team, including how you handle dev constraints, regulatory constraints, and stakeholder feedback.
• You can deliver design across any stage of the product lifecycle, from idea sketching and lo-fi prototypes, to high fidelity design, you're very comfortable with all of it.
• You nurtureagreement in teams by having a developed toolkit of product discovery techniques and workshops to help facilitate design discussions and get people aligned on the problem.

About You:

• You have a strong portfolio of case studies showing your skills and have demonstrable experience in shipping world-class digital products in cross-functional teams
• Systems thinking is crucial here; not just translating inefficient business processes into automated process but helping extract a more optimal process.
• You have a strong commercial mindset and focus on the impact of your work to the business as a whole
• You're a strategic thinker, and an expert in translating user behaviour into great user experience and design
• You love to collaborate, and are at your best when you're working with others and bringing them together to align on the big picture
• You’re proactive, organised, curious, humble and empathetic, and you can multi-task across multiple work streams
• You can facilitate a human-focused design approach within the team and you’re passionate about inclusive, accessible and ethical design
• You can actively support more junior members of the team with practical advice and guidance
• You're passionate about advocating for design within the business and externally (e.g. events, conferences, articles)

We value people who are:

• Customer Obsessed. At Cazoo, people come before cars. We encourage service design thinking and understanding that customers interact with Cazoo beyond just a website.
• Team Players. Being a small team, we encourage everyone to take ownership in their area and collaborate with others. No matter how many projects we deliver, each of us still has plenty to learn and it’s crucial we stay humble.
• Fast Drivers. We focus on results, which means we keep the bar high and are always pushing ourselves to make fast decisions and learn as quickly as possible.
• Data Driven. We value making informed decisions and using data to inform those decisions. If there's data, use data.

Useful info:

Cazoo was founded in 2018 to transform the way people buy used cars. We believe everyone deserves to feel total assurance when buying a car. Our vision is to deliver the UK’s best car buying experience by putting the customer first and making it no different from buying any other product online today. We are backed by top investors and directed by an experienced management team including Founder and CEO, Alex Chesterman, OBE.

Our London home is located a stone’s throw from Euston Station and close to Kings Cross, with tube stations on the Northern, Victoria, Piccadilly, Hammersmith & City and Circle lines all a short walk away.

Our selection process will typically involve a chat on the phone, a portfolio review and a few hours of interviews where you’ll have a chance to meet the team. Our interview process is built around understanding your experience and focus as a designer, not making you sweat or catching you out.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, colour, religion, national origin, disability status or marital status.