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Squad Lead (Halifax)

At AND, we accelerate the development of digital capabilities. In practice, that means helping ambitious leaders and organisations build the teams, products, processes and even operational structures they need to close the digital skills gap within their organisation today, so that they thrive tomorrow.

Clients rely on our experience, agility and craft skills across tech and business strategy, software development and product management to address some of the toughest challenges facing their businesses.

We bring aboard thinkers, tinkerers, passionate software craftspeople and inspiring technologists to help us solve these challenges. Together, we’re united by a sense of pragmatism, purpose and a deeply-held belief that digital products and technology alone won’t transform a business or save the world: it’s the people that count.

As a Squad Lead you will represent AND Digital as the most senior member of the product development team, working alongside client and AND Digital developers and analysts. As a result, you will need to be able to:

  • Craft the delivery team, promote the best delivery practices and have ownership for taking on existing code bases as well as green-field sites.
  • Look out for the strategic goals of our clients with us as well as having a senior delivery role within the team.
  • Dedicate time to career mentoring members of your squad.
  • Schedule your squad members onto client work, leading commercial aspects like utilisation, budgets, etc.
  • Grow 11 individuals into a strong Squad unit.
  • Held accountable for the engagement and performance of your squad.
  • Make decisions about the running of your Club.
  • Grow client relationships and accounts and lead club-wide initiatives, driving participation.
  • A Technical or Technical Delivery background and still happy to be hands-on when it comes to coding.
  • Experience leading Product Delivery Teams so we know you get what we do.
  • Experience leading teams of 5+ people – handling some of the tricky stuff as well as developing the talent within your team.
  • A meaningful area of expertise: whether your background is as a Developer, an Analyst, a Product Manager or a Product Owner, we expect you to bring skills and experience to encourage both internal and client teams.
  • A deep understanding of a variety of delivery methodologies, including Agile.
  • An understanding of the need to be flexible – to tailor your approach depending on who you’re working with, to see the opportunity when things aren’t perfect, to enable teams to deliver remarkable work by wearing these different hats.

From the work we deliver, to the way we serve and support our people, we work hard to ensure that there’s nowhere quite like AND. But joining a company is a two-way street: the fit has to work on both sides. So before you apply, here’s three key things to understand about us:

  • We’re built for people – like, real humans. Not ‘resources’ or ‘staff’. That means happiness and wellbeing really do matter to us, and we hate unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy.
  • There’s no well-trodden path ahead: AND is growing fast and forging a new trail. That’s exciting, and gives us all the autonomy and opportunity we love – but bear in mind it also demands focus, patience and resilience.
  • Diversity is a priority. After all, to build great products that a wide variety of different people love to use, we need a wide variety of people to help us build them. So diversity is more than a policy or a word: it’s business critical for us.
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Job Vitals

Type: Full Time

Reference Number: 76234

Essential knowledge, skills and experience: Significant Enterprise Business Development experience in consulting, technology professional services in favour of product based organisations A track record of winning million-pound plus new business deals with FTSE 100/FTSE 200 clients Relationship Management skills - very strong at building relationships quickly and following a well organised collaborative way Working knowledge across three or more of the following - digital, business strategy, marketing, technology, Agile, change management and business transformation. Credible at C Suite Level - Aware of the challenges facing CIOs, CTOs and wider C Suite, able to support their thinking and approach to solving these

Type: Full Time
Categories: Developer

It’s essential you bring the following: The ability to facilitate problem solving and work as a team to make them a reality. Experience working in a collaborative environment where your ideas and opinions are valued and respected. It's helpful if you also have: Experience working with Junior and Mid Developers in your team and assist with their mentoring and career development plans. The drive to pursue your own career development - with many different paths to choose at AND you will have the full support of the wider management team to progress your career at your own pace.

Type: Full Time
Categories: Developer

Some of the essential requirements for this post: A consistent track record in building digital products and using Agile methodologies. Experience in stakeholder management, products and systems. The ability and level of expertise to recommend solutions to clients based on your background from industry and / or consulting. Experience of developing your team members - coaching and mentoring our clients and lesser experienced ANDis is important to us here. A genuine interest and curiosity for all things digital across mobile, social and web. Experience in designing functional, user-focused digital customer experiences across various digital platforms. Ability to diagrammatically map out current and to-be solutions using business process mapping and use case mapping.

Type: Full Time
Categories: Developer

It’s essential you bring the following: The passion to champion TDD/BDD software development;The ability to facilitate problem solving; The commitment to work as a team and make solutions a reality; The ability to work successfully in a collaborative environment, where all ideas and opinions are valued and respected. It's helpful if you also have: Experience working in a team with Junior and Mid Developers in your team, assisting with their mentoring and career development plans; Drive to pursue your own career development - with many different paths to choose at AND you will have the full support of the wider management team to progress your career at your own pace.

Type: Full Time
Categories: Developer

Some of the skills and experience you require are: A consistent track record in building digital products and using Agile methodologies. Experience in stakeholder management, products and systems. The ability and level of expertise to recommend solutions to clients based on your background from industry and / or consulting. Experience of developing of your team members - coaching and mentoring our clients and lesser experienced ANDis is important to us here. A genuine interest and curiosity for all things digital across mobile, social and web. Experience in designing functional, user-focused digital customer experiences across various digital platforms. Ability to diagrammatically map out current and to-be solutions using business process mapping and use case mapping. Awareness of Agile and any experience you might have had in using Scrum frameworks. Experience in using prototyping tools such as Axure, Pidoco, Balsamiq, Mockflow, Gliffy.

Type: Full Time
Categories: Developer

Senior Android Developers at AND Digital come from strong mobile development backgrounds, working in an Agile TDD/BDD environment and typically have experience in the following: Java & Kotlin The latest Android SDK Frameworks and libraries such as Retrofit 2, Dagger 2, RxJava, Espresso, etc. Offline data storage Thread management Fine-tuning performance Unit testing and UI testing Working with popular design patterns such as MVC, MVP and MVVM Git Integrating against RESTful APIs Applying Material design principles to Android CI/CD Gradle build system

Type: Full Time
Categories: Developer