Essential attributes for this post: Demonstrate previous experience as a Chief Operations Officer or similar role. • Understanding of business functions, such as finance, marketing etc.  Competency in strategic planning and business development.  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.  Excellent planning, organisational, and leadership skills.  Excellent team working skills.  Aptitude in decision-making and problem solving.  Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  Experience working in cross-functional teams. 

Some of the attributes we're looking for: Full ownership of day to day delivery tasks supporting Sprint / Kanban boards : Develop and own the delivery / Epic roadmap and path to live plans for the project / programme Excellent communication skills in order to build solid relationships with our clients whilst diplomatically challenging the ‘why’ to ensure value and minimise waste : Reporting team progress against plan, highlighting variance and determining appropriate actions to mitigate : Capturing risks and issues and managing dependencies across the project / programme : Create an environment of continuous learning through holding retrospectives and highlighting problems and single points of failure and working out what to do collaboratively : Shaping ways of working through agile best practice and coaching the team to ensure focus on business priorities and time to market.

Essential: Experience of delivering complex digital projects : Knowledge and experience of Agile project management and working practices (SCRUM/Lean/DSDM/APMG) : To be comfortable leading teams of various configurations and sizes, from a fully resourced Hippo team to running hybrid Hippo/client teams : Knowledge and experience of collaboration and project management tools : Understand user centred design principles and practices.

We are looking for someone with a true passion for technology, who enjoys putting the customer first and is constantly looking to improve and innovate. Experience in Linux System administration – experience in Windows is also desirable. Knowledge of computer networking Effective problem solver Excellent organisational skills Ability to work both in a team and on own initiative Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) with the ability to write and present documentation of projects and systems.

Some of the qualities required: Full ownership of day to day delivery tasks supporting Sprint / Kanban boards : Develop and own the delivery / Epic roadmap and path to live plans for the project / programme : Excellent communication skills in order to build solid relationships with our clients whilst diplomatically challenging the ‘why’ to ensure value and minimise waste : Reporting team progress against plan, highlighting variance and determining appropriate actions to mitigate : Capturing risks and issues and managing dependencies across the project / programme : Create an environment of continuous learning through holding retrospectives and highlighting problems and single points of failure and working out what to do collaboratively : Shaping ways of working through agile best practice and coaching the team to ensure focus on business priorities and time to market : Working with the team to agree achievable goals for each squad, the ‘definition of done’ and foster a shared understanding of success.

We are looking for a graduate who is familiar with the Linux environment, systems administration and networking, with a knowledge of Windows, who is well organised and can work alone as well as within a team. It is also necessary to have very good communication skills, especially for producing written documents.