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What we can do for you

We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our cloudThingers:

• Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our unicorns (that’s this team) seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office. We’re not your average Dynamics body-shop and we never place consultants 9to5 Mon-Fri at customer sites, but we do strive for consistency where possible for our customers and our cloudThing’ers.
• Awesome Environment – all of our cloudThing’ers will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on – that’s in large part because we’re privately owned by those that work day-to-day in the business, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
• Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with industry leading private entities to bring meaningful products and services to market.
• Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies, excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else, private healthcare and annual share awards to all employees. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation and share scheme eligibility is after one year of service.

Don’t take our word for it though, check out our independent Glass Door reviews or our recruitment video featuring, well, us.

What qualifications we expect

All backgrounds will always be considered but we’re thinking having someone with an appropriate finance qualification to provide industry credence, combined with current relevant professional Dynamics Certification(s).

Where the job is based

DY9, Belbroughton, M5 J4 in a converted water mill – easily commutable from Birmingham, Redditch, Bromsgrove and many others.

Other relevant bits and bobs

You’ll probably need to demonstrate at least some experience with;

• Pre-sales engagement including technology evangelism, demonstration, adoption, estimating and other early opportunity activities such as bid-response writing
• Requirements gathering, writing and evolution through business process identification, analysis and re-engineering
• Functional analysis including effective business architecture and appreciation of the cyclical approach to solution identification
• Understanding the capabilities (and limitations) provided by Dynamics BC/NAV out of the box
• Understanding the capabilities available using out of the box connectors and integrations in the Microsoft platform
• Implementing business and technical environment change safely and effectively, with the support of Solution Architects and the Project Office
• Creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
• Using a hands-on approach to ensuring timescales are met

The technology is obviously key too;

• History of exposure to NAV 2009 all the way up to Business Central
• Expert at requirements implementation and system customisation
• General exposure to all modules, but management especially
• Approaches to integration with D365 CRM/CE/other systems

We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;

• happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
• a geek that can speak; excellent spoken and written communication
• an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• ability to identify and pick up new technologies quickly
• ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

Essential Experience

• React JS and similar JS MVC frameworks
• Expertise in HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery
• Strong interest in UI design
• Knowledge of Bootstrap or other responsive design techniques
• Working within large, distributed, polyglot programmed projects

Desirable Experience

• .Net or PHP; ideally building public WebAPI services
• Mobile development experience is a plus
• MariaDB/MongoDb or similar NoSQL knowledge huge plus
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, EC2, Azure Services etc. highly regarded

Skills

• A geek that can speak; highly effective spoken and written communication
• Developing for a distributed client-server and n-tier system architecture
• Ability to identify and pick up new technologies and languages quickly
• Good understand of agile processes; aficionados most welcome!
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on time to tight timescales

Qualifications: Experience in a sales environment would be an advantage, however training will be provided. A degree (in something) and the right attitude is essential.

Based From: Belbroughton - M5 Junction 4, in a converted water mill no less!

Primary Responsibility: Using content produced by our marketing team to build a pipeline of leads through social media, direct call-outs and email campaigns.

Other Responsibilities: Candidates will need to demonstrate experience or an aptitude for;

• People skills and confidence to call out to potential customers.
• Building an understanding of technology and working to sell complex software solutions.
• Working to and regularly hitting call and pipeline targets.
• Managing time effectively to hit call-out targets.
• Identifying and contributing to marketing activity to readily act upon new sales opportunities and market advantages.
• Creating a social profile and regularly interacting with contacts via LinkedIn and other platforms.
• Actively seeking new and/or improved ways of working to better hit targets and increase pipeline.
• handling account management tasks and responding to customer enquiries quickly and professionally.

Personality: Essential, must have one of own! Additionally;

• A determined individual who is willing to work hard to build a successful sales career.
• A natural interest in technology would be a huge advantage.
• A people person who can turn even difficult calls into a friendly conversation.
• Happy to work as part of a wider sales team and offer honest feedback to senior management.
• Excellent spoken and written communication.
• Ability to work to tight targets and timescales.

Responsibilities

Candidates will need to demonstrate experience with;

• Building custom Dynamics CRM solutions, principally via CRMOL and including extensive presentation of bespoke business processes
• Understanding and implementing solutions architected using service orientated, distributed, micro-service and other patterns appropriate to identified requirements
• Building complimentary solutions that integrate with CRM back-ends, such as customer portals and integrations with other systems
• Working closely and effectively within a multi-developer team
• Reviewing documentation, designs and implemented solutions alike to ensure proposed approaches are implementable
• Creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
• Being highly delivery focused and engaging effectively with all types of team members to drive projects forwards

NOTE: as is common with this type of role, remote location and occasional out-of-hours working will be required to support customer interests.

Skills

Candidates are expected to have all of the following skills;

Essential

• Dynamics 2015/16 implementation and extensive customisation
• Strong C# dev. to support bespoke plugin/workflow development
• Strong JS/HTML/CSS dev. to support bespoke interface development
• Strong general .Net dev to support complimentary project development
• Insightful entity architecture, grounded in solid MS/Fetch SQL
• Excellent communicator, capable of engaging at all levels with customers
• Distributed team dev. inc source control appreciation, esp. GIT and CI
• Windows certifications, e.g. multiple MCPs or an MCSE

Desirable

• General .Net Development, esp. Web API to support peripheral technologies such as bespoke processing, integrations and customer/supplier portals
• Azure portfolio implementation esp. Service Bus
• Wider Dynamics eco-system technologies inc. MSE and DM

Personality

• A geek that can speak; excellent spoken and written communication
• An obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• Ability to identify and pick up new technologies and operating systems quickly
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in India and the UK
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

Candidates will need to demonstrate experience with;

• Designing, documenting and discussing solution approaches
• Working within an onshore/offshore customer embedded team
• Suggesting strategies for improved design
• Ensuring customers are Happy with their software

NOTE: as is common with this type of role, remote location and occasional out-of-hours working will be required to support customer interests.

Candidates are expected to have all of the following skills;

• .Net experience; ideally building public WebAPI services
• Strong interest in database design and experience in EntityFramework
• Expertise in HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery
• Working within large, distributed, polyglot programmed projects
• Knowledge of Bootstrap or other responsive design techniques

Candidates are expected to have some of the following skills;

• Knowledge of Azure Services highly regarded
• Dynamics CRM integration experience is highly valued
• Backbone/Angular or similar JS MVC frameworks
• Mobile development experience is a plus
• MariaDB/MongoDb or similar NoSQL knowledge huge plus
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, EC2 etc. preferred

 Personality :
Essential, must have one of own! Additionally; 
A geek that can speak; excellent spoken and written communication 
An obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things! 
Ability to identify and pick up new technologies and operating systems quickly 
Ability to work effectively with remote teams in India and the UK 
Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

Qualifications: Degree (in something!) and experience (related professional certifications would also be advantageous).

Based From: Belbroughton - M5 Junction 4, in a converted water mill no less! Relatively frequent travel including working in customer offices part-time is also expected as is common with this type of role.

Salary Range: Depending on experience, plus potential for bonus and options

Responsibilities: Candidates will need to demonstrate experience with;

• pre-sales engagement
• requirements gathering, writing and evolution through business processes
• infrastructure and software architecture using a cloud-first services approach and including migration design, planning and execution
• implementation oversight using a hybrid agile/prince2 methodology and including cross-continent, cross company, virtual team leadership
• managing project and environment change effectively
• creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
• using a hands-on approach to ensuring timescales are met
• other tasks as reasonably requested.

Benefits: 25 days holiday, pension contributions, life insurance, home working, all hardware/tooling required, mobile with unlimited calls/data, excellent expense policy, and of course - working within a brilliant team!

Personality: Essential, must have one of own! Additionally;

• excellent spoken and written communication
• an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

Experience:

Essential

• MS Cloud/Azure/Office 365 design/deployment including hybrid scenarios that involve Dynamics CRM/eco-system
• Windows web infrastructure architecture, especially high-performance .Net 4+ web/Api farms built using IaaS products such as Azure and AWS
• DB architecture using some of MS SQL, MySQL/Maria, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra including entity design using UML, Crow’s Foot, Chen’s or similar
• Some code experience, ideally C#, HTML and JS or similar, to support meaningful review
• High availability and disaster recovery planning/design

Desirable

• Pedigree in Windows enterprise infrastructure architecture such as AD, Exchange, SharePoint or Lync
• Windows certifications, e.g. multiple MCPs or an MCSA/MCSE, ideally around Azure
• In-depth knowledge of cloud providers such as AWS, RS, softlayer, vCloud or others

Please note, you must have home broadband!

If you consider yourself to be the best of the very best, are seeking lifestyle employment and want to develop in an exciting, growing and fast paced environment;

Qualifications: Experience is a priority, however a degree (in something) and related professional certifications would be advantageous.

Based From: Belbroughton - M5 Junction 4, in a converted water mill no less! Some travel while working with our customers is also expected as is common with this type of role.

Primary Responsibility: Identify, design and oversee multiple, complex projects for customers of varying sizes, ensuring they receive excellent services and solutions.

Other responsibilities: Successful candidates will spend the majority of their time talking to customers and helping them realise their visions for their software products, which is a challenging, varied but satisfying role that includes;

• Pre-sales engagement including technology evangelism, demonstration, adoption and other early opportunity activities such as bid-response writing
• Requirements gathering, writing and evolution through business process identification, analysis and re-engineering
• Solution architecture using service orientated, distributed, micro-service and other patterns appropriate to identified requirements
• Technology evaluation, comparison and selection, specifically public cloud, hybrid cloud and deep integration with bespoke software
• Software and infrastructure architecture using a cloud-first services approach and including migration design, planning and execution
• Implementation oversight using a hybrid agile/Prince2 methodology and including cross-continent, cross company, virtual team leadership
• Reviewing documentation, designs and implemented solutions alike for solution assurance down to code level
• Managing project and environment change effectively within a diverse team
• Creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
• Using a hands-on approach to ensuring timescales are met

NOTE: as is common with this type of role, remote location (including from home) and occasional out-of-hours working will be required to support customer interests, which may (occasionally!) include international travel.

Personality: Essential, must have one of own! Additionally;

• Ability to identify and pick up new technologies quickly - critical
• An autonomous but collaborative approach to problem solving
• A geek that can speak; excellent spoken and written communication
• An obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little thing
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

Skills:

Essential - Candidates are expected to have a good chunk of experience architecting with;

• Front-end responsive frameworks such as react/ native
• Windows web infrastructure architecture, especially high-performance .Net 4+ web/Api farms built using PaaS products in Azure and AWS
• MS Cloud/Azure/Office 365 design/deployment including hybrid scenarios that involve Dynamics CRM/eco-system
• DB architecture using some of MS SQL, MySQL/Maria, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra including entity design using UML, Crow’s Foot, Chen’s or similar
• Some code experience, ideally C#, HTML and JS or similar, to support meaningful review
• High availability and disaster recovery planning/design

Desirable - Candidates are expected to have some of the following skills;

• Pedigree in Windows enterprise infrastructure architecture such as AD, Exchange, SharePoint or Lync
• Windows certifications, e.g. multiple MCPs or an MCSA/MCSE, ideally around Azure
• In-depth knowledge of cloud providers such as AWS, RS, softlayer, vCloud or others

Qualifications: Degree in anything. Minimum 7 years of experience in DevOps provisioning and support with at least 3 years of experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS.

Based From: Bangalore

Primary Responsibilities: Establish and grow the India DevOps team to seamlessly integrate with the existing UK team, support of multi-platform online services, virtual-machines, databases and application servers across many customers, cloudy infrastructure providers (Azure, AWS) and environments while helping to build cutting-edge solutions through insightful infrastructure delivery.

Other Responsibilities: Candidates will be expected to demonstrate experience with;

•  Working within an infrastructure support environment coordinating work between local and remotely based teams.
• Supporting technically diverse development and production infrastructure running custom software, hosted in public clouds, including configuring/maintaining backups, monitoring, security and patching.
• Working with the Solutions and Delivery Management teams to identify and resolve issues with the design, development and deployment of software solutions.
• Provision, install, configure and maintain a wide range of services, applications, databases and tools across multiple platforms, environments, customers and cloudy infrastructure providers.
• Remedy issues in our 3rd line ticket queue, including effective prioritisation, assignment to development teams and escalating resolution where required to ensure we meet our SLAs.
• Providing last-stop problem resolution for mixed Linux and Windows environments.
• Create clear and effective documentation.
• Troubleshoot problems when they occur, quickly and efficiently.
• Other task as reasonable requested.

NOTE: As is common with this type of role, occasional out of hours working and on-call duty may be required to support high-priority issues and service impacting releases.

Skills:

Essential- Candidates are expected to have all of the following skills;

• Virtual infrastructure provisioning & management in Azure & AWS.
• Windows and/or Linux guru, aficionado's desired, esp. public web publishing and bespoke app server deployment at scale.
• Web hosting expert with IIS inc. ASP.NET, PHP.
• Database maestro with some MS SQL/MySQL/Maria, Cassandra or MongoDB provisioning or troubleshooting experience.
• Solid backup & monitoring setup/management.
• Good net basics IP4/6, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/S firewalling & load-balancing.
• Building images & other scripting automation using Bash, PowerShell, VBS, Win Batch or similar.
• Building and maintaining Continuous build and release pipelines in Jenkins or Azure Devops or similar platform.
• Platform specific certifications, e.g. multiple MCPs or an MCSE.

Desirable- Candidates are expected to have some of the following skills;

• Other OS support esp. Ubuntu if windows primary, other common web stacks.
• VS C# .Net 4.5 appreciation esp. MS Build and environmental debugging.
• Office 365 Management, esp. Exchange and Dynamics Online.
• Jenkins and/or DevOps Continuous Integration (CI) distributed setup & management.
• Source control appreciation, esp. GIT.
• Dynamics 365 administration and deployment.

Personality: Essential, must have one of own! Additionally;

• Measured; bringing experience effectively to the business.
• A geek that can speak; excellent spoken and written communication.
• An obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• Ability to identify and pick up new technologies and operating systems quickly.
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in UK.
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales.

Qualifications: Degree (in something!) and a professional certification in Project Management (however experience is always more important).

Based From: Belbroughton - M5 Junction 4, in a converted water mill no less!

Primary Responsibility: Delivery of projects that delight customer on time and to budget.

Other Responsibilities: Candidates will need to demonstrate the abilities around;

• Making sure projects are delivered beyond expectations.
• Managing short- and long-term objectives and ensuring projects track against these milestones.
• Establishing and operating governance structures within projects to ensure effective decision making and robust assurance.
• Managing senior stakeholders both within cloudThing and our clients.
• Reporting project status to the cloudThing operations board and the client.
• Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business.
• Working with on/off-shore development/implementation teams.
• Managing project cost and time tracking.
• Identifying and delivering change control and project up-sell.
• Wrestling detailed requirements and designs into an implementable plan.
• Managing an agile development process, directly and indirectly through your project managers.
• Other tasks as reasonably requested.

Experiences:

Essential

• Software, Digital or IT Project Management experience.
• Agile or Prince2 experience.
• Managing multiple projects.
• High level technical understanding.
• Managing developers and QA’s.
• Project Reporting.
• Confident communicator.
• Office/ Productivity skills.
• Agile PM/ Prince2 (we use both).
• Excellent written skills.
• Ability to think on feet and make decisions.
• Desirable
• Commercial/ legal know how.
• Software development processes.
• Strong technical knowledge.
• CRM/ O365 / Dynamics.

Personality: Essential, must have one of own! Additionally;

• Excellent spoken and written communication.
• An obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in India.
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales.
• Tracking/ resolving risks.

Qualifications: Degree (in something!) & professional certification(s).

Based From: Belbroughton - M5 Junction 4, in a converted water mill no less!

Primary Responsibility: Provide technical leadership on the Front End Development tool chain, framework/library choices and coding practices on specific projects and across the company as a whole.

Other Responsibilities: Candidates will need to demonstrate experience with;

• Technical leadership of large scale software and development projects, spanning multiple teams, locations and technologies
• Pre-sales engagement with deep understanding of front end development ecosystem, build and tool chains, frameworks and libraries, testing strategy and other early opportunity activities such as bid-response writing
• Deep technical collaboration with other architects, developers and the FE Dev community
• Proven ability to interpret requirements and architect elegant, scalable and robust FE solutions
• Technical team leadership including prioritising workloads, steering team members, code reviews, gatekeeping pull requests and generally being the arbiter of what works best in FE Dev
• Managing front end tool and build chains, being the one who can fix the broken webpack config!
• Creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
• Security oriented testing inc. awareness of key standards
• Other tasks as reasonably requested

NOTE: As is common with this type of role, occasional out of hours and remote location working will be required to support high-priority deadlines.

Skills:

Essential- Candidates are expected to have all the following skills;

• Architecting complex Front End solutions (SPAs, PWAs, Isomorphic, Native)
• Capable coder (JS, TypeScript, HTML, CSS)
• Expert knowledge of React
• Good understanding of other FE Frameworks (Vue, Angular, Aurelia)
• Good understanding of key FE landscape (Node, Npm, Yarn, Rest, oAuth)
• Experience configuring build systems (Webpack, JSPM, Browserify, Require)
• Experience of test driven dev and methods
• Knowledge of modern UX practises (CSS in JS, CSS3, SASS, LESS, SVG)
• Experience of cloudy services (Azure, GCloud, AWS, Docker)
• Knowledge of standards and approaches (ECMA, WC3, Babel, Traceur)
• Successful Front End development team management
• Experience leading agile development projects

Desirable- Candidates are expected to have some of the following skills;

• Knowledge of remote analytics/debugging/crash reporting (Heap, Raygun)
• Experience of latest language features (ES6/7, transpilers, polyfills)
• Redux, Styled Components, JSS, Jest, React Native
• Open source contributions, community activities
• Remote team management

Personality: Essential, must have one of own! Additionally;

• A geek that can speak; excellent spoken and written communication
• An obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• Ability to identify and pick up new technologies and operating systems quickly
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

Qualifications: Degree (in something!) and a professional certification in Project Management (however experience is always more important).

Based From: Belbroughton- M5 Junction 4, in a converted water mill no less!

Primary Responsibility: Delivery of solutions that delight customers on time and to budget.

Other Responsibilities: Candidates will need to demonstrate the abilities around; 

• Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business 
• Working with on/off-shore development/implementation teams 
• Managing project cost base and time tracking 
• Identifying and delivering change control and project up-sell 
• Managing an agile development process, including stewarding planning sessions, scrums and show and tell) 
• Ensuring small changes are delivered, and workload on the DevOps team generated by the projects can be visualised and reported. 
• Other tasks as reasonably requested.

Experiences:

Essential

• High level technical understanding 
• Ability to organise and manage deliverables to completion 
• Experience of leading / coordinating a team 
• Project Reporting 
• Confident communicator 
• Office/ Productivity skills 
• Excellent written skills 
• Ability to think on feet and make decisions 

Desirable

• Commercial/ legal know how 
• Agile or Prince2 
• Software, Digital or IT Project Management experience 
• Software development processes 
• Strong technical knowledge 
• Service Delivery experience 
• CRM/ O365 / Dynamics  

Personality: Essential, must have one of own! Additionally; 

• Excellent spoken and written communication 
• An obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things! 
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in India 
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales 
• Tracking/ resolving risks