Environments and Data Management Lead

Overview

You will act as a Senior Technical Engineer leading Test Environments and Data Management.You will manage available frameworks and tools to drive the activity of quality assurance across IT to focus on the needs of the client and manage test environment/data bookings. You must have a wide range of experience across many technical platforms with a high-level understanding of IT architecture, design, networking, operational service and support.

Responsibilities

• Lead environment and data management for multiple phases within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope
• Responsible for co-ordination of all test environment delivery activities including build, configuration and validation
• Responsible for managing own and team’s time within a certain area and conditions
• Co-ordinate the information gathering and reporting process, conducting research to define problems and preparing responses to anticipated questions
• Provide detailed advice to the team regarding the application of technologies
• Proven ability to successfully manage external partners/vendors
• Show initiative and makes time available to ensure general technical competencies and specialist knowledge is kept up-to-date in line with industry developments
• Proven ability to respond well to change and maintain flexibility while keeping focus on objectives

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Desirable:
  • ISTQB Foundation Certification
  • Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering
  • Certification IT Service Management Certification (ITIL) and Cloud computing

Essential skills

• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills – introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills

Experience

• 3+ years experience in a similar role
• Good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge with practical experience of engineering/development tools and platforms required to deliver
• Experience in designing scripts from agreed specifications and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result
• Experience in providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues
• Knowledge of relevant Test Environment and Data tools: Such as Micro Focus ALM, Atlassian products, CA Lisa, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, BMC ADDM, BladeLogic, Talend, CA Datamaker, IBM Optim, Validata, Tonic, Enov8, Plutora, CMDB, Grafana, Nutanix, Alteryx, and/or Ostia
• Strong knowledge on Cloud concepts and virtualisation
• Technical expertise in script languages (Shell, Perl, etc.)
• Experience in leading and managing others, offering the appropriate balance of supervision and empowerment
• Solid understanding with respect to analysis and design, implementation and system integration, execution as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning
• Expertise on SQL database and handling queries

Benefits

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and a substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help our you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy – enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.