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Are you a strategic thinker who believes that problems are most effectively solved through exploration and understanding?

Lead User Experience Designer

Bristol

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Are you ambitious and driven with visual flair, and a desire to create intuitive software interfaces that truly put the user first?

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations, and recognises the importance of design as a critical part of effective beautiful software applications. The business is expanding and we’re in need of creative and self-motivated UX Designers with experience leading design projects to join our growing UX Design Practice.

You’ll be a strategic thinker who believes that problems are most effectively solved through exploration and understanding. Your focus will be on guiding all design efforts on projects and iteratively delivering an end product as part of cross-functional teams that use Agile project delivery methods.

We’re looking for people with the confidence to influence and advise clients, drawing on their expertise to do so. You’ll be the voice of the end-user, surrounded by smart, highly-capable people in an environment that encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing. You’ll work closely with our clients and their customers as well as our talented software developers and testers to deliver world-class solutions.

Demonstrable experience of UX design in an in-house or consultancy role

Evidence of design leadership regarding people, culture and projects

Proven understanding of collaborative, user-centred design methods

Experience of designing enterprise applications for desktop, mobile or web

An appetite for creating simple solutions to complex problems

Intimate familiarity with design techniques such as design studio workshops, journey mapping and empathy mapping

The skills and tooling knowledge to bring application designs to life, from sketches to wireframes and storyboards to high fidelity mock-ups and click-through prototypes

The ability to adapt and learn on the job

Are you a flexible and experienced leader looking for a hands-on, client-facing role in a growing software consultancy?

Delivery Manager

Scott Logic builds bespoke, business-critical technology solutions for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. The business is expanding and we’re in need of capable and technically proficient Delivery Managers to own client relationships and take responsibility for end-to-end project delivery by leading our teams and staying close to the details of the software development process.

You will have a demonstrable passion for technology, with experience working with software developers distributed across a number of sites on an everyday basis. You will be based at the office location of your choice, but you will also spend time at our other offices as well as our client sites across Europe and further afield as we expand our client base, so resilience is essential.

You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly-capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages helping and developing others by sharing knowledge and experience. You’ll be as passionate as we are about delighting our clients with high-quality, well-engineered technology solutions that solve business problems and deliver lasting client value. We take an innovative and agile approach to delivery, underpinned by solid development practices using a wide range of modern technologies.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role which combines strong project management experience with the ability to clearly communicate technical matters.

Lead the delivery of complex technology projects for clients

Develop and maintain strong client relationships

Demonstrate hands on expertise in managing software development projects using Agile methods, as well as having a good understanding of Waterfall-based delivery and associated pitfalls

Team leading, with proficiency in the management and motivation of high-performing software development teams, including distributed teams

Take responsibility for project financials to achieve targeted financial results

Support onboarding of consultants to projects; assist in qualifying resource requests and work with line managers and consultants to assess project fit

Undertake line management of assigned consultants, handling performance feedback and annual review processes

Contribute to the communities of practice and development of assets (e.g. offerings, white papers, blogs, delivery toolkits, learning curricula etc.)

Previous experience with a technology consultancy

Strong appreciation of modern software engineering and associated development technologies and the full software development lifecycle, ideally with a hands-on software development background

Ability and willingness to travel to other Scott Logic offices as well as client sites within the UK and overseas, as required

Previous experience of working in a dynamic, fast-moving environment

Project management certification (such as PRINCE2 Practitioner status, PMI or ScrumMaster)

Are you an undergraduate or postgraduate who wants to build a career as a Graduate Software Developer, creating complex and richly interactive software applications using the latest technologies?

Graduate Software Developer

Leeds

Newcastle

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. Take the first step into a challenging and rewarding career by joining our graduate programme as a software developer.

You’ll be mentored by smart, highly-capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages the sharing of knowledge and experience. We’ll get you working with others to get you up and running on real-world development projects from the very beginning. You’ll work across web, mobile and desktop using a range of technologies including HTML5/JavaScript, C# .NET and Java.

You’ll learn all the skills you’ll need for the best start to your career as part of a talented software consultancy team committed to delivering beyond clients’ expectations. We follow an Agile approach with solid development practices. We are looking for creative and self-motivated problem solvers with a demonstrable passion for technology.

A lively induction week with your fellow graduates from around the company

A series of structured individual and group projects to introduce various concepts of both front- and back-end software development

Ongoing training with activities including self-study groups, bespoke courses, conferences and mentoring

Transitioning into a variety of client work using the latest technologies

A Level or Higher grades of at least BBB or equivalent

Achieved a 2:1 or higher in a computing, mathematical, engineering or scientific field, either completed or pending

The ability to adapt and learn new technologies on the job

Are you an ambitious and self-motivated undergraduate or postgraduate who wants to build a career as a tester, working on complex and sophisticated software solutions using the latest technologies?

Graduate Test Engineer

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. Take the first step into a challenging and rewarding career by joining our graduate programme as a Graduate Test Engineer.

You’ll be mentored by smart, highly-capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages the sharing of knowledge and experience. We’ll get you working with others to get up and running on real-world development projects from the very beginning.

You’ll work across web, mobile and desktop, following an agile approach with modern development and testing practices. You’ll learn all the skills needed for the best start to your career as part of a talented and thought-leading consultancy team, committed to delivering beyond clients’ expectations.

You’ll be a critical thinker, creative and self-motivated problem solver with a demonstrable passion for technology, looking for an exciting and challenging role working closely with talented software developers.

You’ll build your skills, knowledge and experience using a wide range of technology and tools gaining a thorough understanding of modern testing approaches and context-driven testing principles. We’ll also get you working with automation frameworks across web and native mobile, APIs, microservices and CI/CD pipelines.

Structured individual and group projects to introduce various concepts of testing both front-end and back-end architectures and software; including a fortnight of test specific learning across a wide range of topics.

Ongoing training activities including self-study groups, bespoke courses and mentoring

A good degree, either completed or pending – computer science or similar is helpful but not required

Principal Consultant

Copenhagen

Scott Logic builds bespoke, business-critical technology solutions for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. The business is expanding rapidly and we are seeking a dynamic and engaging Principal Consultant to lead the shaping and delivery of complex client projects and programmes.

As a Principal Consultant, you will lead Scott Logic teams as they engage with clients from pre-sales to successful delivery, to shape and deliver strategic solutions that demonstrate tangible value and result in deep trust-based relationships.

You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages supporting and developing others by sharing knowledge and experience. You’ll be as passionate as we are about delighting our clients with high quality, well-engineered technology solutions that solve business problems and deliver lasting client value. We take an innovative and agile approach to delivery, underpinned by solid development practices using a wide range of modern technologies.

This is a client-facing role which combines strong leadership attributes working across all dimensions of the consultancy lifecycle, including pre-sales, commercial, relationships, technology, delivery and people.

Develop and maintain senior client relationships (at the C-suite level)

Build trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders, manage client expectations and ensure high levels of client satisfaction

Engage with the client to guide thought leadership and strategy. Align Scott Logic propositions to the client’s business needs

Build Scott Logic’s reputation and profile within the client organisation and the wider industry sector

Inspire and motivate teams, with proficiency in the management of high performing software engineering teams

Undertake line management of consultants, handling performance feedback and annual review processes

Assist with training, learning and development in support of the Scott Logic people agenda. Create engaging and interesting opportunities for people to grow

Contribute to the Scott Logic communities of practice and development of assets (e.g. white papers, blogs, delivery toolkits, learning curricula)

Create compelling proposals for clients, aligned to our value propositions

Work with cross-functional teams, including Solution Architects, User Experience Designers and Delivery Managers, to shape and deliver innovative technology solutions for clients

Lead on pre-contract work, including deal shaping and writing Statements of Work

Contribute to the development of innovative propositions, ways of working and other thought leadership collateral

Engage with clients from pre-sales through to successful delivery, building deep trust-based relationships

Lead high-performing software engineering teams to deliver valuable strategic solutions

Stay accountable for project financials to achieve targeted financial results

Demonstrate hands on expertise in managing software development projects. Pragmatically apply Agile methods to deliver client outcomes. Have a good understanding of alternative delivery models and associated pros and cons

Strong appreciation of modern software engineering and associated development technologies and the full software development lifecycle, ideally with a hands on software development background

Previous experience of working in a dynamic, fast moving environment

Experience of working in the public sector or financial services

A proven track record and passion for thought leadership activities

This role is based in one of our city centre offices, and likely to involve occasional travel (infrequent day trips or a few days at a time) to visit our clients across the UK and beyond. If you are interested in more travel, then opportunities are available; feel free to speak to us about this.

We are mindful of the imbalances in our sector. We celebrate multiple and varied approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation and we commit to maintaining and improving an open and creative workplace, where everyone can contribute irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

If you’d like to talk about this role then get in touch with our recruitment team at applications@scottlogic.com. Our recruitment team can also discuss any reasonable adjustments you may require to our recruitment process.

We’re looking for Cloud Operations Engineers to work on detailing and implementing best practices for our clients' cloud platforms and services… is that you?

Cloud Operations Engineer

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations and our Service Management team – which you'll be a part of – complements this established and well-respected design-and-build service offering.

The Service Management team works in partnership with the consultants at Scott Logic to ensure that best practices are maintained and that systems are integrated successfully into production-ready operating environments. We are delivering several exciting cloud-based programmes to clients including the Scottish Government. The Service Management team is responsible for delivering operational support and incident response for these new customer-facing services.

working with Cloud Delivery Engineers to architect and build AWS infrastructure to meet requirements

utilising build automation, configuration management and CI/CD deployment solutions to deploy services to production environments

establishing operational excellence in the configuration of dashboards, creation of operational run-books and operational build of the platform including the configuration of resilient architecture, backup/recovery and monitoring services

delivering automation for functions such as: Monitoring, Alerting, Incident response, Patching processes

working with the operational support team to provide out-of-hours support for live platforms on a rotational On-Call cycle as services come online

working to resolve service issues and outages in accordance with incident response processes and generating root cause analysis documentation to help prevent future occurrences of similar incidents

Our people enjoy working in an environment where they can grow and succeed together. We hire people who align with our core values of Passion, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect and Professionalism.

This role is based in our city-centre office in line with our hybrid working approach, and will likely involve occasional travel (infrequent day trips or a few days at a time) to visit our clients across the UK and beyond.

We are mindful of the imbalances in our sector. We celebrate multiple and varied approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation and we commit to maintaining and improving an open and creative workplace, where everyone can contribute irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

Contribute, learn and grow your career as part of a tight-knit team designing and delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

Developer

We are hiring software engineers at all levels to be part of delivery teams within our growing development centres. We’re looking for people as passionate as you are about building software right; ultimately delivering outstanding solutions to our clients, following an agile approach with a real focus on good engineering practices.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to be involved in the full development lifecycle, delivering mission-critical projects for high-profile global organisations. You’ll typically work in small, tight-knit multidisciplinary teams solving tough software challenges. We trust our teams to have high levels of autonomy and value collaboration and pragmatism.

You will work throughout the development stack, from richly interactive web applications to high-performance backends. You can expect to work with a diverse variety of platforms and modern architectures. Microservices, modern front-end frameworks, cloud, streaming and serverless are just a flavour of what we do. You can read more about these topics on our blog.

We will recognise your fundamental skills and potential. If you aren’t getting a chance to use modern technologies and practices in your current role, we can help you to build your skillset.

You’ll be surrounded by like-minded people in a collaborative environment that encourages sharing knowledge and experience. There’s plenty of opportunity to get involved in our engineering community. We’ll help you develop your career, with support from your highly skilled colleagues along the way. We can also help you build your profile: maybe you aspire to being a technical blogger, speaker or open source contributor, we can help you along this path.

Scott Logic is a founder-owned, successful and fast-growing UK-based software consultancy with city-centre UK offices, where we design and build software that transforms some of the world’s biggest and most demanding organisations. From financial services to complex public services, our consultants combine innovation, experience and pragmatism to deliver measurable results with every project.

Knowledge of the fundamentals in your main tech stack

Some experience of designing well-structured and maintainable applications

An appetite to learn new technologies and approaches

This role is based in our city centre office, and may involve occasional travel (infrequent day trips or a few days at a time) to visit our clients across the UK and beyond. If you are interested in more travel, then opportunities are available. Feel free to speak to us about this.

We are mindful of the imbalances in our sector. We celebrate multiple and varied approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation and we commit to maintaining and improving an open and creative workplace, where everyone can contribute irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

Contribute, learn and grow your career as part of a collaborative team who value testers and their contribution to delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

Test Engineer

We are hiring test engineers for roles in delivery teams within our growing practices. We’re looking for people as enthusiastic as we are about building software right and ultimately delivering great solutions to our clients.

We are looking for people who regard testing as a craft and practice it accordingly

We are looking for people who are passionate advocates of what they do and how they do it.

Scott Logic is a founder-owned, thriving UK-based software consultancy with UK city-centre offices, where we build software that transforms some of the world’s biggest and most demanding organisations. From capital markets to complex public services, our consultants combine innovation, experience and pragmatism to deliver measurable results with every project.

We value learning and fundamental skills.

If you aren’t getting a chance to use modern technologies and practices in your current role, we will help you to build your skillset.

We want technologically inclined testers with a deep, wide unabashed curiosity (mixed with a bit of healthy cynicism) for assumptions they are presented with.

Whether you are looking at progressing your career further, increasing your skills and knowledge, or you’ve already got some experience, we would love to talk to you.

We value kindness, collaboration, communication and feedback.

We live this through our thriving community of practice which spans 4 offices and has a number of specialists in automation, human-factors and non-functional testing. We use the community to actively upskill and encourage each other, plan events and contribute to our internal test academy to teach each other how we do what we do.

We work throughout the development stack, from richly interactive web applications to high-performance backends. You can expect to use a diverse range of platforms and modern architectures (e.g. microservices, cloud, streaming, serverless) – you can see the range discussed on our blog.

You’ll typically be part of small tight-knit multidisciplinary teams solving tough software challenges in an agile way; we trust teams to have high levels of autonomy and value collaboration and pragmatism. You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable colleagues in a collaborative environment that encourages sharing knowledge and experience.

We’ll help you develop your career: taking increasing levels of ownership and leading others along the way. We can also help you build your testing profile: sharing your expertise (blogging or speaking, both internally and externally), advising our clients and contributing to open source projects.

An appetite to learn new technologies and approaches.

The desire to share your newly acquired skills and knowledge with others.

Excellent problem-solving skills and adaptability to new situations.

Awareness of the fundamentals of testing in a context-driven way.

Some knowledge of technical skills with a bit of practical application to be almost dangerous.

You can read more about our recruitment process and the skills and attitudes we look for in our testers here.

Scott Logic is proud of our inclusive culture. We don’t tolerate any kind of bias, judgement or harassment. We want our recruitment process to be open to everyone. If you require any considerate adjustments please note them on your application and we’ll be in touch about how best to accommodate your request.

Are you a solution-orientated, commercially aware and versatile polyglot with experience in the design and delivery of complex systems?

Solutions Architect

Scott Logic is a thriving UK-based software consultancy where we design and build software that transforms the performance of some of the world’s biggest and most demanding organisations. From capital markets and commodities to complex public services, our consultants combine innovation, experience and pragmatism to deliver measurable results with every project.

We are seeking experienced technologists to occupy senior positions within our growing development centres in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Bristol and London. You’ll join a team of passionate, smart and like-minded individuals. You’ll work with a diverse range of platforms including the latest front-end and back-end technologies and modern architectures (microservices, cloud, streaming, big data, serverless).

You have a breadth of knowledge that spans a wide range of technologies. You can both create new application architectures, based on technical and business requirements, and evolve existing ones. You are able to lead the planning and execution of an architecture roadmap, communicating effectively with your team and the client. You can balance business requirements, budgets and deadlines while delivering technology change. Within the company, your skills are used beyond project delivery: assisting pre-sales with opportunities, shaping propositions and assisting in career and skills development. Your value is in your breadth and versatility.

You’ll be a member of the senior leadership team within the office you join, helping shape its overall direction, growing both the office and the people within it.

We are looking for an individual who enjoys ‘face time’ with the client, and is happy to hop on the train, or a plane, to visit our clients across the UK and beyond.

Leveraging your software design and technology skills, to create effective architectures and communicating them to the client.

Evolving and developing software architectures while balancing budget and business goals.

Carefully managing the choice and delivery of technology recognising the human impact of change.

Fostering a quality culture both within your client projects and across Scott Logic.

Helping other engineers reach their highest potential through mentoring and coaching.

Helping grow the business, the people within the office you join, and the capabilities and services we offer to clients.

Working with a diverse range of platforms including the latest front-end and back-end technologies and modern architectures (microservices, cloud, streaming, big data, serverless)

You have a proven track record in leading complex software projects.

You have a breadth of knowledge in technology, and a passion for delivering successful outcomes.

You enjoy working with, and influencing, project stakeholders.

You can talk professionally with senior non-technical decision-makers, understanding and navigating the competing and complex commercial concerns.

You enjoy leading teams and helping them to be the best they can be.

You rise to the challenge, are a fault finder, and a fixer.

Scott Logic is a founder-owned, successful and growing, private company located in the UK. Our 300+ employees enjoy working in tight-knit teams where they work, grow and succeed together. We hire people who align with our core values of Passion, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect and Professionalism.

Scott Logic is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We are mindful of the imbalances in our sector and particularly encourage applications from different underrepresented demographics.

Are you an organised self-starter, with excellent communication skills, and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders to achieve a shared understanding of problems to be solved?

Senior Business Analyst

This is a ‘hands-on’, client-facing role, where you’ll work collaboratively with our clients, developing a deep understanding of their business needs. You’ll work in an Agile delivery team, operating as the key bridge between the client and our software engineering teams.

Day to day, your role will involve a high degree of stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, process modelling, requirements elicitation and backlog management. To do this effectively, you’ll need to be an experienced Business Analyst who is an organised self-starter, with excellent communication skills, with a strong attention to detail, and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders to achieve a shared understanding of the problems to be solved.

We’re looking for people able to rapidly understand complex business problems, with the analysis skills to understand people, processes and technical requirements and shape technology solutions. You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable people in an environment that encourages helping and developing others by sharing knowledge and experience. We trust our teams to have high levels of autonomy and we value collaboration and pragmatism.

Hands-on experience as a Business Analyst within high-performing Agile development teams, working closely with Product Owners and stakeholders.

A sound understanding of both Agile and Waterfall-based project delivery methods.

Experience of selecting and applying appropriate analysis techniques to elicit requirements/user stories, collaborating with development teams to ensure a solution that delivers real business value.

Work closely with the Product Owner to organise and refine a feature backlog.

Work with the Technical Architects to understand and support the detailed design and implementation.

Experience in facilitating meetings and workshops with a variety of diverse stakeholders.

The ability to communicate and influence a variety of business and IT stakeholders at a senior level.

Excellent problem solving, communication and organisational skills.

An appreciation of modern software engineering and associated development technologies within the full software development lifecycle.

Experience of working with Government clients and an understanding of GDS.

Experience of working on digital transformation projects.

Experience of working with user centred design principles and user research techniques.

Experience in the use of Atlassian Jira and Confluence toolkit.

Previous technology consultancy experience.

If you’d like to discuss this role then please get in touch with our recruitment team at applications@scottlogic.com. Our recruitment team can also discuss any reasonable adjustments you may require to our recruitment process.

Senior User Experience Designer

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations, and recognises the importance of design as a critical part of effective beautiful software applications. The business is expanding and we’re in need of creative and self-motivated Senior UX Designers to join our growing UX Design Practice.

Join our tight-knit team designing and delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients. This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to be involved in the full development lifecycle, delivering mission-critical projects for high-profile global organisations.

Senior Developer

London

Join our tight-knit team designing and delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

We are hiring experienced software engineers to take senior roles in delivery teams within our growing development centres. We’re looking for people as passionate as you are about building software right; ultimately delivering outstanding solutions to our clients, following an agile approach with a real focus on good engineering practices. Whether you are ready to progress your career into a senior position or you’ve already got decades of experience we’d like to talk to you.

You can expect to work throughout the development stack, from richly interactive web applications to high performance backends. You will work with a diverse variety of platforms and modern architectures. Microservices, modern front-end frameworks, cloud, streaming and serverless are just a flavour of what we do. You can read more about these topics on our blog.

We will recognise your experience and fundamental skills. If you aren’t getting a chance to use modern technologies and practices in your current role, we can help you to build your skillset.

You’ll be surrounded by highly capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages sharing knowledge and experience. There’s plenty of opportunity to mentor colleagues and generally get involved in our engineering community. We’ll help you develop your career, taking growing levels of ownership and leading others along the way. We can also help you build your profile: sharing your expertise (blogging or speaking, both internally and externally), advising our clients and contributing to open source projects.

Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to adapt to new situations

Good experience and knowledge of the fundamentals in your main tech stack

Experience of designing well-structured and maintainable applications

Experience of communicating your ideas to multiple audiences

This role is based in our city centre office and is likely to involve occasional travel (infrequent day trips or a few days at a time) to visit our clients, across the UK and beyond. If you are interested in more travel, then opportunities are available. Feel free to speak to us about this.

We’re looking for a Service Support Engineer to spearhead the creation of a service support team which will operate and support varying and challenging client systems… is that you?

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