Application Manager


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Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Listed on

14th November 2018

Location

Cambridge

Salary/Rate

Upto £55000

Salary Notes

Up to £55,000 (depending on experience)

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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What it's about

Are you passionate about delivery, enabling and empowering teams to succeed and looking to provide excellent customer service in an IT environment? If so we may have the role for you.

Cambridge Assessment is Europe's largest assessment group, incorporating three major awarding bodies. It plays a leading role in researching, developing and delivering assessment to eight million candidates in 170 countries every year. The Group is a department of the University of Cambridge and a not-for-profit organisation.

Within the Business Technology Services team, we are looking for an experienced project or application manager to take on the ownership of a portfolio of applications that serve our business stakeholders.

What you'll be doing

We are looking for a proactive individual who thrives on working in a challenging and fast paced environment. Your role will be centrally placed between the business and Senior IT Management and you will play a key role in ensuring quality at every stage of the application lifecycle.

Key Accountabilities:

To be responsible for the stability and functional delivery of an application or suite of applications within BTS Service.

To be the primary contact point for an application or suite of applications and be able to provide detailed service level information as requested.

Influencing and implementing the strategic design of the application or the suite of applications helping to drive the backlog prioritisation in line with business strategy.

Shaping Application Management processes and methodologies.

What we're looking for

The ideal candidate will have experience of:

Successful release implementation in an application development environment.

Transitioning applications into operations.

Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

Software development and usability design.

The full application life cycle, with a working knowledge of each of the relevant stages

Planning tools and delivery methodologies such as MS Project, Prince 2, Jira as well as agile frameworks best practices.

Effective risk & issue management

Conveying technical information to a non-technical audience reaching the desired outcome/understanding for both.

Matrix management of staff.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive package of benefits to help with your life both inside and outside of work:

Generous contributory pension

28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Annual performance related bonus and increases (discretionary)

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay and childcare voucher scheme

Childcare vouchers

Employee discount and cash back scheme at 2,500 retailers

Cycle scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Subsidised staff restaurants

Support for professional qualifications

Discounted access to the University of Cambridge Sport Centre, along with various other local gyms.

Work/life balance is important to us here at Cambridge Assessment, and we offer colleagues a range of flexible working options which suit both the business and the employee. Please let us know of flexible working requirements when applying and we can see how we can support you.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 02/12/2018 and interviews will be held on w/c 10/12/2018.

As a fair and equal employer, we want to make sure you have all the information you need about the job, so we always incorporate the job description into our ads. If you’re invited for interview, you’ll also receive that job description as a separate document.

In this spirit of transparency, if you’re successful at interview stage we will ask you to undergo background screening (carried out by Credence Background Screening Ltd), to ensure that all information provided to us is accurate. We wish you all the very best with your application.

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