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Simitive is an expanding company with a growing team
We employ excellent communicators, IT specialists and industry specialists, all with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

We live what we do, applying our philosophy, strategies and  solutions to the way we manage our business. Work at Simitive and you’ll be working as part of an engaged, confident and motivated team.

Our customers value our commitment and ‘can do’ attitude, characteristics we look for when recruiting new people to join us.

You can apply direct for current vacancies listed below or alternatively send your CV to info@simitive.com

Current vacancies



Project Manager

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible) 

Responsibilities:
• Act as the main point of contact to the client and or key internal stakeholders, on behalf of all other Simitive departments associated with the project.
• Coordinate resources to effectively ensure successful execution of the project plan to ensure that the project is delivered on time, to budget and meets the committed specification.
• Manage project risks, issues and changes; ensuring appropriate controls and mitigations are in place. • Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases and workstreams of the project.
• Manage project scope and changes.
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables. • Manage project quality control and participate in quality issue resolution.
• Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication.
• Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards. • Create and maintain all project documentation, to the Simitive standard, identifying resource and budgetary needs. • Host project meetings, at least once a week with the project team. Document all meetings.
• Coordinate with vendors and suppliers as required. • Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Provide leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
• Manage multiple projects, of varying size and scope, simultaneously.

Key Behavioural Characteristics:
• Communicates in a professional, concise manner, both verbally and in writing, with both technical and non-technical staff to develop strong working relationships throughout the project.
• Has knowledge of the principles and methods of project management and practical experience of their employment.
• Able to engage stakeholders and successfully transfer knowledge.
• Skilled in the creation of documentation that is clear and user-friendly.
• Able to monitor and report on project progress, highlighting the remaining project time and pro-actively escalating issues where necessary.
• Ability to manage challenges to delivery and scope, find solutions and communicate these in a professional manner
• Able to make appropriately thought through recommendations to ensure successful completion of the project.
• Has the capability to work independently and as a member of a team with minimal supervision.
• Can engage client staff in delivering necessary decisions and outputs to ensure that project timelines are maintained.
• A collaborative approach, learning from other members of the team and contributing to the continuous improvement of Simitive project delivery.
• Ability to cope with the occasional long day for more distant clients (UK / Overseas)
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If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 

Implementer 

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible) 

 The role of a Simitive Implementer is to gather client requirements, implement our software, and train users on its use for customers around the world.
We have an opportunity for the right individual to join the Simitive Client Services Team. You will have a keen interest in innovative ways to make organisations and people work better and want to give clients the best possible experience. Simitive Implementers are known for professionalism, in depth knowledge of Simitive products and the industry we work in, and a strong ability to translate customer requirements into a functional system.
 
Responsibilities:​
  • Deliver requirements gathering, implementation and training work streams within a project on time and budget whilst maintaining high client satisfaction.
  • Contribute to planning project activities and provide logistical support.
  • Work directly with the client to create and administer the implementation project.
  • Lead requirements gathering sessions and translate this into the Simitive software.
  • Maintain a high level of knowledge on Simitive systems.
  • Lead and assist in Simitive configuration, testing and user training.
  • Work closely with Simitive project managers to support the client needs throughout the project.
  • Participate in business development activities including demonstrations of the system with prospective clients.
  • Document implemented solutions for improved communication between the client and Account Managers and Support Team.
  • Ensure problems are effectively escalated and effective support is provided as needed.
  • Be an advocate for the business, by providing high quality service.
 
Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts simply and clearly to clients.
  • Well organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities with a hands-on approach.
  • Experienced in implementing systems for external clients.
  • Familiar with the Higher and Further Education sectors
  • Excellent creative, analytical and computer skills.
  • Strong relationship building, communication and presentation skills
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills to evaluate internal and external business processes and recommend effective solutions.
  • Knowledge of project life cycle, including the ability to coordinate and prioritise workload across multiple projects.
  • The ability and commitment to adhere to all company policies and procedures.
  • Willing to travel 2-3 days per week, including international opportunities.
In return you will receive:
  • Competitive Salary
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
  • Company pension
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Remote, office or hybrid working 
  • Flexible working hours
  • Nespresso coffee in the office
  • Free fruit in the office
  • Team and Company events throughout the year
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 


QA Analyst

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre/Working from home
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible) 

An exciting opening for a QA analyst with 2 or more years’ experience has arisen based in central Bristol. We are a dynamic, fast-growing organisation offering a competitive salary plus benefits, the opportunity to develop new skills and receive additional training and qualifications.
We have a broad range of existing products as well as several new development projects and are looking to continue improving our current QA process. This includes the introduction of new testing tools, workflows and the addition of automated testing to complement our ongoing need for manual QA
The ideal candidate will be experienced in QA testing of web-based applications and able to respond quickly and effectively to new work and requirements. They will need to be an effective communicator, liaising with other QA team members the development team and the product owner in order to ensure that the quality of the software delivered is at a high level.


Responsibilities:
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  • Manual testing of bug-fixes and enhancements to existing web-based applications through varying methods (scripted, sanity, smoke and exploratory testing)
  • Clear documentation of testing steps, cases and processes where required
  • Involvement in the creation of test strategies and workflows for new products/applications, working alongside Business Analysts and Developers
  • Providing time estimates for testing on projects for both existing and new applications
  • Ticket Management including screening and triage of new bugs and enhancement requests, working closely with our Client Services team
  • Supporting the introduction of new testing processes and technologies
  • Providing guidance, feedback and support to other QA team members and the wider Technical Service team
  • Reporting to the QA Lead
 
Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:

Essential for this role
  • 2 years’ experience providing QA across web or mobile applications
  • Clear understanding and experience of testing API’s using tools such as Postman
  • ISTQB Foundation level qualified
  • A clear understanding of the most popular Software Development Lifecycles
  • A basic understanding of Git and version control
  • Experience being involved in defining new processes within a QA team
  • Experience writing test plans, test cases and supporting documentation
  • Very strong written and verbal communication skills
  •  Great critical thinking and problem-solving
  • Deals well with ambiguity and adapting to change
  • Enjoys being an integral part of a dynamic team
  • The ability to work independently and be self-motivated
  • A passion to develop technical and personal skills through guided training and self-development
 
  • Desirable/Beneficial for this role
  • Comfortable using the Mac/Linux Command-Line Interface
  • Experience testing complex web-based applications, covering both front and back-end parts of the systems.
  • Any knowledge of, or experience using automated testing frameworks
  • Experience verifying data in mySQL
  • Experience in Agile and/or Scrum environments
  • Experience either running or participating in User Acceptance Testing
  • Understanding of browser compatibility requirements and knowledge of WCAG Compliance
  • Experience being involved across multiple projects/workflows simultaneously, with varying team member and stakeholders
 
In return you will receive:
  • Competitive Salary
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
  • Company pension
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Remote, office or hybrid working
  • Flexible working hours
  • Nespresso coffee in the office
  • Free fruit in the office
  • Team and Company events throughout the year
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 

Senior Software Developer 

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre/Remote
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)

The successful Senior developer will report directly to the Head of technical Services and join an expanding team of enthusiastic and likeminded technology professionals. We are looking for someone with an ability and a passion for writing clean, well-tested code as well as having a natural drive to understand new technology and assist in developing solutions to complicated problems.
This is an exciting role best suited to a motivated self-starter with a great eye for detail and a desire to help people. You will have the opportunity to work with different technologies and be a key member of the technical services department of the company.
This is currently a remote role. However, when regulations permit, you would ideally be expected to visit the Bristol office from time to time. That said, if you are only able to work remotely, we are open to discussing that as an option as well.  

Responsibilities
  • You will be responsible for working on the evolution of our platform, adding well thought out features and improving the functionality and performance of the software.
  • You will be mentoring and helping junior members of the team develop to its great potential.
  • You will be ready to convert all the well-known agile key words (scrum, squads, sprints, burn down charts…) into our core values: collaboration, accountability, and quality.
 
Necessary abilities and behaviours​
  • Demonstrable commercial experience creating applications with PHP using frameworks such as Symfony or Laravel.
    • 5 years’ experience at commercial level.
  • Understanding of Cloud infrastructure and ability apply it to improve scalability, performance, and security.
  • Demonstrable Commercial experience in data persistence, covering different database types to better suite the need (SQL, schema-less, in memory cache, data lake…)
  • Demonstrable Commercial experience with modern UI frameworks
    • Experience on React JS preferable.
  • Strong understanding of Application development and best coding practices.
  • An academic background with a BSc Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
In return you will receive:
  • Competitive Salary.
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays).
  • An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment.
  • Company pension.
  • Perkbox subscription.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Nespresso coffee in the office.
  • Free fruit.
  • Team and Company events throughout the year
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meeting’s.

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com