Contract Agile Project Manager - Symfony2 Migration Project
Location: GB, RIC, Teddington
Employment type: Contract
Required experience: Not Applicable
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Consumer Services
Function: Project Management
Salary range: 60000-70000
Company profile: VouchedFor is a highly disruptive start up in the Financial Advice market. Created in 2011, we are an innovative start-up backed by investors whose previous successes include Zoopla, eBay, Lovefilm and Betfair. We connect consumers with Independent Financial Advisers and Mortgage Advisors that they can trust, based on customer reviews. We have exciting plans to do a whole lot more, makinggreat financial advice accessible and engaging to all.VouchedFor is the only UK digital platform that lets you find, rate and review Independent Advisors.We have successfully carved a place for ourselves in a commercial sector with revenues over £4.4 billion, and with nearly 2000 financial advisers now signed up, VouchedFor has created adviser capacity in excess of even the largest financial firms (e.g., St James Place, Barclays Wealth, Hargreaves Lansdown). The product and marketing opportunities this presents are endless, spanning investments, pensions, mortgages, annuities and more. This role is literally an opportunity to change the way the UK public goes about managing its wealth.
Description: #URL_c6e7f4ed22e82b57a29d7d1fa8d4fd9846364cb607bb49967a9a42d3cd79efe5# is a fast-growing startup that makes it easy to find well reviewed financial advisers, solicitors and soon accountants (and more). We're backed by a top tier group of investors, with previous successes including Zoopla, Shazam, Betfair & LoveFilm. Our modern offices in SW London offer a great working environment.We're seeking a contract PM to help us adopt the best and most applicable agile practices to ensure we deliver a smooth, timely and successful migration to our new platform. Utilizing Jira,keeping everyone focused on the right priorities and ensuring scope is well managed. You'll help improve a development processes that results in regular releases of high quality code and happy challenged developers. We currently use a Scrum based process and are striving to optimize our DevOps, CI and business process to ensure a steady stream of well defined changes are delivered and communicated. Our ideal candidate would come from a technical background and be able to understand and get involved at the code level of a Symfony 2 API application adding genuine technical value as well as bringing their exceptional management skills to bear on the project.  
Requirements: About you:An experienced Agile PM with a passion for technological innovation, improvement and agile processesA track record of delivery, you've been there and done it and can show us examples.A Jira (or similar) expert, understanding how to put the right information in and get the right reporting outUp to date with technology and tools and able to offer constructive suggestions where the right tools will improve process and add value.Able to understand our business model quickly and work with the business to extract the required level of detail needed for development.A Process engineer spotting the weak spots in our process and introducing the right workflowCoding background in any of Symfony2  / Restful API / #URL_9078e8368d89dcdbf1ed26064be556e5b47144133bf647a7deaa954f8ec0bdb4# would be benificial
Benefits: Competitive Rates and project based bonusNo agencies or recruiters please.
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