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Current Vacancies

Senior Integration Specialist

Answer Digital are a successful digital transformation consultancy and are looking for an experienced Integration Specialist to lead the integration workstream on a large Electronic Patient Record (EPR) deployment.

Job Type: Permanent
Location: Manchester with travel to Leeds will be required on occasion in the future
Salary: Negotiable on experience + bonus + pension + career development

Key Points:

  • 2-3 year project
  • Likely that majority of time will be spent on the client side, with some time at Leeds

Qualifications:

Essential

  • Degree or equivalent or relevant experience
  • Evidence of Personal Development

Desirable

  • Degree or equivalent qualification in an IT related subject
  • Management qualification such as Agile or PRINCE2 Foundation
  • Epic Certification in Bridges module

Experience/Knowledge:

Essential

  • Experience in a management / team lead role
  • Extensive knowledge of HL7 2.x, 3, FHIR and CDA messaging in relation to NHS workflows, including ITK.
  • Extensive previous experience developing/supporting systems integration using Ensemble / HealthConnect or Mirth.
  • Extensive experience of Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Extensive experience of at least one programming language.
  • Extensive experience of software development / database design and management using structured methodologies
  • Substantial experience of IT project management including resource estimation, identification of risk for business cases, and production of relevant project documentation
  • Experience in reporting progress back to programme management

Desirable

  • Experience of NHS / healthcare IT
  • Previously worked with NHS messaging interfaces
  • Experience in IT application support / training
  • Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL knowledge and experience
  • Knowledge of JSON standard
  • ITIL accreditation
  • Agile methodology experience

Attributes:

  • Ability to manage a team of interface engineers
  • Ability to plan and manage the integration team’s workload
  • Work with stakeholders and other work streams within the programme
  • Ability to communicate a range of Informatics issues which can be complex and multi-stranded
  • Be able to react to changing priorities, assessing these changes and re-planning accordingly
  • Ability to make judgements on multi-stranded or complex Informatics problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinions
  • Ability to plan and organise broad range of complex activities, formulate and adjust plans which impact beyond own area
  • Ability to manage, motivate and develop team members through mentorship and advising
  • Collaborative approach and good team working
  • Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
  • Work with stakeholders and other work streams within the programme

Other Requirements:

  • Ability to undertake shift working including out-of-hours, weekend and Public Holidays
  • Driving Licence / Car Owner (Preferable)

The benefits:

  • Competitive salary, bonus and holiday entitlement up to 28 days (increase with service)
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Life assurance and Employee Assistance Programme
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together
  • Christmas Party (partners are invited)
  • Summer away day
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Online learning subscription
  • Green car lease scheme

Apply now: 

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Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered.

Lead Agile/Digital Project Manager

Answer Digital is a successful digital transformation agency based in Leeds City Centre. We are looking for an experienced and passionate Agile Project Manager to work as part of our delivery teams in enabling successful outcomes for our clients.

Delivering outcomes for our customers is what we do. You will be responsible for managing the delivery of projects encompassing both business and technical aspects of the solution. Using agile and lean principles you will lead the team in establishing the foundations of the project through to the release of the solution into production and the management of post go live processes e.g. support, enhancements and usability improvements.

Job Type: Permanent
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Salary: Competitive + bonus + pension + career development + events

Responsibilities include:

  • The Agile PM will initiate, plan, facilitate and motivate agile project teams, and is accountable for the successful delivery of project engagements.
  • Act as the Scrum Master for the delivery team ensuring effective use of agile methodologies and techniques.
  • Facilitate team ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective and Standups.
  • Lead “Discovery phases” with clients, establishing the strategic, operational, technical and commercial foundations for project delivery.
  • Facilitate user story workshops and elicit requirements from the project and client stakeholders.
  • Coordinate User and Customer Experience research activities with the UX Designers.
  • Identify areas of improvement for the Delivery Team and enable them to implement planned change.
  • Ensure transparency in the Management of project risks and issues, and communicate effectively to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Manage project budgets and utilisation of team members.

The successful applicant:

To be successful in this role you should:

  • Have an interest in Technology
  • Be passionate about delivery and agile concepts
  • Be focused on outcomes for the user and client
  • Have strong drive for self-improvement and the coaching of others
  • Have great communication skills and can tailor your approach to suit the team, individuals and clients
  • Act as a ‘Servant Leader’ ensuring you enable the team for successful delivery
  • Be a team player who wants to work in a collaborative environment
  • Want to work within a fast-paced environment

Your experience will include:

  • A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in one of the following roles or similar: Project Manager, Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, Product Owner
  • You have experience in an agile software delivery environment, including Scrum and Kanban methodologies
  • Scrum Master certification is beneficial but not essential.
  • Prince2 Qualification is a bonus
  • You must have the right to work and reside in the UK
  • Full UK driving licence is beneficial as occasional travel is required

The benefits:

  • Competitive salary, bonus and holiday entitlement
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Laptop
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together
  • Christmas Party (partners are invited)
  • Summer away day
  • Free Car Parking at Head Offices in central Leeds
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Online learning subscription

Apply now: 

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Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered.

Lead Agile/digital Project Manager (Genomics)

Project Manager within the Healthcare Sector

Answer Digital is a successful digital transformation agency based in Leeds City Centre. We are looking for an experienced and passionate Agile Project Manager to work as part of our delivery teams in enabling successful outcomes for our clients.

Job Type: Permanent
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Suitable for: Senior IT project manager, IT Delivery Manager, Programme Manager, ideally with experience of working in the health industry.
Salary: Competitive salary + bonus + pension + full benefits

Responsibilities include:

  • The Agile PM will initiate, plan, facilitate and motivate agile project teams, and is accountable for the successful delivery of project engagements.
  • Lead “Discovery phases” with clients, establishing the strategic, operational, technical and commercial foundations for project delivery.
  • Facilitate user story workshops and elicit requirements from the project and client stakeholders.
  • Experience of building strong trust-based relationships with senior stakeholders
  • Resource management and supplier management
  • Excellent communication, influencing, persuasion and engagement skills
  • Good analysis, problem solving and project management skills
  • Experience of initiating, planning, facilitating and motivating project teams and being accountable for the successful delivery of project engagements
  • Identify areas of improvement for the Delivery Team and enable them to implement planned change.
  • Ensure transparency in the Management of project risks and issues, and communicate effectively to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Manage project budgets and utilisation of team members.

The successful applicant:

To be successful in this role you should:

  • Have an interest in Technology and have a successful track record demonstrating delivery of medium to large scale projects ideally within the health sector/NHS
  • Be passionate about delivery and agile concepts
  • Be focused on outcomes for the user and client
  • Have strong drive for project deliverables, self-improvement and the coaching of others
  • Have excellent communication skills and can tailor your approach to suit the team, individuals and clients
  • Act as a ‘Servant Leader’ ensuring you enable the team for successful delivery
  • Be a team player who wants to work in a collaborative environment, whilst highly capable of working on own initiative
  • Wants to work within a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to pick up system and project process, work flows, governance and process relatively quickly
  • Able to work in challenging situations with ability to positively influence and engage
  • Be highly motivated and organised ensuring timescales and deliverables are met whilst constantly communicating to relevant stakeholders

Your experience will include:

  • A minimum of 5+ years’ experience in one of the following roles or similar: Senior Project Manager, Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, Product Owner/Lead
  • You have experience in an agile software delivery environment, including Scrum and Kanban methodologies
  • A background in the health sector/NHS
  • Scrum Master certification is beneficial but not essential.
  • Experience working within a Waterfall environment and Prince2 Qualification is a bonus
  • You must have the right to work and reside in the UK
  • Full UK driving licence is beneficial as occasional travel is required (when this is possible. This could be London / Birmingham)

The benefits:

  • Competitive salary, bonus and holiday entitlement
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Owned Trust
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch ups/hack events
  • Cycle to Work scheme and Green Car Lease Scheme
  • Online learning subscription
  • Ongoing L&D

Apply now: 

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Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered.

Lead .Net Consultant

TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

We are looking for a Lead .NET Consultant to lead talented development teams and deliver large-scale development solutions in complex application landscapes. Ideally you will have worked with large organisations and have experience of designing and building software applications, with experience of engaging with suppliers and senior stakeholders.

Job Type: Permanent
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire (may include travel, if/when project requires it)
Suitable for: Senior Developer / Technical Lead / Technical Architect
Salary: Competitive + bonus + pension + career development

Responsibilities include:

  • Creating development roadmaps to ensure applications align with the overall strategy
  • Defining technical solutions and defining requirements for development teams
  • Ensuring teams delivers proposed solutions, to quality, within the overall plan
  • Improving the software development process using the latest technologies
  • Regularly liaising with stakeholders, users and senior leaders
  • Mentoring and constantly improving development team members

The successful applicant:

To be successful in this role you should:

  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate in a non-technical language
  • Experience working in a project management and delivery focused environment
  • Hands-on experience in delivering large scale development projects
  • Strong background in client-facing roles with excellent stakeholder management
  • Agile software development experience with continuous deployment
  • .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, C#
  • SQL and NoSQL database experience
  • JavaScript/Typescript frameworks

Desirable skills include:

  • Client facing experience gained from a technical consultancy or software vendor
  • Experience working directly with executive and director level management
  • Technical leadership of multiple development squads
  • Defining technical solutions including integration to legacy systems
  • Experience of system to system integration and interoperability
  • Event based architecture / CQRS / Domain Driven Design

The benefits:

  • Competitive salary, bonus and holiday entitlement
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together
  • Cycle to Work scheme ; green car lease scheme
  • Employee Assistance Scheme
  • Online learning subscription

Apply now: 

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Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered.

Splunk Engineer

Healthcare Sector

We are looking for a Splunk Engineer within our talented technical and project teams to be responsible for the current and future technical aspects, both internally, and at client sites.

Managing, supporting, maintaining and improving the project's infrastructure and responsible for the Splunk ITSIcloud platform and other technology supporting our client’s operations. Acting as a bridge between operations and development teams, you’ll focus on automating the rollout of applications,analytics and monitoring.

The role requires an experienced systems engineer with strong technical capabilities and collaboration skills. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in data analysis technologies and cloud infrastructure (e.g. Splunk, AWS, Azure, Terraform, etc.).

You will need the confidence and ability to actively participate in technical architecture, strategy and process definition discussions.

Job Type: Permanent/Contract
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire (may include travel, if/when project requires it)
Suitable for: Splunk Systems Engineer; Splunk Engineer, Splunk Architect, Cloud Architect
Salary: Competitive + bonus + pension + career development

Responsibilities include:

  • Engineering leadership and support for existing and future Splunk initiatives
  • Supporting technical platform enhancements
  • Supporting the design and implementation of new monitoring requirements in Splunk ITSI
  • Facilitating the maintenance and improvement of existing Splunk ITSI implementations
  • Continued evolvement of automation and operation across the platform
  • Collaborating with various technical and project teams ensuring high level of communication
  • Designing and driving the implementation of new service offerings, capabilities and improvements to the system continuously improving the landscape

The successful applicant:

To be successful in this role you should:

  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate in a non-technical language
  • Strong commercial experience of managing complex multi-tier enterprise infrastructure environments
  • Extensive experience with deep technical expertise and strong leadership supporting enterprise level data analysis technology
  • Extensive experience in deploying, configuring, upgrading and administering Splunk clusters at an enterprise level
  • An ability to perform installation, management including config, capacity planning, data integration and data transformation, field extraction, event parsing, data preview, forwarders and application management of Splunk
  • Programming/scripting experience with Python, Bash, Powershell

Desirable skills include:

  • Client facing experience gained from a technical consultancy or software vendor
  • Agile values and principles
  • Willingness to coach and mentor individuals

The benefits:

  • Competitive salary, bonus and holiday entitlement
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Owned Trust
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch ups/hack events
  • Cycle to Work scheme and Green Car Lease Scheme
  • Online learning subscription
  • Ongoing L&D

Apply now: 

To apply, send your CV to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered.

Solution Architect - Architecture within the health sector

We’re looking to expand our team of Solution Architects who work with our customers to understand strategy and requirements across their enterprise. The role requires you to understand, plan, design and support the deployment of large and complex healthcare products, platforms and solutions into the NHS at local, regional and national levels.

Ideally you will have worked with healthcare organisations (e.g. Acute Trust) and have experience of working with complex environments and solutions, with significant experience of engaging with suppliers and senior stakeholders. Knowledge of NHS systems is essential, with experience in interoperability and health specific data standards is highly desirable.

The role is focused on the design and management of software solutions and systems, however, knowledge of underlying operating systems, componentry (e.g. cloud services, LAN/WAN, end user devices) and infrastructure are helpful to the role.

The role is ideal for people who want to make a difference, think big and help our customers get the most out of digital technology.

Job Type Permanent
Location Manchester & Leeds
Salary Competitive + bonus + pension + career development + events

Responsibilities include:

  • Understanding and steering the digital strategy of our customers (working with CTOs, CIOs, other architects).
  • Defining technical solutions, documenting and translating business requirements into solution designs, options appraisals, or in support of business cases.
  • Liaising (through governance processes such as a Design Authority) with technical and project teams on new and existing changes.
  • Providing architecture/technical leadership and support for projects and programmes, ensure new application deployments align with the overall strategy.
  • Ensuring quality and providing technical oversight or assurance of new and existing solutions, systems, and options.
  • Managing risks and issues as they arise and escalating as required.
  • Motivating and mentoring colleagues and teams to meet objectives.

The Successful Applicant

To be successful in this role you will has the following experience / skills:

  • Defining technical solutions including integration to new and legacy systems
  • Experience of system to system integration and interoperability in the NHS
  • Experience of NHS standard informatics processes (e.g. ITIL), organisational structures and governance
  • Deep knowledge of the NHS and how patients are treated by it (e.g. RTT pathways)
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate in a non-technical language
  • Experience working in a structured project management and delivery focused environment
  • Hands-on experience in delivering a solution from inception through to implementation
  • Strong background in client-facing roles with excellent stakeholder management

Desirable skills include:

  • Technology background in .NET
  • Client facing experience gained from a technical consultancy or software vendor
  • Ability to represent organisations at local, regional and national architecture forums
  • Architecture and system design experience for nationwide interoperability programmes
  • Experience working directly with executive and director level management
  • Previous background as a Software Developer or Systems Integrator

THE BENEFITS:

  • Competitive salary, bonus and holiday entitlement
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch-ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together
  • Christmas Party (partners are invited)
  • Summer away day
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Online learning subscription
  • Green Car Lease Scheme

Apply now:

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Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered.

Senior .NET Developer

We are looking for a Senior .NET Developer to lead talented development teams and deliver high quality applications, from solution design right through to production, for a range of customers on a variety of platforms. Ideally you will have experience of building software applications in a team-based environment.

The role has huge potential to grow through the ranks of software development and technical leadership skills with support from senior technical leaders.

Job Type: Permanent

Suitable for: Senior Developer / Lead Developer / Technical Lead

Salary: Competitive + bonus + pension + career development + events

The Successful applicant:

  • .NET Framework / .NET Core
  • C#
  • NET
  • JavaScript SPA frameworks / Typescript
  • Event based architecture / CQRS / Domain Driven Design
  • SQL and NoSQL database experience
  • Cloud deployments and continuous deployment pipelines
  • Unit testing and User interface testing
  • Leading and mentoring other technical team members

Desirable skills include:

  • Client facing experience gained from software projects
  • Agile software development experience
  • Technical leadership of multiple development squads
  • Defining technical solutions including integration to legacy systems
  • Experience of system to system integration and interoperability

The Role:

  • Defining technical solutions and reviewing other team members
  • Leading the delivery of technical solutions as part of a team
  • Using the latest technology and tools to improve the software development process
  • Regularly demonstrating work to stakeholders, users and senior leaders
  • Mentoring and constantly improving other team members

The Benefits:

  • Competitive salary, bonus and holiday entitlement
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Laptop
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together
  • Christmas Party (partners are invited)
  • Summer away day
  • Free Car Parking at Head Offices in central Leeds
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Online learning subscription

Apply Now:

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Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered.

 

Lead Test Automation Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Test Automation Engineer to join our team of dedicated automation testers who work on a wide variety of agile projects across Health, Retail and Finance sectors. You will need strong automation test skills and experience which must include the ability to build automation frameworks from scratch within agile project environments.

Job Type: Permanent
Location: Leeds (may include travel, if/when project requires it)
Suitable for: Automation Engineer
Salary: Competitive + bonus + pension + career development

The Successful applicant:

  • Building automation frameworks from scratch using the latest open source test automation tools (Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber/Specflow, Java/C#/JavaScript)
  • Working in an agile (Scrum/Kanban) project environment utilising a
    test first approach which drives and creates a shared understanding
    of project requirements e.g. BDD, 3 Amigos
  • Automated API testing experience (Postman/REST-assured/RestSharp)
  • Configuration of automation tests to run as part of a continuous integration environment (Azure DevOps / AWS)

Desirable skills include:

  • Mobile automation testing (iOS and Android) e.g. Appium
  • Test Consultancy experience e.g. working on customer site and
    advising on agile test strategy and best practices
  • Mentoring of junior testers
  • Knowledge and experience of non-functional testing e.g.
    performance testing (JMeter) and security testing (OWASP)

The Benefits:

  • Competitive salary, bonus and holiday entitlement
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together
  • Summer away day
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Online learning subscription

Apply Now:

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Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered.

 

Academy Project Manager

The Answer Project Manager Academy is a 12-week programme that equips talent with the most contemporary project management skills and process understanding, and fast-tracks them to become project ready Answer Project Manager
This programme combines structured training, self-learning and hands-on Agile project management while giving you the opportunity to understand the role of an agile project manager within an agile delivery context. The programme also provides excellent mentorship from our team of digital project manager experts, those on the Academy learn directly from those pushing the boundaries in live Answer projects.

Answer Digital is a successful digital transformation agency based in Leeds City Centre. We are looking for an experienced and passionate Project Manager to work as part of our delivery teams in the health sector enabling successful outcomes for our clients

Job Type: Academy Project Manager
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire (Upon Academy graduation, role may include travel, if/when project requires it)
Suitable for: Automation Engineer
Salary: Academy Salary; upon graduation salary increase + bonus + pension + career development

Responsibilities include:

  • Co-ordination, management and delivery of agreed project objectives
  • Managing risks and issues

The Successful applicant:

  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience working within an agile / waterfall environment
  • Experience of building strong trust-based relationships with senior stakeholders
  • Excellent communication, influencing, persuasion and engagement skills
  • Good analysis, problem solving and project management skills
  • Experience of initiating, planning, facilitating and motivating project teams and being accountable for the successful delivery of project engagements
  • Have an interest in technology
  • Be focused on outcomes for the user and client
  • Have strong drive for self-improvement
  • Have great communication skills and can tailor your approach to suit the team, individuals and clients
  • Be a team player who wants to work in a collaborative environment

Desirable skills include:

  • Being passionate about delivery
  • Experience working across multiple frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean

Your experience will include:

  • A minimum of 1 year experience in a project management or project support role
  • You must have the right to work and reside in the UK
  • Full UK driving licence is beneficial as occasional travel is required

The Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
  • Online learning subscription
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch-ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together

Upon Graduation from Academy:

  • Salary increase
  • Eligibility for Developer Bonus Scheme
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Green Car Lease Scheme

Apply Now:

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Please note: you must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered. Be able to gain BPSS

 

Academy Integration Engineer

Answer’s Integration Engineering Academy is a 6-week programme that equips talent with the most contemporary technical skills and process understanding, fast tracking them to become project ready as Integration Engineers at Answer.
This programme combines structured training, self-learning and hands-on integration engineering, all while giving you the opportunity to understand development within an agile delivery context. The programme also provides excellent mentorship from our team of digital experts, those on the Academy learn directly from those pushing the boundaries in live Answer projects.

Job Type: Integration Engineer Academy
Location: Manchester (Upon Academy graduation, role may include travel ie Answer Digital’s Leeds Head Office, if/when project requires it)
Salary: Academy Salary; upon graduation salary increase + bonus + pension + career development

The Programme:

During the Academy, learning is structured around four key areas. Each area contains a variety of learning styles, from personal projects
to group workshops to real, live projects:
  1. Principles of Integration Analysis and Design and documentation
    1. Introduction to the concepts of Interoperability and Integration Engines
    2. Messaging – Routing – Transformation - Endpoints
    3. HL7 message standard
  2. Integration Development
    1. Caché database structure and content projection
    2. Object Oriented Programming with Caché Object Script
    3. Use of ODBC and JDBC drivers while querying external databases
    4. Introduction to Ensemble
    5. Monitoring Ensemble Productions
    6. Configuring Ensemble Components
    7. Developing Ensemble Components
    8. Intersystems HeathShare best practices
  3. Integration Testing
    1. QA
    2. Load
    3. Connectivity
    4. Unit
  4. Principles of working for Health IT organisation
    1. Understanding of general workflows in the healthcare organisation
    2. Appreciation of data confidentiality and sensitivity
    3. Ability to prioritise and escalate issues appropriately
We believe that we have designed a programme that can give you a great insight into one of today’s most dynamic and rewarding industries. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please get in touch today.

The Successful Applicant:

  • You will be a soon to be or recent graduate (any discipline), with a keen and active interest in integration engineering, and looking to take those next steps to kickstart your professional career.
  • You will:
    • Be actively pursuing an interest in integration engineering (via self-studying, or in a professional capacity if possible).
    • Have a demonstrable thirst for learning (including self-learning) and forever have your eyes peeled for the next new technology to pick up and try out.
    • Be excited by the opportunity to work in agile teams to deliver real value to clients.
    • Have an ability to cope with an intense learning environment.
    • Be excited by the prospect of working closely and collaboratively with our clients to deliver outcomes.

Desirable Expertise/Knowledge:

  • Knowledge of/Interest in agile delivery methodologies.

Career Progression:

By graduating our Academy, you will become an Answer Integration Engineer and you will be equipped to work as part of one of our live projects. This role will involve working in agile teams to deliver innovative solutions for Answer Digital’s customers.
Our Academy graduates often progress at pace after completing this 6-week programme. We have seen one of our graduates progress from ‘Graduate’ to ‘Lead Consultant’ in just 3 years after 3 successive promotions! – and this isn’t an exception!

The Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
  • Online learning subscription
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch-ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together

Upon Graduation from Academy:

  • Salary increase
  • Eligibility for Developer Bonus Scheme
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Green Car Lease Scheme

Apply Now:

To apply, send your CV to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please note: you must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered. Be able to gain BPSS

 

Software Developer Academy (Graduate Or A Junior Software Developer)

Answer’s Development Academy is a 12-week programme that equips talent with the most contemporary technical skills and process understanding, fast tracking them to become project ready as .NET Software Engineers at Answer.
This programme combines structured training, self-learning and hands-on application development, all while giving you the opportunity to understand development within an agile delivery context. The programme also provides excellent mentorship from our team of digital experts, those on the Academy learn directly from those pushing the boundaries in our live Answer projects.

Job Type: Academy Software Developer
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire (Upon Academy graduation, role may include travel, if/when project requires it)
Salary: Academy Salary; upon graduation salary increase + bonus + pension + career development

The Programme:

During the Academy, learning is structured around three key phases. Each area contains a variety of learning styles, from personal projects to group workshops to live client projects:
Phase 1: To begin, you will learn the fundamentals of back-end development, this can include working with SQL, Mongo, C#, .NET Core, REST API, SOLID Principles, Onion Architecture, Swagger Docs. To prepare you for delivering on an agile project, you will learn and begin to use agile methodologies such as SCRUM and learn about agile techniques and processes such as the daily stand-ups, sprint planning, agile requirements gathering / user stories, agile testing and the ‘Definition of Done’. This phase also involves continual check-points and an assessment in week 4 in order to progress into Phase 2.
Phase 2: In this phase, you will develop a deeper understanding and working knowledge of the latest front-end technologies, these can include: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, Bulma/Bootstrap and Aurelia/VueJS. You will continue to learn about agile project delivery through this phase in preparation to progress into Phase 3. This phase also involves continual check-points and an assessment in week 8 in order to progress into Phase 3.
Phase 3: In this final phase, you will be embedded within a team and have the opportunity to contribute to a live Answer project. You will experience our agile project delivery processes first-hand, while still being supported by your mentors to ensure you hit the ground running! This phase also includes continual check-points and ongoing assessment through-out the phase in order to graduate from the Academy.
We believe that we have designed a programme that can give you a great insight into one of today’s most dynamic and rewarding industries. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please get in touch today!

The Successful Applicant:

  • You will be a soon to be or recent graduate (any discipline), with a keen and active interest in application development, and looking to take those next steps to kickstart your professional career.
  • Be actively pursuing an interest in application development (via self-studying, or in a professional capacity if possible).
  • Have a demonstrable thirst for learning (including self-learning) and forever have your eyes peeled for the next new technology to pick up and try out.
  • Be excited by the opportunity to work in agile teams to deliver real value to clients.
  • Have an ability to cope with an intense learning environment.
  • Be excited by the prospect of working closely and collaboratively with our clients to deliver outcomes.

Desirable Expertise/Knowledge:

  • Knowledge of/Interest in agile delivery methodologies.

Career Progression:

By graduating our Academy, you will become an Answer .NET Developer and you will be equipped to work as part of one of our live projects. This role will involve working in agile teams to deliver innovative solutions for Answer Digital’s customers. Our Academy graduates often progress at pace after completing this 12-week programme. We have seen one of our graduates progress from ‘Graduate’ to ‘Lead Consultant’ in just 3 years after 3 successive promotions! – and this isn’t an exception!

The Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
  • Career development
  • Quarterly company events
  • Regular tech catch-ups/hack events/technology events

Upon Graduation from Academy:

  • Salary increase
  • Eligibility for Bonus Scheme
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Cycle to Work scheme and Green Car Lease Scheme
  • Online learning subscription

Apply Now:

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Please note: you must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered. Be able to gain BPSS

 

Academy Automation Testing

The Answer Digital Automation Testing Academy is a 12-week programme that equips talent with the most contemporary technical skills and process understanding, and fast-tracks them to become project ready Answer Automation Test Engineers.
This programme combines structured training, self-learning and hands-on Automation Testing, all while giving you the opportunity to understand the role of an agile tester within an agile delivery context. The programme also provides excellent mentorship from our team of digital experts, those on the Academy learn directly from those pushing the boundaries in live Answer projects.

Job Type: Automation Testing Academy Tester
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire (Upon Academy graduation, role may include travel, if/when project requires it)
Salary: Academy Salary; upon graduation salary increase + bonus + pension + career development

The Programme:

During the Academy, learning is structured around two key phases:
Phase 1: Runs over 6 weeks with 3 two-week sprints of practitioner-led training, self-learning and hands-on mentoring covering key foundation knowledge and understanding the context of agile project delivery. This includes learning of the latest test automation processes and technologies such as BDD, Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver, Katalon Studio and REST-assured supported up by core programming skills in Java and C#. This phase also includes continual check-
points and assessment in order to progress into Phase 2.
Phase 2: Runs over 6 weeks with 3 two-week sprints working as a trainee test engineer within a live Answer project environment. This project could be for any one of client across our Retail, Finance, Payments or Health sectors.
We believe that we have designed a programme that can give you a great insight into one of today’s most dynamic and rewarding industries. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please get in touch today!

The Successful Applicant:

  • You will be a soon to be or recent graduate, with a keen and active interest in automation testing, and looking to take those next steps to kickstart your professional career
  • You will have a great thirst for learning and forever have your eyes peeled for the next new technology to pick up and try out.
  • You'll also be excited by the opportunity to work in agile teams to deliver value to clients.

Must Haves Expertise/Knowledge:

  • Actively pursuing an interest in automation testing (via academic studies, self-studying, and/or in a professional capacity).
  • Manual functional and regression testing knowledge and experience.
  • A passion for testing and technology.

Career Progression:

By graduating the Answer Academy, you will be equipped to work as part of a live project. This role will involve working in agile teams to deliver innovative solutions for Answer Digital’s customers. Our Academy graduates often progress at pace after completing this 12-week programme. We have seen one of our graduates progress from ‘Graduate’ to ‘Lead Consultant’ in just 3 years after 3 successive promotions! – And this isn’t an exception!

The Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
  • Online learning subscription
  • Quarterly company events (includes social event)
  • Regular tech catch-ups/hack events
  • Attend technology events together

Upon Graduation from Academy:

  • Salary increase
  • Eligibility for Developer Bonus Scheme
  • Pension contributions up to 5% when you contribute 5%
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Green Car Lease Scheme

Apply Now:

To apply, send your CV to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please note: you must be eligible to work in the UK in order for your application to be considered. Be able to gain BPSS

 

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Answer Digital is looking for applicants who are ambitious and talented, within Development, Testing, UX Design or Project Management. To be successful you should demonstrate effective communication, be a team player and have a passion for technology.

Working at Answer Digital at a glance...

  • Competitive salary, bonus and pension schemes
  • Exceptional opportunities for fast career progression
  • Up to 28 days of holiday (plus UK Bank Holidays)
  • Highly energised and motivated environment
  • Awesome team and ‘can-do’ culture
  • Wide range of learning and development opportunities

The Answer Academy

The Answer Academies are unique, exciting programmes that equip ambitious graduates with the most contemporary technical skills and process understanding to join our ‘best in industry’ project teams. 

We run five different Academies every quarter, spanning:

  • - .NET Development
  • - Java Development
  • - Integration Engineering
  • - Automation Testing
  • - Project Management

The programmes are run by our supportive digital experts and combines structured training, self-learning and hands-on mentoring. While the focus is on key foundation knowledge and understanding, ongoing skills and aptitude assessment helps graduates prepare for agile project delivery. A challenging, fast-paced project phase towards the end of the programmes makes sure all graduates get a great insight into one of today’s most dynamic and rewarding industries.

CAREER PROGRESSION:

By graduating the Answer Academy, you will be equipped to work as part of a live project. This role will involve working in agile teams to deliver innovative solutions for Answer Digital’s customers. Our Academy graduates often progress at pace after completing these programmes. We have seen one of our graduates progress from ‘Graduate’ to ‘Lead Consultant’ in just 3 years after 3 successive promotions! – And this isn’t an exception!

WHAT OUR ACADEMY GRADUATES SAY: 

"Answer Digital completely changed my career. I was a teacher and it kick-started my career in the Tech industry from a beginner to a Software Developer. For a woman in technology, Academy supports you - lots of support, including from another woman developer. Other Academies have lots of people. With Answer you get dedicated attention and a personal learning experience

The Answer Academy gives exactly the same opportunities as everyone else. Answer Digital’s Academy can take people in as a beginner at whatever stage of their career. And it’s not just about learning coding. It’s also learning the project experience - how things look in the real world"

- Tessa May graduated from Answer Digital’s Developer Academy 2018 and is now a mentor

"Constantly throughout the Academy standards are very high. It was really good to work with people at all levels. You are empowered to use your own initiative and this is instilled at Answer. You are given independence from get go, it’s not just seen as training

I successfully graduated and was promoted in 3 months. I felt rewarded, confident and it made it seem very real. Getting promoted from Answer, I felt recognised for having gained the skills required in that time. Since the Academy, there has been  velocity and momentum in my career and skills. It’s now up to me to keep the momentum and progression. The Academy sets the stage"

- Cameron Hunter, graduated Answer Digital Test Academy 2020 and is now a mentor

"The culture is so different to where I worked before and in a really good way. People at Answer Digital really care. Being told I can do it, getting feedback from everyone within the Academy at all levels in Answer Digital, and this includes not just mentors. I felt I was part of the team from the word go! 

The standard was and is high! Answer believed in my capabilities and I felt really invested and very supported. Graduating felt really inclusive, continued onto a live project and I had as much work as everyone else. There is a big workload and lots to do, it’s made easier by the culture, having a laugh and making good friends"

- Kash Javed graduated from the Answer Developer Academy 2020 and is now a mentor

"I had a desire to learn and direct my career and applied to the Answer Digital Academy. I found the Answer Academy to be very welcoming and had great values.  It really matched my desire and drive to learn, having no prior software development experience

I was able to get along with the team really well and everyone is very friendly. The Academy is well structured, organised  and provides an overview of all the skills you will need to work on a project. It is intense, but you are provided with a lot of support. On graduating, it really provides a sense of achievement and accomplishment - the Answer Academy was a really good experience" 

- Jordan Shenolikar graduated from the Answer Developer Academy 2020 and is now a mentor