Sparta Global

Java Software Developers work closely with other developers, product managers, designers, business analysts and testers to create, maintain and modify systems to meet the demands of the business and their stakeholders. What You'll do. If you get a thrill from problem solving - and aren't easily disheartened when things don't work - software development is the career for you. As a Java Developer, you will: Help our clients to champion software excellence and improve delivery and service Embrace agile best practices and Continuous Delivery Support software development projects, creating new features, while also maintaining high standards for code quality Test your creativity daily as you experiment and explore different approaches to problem solving Collaborate across departments with developers, product managers, business analysts, and tests Why work for us. Sparta Global is an award-winning provider of business and technology training and careers. We help graduates, non-graduates, returners and career changers kickstart technology careers in a matter of months. Become a Spartan, complete our award-winning, paid training programme, and be assigned to work on-site with one of our clients as a fully-fledged consultant. We will make sure you are ready and confident for the workplace. Our programmes provide you with in-depth knowledge of the technical tools and skills you'll need to succeed in your future career. We'll even support with developing your business acumen, collaborative skills and personal development to give you the confidence to thrive in the workplace - regardless of your background. Why we're different. Diversity is in our DNA. We are proud to have been recognised by a number of awards bodies for our hard work across technology training, employer excellence, and diversity and inclusion. We are a people-powered business and take every opportunity to recognise and reward the hard work of our Spartans, too. This includes putting them forward for individual industry awards, including Rising Star of the Year, Rising Digital Hero, and specific awards around their skill specialisms. Who you are. Previous experience of any programming language e.g. C#, Java, Python or similar languages Have a love for technology and its application Naturally curious about how things work Critical thinker and keen problem solver Presentable, professional, and punctual Able to relocate as necessary throughout the UK for client projects Hold the full rights to work in the UK without sponsorship

Software Test Analysts are hardworking, analytical and dynamic. Their goal is to provide bug-free software and are always looking to improve the quality of software produced. Become a Junior / Graduate Software Test Analyst today! What You'll do. As a Junior / Graduate Software Test Analyst, you will constantly be presented with new problems to solve. You will play an integral role in software bug prevention to ensure applications are meeting the correct requirements. Collaborate with developers, BA, and SDETs to understand the score of the development cycle Create test cases for testing processes, suggest documents to improve software quality, work with the developers to correct bugs and errors, design test plans and procedures, and communicate with the test manager Focus on test functionality, edge-case scenarios, and complex test cases Behave like the app user under test and validate it from the user's perspective Why work for us. Sparta Global is an award-winning provider of business and technology training and careers. We help graduates, non-graduates, returners and career changers kickstart technology careers in a matter of months. Become a Spartan, complete our award-winning, paid training programme, and be assigned to work on-site with one of our clients as a fully-fledged consultant. We will make sure you are ready and confident for the workplace. Our programmes provide you with in-depth knowledge of the technical tools and skills you'll need to succeed in your future career. We'll even support with developing your business acumen, collaborative skills and personal development to give you the confidence to thrive in the workplace - regardless of your background. Why we're different. Diversity is in our DNA. We are proud to have been recognised by a number of awards bodies for our hard work across technology training, employer excellence, and diversity and inclusion. We are a people-powered business and take every opportunity to recognise and reward the hard work of our Spartans, too. This includes putting them forward for individual industry awards, including Rising Star of the Year, Rising Digital Hero, and specific awards around their skill specialisms. Who you are. Have a love for technology, collaboration, and making a personal impact on businesses Prioritisation and organisational skills Critical thinker and keen problem solver Curious about how things work - and how to break them! Presentable, professional, and punctual Able to relocate as necessary throughout the UK for client projects Hold the full rights to work in the UK without sponsorship

C# Software Developers work closely with other developers, product managers, designers, business analysts and testers to create, maintain and modify systems to meet the demands of the business and their stakeholders. Become a Junior / Graduate C# Software Developer today! What You'll do. If you get a thrill from problem solving - and aren't easily disheartened when things don't work - software development is the career for you. As a Junior / Graduate C# Software Developer, you will: Help our clients to champion software excellence and improve delivery and service Embrace agile best practices and Continuous Delivery Support software development projects, creating new features, while also maintaining high standards for code quality Test your creativity daily as you experiment and explore different approaches to problem solving Collaborate across departments with developers, product managers, business analysts, and tests Why work for us. Sparta Global is an award-winning provider of business and technology training and careers. We help graduates, non-graduates, returners and career changers kickstart technology careers in a matter of months. Become a Spartan, complete our award-winning, paid training programme, and be assigned to work on-site with one of our clients as a fully-fledged consultant. We will make sure you are ready and confident for the workplace. Our programmes provide you with in-depth knowledge of the technical tools and skills you'll need to succeed in your future career. We'll even support with developing your business acumen, collaborative skills and personal development to give you the confidence to thrive in the workplace - regardless of your background. Why we're different. Diversity is in our DNA. We are proud to have been recognised by a number of awards bodies for our hard work across technology training, employer excellence, and diversity and inclusion. We are a people-powered business and take every opportunity to recognise and reward the hard work of our Spartans, too. This includes putting them forward for individual industry awards, including Rising Star of the Year, Rising Digital Hero, and specific awards around their skill specialisms. Who you are. Previous experience of any programming language e.g. C#, Java, Python or similar languages Have a love for technology and its application Naturally curious about how things work Critical thinker and keen problem solver Presentable, professional, and punctual Able to relocate as necessary throughout the UK for client projects Hold the full rights to work in the UK without sponsorship

It can usually take years to gain the skills of a good developer, how would you like to do it in weeks, and then be deployed as one of our consultants to hone those skills? By joining Sparta Global you will be provided with the practical skills that you need to develop in the workplace to our clients standards, we're going to take you to a level where you can wield programming languages to their full potential. Once you have completed our tech academy and your class has graduated, we place you with one of our incredible clients - You will have the know-how and a job with incredible prospects - you're future-proofing yourself. We will train you in a lot more depth than just the user facing experience and front-end frameworks, you'll have the ability to build the structure of applications, understand and utilise server side code, build and interact with databases, construct automation frameworks, understand how to build apps with security in mind, production environments and configurations, microservices, cloud computing, optimisation, scaling, pipelining, creating and employing APIs - We're giving you the skills to develop the things you dreamed of when you first started playing with tech. What You'll do If you get a thrill from problem solving - and aren't easily disheartened when things don't work - software development is the career for you. As a Developer, you will: Help our clients to champion software excellence and improve delivery and service Embrace agile best practices and Continuous Delivery Support software development projects, creating new features, while also maintaining high standards for code quality Test your creativity daily as you experiment and explore different approaches to problem solving Collaborate across departments with developers, product managers, business analysts, and tests Why work for us. Sparta Global is an award-winning provider of business and technology training and careers. We help graduates, non-graduates, returners and career changers kickstart technology careers in a matter of months. Become a Spartan, complete our award-winning, paid training programme, and be assigned to work on-site with one of our clients as a fully-fledged consultant. We will make sure you are ready and confident for the workplace. Our programmes provide you with in-depth knowledge of the technical tools and skills you'll need to succeed in your future career. We'll even support with developing your business acumen, collaborative skills and personal development to give you the confidence to thrive in the workplace - regardless of your background. Why we're different. Diversity is in our DNA. We are proud to have been recognised by a number of awards bodies for our hard work across technology training, employer excellence, and diversity and inclusion. We are a people-powered business and take every opportunity to recognise and reward the hard work of our Spartans, too. This includes putting them forward for individual industry awards, including Rising Star of the Year, Rising Digital Hero, and specific awards around their skill specialisms. Who you are. Previous experience of any programming language e.g. C#, Java, Python or similar languages Have a love for technology and its application Naturally curious about how things work Critical thinker and keen problem solver Presentable, professional, and punctual Able to relocate as necessary throughout the UK for client projects Hold the full rights to work in the UK without sponsorship

The world of Data is growing at an extremely rapid pace and the skills needed to work within this space are growing at a similar rate, but how would you like to be at the forefront of this incredible field within 8-10 weeks, and then be deployed as one of our Data Engineering consultants to hone those skills even further? What is Data Engineering? Working within a data role requires transitional skill sets such as numerical and analytical skills, but it is now expanding into managing data in a variety of storage systems (e.g. databases, data warehouses, data lakes) using programming skills in languages like SQL and Python. As businesses store and handle more and more data, skills in Big Data technologies like Hadoop and Spark are increasingly relevant. Strong communication skills are vital in transforming data to be used by different parts of the business effectively. This could mean ensuring that the data is transformed into the correct format for the data analysts or working closely with the data scientists to ensure that their data pipeline can support their algorithms. Don't worry, you're not expected to know how to do all of this already, that's where we come in. We want to help you grow into someone that can deal with everything from visualisation tools to big data handling and everything in between. By training in one of our world class academies we will make you a specialist consultant who will then work with our clients to help them realise their business needs. Why work for us? We take time and care to develop your abilities and confidence, your success is our success - together we make other businesses stronger. We have great partners: What's really great about having a career in tech is that is transcends all industries, and as such we partner with businesses across all sectors - central government, leading consultancies, charities, the UKs largest mobile network operators, the world's leading music and podcast streaming platform, popular insurance groups, banks... the list goes on. We're super inclusive: We like to be thought of as ED&I champions - To help illustrate the wonderful culture we maintain here at Sparta, we have won a host of awards and been finalists for many more: Essential Skills: Excellent team player A love for technology and its application Prioritisation and organisational skills Clear and transparent communication Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Decision Making Adaptability Presentable, professional and punctual Able to travel throughout the UK Desirable but absolutely not essential - If you know them, great; If you don't, we'll teach you. SQL Scripting skills - Bash / Python / Similar tools Ability to query large datasets Able to create ETL data pipelines Big Data Platforms Cloud platform technologies We like STEM degrees, but we consider everyone, no matter what kind of background you come from.

(Talent acquisition/Recruitment) Department: Talent Team Reporting to: Senior Talent Lead / Head of Talent WE ARE SPARTA GLOBAL Sparta Global is a leading provider of technology consulting services providing cross-functional teams to power short-term and long-term projects with relevant skills -within government and private sector organisations; fintech, media, insurance, retail, legal, travel, property, technology, start-ups -for over a hundred organisations within the UK. We invest in recruiting high-calibre graduates and build them into high-performing consultants through our intensive training Academies within our nationwide Sparta Global Program, before placing them with our clients including ASOS, NHS, Channel 4, Three Mobile, RBS, Shell and many more. Areas we train in include but are not limited to; Software Engineering/Development, Software Testing, Test Automation, SDET, DevOps, Cyber Security, Data Engineering, Business Analysis. THE TALENT TEAM Key to our success and there to support our ambitious growth plans of the business is the Talent function. The team is headed by the Head of Talent and supported by Senior Talent Leads and Coordinators and work in a 180-recruitment environment, focusing purely on candidate management. The team is responsible for managing incoming applications, resourcing and headhunting, assessments, interviewing, offer management, onboarding and university engagement and companywide events. As a Talent Representative, you work to attract the best talent for the Academy, advising applicants and assessing their suitability for our program, while cultivating and supporting them throughout the process and providing exceptional customer experience. YOUR RESPONSIBILTIES Daily management of the CRM (salesforce) to manage incoming applications and complete administrative tasks on applicant files Resourcing and headhunting candidates using Job boards Recruitment marketing and attraction/branding events Using LinkedIn to increase brand awareness and source Providing an exceptional customer/candidate experience Using MS Teams and Outlook daily to collaborate Contributing to documentation and collateral for the team Building relationships with candidates and managing a pipeline Contacting contacts by both phone and email to pre-screen Assessing Psychometric and Technical tests results Booking in interviews and preparing candidates Interviewing, assessing, and coaching Sending out and managing offers and contract queries Objection handling, compelling and cultivation of candidates Contributing to team huddles and meetings Working towards weekly and monthly personal and team targets Supporting company events and university initiatives Reporting on numbers, pipeline, and commitments WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR Professionalism Confidence Resilience Adaptability A robust work ethic Organisation and time management skills Strong verbal/written communication skills The capacity to work independently as well as within a team The ability to work and learn in a fast-paced environment A keen interest in Technology and curiosity to learn and grow WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU A competitive starting salary Uncapped commission and earning potential Progression and promotion opportunity 21 days annual leave plus bank holidays Yearly personal development budget Work from home options Pension and health care On-site parking City centre location Why work for us? We take time and care to develop your abilities and confidence, your success is our success - together we make other businesses stronger. We have great partners: What's really great about having a career in tech is that is transcends all industries, and as such we partner with businesses across all sectors - central government, leading consultancies, charities, the UKs largest mobile network operators, the world's leading music and podcast streaming platform, popular insurance groups, banks... the list goes on. We're super inclusive: We like to be thought of as ED&I champions - To help illustrate the wonderful culture we maintain here at Sparta; we have won a host of awards and been finalists for many more: Booking.com - Employer of the Year Award Computing - Women in IT Excellence Award 2019 Women in Tech - Best Tech Employer Awards Women in Tech - Diversity and Inclusion Rising Star of the Year Award

In this role, the SDET will be critical to delivering quality assurance across the product team. You will set the direction for Quality Assurance and Testing and develop and implement QA approaches. You will be expected to collaborate with project delivery partners to make sure QA is embedded by default into the development approach. The SDET will develop their understanding of emerging tools and approaches and apply these to help the organisation deliver better success. The SDET will continue to develop their own analytical, delivery management and leadership skills with a focus on helping the organisation to deliver high quality outcomes at pace whilst honing stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement skills. Responsibilities and skills: Must be able to build automation test frameworks from scratch Must be extremely confident and experienced with programming languages Implementing a project level strategy for the delivery and development of test automation solutions Working in collaboration with delivery partners in QA and more broadly across the organisation, to ensure that effective and efficient test automation capabilities are developed and fully integrated into the software development process Providing technical advice and assurance on the wider application of test automation solutions at project level, influencing the effectiveness and quality of test engineering practices Supporting test engineering teams throughout the delivery process through the provision of technical guidance and coaching Working at project, sprint and team level, with effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills Implementing project level test approaches for integration testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Release within an Agile environment Delivering test engineering capabilities which support the implementation of QA, Testing and Software Development strategies Implementing a range of tools and test automation techniques including Open Source technologies and object-orientated design Implementing appropriate test automation environments Must be able to use tools such as: Selenium web driver, Java, RestAssured, Cucumber BDD, Serenity, Jenkins, Junit, Git, CI, CD, DevOps,

Who We Are: Sparta Global is a leading provider of technology consulting services providing cross-functional teams to power short-term and long-term projects with relevant skills - within government and private sector organisations; fintech, media, insurance, retail, legal, travel, property, technology, start-ups - for over a hundred organisations within the UK. Summary: A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Performance/ Chaos Engineer to join our Technology Consulting Services business and initially to be part of a recently awarded long term Managed Service. Role: Performance / Chaos Engineer (Azure) End Client: Online retailer Location: London / Remote Duration: 12 Months FTC Salary: Competitive + benefits Description: Taking a lead from the Resiliency test manager and our Principal Engineering community to build on our existing resiliency testing approach, taking it to the next level with appropriate tooling to simulate a wider variety of failure and reduced service scenarios. You'll be - involved in determining the appropriate tooling - working with engineers in platform teams to ensure that their solutions can be configured for chaos testing - engineering chaos tests - coordinating and executing chaos days / fire drills across a wide variety of tech teams and technologies

Who We Are: Sparta Global is a leading provider of technology consulting services providing cross-functional teams to power short-term and long-term projects with relevant skills - within government and private sector organisations; fintech, media, insurance, retail, legal, travel, property, technology, start-ups - for over a hundred organisations within the UK. Summary: Role: Cloud Infrastructure Architect Client: Financial Services company Location: Northampton Duration: Initially a 6 Months contract Rate: £600-650 p/d (Inside IR35) Purpose of Role: Working with the existing Architect team providing experience to be able to work with hands on approach in both Infrastructure and Cloud deliverables. To strengthen the team to deliver the migration to a Cloud platform, assisting with designing areas of the Cloud including infrastructure and networking. Essential Experience: Experience designing, integrating, and managing infrastructure solutions Extensive knowledge of designing, developing, and implementing enterprise networks in diverse environment to provide recommendations on approach to enhance the adoption of cloud. Strong Knowledge of network architectures and virtualization technologies. Have a strong background in a public cloud environment, migrations, and development. You are familiar especially with Azure and have experience in setting up managed services. Have experience in the design and delivery of systems based on Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings, as well as exposure to different architecture models such as all-in and hybrid. Experience with common network components (e.g. DNS, routing, firewalls) and IT security and design patterns for cloud architectures. Strong written and oral communication skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audience Desirable Skills: Microsoft Azure Certified AZ-900, AZ-303 & AZ-304 Architecture Certification (TOGAF)