Role Description

Description

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile
channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. We’re seeking Frontend Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts
network.

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our
values. You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by good knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology.
This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities
● Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them.
● Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices
● Automation of system infrastructure and deployments.
● Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it).
● Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.
● Mentoring client team members.
● Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities.

Required Skills
● Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
● Expert level knowledge of web, Javascript and the associated tooling. Experience with Javascript frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS and AngularJS etc are highly desirable. Up-to-date knowledge of semantic HTML & CSS.
● Hands on experience with building performant, secure and accessible applications
● Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
● Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
● Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
● Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have
● Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including micro frontend architectures.
● Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in
containerised/cloud

Description

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, Germany, India, South Africa, the UK and the USA.

We’re looking for Quality Assurance Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network.

As a member of the team, you will work alongside our clients to help deliver products and solutions to meet business needs and help your teams deliver better. And, of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.

You should have extensive experience working with E2E delivery teams enabling them to deliver software products to meet business outcomes. You will also have a deep understanding of agile and lean delivery principles and know how and when to implement them, using several different methodologies. 

As a QA representative of the team you will also be required to have a strong understanding of both product and technical aspects that impact quality which includes being a part of user requirements analysis, understanding data requirements and the general operability and resilience of the product.

Responsibilities

At Equal Experts, the QA role is not carried out within a vacuum; our QAs form a core part of the delivery team throughout an engagement, ensuring that relevant tests are fully considered, designed and performed at the appropriate points. Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with the client and the team to ensure quality is embedded in every aspect of delivery
• Provide support and leadership by mentoring client team members in quality principles
• Collaborate closely with the developers; driving  the development of  test frameworks and engaging in technical discussions
• Make sure the testing practices are improved upon continuously and iteratively
• Maintaining a holistic view of the spectrum of tests implemented to support the drive towards continuous delivery 
• Demonstrating strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing environments

Required Skills

• Considers testability across all phases of the software development life cycle and displays a deep knowledge of test methodologies. 
• Displays a wide range of testing skills, knows how to apply them and possesses a deep appreciation for non functional testing concerns. 
• Seeks to enable the team to deliver quality products and services. Acts as a catalyst for mediation and collaboration within the team.
• Contributes to the implementation and design of high quality pipelines through pragmatic choices of testing tools and frameworks.
• Plays an active part in discussions regarding application architecture and understands the implications of those decisions on quality. 
• Demonstrates an understanding of continuous delivery and continuous integration. 
• Has experience with multiple languages and is willing to learn new development skills in order to participate in collaborative programming and pairing.
• Has an analytical mindset and is naturally inquisitive. Pays attention to fine grained detail and demonstrates an ability to zoom out to a holistic view.

*This role is open to candidates that are based in and eligible to work in South Africa

Description

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, Germany, India, South Africa, the UK and the USA.

We’re looking for Business Analysts with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network.

As a member of the team, you will work alongside our clients to help deliver products and solutions to meet business needs and help your teams deliver better. And, of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities

• Work with the product owner and other subject matter experts to define features and products to build.
• Enable and facilitate teams to deliver software products to achieve the client’s business outcomes.
• Facilitate teams in-person and remotely, working with team-members from Equal Experts, the client and other suppliers.
• Work with an array of roles including Technical, Business, Research and product stakeholders to align and enable them to achieve successful outcomes.
• Build and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Thrives on exploring the problem and can break it down into bite-size chunks. Makes data-driven decisions.
• Methodically approaches a task by understanding the big picture and then zooms in on the detail. Can navigate the detail without being overwhelmed by it and knows when there is enough detail to start.
• Can effectively immerse themselves into the business, building their knowledge of the business landscape and sharing this knowledge with the team.
• Focuses on the outcome and how the users and client will benefit from proposed solutions and/or approaches. Able to filter out the noise, collaborate with the client to prioritise based on what will bring the most value and successfully juggle multiple tasks. Can pivot when either priority or requirements change.
• Great communication skills, especially being an active listener, with exceptional presentation and visualisation skills. Confident in talking to a wide range of people through the team, client stakeholders and wider network.
• Runs focused interactive workshops, calls upon a wide range of tools and practices to keep people focused and engaged on the goal, and guides the conversation in a meaningful direction.
• Knows how to build good, solid, long-term relationships with business stakeholders, delivery team(s) and senior stakeholders.
• Has a technical appreciation of how the product or service is built and supported. Needs to be able to use, test and demonstrate it. Can relay the technical approach and explain basic concepts to others. Knows where to get deeper technical understanding if needed.
• Actively shares concepts such as ways of working, new tools and techniques, engagement intelligence with the team, client and the wider network. Continually looking for opportunities to coach/mentor client BAs and/or getting involved in facilitating or creating BA communities.
• Demonstrates the Equal Experts values and leads by example. Mindful about the legacy that Equal Experts are going to leave behind.

*This role is only open to candidates that are based in South Africa 

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. 

We’re seeking backend engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network. 

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values. 

You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. 

A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology. 

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities 

• Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them. 
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices 
• Automation of system infrastructure and deployments. 
• Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it). 
• Advocating agile practices to the client organisation. 
• Mentoring client team members. 
• Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities. 

Required Skills 

• Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
• Expert level knowledge of your chosen programming language and the associated tooling. Experience with other languages is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
• Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have 

• Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including microservice architectures and RESTful services.
• Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud environments using either AWS, GCP or Azure.

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for
blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important
projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile
channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to
assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.

We see operability as a fundamental tenet of our approach to building and delivering software. The
reasoning? The role is not simply about facilitating the continuous delivery of quality software; we focus
on the operational requirements we deliver to ensure that software runs in production, as desired.
Our Operability Engineers draw on all their experience of DevOps practices in what’s a very hands-on,
collaborative role – actively pairing with others to share knowledge and increase the delivery team’s
maturity around Operability.

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous
integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well
as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities
● Influence, collaborate, and manage expectations with immediate stakeholders and the team.
● Build with consideration for the customer's ability to support and maintain the software.
● Provide support and leadership by mentoring client team members.
● Clearly communicate technical concepts or ideas to any audience.
● Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing environments.

Required Skills
● Open and capable of pair or mob programming. Can work closely with developers in cross-functional teams.
● Programming language and coding experience (e.g., able to build a simple service with automated tests).
● Strong automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools.
● Delivers small pieces of work continuously. Prefers shorter feedback loops and aims for all work to go to production.
● Understands when and why to use a branching strategy and recognizes when a branching strategy has gone too far.
● Strong technical background in build, release, and environments, with experience and expertise in software build tools, CI tools like Jenkins, Gitlab, and Github Actions.
● Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows. Comfortable working on the command line.
● Solid understanding of Cloud Computing providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and experience with functions, containers, and virtual machines.
● Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM,Pulumi).
● Understanding of telemetry practices (monitoring, graphing, alerting, anomaly detection) and tools (e.g., Elastic, Grafana, Datadog, Sensu, Prometheus).
● Proficient in network implementation, debugging network issues, and collaborating with networking teams to build and maintain networks.
● Experience running, operating, and supporting software in production.

Data Principal 

Equal Experts is an innovative global consultancy that works closely with clients, from blue-chip multinationals and public sector organisations to tech startups.  We help clients shape their data transformations, from blueprint and lean delivery methods, to developing reproducible data product pipelines. We walk the data journey with them. 

As a technical leader in the data space you will be challenged to help solve interesting and complex data problems that our clients face.  You will be part of a team that helps clients adopt processes that meet needs and deliver value.  Supported by a global network of engineering, product and delivery minds you will be a key part of our clients journey and success.

Responsibilities 

• As trusted advisor to our clients product, engineering and architecture leadership to help shape and validate patterns, solutions that enable teams to rapidly and autonomously develop value generating data/insight products 
• Evidence-driven approach to making decisions and framing/scoping work
• Effectively work across multiple teams, synthesising needs and pain points to support roadmap development and prioritisation
• Be a pathfinder
• collaborate in product discovery and inception 
• spike proof-of-concepts and exemplars to demonstrate, validate designs, patterns or show the art of the possible 
• Lead, collaborate in conducting analysis and synthesise quantitative and qualitative evidence/findings with respect to technology choices. 
• Collaborate with clients to define and influence patterns and designs that enable engineering teams high-quality, light-weight Request for comments (RFCs) and architectural decision records (ADRs) 
• Present/communicate proposals and motivations to senior stakeholders
• Demos, talks to engineers and products teams

Required Skills

• A deeply experienced software/data engineering or full-stack data science background 
• A servant-leader, low-ego and empathetic professional who is confident to provide reasoned, evidenced opinions 
• Collaborative and a mentor to both client staff and our own consultants
• A product mindset balanced with engineering reasoning 
• Strong advocate (having lived and breathed) engineering discipline including
• Automated testing, TDD, CICD
• Infrastructure as code
• API/Headless first design
• A strong advocate for agile practices and value driven decision making
• Deep experience in developing data platforms in complex organisational technology estates using one or more of the hyper cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) data  stacks. 
• A strong understanding of data science and AI/ML operation concerns, model training, monitoring, performance attribution.
• Excellent communication skills - able champion solutions with senior stakeholders/leadership by distilling and synthesising technical complexities into crisp insights and calls to action
• Strong background in at least one programming language, SQL, Python and/or Scala preferable.  A polyglot

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.

Our Data Engineers are highly skilled in creating data pipelines for ingest, transformation and storage of data, usually at scale, and are familiar with standing-up analytics clusters.

This role involves using modern agile technical practices - including Continuous Integration and Deployment, TDD, and XP - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities

• Working with the client and the team to determine data processing and access needs and how best to deliver them.
• Creation and support of highly available data pipelines and storage solutions (e.g. data warehouses).
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices.
• Automation of data infrastructure and deployments. 
• Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.
• Mentoring client team members.
• Helping improve the team and clients’ data capabilities.

Required Skills

• Significant experience working on data pipelines, platforms and projects.
• Experience in developing solutions in one or more of the main Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong background in at least one programming language, Python or Scala preferable.
• Working with a variety of databases, data warehouses and distributed file systems in production environments.
• Strong experience in SQL and data modelling.
• Exposure with data processing at scale.
• Knowledge about GDPR and data security.
• Working with source control and infrastructure as code (Git/Github, Terraform, ansible etc.) and CI/CD tools.
• Understanding and being able to support data scientists or business intelligence teams - in data prep, mentoring and support functions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed

*This role is only open to candidates that are based in South Africa