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careers: technical project manager - august 2006

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Xbridge Background

This is an excellent opportunity to join Europe's leading online intermediary for business finance and insurance. In the United Kingdom, most online business finance transactions originate on systems built and managed by Xbridge. Our commerce solutions power the online strategies of many of the UK's most prominent financial brands, including 3 of the 4 largest banks and 2 of the largest insurers. Every month our customer acquisition solutions deliver over £1 billion of new potential business to the owners of some of the most prominent brands in commercial finance.

Over one million businesses have used Xbridge-powered online marketplaces to find the most appropriate commercial lender and/or insurer. Xbridge marketplaces are integrated into over 300 leading portals and business finance websites, including MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, and Tiscali. Xbridge has previously won New Media Age 'effectiveness award' for the B2B arena and European Banking Technology's award for "Best Online and Multichannel Bank".

This is a very rare opportunity to help the company develop an entirely new product offering from an early stage its life cycle. Building upon company core competencies, this initative holds the potential to fundamentally change the way many businesses use the Internet, similar to the way that Ebay and Google previously changed online behaviour.

Position: Technical Project Manager

You will be highly motivated, people-oriented person, used to working with commercial deadlines. You take a pragmatic, flexible approach to problem solving and are willing to put in what it takes to get results. You are a great communicator with outstanding verbal and written skills, developed in a background of academic and/or professional excellence. You are seeking an excellent working and social environment within a highly focused and professional company.

Main Activities

  • Requirement gathering from internal and external partners
  • Day-to-day management of a project specific development team members, in terms of planning and scheduling key deliverables as well as allocating and coordinating work
  • Full project management of software development lifecycle
  • Coordination of pre-development project deliverables with the business teams
  • Coordination with technical management to ensure successful project delivery
  • Accurate and timely communication with project stakeholders.
  • Time, resource and cost estimation of projects
  • Preparation of periodic status reports
  • Documenting and tracking of early stage project development
  • Supporting, troubleshooting and managing the interface between the business and technical sides of the company.

Required Experience

  • Extensive experience of writing and analysing functional requirement specifications, design requirements and use case development.
  • A good understanding of standard iterative methodologies and processes
  • Minimum of three years experience as a Technical Business Analyst/IT Project Manager
  • Knowledge and experience of full software development life cycle
  • Proven track record of successful project delivery
  • Practical experience of ecommerce applications and web enabled technologies
  • Experience with automated task management systems plus working knowledge of versioning & release management
  • Detailed knowledge of report writing
  • Ability to organise and run internal and external business meetings

Desirable Experience

  • Practical experience of RUP, PRINCE 2, Agile/XP, RAD and/or CMMI.
  • Good understanding of all aspects of an operational ecommerce business including e-marketing
  • An understanding of Java and J2EE technologies
  • Experience in financial services and/or a strong e-commerce experience

Personal Attributes

  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Good communication and negotiation skills
  • Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team
  • Pragmatic approach to business requirements
  • Willingness to work outside normal office hours if required by the business

Compensation / package

  • base commensurate with experience
  • quarterly performance based-bonus
  • participation in equity option scheme
  • excellent health package
  • pension scheme

Please email your CV to our Human Resources department at careers@xbridge.com or fax it to 020 7920 8088. Please include cover letter and expected salary.