EMPORIUM DaaP(H) Requirements Manager

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Summary of the work Requirements Manager - Opportunity to support EMPORIUM DaaP(H) project to facilitate, develop and capture requirements to enable the procurement of cloud services for our enduring hosting capability. The individual will provide technical best practices and management to establish priority and traceability of requirements, working across technical, project and commercial workstreams. Specialist role Product manager Expected Contract Length 60 Working Days Latest start date 10/04/2017 Maximum Day Rate £500 Who Speclialist Work With The Requirements Manager will be managed by the Application Hosting leads and will be expected to work across Technical teams, the EMPORIUM Project Team and Commercial teams as required. Engagements with Crown Servants, Military and Contractors is to be expected. The individual will work to Agile/Scrum methodology. What Specialists Work On EMPORIUM DaaP(H) is a project that forms part of the Application Services and DevOps Tower. An individual is needed to document in an auditable way the requirements for: - Restricted Lan Infrastructure (RLI) connected cloud hosting environemnt (OFFICIAL) - Secure Lan Infrastructure (SLI) connected cloud hosting environment (SECRET) - Test & Partner Zone (Internet connected cloud hosting environment) - Internet (OFFICIAL) - Data Centric Storage - Additional services required to support a hosting environment - The software tools/licences required to enable a DevOps team to funciton efficiently To enable us to procure services required for our enduring cloud hosting capability. Skills & Experience • Extensive practical experience of requirements management- 20% • Extensive experience of managing a requirements set that can be contracted against- 20% • Experience of current cloud technologies- 15% • Experience of working with and collaborating across Technical work streams to drive results- 10% • Experience of managing stakeholder engagement in terms of requirements and setting expectations- 10% • Excellent oral and written communication with senior stake holders at all levels- 10% Nice to Haves • Experience of procurement and contract management- 5% • Experience of producing and reviewing requirements and their documentation for complex systems- 5% • Experience of working within an Agile/Scrum environment, including the use of Agile Management tools such as Jira and Confluence- 5% Work Location MoD Corsham, Wiltshire Working Arrangments 5 days a week (37 hours per week) within a bandwidth of 08:00 - 18:00 (hours to be agreed with individual teams). The individual will work in accordance with Agile/Scrum methodology. No expenses will be paid, all the tasking will to be carried out on site there will be no 'OFF-SITE' working. All resources will be provided, access to the organisation's IT system and no utilisaton of personal or company laptops will be permitted. Security Clearance Individuals will be required to hold 'SC' clearance in order to work in the building or have access to IT Systems. No. of Specialists to Evaluate 10 Cultural Fit Criteria • Transparent and collaborative when making decisions • A flexible approach • Ability to integrate and work as part of a team • Ability to work to Agile/Scrum methodology Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 15% Price 25% Questions from Suppliers 1. From 6th April, responsibility for determining if an assignment is within IR35 will shift to the Public Sector organisation. Comparex need to understand the client’s decision on the status of each contract assignment (including extensions) under IR35 and whether a new contractor assignment is deemed ‘Inside’ or ‘Outside’ of IR35 at the beginning of the recruitment process for hiring a contractor. There is an HMRC status portal available to help determine the status but we do require you to post a response as to whether the role is ‘inside’ or ‘outside’. There will not be a definitive answer at this point in time. Our compliancy team have hundreds of contracts to go through and each one is individually assessed. 2. Please could you advise if this falls inside or outside of IR35? Please see above. 3. Is this inside or outside IR35 See above. 4. CV Submission Can you please ensure you send CVs to Natalie.Maddox-Hussain238@mod.gov.uk prior to the advert deadline. CVs are to be no more than 4 sides of A4 long, and must be in word format DO NOT include the day rate on the CV.