Current vacancies
If you’re interested in exploring career opportunities with Union Street, why not take a look at our current vacancies which are listed below. We welcome interest from anyone who feels they have the skills and knowledge to work with us, particularly if they have experience of working in the communications or ICT industries. So, if none of our current vacancies suit your skill set, just send your CV with a covering letter explaining the type of role you’re looking for and why you want to come and work with us here
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Software Support Team Leader
16th August 22 by Union Street
Software Support Team Leader
37.5 Hours per week
Home Based (occasional travel) OR Office based (Richmond)
£30,000 – £35,000
Professional & Personal Skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and a good understanding of web-based software, technologies, systems, and processes.
- Ability to take ownership of escalations and act as an escalation point for customers, team members, and internal stakeholders.
- Experience working with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
- Ability and desire to learn and develop new skills and technologies.
- Proven experience working in a support environment, including telephony-based customer service experience.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to engage with people possessing various degrees of technical understanding.
- Self-motivated and driven, with the ability to multitask and respond well under pressure.
- Ability to manage time and prioritise work effectively.
- Commitment to service improvement with a customer focused attitude.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of ITIL or ITIL Foundation qualification.
- Incident Management.
- Request Fulfilment.
- Problem Management.
- Change Management.
- Event Management
- Knowledge of Microsoft technologies e.g.:
- Azure.
- MS SQL.
- Active Directory.
- Experience with logic monitor or similar monitoring software.
- Knowledge of how programming languages work
- Understanding of the telecommunications industry would be a distinct advantage.
About the role
The Software Support Team Leader should be an experienced customer-focused individual who will be responsible for supervising, leading, and inspiring a team of support engineers to deliver an exceptional customer service experience.
What we're looking for:
- Lead and mentor of a team of software support engineers, providing:
- Assistance with technical queries and investigations.
- Management and prioritisation the team’s workload.
- Identification of training needs within team, coordinating or delivering appropriate training.
- Monitoring of teams KPIs and delivery of departmental objectives.
- An escalation point within the team for ongoing issues
- Identifying and collating teams’ technical issues and working with Problem and Development teams to find solutions
- Coordination and leadership of daily team sessions to review productivity and share business news
- Regular 1-2-1’s with team members with support of Support Manager
- Representation of your team at departmental management meetings
- Investigate, troubleshoot and diagnose technical issues with our software platforms
- Database interrogation through use of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to understand data discrepancies and provide workaround for incidents via data fixes
- Prioritise and manage team’s open support cases and ensure all cases are kept up to date with progress in accordance with customer SLAs
- Identify trends in repeat support cases and raise problems to Problem Management team to proactively reduce avoidable incidents
- Accountable for utilising monitoring software to identifying major infrastructure incidents via monitoring software
- Contribute towards the maintenance of the company’s internal support documentation and knowledge base
- Provide training and advice to customers and junior team members via phone, email, ticketing platform and collaboration software
- Able to communicate technical information in a clear and understandable manner to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Monitor cases to ensure senior staff are informed about issues before they escalate
- Willing to learn how to support new technologies and products as they are developed and released
- Contribution towards team Key Performance indicator (KPIs) and objectives
- Preserve information security, report security breaches, in line with the Information Security Policy, and to act in accordance with the requirements of the Information Security Management System
- Implement and adhere to all aspects of Union Streets Total Metering and Billing Systems (TMBS)
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Automation QA Engineer
03rd August 22 by Union Street
Automation QA Engineer
37.5 Hours per week
Home based, with some travel to the Richmond/London area for meetings
£25,000 – £30,000 p.a. DOE
Professional & Personal Skills
- Proven experience as an Automation QA Engineer
- ISTQB Certified
- Strong experience in Automation using Selenium Webdriver with Java
- Strong experience in creating test automation frameworks from scratch
- Strong experience in programming concepts and BDD using Cucumber
- Strong Experience in a CI/CD environment
- Experience in working with Atlassian suite of products and TestRail
- Experience in building a CI environment ensuring the automation framework fits into development pipeline using Jenkins
- Design and implement functional test scripts that ensure coverage of both expected and unexpected behaviour
- Thorough working knowledge of structured test methodologies and processes
- Experience writing SQL queries at an intermediate level, using Windows Services, IIS etc.
- Working knowledge of testing windows desktop, web, and Client-Server applications
- Good understanding of complex business systems
- Ability to adhere to coding standards, ‘best practice’ methods and company procedures
- Excellent; Communication skills, Logical and analytical thinking with great attention to detail and dedication to quality code.
- Flexible, Enthusiastic, and willing to go the extra mile. Happy to embrace change.
- Ability and drive to pull out all the stops to achieve tight deadlines.
- Proactive and self-motivated – the ability to work unsupervised. great organizational, time management and planning skills.
- Capable of generating and implementing new ideas and learning from experiences.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Billing or Provisioning Software would be seen as an advantage
- Active in testing communities and happy to share thoughts and views on new technologies
About the role
The key aim on this role is to ensure all software produced by Union Street is fully tested throughout the development lifecycle. The QA Engineer will be involved in all areas of testing, required to produce high quality software, from test planning through to test execution, and reporting.
What we're looking for:
- Analysing business requirements to ensure clear understanding product use to design, implement and execute high quality test cases.
- When required create, document, and demonstrate solutions which may include, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
- Ensuring quality is maintained throughout the software development lifecycle in its entirety while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.
- Assist with analysing and resolving technical and application problems.
- Collaborate and assist, Management, Product Owners, technical authorities, other engineers, and customers to discuss technical aspects of the system to ensure delivery of robust, scalable solutions.
- Utilising excellent communication skills to raise issues to teams swiftly, and of a quality to ensure fixes are promptly resolved.
- Actively passionate about discovery and self-learning of new technology, methods, and relevant industry trends and sharing these with the team.
- Active participation in agile activities
- Preserve information security, report security breaches, in line with the Information Security Policy, and to act in accordance with the requirements of the Information Security Management System
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Software Support Engineer
17th June 22 by Union Street
Software Support Engineer
37.5 Hours per week
Home or Office based (Surrey)
£25,000 – £30,000 p.a. DOE
Professional & Personal Skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and a good understanding of desktop and web-based software, technologies, systems, and processes
- Experience working with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
- Proven experience working in a support environment, including telephony-based customer service experience
- Strong communication skills and ability to engage with people possessing various degrees of technical understanding
- Self-motivated and driven, with the ability to multitask and respond well under pressure
- Ability to manage time and prioritise work effectively
- Commitment to service improvement with a customer focused attitude
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of ITIL or ITIL Foundation qualification.
- Knowledge of Microsoft technologies – Azure / SQL / Active Directory
- Familiarity with programming in Delphi, C#, .NET, HTML
- Familiarity with ebXML architecture
- Familiarity with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- Experience in using MS Visual Studio
- An understanding of the telecommunications industry would be a distinct advantage
About the role
Working as part of a busy and dynamic support team, the role will require you to provide technical support for our industry leading billing software platforms via our Service Now case management platform.
What we're looking for:
- Able to investigate, troubleshoot and diagnose technical issues with our web and desktop software platforms
- Database interrogation through use of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to understand data discrepancies and provide workarounds for problems via data fixes
- Deliver an exceptional customer service experience by ensuring that cases are responded to in a professional manner and in accordance with customer SLAs
- Prioritise and manage personal cases ensuring clients are kept up to date with progress in all instances
- Conduct root cause investigations to identify software problems feeding vital information to our Problem Management team
- Identify and highlight trends in repeat support cases to proactively reduce avoidable incidents and propose enhancements to avoid repeat
- Utilise monitoring software to identify infrastructure incidents that could lead to service impacting incidents
- Analyse system and software log files to diagnose causes of software problems
- Contribute towards the maintenance of the company’s internal support documentation and knowledge base
- Provide training and advice to customers and junior team members via phone, email, ticketing platform and collaboration software
- Able to communicate technical information in a clear and understandable manner to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Monitor cases to ensure senior staff are informed about issues before they escalate
- Willing to learn how to support new technologies and products as they are developed and released
- Contribution towards team Key Performance indicator (KPIs) and objectives
- Preserve information security, report security breaches, in line with the Information Security Policy, and to act in accordance with the requirements of the Information Security Billing Management System
- Implement and adhere to all aspects of Union Streets Total Metering and Billing Systems (TMBS) regulations
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Telemarketer
16th June 22 by Union Street
New Business Coordinator/ Lead Generator
37.5 hours per week
Home-based + office max once per week
£24,000 – £30,000 + Commission (OTE £20,000 uncapped)
Professional & Personal Skills
- Ideally, we’d love it if you worked in a similar sector and role, but what is more important to us is that you have worked in (and enjoyed) appointment setting/Telemarketing before. You get phrases such as ‘pipeline’, ‘targets’, ‘talk-time’ and ‘KPIs’
- You’ve nailed it when it comes to communication; we mean things like your ability to ‘identify customer needs’, hear what’s not being said, active listening and your ability to talk to absolutely anyone
- Solid demonstrable working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, or fully adept at picking it up quickly
- You’re self-sufficient, thrive with autonomy and you dislike being micro-managed
- You are comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth, sales environment. No shrinking violets need apply
- For you to have an amazing ability of showcasing the business benefits of selling Union Street services (or moving existing services to Union Street) to business owners and senior executives
- An obsessive ‘Go Get Can Do’ ‘Hunter’ attitude towards sales.
Technical Skills Required
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Proactive approach to lead and new business generation
- Strong organisational and administration skills
- Ability to work well within a team
- Understanding of Saas applications. (Software as a Service)
About the role
The role will be centered around proactive lead generation and appointment setting activities, both from within our group of 6000+ partners and those external. Utilising the telephone, email marketing and social media your objective is to ensuring a high level of quality new business leads are fed into the New Business Sales Team.
What we're looking for:
- First and foremost, you’ll be living and breathing the Union Street philosophy of ‘excellence in customer service’ and providing a best-in-class service to existing and new partners
- Identify suitable prospective partners from existing data sources, social media, websites, and industry press
- Provide outboard calls to CEO and Director level staff introducing Union Street and its award-winning billing platforms
- Respond to inboard calls from prospective and existing partners
- Reignite sales opportunities from previous partner engagements
- Chase outstanding paperwork, existing proposals, and contracts on behalf of the New Business Sales Team
- Update, manage and produce reports using the Union Street Dynamics CRM
- Delivering value proposition at CEO and Director level
- Maintaining Microsoft Dynamics CRM system with all activity, information, and updates
- Ensure all call stats and KPI’s are met
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