White October is a growing and exciting web development agency based in Oxford, UK. An opportunity has now arisen for a Technical Project Manager / Agile Development Manager to join the team.

If you’re looking for a unique opportunity to demonstrate your talent for agile development – this is it! Not only does this role offer a high level of responsibility and the chance to make a difference from day one, but also fantastic scope for career development.

As the Technical Project Manager / Agile Development Manager you will be responsible for managing a new high profile development project. You will be expected to introduce an agile methodology to the project team, whilst performing the roles of coach and project manager, and participating with programming as required.

For the right candidate there is plenty of scope to move into a more senior role in which you will take responsibility for all of the agency's development, managing resources and ensuring that production runs smoothly.

To succeed as the Technical Project Manager / Agile Development Manager you must have previous high-level experience of agile web development (for example as a Lead Web Developer or Senior Web Developer etc).

In addition to your ability to motivate and inspire the team to take up a new development methodology, you will also already be a bright and talented Developer who is looking for an opportunity to make their mark in an exciting and innovative agency.

Required Experience

• At least 2 years experience of Agile development
• At least 5 years development work experience
• Proven ability to manage time, people and projects

Required skills

• First class programming in a OO PHP, XHTML, CSS, MySQL
• Comfortable in a Linux / Unix environment
• SVN or other source code control

Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 GBP + benefits (25 days' holiday, stakeholder pension scheme, childcare voucher scheme)

To Apply
Please send your CV and a covering letter to info@whiteoctober.co.uk. There is no closing date: we will stop considering applications when we find the right person.

Candidates who do not possess the above programming skills but who do have development skills in Perl, Ruby, Java and Python are also invited to apply.

Further info: http://www.whiteoctober.co.uk/jobs