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Salary £55k - £65k + benefits package

Role: 

A growing software company is currently seeking an Agile Scrum Master to facilitate teams of software developers and testers through the Agile life cycle of their projects. You will have ownership of the Agile Scrum processes and help guide and the team/projects through to successful delivery. 

Responsibilities: 

Working as a Scrum Master you will work closely with the product and development team to deliver software development projects following an Agile Scrum approach.

This will include:

. Manage projects in an agile/Scrum environment 
. Running daily SCRUM meetings 
. Facilitating Sprint Planning and Review meetings 
. Facilitating Sprint Retrospective meetings 
. Managing the Product and the Sprint backlog with the product owners
. Authoring Sprint artefacts and processes 

Skills & Experience:

. Experience working as an Agile Scrum Master/Agile Project manager 
. Understanding of other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/organisation 
. Good knowledge of the fundamentals of software development processes and procedures 
. Good knowledge of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team 
. Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics 
. Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition 
. Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices 
. Certified Scrum Master desirable

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing business where technology and a formalised Agile approach is key to the delivery of the highest quality software within their business. If you are interested in this opportunity please send in your CV for immediate consideration.

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Project Manager/Business Analyst/Consultant/Taskforce Management/Retail
£35,000 - £45,000

My client is a global Retail Solutions provider who is looking for a Functional Consultant to join their rapidly expanding team. You'll be responsible for the end to end delivery of retail solutions, particularly taskforce management solutions, into a range of clients. You'll be responsible for customer engagement through to delivery and aftercare.

You will have previous experience working in the retail sector either in a head office, store or field based role. You must have experience working with a Task Management solution. You will have outstanding stakeholder management and business engagement skills.

To be considered for this role, you will offer the following:

• Exceptional organization and time management skills
• Extensive retail experience with a genuine passion to delight the customer and improve experience
• Calm, resilient and works well under pressure
• Exceptional communication skills
• Very high level of attention to detail

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We are currently working with a financial organisation based in Newcastle, who are looking to build a brand new dynamic Technical Support team that will be responsible for the support of key business applications and infrastructure, as well as acting as an internal consultancy for the business.

Key responsibilities:

·         Provide the business with high-level technical support, working closely with the already established application support team.

·         Provide technical support for the organisations core banking components - API/EBS Platform, Databases, Identity Access Management and banking sub-systems.

·         Service availability and drive problem resolution management.

·         Look at entire infrastructure and Middleware layers to identify log issues, diagnose issues and then resolve issues.

·         Use Linux commands to test suspicion of malformed requests.

·         Incident, Problem and Change Management.

Key experience:

·         Very strong experience of working within a hands-on technical support role with the inclusion of experience in handing off issues to internal development and third party support functions.

·         Strong experience of supporting high availability applications and services.

·         Strong route cause analysis experience via Log Files and Logging Platform Analysis.

·         Knowledge of RESTful APIs, API Platforms, ESB Platforms, API Security and Web Services.

·         Strong knowledge of Linux.

·         Strong knowledge of JSON.

·         Scripting and Monitoring experience.

·         Proactive Incident, Problem and Change management.

·         CMDB experience.

·         Strong Service Transition experience.

·         Strong experience of working to ITIL Framework.

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As a Project Manager, you will develop and maintain the strategic vision, lead and commission a series of strategic studies and route strategies, report on economic growth and spatial planning, sponsor major schemes and manage the organization's response to major UK infrastructure projects.

As a Project Manager you will be responsible for;

• Manage and lead delivery of network planning projects, including strategic studies, route strategies, options assessment work, strategy development, major scheme sponsorship and external scheme impacts
• Develop and improve methodologies and procedures to deliver projects and studies
• Maintain oversight and manage project interdependencies with the wider Road Investment Strategy
• Procure and manage consultancy contracts
• Promote projects with internal and external stakeholders and project reporting
• Embed and advocate a PPM and Continuous Improvement
• Project Sponsorship

Experience and Knowledge required;

• Demonstrable experience of working successfully in a Programme or complex Project Management environment, ideally with experience of using Managing Successful Programmes or equivalent methodology.
• Experience of at least one of the following:
• Delivering large and complex road feasibility studies (or similar)
• Sponsoring major infrastructure schemes
• The Development Consent Order or Hybrid Bill processes
• Developing strategies for infrastructure organisations
• Demonstrable experience of leading people to successful delivery of large scale, complex and/or high risk projects, or high profile/high risk services.
• Working knowledge of MS Office packages
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills to convey complex information to a wide audience and experience of managing stakeholder relationships
• Ability to prioritise in order to meet tight deadlines.

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The candidate must be able to work in a changing and sometimes challenging environment - able to deal with changing demands whilst maintaining a professional and proactive approach. 

Responsibilities
* Work with the development team to design, optimise and implement SQL Server solutions for the product platform 
* Engage in server management, configuration and optimisation 
* Ensure that databases are functioning optimally and are scalable
* Provide suggestions for technical solutions and improvements to the current databases
* Assist with deployments to the database during software releases and updates 

Key Skills.

Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or above. Design and implementation of database schema, stored procedures, indexes, triggers. Management of SQL Server including server configuration, optimisation and backups. AlwaysOn availability group experience. Strong knowledge of current technical trends and techniques. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Performance Tuning 
Desired Skills. Data Warehouse experience. SSDT and GIT. JIRA

LocationBristol

IndustryIT

DurationASAP

Start DateASAP

Rate£40k - £55k per annum + Benefits

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Java Developer required with some commercial exposure to Scala or at least who has undertaken self learning / Coursera and has a passion for Scala, is required to cross train into Scala to work on large scale backend ecommerce systems within Agile team for tech giant in West London.

Java Developer required with some commercial exposure to Scala or at least who has undertaken self learning/Coursera and has a passion for Scala, is required to cross train into Scala to work on large scale Back End E-commerce systems within Agile team for tech giant in West London.

Key skills for the Java/Scala Developer role would include:

• Professional experience developing with Java 8 in an Enterprise systems environment
• Some commercial or evidence of self learning with Scala
• Proven skills in Back End systems and API's/RESTful
• Proven skills in TTD/Unit testing and working within Agile environments
• A logical mindset and an aptitude for problem solving
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively
• The ability to learn quickly
• A good understanding of software design and development principles
• Experience with various IDEs and distributed source code control.
• Experience working with IBM Sterling OMS or similar OMS systems (bonus)

The following would also be desirable:

• Experience making changes to large enterprise applications
• Experience working in E-commerce applications
• Experience or a desire to work with Scala
• An understanding of Agile processes including XP practices such as Pair Programing
• Experience applying testing practices such as Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
• An understanding of environments and deployment processes, including
• Application Servers (eg Tomcat, WebSphere Application Server)
• Experience producing and consuming messages via a broker or integration Middleware.
• Build and Deployment Tools (eg Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Experience using JIRA or equivalent work-flow tools.

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Head of IT Operations - c£60K - required strong in the management of a small IT function responsible for Infrastructure, Systems, Support and Project Delivery to work for my fast growing financial services client based in the heart of London.

Reporting directly into the IT Director you will be managing a team of IT Support Engineers responsible for managing all aspects of my clients IT Operations which include processes, support, Infrastructure and project delivery. To be considered you will have an excellent track record of leading a successful team and managing a range of technologies and ITIL best practice.

This will also include the following:

o    Proven leader who is self-motivated and driven with excellent management skills

o    Broad technology experience: Windows Servers, virtualisation, storage and network plus Cloud (AWS or Azure)

o    Experience of Office 365 and Contact Centres

o    Familiar with DR/BCP, high availability, backup and security

o    Good knowledge of ITIL or any other industry standard best practice framework

o    Service Desk Management and management of projects.

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Senior SAP BPC Consultant - Leading consultancy with excellent projects and training!

Leading UK SAP Consultancy with a sound reputation in SAP BPC is currently recruiting for BPC Professionals at all levels (Consultant/Senior/Principal) to join their team. This recruitment drive has been brought about due to an excellent pipeline of SAP BPC projects.
The successful candidate will work on the full scope of SAP BPC projects within the UK and also have the chance to learn other SAP skills like SAP HANA, SAP BW/SAP BI and SAP Business Objects should you be keen to do so. 

The business prides itself on a hugely enjoyable working environment. It is extremely friendly and very collaborative. Although travel is required, like all consultancies roles, the balance they can offer is one of the best in the industry. 

Role:
You will work closely with blue chip clients in the UK to understand, document, design & deliver high profile SAP BPC projects. The job will also incorporate other consultancy style duties such as proposals, POC's, technical pre-sales as well as high level strategy, architecture and capability growth developments.

Requirements:
- British, EU Passport or ILR in order to gain security clearance (preferred). 
- Deep technical knowledge of all areas of SAP. 
- At least 2 full life cycle projects in SAP BPC (Netweaver).
- Sound functional knowledge across budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation.
- Previous consultancy experience.
- High level communication & client facing skills.
- An accountancy qualification would be a huge advantage. 

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Web Developer/Software Developer - C#, JavaScript, SQL Server etc; Thame, £30-40k + great benefits

Enthusiastic Web Developer/Software Developer sought for in-house' development team of this established & successful finance company who, use the latest technologies to build responsive web based applications used by external clients.

To be based from offices close to Thame & Aylesbury, on the Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire border, the Software Developer/Web Developer will ideally have full stack' experience using C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript & SQL Server.

Any exposure to Angular, MVC, web API, web services etc advantageous as is experience in an Agile development environment with SCRUM/XP etc however, excellent training on offer.

The Software Developer/Web Developer will also need good problem solving & solution design skills and have the ability to interpret and analyse business requirements to produce simple high level designs.

They will be passionate about technology and delivering great software and keen to drive innovation through sharing ideas and new technologies.

Great chance to further your skills & progress your career; in an interesting, challenging and collaborative role, surrounded by friendly & talented colleagues whilst contributing to a successful and growing business with a great work life balance' culture.

Package includes a salary of £30,000-40,000 plus 10% company pension contribution, Medical & Dental care, 25 days holiday, contributions towards gym/sports club membership, lunchtime Pilates, Yoga and running clubs etc.

Based from modern offices close to Thame and Haddenham train station & A418/M40 for an easy commute from Aylesbury, Oxford, Bicester & Banbury; High Wycombe, Princes Risborough, Marlow & Milton Keynes etc.

Free parking or showers & a bike shelter to support you cycling to work.

Interested? Please apply ASAP with your CV and I will endeavour to respond within 3 working days. 
Enthusiastic Web Developer / Software Developer sought for an 'in-house' development team of this established & successful company

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As a BI Analyst you will line directly in to the Business Systems Manager. 
You will analyse requirements, interpret, design, code, document and test programs to deliver the required business changes as well as providing maintenance to existing systems to agreed service levels. 

BI Analyst - Based in Central London - Salary - up to £90,000 DOE

We are on the lookout for Junior, Mid-level and Senior BI Analysts to join an innovative data analytics start up based in Central London. This is a great opportunity for an individual who has the desire to work on a number of cutting edge projects as well as assist in the growth of the organisation.
Our client is looking to expand their team of Looker oriented BI Analysts in order to meet their growing demand for consulting services. As the BI Analyst you will work closely with new and existing customers in order to successfully implement new Looker solutions. Additionally, you will be responsible for building out existing data platforms, as well as contributing to building client data models, in correspondence to customer needs and wants.
As the successful candidate you will need a wide range of technical experience and be confident picking up and delivering on new projects and technologies.

To be considered for the role the BI Analyst will need to be able to demonstrate or have the following experience:
Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or Physics
Highly confident in SQL
Experience using Business Intelligence tools like Looker, Tableau, and Qlikview
Proven analysis and problem-solving skills
Have the ability to learn new tools and assimilated knowledge quickly 

In addition to the above, it would be beneficial if the BI Analyst has experience with ETL tools, and has worked with cloud-based database technologies such as Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical team members within an agile environment will be vital, as a big part of the role will involve engaging with customers in order communicate the status of various projects. 

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