I'm looking for a highly motivated Data Analyst Developer to work for a leading Hedge Fund, this is a fantastic opportunity.

I would be keen to speak to candidates ASAP the duties of the role are

To provide accurate, timely data to the business by applying technology to automate data collection, processing, storage, cleaning and management.

Primary Duties

Work with equity and macro researches and portfolio managers to understand their data needs

Implement and improve technology solutions to load, manage and deliver data for the systematic trading models, algorithmic execution systems and other Front Office systems

Implement and improve technology solutions to clean and produce derived data sets from raw data sets

Work with production systems group to ensure data problems are resolved quickly and accurately

Work with data vendors to investigate new and alternative sources of data for the business, ensuring availability of high quality and value-for-money data for the business

General

Any other duties commensurate with the post holder's position and seniority

All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational, statutory and regulatory policies and procedures

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Essential

More than two years' experience of programming in any OO language (we mainly use Java and Matlab with some C#/Python)

More than two years' experience of database systems and SQL (preferably SQL Server and/or Vertica)

Experience of both Linux and Windows environments, Scripting and tools

Willing to carry out operational data tasks alongside developing new solutions

Well organised with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple streams of work

Excellent communication skills.

Beneficial

Experience in handling financial data sets and familiarity with financial instruments (equities, futures, FX)

Exposure to data vendor technology; Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Axioma etc

Experience of developing tools for managing/visualising/exploring complex data sets

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Due to the nature of the role and the time scale and requirements issued by the client, candidates have been advised to hold current government clearance to SC level for this role.

Please see full details as per the below, provided by the client for your consideration:

Description

The Global Connectivity Service team has a portfolio of Non-Standard Service Requests (NSSRs) which are effectively small, short term, fixed price projects that provide a reliable and expanding revenue stream for the Global Connectivity account. There are currently over 200 requests on the team task list that need to be delivered and it is expected that a further 60 requests shall be received each month.

This role is required to support the production of Impact Assessments, the production of network designs/network configurations and providing technical guidance to implementation engineers.

Desirable Skills Required:

• Experience of working in accordance with the MOD ECR process

Key Performance Indicators:

• Makes a recognized technical contribution to business approval meetings.
• Provides evidence that demonstrates defining the technical scope in order to ensure an acceptable cost structure.
• Can evidence feedback from customer forums, conferences and professional bodies etc. which demonstrates a personal contribution to building Fujitsu's reputation in the market place.
• Tangible recognition from customer management, Fujitsu sales and project management staff, of an effective contribution to business development.
• Using company prescribed methodologies, can demonstrate the production of several medium scale designs, including some which are not based on an existing patter, or which have substantial customization and/or contain solution components from contributing specialists.
• Regular contribution to, and user of, company knowledge repositories and events.

Mandatory Skills Required:

• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience of working in an MOD or Customer Facing environment.
• Excellent network technical skills, preferably covering both Cisco and Juniper equipment.

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Digital Project Manager required for a leading E-commerce solutions provider in Oxford.

The Digital Project Manager will provide E-commerce consulting services including business requirements analysis, scope of work, detailed specification and estimates.

• Proactively managing projects from client brief through to implementation; liaising with the internal teams to ensure that projects are delivered on spec.
• Produce clear and accurate specification documentation.
• Produce estimates for work as outlined or specified
• Help with website, design, SEO and digital marketing
• Learn the features and functions E-commerce platform taking ownership for guides/manual
• Deliver customer training and feature update webinars
• Engage effectively with prospects capable of showcasing Red's platform and services
• Shadow on new project specs including delivery cycle and take responsibility for post live consulting, change documentation and account management
• Leverage digital marketing, web and E-commerce expertise to add value to our existing Customers

The Person

• A people person who naturally collaborates and enthuses those around them
• Experience at web/digital agency or similar and is used to being customer focused, juggling tasks, and working to deadlines.
• Has an excellent understanding of the web and related technologies.
• Hands on website design, HTML, CSS and setup of CMS's such as Wordpress, Kentico etc.
• Digital marketing consulting and delivery capability
• Confident liaising at all levels, both technical and non-technical
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Quality orientated attitude with attention to detail
• Native level English language skills
• Car and valid driving license

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Business Analyst, BA, product owner - Software retail, customer analytics, agile - required for an industry leading big data company based in Manchester, North West - Commutable from Stockport, Bolton, Oldham, Huddersfield, Halifax, Chester, Warrington, Preston, Liverpool, Leeds, Stoke, Crewe and Sheffield.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work as a business analyst/product owner for a global big data/customer analytics company. You will assist with the effective and timely delivery of all new and existing projects. You will have experience managing all life cycle stages and be able to effectively collaborate with market teams and end users to ensure the highest product standards possible. You will be familiar with working on large platforms and development builds across a wide spectrum of techs (full stack, Back End, Front End - essential) and will therefore need a strong technical and business background. Anyone who has worked on complex customer analytics/insight applications will be ideal, whether that be financial, retail or E-commerce based.

You will have proven experience working on large scale software development projects and lead from the front in all aspects of Business Analysis including Data Flows, defining and documenting business/technical requirements and building use cases.

Skills and experience;

- Strong Business Analysis/product owner experience
- Experience working across all life cycle stages
- Experience working across multiple software development projects (Full stack)
- Background within financial, E-commerce or retail 
- Customer analytics/insight application experience (advantageous) 
- Experience working with technical, QA and design teams
- Good project management skills
- Comfortable working within an Agile environment 
- Data analysis and modelling
- Passion for technology and real attention to detail and drive to understand systems
- Analysis and documenting complex technical/business needs
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Producing data and process models for large development projects

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a leading global business at the top of their game and who continue to demonstrate year on year growth and investment. Salary will depend upon experience though will range from 35 - 50k plus an excellent benefits package including bonus of over 10%. 

Please forward your CV for immediate consideration.

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Technical Lead - Northampton - Up to £55,000 per annum - Windows, Infrastructure, DLP, ITIL, Agile, Prince2, OEM, CAX, ERP, Unified Communications, Security, Networking

Are you looking for a technically challenging leadership role? A world leader in global motorsport are currently looking for a Technical Architect to join their team on a permanent basis. This is looking for someone to start ASAP and is paying up to £55,000 per annum for the right applicant.

Job Overview:

The role of the Technical Architect is to provide technical leadership in the support and provision of solid IT services, by doing so, improving reliability, availability, security and performance across all aspects of the IT landscape. A strong and broad ranging technical background is essential as this is also a hands-on role with the requirement to support and deliver technical solutions throughout all stages of the ITIL service lifecycle.

In addition to being the senior technical escalation point, the role also requires the ability to support, develop and lead colleagues in both task management and a technical capacity. The job holder must also be able to work with 3rd parties, suppliers & customers, as solutions will often require external input and co-ordination.

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

Essential

- A minimum of 5 years' experience in a senior operational support role (3rd line or equivalent) within a medium to large sized enterprise, including support of the following:

- Support and optimization of in-house and bespoke applications

- Enterprise infrastructure, networking, storage and compute

- Security, encryption and Data Loss Prevention

- Database infrastructure and administration

- Client and server Operating Systems

- High-level technical computing languages

- Infrastructure and application capacity, performance and availability monitoring

- Clustering and High Availability

- Email, telephony and Unified Communications

- Enterprise video content delivery

- Datacentre infrastructure

- Backups and Disaster Recovery

- Strong experience working to ITIL practices

- Proven Continual Service Improvement experience

- A good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle

- Project lead and delivery experience working to a recognised methodology (ie PRINCE2, Agile)

- Experience of scripting, orchestration and automation techniques

- Excellent call/customer management experience

Desirable

- Motorsport, OEM automotive or engineering background

- High performance Computing experience

- CAX system management experience + PLM

- ERP system management

- Testbed and simulation platforms

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IT Infrastructure Engineer with strong Cisco and Microsoft Server 2012 / Microsoft Server 2016 infrastructure experience is required by a leading company based in North London. You should ideally have some Exchange Server 2010 / 2016, Active Directory, Hyper-V and networking experience. If you are ITIL, CCNA or MCSE qualified then this would be a bonus.

The Opportunity: Operating as a Senior Network and Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide hands on technical support for the operation and maintenance of a complex EMEA IT services network, working with the technical team to understand complex network issues to help diagnose and fault find issues within our clients Data Centres, WAN and multiple LAN estates.

Skills and Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in a networking capacity, managing infrastructure in a high-throughput production environment
• A CCNA (Routing and Switching) qualification as a minimum (CCNP or equivalent skills)
• A good understanding of Cisco Nexus Data Centre technology
• An understanding of application load-balancing technologies and Cisco routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF and EIGRP
• Good security skills in deploying VPN's, IPSec and Firewall rules on Cisco ASA platforms
• A good knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies such as VLANS, HSRP, Network Address Translation and Spanning-Tree protocol
• Enthusiasm for Networking, and Network Administration including keeping up to date with the latest operating systems, tools and techniques
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to perform in a production environment and the desire to deliver excellent solutions and service to customers
• A proactive and energetic person with a desire to contribute collaboratively to the development of the team and the company

Role and Responsibilities:

• Provide hands on technical support for the operation and maintenance of a complex EMEA IT services network
• Work with a technical team to understand complex network issues to help diagnose and fault find issues within our Data Centres, WAN and multiple LAN estates
• Evaluate technical designs and be able to carry out complex configurations to support our IT business programme
• Work with colleagues and team members to develop change controls that help to support the network infrastructure
• Undertake design and installation activities with the Cisco LAN/WAN and Data Centre infrastructure.

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I'm looking for an Automation Manager (Scrum Master/MixPanel/ZenDesk/Machine Learning) to join a nascent price comparison start-up venture. The successful Automation Manager (Scrum Master/MixPanel/ZenDesk/Machine Learning) will act as the scrum master for automation team, whilst prioritising what the engineering team works on eg bug fixes, specific automation tasks to build, contact centre productivity improvements, investigate next wave of technology to use (eg machine learning).

You'll be the newest member of a 25 strong team full of technical and commercial experts (designers, developers, engineers, product managers, data scientists, marketers and business operations) all contributing to the successfulness of this household bill managing application, which is making waves amongst London based start-ups.

If you are looking for a company that will enable you to be hands on in a fun environment, press the apply button.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as scrum master for automation team
• Prioritise what the engineering team works on eg bug fixes, specific automation tasks to build, contact centre productivity improvements, investigate next wave of technology to use (eg machine learning)
• Routinely analyse automation performance/quality data from MixPanel, ZenDesk and other data sources
• Work with others on the team to put dashboards in place
• Ad hoc deep dives/investigations into particular situations with the engineering team to accelerate/deepen understanding of particular situations to identify problems/opportunities/symptoms/root-causes etc
• Liaise with contact centre about how to improve their productivity through automation and process improvements
• Triage automation related issues identified by contact centre
• Identify and prioritizing contact centre features/bugs
• Ongoing monitoring and management of day-to-day automation operations

Skills/background:

• Strong project management and product management skills
• Ideally has a technical/computer science/engineering background
• Highly numerate/strong quantitative skills

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Immediate 2 months initial and extendable assignment for two Network Security Engineers (Juniper & Palo Alto) to work for a Global IT Service Provider onsite in the area of Bristol.

Key experience & skills required:

Experience of deploying and troubleshooting complex BGP/MPLS topologies utilising multiple ASs, VRFs, and resilient inter-AS paths. Within this topology the candidate should be able to identify and articulate a mechanism to manipulate routing to prevent asymmetric routing between ASs, while maintaining the benefits of a dynamic routing protocol.

Multicast

Experience of deploying and troubleshooting complex multicast domains utilizing multiple PIM domains, connected together using MSDP. The candidate should be able to utilize his experience to enhance the current low-level designs, where appropriate.

QOS

Experience of deploying and troubleshooting QOS models across multiple LAN platforms. Good knowledge of DSCP, COS, Classification & Marking, Congestion management (LLQ etc..), congestion avoidance (WRED etc..).

Security

Experience of deploying and troubleshooting Cisco ASA Firewalls in multi-context mode, and cluster mode. The candidate should be able to articulate how the cluster operates, how the traffic flows through the cluster, and how to troubleshoot this deployment model.

Experience of deploying and troubleshooting Palo Alto Firewalls, including the implementation of virtual systems in a HA Active/Passive configuration. The candidate should be able to identify the appropriate topology to enable the protection of layer 2 network segments through the Palo Alto.

Management:

Experience of deploying and troubleshooting the Palo Alto Panorama centralised management server, with the ability to identify and document the capabilities of the platform in a multi-tenanted environment. Deploying and troubleshooting Cisco Prime will be an added benefit.

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We are looking for several Business Analyst's to join our unique, fast growing and specialist Business Analysis service provider who specializes in delivering Agile and Waterfall software development/SDLC projects for a range of long standing, high profile & blue chip customers. 

As a Business Analyst you should expect to spend 1-3 years onsite with each UK blue chip in either London or one of our other locations (Milton Keynes, Slough, Newbury, Hayes, Bracknell or Cambridge - taking into account what works best for you), and be offered great promotion and career opportunities available with these high profile customers.

You will have the chance to be considered for promotion twice a year - giving you the opportunity to progress your career as quickly as you desire. You will have regular training opportunities and be able to take advantage of being part of a unique BA community where you can also take part in social and charity events.

Working for this top employer as they experience continued growth, you will have a unique opportunity as a Business Analyst to enhance and develop your career working on high profile Agile and/or Waterfall software development/SDLC projects with like-minded and skilled colleagues who are as passionate about providing best in class expertise as you are.

You will also be given the opportunity to complete ISEB and Scrum Master certifications, progress with a view to becoming a Senior/Lead BA in the future, and also have the opportunity to work from home in certain cases.

Skills required for this Business Analyst role are:

• A passion for analysis and providing best in class expertise to customers
• Good experience in a full software development life cycle/SDLC project environment (Agile and/or Waterfall) through to UAT and training in some cases
• Experience with any of the following would be of interest: UML, Use Cases, User Stories, Business Process Modelling, BPMN or Change Management
• Proven ability to review and edit requirements, specifications, processes and recommend solutions, stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills
• Experience of or the ability/desire in the future to motivate, train, coach and mentor more Junior BAs
• The ability to manage and produce clear and qualified requirements from undefined and unstructured information and ensuring As-Is and To-Be processes are documented
• Experience in any of the following industries: 
  Retail, FMCG, Public Sector, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Mobile Advertising, Software or IT Services, Media and/or Banking

Any formal qualifications in Agile, ISEB and/or Project Management would be of interest but by no means essential as full training is available.

Business Analyst (Multiple Opportunities) - Experts in their field!

*Start date: ASAP; ideally immediately available or currently on a 1 month max. notice period* 

Salary: £43-50k (depending on experience) + pension (6% contrib) + flexible benefits (£1,200) + extracurricular interest allowance (£120) + share awards + excellent holiday

Location: Central London & at least one other mentioned above

Apply now for further information on this excellent opportunity.

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We are looking for several Business Analyst's to join our unique, fast growing and specialist Business Analysis service provider who specialise in delivering Agile and Waterfall software development/SDLC projects for a range of long standing, high profile & blue chip customers. 

As a Business Analyst you should expect to spend 1-3 years onsite with each UK blue chip in either London or one of our other locations (Milton Keynes, Slough, Newbury, Hayes, Bracknell or Cambridge - taking into account what works best for you), and be offered great promotion and career opportunities available with these high profile customers.

You will have the chance to be considered for promotion twice a year - giving you the opportunity to progress your career as quickly as you desire. You will have regular training opportunities and be able to take advantage of being part of a unique BA community where you can also take part in social and charity events.

Working for this top employer as they experience continued growth, you will have a unique opportunity as a Business Analyst to enhance and develop your career working on high profile Agile and/or Waterfall software development/SDLC projects with likeminded and skilled colleagues who are as passionate about providing best in class expertise as you are.

You will also be given the opportunity to complete ISEB and Scrum Master certifications, progress with a view to becoming a Senior/Lead BA in the future, and also have the opportunity to work from home in certain cases.

Skills required for this Business Analyst role are:

• A passion for analysis and providing best in class expertise to customers
• Good experience in a full software development life cycle/SDLC project environment (Agile and/or Waterfall) through to UAT and training in some cases
• Experience with any of the following would be of interest: UML, Use Cases, User Stories, Business Process Modelling, BPMN or Change Management
• Proven ability to review and edit requirements, specifications, processes and recommend solutions, stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills
• Experience of or the ability/desire in the future to motivate, train, coach and mentor more Junior BAs
• The ability to manage and produce clear and qualified requirements from undefined and unstructured information and ensuring As-Is and To-Be processes are documented

Experience in any of the following industries: 
Retail, FMCG, Public Sector, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Mobile Advertising, Software or IT Services, Media and/or Banking

Any formal qualifications in Agile, ISEB and/or Project Management would be of interest but by no means essential as full training is available.

Business Analyst (Multiple Opportunities) - Experts in their field!

*Start date: ASAP; ideally immediately available or currently on a 1 month max. notice period* 

Salary: £43-50k (depending on experience) + pension (6% contrib) + flexible benefits (£1,200) + extracurricular interest allowance (£120) + share awards + excellent holiday.

Apply now for further information on this excellent opportunity!

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