You will be a Business Analyst/Senior Business Analyst from a technical background, not a developer, but a Business Analyst who has been sat with development/test teams and someone who has strong SDLC experience.

You also need to have greenfield projects experience, not off the shelf products, so someone who has made enhancements or changes to systems won't be right for this role. Working as a Business Analyst on projects where projects started from scratch is the kind of experience they are also looking for. 
Agile background/Agile projects experience helps but it is not essential. An awareness/research of Agile (as well as being happy in an Agile way or working) is enough.
Strong client facing/interaction is also a must, you will be dealing with senior stakeholders and high level decision makers, so you need to be very good in a client facing role/environment.

Must haves

Demonstrable operation as a hands-on BA, ideally in a lead role, and on large scale software delivery projects - at least one of which will have been a complex, enterprise project or programme

A proven track record of delivering software, ideally using agile methodologies

Strong stakeholder management

The knowledge of and practical experience in the various techniques to elicit, analyse and communicate requirements

An in-depth understanding of the software delivery life cycle, ideally within an agile environment

SDLC Experience

oContribution to inception and elaboration project activities eg the preparation of pre-sales proposals

oSupporting development and testing activities, ideally as part of agile, iteration driven delivery

oSupporting the definition and execution of user acceptance testing

oSupporting go-live transition activities

Salary is basic of up to £55,000 (DOE) plus benefits.

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Technically you will have good experience with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and JQuery, ideally with React.JS or other relevant Javascript frameworks. Knowledge of AJAX, JSON, Grunt, etc would also be useful and you will have experience of responsive design, cross-browser compatibility and ideally content management systems.

The role is for a strong software developer with an an emphasis on Front End skills.

We will want you to work in an agile development environment. You will either already have experience in this area or a desire to learn these methodologies.

You will have good software design skills and a drive to implement a vision. You will be an active member of the team to agree how we will turn the vision into software.

We are looking for a self-starter who will rapidly forge strong relationship with product owners and other stakeholders. You should be able to put forward your own ideas whilst being receptive to others and therefore a strong communicator.

As an experienced software developer, you will be very much hands on designing and coding. You will help maintain our existing suite and developing wholly new products and features for the Exhibitions industry.

You may be experienced in one or two major frameworks and able to learn new and adopt new frameworks as and when required. You would ideally have a thorough understanding of object-oriented programming, learned through hands-on experience.

We will be providing an ongoing commitment to your professional development and you will be expected to share your experiences with other team members.

With strong, effective communication skills, both written and verbal, your credentials will demonstrate your ability to pro-actively deliver results while managing a number of competing tasks in a pragmatic way.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand the software requirements for the project
• Estimate fairly and work well to commitments
• Hands on software development following an agile software development methodology
• Produce application code that meets design specifications, follows internal standards, and is easy to maintain
• Review code for technical accuracy, standards, and functional compliance to the design
• Write unit and regression tests, using automation wherever possible.
• Maintain product documentation to reflect enhancements and other software changes
• Develop release scripts to ensure the rapid automated installation of new features
• Assess product impact and possible implementation options, and recommend the solution that best suits the needs of the requirement
• Investigate and resolve software defects
• Fulfil administrative reporting requirements
• Other duties as assigned by management
• Desire to identify and learn new web based technologies when required

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proven ability to learn new frameworks, languages and methodologies
• Show examples of an excellent eye for visual design of interfaces
• Experience of modern web application development
• Demonstrable knowledge of HCI/usability principles
• Experience of version control software, particularly Git
• Experience working in an agile/scrum development process
• Desirable, a good software engineering-related degree or relevant experience

Technical Skills:

• Detailed knowledge of HTML 5 and AJAX techniques
• Detailed knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• .Net Framework, either VB.NET or C#
• Good knowledge of JSON APIs from a client and server perspective
• Detailed knowledge of one or more frameworks, eg React, Vue.js, Angular

Desirable Additional Skills:

Experience of these skills may be an advantage or demonstrate a proven ability to learn:

• XML and XML Schema
• Microsoft SQL querying and database skills highly desirable
• Gulp, Babel, ES6
• Experience of continuous integration/release process

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

• A flexible and adaptable attitude
• Commitment to quality and customer satisfaction
• The motivation to complete activities both individually and as a team
• Solution-focused, with ability to prioritise
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Persistent and resilient under pressure, with a good sense of humour
• Accurate, with high attention to detail

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An London based web design and digital marketing are looking for a first-class ASP.Net Developer to join their multi award-winning team. If you're an accomplished web developer looking for the chance to join a web and e-commerce specialist marketing that's brimming with talented web development experts who deliver great work for a host of iconic brands, then this could be the perfect job for you! 

Web Developer - ASP.NET - To work within the ICT Services Application Development team producing secure IT solutions for the Department.

Key Skills -

- Be proficient in ASP.NET VB web forms development and have a minimum of two years' experience in this field.

- Have skills and experience in SQL including SSRS and SSIS.

Programming/software development

- Design, code, test and document new and amended programs to an agreed specification, using agreed standards and best practice security standards.

- Conduct reviews of programs and supplied specifications, with others as appropriate.

- Produce prototypes to support discussions with the business regarding requirements and to demonstrate proposed functionality.

- Provide regular and ad-hoc updates to project/line manager(s).

Database/repository design

- Develop specialist knowledge of database concepts, object and Data modeling techniques and design principles.

- Translate and implement development project requirements, objects, and data models for small-scale projects into physical database structures and assesses proposed changes to object and data structures.

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This excellent organization are going through an exciting period of growth and are looking for a talented, dedicated, project manager to join their team. You will be involved with exciting architecture and business change projects affecting the entire group.

You will be rewarded with a salary of up to £50000 plus excellent benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute projects to deadline and within budget

• Define project objectives

• Oversee quality control of project

• Communicate project expectations to stakeholders

• Identify and resolve issues

• Project reviews

Key Skills & Experience:

• Project management

• Project management tools eg MS Project

• Project management techniques, module, and methodologies

• Knowledge of technical infrastructure or software development

In return, you will be rewarded with a salary of up to £50000 with excellent benefits including flexible working hours, pension, share schemes, bonuses, healthcare and holidays.

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Advertising more Business Intelligence jobs than any other agency. We deal with both Microsoft Partners & End Users throughout We are currently recruiting a BI Analyst to work as part of the Newton BI team and in close collaboration with business sponsors to understand and analyze requirements, ensure alignment with business goals and manage solution delivery. The individual is to help ensure the service is robust, follows agreed technology standards, and has appropriate transparency

Skills:

• Experience of SAP Business Objects enterprise reporting stack especially universe development and report design in Web in 4.1
• Competence in designing data structures optimised for reporting purposes and SQL development experience ideally PL/SQL - to help construct and populate star schema data marts
• Exposure to Tableau, some level of hands-on experience desirable.
• Strong & demonstrable verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable background in working closely with business stakeholders to deliver BI solutions.
• Strong analytical skills

Nice to Have

• Strong database design & Data modeling skills
• Exposure to enterprise ETL tools such as SSIS, Markit EDM, Informatica, SAP-DS
• Exposure to alternative enterprise BI tooling such as the Microsoft BI stack, QlikView, Pentaho BI, Microstrategy etc
• Appreciation of UX techniques to optimise how requirements can be gathered & understood and how data can be visualized to achieve business goals

Appreciation of enterprise data management practices such as data governance, data quality measurement, reference data management, metadata management etc

The role is an ideal fit for an individual with a strong emphasis on business interaction skills in equal measure to technical skills & knowledge. From a technical perspective, the role is 'end-to-end' encompassing data sourcing, aggregation, and manipulation in addition to data presentation & visualization.

This includes

• Acting as a subject matter expert & peer of relevant business areas to which solutions are being delivered
• Proactively managing relationships with business stakeholders to ensure relevancy and timeliness of delivery to business goals
• Guiding and advising the business towards BI self-service where appropriate to maximize efficiency while mindful of associated risks and best practices
• Contributing to defining the BI roadmap for Newton. Help set out our strategic vision both in terms of services and extension to BI applications
• Participating in an agile scrum process and collaborate with multiple teams within Technology and the broader organization
• Participating in code reviews to monitor application development standards and software design techniques
• Working with Project Managers and Business Analysts to agree to development estimates and timescales. Communicating status to PMs and/or Business Intelligence Manager as required
• Designing and delivering end-user training and training materials; providing technical support as necessary
• Ensuring code releases between environments adhere to Newton standards and practices
• Ensuring high levels of BI availability and quality through thorough support handover and in-depth testing. Also, ensuring that potential opportunities, risks and issues are identified and if necessary, escalated in a timely manner
• Acting as a point of contact with the Newton support team in relation to Business reports and infrastructure related issues
• Working with business and technical teams to reduce complexity where possible and recommend alternative approaches where appropriate

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Job Description :

You will come with an experience driving end to end QA process automation in agile methodology

QA/Testing within a cloud computing platform including at least Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure

Experience leading teams adopting TDD, BDD and similar methodologies

A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related area of study

Qualifications and/or certifications relevant to quality assurance, analysis and similar

Proven ability to provide guidance for adoption of new tools, technologies and techniques achieving Quality Assurance best practices Strong abilities to lead international teams and collaborate with offshore teams

Working closely with the rest of the team (engineering and UX partners) to specify feature details, create user stories and define requirements for all the applications.

Identifying and pre-empt risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.

Supporting in creating a roadmap that aligns software delivery with business strategy and stakeholder requests.

Optimizing engagement, retention, virality and customer lifetime value metrics through design and prioritization of features.

Talking to and working with their prospects, customers and country operations to better understand their business problems.

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As a Technical Business Analyst, you will be working on a very high profile cloud migration projects.

Technical Business Analyst - 6 months - Major Airline Company - ASAP Start - Luton*

Advantage Resourcing have a fantastic opportunity for a highly experienced Technical Business Analyst to work with our client, a major market-leading airline organization based in Luton. 
This is an initial 6-month contract paying £400 - £500 per day.

Project overview:
This role is required to support a new commercial platform based around eCommerce (therefore the successful candidate will have retail/E-commerce experience). This is an exciting time to join this client as they are currently embarked upon some major ambitious transformational and innovative programmes. For their customers, the goal of the programme is to drive a more inspirational and personalised experience across all of their channels, making it as easy and intuitive as possible for customers to meet their travel needs through the platform. The programme will replace many of their current, ageing, custom built, Legacy commercial systems

The role:
The role will suit a proactive individual with demonstrated experience in Business Analysis with a focus on data analysis. 
*Ensure that the full impact of business change on integration and Dependent processes and systems is understood by carrying out structured analysis where necessary (eg documenting current and future business processes, data flow diagrams, data models, use cases, user stories, process flows, etc.)
*As required elicit the business requirements using appropriate techniques (interviews, analysis of current systems, workshops etc.)
*Understand the technical design of the 'Abstraction Layer' and ensure that the data transformation is consistent with this
*Using tools available understand the relationships between the various databases and maintaining documentation that explains the impact the transformed data has on these databases
*Creation of technical user stories that will document the transformation of data between systems in a microservice environment
*Deliver the technical user stories by planning and driving them through during the different phases of the project

Essential:
*Proven and demonstrable experience of working as a Business Analyst with a strong technical focus to the role
*Proven experience of data migration projects
*Experience of working in a data transformation environment
*Demonstrable experience of creating technical user stories which focus on data and data manipulation 
*Knowledge of analysis techniques
*Experience of creating and running SQL queries 
*Experience working in different delivery models eg SCRUM, Agile, Waterfall, and Enterprise Agile.
*Software delivery life cycle as a Business Analyst: requirement capture, scope and change management, development support, UAT, Project early life support and benefits realization. 
*Workshop facilitation
*Documenting current and future business processes, data flow diagrams, data models and use cases.
*Managing user acceptance testing
*Prototyping solutions using appropriate tools
*Project planning (identifying who needs to be involved, taking into account the availability of others, dependencies between tasks etc.)
*Happy working in a role that is system and not business focussed
*The ability to build close working relationships with internal teams and external software delivery partners 
*The ability to communicate well on both a business and technical level, to all levels of the organisation

Desirable:
*Knowledge of airline systems, terminology and challenges
*Retail eCommerce experience
*Synchronisation and data sharing experience 
*Documentation via Jira and Confluence

Submit your CV now to be considered for this fantastic contract opportunity. Matthew Jones is the consultant managing this assignment. Due to the high volume of applications received, feedback can not always be given. The best way to apply for this role is through the link on the job board as opposed to calling. Occasionally adverts may remain on job boards despite the deadline passing as some of our clients can close the job on the central portal without any prior given notice.

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We are seeking a strong MySQL Database Administrator to work with a client based on taking complete ownership of their database environment across the entire estate. The company has experienced consistent growth since it's inception and they are committed to nurturing and promoting internally.

The ideal candidate will have previously supported a MySQL database and have an analytical, meticulous and problem-solving attitude. You will have also worked in a live MySQL environment.

Role & Responsibilities:

Database administration and maintenance
Contributing to documentation and best practice
Managing incidents and service requests
Database capacity planning
Database security
Database performance, backups, queries, clusters, nodes, and migrations
Writing and optimising SQL statements

Knowledge & Experience:

MySQL Administration
SQL
Managing and testing database backup and restore procedures
Monitoring system performance 
Writing optimised SQL code

Any knowledge of the following is beneficial:

PostgreSQL or MongoDB
Working in an Agile environment
Percona

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International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB). Anyone who is already involved in software testing or would like to be in a testing role will benefit from this certification. The company are looking to transform and modernise their Salesforce solution. They are keen bring on board an experienced Test Manager to ensure that the test function supports the delivery of a fit for purpose solution on time and to budget. You will ideally have both experience working in both Agile and Waterfall and must also demonstrate an ability to define and implement a test strategy. This is an excellent opportunity to "put your own stamp" on a business critical project.

Role specific required skills: 
• Full test management (manual, automated, integration and regression)
• Experience of testing SaaS solution (Salesforce.com experience preferred)
• Agile/Waterfall
• Jira and Confluence
• ISEB/ISTQB

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An International Events company providing bespoke and innovative app design for the Events Industry is looking for a Senior Front End Developer, focusing on iOS and Android design of fully functional webapps. The role will be based in Central London and offers a relaxed and dynamic working environment.

Our client a world-leading Fintech organisation are seeking a Senior Front End Web Developer to join their Engineering team based in London.

You will be someone who likes to:

• constantly evolve techniques through learning
• take initiative when you spot an opportunity for improvement
• ask questions and use experience of those around you
• share your knowledge with the rest of the team
• write code so clean, fast and elegant, you fight the urge to hang it on your mantle
• comfortable mixing greenfield solutions with Legacy code to evolve system
• advocate and a practitioner of TDD/BDD

You will have high bar for quality, maintainability, scalability, performance, efficiency, security and all the other things that make great software great.

What a typical week looks like?

• Develop new user-facing features used by millions of users
• Assess the impact of proposed changes to other process areas and systems and recommend alternative solution choices, determining trade-offs and impact analysis
• Discussing technical solutions and providing innovative new ideas to solutions
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Convert visual designs to semantic mark-up, then dress it up in CSS and then bring it to life with JavaScript
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Developing cross-browser and cross-platform compatible solutions
• Maintaining high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability, and emerging technologies, and keep team members informed as appropriate, with a view to incorporating these in future projects and staying ahead of the market and position yourself and the company as a digital specialist.

Must Haves

• Mastery of JavaSript/HTML/CSS
• Expert experience with styling and responsive design techniques, mobile first website development using technologies such as HTML5, LESS and SASS
• Good understanding of JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS/AngularJS/BackboneJS
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them
• Hands-on experience building scalable web applications, in particular high frequency and low latency web applications with optimal memory management, performance and scalability as key focus
• Comfortable with full-stack projects and able to build a minimum working product quickly
• Experience with automated JS testing using Karma, Jasmine, Qunit, Mocha, Chai
• Experience integrating with Server Side code to produce dynamic pages
• Proficient understanding of REST API's
• Experience with Continuous Integrations and Delivery (Teamcity/OctopusDeploy/Jenkins)
• Experience with versioning systems such Git/SVN
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure/AWS
• TDD, XP and Agile practices
• SOLID principles
• A sense of urgency and ownership over the product

Nice to Haves

• Solid understanding of OOD/OOP
• Experience with writing PowerShell scripts
• Experience with distributed micro-service design principles
• Experience with various tech stacks such as .NET/Java
• Experience with relational databases SQL/PostgreSQL/MySQL
• Experience with NoSQL technologies such as Redis, MongoDB
• Experience with HATEOS
• An excellent track record of evolving software to be better continuously
• Experience of running code katas and improvement sessions for the team
• Have Open Source projects or other public code contributions that showcase your talent

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