A market leading manufacturer based in Sheffield, has a requirement for and IT Manager to join their business due to a period of growth.

A brand new and very exciting role has just arisen for a talented IT/Technical Solutions Managers to join a rapidly growing IT SME to head up their IT & web solutions teams. As the IT/Technical Solutions Manager you will need to act as an entrepreneur internally within the business as this IT solutions provider are looking to double in size over the next 5 years. You will manage a team of IT Service Desk, Web Operations & Web solutions Analyst's ensuring they are providing the best customer service to clients. 

The IT/Technical Solutions Manager will need to come with ideas, enthusiasm, energy and an appetite to grow a well-established business and help them grow to the next level. You will be targeted in growing the business current clients, providing new ideas and IT solutions and assistant the sales floor increase revenues. The IT/Technical Solutions Manager will need to lead & grow an existing technical team ensuring they get a chance to grow & develop their career further.

Skills required for the IT/Technical Solutions Manager are: 

- Strong technical experience with good knowledge in all things Microsoft
- Proven line management skills 
- Good business knowledge & previous experience helping IT organisations grown 
- Great communication skills and ability to work with various senior stakeholders 
- Experience working in a SME with a commercial outlook. 

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Skills/Experience Needed

·         Implement and evolve the IT plan/Road Map.

·         Significant experience of influencing and managing 3rd party suppliers

·         Establish a clear direction and strategy, developed collaboratively with the rest of the organisation

·         Work with other departments to identify current and potential requirements for IT infrastructure, services and training and plan how to fulfil them

·         Develop and maintain a high-level programme and budget to deliver new IT requirements, ensuring changes (eg new projects) are in line with strategy and approved by key stakeholders.

·         Overseeing major IT projects across the organisation.

Role and responsibilities

·         Oversee and optimise the use of major IT investment across the organisation - eg installation of new software, cloud services and network infrastructure.

·         Review supplier deliverables ensuring that they meet the necessary standards and contractual agreements.

·         Project manage any major IT projects, ensuring objectives and scope are clearly defined, and successfully delivered, reporting regularly on progress.

·         Work closely with the business units to support the business systems, and provide administrative support to their effective running and development.

·         Responsible for development of procedures to make sure the delivery of new and existing services and solutions are delivered successfully.

·         Oversee management of IT contractors, monitoring effective response and resolution of incidents and requests, ensuring good customer service and addressing issues as they arise.

Person specification

·         Proven experience of IT Service Management and working in a service delivery role across a complex organisation

·         Capable of assisting in both a hands on' fashion as well as being able to develop a broad overview of requirements to meet business needs.

·         Experience of managing both software and infrastructure functions.

·         Broad hands on technical skills and keeps abreast of technical innovations

·         Good working knowledge of infrastructure and the organisation's systems.

·         Excellent interpersonal, communication and customer service skills and experience of delivering customer service improvements

·         Working knowledge of ITIL

·         Proven experience in managing IT projects and delivering change to end users

·         Experience of managing, motivating and developing staff

·         Experience and awareness of the development cycle with ideas of how to use the latest technical tools to drive the organisation forward.

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Responsibilities:

·         Install, configure, maintain and optimise the performance of core applications.

·         Diagnose and resolve incidents and problems relating to core applications in accordance with agreed service level targets.

·         Liaise with internal and external service providers in order to resolve incidents and problems.

·         Implement approved changes to core applications (eg patches and upgrades) in accordance with the IT Change Management Policy and Process.

·         Review service support issues and device/implemented mitigation plans.

·         Manage service performance across development, test, pre-production and production environments

·         Provide support for Systems, Unit and User Acceptance Testing as appropriate for application enhancements, performing reconciliations as appropriate.

·         Participate in Disaster Recovery exercises and updating related documentation.

·         Update technical documentation including Support Plan, Technical Operations Guide, Service Desk Triage document, etc.

·         Participate in the production and implementation of application developments, enhancements and service improvement plans.

Requirements:

·         Management Information reporting tools

·         Strong experience of IT Service Management (eg Incident, Service Request, Problem and Change Management) processes and tools

·         QlikView Server Administration And Development.

It will be an added advantage with skill like Jquery.

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :
● Must be eligible to work in the UK and no sponsorship will be provided.
● Proven experience
● No CCJs
● Fully completed applications
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Role responsibilities:

·         Build strong productive relationships with the business, IT teams and external third parties in order to deliver effective solutions based on a deep understanding of the business

·         Conduct requirements gathering sessions with various levels of the business & IT, ensuring that the strategic needs are being met while also realising incremental benefits

·         Produce high quality business analyst deliverables, including business cases, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, functional & non-functional specifications

·         Take full ownership of managing the product backlog of key systems

·         Act as the primary focus for questions related to business use of systems within your sphere of influence.

·         Support the system test teams, helping with an understanding of the change and reviewing test cases to ensure full coverage

·         Support the on-going development of the Business Analyst function, developing standards, procedures, and knowledge transfer

Skills required:

·         Have proven experience of capturing, documenting and delivering detailed requirements

·         Have exposure to methods for testing of requirements and measuring the delivery of these through the project life cycle.

·         Exposure to the full project life cycle, from inception to BAU handover

·         Have proven experience of both Waterfall and Agile methodologies

·         Experience of working in the Insurance industry - desirable

·         Experience of projects with Data modelling and/or MI/BI elements - desirable

·         Hold relevant industry qualifications eg ISEB, PRINCE2 - desirable

·         Have the ability to combine soft influencing, persuasion and consultancy skills with leadership qualities that will encourage business leaders to positively respond to questions, enquiries and requests to meet deadlines

·         Intellect and gravitas to influence and gain credibility with business personnel and management

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of working with people at all levels within and external to the business.

·         Creative, proactive, logical and innovative - you do not accept the status quo

·         Highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a very fast paced environment where the pace of response and leadership is critical to the success

·         Demonstrate a commitment to quality, service and personal ownership

·         Be flexible and adaptable, able to work on multiple projects at any one time

Benefits include:

·         Excellent pension scheme - 10% employer contribution/5% employee contribution

·         Interest free annual season ticket loan.

·         Private medical scheme

Candidate should have a skill like Natural language processing(NLP).

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :
● Must be eligible to work in the UK and no sponsorship will be provided.
● Proven experience
● No CCJs
● Fully completed applications
Employer will only accept "completed profile card" of BeatMySalary, so kindly sign-in/sign-up
and have a profile card completely filled in before applying to the job using the same.
 

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This role is for a test lead to assist in the delivery of the systems required to track and manage the end to end process of large data driven projects.

Skills/Experience Required: 

. Strong analytical skills for requirements gathering
. Strong technical aptitude, and a demonstrable background in a testing role
. Ability to understand technical systems and use knowledge to diagnose issues
. Effective planning and organisation skills
. Ability to understand technical briefs and create tests from them
. The ability to communicate confidently and effectively
. A proven track record of working in an Agile environment
. Flexible & adaptable in the face of changing priorities or circumstances
. A flexible approach to learning new technologies and ways of working
. Use of test management (JIRA) and test creation (Zephyr)
. Ability to support and create metrics and traceability for testing
. Ability to analyse test failure
. Ability to clearly document own processes and procedures for others to understand
. ISEB/ISTQB Level 1

Desirable criteria: 

. Knowledge of Continuous Integration methodologies
. Knowledge of automation tools esp. Selenium
. Understanding of automated deployment tools
. ISEB/ISTQB Level 2 and/or 3.

It will be a fair advantage for our company if the candidate has a skill like Python.

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :
● Must be eligible to work in the UK and no sponsorship will be provided.
● Proven experience
● No CCJs
● Fully completed applications
Employer will only accept "completed profile card" of BeatMySalary, so kindly sign-in/sign-up
and have a profile card completely filled in before applying to the job using the same.
 

If you need help with completing your application profile cards, reach out to the team on team@beatmysalary.com.

Business Area Responsibilities

You may also wish to consider responsibilities for:

·         Risk and Compliance

·         Change Management

·         People Management

·         Delivery of test scenarios and test scripts for projects and developments in line with Client Project Methodology.

·         Delivery of test plans, test cases, reports and execution logs in line with Client Project Methodology for functional and non- functional requirements

·         Leading of the business testing processes ensuring quality of UAT, End to End and Live Proving testing as appropriate

·         Delivery of automated scenarios and frameworks based on industry best practices.

·         Translation of business requirements, functional specifications and testable statements.

·         Test preparation and execution of system testing, regression and UAT testing cycles.

·         Management of the business testing processes ensuring quality of UAT, Integration and End to End testing as appropriate

·         Ensure adequate component testing is completed to the agreed quality criteria

·         Sign off of all new developments into implementation

·         Raise any bugs/issues to internal or external development team

·         Leading testers on the whole life cycle testing processes and the implementation of the Test Plan

Principal Tasks

·         Strong understanding Testing Methodologies

·         Strong understanding of MS Dynamics AX

·         Strong understanding of web testing and web services testing

·         Understanding of technical and functional specifications to translate into testable scenarios and test scripts.

·         Production of system test cases and UAT test cases where appropriate.

·         Execution of testing during system testing, integration testing, end to end testing, user acceptance testing cycles.

·         Assist in the execution of all testing

·         Ability to raise defect logs and communicate to stakeholders effectively.

·         Test status reporting to the Test Manager/other stakeholders.

Essential:

·         Strong MS Dynamics AX (preferably financial module) testing knowledge

·         Working knowledge of web services and SOAP UI

·         General financial services/foreign exchange/banking experience.

·         Web testing experience

·         Demonstrable experience of the system, regression, user acceptance testing and business accept testing.

·         Excellent problem solving, time management and organisational skills.

·         Ability to work independently and in a team environment.

·         Excellent attention to detail.

Desirable:

·         Experience of working in an Agile environment.

·         Experience of test automation for MS Dynamics AX.

·         Understanding of Object Oriented Language

·         Experience of a project life cycle.

·         Experience of Coded UI and Soap UI

It will be a fair advantage for our company if the candidate has a skill like Python.

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :
● Must be eligible to work in the UK and no sponsorship will be provided.
● Proven experience
● No CCJs
● Fully completed applications
Employer will only accept "completed profile card" of BeatMySalary, so kindly sign-in/sign-up
and have a profile card completely filled in before applying to the job using the same.
 

If you need help with completing your application profile cards, reach out to the team on team@beatmysalary.com.

Role

To understand the regulatory framework within which the co's changes are developed, tested and deployed and to be an expert on the co's test assurance obligations.

To work with the co; its service providers; service users and regulatory bodies to document the test strategy and approach for future Releases

To support consultations and address any comments arising from them

To collate responses from Test Assurance in support of SEC Modifications

To develop and maintain a Test Assurance obligations register and monitor compliance with it

To document and maintain the processes by which test artefacts are produced and the template documents and to educate the co's staff in best practice in these activities

To support members of the co by reviewing test artefacts to ensure that they are clear and meet the regulatory needs.

Skills and Experiences Essential

A skilled wordsmith/technical author that is experienced in producing regulatory documents and materials

Has worked in a pressurised project environment and produced documentation to time and quality

Experience in capturing diverse viewpoints and supporting their resolution

Experienced in the testing and assurance of complex systems and processes

Experienced in documenting processes and producing proforma documents

A strong communicator, skilled at listening and with an ability to explain and document needs clearly.

A skilled user of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)

Skills and Experiences Desirable

Experience in working across a multi-organisation environment, operating across multiple locations

Experience of working in a complex programme that is committed to the delivery

Experience of smart metering or working in a regulated environment

Keenness and ability to identify and propose process improvements

It will be highly beneficial to our company if the candidate has a skill like SQL.

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My client is an international healthcare organisation and they are looking for a technically astute Workday Test Lead with integrations experience to join their dynamic organisation.

As the Senior Test Analyst, you will utilise your Workday knowledge to identify various triggers for each of the integrations.

Hands on experience of testing a number of the following integrations to and/or from Workday is desirable:

·         Adobe Design

·         Egencia

·         BroadBean

·         HireRight

·         PS (PeopleSoft) Pensions

·         HealthRoster

·         SABA

·         SafeScreen

·         PS (PeopleSoft) Financials

·         Resource Link

Experience overseeing a similar Test Analyst role within the Healthcare industry is highly desirable.

It will be an added advantage with skill like Jquery.

None.

The Senior Support Analyst takes the lead role in the resolution of incidents including: 

- In-depth troubleshooting and forensic analysis 
- Impact analysis of interfaces and application integrations 
- Back End analysis 
- Performing platform support and/or writing and executing scripts 
- Recreating issues for bug resolution 

You will have demonstrable experience in the following: 

- Ability to break down complex problems and provide expert advice on DI Applications. 
- Ability to take ownership of technical incidents and work with applications teams 
- Excellent writing and editing skills for technical documentation 
- Experience in hands-on advanced IT support (Level 2+) 
- Experience in the software development life cycle including business analysis and deployment 
- Knowledge of MS Office, inclusive of Visio, Frontpage and Sharepoint 
- In depth knowledge of SQL including Scripting 
- Knowledge of Integrated systems and applications 
- Undergraduate degree in computer science, business, or other relevant field preferred or significant relevant industry experience 

Ideally, your CV will also demonstrate the following: 

- Knowledge and experience working with Sitecore, .NET, HTML technologies 
- Knowledge and experience working with VM Fusion, VM Parallels, MAC OS, IIS, XML, CMS 
- Knowledge and experience working with VB.NET, ASP.NET and C Sharp 
- Knowledge and experience working with IIS 
- Knowledge of the ITIL Framework. 
- A good level of understanding Dev Ops activities including Cloud operations, Network, and Server configuration. 
- Support Center Analyst Certification. 

Candidate having a skill such as "MS Office " will be highly preferable

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I am currently looking for a FIX Support Analyst to join a top financial Technology organization based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Design, test, and implement custom solutions for the company's clients and technology

Understand FIX order messaging whilst working in their bespoke environment

Monitor and investigate trade problems and understand position management

Have strong written and telephone communication with clients and vendors

Provide day to day support of a high paced trading platform and effectively communicate issues and workarounds to their clients and internal business

Essential Skills/Experience:

Experienced Support Analyst

Experience with FIX

Degree in computer sciences and/or experience supporting an electronic trading hub

Strong SQL skills

Knowledge of Unix/Solaris (intermediate user level as a minimum)

Good understanding of networking, operating systems architecture, message queuing and Internet protocols

Experience with FIX protocol is advantageous.

None.