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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SAP Ariba Consultant, Dynamic consultancy - £45,000-80,000 + Benefits + bonus 

A specialist procurement consultancy is looking to add to its SAP Ariba practice due to an extremely healthy pipeline this year. You will have the opportunity to deliver and lead large-scale end to end implementations in multinational businesses and have an impact on projects from day one. As a SAP Ariba solution specialist you will help the customer to define their requirements by proposing best practices for SAP Ariba Source-to-Pay processes. This challenging but rewarding role would also provide you with the opportunity to work with other procurement technologies, such as SAP, Oracle etc. 

Key Responsibilities:
-Lead all aspects of implementation and complete all SAP Ariba configuration components 
-Engage with business stakeholders and able to effectively demonstrate the full SAP Ariba platform and how it may be configured to meet a customer's business needs.
-Follow SAP Ariba implementation methodology for all customers and tailor to meet each customer's unique business needs.
-Provide SAP Ariba platform demonstrations, trainings and workshops 
-Lead workshops, effectively and efficiently gathering the customer's business requirements
Architecting and authoring SAP Ariba solution content in support of sales activities

Key Skills and experience:
-2+ years' experience with SAP Ariba
-Additional experience with other systems is beneficial (egSAP SRM, SAP MM, VIM)
-Strong communication (written/verbal) and stakeholder management skills 
-Strong analytical skills 

Duration: permanent 
Location: Home-based contract with travel

This exceptional opportunity is perfect for a SAP Ariba consultant within a fast-past environment. To find out more please reply to this advert with your CV attached or call George.

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My client, a market leading global life science organisation is looking to bring on strong talent in order to lead a team of consultants in order to help continue their success and ultimately drive the business forward. The Technology & Services group are seeking an experienced consulting professional to focus on driving our technology platforms and commercial application business. Candidates should demonstrate a strong track record of consulting implementation projects, an interest in health and life sciences, and are looking to take their career to the next level; developing new solutions and services, leading business development activity and delivering engagements to build lasting relationships across the industry. Our Engagement managers are central to managing and delivering consulting projects to our clients. They take accountability to ensure deliverables are of the utmost quality and that deadlines and budgets are met.

Principal Accountabilities

• Work closely with our clients on a daily basis to understand their challenges and requirements.
• Define proposals for potential solutions; liaising closely with colleagues across multiple organisational groups, to deliver complex, multifaceted problems and engagements.
• Utilize experience of change management concepts to identify the impact of these solutions, and ensure they are championed and adopted within the clients' teams.
• Provide project management leadership; structuring project approaches, taking accountability for project delivery, working closely with our internal technology suppliers and reacting to changing timelines and requirements whilst delivering on commitments to time and to budget.
• Design and structure deliverables, workshops and presentations that are appropriate to the characteristics or needs of the audience.
• Explain complex concepts and frameworks and place these in appropriate client situations and context.
• Support our Analysts and Consultants, providing direct management, feedback and supporting growth and learning within client engagements and supporting career growth across and outside of projects.
• Proactively broaden knowledge of consulting methodologies and the health and life sciences industries through the delivery of consulting engagements and participation in formal and informal learning opportunities.
• Demonstrate an enthusiasm for the impact technology can bring to the industry and to mange and deliver technical projects.

Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 2:1 Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Preferably experience in a 'brand-name' consulting firm, ideally with health and life sciences project experience
• Passionate about technology and the innovation it can deliver, with a grasp of technology concepts as they apply to healthcare, and enthusiasm to support technology engagements as a business partner (direct coding, testing or other technical disciplines not required)
• Demonstrated interest in health and life sciences industry sector, and willingness to build deep industry skills

Additional Requirements

• Analytical, interpretive and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of consulting methods, tools and techniques, relevant to Commercial Effectiveness
• Proven project-management skills, and experience owning and leading defined work packages
• Some evidence of knowledge of current events and developments within the healthcare industry
• Proven commercial awareness/acumen
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Ability to build credibility and influence external and internal stakeholders
• MS PowerPoint and Excel literacy
• Understanding of project management with proven time management and personal organisational skills
• Ability to deliver high quality work within challenging timelines
• Ability to demonstrate determination and resilience
• Attention to detail

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The Test Data Manager will support a transformational project supporting the business to deliver new enterprise application.

Experience:

• Proven extensive Test Data Management experience
• Experience in creating data models at all levels of abstraction, and working with analysts and developers to implement
• Experience on large projects involving enterprise application data integration and/or migration
• Extensive understanding of Data Structure and Data Logic
• SQL and Data Mining expertise
• Comprehensive IT Architecture knowledge from Mainframe to Client Server and hosted environments
• Defect management and root cause analysis of Data Issues
• Stakeholder Management/3rd party management

Responsibilities:

• Provides data architecture support and expertise to the programme
• Ensures enterprise data is structured for ease of use by all systems
• Reviews all data/data repositories to ensure data is properly classified according to use, sensitivity, and importance
• Identifies opportunities for data alignment and re-use
• Defines and supports ETL, data, and Business Intelligence architectures
• Ensures adherence to company principles, policies, standards and guidelines for data management
• Meets and collaborates with business users and 3rd Party providers
• Supervises the technical implementation of the data warehouse and oversees hardware/software configuration
• Provides input and recommendations on technical issues to the project manager
• Reviews and participates in testing of the data design, tool design, data extracts, networks, and hardware selections

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Global software vendor is searching for an experienced information security compliance leader to improve internal audit program maturity, meet obligations of ISO 27001/SOC 2 internal assessment, mature the risk management program, drive and monitor remediation efforts, improve oversight and vetting of vendors, and improve process around responding to post-sale customer audit requests (remote and on-site). This position will report to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This position will be also responsible for day-to-day security oversight of the company's corporate systems and processes (Internal IT, HR, Finance, Corp Legal).

A successful individual will need to work closely with the CISO, Head of Hosting, Head of IT, CFO, General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer, external vendors providing security services, and customer audit contacts. This position will have responsibilities over every global site and may have some limited need for travel, especially within the EMEA region.

This position will interact with product management for compliance related products to provide security guidance and eventually act as an SME for customers who may have questions around the security and compliance aspects of the company's software suite of products.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with auditors and technical subject matter experts to satisfy internal and external audit requirements, SOC 2, ISO 27001:2013 testing requirements
• Maintain internal & external audit calendar
• Keep management and stakeholders apprised of audit schedule and responsibilities
• Understand and maintain database of external customer audit responsibilities
• Maintain relationships with external auditing firms
• Update GRC tool with audit artefacts or references to audit artefacts
• Manage Risk Register (including tracking exception, acceptance, and renewal)
• Drive periodic risk review assessment activities
• Maintain risk management metrics
• Manage remediation efforts stemming from audits
• Manage customer external audits
• Create and maintain metrics around audit response
• Maintain oversight of vendor management security oversight process
• Coordinate with hosting team on projects and programs supporting security objectives
• Understand the company's product suite and provide security advice to same

Essential Education and Experience:

• Experience with various frameworks & standards (ISO 27x, PCI, NIST 800-53 etc)
• 6-8 years managing an IT regulatory compliance team or project or comparable information systems audit experience, with responsibility for interfacing with internal and external auditors
• CISA, CIA or equivalent certification
• Ability to work independently, mentoring and managing IT team
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field or equivalent in information security related technical training and experience
• Demonstration of strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to communicate to stakeholders with varying levels of technical capabilities
• Experience of working across global teams
• Team player; works well independently and as part of a team

Desired Experience:

• Advanced degree in Business Administration, Information Management, Computer Science or equivalent
• Use of SalesForce and ticketing systems
• Experience with RSA, ZenGRC or similar tools
• Software development experience

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Do you want to be involved with implementing the latest technologies in exciting IT projects? Do you want to make a difference by assuring that ITS deploys quality products and solutions to our practitioners and clients? Do you have a passion for automation and performance testing? Then the role of Non-Functional Test Manager could be for you.

The Company:
An award-winning retail/commercial bank is seeking an IT Test Services Manager to join their establishment. The bank prides itself on its customer service/satisfaction levels and is seeking an IT test service manager that believes this philosophy and strives to do great things. 

The Role:
As an IT Test Services Manager you will plan, organise and lead the provision of advice through management of key business services. You will manage a defined testing function with a team of testers (team size up to 20)

Key Responsibilities:
* Be the key contact and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders and programme leaders 
* Responsible for planning, delivery, and governance of defined portfolio of test projects
* Determining the appropriate resource levels
* Co-ordinate and monitor the planning and management of the testing function
* Contribute to plans and budgets for the portfolio of test projects
* Maintain knowledge of regulatory and legal requirements
* Development of overall testing methodologies
* Quality assurance of the testing processes

Skills and Experience Required
* Proven experience of managing a significant operational Test function team
* Proven experience of leading significant cross-functional testing (and teams) of major programmes > £2m
* Good influencing skills, including strong presentation skills
* Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills with the ability to communicate well at senior levels, both written and oral
* Must have the ability to communicate IT concepts verbally and in writing to influence senior and non-specialist audiences
* Has an understanding of the overall development lifecycle
* Has experience of the full spectrum of functional and non-functional testing services on multiple applications and environments
* Experienced with testing complex, multi-platform, distributed applications

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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;
- Analysis and documenting complex technical/business needs
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Producing data and process models for large development projects
- 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
- Strong Business Analysis/product owner experience

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%. 

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A Technical Business Solutions Analysts is sought by a large and well-known Retail company based near Rickmansworth. The purpose of this Business Analyst is to analyse and define Business requirements to support developments to the company's IT Systems. As a Business Analyst, you will assess the impact of change, investigate options and assist in the development of potential solutions to support Business change. You will work with members of the Business change community to ensure that requirements are unambiguous and fit for purpose and you will have regular interaction with stakeholders across all Business units so we are looking for a clear communicator.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Business Analysts with the following:

• Strong leadership and management skills. Workshop facilitation.
• Project Management and Business Analysis experience and qualifications as appropriate
• Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
• The ability to negotiate cross stream dependencies and track their impact.
• Innovative thought process with the ability to identify solutions, risks and issues.
• Commercial Business acumen.
• Understand at a high-level the capability and integration of existing systems.
• A good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures.

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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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Our client a global leading Insurer is currently looking for a Applications Support Analyst to support users across the business.

Essential Skills:

Strong C# .net 4.5

SQL Server 2012+

2+ years industry experience developing bespoke commercial software solutions

Good knowledge of OOP principles, patterns and practices, n-tier architecture

Ability to gather requirements and establish rapport with non-

Technical stakeholders

Tech Helpdesk Experience.

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