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.NET Developer - Leicestershire - £275p/d
Working in ASP.NET with MVC and SQL (views and stored procedures) is essential. Any experience with client-side scripts, Restful APIs, JSON, AJAX, NoSQL, Visual Studio, C#, Salesforce or testing is desirable.
This is a rare and interesting opportunity . This role encompasses a variety of bespoke development projects including migrating legacy systems to Salesforce.
To apply for the role, please send your CV with the reference number ASH17616SH in the subject line, should you choose to email your CV directly.
The Ashdown Group Ltd acts as an employment agency in respect of permanent vacancies and as an employment business in respect of temporary vacancies.
Citrix Engineer (Contract)
My client is looking for a Citrix Engineer (Contract) to be part of their Virtualization and Automation team, where you will be responsible for the installation, configuration, operation, application publishing, training, monitoring and day to day support of our various Citrix VDI environments.
The Citrix Engineer (Contract) will focus on maintaining high availability, performance and security of XenApp/XenDesktop and NetScaler infrastructure, but you will also help support their Vmware infrastructure for day to day operations as required.
REQUIREMENTS
- Management and deployment of Citrix Xenapp/XenDesktop 7.6 LTSR or higher, NetScaler, Storefront, Delivery Controllers and associated components
- Level 1 – 3 support of our various Citrix VDI environments
- Publish proprietary applications to XenApp and perform upgrades as necessary
- Upgrade and patch Citrix environment and associated components as required
- Manage and maintain all Citrix related GPOs
- Automate, facilitate, manage virtualized workloads using Vmware technologies
- Operate in a small, dedicated, focused global team
- Operate in a very entrepreneurial manner with extreme customer focus
- Automate provisioning, deployment and configuration of virtual desktop infrastructure
- Proactive monitoring and administration of VDI infrastructure
- Improve VDI infrastructure and processes for higher levels of availability and scalability
- Co-develop solutions with the business groups/development teams
- Act as a liaison between our customers and support teams
- Ensure that customer deployed environments are secure and consistent.
REMUNERATION
£375 – £450 a day
For further information on this vacancy, or any other Contract or Temporary IT job in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Orla Fitzsimons in the strictest confidence on 02890 330 250
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Job Reference: ORF152Cit_1550233629
Salary: £375 - £450 per day
Salary per: Day
Job Duration:
Job Start Date:
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Greater Belfast
Job Industry: Infrastructure Support
Job Skill: Netscaler, Citrix Contract, Citrix Engineer, Citrix, IT contract, XenApp, XenDesktop
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Cloud Engineer AWS, Powershell
Cloud Engineer (AWS, Powershell) £450 - £500 per day
We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with strong AWS and Windows environment experience to help change the way high performance web products are delivered within a one of world's best known information solutions and publishing groups.
As the Cloud Engineer you will join the team responsible for Windows architecture and Cloud (AWS) infrastructure. You will ensure the reliability and scalability of a global AWS production environment whilst improving automation, configuration management, CI and monitoring technologies.
Skills required for the Cloud Engineer:
- Excellent knowledge of cloud services; preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with Microsoft Infrastructure in a large scale environment
- Strong development/programming knowledge using Powershell
- Worked with modern configuration management tools (Puppet/ Chef/ Ansible) would be beneficial but not essential
Cloud Engineer (AWS, Powershell)
Day Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Location: London
Electrical / Electronics Engineer (Contractor)
South East ABJ4035
Contract 12 months £350 a day (Limited Company Rate)
As an experienced electrical engineer with the ability to solve highly technical problems you will be required to manage device development activities within the future products team of a global R&D organisation. As an electrical engineer as part of the product development plan you will be required to lead the electrical definition, development and delivery of multiple interconnected components, from different internal and external engineering and R&D disciplines to create their future products.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing innovation projects for new device technologies.
- Managing improvement projects for manufacturability, cost reduction, complexity reduction, component selection and obsolescence or consumer complaint reduction.
- System Design Specification - work with necessary stakeholders and prepare system requirements specification including hardware and software.
- System Functional and Non-Functional Analysis - carry out a range of analysis and investigations to create the user stories for the product.
- Liaise with cross category architecture teams to maintain alignment with the specified programs, as well as electrical and physical architecture.
- Product Verification and Validation - design and develop system integration plan and tests.
- Lead System Integration and test (EVT).
- Assist with safety certification testing and country specific homologation.
- Responsible for product documentation from initial proposals through first production release.
- Assist with production and field failure analysis as required.
- Provide device and electrical /electronics systems Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for prior art technical assessments of patents for freedom to operate.
- Designing and leading (internally or with our partners) R&D device design experiments in support of assertive patenting workstreams.
- Ensuring electronics design and packaging meet requirements of battery technologies used by the company.
- Develop test kit, where necessary, to interrogate onboard chips or measure outputs against a functionality matrix.
- Improving drawing standards and ensuring drawings supplied from design teams / 3rd party industrial design agencies meet requirements for PCB assembler implementation and quality inspection.
- Background Electrical ./ Electronics Engineering
- Knowledge and understanding of product development processes
- Single layer PCB design experience and electronics test design
- IPC J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610 (level 1)
- Component selection and experience in battery powered, consumer electronics
- RF comms design, Electronics and battery encapsulation.
- Component choice for manufacturability, operational performance and consumer safety
- KPI definition and dashboard creation, Fluent in Electrical CAD software use
- Working knowledge of electrical and firmware design methods
- Working knowledge of mass produced product development and debug tools
- Use of PCB design software (Altium or similar), Flexible circuit design
- Experience with Li-ion battery failure modes
.NET Developer - Leicestershire - £275p/d - 3 month contract
Working in ASP.NET with MVC and SQL (views and stored procedures) is essential. Any experience with client-side scripts, Restful APIs, JSON, AJAX, NoSQL, Visual Studio, C#, Salesforce or testing is desirable.
This is a rare and interesting opportunity . This role encompasses a variety of bespoke development projects including migrating legacy systems to Salesforce.
To apply for the role, please send your CV with the reference number ASH17616SH in the subject line, should you choose to email your CV directly.
The Ashdown Group Ltd acts as an employment agency in respect of permanent vacancies and as an employment business in respect of temporary vacancies.
Senior SAP BO Consultant
Technical Expert - SAP BO
The trainings should provide the new users with sufficient knowledge to perform their tasks effectively.Knowledge and skills- Good knowledge of Business Objects and Business Intelligence- Good knowledge of Excel- Capability to produce clear and structured reporting documents, including graphs- Service oriented profile- Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, very good communication skills- Capability of working in an international/multicultural environment- Fluent in English and French- Knowledge of web technologies fundamentals- MS Office tools (including advanced features like pivot tables, templates, forms, etc.)Skills considered as an asset- Knowledge in financial management business- Knowledge of SQL- Knowledge of EC financial regulations- Knowledge of the eGrants suit- Knowledge of public procurement procedure business- Knowledge of Data warehouse technologies- Knowledge of IT service management tools (incident, problem, change management)- Knowledge of MacrosInter Personal Skills: - Team spirit- High degree of initiative; self-starting capability- Able to work as part of a team- Service oriented mind-set- Stress resilience- Good communicator- Team management ability- Able to multi-task, prioritize and meet deadlines- Able to provide and request clear, unambiguous and comprehensible information McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
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Lead NodeJS Developer
6 month contract
A digital data start-up in Central London are looking for a Full-Stack Developer to help with their heavy influx of projects.
As a Lead NodeJS Developer, you need to be heavily experienced with NodeJS, and would even help having lead a team of developers previously.
Essentials:
NodeJS
HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript
AWS
Desirable:
React Native
Python
DevOps tools - Kubernetes, Docker etc.
Automated Test Engineer - £500p/d - Birmingham
Do you like working with the newest Tech in the industry and learn from some of the best?
Your day to day tasks will look like this;
- Develop and execute Test Plan
- Write BDD and manual Test scripts
- Document Test cases
- Perform automated testing
- Produce test reporting
The candidate i'm looking for will have some of the following;
- 5+ years' commercial experience building automated BDD frameworks
- History of Automated Testing
- Experience with automated test tools
- Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins or similar)
- Comfortable with agile development using an agile issue management system
- Experience of Jira to log issues/test feedback
- Cucumber/Gherkin
- Git
- Relational Database experience
- An RQF Level 5 qualification (e.g. Higher National Diploma) in a Computer Science discipline
- Cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- REST API
- An interest in Finance and/or FinTech
Missing a few of the skills mentioned? i'd still like to hear from you. Don't hesitate.
Please contact me ASAP for more information; [email protected], +44(0)191 500 0020.
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Lead NodeJS Developer
Lead NodeJS Developer
£500-£600 per day
6 month contract
A digital data start-up in Central London are looking for a Full-Stack Developer to help with their heavy influx of projects.
As a Lead NodeJS Developer, you need to be heavily experienced with NodeJS, and would even help having lead a team of developers previously.
Essentials:
- NodeJS
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- AWS
Desirable:
- React Native
- Python
- DevOps tools - Kubernetes, Docker etc.
Business Analyst - Power BI / SQL / Python - FinTech - London
Business Analyst - Power BI / SSAS / SQL / Python - FinTech - London
Key Skills
SQL SERVER, POWER BI, (Will consider Tableau, Qlikview etc), SSAS, PYTHON, R, SAS, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, FINTECH, BUSINESS ANALYST
You must have both excellent technical skills and commercial/business analysis.
They do not seek a pure 'techie', but someone who can also improve how the business is run, be proactive with their work and make commercial suggestions to the business.
You will be enthusiastic about the power of analysis with great attention to detail and the ability to think originally.
You will relish the challenge of a fast-paced, ever-changing start-up environment and being involved in projects that have a real impact upon the business.
An ability to understand complex datasets and provide key insights to stakeholders across all levels of the business, to assist with important business decisions.
To be considered you will have:
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven commercial awareness and capabilities
- Experience of presenting to stakeholders & leadership.
- A data-driven approach
- Ability to manage projects, prioritise tasks and self-motivate within a target-driven environment
- Experienced in building dashboards, preferably in Power BI (Experience in Qlikview/Tableau also helpful)
- Proactive, innovative and with a detailed approach to problem-solving
- Consultative and able to manage stakeholders at all levels of the business
- Knowledge of SQL and Excel is essential. Experience with Python, R or even SAS (with cross-training) is advantageous.
About the role
This is an exciting time to join their BI team as the business has just launched an exciting new brand and are re-engineering their game-changing software product from scratch.
You will be a key member of a fast-growing and equally technical and commercial BI team.
You will use your strong background in technical analytics and commercial/business analysis to interpret large data sets and provide actionable insights to stakeholders across the business.
You will also be part of the following:
- Work with stakeholders to construct models which assess the viability of new pilots or products.
- Perform data 'deep-dives' on areas of the business to deliver insights & recommendations.
- Present potential actions based upon your analysis to the business.
- Produce dashboards based on analysis to display findings and track performance.
- Generate complex reports for senior business owners.
- Work in partnership with the BI developers in your team to constantly improve the data infrastructure.
- Use a combination of Power BI / SQL /Excel to analyse data effectively, and providing consultative insights to the business.
- Ideally, you will be able to use R or Python to develop more sophisticated models and analysis.
About the Company
This opportunity is with a highly successful, high-growth FinTech start-up that is disrupting the payments market, is the market leader in the UK & Ireland and will be launching into key European markets in 2019.
Front End Developer
Front End Developer
The successful candidate will be in charge of developing and maintaining online flagship stores in a cross- functional team composed mainly by front-end developers, paying attention to user experience, performance optimisation, pixel-perfection, accessibility.
In particular, she/he will deal with:
e Development of new online stores; e Development of new releases of existing online stores; e Development of new features in existing or new online stores
Technologies we use in our front-end are:
HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript / ES Next;
.NET Framework, C#, Razor, Javascript micro components; Interface with back-end using Rest API;
Tools: SASS, Gulp, Rollup, Webpack, Jenkins, Nightwatch JS, Jest
At our core:
We write readable, maintainable, optimized, testable and scalable code
Agile methodologies (Scrum)
Extreme programming (pair programming, test driven development, code refactoring) Git-based, pull requests, code reviews
Performance analysis and optimization
Skills and Experience:
At least 3-4 years' experience in the same role at a web agency or e-commerce company; Excellent knowledge of the latest versions of all front-end development languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript; e Excellentknowledge of at least one of the most common JavaScript libraries and frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, jQuery); Excellent knowledge of the main browsers and ability to find cross-browser solutions; Close attention to details; Good team working skills; Flexibility in learing new technologies and languages independently; Good knowledge of both English and Italian language
Project Manager - West Yorkshire Combined Authority
- Lead the planning and delivery of medium/high profile projects, either in-house or working directly with/for Delivery Partners (districts).
- Act as Case Officer on medium/high profile projects.
- Work in partnership with external partners to achieve joint objectives.
- Design, implement and maintain the systems required for delivering the objectives of your function to support WYCA in achieving its vision.
- Take a pro-active corporate role in the management of your function including participating in delivering your directorate's objectives.
- Demonstrate commitment to corporate processes and ensure these are delivered at all times.
- Be a visible and enthusiastic manager, encouraging partnership working across the organisation.
- Influence, develop and motivate your team, taking a positive approach to their development.
Technical Duties:
- Lead multi-disciplinary project teams to deliver a range of complex or high profile projects, as allocated, which may include, but is not limited to e.g. broadband / Enterprise Zone delivery / flood resilience / fuel poverty / housing / skills capital and innovation / smartcard technology / transport infrastructure as appropriate.
- Manage the development of business cases, ensuring the scope will deliver the capability to enable the benefits of the project to be realised, identifying tasks, undertaking specific technical works and managing works within agreed tolerances.
- Understand customer needs to manage the development of business case appraisals and submission to the Programme Appraisal Team (PAT), working with the Portfolio Management Office (PMO).
- Allocating resources in conjunction with the SRO / Head of Service and Team leads as appropriate.
- Translating customer needs (Internal depts, Public, Politicians, Delivery Partners etc.) into work packages for allocation to the project team in line with the appropriate project management techniques, documenting quality expectations and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure that WYCA's project management procedures are followed in accordance with the WYCA Assurance Framework and that reports are planned and prepared for the relevant governance and committee meetings in a timely manner.
- Responsible for the procurement, appointment and management of technical and commercial consultants, suppliers and contractors, the provision of technical input and support to projects as required.
- Preparation of briefs, reports, press releases and communications.
- Liaison with internal and external stakeholders, representing WYCA and Delivery Partners, attending and chairing meetings and site visits, including undertaking public consultation on projects as necessary.
- Responsible for ensuring projects are delivered in accordance with agreed plans, following the principles of 'Management by Exception', by creating and implementing strategies to manage time, cost, quality, risk, communication, health & safety, issues and change management, authorising work packages and using the relevant WYCA Assurance processes.
- Responsible for budgetary planning, forecasting, financial control including processing and certifying invoices for payment.
- Develop and share best practice and lessons learned across WYCA and externally as appropriate.
- Responsible for closing projects and passing the Benefits Realisation Plan to the Business Change Manager.
stride is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy
Java Developer - West Midlands - £325 - £350pd
A West Midlands client is recruiting for a Java contract developer for a duration of 6 months, offering a day rate of £325 - £350 per day. You will have at least 5+ years commercial software development experience in Java EE and OO Design.
Key experience:
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Object-oriented design
- HTML/CSS
- Relational DB and SQL
- Spring Framework and Hibernate ORM
- Responsive Web design
Role responsibilities:
- Collaborate in designing original solutions to our customers' complex business problems.
- Use enterprise web application technologies, such as Spring and Hibernate
- Be part of a scrum team which takes a dedicated agile and test-driven approach to software development.
For further details please apply with an updated CV.
Contract JavaScript Developer (React.JS)
London £600 - £650 per day
We're looking for a JavaScript Developer (React.JS) to join our disruptive software start-up. The JavaScript Developer will be working on our fast growing online marketplace platform.
The role of the JavaScript Developer (React.JS) will be creating a beautiful user experience of our platform.
We are looking for a JavaScript Developer who has worked with: -
Must have:
- Expert React.JS
- Expert JavaScript, ES6,
- CSS, HTML
Nice to have:
- Python
- AWS
- Docker
- MySQL
- Computer Science Background
Apply now for immediate considerations for this position!!
Key skills: JavaScript, React.JS, ES6, CSS, HTML, Webpack, Contract, Front End Developer
Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.
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