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Front End Developer – HTML/CSS/JavaScript/.NET
Front End Developer – HTML/CSS/JavaScript/.NET
£350 - £400 per day | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK | Contract
Front End Developer – HTML/CSS/JavaScript/.NET
Role: Front end developer
Type: Permanent
Rate: £350 – £400/day
Duration: 3 month initial contract
My client a rapidly expanding financial services organisation require a Front End Developer to provide expertise in developing, enhancing and maintaining the websites used by the company, with a focus on the front-end development.
Required skills/experience;
- You’ll need to have a minimum of five years’ experience of commercial systems development, alongside unit testing and production of technical documentation.
- You’ll be confident and efficient with HTML5, CSS, LESS, SCSS, Advanced JS, JQuery, Bootstrap/JS Framework (ideally Knockout), C#, .Net, MVC. You’ll also need to have technical knowledge of Agile development methodologies.
- Applicants who are also able to demonstrate Back End skills – C#, .Net, Web Services, SQL Server database will be of particular interest.
Front End Developer – HTML/CSS/JavaScript/.NET
Marketing & Communications Consultant
Job Title: Marketing Communications Manager
Rate: £260 per day
Start date: ASAP
Duration 12 months but candidate might be offered 6 months initially
General Information section
Take a lead on the delivery of communications and/or engagement for a business area, discrete specialism or significant project working with stakeholders promoting the perception and reputation of the Group. May also lead a small team or coach less experienced colleagues.
Key Accountabilities:
- Act as a source of professional expertise providing communications/engagement /consultancy advice to stakeholders and business areas within the Group
- Approve, edit & write content for a range of more complex communications using appropriate channels to ensure clarity & consistency of message
- Where applicable, build, maintain and influence external relationships within own area of specialism providing appropriate briefs in line with Group objectives
- Provide corporate affairs input to support delivery of projects or where appropriate deliver projects and initiatives which may have some complexity within own specialism.
- Where applicable, manage activity of suppliers to ensure service standards are met
- Identify, escalate & mitigate emerging risks as appropriate to protect the reputation and interests of the Group and colleagues
- Positively influence others by demonstrating core group values and behaviours and where appropriate, manage, develop and motivate colleagues to support a high performing team
- Manage self and, where appropriate, own team in the context of relevant risk policies and frameworks
- Support agreed change projects to deliver continuous improvement
Candidate Requirements
Top 3 must-have hard skills
1 Copywriting
2 121 communications
3 Direct Mail
- Strong copywriting skills mainly for print but digital content skills are also preferable
- Outstanding stakeholder management and an ability to build strong relationships
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Good technical knowledge of products and ability to develop collateral ideally in a fund- management related environment
- Manage direct mail activity through our existing DM supplier
- Produce a range of marketing communications and materials to support projects
- Obtain sign-off via working projects taking comms from brief to delivery. This involves an element of planning and project management.
- A knowledge of financial services, systems knowledge and an unfailing desire create communications which will influence a positive outcome for our customers.
- A proven track record of delivery
- A strong team player
Please apply now for immediate consideration.
Front End Developer - HTML/CSS/JavaScript/.NET
Front End Developer – HTML/CSS/JavaScript/.NET
Role: Front end developer
Type: Permanent
Rate: £350 - £400/day
Duration: 3 month initial contract
My client a rapidly expanding financial services organisation require a Front End Developer to provide expertise in developing, enhancing and maintaining the websites used by the company, with a focus on the front-end development.
Required skills/experience;
- You’ll need to have a minimum of five years’ experience of commercial systems development, alongside unit testing and production of technical documentation.
- You’ll be confident and efficient with HTML5, CSS, LESS, SCSS, Advanced JS, JQuery, Bootstrap/JS Framework (ideally Knockout), C#, .Net, MVC. You’ll also need to have technical knowledge of Agile development methodologies.
- Applicants who are also able to demonstrate Back End skills – C#, .Net, Web Services, SQL Server database will be of particular interest.
Front End Developer – HTML/CSS/JavaScript/.NET
Principal/Senior Process Engineer
The successful candidate will work as part of the Process Technology team responsible for all aspects of the process design of the Mid-Cryo cryogenic technology based product lines. The plants designed by this team are sold into the on-site, third party and intercompany markets worldwide.
You will be involved in the execution of projects, development of new product lines, the continuous improvement of existing products, performance testing, and providing support to the business area on new opportunities. You will be expected to assume a high level of responsibility for your work, taking the lead role on small projects. Innovation to ensure the on-going competitiveness of our products is also a key element of our work.
Main areas of work within this role include:
1.Produce process specifications and other supporting deliverables for Air Products proprietary ASU equipment and in-line items.
2.If delegated to do so lead the process engineering input during a project, ensuring all actions are followed and documented.
3.Supervise the work of more junior engineers involved on the project ensuring that resources are used productively, that information flow to other sections is maintained and schedule commitments are met.
4.Control the man-hours incurred on their projects, anticipate manpower requirements and highlight scope and design variations in accordance with procedures.
5.Ensure all process work is checked, and corrected as necessary, ready for approval.
6.Lead the process engineering input during the project PFD/P&ID reviews and HAZOP, ensuring all actions are followed and documented.
7.Provide on the job training and mentoring for less experienced engineers on a wide range of process design topics.
8.Liaise with other engineering disciplines to agree operational and interface details. Take the initiative in resolving interface problems.
9.Lead plant process design input during commissioning, start up and performance testing of projects at site. This may necessitate periods of work away from the home office.
Qualifications/Experience
You must be a degree qualified Chemical Engineer with experience in cryogenic air separation or other cryogenic technologies. Detailed knowledge of distillation, adsorption and heat transfer is advantageous.
The successful candidate should have the ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment and be comfortable with priorities that can change rapidly.
Mid Level Front End Developer
Midl Level Front End Developer - Javascript, Jquery, React, HTML, CSS
Skills & Requirements:
- Proficient level of JavaScript, jQuery
- Experience with Modern JavaScript frameworks (ideally React)
- Experience with TDD and associated tools/frameworks
- Experience with HTML5, CSS3 and LESS/Sass
- Experience with version control (Git)
- Experience in Agile environment (Scrum)
- Basic Linux skills
Desirable Qualities
- Good communication skills
- Team player
- Passionate about technology
- Positive attitude towards problem solving
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
A Software Developer is required for our client based in Exeter for an initial 6 month contract
As an experienced software developer you will work within an existing agile delivery team as a senior developer to manage and deliver applications on AWS infrastructure. You will be expected to share your knowledge with others in the team and to coach less experienced team members.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software applications
- Analyse requirements, contribute to design, provide estimates and liaise with stakeholders
- Keep your skills fresh. Share experiences, advice and techniques with your colleagues
- Be innovative, challenge the status quo, and develop your ideas into reality
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
- A degree in computer science, computing or other numerate subject, or equivalent experience.
- Experience of developing in a cloud environment
- Full stack development skills, ideally with a leaning towards open source technologies.
- Strong experience using JavaScript frameworks, Node.js, CSS, HTML.
- Evidence of an ability to participate effectively in a team environment and be able to work independently on allocated tasks.
- Enthusiasm for and understanding of how to provide a professional, high-quality service and work to demanding deadlines.
- An ability to communicate with stakeholders to advise on progress and interpret requirements.
- Training and mentoring experience and a willingness to share knowledge in a collaborative environment
Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
- Experience of the Angular framework would be beneficial.
- Experience of the Leaflet mapping library would be useful.
- Knowledge of the AWS cloud computing platform. Certification would be good, but not essential
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
A Software Developer is required for our client based in Exeter for an initial 6 month contract
As an experienced software developer you will work within an existing agile delivery team as a senior developer to manage and deliver applications on AWS infrastructure. You will be expected to share your knowledge with others in the team and to coach less experienced team members.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software applications
- Analyse requirements, contribute to design, provide estimates and liaise with stakeholders
- Keep your skills fresh. Share experiences, advice and techniques with your colleagues
- Be innovative, challenge the status quo, and develop your ideas into reality
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
- A degree in computer science, computing or other numerate subject, or equivalent experience.
- Experience of developing in a cloud environment
- Full stack development skills, ideally with a leaning towards open source technologies.
- Strong experience in server-side technologies (Java or Python)
- Evidence of an ability to participate effectively in a team environment and be able to work independently on allocated tasks.
- Enthusiasm for and understanding of how to provide a professional, high-quality service and work to demanding deadlines.
- An ability to communicate with stakeholders to advise on progress and interpret requirements.
- Training and mentoring experience and a willingness to share knowledge in a collaborative environment
Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilitie
- Knowledge of the AWS cloud computing platform. Certification would be good, but not essential
Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
Robert Half is working exclusively with a North Bristol based client who is going through a period of infrastructure change and thus needs engineering support to assist with the roll out.
Great day rate on offer
North Bristol
The main accountability's will involve the deployment of Office 2016 and Office365. Also, the right candidate will be conducting data transfers.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of Office365 and Office 2016
- Experience with SCCM
- Exchange experience, including the architecture of Exchange
- Migration of mailboxes
- Hybrid configuration
- Experience in a customer facing role
Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. By applying to this position, you acknowledge that you have read and accept the following terms: https://privacy-notice
API Developer
A client based in Swindon is looking for a skilled software developer with solid commercial experience of creating API-based integration solutions. The right candidate will be a developer with a hands-on approach who is able to work alongside other developers and infrastructure specialists.
Essential skills:
- Knowledge of creating and managing Cloud-based APIs is essential.
- A strong Microsoft-oriented skill set is a must. The in-house systems are primarily built using the Microsoft stack and their desire is to make increased use of Cloud technology.
- A strong knowledge of Azure and associated SaaS offerings is therefore essential.
Desirable skills:
- The client are also intending to make use of the Dynamics 365 platform as a core component of their online estate and any knowledge of integrating with this product would be useful although not essential.
- Use of Service Bus tools (Queues, Topics etc…)
- Azure Functions
- .Net Core
- MS SQL Server or similar RDBMS
- MS Dynamics 365
- Experience of integrating 3rd party tools as part of an advice process (i.e. ID&V)
Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. By applying to this position, you acknowledge that you have read and accept the following terms: https://privacy-notice
Windows Systems Engineer
Our client is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer who is smart, curious and loves the challenge of solving exceptional technical problems. You'll collaborate with a close-knit agile team to architect, implement, test Application and Infrastructure services into their platforms.
Required Skills:
DevOps: Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
Scripting Skills: Strong scripting and automation skills.
Operating Systems: Windows Server and Windows 10 Desktop system build, configuration and administration.
Desired Skills:
Object Orientated Programming Skills: Strong OO Programming skills
Database Skills: Basic DB administration experience
Virtualisation: Knowledge and experience of VMware ESXi and VMware vCentre 6.x.
Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. By applying to this position, you acknowledge that you have read and accept the following terms: https://privacy-notice
Senior Software Engineer
Robert Half is working with a market leading organisation based in the East Midlands to recruit a Senior Software Engineer into their dynamics and growing team.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Develop software as per the system and module design documentation produced for projects, adhering to SOLID principles.
- Use agreed company standards so that work can be easily understood, checked, and maintained by others.
- Carry out unit testing to ensure that the software performs as per the design and according to company standards (with respect to screen layouts, behaviour etc.).
- Develop software within the time specified, or provide early feedback where this is not possible.
- Use experience gained on previous projects and in previous companies to challenge design where there is a more appropriate solution. Use the agreed change control mechanism to do so
- Use the issue logging system (currently Jira) to report upon faults in core package software. © Use the company development tools and computer systems provided for your role
- Provide support to the client/commissioning team during early life
- Assist with software build deliveries to test and site environments
REQUIRED SKILLS
- A university degree in the field of IT or a related subject or relevant work experience
- 3+ years of professional experience in the field of software development
- Good knowledge of the Linux platform
- Good knowledge of C++ and Design Patterns for object-orientated programming
- Experience in any of the following fields would be a plus: C++ 14, QT, parallel programming, distributed and scalable systems, data compression, test automation, network communications
This opportunity is offering a initial 6 month contract with an open day rate depending on experience.
Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. By applying to this position, you acknowledge that you have read and accept the following terms: https://privacy-notice
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
A Software Developer is required for our client based in Exeter for an initial 6 month contract
As an experienced software developer you will work within an existing agile delivery team as a senior developer to manage and deliver applications on AWS infrastructure. You will be expected to share your knowledge with others in the team and to coach less experienced team members.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software applications
- Analyse requirements, contribute to design, provide estimates and liaise with stakeholders
- Keep your skills fresh. Share experiences, advice and techniques with your colleagues
- Be innovative, challenge the status quo, and develop your ideas into reality
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
- A degree in computer science, computing or other numerate subject, or equivalent experience.
- Experience of developing in a cloud environment
- Full stack development skills, ideally with a leaning towards open source technologies.
- Strong experience using JavaScript frameworks, Node.js, CSS, HTML.
- Evidence of an ability to participate effectively in a team environment and be able to work independently on allocated tasks.
- Enthusiasm for and understanding of how to provide a professional, high-quality service and work to demanding deadlines.
- An ability to communicate with stakeholders to advise on progress and interpret requirements.
- Training and mentoring experience and a willingness to share knowledge in a collaborative environment
Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
- Experience of the Angular framework would be beneficial.
- Experience of the Leaflet mapping library would be useful.
- Knowledge of the AWS cloud computing platform. Certification would be good, but not essential
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
A Software Developer is required for our client based in Exeter for an initial 6 month contract
As an experienced software developer you will work within an existing agile delivery team as a senior developer to manage and deliver applications on AWS infrastructure. You will be expected to share your knowledge with others in the team and to coach less experienced team members.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software applications
- Analyse requirements, contribute to design, provide estimates and liaise with stakeholders
- Keep your skills fresh. Share experiences, advice and techniques with your colleagues
- Be innovative, challenge the status quo, and develop your ideas into reality
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
- A degree in computer science, computing or other numerate subject, or equivalent experience.
- Experience of developing in a cloud environment
- Full stack development skills, ideally with a leaning towards open source technologies.
- Strong experience in server-side technologies (Java or Python)
- Evidence of an ability to participate effectively in a team environment and be able to work independently on allocated tasks.
- Enthusiasm for and understanding of how to provide a professional, high-quality service and work to demanding deadlines.
- An ability to communicate with stakeholders to advise on progress and interpret requirements.
- Training and mentoring experience and a willingness to share knowledge in a collaborative environment
Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilitie
- Knowledge of the AWS cloud computing platform. Certification would be good, but not essential
Product Manager
Data Scientist - Product Analyst
An innovative leader in online classifieds with ten brands that span the globe. Our sites help people find whatever they're looking for in their local communities - whether it's a job, an apartment, a sofa, a car, a concert ticket, financial services or new friends. Every connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share more and waste less.
VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER
We believe that data is the voice of the customer. Through customer research and continuous experimentation, we make sure the customer is involved in building the best classifieds experience in the world. We have organized ourselves as teams around the key strategic priorities Every team is a cross functional team consisting of product managers, business owners, UX designers, developers, analysts and marketers. We are rapidly moving to a future where not people, but the data decide what to serve the customer. To ensure data driven decision making in all parts of our development process, we need to bring knowledge of best practices in experimentation and validation in the entire organization to a next level. We are looking for a creative, experienced, results-oriented product analyst that can both help us get the needed analyses done, as well as bring the team knowledge to the next level. That's you! You see the possibilities in all the data we have, and know how show multidisciplinary teams how to use it to find the best opportunities to build even more awesome product features.
YOUR JOB
* Ensure that the multidisciplinary development team has the ability to take the right decisions by
* Facilitating setting up experiments that enable us to find where to focus our efforts
* Validating the impact we make with our changes
* Identifying opportunities to improve our product by analyzing customer behavior
* Be the data evangelist that works with the data scientists, other product analysts, engineers and product managers to make sure we make the best use of available data, and build data based product features that drive our objectives and key results
* Help the overall team decide what data to gather, how to model it and set it up in such a way that we can use this data to improve customer experience and find commercial opportunities
YOUR PROFILE
* 5-7 years of experience in an analytics or data science environment
* Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Econometrics, Statistics etc)
* Excellent at working with huge amounts of data, both in conventional data bases (SQL) as well as distributed technologies (Hadoop and Spark)
* Solid experience with the use of appropriate statistical tools (in f.e. R or Python) to validate outcomes
* Proven experience coaching teams to improve way of working
* Strong communicator and fluent in English
* Demonstrating creativity and initiative, and acting in a result orientated way.
* Prior experience working with multidisciplinary development teams and/or an online environment is an added advantage
QA ENGINEER
A QA Engineer is required for our client based in Exeter for an initial 6 month contract.
You will be joining an existing Agile delivery team as an experienced Engineer to manage and deliver applications on AWS infrastructure. You will be expected to share your knowledge with others in the team and to coach less experienced team members.
Responsibilities
- Write and execute functional and non-functional tests at each level, and debug and refactor the test code
- Measure and report on test activity, manage defects and author software defined tests
- Work with Product Owner to produce detailed acceptance criteria.
- Design test environment set-ups and configuration
- Pair with release, development operations and software developers to write automation tests across different levels and review release scripts across environments
- Identify new test techniques and tools
- Educate and support the rest of the delivery team with testing, educate internal and external stakeholders and work with delivery teams to define 'quality'
- Use software development skills applied within a testing context
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
- A degree in computer science, computing or other numerate subject, or equivalent experience.
- Solid experience in writing scripts for automation testing in languages such as JavaScript, Java or Python
- Experience in manual and automated testing
- Experience working with tools like Jest, Cucumber, Selenium, JUnit etc
- Experience automating User Interfaces and APIs
- Experience of developing in a cloud environment
- Evidence of an ability to participate effectively in a team environment and be able to work independently on allocated tasks.
- Enthusiasm for and understanding of how to provide a professional, high-quality service and work to demanding deadlines.
- Training and mentoring experience and a willingness to share knowledge in a collaborative environment
Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
- Knowledge of the AWS cloud computing platform. Certification would be good, but not essential
Rates by region
| London | £492/day |
| UK | £453/day |
| UK | £39/hour |