My client is a global provider of consulting, IT Services, and outsourced R&D, infrastructure outsourcing and business process services. They deliver technology-driven business solutions that meet the strategic objectives of Global 2000 customers. With over 25 years in the Information Technology business, my client is the largest outsourced R & D Services provider and one of the pioneers in the remote delivery of services. Responsibilities: - Responsible within the project for the end to end solution for the entire lifecycle of the project. Provide clear, continuous and consistent solution architecture leadership at a detailed level within the project. - Ensure the solution is fit for purpose, meets the needs of the agreed requirements of the business and is pragmatic and supportive of the Divisional strategic architecture direction - Monitor technology developments to ensure that the client is effectively positioned to respond to and leverage opportunities that enhance competitive position through the effective application of technology to the business - Design solutions for projects, through expert knowledge translate high level business requirements into technology architectures that align to Divisional strategic architecture, simplify the existing architecture, deliver reusable services and cost saving opportunities. - Work collaboratively with other areas within Enterprise Architecture and Design to ensure that all solutions are complete, operable, conform to business processes and meet the business needs with the agreed quality of service - Manage key business stakeholders to secure strong stakeholder engagement and buy-in for the solution - Assess and advise the Divisional Practice Manager on resource requirements to complete the end to end solution design - Participate in peer review and QA of the project architectural artifacts. Report key architecture decisions and implications to the Group architectural governance committees. - Participate from time to time in supplier selection process, evaluating usefulness and cost of products and making appropriate recommendations - Maintain a forward looking perspective on emerging technology developments and their relevance to Business and Technology Strategies Experience: - Lead architect on at least 3 complex projects (size circa £5M) - Experience of full end-to-end software/systems development lifecycle from customer requirement specifications through solution design to user testing and deployment
An opportunity has arisen for a junior-level Solutions Architect to work for one of the fastest growing ICT solutions providers in the UK. You will be responsible for creating deliverable solutions for a range of different customers on infrastructure projects. You will be mainly home-based, with 1-2 days a week travelling to customer sites. You will be expected to work closely with the sales team and third line teams across the business, and work with customers on a technical level.
Requirements: Has a managed service or outsource service background Experience working within VMWare/multi-tenanted environments Demonstrable experience designing complex infrastructure solutions of up to 50 server environments High level of network design Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to engage with customers professionally
This is a fantastic opportunity for a junior Solutions Architect to join an expanding, dynamic company. You will be able to work as part of a friendly and experienced team, on interesting and challenging projects. For more information, please forward your CV and contact Catherine from De Facto IT.
My client is a global provider of consulting, IT Services, and outsourced R&D, infrastructure outsourcing and business process services. They deliver technology-driven business solutions that meet the strategic objectives of Global 2000 customers. With over 25 years in the Information Technology business, my client is the largest outsourced R & D Services provider and one of the pioneers in the remote delivery of services. Responsibilities: - Experienced OSB Developer to join our Enterprise Service Layer team. The role is to develop and maintain services for various projects and internal customers within the client organisation. - Minimum 4 years of programming experience with the following technologies. - Development and support of single business rules repository and to support various J- Rules projects Skills: - J-Rules- IBM Websphere ILOG JRules, Java Technologies:- J2EE, JMS, JDBC, JTA, EJB3, JCA, JXB, JBoss Stack, RES, Teamserver - SOA, Agile development. - XML:- XSD, XSLT. SOAP, WSDL, XQuery, Subversion ,Eclipse. - Team-player with the ability to work within collaborative environments and people from different cultures and educational backgrounds.- Some experience with Agile [Scrum] development. - Work effectively and efficiency in English writing. Desirable Skills: - Maven, Hudson, Jenkins.
C++ DEVELOPERS / ARCHITECTS, ELECTRONIC TRADING, LONDON
Our client is a leading global financial trading firm, specialising in electronic trading, algorithmic trading, high frequency trading. You do not need to have worked in this environment previously or in banking / financial markets. What you do need is strong understanding of OO development, in either C++ or , and having developed real time applications. You will be involved in design, architecture and implementation of lightening fast real time financial trading systems. Performance of applications under high load and performance optimisation is paramount. You can have come from a background having coded to either Unix/Linux & Oracle OR Windows & SQL Server. However, other databaes such as Sybase are also applicable. On offer is a superb base salary of £75K - £90K depending on skill level and a lucrative bonus scheme that will generally earn you more money than contracting. Benefits include pension, private medical care for you and family, dental cover, life assurance. CVs being reviewed now.
A market-leading IT consultancy firm is looking for experienced UX Architects for their digital team. You will be responsible for developing long-term relationships with clients and delivering across a wide range of challenging and exciting UX projects.
Candidate Requirements: • Excellent client relationship and engagement skills • 5+ years UX experience • Passion and creative thinking: desire to deliver high-quality, effective and value-added services to clients
This is the perfect opportunity for an experienced User Experience professional to join a talented team and work on projects for dynamic and creative clients. The successful candidate will enjoy a base salary of £65K - £75K + a flexible benefits package and a bonus.
Chief Architect, Leading Logistics Firm, Slough, £70K - £80K + bonus + car scheme
A leading global logistics firm is looking for an experienced IT professional to lead their small Architecture team within the IT department. You will act as a mentor and have a strong focus on developing the skills of those in their team. There are also exciting plans to completely transform the IT systems which you will be heavily involved with. The company operates on a global scale so you will enjoy some occasional visits to cities such as Dublin and Amsterdam.
Requirements: Strong technical abilities, with experience using SAP, salesforce.com, .NET and Java Some experience with eCommerce Excellent, proven team management abilities
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Architect looking for a new and challenging lead role within a friendly and dynamic environment. You will enjoy long-term security within an established organisation that has grown over the last few years in particular. You will enjoy a base salary of £70K - £80K (depending on experience) in addition to a 15% bonus and an outstanding company car scheme (They will receive a new car every 6 months!) For more information about this role, then please forward your CV and contact Catherine and De Facto IT.
My client is one of the world's largest tier 1 system integrators with a turnover of £4bn and provides global IT solutions for a wide range of blue chip clients; they are a 10,000 user organisation in the UK alone and their Microsoft division is growing rapidly. They offer a fantastic working environment from their large modern offices in various locations around the UK. Experience
- A demonstrable track record of delivering projects based upon Microsoft Dynamics CRM and supporting Microsoft technologies - Demonstrable experience of working within a challenging environment - Demonstrable experience of working on large enterprise projects - Experience of working within a team environment - MCPD/MCTS/MCAD/MCSD certifications highly advantageous - Experience of a consulting environment in which one may need to proactively seek the best opportunities - Willingness to travel on a UK wide basis and work away from home for extended periods of time Monday to Friday - Existing SC or DV security clearance advantageous Skills: - Proficient in analysing business process and translating them into effective CRM solutions - Experience on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and 2011 installation, customisation (including entity and security model), developing client application extensions, plug-in and custom processes/workflows is essential - Experience of Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK and other CRM Accelerators for Microsoft CRM 4 and 2011 is essential - Visual Studio 2010 or above (Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management and Visual Studio Team System is advantageous) - .NET Framework Version 3.5 or above including strong WCF experience - C# is essential - Experience with defined frameworks (MVC, Entity Framework and Enterprise Library) is essential - IIS & ASP.NET including HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript - SQL Server 2008 or above with custom report experience through SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is essential - Experience of Dynamics CRM integration using SCRIBE is highly desirable - Development experience with at least one of the following Microsoft technologies is highly desirable - Dynamics CRM Online - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 \ SharePoint 2010 \ SharePoint 2013 - BizTalk Server 2006 or 2010 - Windows Azure - Continuous Integration Build process and automated unit test skills with tools such as MSBuild, CruiseControl and NUnit are essential - Experience working in a structured delivery framework or process such as the Rational Unified Process or Microsoft Solutions Framework is essential - Agile development practices are essential - Object Oriented Analysis and Design skills are essential - UML skills are essential - Service Oriented Architecture knowledge is essential - Knowledge of software design patterns and when to apply them - Ability to design sensible, simple solutions to complex problems - Excellent knowledge of software design patterns and when to apply them
This role of Scrum Master is primarily focussed on working as a core part of the development team in the delivery of complex IT solutions for both internal and external clients. In this context, the Scrum Master will report to the Engagement Manager and take responsibility for all of the activities for one (or more) Feature / Scrum teams. This will involve facilitating the requirements elaboration, design, build and testing activities for part of the solution over a series of sprints / iterations and will involve customers, analysts, software architects, designers, developers and testers.
Responsibilities
Working with Customers / Product Owners to agree priorities and sprint / iteration content Ensuring that the agile process and practices are appropriately tailored to the context of the project and project team Establishing and facilitating the Agile "rhythm within the Feature Teams (e.g. Planning meetings, daily scrums, demo's, retrospectives) Ensuring that the team are being as effective and productive as they can by protecting them from external distractions and actively removing impediments to their progression Establishing and maintaining scrum boards and other visualisations of progress Ensuring effective usage of tools that underpin the process, including task management, issue management, continuous integration, test automation Sprint / iteration estimation and planning Liaison with other Feature / Scrum teams and external teams to resolve cross team Providing support and mentoring to the customer and project teams in the use of Agile practices Reporting to the Engagement Management and Customer on progress in line with Agile process (velocity, burn down, burn up etc) Contribute to the continuous improvement of development process, practices, tools and techniques Be a contributor to the creation of best practices through the identification of reusable project-level assets Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of the latest development trends, standards, best practices and technologies
Skills and qualifications
Experience across the breadth of Software Delivery (Requirements, Analysis, Design, Development, Test, Deployment). Good awareness of Dev Ops - including Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Environment Management, Release Management. Good working knowledge of core Agile SDLC tools - - Version Control - SubVersion / ClearCase / MS TFS - Collaboration - Confluence / cWiki / IM - Issue/Task Management - JIRA / Bugzilla / HP QC - Continuous Integration - Hudson / Jenkins / Maven
Experience of performing "on-the-job agile training to customers and project teams.
Solutions Architect - Microsoft Dynamics - Global IT Consultancy - £60K - £80K + bonus + benefitsAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented architect who has in depth experience working with a variety Microsoft technologies. The company is a leading global provider of consulting, IT services and outsourced R&D. The company are providing the opportunity to work as an architect with leading Microsoft specialists fulfilling customer's needs for high quality architecture solutions. Required Experience Integrating SharePoint architectures with MS Dynamics CRM 4.0 (SharePoint 2010) Previous experience of Microsoft SQL Server including SSRS and SSAS An Understanding of functional requirements Responsibilities The architect role offers the opportunity to work as an architect with a prestigious company, high profile clients and the latest technologies. You will:Provide technical architecture solutions within a variety of business scenarios Run training workshops in relation to Dynamic CRM 4.0 and SharePoin Shape user's requirements to meet the capability of Dynamic CRM 4.0 and SharePoint
My client, a leading global IT consultancy, is seeking to hire a SaaS Technical Lead / Salesforce Technical Lead, to work in their bleeding edge SaaS practice.
The successful candidate will be experienced in Salesforce.com and Force.com, and will also have worked with, and have extensive knowledge of other SaaS products like Eloqua, Responsys, Lithium and Jive.
Experience of platforms such as Informatica, Azure, Cast Iron, Boomi, Snap Logic and Talend is also going to be highly advantageous. This position suits a SaaS SME.
Solutions Architect - Software Provider - £65K + £75K + Excellent Benefits + Bonus An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented solutions architect who has in depth experience working with a variety Microsoft technologies. The company is a leading global provider of software for businesses in retail, manufacturing and distribution. The company are providing the right solutions architect the opportunity to work with leading Microsoft specialists fulfilling customer's needs for high quality architecture solutions. Desired Experience The successful candidate will be an experienced solutions architect familiar with:Visual modelling software like UML, Datawarehouse design and OLAP cubesSQL 2005/2008, Microsoft Dynamics NAV versions 4 and 5SQL reporting services and MS SharePoint Responsibilities
The role offers the prospective solutions architect the opportunity to work with a prestigious company, high profile clients and the latest technologies.
You will: Provide architectural solutions whilst keeping up to date with latest technologies Advocate project frameworks and share best practiceTake a holistic approach to designing architecture solutions whilst liaising with stakeholders
Senior Solutions Architect, Growing IT Consulting Firm, home-based, £75K - £85K + 20% bonus + 25 days holiday + beneifts
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Solutions Architect within one of the fastest growing IT Consulting firms in the UK. You will be responsible for creating deliverable solutions for a range of different customers on large-scale infrastructure projects. You will be mainly home-based, with 1-2 days a week travelling to customer sites. You will be expected to work closely with the sales team and third line teams across the business, and overall be responsible for the final solution.
Requirements: Has a managed service or outsource service background Experience working within VMWare/multi-tenanted environments Demonstrable experience designing complex infrastructure solutions of 50 - 1000 server environments High level of network design Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to engage with customers professionally
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Solutions Architect to join an expanding, dynamic company. You will be able to work as part of a friendly and experienced team, on interesting and high-profile projects.
TIBCO ConsultantMy Client a Global Leader in IT Services is looking for talented TIBCO ConsultantsPlease find details below:Technical knowledge / experience: - Knowledge of and experience with Tibco Business Works and Tibco ActiveMatrix 2.3- Knowledge of Tibco development (especially build servers) - Knowledge of and experience with deploy and configuration management - Experience with Tibco Administration Domain:Customer Data and Agreements, Master Data Management (MDM)Competencies Required: - Can switch to various parties at different levels (decreasing and supplying parties)- Proactive, no waiting attitude - Persuasiveness - Good analytical skills- Team player - Logical thinker - Out of the box thinking - Summary and results oriented - Flexible setting If this matches your skill set please do not hesitate to get in contact with me
Cloud Operations ManagerMy client, a Global leader within IT services is looking for a talented Operations Manager who has experience around Cloud based technologiesYou will be responsible for directly managing the responsibilities of operations analystsKey technologies Windows Server, SQL server, VMware, Openstack, Openshift, MySQL, NoSQL, Intel ESG, CIsco + Juniper Networking. Automation frameworks such as Puppet and ChefPlease do not hesitate to contact me for further information and a full job spec
My client, a leading global IT consultancy, is urgently seeking to hire a .NET Developer with experience of either c#.net, VB.NET or both.
The .NET position is permanent, with a choice of base locations nationally, and the successful candidate will be prepared to undertake UK security clearance with the company.
Skills:
.NET (Version 2 or above) C#.net or VB.NET or both MVC Webforms Exposure to Visual Studio Expsoure to SQL Server.
SC or DV Clearance advantageous but NOT ESSENTIAL. The successful candidate will be eligible for security clearance, therefore a British passport is ESSENTIAL.
CV's under review now for this fantastic permanent opportunity.
Salesforce Consultant/DeveloperMy client - a global leader with in IT consultancy, is looking for talented Technical ConsultantsTo be successful for this position, you must have the following:Recent successful delivery of Business Change projectsFulfilled Technical role on Salesforce Development implementationAbility to work in an advisory capacitySolid understanding of complexities across multiple solutionsYou will be required to:Engage with client stakeholdersDevise and develop solution designDemonstrate solution to clientProvide expertise to achieve successful deploymentIn adition to this excellent communication skills and ability to work in a fast paced team are key skills you must have in order to be successfulFrom a technical perspective the following is required:Solid knowledge of Visualforce and ApexGood knowledge of web developmentStrong technical foundation - .NET or JavaIdeally DEV401 certifiedIf this sounds like an ideal role for you, please get in contact for further information.
Saas Functional Consultant - System Integrator - London/Birmingham/Manchester - £45K-£65K base salary + bonus + benefits
Permanent
An excellent opportunity has arisen at a market-leading System Integrator for a SaaS Functional Consultant. The candidate must be able to fulfil a role which combines delivery and the support of Business Development efforts. A key emphasis of the role is on market knowledge and understanding of new technologies in order to establish a capability to advise clients such that they can realise the benefits of such developments.
A high degree of organisation is required and the Function Consultant must be able to work effectively with client stakeholders, the Solution Architect and development team to work end-to-end to deliver a quality solution closely aligned to business requirements. Consultants must be able to contribute in sales meetings and presentations, demonstrating SaaS solutions with confidence to both clients and prospects.
Key Skills/Experience: Recent successful end-to-end delivery of Business Change projects which have run on time, to budget and to the required qualityProven ability to architect innovative solutions which offer exceptional value for clientsSME expertise in at least one SaaS solution (e.g. Salesforce.com)Proven CRM implementation background - Service Management/Salesforce Automation preferablyExperience in the use of delivery methodologies, previous experience of both on and off shore project deliveryCertification in at least one CRM solution - preferably Salesforce.com - to 401, Sales or Service Cloud level
Cloud Technical Architect – Global IT Services – Client Location – upto £70K + £6K Car Allowance Permanent
An outstanding opportunity has arisen at a market-leading IT services firm for a Cloud Technical Architect. The role focuses
on data centre infrastructure, from the hardware layer to the virtualisation stack; Private Cloud Infrastructure,
Infrastructure Virtualisation, Storage, Green Infrastructure, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Key Technical Skills
• Certifications in line with technology specialism • Private & hybrid Cloud Infrastructure planning, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS • Multisite data centre migration and relocation • Vitalisation concepts, Virtualised Infrastructure Planning, design of Virtual data centre • VMware vSphere experience essential • VCE vBlock experience desirable • Data centre networking experience desirable
Main Responsibilities
• Assist with technical Pre-sales enquiries • Consult with clients – gather requirements, develop vision of possible solutions, present range of solutions to the
client, enhance organisational effectiveness • Create high-level reference designs which: reflect best-practice approach to execution of business processes, specify
the outcomes from technology and are global in scope but reflect regional requirements • Identify risks across the enterprise system and develop approaches to mitigate them • Quality Assure the designs and technical project documentation produced by other consultants.
The role offers an outstanding opportunity for the successful candidates, with numerous opportunities to work with some of
the world’s leading organisations. My client is looking for a candidate to join their team and grow with the organisation,