IT Contract SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT – ISeries / WebSphere Broker (Slough)
June 14th, 2013Our client is a highly regarded global financial services company based just west of the M25 on the M4 corridor. They are currently undergoing a substantial technology transformation involving large scale architecture redesign. As a result we are now looking for an experienced iSeries Solutions Architect to help support a number of major projects.
Key Responsibilities of the role are:
- To work collaboratively with business partners, development and infrastructure teams to develop and deliver advanced systems and applications.
- Enable business opportunities and implement the solutions architecture through active participation on designated projects.
- Provide leadership and direction to the organisation in how to deploy technology to meet business needs effectively (rapidly fulfilling requirements) and efficiently
Desired Skills and Experience
- 10+ years IT experience with 3+ years as a Solutions Architect
- A genuine passion and interest in technology and software development with a thorough knowledge of iSeries Legacy systems and IBM WebSphere Broker.
- Strong development background with an understanding of the full SDLC
- Strong knowledge of Application interface design and specification
- Strong knowledge of the Application stack structure and the data flows within
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, as well as creativity and the ability to work with abstract concepts to create original ideas and business / technological proposals.
- Experience developing and architecting applications using recognised frameworks; such as TOGAF and Zachman.
- Ability to present and communicate complex technical information clearly within all the levels of stakeholder.
- Excellent design skills, with experience of delivering end-to-end specifications, component and interface descriptions, use-cases, data flow diagrams and UML design for large scale multi-tier platforms
- Candidates must be able to work in a collaborative team environment.
- Good change advocacy and leadership.
- Conscientious & motivated, capable of working with minimal supervision.
- Fluent in business English language – written and verbal
Candidates should be able to commence on the 15th July and not have any substantial period of holiday booked through to late September.
SYSTEMS ANALYST – FINANCE (Slough) Contract
June 14th, 2013Our client is a highly regarded global financial services company based just west of the M25 on the M4 corridor. As part of a European ‘centre of excellence’ they provide securitisation services to other companies within the global group. As a result of their success we are now looking for an ambitious Systems Analyst to help support a number of upcoming major projects.
Key Responsibilities of the role are:
- Identify system analysis tasks required for a business issue and ability to estimate task duration
- Implements system requirements by defining and analysing system problems; designing and testing standards and solutions.
- Undertake feasibility studies with the business users, document and report to the business owner and program office.
- Adherence to project scope as detailed in the Project Initiation document and dictated by the project /program manager.
- Undertake system analysis and document to corporate templates (process mapping, requirements definition, functional specification, test scripts).
- Where appropriate produce entity and data flow diagrams to assist the technical design of a project.
- Facilitate the co-ordination of users, meetings, workshops etc to enable requirements gathering.
- Support test activities (both system test and user acceptance test) by writing /reviewing (or the support of) of test plans (e.g. test approach, objectives, types of test to be conducted, planned test coverage) and specifications for each software project.
- Running tests, reporting defects and monitoring error clearance activities.
- Project management of small to medium size work packages (if required).
Desired Skills and Experience
- Minimum of 3 years project experience on medium to large scale projects in a Finance/Banking related industry
- Proven track record of business analysis on ICT and non-ICT projects
- Prince 2 or similar methodology would be useful
- Educated to degree level or demonstrate experience to such
- Working in a process led change environment
- Running workshops and 1<>1 interviews to obtain requirements
- System test scripting and execution
- Production of Project Initiation documents
- Production of Requirements Definition, Functional Specification, process models, entity relationship diagrams
- Good MS office skills including Visio macro writing in excel, SQL
- Strong analytical skills, both qualitative and quantitative
- Ability to map/decompose processes
- Ability to brief ICT designers and developers
- Self-starter with lots of initiative and enthusiasm.
- Presentation skills using PowerPoint.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills in a personable and professional manner
- Fluent in business English language – written and verbal
This is a contract role to start with, for the right individual the opportunity may arise to move to a permanent position within the team.
IT Service Support Analyst Permanent Role (Slough)
June 7th, 2013Our client has a requirement for an IT Service Support Analyst. The role is to provide first and second level support, encompassing service desk, desk side, server and infrastructure support to ensure that the client infrastructure, network and their associated back-office dependencies are both available and optimised for peak performance. In addition to this primary role the analyst may also be involved in the implementation of new IT technical projects.
This is a key position within the IT department and therefore requires a highly self-motivated individual who has the desire to succeed. This role requires excellent inter-personal skills, all round technical appreciation, excellent communication skills and a very keen eye for detail to support with the smooth running within the department
The main responsibilities will be:
- Ensure availability of key systems
- Develop, and work to, operational procedures for all IT support processes
- Provide 2nd level technical support for all client operational systems
- Resolve and own issues escalated by the Helpdesk
- Analyse, monitor, capacity plan and status report on system availability, SLAs etc.
Key knowledge and skill areas are ideally:
- 2 years’ experience of IT Service Desk, or Service Support.
- ITIL I Foundation or Practitioner desirable
- Good understanding & knowledge of IT infrastructure, including Windows Client & server technologies, Citrix and thin client technologies.
- Understanding of LAN/WAN technologies
- An understanding of Lotus Notes Messaging.
- Good understanding of ITIL Service Delivery and Service Support disciplines.
- Organised approach to administration.
- Ability to articulate complex technology problems clearly and simply.
- Experience of actively participating in a team environment, whilst demonstrating the capability to work independently.
- Ability to work under pressure & identify & prioritise key issues, in a dynamic environment.
- Fluent in business English – written and verbal.
- Financial Services’ experience strong advantage.
- Microsoft, Citrix, or Cisco foundation level qualifications preferred.
This is an urgent permanent requirement with a competitive salary and package based in Slough.
IT Service Delivery Manager Contract Role (Slough)
June 5th, 2013Our client is a highly regarded global company based in Slough. They are currently undergoing strong growth supported by a technology transformation. As a result we are now looking for an experienced contract IT Service Delivery Manager with a track record of successful delivery.
The Service Delivery Managers’ role is to lead and manage all aspects of IT service availability, quality, and customer service, through excellence in service support for both internal and external customers. In addition they will provide functional responsibility for service desk and service support, working in partnership with infrastructure services and other service partners.
Key accountabilities include:
- Management of all IT Infrastructure & Application support, both internally resourced and from third party service providers
- Responsible for all disciplines for Service Support, working in close partnership with Service Management team
- Leading Service Support team to deliver best in class IT services for internal and external customers
- Providing great customer service and benchmarking service delivery to drive service improvement
- Delivering performance and service to agreed SLAs and OLAs
- Service reporting to agreed standards
- Providing appropriate governance for IT services and processes
The candidate should have the following knowledge and experience:
- ITIL Foundation Level and/or Practitioner desirable
- Substantial service support experience
- Comprehensive understanding of ITIL Service Delivery and Service Support disciplines
- Excellent customer centricity and alignment
- Good business acumen, comprehensive understanding and knowledge of IT infrastructure technologies
- Strong engagement and outcome-based delivery ethic
- Solid coaching ethic, with a great record of developing people
- Proven experience of building strong and effective relationships with team, stakeholders, customers and partners
- Good inter-personal and communication skills, experienced in communicating with senior stakeholders and customers, as well as the team
- Strong change advocacy and leadership
- Knowledge of LanDesk very useful
- Ability to work under pressure and identify and prioritise key issues, in a dynamic environment
- Fluent in business English – written and verbal.
This is an urgent role and is based in Slough with an expected minimum duration of 6 months at a competitive rate.
Technical Pre Sales Consultant – Software Company
April 19th, 2013Our client is a young ambitious and highly regarded international software company based just outside Milton Keynes. They are currently undergoing substantial growth supported by a dynamic focus on emerging software and technology. As a result we are now looking for an ambitious Technical Pre Sales Consultant to join the sales and technical team.
Highly competitive package including pension and 25 days holiday will be paid to the right candidate
The Technical Pre Sales Consultant will work closely with the Sales and Technical team members in both a pre and post sales capacity. This role will involve customer facing with new and existing major clients to understand their IT / business environment. You will then be required to document and advise how best the solutions will fit into the client landscape.
Key accountabilities include:
• Act as technically competent point of contact for client queries
• Manage discussions with senior client stakeholders
• Understanding and documenting the client systems/requirements
• Work with Team Leaders and provide requirements documentation, support and advice
• Deliver a best in class products and service to an expanding national and international client base
• Help drive new ideas and service / skill improvements across the range
• Deliver presentations / workshops to all stakeholders across the clients’ hierarchy
• Understand the product portfolio of solutions available
The candidate should have the following knowledge and experience:
• Good inter-personal and communication skills
• An understanding and knowledge of modern infrastructure & cloud based technologies and software (SaaS, Cloud etc)
• Superior problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent customer centricity and alignment
• Strong engagement and outcome-based delivery ethic
• Ability to work under pressure and identify and prioritise key issues, in a dynamic environment
• Conscientious and motivated, capable of working with minimal supervision
• Excellent attention to detail combined with a pragmatic, solutions based thinking
• Fluent in business English – written and verbal
This role is based just outside Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.
TD Group Limited acts as an employment business for interim positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. TD Group is committed to equal opportunity and diversity.
iSeries RPG Free Format Developer
April 11th, 2013Are you an experienced RPG Free Format analyst developer with a demonstrable track record of success with established companies. If so – we want you!
The role is to be part of a team that develops and manages software throughout the whole software development lifecycle. Core systems are based on iSeries RPGLE Free Format, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, WebSphere (MQ and DataStage).The candidate should have the following knowledge and experience:
- Experience in full life cycle application development.
- Comprehensive development expertise with IBM platforms iSeries, RPGLE Free Format.
- Knowledge of integration with IBM WebSphere, MQ, XML, DB2, & DataStage along with experience of Oracle, SQL Server and TOAD useful but not essential
- Proven experience of delivering customer-centric solutions and or services.
- Experience of technical analysis, including customer facing role.
- Experience of supporting critical incident and problem management issues.
- Comprehensive knowledge & experience of multi-tier / web application development, including relevant tools.
- Experience of formal analysis and design techniques, using modelling tools. E.g. ErWin, Rational.
- Good understanding of principles of software design.
- Knowledge of software configuration tools (build, version control, defect tracking, workflow and automated testing).
- Must be an excellent team player, with experience of actively participating in a team environment, whilst demonstrating the capability to work independently.
- Must be flexible to accommodate working outside of business hours, when required, to support the work of the team and provide great service for our customers.
- Good Inter-personal skills, ability to explain technical terms to wider audiences
- Well organised, with high attention to detail
- Fluent in business English language – written and verbal.
Immediate start and availability over next 3 months is acceptable.
TD Group Limited acts as an employment business for interim positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. TD Group is committed to equal opportunity and diversity.
Front End Web Developer Contract Role (Windsor / Slough)
April 10th, 2013Our client is looking for an experienced Front End Web Developer with a minimum of three years’ commercial enterprise experience of complex front-end web development applications to the latest industry standards.
The successful web developer will produce best-in-class, customer focused UI code and you must be enthusiastic and motivated with a ‘can do’ attitude in addition to being up to date with the latest web development technologies.
Particular skills required and responsibilities will include:
- Current web development experience using HTML5 and CSS v3.0.
- Confident use of JQuery and JavaScript.
- UX / UI / Site Architecture experience.
- Brief and work closely with the Back End Development team on Front End and Back End work to support the UI.
- Develop interactive prototypes to support the Designers in defining the UX and allow the Researchers to test proposed solutions.
- Excellent communicator, fluent in business English – with clear and confident written and oral presentation skills.
- Experience of working in a team environment, whilst being able to demonstrate the capability to work independently.
It would advantageous to have skills in ASP .Net, C# .Net and MVC to include web development for mobile platforms.
The position will be based west of London on an initial three month contract with a likely extension. A competitive rate together with an immediate start will be offered to the right candidate.
Please contact us immediately for further information.
TD Group Limited acts as an employment business for interim positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. TD Group is comm
.Net Senior Web Developer Contract Role (Windsor / Slough)
March 28th, 2013TD Group Limited acts as an employment business for interim positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. TD Group is committed to equal opportunity and diversity.
Our client is looking for a .Net Senior Web Developer with a minimum of three years’ experience in Analysis & Web Development of applications using the .NET MVC framework.
You must be enthusiastic and motivated with a ‘can do’ attitude and in addition must be up to date with the latest Web Development Technologies.
Particular skills required include:
- C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, HTML/XHTML/JavaScript, XML, XSLT, Microsoft Visual Studio, CSS, AJAX, JQuery, Ruby on Rails.
- Experience of LINQ/Entity Framework and SQL Server would also be useful.
- Experience of the full SDLC in a Prince 2 / Agile environment
- Excellent communicator, fluent in business English – with clear and confident written and oral presentation skills.
- Experience of working in a team environment, whilst being able to demonstrate the capability to work independently.
The position will be based west of London on an initial three month contract with a likely extension. A competitive rate together with an immediate start will be offered to the right candidate.
Please contact us for further information.
Six Sigma / Black Belt Qualified Senior Business Improvement Analyst Permanent role
March 28th, 2013Six Sigma/Black Belt Qualified Snr Business Improvement Analyst
This is a superb opportunity to work with an expanding market leader; as such we are looking for the best individuals.
Our client is a highly regarded successful global finance company based in the Thames Valley just west of the M25.
An excellent package including substantial bonus, pension, health and car will be paid to the right candidate.
We are now looking for an outstanding Senior Business Improvement Analyst to support the organisation’s goal of service excellence through the definition, implementation and on-going improvement of business processes.
Using a range of business improvement methodologies, including Lean Reviews and Six Sigma, the role holder will work closely with business owners to define, measure and improve business processes across the organisation. The role holder will help business areas to improve operational efficiency without relying on system changes, as well as helping to build potential business cases where system changes can be delivered. The role holder will evangelise and foster a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation with Lean Six Sigma becoming the organisational standard.
The Senior Business Improvement Analyst will embed a Business Process Management capability to enable the business to optimise operational efficiency. The role holder will promote the consistent definition of business processes across the organisation.
The candidate must have the following knowledge and experience:
- Six-Sigma Black-Belt Qualified
- Experience of training Green Belts
- Extensive experience of utilising defined methodologies including, Lean andSix Sigma, to bring about measurable process improvements
- Experience of implementing cross-functional business improvements
- Extensive experience of business process modelling
- Excellent change advocacy and leadership
- Degree or similar educated
- Experience of ARIS or similar process modelling tool
- Strong facilitation skills
- Experience of the project life cycle
- Extensive experience of business case formulation and benefits realisation
- Excellent communicator, with strong negotiation and influencing skills
- Excellent analytical skills & an accomplished problem solver
- Excellent attention to detail combined with pragmatic, solutions’ based thinking
- Solid business acumen
- Ability to bring personal authority to bear
- Ability to help train and mentor other members of staff
- Conscientious & motivated, capable of working with minimal supervision
- Fluent in business English language – with clear and confident written and oral presentation skills and the ability to tailor these for all levels
TD Group Limited acts as an employment business for interim positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. TD Group is committed to equal opportunity and diversity.
Six Sigma/Black Belt Qualified Snr Business Improvement Analyst
Senior Business Analyst – Permanent Role (Slough/Windsor)
March 28th, 2013TD Group Limited acts as an employment business for interim positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. TD Group is committed to equal opportunity and diversity.
Our client is a highly regarded successful global finance company based in the Thames Valley just west of the M25. They are in the process of expanding the capacity of a highly rated team of Business Analysts to cope with an increasing workload.
We are now looking for an outstanding Senior Business Analyst to work with the business to assist in the shaping, direction and implementation of a number of upcoming major projects. Experience of projects in areas such as SAP Finance, Leasing products or Business Intelligence and data reporting would be extremely useful.
The candidate must have the following knowledge and experience:
- Comprehensive knowledge & practical experience of business analysis techniques and analysis documentation
- Ability to help shape and direct the solution
- Strong Business case formulation and requirements definition, cost analysis, benefits realisation experience
- Extensive experience of writing use cases or functional specifications
- Good understanding of the requirements of business change management
- Extensive experience of business process modelling
- Ability to deal effectively with all stakeholders
- Ability to facilitate workshops
- Excellent change advocacy and leadership
- Excellent communicator, with strong negotiation and influencing skills
- End to end experience of the project lifecycle
- Experience with System and User Acceptance Testing
- Experience of working within a process led change environment.
- Experience of story mapping and user planning
- Knowledge & practical use of structured methodologies (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma), Agile, Waterfall, DSDM, ITIL.
- Experience of ARIS or similar process modelling tool
- Excellent analytical skills & an accomplished problem solver
- Excellent attention to detail combined with pragmatic, solutions’ based thinking
- Solid business acumen
- Ability to bring personal authority to bear and to mentor other team members
- Conscientious & motivated, capable of working with minimal supervision
- Fluent in business English language – with clear and confident written and oral presentation skills and the ability to tailor these for all levels
This is a superb opportunity to work with an expanding market leader; as such we are looking for the best individuals.
An excellent package including substantial bonus, pension, health and car will be paid to the right candidate.
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