Closing date: 22 March 2020

Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes.

Role Purpose

The job holder will be the ERP technical lead for the organisation, responsible for ensuring that the system supports the business needs of the user base. This will cover assisting second and third line support and advising on the future strategic development of the system. The ERP system used is Unit4 Business World 7.3 and whilst preference will be given to candidates with that experience, exposure to other ERP systems is also valued

Qualifications and Skills

Essential
The successful candidate will be employed primarily for their advanced specialist/technical knowledge

Degree or equivalent in a technical ICT or data management-based discipline and/or extensive relevant experience of ERP application use, development and support, particularly in relation to Unit4 Business World and MSSQL technologies.
2. Extensive experience of ERP application support and development including GL, AP, AR, Reporting, Procurement, HR and Payroll modules. In addition, experience with Business World System Admin and Common - in particular account rules, attributes and relations, workflows, data control, menu and role based access is an advantage3. Extensive experience of defining business requirements and translating these into deliverable solutions
4. Extensive experience of building queries within ERP applications to provide one off and/or ongoing management information reports. This will require competence with SQL scripts. Knowledge of Business World browsers and Excelerator development is essential

5. Experience of ETL (Extract Transform Load) feeder systems within an ERP environment

6. Experience of building management reports both within ERP and using third party tools such as Power BI7. An accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) is desirable
8. Good judgement and a pragmatic approach to delivering software and activities that optimises use of methods and processes across business constraints and technological realities.
9. Experience with the development of technical training materials and the provision of technical support/training

10. Have participated in and be familiar with PRINCE2 and/or Agile (Scrum) project methodologies.
11. Experience with third party hosted and managed ERP applications. This will include technical oversight of solutions provided by third party partner organisations

For more information, please visit our website.

Closing date: 22 March 2020

Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes.

Role Purpose

The job holder will be the ERP technical lead for the organisation, responsible for ensuring that the system supports the business needs of the user base. This will cover assisting second and third line support and advising on the future strategic development of the system. The ERP system used is Unit4 Business World 7.3 and whilst preference will be given to candidates with that experience, exposure to other ERP systems is also valued

Qualifications and Skills

Essential
The successful candidate will be employed primarily for their advanced specialist/technical knowledge

Degree or equivalent in a technical ICT or data management-based discipline and/or extensive relevant experience of ERP application use, development and support, particularly in relation to Unit4 Business World and MSSQL technologies.
2. Extensive experience of ERP application support and development including GL, AP, AR, Reporting, Procurement, HR and Payroll modules. In addition, experience with Business World System Admin and Common - in particular account rules, attributes and relations, workflows, data control, menu and role based access is an advantage3. Extensive experience of defining business requirements and translating these into deliverable solutions
4. Extensive experience of building queries within ERP applications to provide one off and/or ongoing management information reports. This will require competence with SQL scripts. Knowledge of Business World browsers and Excelerator development is essential

5. Experience of ETL (Extract Transform Load) feeder systems within an ERP environment

6. Experience of building management reports both within ERP and using third party tools such as Power BI7. An accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) is desirable
8. Good judgement and a pragmatic approach to delivering software and activities that optimises use of methods and processes across business constraints and technological realities.
9. Experience with the development of technical training materials and the provision of technical support/training

10. Have participated in and be familiar with PRINCE2 and/or Agile (Scrum) project methodologies.
11. Experience with third party hosted and managed ERP applications. This will include technical oversight of solutions provided by third party partner organisations

For more information, please visit our website.

Problem Manager

Permanent

Bristol

£45-55K

Are you an IT Problem Manager looking for your next challenge?

We are working with a leading law firm based in Bristol in stunning modern offices who are looking for a Problem and Incident Manager to join their dynamic team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Resolve any major incidents from first response through to restoring service
• Keep impacted customers up to date on the progress of incident resolution
• Support IT staff who are resolving incidents and provide them with the correct level of information and assistance
• Ensure that post incident analysis and reporting is carried out and make sure that any follow up activities are completed
• Have oversight of and drive root cause analysis and proactively resolve any recurring or resolvable issues
• Work with stakeholders across the company to understand the business priorities
• Develop and maintain technical procedures and documentation
• Manage a team of senior IT Support Analysts

Skills and Knowledge:

• A broad understanding of technology, including expertise with Cloud technologies, data and voice networks, core data centre infrastructure/visualisation, and desktop operating systems and software.
• Excellent knowledge of incident response at a technical level
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience producing quality technical documentation and guidance
• Ability to lead complex technical meetings with excellent presentation skills
• ITIL Qualified, preferably to expert level
• Strong experience leading and managing teams
• Willingness to work on call and respond to emergency issues when needed
• Familiarity with project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 and Agile

The role comes with fantastic benefits, and the company have also won several prestigious awards including being listed in the 'Top 50 Employers for Women' by the Times and the 'Top 30 Employers for Working Families'. The role may involve some travel to their London office or global offices.

Ignite Digital Talent are committed to equal opportunities, and welcome job applications from all who are qualified and eligible to work in the UK, regardless of colour, ethnic or national origin, race, gender, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, marital status or family circumstances.

Problem Manager

Permanent

Bristol

£45-55K

Are you an IT Problem Manager looking for your next challenge?

We are working with a leading law firm based in Bristol in stunning modern offices who are looking for a Problem and Incident Manager to join their dynamic team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Resolve any major incidents from first response through to restoring service
• Keep impacted customers up to date on the progress of incident resolution
• Support IT staff who are resolving incidents and provide them with the correct level of information and assistance
• Ensure that post incident analysis and reporting is carried out and make sure that any follow up activities are completed
• Have oversight of and drive root cause analysis and proactively resolve any recurring or resolvable issues
• Work with stakeholders across the company to understand the business priorities
• Develop and maintain technical procedures and documentation
• Manage a team of senior IT Support Analysts

Skills and Knowledge:

• A broad understanding of technology, including expertise with Cloud technologies, data and voice networks, core data centre infrastructure/visualisation, and desktop operating systems and software.
• Excellent knowledge of incident response at a technical level
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience producing quality technical documentation and guidance
• Ability to lead complex technical meetings with excellent presentation skills
• ITIL Qualified, preferably to expert level
• Strong experience leading and managing teams
• Willingness to work on call and respond to emergency issues when needed
• Familiarity with project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 and Agile

The role comes with fantastic benefits, and the company have also won several prestigious awards including being listed in the 'Top 50 Employers for Women' by the Times and the 'Top 30 Employers for Working Families'. The role may involve some travel to their London office or global offices.

Ignite Digital Talent are committed to equal opportunities, and welcome job applications from all who are qualified and eligible to work in the UK, regardless of colour, ethnic or national origin, race, gender, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, marital status or family circumstances.

C#.NET Developer - ASP.Net / MVC, SOAP / RESTful WebServices, jQuery, SQL - Gain .NET Core

Preston, Lancashire (Commutable from Bolton, Bury, North Manchester, Blackburn, Blackpool)

£45,000 - £55,000 Salary PA + Good Benefits

Established legal and insurance services company with solid and still growing UK wide professional services client base, requires experienced full stack .NET Developer to join a mid-size team working on a range of new and existing client portals and integrations.

The Role

You will work through the full SDLC, participating in the design of new software applications, as well as implementing change requests against existing systems. You will debug complex systems, run unit testing for all code changes and provide a point of escalation for support issues. An eye for quality release management and delivery is essential. Changes are often driven by regulatory compliance changes - so experience interrogating and coding efficiently against complex databases is important to this role.

Good interpersonal skills are a must for this position as you may be liaising with users from Director level downwards. My client seeks "critical thinkers" who have both a flexible and adaptable approach to work coupled with a can-do attitude when approaching changes.

Responsibilities

Facilitate in the successful delivery of projects into the production environment
Contribute to improvements in the application support environment
Provide application support, enhancements and testing to agreed quality
Aid in the development of structured support processes for the software delivery team
Provide software documentation to agreed standard
Ensure owned processes are clearly documented and understood by others in the team
Collaborate effectively with other members of the team and other business areas
Build relations with key IT users and customer stake holders
Utilise the application support and change management systems effectively

Required Skills and Experience

C#, .NET Framework

ASP.NET and MVC

SOAP / REST Web Services

JavaScript with, Ajax and jQuery (possible React work on offer soon)

SQL Server Query writing and understanding of Stored Procedures

Good understanding of Windows tech

IIS

Microsoft Office Suite

Source control (TFS and or Git)

Desirable Skills:

.NET Core

SSIS

Contemporary UI Design

Knowledge of PRINCE2

Agile methods - Kanban/SCRUM

Exposure to Proclaim case management tool

OO Design Patterns

Clean Code approaches

You will have extensive knowledge of developing .NET Web based solutions to a high standard. You must have experience of working to defined standards and producing robust code.

Friendly team, Free parking. Decent flexible benefits package including pension, health, ability to buy and sell leave etc all on offer.

Please send CV now and call Tim Morris on to find out more

C#.NET Developer - ASP.Net / MVC, SOAP/RESTful, jQuery, SQL - Gain .NET Core

Preston, Lancashire

To 55K + Package

C#.NET Developer - ASP.Net / MVC, SOAP / RESTful WebServices, jQuery, SQL - Gain .NET Core

Preston, Lancashire (Commutable from Bolton, Bury, North Manchester, Blackburn, Blackpool)

£45,000 - £55,000 Salary PA + Good Benefits

Established legal and insurance services company with solid and still growing UK wide professional services client base, requires experienced full stack .NET Developer to join a mid-size team working on a range of new and existing client portals and integrations.

The Role

You will work through the full SDLC, participating in the design of new software applications, as well as implementing change requests against existing systems. You will debug complex systems, run unit testing for all code changes and provide a point of escalation for support issues. An eye for quality release management and delivery is essential. Changes are often driven by regulatory compliance changes - so experience interrogating and coding efficiently against complex databases is important to this role.

Good interpersonal skills are a must for this position as you may be liaising with users from Director level downwards. My client seeks "critical thinkers" who have both a flexible and adaptable approach to work coupled with a can-do attitude when approaching changes.

Responsibilities

Facilitate in the successful delivery of projects into the production environment
Contribute to improvements in the application support environment
Provide application support, enhancements and testing to agreed quality
Aid in the development of structured support processes for the software delivery team
Provide software documentation to agreed standard
Ensure owned processes are clearly documented and understood by others in the team
Collaborate effectively with other members of the team and other business areas
Build relations with key IT users and customer stake holders
Utilise the application support and change management systems effectively

Required Skills and Experience

C#, .NET Framework

ASP.NET and MVC

SOAP / REST Web Services

JavaScript with, Ajax and jQuery (possible React work on offer soon)

SQL Server Query writing and understanding of Stored Procedures

Good understanding of Windows tech

IIS

Microsoft Office Suite

Source control (TFS and or Git)

Desirable Skills:

.NET Core

SSIS

Contemporary UI Design

Knowledge of PRINCE2

Agile methods - Kanban/SCRUM

Exposure to Proclaim case management tool

OO Design Patterns

Clean Code approaches

You will have extensive knowledge of developing .NET Web based solutions to a high standard. You must have experience of working to defined standards and producing robust code.

Friendly team, Free parking. Decent flexible benefits package including pension, health, ability to buy and sell leave etc all on offer.

Please send CV now and call Tim Morris on to find out more

C#.NET Developer - ASP.Net / MVC, SOAP/RESTful, jQuery, SQL - Gain .NET Core

Preston, Lancashire

To 55K + Package

The now 6x Consecutive Formula 1 World Champions’ are seeking a Senior IT Engineer to act as one of their senior engineers, delivering reliable IT services to the wider business.

The primary purpose of the role is to:

The purpose of the role is to focus on and improve reliability and availability across the IT application and infrastructure landscape, deliver new technologies that support, enable and enhance our mission to win F1 World Championships, lead by example as a senior technical escalation point for a broad range of IT support topics and deliver exceptional customer service and technical excellence, in a flexible way, particularly as we require support out of hours for maintenance changes and technical support (on a rota basis).

You'll be a senior technical escalation point for all IT support topics, delivering exceptional customer service in a flexible way, particularly as we require support on out of hours maintenance changes and support on a rota basis. To be right for my client, you'll have a strong, current and broad ranging technical background that means you can both step back and see the big picture, and get involved in a hands on way.

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior operational support role (3rd line or equivalent) within a fast paced medium to large sized enterprise, including support of the following:

Essential

• To maintain and secure all IT systems including (HPC, Databases, CAD, Enterprise Infrastructure).
• Support and optimization of a broad range of in-house and bespoke applications
• To recognise new technology, innovate current systems and implement new solutions.
• Champion learning and development, for self and the team.
• Open source technologies - Linux/Unix, DevOps, Clustering, Automation, CI/CD within a production environment.
• Client and server Operating Systems
• Server and Desktop Virtualization; VMware
• Security, encryption and Data Loss Prevention
• Vulnerability and malware threat prevention
• Infrastructure and application capacity, performance and availability monitoring
• Clustering and High Availability
• Backups and Disaster Recovery
• Datacentre Infrastructure
• Database support - SQL and DB2 to run SQL scripts
• Strong & proven stakeholder management

Beneficial Skills

• Experience within an Engineering focused role or company
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Manufacturing experience - LTA, Abaqus, High Performance Computing (HPC), Simulation Software
• Strong experience working to ITIL practices
• Proven Continual Service Improvement experience
• A good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Project lead and delivery experience working to a recognised methodology (i.e. PRINCE2, Agile)

Benefits

• Excellent Company Bonus Schemes
• Mercedes Lease Car Scheme
• Pension 10% Matched
• Private Healthcare & Optional Health Checks
• Subsidised Restaurant
• Subsidised Gym
• Team Clothing
• 25 Days Holiday
• Life Assurance

The now 6x Consecutive Formula 1 World Champions’ are seeking a Senior IT Engineer to act as one of their senior engineers, delivering reliable IT services to the wider business.

The primary purpose of the role is to:

The purpose of the role is to focus on and improve reliability and availability across the IT application and infrastructure landscape, deliver new technologies that support, enable and enhance our mission to win F1 World Championships, lead by example as a senior technical escalation point for a broad range of IT support topics and deliver exceptional customer service and technical excellence, in a flexible way, particularly as we require support out of hours for maintenance changes and technical support (on a rota basis).

You'll be a senior technical escalation point for all IT support topics, delivering exceptional customer service in a flexible way, particularly as we require support on out of hours maintenance changes and support on a rota basis. To be right for my client, you'll have a strong, current and broad ranging technical background that means you can both step back and see the big picture, and get involved in a hands on way.

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior operational support role (3rd line or equivalent) within a fast paced medium to large sized enterprise, including support of the following:

Essential

• To maintain and secure all IT systems including (HPC, Databases, CAD, Enterprise Infrastructure).
• Support and optimization of a broad range of in-house and bespoke applications
• To recognise new technology, innovate current systems and implement new solutions.
• Champion learning and development, for self and the team.
• Open source technologies - Linux/Unix, DevOps, Clustering, Automation, CI/CD within a production environment.
• Client and server Operating Systems
• Server and Desktop Virtualization; VMware
• Security, encryption and Data Loss Prevention
• Vulnerability and malware threat prevention
• Infrastructure and application capacity, performance and availability monitoring
• Clustering and High Availability
• Backups and Disaster Recovery
• Datacentre Infrastructure
• Database support - SQL and DB2 to run SQL scripts
• Strong & proven stakeholder management

Beneficial Skills

• Experience within an Engineering focused role or company
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Manufacturing experience - LTA, Abaqus, High Performance Computing (HPC), Simulation Software
• Strong experience working to ITIL practices
• Proven Continual Service Improvement experience
• A good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Project lead and delivery experience working to a recognised methodology (i.e. PRINCE2, Agile)

Benefits

• Excellent Company Bonus Schemes
• Mercedes Lease Car Scheme
• Pension 10% Matched
• Private Healthcare & Optional Health Checks
• Subsidised Restaurant
• Subsidised Gym
• Team Clothing
• 25 Days Holiday
• Life Assurance

Our client is seeking an IT Project Manager on an initial 6-month contract, with the possibility of an extension.

Working Hours and Pay Rate:

Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00. At a pay rate of £26.01 Per Hour

Job Purpose:

• Managing the concurrent delivery of technology projects from a wide portfolio, including but not limited to:
• New technology implementation
• System upgrades
• Device rollout to customers
• Managing external third-party ICT suppliers throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Managing external third-party ICT suppliers throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Coordinating ICT technical pre-sales and procurement activities at project initiation.
• Transitioning the technical solution into operational support as part of project closure, and ensuring 'lessons learned' is performed and recorded.
• Prioritising, setting clear goals and targets, monitoring progress, and holding delivery team members to account.
• Using judgement and criteria to adapt previous approaches in the light of current circumstances.
• Making effective decisions in the absence of complete information to ensure work can move forward whilst mitigating risk.
• Ensuring ICT strategy is not compromised during project delivery unless agreed as an exception.

Skills and Experience:

• Be a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent relevant experience.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects concurrently as part of a wider project portfolio which may have interdependencies.
• Demonstrable expertise in managing projects to time, quality and budget.
• Demonstrable experience identifying and managing technical risks, issues and interdependencies
• You will have an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) qualification or be able to demonstrate a clear knowledge of ITIL policies and procedures.
• Experience of Agile project management methodologies.

121 Jobs is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Our client is seeking an IT Project Manager on an initial 6-month contract, with the possibility of an extension.

Working Hours and Pay Rate:

Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00. At a pay rate of £26.01 Per Hour

Job Purpose:

• Managing the concurrent delivery of technology projects from a wide portfolio, including but not limited to:
• New technology implementation
• System upgrades
• Device rollout to customers
• Managing external third-party ICT suppliers throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Managing external third-party ICT suppliers throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Coordinating ICT technical pre-sales and procurement activities at project initiation.
• Transitioning the technical solution into operational support as part of project closure, and ensuring 'lessons learned' is performed and recorded.
• Prioritising, setting clear goals and targets, monitoring progress, and holding delivery team members to account.
• Using judgement and criteria to adapt previous approaches in the light of current circumstances.
• Making effective decisions in the absence of complete information to ensure work can move forward whilst mitigating risk.
• Ensuring ICT strategy is not compromised during project delivery unless agreed as an exception.

Skills and Experience:

• Be a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent relevant experience.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects concurrently as part of a wider project portfolio which may have interdependencies.
• Demonstrable expertise in managing projects to time, quality and budget.
• Demonstrable experience identifying and managing technical risks, issues and interdependencies
• You will have an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) qualification or be able to demonstrate a clear knowledge of ITIL policies and procedures.
• Experience of Agile project management methodologies.

121 Jobs is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.