We are looking for a Project Manager with a strong engineering background to join a manufacturer of highly complex special purpose machinery, based near Cambridge. This role involves working with a multi-disciplined team within the manufacturing department delivering both new products for manufacture (NPI) and supporting the existing lines. The Project Manager will co-ordinate and prioritise manufacturing activities utilising resources including direct reports, team members from other departments, suppliers and sub-contractors. As a key member of the management team, the Project Manager will also be expected to contribute to the development of the engineering team by leading the way in good engineering practice, while adhering to company standards and embedding a culture of continuous improvement.

In return, the Project Manager can expect an excellent salary and benefits package plus flexible working hours with an early finish on a Friday. You will also have the satisfaction of working on exciting 'state-of-the-art' technology projects at a market leading and growing multinational organisation.

Requirements of Project Manager

• BEng/MEng/BSc degree in an Electrical or Mechanical Engineering discipline or equivalent qualification/experience
• Proven technical/engineering Project Management experience in a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of 3D CAD design
• Demonstrated experience of working with a new product introduction process ( NPI )
• Experience in working in an ISO9001 organisation
• Microsoft office capable (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Experience of SAP would be beneficial
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills -a confident speaker with ability to present in front of an audience.

Salary: £50k - £70k + Benefits

Vacancy Location: Cambridgeshire (commutable from Cambridge - St Neots, Bedford, Royston, Stevenage, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Newmarket, etc)

We are looking for a Project Manager with a strong engineering background to join a manufacturer of highly complex special purpose machinery, based near Cambridge. This role involves working with a multi-disciplined team within the manufacturing department delivering both new products for manufacture (NPI) and supporting the existing lines. The Project Manager will co-ordinate and prioritise manufacturing activities utilising resources including direct reports, team members from other departments, suppliers and sub-contractors. As a key member of the management team, the Project Manager will also be expected to contribute to the development of the engineering team by leading the way in good engineering practice, while adhering to company standards and embedding a culture of continuous improvement.

In return, the Project Manager can expect an excellent salary and benefits package plus flexible working hours with an early finish on a Friday. You will also have the satisfaction of working on exciting 'state-of-the-art' technology projects at a market leading and growing multinational organisation.

Requirements of Project Manager

• BEng/MEng/BSc degree in an Electrical or Mechanical Engineering discipline or equivalent qualification/experience
• Proven technical/engineering Project Management experience in a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of 3D CAD design
• Demonstrated experience of working with a new product introduction process ( NPI )
• Experience in working in an ISO9001 organisation
• Microsoft office capable (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Experience of SAP would be beneficial
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills -a confident speaker with ability to present in front of an audience.

Salary: £50k - £70k + Benefits

Vacancy Location: Cambridgeshire (commutable from Cambridge - St Neots, Bedford, Royston, Stevenage, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Newmarket, etc)

Junior Web Developer – Python/JavaScript – Cambridge -  £25k

This is an excellent junior opportunity to work with one of our clients who are a fast-growing start-up company in the life sciences sector creating scientific molecular software. They are looking to bring on a junior web developer to work build tools for drug design and data analysis for pharmaceutical companies. Your technical skill sets will grow whilst being at this company as you will be led and taught by the senior developers.

You will be exposed to full-stack web development, dev-ops, product specification and project planning.

Skills Needed:

• Foundation experience with web programming languages
• Experience with Python or JavaScript
• Experience with front end frameworks e.g VueJS, React
• Experience using a linux based environment and container deployment – docker & kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Familiar with the main tech stack
  • Python/Django/GraphQL (Back end)
  • VueJS ( Front end)
  • Using docker on AWS
• Essentially being taught a computational chemistry course
• Working and gaining proficiency on Linux

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package
• On-site parking

If you are interested in this role, please email your CV or call (phone number removed).

Junior Web Developer – Python/JavaScript – Cambridge -  £25k

This is an excellent junior opportunity to work with one of our clients who are a fast-growing start-up company in the life sciences sector creating scientific molecular software. They are looking to bring on a junior web developer to work build tools for drug design and data analysis for pharmaceutical companies. Your technical skill sets will grow whilst being at this company as you will be led and taught by the senior developers.

You will be exposed to full-stack web development, dev-ops, product specification and project planning.

Skills Needed:

• Foundation experience with web programming languages
• Experience with Python or JavaScript
• Experience with front end frameworks e.g VueJS, React
• Experience using a linux based environment and container deployment – docker & kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Familiar with the main tech stack
  • Python/Django/GraphQL (Back end)
  • VueJS ( Front end)
  • Using docker on AWS
• Essentially being taught a computational chemistry course
• Working and gaining proficiency on Linux

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package
• On-site parking

If you are interested in this role, please email your CV or call (phone number removed).

Northreach are seeking an experienced CRM professional to lead and develop a small but talented team, to deliver world class business critical CRM strategies across email and push for a growing Financial Services organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and develop a team of CRM managers and executives
• Oversee and drive creation and delivery of a UK CRM plan/calendar and collaborate with UK Planning Manager to deliver seamlessly integrated marketing plans
• Lead conversations with Commercial to deliver robust planning & delivery of campaigns, balancing business priorities and best practice
• Foster a culture of always on testing, optimisation & learning
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with all stakeholders, especially commercial, analysis and Global CRM, and ensure excellent lines of communication around the CRM plan
• Monitor, stand over and share CRM performance with gravitas and confidence – be obsessed with results
• Work with Global Head of CRM to create and deliver a roadmap for increased automation and personalisation
• Set, work towards and track challenging and relevant OKR’s for the UK CRM team

Key Skills Required:

• Experience leading a high performing team
• Confident working alongside senior stakeholders
• Experience delivering automation & personalisation strategy.
• Expert working knowledge of email marketing best practice and email deliverability
• Experience with a leading ESP or CRM platform
• Experience with developing and optimising segmentation and customer lifecycles
• Analytical - excited by and proficient at numerical marketing, a love for data

Northreach are seeking an experienced CRM professional to lead and develop a small but talented team, to deliver world class business critical CRM strategies across email and push for a growing Financial Services organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and develop a team of CRM managers and executives
• Oversee and drive creation and delivery of a UK CRM plan/calendar and collaborate with UK Planning Manager to deliver seamlessly integrated marketing plans
• Lead conversations with Commercial to deliver robust planning & delivery of campaigns, balancing business priorities and best practice
• Foster a culture of always on testing, optimisation & learning
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with all stakeholders, especially commercial, analysis and Global CRM, and ensure excellent lines of communication around the CRM plan
• Monitor, stand over and share CRM performance with gravitas and confidence – be obsessed with results
• Work with Global Head of CRM to create and deliver a roadmap for increased automation and personalisation
• Set, work towards and track challenging and relevant OKR’s for the UK CRM team

Key Skills Required:

• Experience leading a high performing team
• Confident working alongside senior stakeholders
• Experience delivering automation & personalisation strategy.
• Expert working knowledge of email marketing best practice and email deliverability
• Experience with a leading ESP or CRM platform
• Experience with developing and optimising segmentation and customer lifecycles
• Analytical - excited by and proficient at numerical marketing, a love for data

Mid-Level Developer - Major UK Insurer - Perm - Portsmouth

Fantastic opportunity to join a vibrant development team within a major UK insurance group as a Mid-Level Developer, working on the development of industry leading ASP.Net Web Applications with C#, SQL Server, MVC and Razor. Working with a business where employees and customers are always at the core of their values and practices, you will be offered excellent opportunities to develop and progress your career, alongside a competitive salary and benefits package.

Job Description

Working within a small, highly skilled development team, you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of transactional web applications, which have capability across a number of platforms.

The role will have a strong Ecommerce focus, and will involve the development of functional enhancements for the business, as well as diagnosing and fixing issues raised with the primary insurance platform and customer facing ecommerce offerings.

Although good C#/MVC , Asp.Net, and SQL Server skills are vital for this, the role will allow exposure to, and growth in a wide range of disciplines.

The Successful Mid-Level Developer

You will have hands on commercial experience of server side development with Asp.Net, C#, MVC, SQL Server and Razor, as well as practice with SOAP, REST, XML, AJAX, and JSON webservices with WCF and WebAPI.

The right candidate will have the ability to create cross browser compatible websites using W3C standards with front end experience including HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 3 and 4, as well as JQuery/Javascript.

Experience of working within an Agile/Kanban framework, alongside continuous integration and Devops principles will be highly beneficial, with experience of deployment automation solutions including OctoDeploy, PowerShell, and Team city being highly very desirable.

What's on Offer for the successful Mid-Level Developer

Competitive base salary depending on experience, coupled with an excellent benefits package and fantastic upskilling opportunities within a range of technologies.

Mid-Level Developer - Major UK Insurer - Perm - Portsmouth

Fantastic opportunity to join a vibrant development team within a major UK insurance group as a Mid-Level Developer, working on the development of industry leading ASP.Net Web Applications with C#, SQL Server, MVC and Razor. Working with a business where employees and customers are always at the core of their values and practices, you will be offered excellent opportunities to develop and progress your career, alongside a competitive salary and benefits package.

Job Description

Working within a small, highly skilled development team, you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of transactional web applications, which have capability across a number of platforms.

The role will have a strong Ecommerce focus, and will involve the development of functional enhancements for the business, as well as diagnosing and fixing issues raised with the primary insurance platform and customer facing ecommerce offerings.

Although good C#/MVC , Asp.Net, and SQL Server skills are vital for this, the role will allow exposure to, and growth in a wide range of disciplines.

The Successful Mid-Level Developer

You will have hands on commercial experience of server side development with Asp.Net, C#, MVC, SQL Server and Razor, as well as practice with SOAP, REST, XML, AJAX, and JSON webservices with WCF and WebAPI.

The right candidate will have the ability to create cross browser compatible websites using W3C standards with front end experience including HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 3 and 4, as well as JQuery/Javascript.

Experience of working within an Agile/Kanban framework, alongside continuous integration and Devops principles will be highly beneficial, with experience of deployment automation solutions including OctoDeploy, PowerShell, and Team city being highly very desirable.

What's on Offer for the successful Mid-Level Developer

Competitive base salary depending on experience, coupled with an excellent benefits package and fantastic upskilling opportunities within a range of technologies.

Consulting Software Engineer

Nottingham
Salary up to £52,000k depending on experience

LexisNexis is looking to recruit a Consulting Software Engineer to work on our Cloud based, high volume, high speed data systems, which supply data to the Insurance Industry. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual with a passion for technology and a desire to push boundaries whilst serving as a senior source of expertise to join a highly experienced team in our Nottingham office.

Excellent PHP knowledge vital with experience in Java would be a bonus. Previous AWS/cloud experience would be advantageous along with any API or microservice experience.

The role is quite varied but has a strong focus on expanding our platform, developing and maintaining APIs, security, responding to incidents and general system improvements.

The successful application will join an existing team that includes great benefits and a competitive salary.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile Software development process expert.

• Expertise in data modeling, design and manipulation, optimisation, best practices, tuning, and leading industry trend knowledge.

• Expertise in normalised/dimensional data modeling principles and their application to complex business needs.

• Expertise in industry technology language development trends.

• Expertise in test-driven development and maintenance including techniques for applying best practices for overall project benefit.

• Expert knowledge of multiple data storage subsystems.

• Proven expertise in the use and development of applicable desktop tool sets.

• Proven expert in partnering and leading internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Strong experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation.

• Strong knowledge in industry best practices in external resource development.

• Solid knowledge of architectural principles.

• Ability to partner and lead internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs.

• Strong proficiency with data manipulation language including optimisation techniques.

• Ability to design and work with complex data models.

• Expertise in development languages including but not limited to: PHP, Java/J2EE, XML, SQL and Linux.

• Experience of working with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google. Specific knowledge of AWS would be advantageous.

• Knowledge in using and developing applicable tool sets.

• Strong organisation/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritising and reprioritising projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.

• Advanced problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.

• Advance communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc., including diction/terminology and presenting information in a concise and effective manner to clients, management, and various departments using assorted communication mediums.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for external technology resources.

• Provide design input across a product.

• Work directly with customers and end users.

• Serve as acknowledged “go to” person on coding and technical issues.

• Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalise requirements.

• Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.

• Complete complex bug fixes.

• Design and work with complex data models.

• Mentor lead software developers interested in consultancy on development methodologies and optimisation techniques.

• All other duties as assigned.

LexisNexis is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

Consulting Software Engineer

Nottingham
Salary up to £52,000k depending on experience

LexisNexis is looking to recruit a Consulting Software Engineer to work on our Cloud based, high volume, high speed data systems, which supply data to the Insurance Industry. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual with a passion for technology and a desire to push boundaries whilst serving as a senior source of expertise to join a highly experienced team in our Nottingham office.

Excellent PHP knowledge vital with experience in Java would be a bonus. Previous AWS/cloud experience would be advantageous along with any API or microservice experience.

The role is quite varied but has a strong focus on expanding our platform, developing and maintaining APIs, security, responding to incidents and general system improvements.

The successful application will join an existing team that includes great benefits and a competitive salary.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile Software development process expert.

• Expertise in data modeling, design and manipulation, optimisation, best practices, tuning, and leading industry trend knowledge.

• Expertise in normalised/dimensional data modeling principles and their application to complex business needs.

• Expertise in industry technology language development trends.

• Expertise in test-driven development and maintenance including techniques for applying best practices for overall project benefit.

• Expert knowledge of multiple data storage subsystems.

• Proven expertise in the use and development of applicable desktop tool sets.

• Proven expert in partnering and leading internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Strong experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation.

• Strong knowledge in industry best practices in external resource development.

• Solid knowledge of architectural principles.

• Ability to partner and lead internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs.

• Strong proficiency with data manipulation language including optimisation techniques.

• Ability to design and work with complex data models.

• Expertise in development languages including but not limited to: PHP, Java/J2EE, XML, SQL and Linux.

• Experience of working with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google. Specific knowledge of AWS would be advantageous.

• Knowledge in using and developing applicable tool sets.

• Strong organisation/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritising and reprioritising projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.

• Advanced problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.

• Advance communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc., including diction/terminology and presenting information in a concise and effective manner to clients, management, and various departments using assorted communication mediums.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for external technology resources.

• Provide design input across a product.

• Work directly with customers and end users.

• Serve as acknowledged “go to” person on coding and technical issues.

• Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalise requirements.

• Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.

• Complete complex bug fixes.

• Design and work with complex data models.

• Mentor lead software developers interested in consultancy on development methodologies and optimisation techniques.

• All other duties as assigned.

LexisNexis is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.