Reporting to the Head of IT, as IT development manager, your job will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are planned and executed well and delivered on time. You will also be responsible for managing and developing in house IT and coordinating third party infrastructure to integrate seamlessly together.

Client Details

This company was founded over twenty five years ago by a handful of pharmacists who had insight to act together to create a group able to negotiate better terms with the suppliers. This industry leader has grown into a family of more than 1800 members with the collective vision to continue to flourish in a changing marketplace.

Description

Determination of our IT strategy

Overseeing IT projects including system implementations, updates, upgrades and migrations.

Developing project plans, goals, and budgets

Assembling and coordinating project team members

Preparing requests for proposals and conducting demonstrations to facilitate selection of services and products

Manage and develop company systems including Patient Management,EPOS, Intranet, BI, Finance and Website

Vendor management including the management and monitoring of service SLA's

Manage the implementation of Juno systems and applications into newly acquired companies

Development of IT policies, procedures and standards

Management of the continued move to cloud based solutions

Identifying and acting on opportunities to improve and update software and systems

Implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures, as well as security protocols

Conducting regular system audits and checks on network and data security.

Overseeing the procurement of IT hardware and software

Designing and implement training programs and workshops for staff

Use of Microsoft product such as SQL server and Microsoft Power BI.

Use of Azure technologies.

Take control of .Net developments and enhance where necessary.

Profile

The successful candidate will have a proven history of delivering the key responsibilities but also be personable, inquisitive and ready to join a small dynamic team within a company that has a family feel.

Job Offer

This company will offer you a comfortable workplace within a relaxed yet efficient environment. We have spoken about how this role will develop and they are keen to bring someone on who is ready to fit into the team, gel and make a positive impact. You will receive a competitive salary and have a number of interesting tasks to keep you engaged.

Reporting to the Head of IT, as IT development manager, your job will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are planned and executed well and delivered on time. You will also be responsible for managing and developing in house IT and coordinating third party infrastructure to integrate seamlessly together.

Client Details

This company was founded over twenty five years ago by a handful of pharmacists who had insight to act together to create a group able to negotiate better terms with the suppliers. This industry leader has grown into a family of more than 1800 members with the collective vision to continue to flourish in a changing marketplace.

Description

Determination of our IT strategy

Overseeing IT projects including system implementations, updates, upgrades and migrations.

Developing project plans, goals, and budgets

Assembling and coordinating project team members

Preparing requests for proposals and conducting demonstrations to facilitate selection of services and products

Manage and develop company systems including Patient Management,EPOS, Intranet, BI, Finance and Website

Vendor management including the management and monitoring of service SLA's

Manage the implementation of Juno systems and applications into newly acquired companies

Development of IT policies, procedures and standards

Management of the continued move to cloud based solutions

Identifying and acting on opportunities to improve and update software and systems

Implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures, as well as security protocols

Conducting regular system audits and checks on network and data security.

Overseeing the procurement of IT hardware and software

Designing and implement training programs and workshops for staff

Use of Microsoft product such as SQL server and Microsoft Power BI.

Use of Azure technologies.

Take control of .Net developments and enhance where necessary.

Profile

The successful candidate will have a proven history of delivering the key responsibilities but also be personable, inquisitive and ready to join a small dynamic team within a company that has a family feel.

Job Offer

This company will offer you a comfortable workplace within a relaxed yet efficient environment. We have spoken about how this role will develop and they are keen to bring someone on who is ready to fit into the team, gel and make a positive impact. You will receive a competitive salary and have a number of interesting tasks to keep you engaged.

Are you a Lead Developer who is metrics and results driven, with a focus on problem solving?

If the answer is yes, then Autoglym may have the opportunity you have been waiting for…

We are currently recruiting for a Lead Developer (Ecommerce & Digital) to join our Ecommerce team based in Letchworth Garden City. This is a full time, permanent position offering a competitive salary plus attractive rewards and benefits.

Autoglym’s growth through our domestic and International Ecommerce channels is a core strategic initiative for the business. Having formed the team in 2018 as a result of the changing market place and the way customers and consumers shop, the focus of the team is to grow Autoglym through our own ecommerce platforms, customer ecommerce channels and online marketplaces worldwide.

As a Lead Developer your main responsibilities will include:

• Build and document the Autoglym Ecommerce platforms and digital tools to a sustainable, secure and high standard within agreed timelines.
• Understand and interpret business processes/needs and translate into tangible, realistic, and achievable technical specifications for delivery across the team.
• Translate business needs to detailed scopes of work for e-Commerce and digital developers
• Become the gatekeeper for the technical development roadmap, aligning with business needs and strategy.
• Become the technical expert in all Autoglym D2C and B2B Ecommerce platforms and digital tools.
• Become the expert in the Magento product roadmap and lifecycle. 
• Set and maintain standards for use of development/project management tools.
• Continual emersion in the digital space, advising Head of Ecommerce, Marketing Director, and Digital Systems Manager of new technologies and business cases.
• Evaluate all activities to make recommendations for future improvements to the e-Commerce strategy.
• Ensure all digital development is consistent with Altro Group IT, Development, and Security policies.
• A minimum of 70% of time will be allocated to coding.

Who are Autoglym?

Autoglym is a British manufacturer of a premium range of vehicle care and valeting products, which are sold in over 45 countries. As the holder of two Royal Warrants our products are used by enthusiasts and professionals and include customers such as vehicle manufacturers, major high street retailers, car dealerships, distributors, professional valeting companies and transport operators.

What are we looking for?

• Experience managing complex Magento 1x/2x implementations whilst adhering to best practices.
• Strong PHP, HTML/CSS, UI/UX, Javascript/AJAX background
• Passion, understanding, and experience of implementing best practice within the full cycle of development.
• Exposure to, and experience of managing wrapped app technologies. 
• Management of Project Management and Workflow tools, e.g. Attlasian JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience using version control systems (e.g. Git).
• Strong demonstrable understanding of LAMP Stack and other technologies including, SOAP, REST, API Development.
• Has defined and delivered end-to-end solutions, and can demonstrate understanding of complex business processes, including complex integrations with other business systems.
• Proven experience line managing, coaching, and developing junior developers and testers.
• Experience as an Agile Scrum Master, with demonstrable working knowledge of ‘Scrum’ and ‘Kanban’ project management principles.
• Managed team workflow, productivity, and versioning using industry standard tools.
• Exposure to SQL Server Integration Services. 
• Experience with other PHP-based CMS such as Wordpress.

If you have the relevant experience and would describe yourself as self-motivated with excellent communication skills at all levels, then we would love to hear from you, click ‘Apply’ today!

Are you a Lead Developer who is metrics and results driven, with a focus on problem solving?

If the answer is yes, then Autoglym may have the opportunity you have been waiting for…

We are currently recruiting for a Lead Developer (Ecommerce & Digital) to join our Ecommerce team based in Letchworth Garden City. This is a full time, permanent position offering a competitive salary plus attractive rewards and benefits.

Autoglym’s growth through our domestic and International Ecommerce channels is a core strategic initiative for the business. Having formed the team in 2018 as a result of the changing market place and the way customers and consumers shop, the focus of the team is to grow Autoglym through our own ecommerce platforms, customer ecommerce channels and online marketplaces worldwide.

As a Lead Developer your main responsibilities will include:

• Build and document the Autoglym Ecommerce platforms and digital tools to a sustainable, secure and high standard within agreed timelines.
• Understand and interpret business processes/needs and translate into tangible, realistic, and achievable technical specifications for delivery across the team.
• Translate business needs to detailed scopes of work for e-Commerce and digital developers
• Become the gatekeeper for the technical development roadmap, aligning with business needs and strategy.
• Become the technical expert in all Autoglym D2C and B2B Ecommerce platforms and digital tools.
• Become the expert in the Magento product roadmap and lifecycle. 
• Set and maintain standards for use of development/project management tools.
• Continual emersion in the digital space, advising Head of Ecommerce, Marketing Director, and Digital Systems Manager of new technologies and business cases.
• Evaluate all activities to make recommendations for future improvements to the e-Commerce strategy.
• Ensure all digital development is consistent with Altro Group IT, Development, and Security policies.
• A minimum of 70% of time will be allocated to coding.

Who are Autoglym?

Autoglym is a British manufacturer of a premium range of vehicle care and valeting products, which are sold in over 45 countries. As the holder of two Royal Warrants our products are used by enthusiasts and professionals and include customers such as vehicle manufacturers, major high street retailers, car dealerships, distributors, professional valeting companies and transport operators.

What are we looking for?

• Experience managing complex Magento 1x/2x implementations whilst adhering to best practices.
• Strong PHP, HTML/CSS, UI/UX, Javascript/AJAX background
• Passion, understanding, and experience of implementing best practice within the full cycle of development.
• Exposure to, and experience of managing wrapped app technologies. 
• Management of Project Management and Workflow tools, e.g. Attlasian JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience using version control systems (e.g. Git).
• Strong demonstrable understanding of LAMP Stack and other technologies including, SOAP, REST, API Development.
• Has defined and delivered end-to-end solutions, and can demonstrate understanding of complex business processes, including complex integrations with other business systems.
• Proven experience line managing, coaching, and developing junior developers and testers.
• Experience as an Agile Scrum Master, with demonstrable working knowledge of ‘Scrum’ and ‘Kanban’ project management principles.
• Managed team workflow, productivity, and versioning using industry standard tools.
• Exposure to SQL Server Integration Services. 
• Experience with other PHP-based CMS such as Wordpress.

If you have the relevant experience and would describe yourself as self-motivated with excellent communication skills at all levels, then we would love to hear from you, click ‘Apply’ today!

*No parking due to central location*

Our client is recruiting for a Systems Analyst to join their team. The ideal candidate would have an understanding in pensions.

About the role

• Enhancing our Web Services to our clients and members is a HIGH profile project within and is one of the key projects to be delivered in 2020
• We want to develop a market leading proposition around providing information to these members
• This information will sometimes be scheme wide - messages and content that apply to all members - and sometimes member specific (information on their individual pensions savings and benefits)
• All of this will be delivered by a website - which we are calling 'the member portal'
• The project lifecycle is from conceptual ideas to an implemented solution
• The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and ambitious, with a real desire to help us deliver a market-leading web technology solutions (agnostic in nature) to our clients and their members.
• The candidate will be part of a small focused team of specialists from a range of functions/businesses, including our Business Services Group, to deliver innovative and leading edge technology solutions that provide our clients with new approaches to help educate and engage with scheme members, Trustees and sponsors.
• This role provides the successful candidate with a range of excellent opportunities to develop their analytical skills and experience whilst interacting with senior representatives across the Group to develop and deliver the web and digital vision being set by the management team. On a day to day basis they will work alongside the Business Service Group and client leads across the Group to ensure that the new technology aligns with our existing platforms and that the solutions meet the needs of our clients and prospects.
• Important aspects of the role will include manipulating data, writing data extraction scripts, creating 'dummy' data/calculation results to support the modelling and calculation capabilities that we develop. Other attributes will include working with the business requirements developed for the project and documenting technical aspects of the architecture.
• To assist in the UAT of newly developed functionality is also a key part of the role.
• As a senior analyst you will be expected to provide support and guidance to the project and any less experienced analysts involved.
• Working with the project team to create required data sets to support the key functionality within the new web portal. Manipulation of pension's data sets and the ability to create and map data to a common data format is going to be key aspect of this role. Familiarity with ETL processes and design is therefore critical and applicants should be familiar with SQL and SSIS.
• Throughout the project the Senior Systems Analyst is going to be responsible for the review of all data required to support the functionality and creating the necessary data extracts from a variety of data sources to support the work.
• Technical documentation, analytical reporting and supporting the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) should be expected.
• Data sets, derived from the calculation engines of our Administration platform's calculations routines, will need augmented for modelling functionality. Working from calculation specifications applicants should be familiar with Excel in order to generate any additional calculated values that are required in our datasets.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Well organised and positive attitude with the ability to plan, prioritise and effectively manage their work.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem solving, organisational and planning skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure, across multiple workstreams; delivering to time and quality standards.
• Good oral and written communication skills, able to present technical matters to potential non-technical users.
• Produces consistent and high-quality results.
• Understanding of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions data.
• Strong ability to manipulate and analyse data.
• Able to follow instructions, procedures and assimilate information quickly in a consistent manner.
• Liaising with the Business and the Business Analysts to take the requirements and turn them into deliverable solutions.
• Creating data and calculation specifications, in terms of explaining to the users what is required, test case selection and ensuring the finished specification is "fit for purpose".
• Have worked with pension products and data across a number of systems and platforms.
• IT proficient, in particular SQL and Excel
• Proficient knowledge in benefit structures and calculation requirements for DB, DC and Hybrid pension schemes is desirable.

Desirable

• Experience of being involved in projects that have developed web sites and web site content.
• Experience in some of our core pension administration systems (PenScope, Compendia, Altair and Profund) would be preferable.
• Experience of working directly with clients and business representatives to evaluate their requirements and develop solutions.
• Experience of working with suppliers to ensure consistency on interconnected deliverables.
• Understanding of Application Programming Interface (API) is desirable.

*No parking due to central location*

Our client is recruiting for a Systems Analyst to join their team. The ideal candidate would have an understanding in pensions.

About the role

• Enhancing our Web Services to our clients and members is a HIGH profile project within and is one of the key projects to be delivered in 2020
• We want to develop a market leading proposition around providing information to these members
• This information will sometimes be scheme wide - messages and content that apply to all members - and sometimes member specific (information on their individual pensions savings and benefits)
• All of this will be delivered by a website - which we are calling 'the member portal'
• The project lifecycle is from conceptual ideas to an implemented solution
• The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and ambitious, with a real desire to help us deliver a market-leading web technology solutions (agnostic in nature) to our clients and their members.
• The candidate will be part of a small focused team of specialists from a range of functions/businesses, including our Business Services Group, to deliver innovative and leading edge technology solutions that provide our clients with new approaches to help educate and engage with scheme members, Trustees and sponsors.
• This role provides the successful candidate with a range of excellent opportunities to develop their analytical skills and experience whilst interacting with senior representatives across the Group to develop and deliver the web and digital vision being set by the management team. On a day to day basis they will work alongside the Business Service Group and client leads across the Group to ensure that the new technology aligns with our existing platforms and that the solutions meet the needs of our clients and prospects.
• Important aspects of the role will include manipulating data, writing data extraction scripts, creating 'dummy' data/calculation results to support the modelling and calculation capabilities that we develop. Other attributes will include working with the business requirements developed for the project and documenting technical aspects of the architecture.
• To assist in the UAT of newly developed functionality is also a key part of the role.
• As a senior analyst you will be expected to provide support and guidance to the project and any less experienced analysts involved.
• Working with the project team to create required data sets to support the key functionality within the new web portal. Manipulation of pension's data sets and the ability to create and map data to a common data format is going to be key aspect of this role. Familiarity with ETL processes and design is therefore critical and applicants should be familiar with SQL and SSIS.
• Throughout the project the Senior Systems Analyst is going to be responsible for the review of all data required to support the functionality and creating the necessary data extracts from a variety of data sources to support the work.
• Technical documentation, analytical reporting and supporting the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) should be expected.
• Data sets, derived from the calculation engines of our Administration platform's calculations routines, will need augmented for modelling functionality. Working from calculation specifications applicants should be familiar with Excel in order to generate any additional calculated values that are required in our datasets.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Well organised and positive attitude with the ability to plan, prioritise and effectively manage their work.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem solving, organisational and planning skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure, across multiple workstreams; delivering to time and quality standards.
• Good oral and written communication skills, able to present technical matters to potential non-technical users.
• Produces consistent and high-quality results.
• Understanding of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions data.
• Strong ability to manipulate and analyse data.
• Able to follow instructions, procedures and assimilate information quickly in a consistent manner.
• Liaising with the Business and the Business Analysts to take the requirements and turn them into deliverable solutions.
• Creating data and calculation specifications, in terms of explaining to the users what is required, test case selection and ensuring the finished specification is "fit for purpose".
• Have worked with pension products and data across a number of systems and platforms.
• IT proficient, in particular SQL and Excel
• Proficient knowledge in benefit structures and calculation requirements for DB, DC and Hybrid pension schemes is desirable.

Desirable

• Experience of being involved in projects that have developed web sites and web site content.
• Experience in some of our core pension administration systems (PenScope, Compendia, Altair and Profund) would be preferable.
• Experience of working directly with clients and business representatives to evaluate their requirements and develop solutions.
• Experience of working with suppliers to ensure consistency on interconnected deliverables.
• Understanding of Application Programming Interface (API) is desirable.