Innovation and Technology Solutions (ITS)

Innovation and Technology Solutions, delivering outstanding IT and enabling excellence in its use, provides the supporting and enabling IT for the whole University across three campuses, from underlying network infrastructure to digital skills training for staff and students. Our vision is of a University where students and staff are actively supported in their endeavours to excel in creating, managing, communicating, and exploiting information by using information technology facilities and services that are user-centred, flexible, accessible, and resilient.

Innovation and Technology Solutions, a section of over 100 staff, is organised in four main operational service groups - Client Services, Infrastructure, Corporate Information Systems (CIS), and Strategic Projects.

This post is based in the Business Intelligence (BI) team within the CIS group, which is responsible for the University's information systems that underpin learning, teaching, research, and administration. Ensuring the availability, integrity, and security of the University's information assets is vital to the smooth running of these systems.

Duties of the Role

This post presents an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the delivery of the University's strategic plan by providing timely and accurate data insight. This role will work as an integral member of the Business Intelligence team within Innovation and Technology Solutions to enhance and support our BI service, which is bringing information together into a central data warehouse, supplying it to our stakeholders, and providing tools to visualise and analyse this data in order to support more joined up decision making. For this, the role demands excellent understanding of the use of complex data, preferably within higher education, and of the challenges of cleaning, storing, and securing such information in BI systems.

You will play a significant part in data extraction, integration, and analysis to facilitate the production of strategic management information to support the delivery of the strategic objectives within the Learner Analytics project, the Education Strategy and the Research Strategy. Furthermore you will support the HESA Student and future Data Futures returns by automating much of the data collection and quality checking.

In addition, working as part of a team, you will take ownership of the various systems and supplier relationships used by the Business Intelligence function (including, but not limited to, Tableau server).

Skills and qualifications required

The successful candidate will possess a degree or equivalent qualification or experience in a similar organisation and will have experience of database organisation, management and interrogation and experience of working with Microsoft SQL server.

Excellent data analysis and problem solving skills, along with strong written and verbal communication skills are essential for this post, along with having proven programming expertise in a variety of different areas in a modern development environment.

At the University of Essex, internationalism and diversity is central to who we are and what we do. We are committed to being a cosmopolitan, internationally oriented university that is welcoming to staff and students from all countries, faiths and backgrounds, where you can find the world in one place.

Innovation and Technology Solutions (ITS)

Innovation and Technology Solutions, delivering outstanding IT and enabling excellence in its use, provides the supporting and enabling IT for the whole University across three campuses, from underlying network infrastructure to digital skills training for staff and students. Our vision is of a University where students and staff are actively supported in their endeavours to excel in creating, managing, communicating, and exploiting information by using information technology facilities and services that are user-centred, flexible, accessible, and resilient.

Innovation and Technology Solutions, a section of over 100 staff, is organised in four main operational service groups - Client Services, Infrastructure, Corporate Information Systems (CIS), and Strategic Projects.

This post is based in the Business Intelligence (BI) team within the CIS group, which is responsible for the University's information systems that underpin learning, teaching, research, and administration. Ensuring the availability, integrity, and security of the University's information assets is vital to the smooth running of these systems.

Duties of the Role

This post presents an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the delivery of the University's strategic plan by providing timely and accurate data insight. This role will work as an integral member of the Business Intelligence team within Innovation and Technology Solutions to enhance and support our BI service, which is bringing information together into a central data warehouse, supplying it to our stakeholders, and providing tools to visualise and analyse this data in order to support more joined up decision making. For this, the role demands excellent understanding of the use of complex data, preferably within higher education, and of the challenges of cleaning, storing, and securing such information in BI systems.

You will play a significant part in data extraction, integration, and analysis to facilitate the production of strategic management information to support the delivery of the strategic objectives within the Learner Analytics project, the Education Strategy and the Research Strategy. Furthermore you will support the HESA Student and future Data Futures returns by automating much of the data collection and quality checking.

In addition, working as part of a team, you will take ownership of the various systems and supplier relationships used by the Business Intelligence function (including, but not limited to, Tableau server).

Skills and qualifications required

The successful candidate will possess a degree or equivalent qualification or experience in a similar organisation and will have experience of database organisation, management and interrogation and experience of working with Microsoft SQL server.

Excellent data analysis and problem solving skills, along with strong written and verbal communication skills are essential for this post, along with having proven programming expertise in a variety of different areas in a modern development environment.

At the University of Essex, internationalism and diversity is central to who we are and what we do. We are committed to being a cosmopolitan, internationally oriented university that is welcoming to staff and students from all countries, faiths and backgrounds, where you can find the world in one place.

Lead Network Architect

Location: London

Business Description:

Client is a leading global investment client with a substantial private client's franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the Client is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 73 countries, Client offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world.

Key Objectives of Role:

• The Lead Network Architect has continuous responsibility for the network architecture/engineering, design definition and documentation of various network infrastructure, load balancer and security products. The role also includes integrating new infrastructure components into client's centralized management, monitoring and self-service configuration systems.
• In practice, the Lead Engineer works on the details of the network infrastructure products, services, and/or technologies and can filter to the right/higher level of detail when engaging Enterprise/Domain Engineers. The focus of the Lead Engineer is on network infrastructure technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the IT architecture/engineering, the design definition and the engineering documentation of a network infrastructure product or service including hardware/software changes or enhancements with a focus on design and implementation of ADC/F5 technology solutions.
• Engages in projects affecting the network infrastructure products or services under their responsibility in order to determine and confirm technical and network infrastructure related aspects of solution engineering and design, considering specific business constraints, requirements and dependencies.
• Determine and agree a network infrastructure solution in accordance with the domain and enterprise engineering blueprint and with regard to the long-term network infrastructure portfolio strategy including total cost of ownership.
• Contribute to and/or review high-level and low-level network design documentation and approve.
• Measure the quality of the developed solution from an engineering perspective and ensure the conformance of delivered network infrastructure designs with predefined quality metrics.
• As part of the Lead Engineer's role, ensures alignment to Enterprise and Domain Engineering standards and processes and ensure usage of Enterprise and Domain Engineering assets, where possible.
• Contributes technical and application related aspects to the overall Enterprise and Domain Engineering blueprints.
• Responsible for all technical and product related aspects of solution engineering (ie maintainability, scalability, effective integration with other solutions, usage of shared solutions and components where possible, optimization of the resource consumption) with the objective to drive the appropriate balance between business needs and total cost of ownership.
• Responsible for discovering, promoting and executing SOI solutions and reusable network infrastructure components/functionality.
• Evaluate all designs and engineering to ensure that they incorporate the right level of reliability in the most cost effective manner
• Design, engineer and support the Client's growing reliance on ULL products

Essential Technical Skills

• Strong experience with F5 technologies to deliver highly scalable, efficient and secure application delivery solutions. Prior experience deploying and managing large scale network ADC infrastructure (F5) is preferable.
• A firm understanding of networking(routing/switching) and OS concepts, Linux/Unix administration, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS and other related protocols
• A good understanding of ULL, FIX and Market Data environments, with key focus on FIX routing and TLS encryption best practices.
• Dev-Ops Experience: F5 infrastructure automation and integration using iControl, iRules, As3 and other related tools to programmatically extend F5 services for self-service type operating models and integration with CI/CD toolchains and orchestration systems.
• Some experience of Security and Risk Analysis knowledge for Extranet setups.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a highly visible fast paced enterprise environment
• Ability to competently test and Certify Load Balancing/ADC software and all associated features and functions
• Management Systems: Good understanding Network Security knowledge: Good understanding of protocols Writing technical documents: Good report writing skills Operation and implementation: A few years work experience Design experience: Minimum of 3 years Technical lead experience: for a number of projects
• Experienced in financial markets and applications, including market data feeds and API's. Work closely with application development and business users to develop technology solutions for multiple scenarios.

Experience Desired:

Overall 5-10 years' experience in IT delivery and engineering, of which at least 3-5 years as an Engineer and 3-5 years in IT Delivery as technical project manager.

Lead Network Architect

Location: London

Business Description:

Client is a leading global investment client with a substantial private client's franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the Client is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 73 countries, Client offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world.

Key Objectives of Role:

• The Lead Network Architect has continuous responsibility for the network architecture/engineering, design definition and documentation of various network infrastructure, load balancer and security products. The role also includes integrating new infrastructure components into client's centralized management, monitoring and self-service configuration systems.
• In practice, the Lead Engineer works on the details of the network infrastructure products, services, and/or technologies and can filter to the right/higher level of detail when engaging Enterprise/Domain Engineers. The focus of the Lead Engineer is on network infrastructure technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the IT architecture/engineering, the design definition and the engineering documentation of a network infrastructure product or service including hardware/software changes or enhancements with a focus on design and implementation of ADC/F5 technology solutions.
• Engages in projects affecting the network infrastructure products or services under their responsibility in order to determine and confirm technical and network infrastructure related aspects of solution engineering and design, considering specific business constraints, requirements and dependencies.
• Determine and agree a network infrastructure solution in accordance with the domain and enterprise engineering blueprint and with regard to the long-term network infrastructure portfolio strategy including total cost of ownership.
• Contribute to and/or review high-level and low-level network design documentation and approve.
• Measure the quality of the developed solution from an engineering perspective and ensure the conformance of delivered network infrastructure designs with predefined quality metrics.
• As part of the Lead Engineer's role, ensures alignment to Enterprise and Domain Engineering standards and processes and ensure usage of Enterprise and Domain Engineering assets, where possible.
• Contributes technical and application related aspects to the overall Enterprise and Domain Engineering blueprints.
• Responsible for all technical and product related aspects of solution engineering (ie maintainability, scalability, effective integration with other solutions, usage of shared solutions and components where possible, optimization of the resource consumption) with the objective to drive the appropriate balance between business needs and total cost of ownership.
• Responsible for discovering, promoting and executing SOI solutions and reusable network infrastructure components/functionality.
• Evaluate all designs and engineering to ensure that they incorporate the right level of reliability in the most cost effective manner
• Design, engineer and support the Client's growing reliance on ULL products

Essential Technical Skills

• Strong experience with F5 technologies to deliver highly scalable, efficient and secure application delivery solutions. Prior experience deploying and managing large scale network ADC infrastructure (F5) is preferable.
• A firm understanding of networking(routing/switching) and OS concepts, Linux/Unix administration, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS and other related protocols
• A good understanding of ULL, FIX and Market Data environments, with key focus on FIX routing and TLS encryption best practices.
• Dev-Ops Experience: F5 infrastructure automation and integration using iControl, iRules, As3 and other related tools to programmatically extend F5 services for self-service type operating models and integration with CI/CD toolchains and orchestration systems.
• Some experience of Security and Risk Analysis knowledge for Extranet setups.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a highly visible fast paced enterprise environment
• Ability to competently test and Certify Load Balancing/ADC software and all associated features and functions
• Management Systems: Good understanding Network Security knowledge: Good understanding of protocols Writing technical documents: Good report writing skills Operation and implementation: A few years work experience Design experience: Minimum of 3 years Technical lead experience: for a number of projects
• Experienced in financial markets and applications, including market data feeds and API's. Work closely with application development and business users to develop technology solutions for multiple scenarios.

Experience Desired:

Overall 5-10 years' experience in IT delivery and engineering, of which at least 3-5 years as an Engineer and 3-5 years in IT Delivery as technical project manager.

FIT OUT PROJECT MANAGER ***

Nicholas Associates are recruiting on behalf of a Commercial Interior Fit Out Contractor based in Reading.

I am looking to speak with ambitious Project Managers who have a minimum of 5 years experience in the interior fit out sector, specifically CAT A and CAT B fit outs. You will be required to take full responsibility for client construction projects from technical build direction, site supervision, take-off and procurement through to timely QS valuations, contract commercials and safety requirements.

Experience with Drylining, Suspended Ceilings and Partitioning is essential for this position.

Salary is negotiable DOE + Benefits Package

For more information please contact Associates

FIT OUT PROJECT MANAGER ***

Nicholas Associates are recruiting on behalf of a Commercial Interior Fit Out Contractor based in Reading.

I am looking to speak with ambitious Project Managers who have a minimum of 5 years experience in the interior fit out sector, specifically CAT A and CAT B fit outs. You will be required to take full responsibility for client construction projects from technical build direction, site supervision, take-off and procurement through to timely QS valuations, contract commercials and safety requirements.

Experience with Drylining, Suspended Ceilings and Partitioning is essential for this position.

Salary is negotiable DOE + Benefits Package

For more information please contact Associates