Web Application Developer / Bath / £35,000 - £55,000

This opportunity is for an experienced Developer to join a market-leading Fin-Tech business undergoing an exciting period of digital transformation. The business is based in the centre of Bath nearby public transport links.

In this role you will require extensive commercial experience using and be accustomed to agile ways of working. You must have strong coding and querying skills to assist with the design and development of new solutions, and re-development of existing systems.

Required Skills & experience

• C#, ASP.NET MVC
• SQL Server / Transact SQL
• Source Control (SVN/TFVC/Git)
• Entity Framework
• Unit Testing

Desirables

• NET Core
• Web API
• Microsoft Azure
• Azure DevOps
• SASS
• Secure Development Principles
• CI/CD

Web Application Developer / Bath / £35,000 - £55,000

This opportunity is for an experienced Developer to join a market-leading Fin-Tech business undergoing an exciting period of digital transformation. The business is based in the centre of Bath nearby public transport links.

In this role you will require extensive commercial experience using and be accustomed to agile ways of working. You must have strong coding and querying skills to assist with the design and development of new solutions, and re-development of existing systems.

Required Skills & experience

• C#, ASP.NET MVC
• SQL Server / Transact SQL
• Source Control (SVN/TFVC/Git)
• Entity Framework
• Unit Testing

Desirables

• NET Core
• Web API
• Microsoft Azure
• Azure DevOps
• SASS
• Secure Development Principles
• CI/CD

The Implementation Consultant’s role is to gather client business requirement and design a solution that meets the needs of the clients and falls within the boundaries of core MMX functionality. The Implementation Consultant is responsible for the configuration of a customer’s specific environment as well as all client functional knowledge transfer.

The implementation consultant works in partnership with the Charter Project Manager, and completes project milestones, client documentation, and transitions the client to their Production environment

Business Function:

Equiniti Charter is split into two business departments. Charter UK is a business critical supplier of enterprise-level Customer Feedback Management Systems and Workflow Management Systems with over 20 years’ industry experience

Core Duties/Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• Gather functional and business requirements from client and translate into a functional solution design according to client needs and scope of Charter product/ services.
• Provide business acumen for external clients and strive to understand the business problem we are solving in order to best configure the system and exceed client expectations.
• Work together with Charter Project Manager to prioritize workload and agree client SLA
• Conduct design discovery sessions (onsite or remote)to understand and analyse customer’s business objectives and system needs
• Document requirements
• Participate in the delivery of complex and/or large implementations to the customer in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Configure and customise MMX CRM applications based on the solution definition and project plan.
• Jointly responsible with other team members for the design, system installation, configuration and process improvements and documentation.
• Process map as necessary
• Creation and delivery of Functional Documentation. Review iterative versions with Client to ensure appropriate sign-off procedures.
• Conduct client webcasts (solution demo) and functional knowledge transfer sessions according to methodology standards
• Configure MMX to meet the agreed design
• Unit test the configured application
• Liaise with EQC test team on functional acceptance testing
• Perform issue identification, communication, and resolution for moderately complex issues
• Communicate consistently and regularly client issue status and progress with the Project Manager
• Communicate progress (or escalate if necessary) within EQ Charter and customer
• Present the configured application to the customer
• Provide customer training on the application
• Support customer through go-live period and during initial system adoption
• Communicate progress (or escalate if necessary) within EQ Charter
• Maintain technical skills though identification and completion of appropriate training (SQL, Oracle, Business Objects and Microsoft Products).

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• A quick learner who is able and willing to pick up varied technical and business skills on the job
• Flexible and quality focussed in their approach across a variety of tasks
• An analytical background, with the ability to understand problems and propose solid solutions
• Familiar with relational database concepts and some SQL or Oracle knowledge
• Good team working and able to work independently
• A keen eye for detail and the ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Full driving licence
• Be educated to degree level or equivalent
• 2 years’ experience with software implementations
• Experience in client facing role
• Functional consulting experience preferred
• Experience with software as a service (hosted) and on premise preferred
• Experience with financial applications or knowledge of accounting practices
• Ability to pass a background check.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit and Sanctions checks

The Implementation Consultant’s role is to gather client business requirement and design a solution that meets the needs of the clients and falls within the boundaries of core MMX functionality. The Implementation Consultant is responsible for the configuration of a customer’s specific environment as well as all client functional knowledge transfer.

The implementation consultant works in partnership with the Charter Project Manager, and completes project milestones, client documentation, and transitions the client to their Production environment

Business Function:

Equiniti Charter is split into two business departments. Charter UK is a business critical supplier of enterprise-level Customer Feedback Management Systems and Workflow Management Systems with over 20 years’ industry experience

Core Duties/Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• Gather functional and business requirements from client and translate into a functional solution design according to client needs and scope of Charter product/ services.
• Provide business acumen for external clients and strive to understand the business problem we are solving in order to best configure the system and exceed client expectations.
• Work together with Charter Project Manager to prioritize workload and agree client SLA
• Conduct design discovery sessions (onsite or remote)to understand and analyse customer’s business objectives and system needs
• Document requirements
• Participate in the delivery of complex and/or large implementations to the customer in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Configure and customise MMX CRM applications based on the solution definition and project plan.
• Jointly responsible with other team members for the design, system installation, configuration and process improvements and documentation.
• Process map as necessary
• Creation and delivery of Functional Documentation. Review iterative versions with Client to ensure appropriate sign-off procedures.
• Conduct client webcasts (solution demo) and functional knowledge transfer sessions according to methodology standards
• Configure MMX to meet the agreed design
• Unit test the configured application
• Liaise with EQC test team on functional acceptance testing
• Perform issue identification, communication, and resolution for moderately complex issues
• Communicate consistently and regularly client issue status and progress with the Project Manager
• Communicate progress (or escalate if necessary) within EQ Charter and customer
• Present the configured application to the customer
• Provide customer training on the application
• Support customer through go-live period and during initial system adoption
• Communicate progress (or escalate if necessary) within EQ Charter
• Maintain technical skills though identification and completion of appropriate training (SQL, Oracle, Business Objects and Microsoft Products).

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• A quick learner who is able and willing to pick up varied technical and business skills on the job
• Flexible and quality focussed in their approach across a variety of tasks
• An analytical background, with the ability to understand problems and propose solid solutions
• Familiar with relational database concepts and some SQL or Oracle knowledge
• Good team working and able to work independently
• A keen eye for detail and the ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Full driving licence
• Be educated to degree level or equivalent
• 2 years’ experience with software implementations
• Experience in client facing role
• Functional consulting experience preferred
• Experience with software as a service (hosted) and on premise preferred
• Experience with financial applications or knowledge of accounting practices
• Ability to pass a background check.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit and Sanctions checks

The QA Analyst is an important component of the quality assurance practices surrounding our software package. This is founded on the Java technology stack, Web Frameworks (Struts, Tapestry, AngularJS) alongside many supporting internal and external services. It can be provided to clients on a hosted or On-Premise basis.

Business Function

Equiniti Credit Services develops market leading applications for the finance industry. The company employs highly experienced staff most of whom have extensive knowledge of both the finance industry and the technologies required to deliver effective, modern software solutions.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Interact with product management, project management and SCRUM development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives, including participating internal sprint planning and reviews, daily stand-ups.
• Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases.
• Oversee scheduled and ad-hoc functional and regression testing of new and existing core functionality to ensure high quality standard are achieved at all times for all software releases.
• Running automated/Manual Tests.
• Clear reporting of the testing status through test execution.
• Maintenance of Testing script checklist to ensure this is consistent with new or changed functionality as part of a software release to support the testing activity.
• Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using YouTrack or similar tools/means.
• Performing End-to-End system, regression and UAT.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

• Excellent knowledge of API Testing.
• Experience of working within agile SDLC processes, including TDD/BDD.
• Write and execute Manual/automation test scripts.
• Clear understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Testing (CT) approaches.
• Work collaboratively as part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Interact with product owners, project management and SCRUM development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives.
• Clear reporting of the testing status through test execution.
• Proven ability to create, plan and execute appropriate test plans for all types of change.
• Finance sector experience would be preferred and extremely advantageous, particularly UK consumer lending.
• Database skills, mainly in SQL Server.
• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit and Sanctions checks

The QA Analyst is an important component of the quality assurance practices surrounding our software package. This is founded on the Java technology stack, Web Frameworks (Struts, Tapestry, AngularJS) alongside many supporting internal and external services. It can be provided to clients on a hosted or On-Premise basis.

Business Function

Equiniti Credit Services develops market leading applications for the finance industry. The company employs highly experienced staff most of whom have extensive knowledge of both the finance industry and the technologies required to deliver effective, modern software solutions.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Interact with product management, project management and SCRUM development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives, including participating internal sprint planning and reviews, daily stand-ups.
• Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases.
• Oversee scheduled and ad-hoc functional and regression testing of new and existing core functionality to ensure high quality standard are achieved at all times for all software releases.
• Running automated/Manual Tests.
• Clear reporting of the testing status through test execution.
• Maintenance of Testing script checklist to ensure this is consistent with new or changed functionality as part of a software release to support the testing activity.
• Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using YouTrack or similar tools/means.
• Performing End-to-End system, regression and UAT.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

• Excellent knowledge of API Testing.
• Experience of working within agile SDLC processes, including TDD/BDD.
• Write and execute Manual/automation test scripts.
• Clear understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Testing (CT) approaches.
• Work collaboratively as part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Interact with product owners, project management and SCRUM development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives.
• Clear reporting of the testing status through test execution.
• Proven ability to create, plan and execute appropriate test plans for all types of change.
• Finance sector experience would be preferred and extremely advantageous, particularly UK consumer lending.
• Database skills, mainly in SQL Server.
• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit and Sanctions checks

BI & Datawarehouse Lead job in Blackburn, paying up to £55,000

Your new company
You will be working for a highly successful Financial Services organisation based in Lancashire, as a BI and Data Warehouse Lead.

Your new role
Working with the Head of Programmes and the CFO, you will be responsible for streamlining reporting processes and building a BI strategy for the business:

• Creating a BI Programme in Line with Business Change and Business Demands.
• Take ownership and responsibility of the technical design, architecture and BI solution, keeping complete and end to end technical BI delivery goals in focus
• Present technical BI solutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Coaching Key Business employees on report writing.
• Manage and deliver BI in line with BI Programme Manager road-map
• Develop BI tool architecture including data presentation, data modelling, data blending, metadata and semantic layer development and governance
• Support significant data and BI tool migration projects and on-going support
• ETL scripting, data modelling and report/dashboard delivery within BI tools
• Ensuring the hardware and software are up to date and fit for purpose for BI tool and user demands
• Data mining and analysis using SQL (MySQL, MS SQL and Oracle SQL) and/or other tools as required e.g. PowerBI and Tableau
• Manage data warehouse security, and control access permissions and privileges
• Work closely with senior leaders, sales and operations to deliver meaningful data in the form of BI reports and dashboards. This role liaises directly with several key members of the business and therefore can truly improve & transform how we deliver information.
• Utilise, update, and manage BI tools such as SQL Server, Power BI, PowerApps.
• Play an active role in all IT projects to ensure the BI architecture continues to align with other systems as the overall IT architecture evolves.
• Full Development Life-cycle from analysis Development, testing, release and support.

What you'll need to succeed

• Ability to review the existing code and set up best coding practices and standards across all BI development
• Proven experience/knowledge on Microsoft BI technology stack - SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS and SSAS
• Experience of producing reporting and BI through QlikView, Crystal, Power BI, Tableau or similar enterprise BI tools
• Advanced Microsoft office skills (Excel, Power Point, etc)
• Excel based, VBA scripted data manipulation and extraction/load design and support
• Database development (complex SQL queries, stored procedures, user-defined functions, table design and performance optimisation)
• Line management is not a part of this role, however there is a chance to build a team

What you'll get in return
You will be offered a salary up to £55,000 salary, with up to 20% bonus, excellent holidays which increase with service, pension scheme, free parking and some flexible work options which can be discussed upon application.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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BI & Datawarehouse Lead job in Blackburn, paying up to £55,000

Your new company
You will be working for a highly successful Financial Services organisation based in Lancashire, as a BI and Data Warehouse Lead.

Your new role
Working with the Head of Programmes and the CFO, you will be responsible for streamlining reporting processes and building a BI strategy for the business:

• Creating a BI Programme in Line with Business Change and Business Demands.
• Take ownership and responsibility of the technical design, architecture and BI solution, keeping complete and end to end technical BI delivery goals in focus
• Present technical BI solutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Coaching Key Business employees on report writing.
• Manage and deliver BI in line with BI Programme Manager road-map
• Develop BI tool architecture including data presentation, data modelling, data blending, metadata and semantic layer development and governance
• Support significant data and BI tool migration projects and on-going support
• ETL scripting, data modelling and report/dashboard delivery within BI tools
• Ensuring the hardware and software are up to date and fit for purpose for BI tool and user demands
• Data mining and analysis using SQL (MySQL, MS SQL and Oracle SQL) and/or other tools as required e.g. PowerBI and Tableau
• Manage data warehouse security, and control access permissions and privileges
• Work closely with senior leaders, sales and operations to deliver meaningful data in the form of BI reports and dashboards. This role liaises directly with several key members of the business and therefore can truly improve & transform how we deliver information.
• Utilise, update, and manage BI tools such as SQL Server, Power BI, PowerApps.
• Play an active role in all IT projects to ensure the BI architecture continues to align with other systems as the overall IT architecture evolves.
• Full Development Life-cycle from analysis Development, testing, release and support.

What you'll need to succeed

• Ability to review the existing code and set up best coding practices and standards across all BI development
• Proven experience/knowledge on Microsoft BI technology stack - SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS and SSAS
• Experience of producing reporting and BI through QlikView, Crystal, Power BI, Tableau or similar enterprise BI tools
• Advanced Microsoft office skills (Excel, Power Point, etc)
• Excel based, VBA scripted data manipulation and extraction/load design and support
• Database development (complex SQL queries, stored procedures, user-defined functions, table design and performance optimisation)
• Line management is not a part of this role, however there is a chance to build a team

What you'll get in return
You will be offered a salary up to £55,000 salary, with up to 20% bonus, excellent holidays which increase with service, pension scheme, free parking and some flexible work options which can be discussed upon application.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Senior Software Engineer - Newcastle upon Tyne - £55k

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Software Engineer to join a leading workforce, operations and asset management business in Newcastle upon Tyne. The company have clients across the UK and due to recent growth, they are looking to expand their software development team due to their increasing demand.

The successful candidate will gain exposure to the latest technologies such as Amazon Web Services, DevOps and be given the opportunity to work on projects end to end. The company are highly forward thinking and are looking for passionate developers with experience in enterprise systems architecture techniques and design principles.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Commercial experience with Object Orientated PHP programming
• Knowledge of SOLID Principles
• Test driven development
• SQL/MySQL experience
• Javascript/ReactJS
• HTML5/CSS/SASS
• REST API design and implementation

The successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary along with some excellent benefits which include but are not limited to 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, company pension scheme, company bonus scheme, annual career development budget, flexible working hours and options to work from home.

If you are motivated to work for a forward-thinking organisation who understand their employees are key to the success of the business, apply today as interviews are already taking place.

Senior Software Engineer - Newcastle upon Tyne - £55k

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Software Engineer to join a leading workforce, operations and asset management business in Newcastle upon Tyne. The company have clients across the UK and due to recent growth, they are looking to expand their software development team due to their increasing demand.

The successful candidate will gain exposure to the latest technologies such as Amazon Web Services, DevOps and be given the opportunity to work on projects end to end. The company are highly forward thinking and are looking for passionate developers with experience in enterprise systems architecture techniques and design principles.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Commercial experience with Object Orientated PHP programming
• Knowledge of SOLID Principles
• Test driven development
• SQL/MySQL experience
• Javascript/ReactJS
• HTML5/CSS/SASS
• REST API design and implementation

The successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary along with some excellent benefits which include but are not limited to 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, company pension scheme, company bonus scheme, annual career development budget, flexible working hours and options to work from home.

If you are motivated to work for a forward-thinking organisation who understand their employees are key to the success of the business, apply today as interviews are already taking place.