Software Development Director - Cheshire - Contract - £850pd

Harvey Nash are exclusively representing a innovative technology player based in Cheshire, who as part of their continued growth they are looking to bring in an Interim Software Development Director to join the existing team and work on and across a market leading set of products/applications. The business has historically grown rapidly and as such find themselves in a position of multiple tech stack, so need a Software Development Director to help develop a unified tech stack across multiple countries

The client is looking for someone who can understand the complexity of estates, but can move the business to a unified platform. Someone who understands a variety of technologies would suit this assignment, but also someone who can pull teams together and drive plan forward.

Tech Stack: It's a beautiful mix of Microsoft stack technology; .NET (inc Core), C#, APIs, SQL Server and a little bit of Python. The business operates in true Agile form with modern software development techniques including Microservices, cloud development/computing, SOLID and much, much more.

The Person: A confident and technical leader who hasn't stepped too far away from technology is the ideal fit for this role, someone who keeps their finger on the pulse of technology. Experience working in a variety of tech stacks across a multitude of devices would be hugely beneficial as nothing is off the table, you have the chance to really take the tech stack by the scruff of the neck; ideally you'll have an understanding of Big Data products such as Hadoop.

The initial engagement will be for 6 months with the view to extend thereafter.

Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to (url removed) if you need any further information feel free to contact me on (phone number removed); I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit you.

Software Development Director - Cheshire - Contract - £850pd

Software Development Director - Cheshire - Contract - £850pd

Harvey Nash are exclusively representing a innovative technology player based in Cheshire, who as part of their continued growth they are looking to bring in an Interim Software Development Director to join the existing team and work on and across a market leading set of products/applications. The business has historically grown rapidly and as such find themselves in a position of multiple tech stack, so need a Software Development Director to help develop a unified tech stack across multiple countries

The client is looking for someone who can understand the complexity of estates, but can move the business to a unified platform. Someone who understands a variety of technologies would suit this assignment, but also someone who can pull teams together and drive plan forward.

Tech Stack: It's a beautiful mix of Microsoft stack technology; .NET (inc Core), C#, APIs, SQL Server and a little bit of Python. The business operates in true Agile form with modern software development techniques including Microservices, cloud development/computing, SOLID and much, much more.

The Person: A confident and technical leader who hasn't stepped too far away from technology is the ideal fit for this role, someone who keeps their finger on the pulse of technology. Experience working in a variety of tech stacks across a multitude of devices would be hugely beneficial as nothing is off the table, you have the chance to really take the tech stack by the scruff of the neck; ideally you'll have an understanding of Big Data products such as Hadoop.

The initial engagement will be for 6 months with the view to extend thereafter.

Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to (url removed) if you need any further information feel free to contact me on (phone number removed); I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit you.

Software Development Director - Cheshire - Contract - £850pd

Gerrard White is currently seeking a Test Analyst who is available from an immediate interview and start.

Suitable contractors must have SQL, Test Automation and Automated Test Script writing experience and this should be combined with previous experience within Azure.

The role will require an urgent start so we are only able to consider CV's of candidates who are available for immediate interview and start.

Experience within the insurance or financial services sector would be highly beneficial.

Gerrard White is currently seeking a Test Analyst who is available from an immediate interview and start.

Suitable contractors must have SQL, Test Automation and Automated Test Script writing experience and this should be combined with previous experience within Azure.

The role will require an urgent start so we are only able to consider CV's of candidates who are available for immediate interview and start.

Experience within the insurance or financial services sector would be highly beneficial.

You love data, and you love reporting. And what's more you're good at it. You've been places, seen things and have loads to teach.

You're happy where you are but you realise you could be happier. You want to be involved in projects and help a business improve their delivery architecture and process to ensure smooth delivery.

Ideally you'll have strong experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and pushing back. Because you know that sometimes people ask things that aren't possible. You'll have strong Power BI and SQL experience, and an interest in cloud technologies and big data. It would be even better if this was experience was centred around HR, finance and business operations data. You'll be comfortable providing technical direction and advice to others and taking the lead on BI projects.

In return you'll get to work on a multi-organisational integration project and get exposure to Azure cloud services. You'll also be offered relevant training courses and be able to work from home for a few days a week once settled.

Responsibilities:

* Manage relationships with key business stakeholders .
* Lead and coach a team of onshore and offshore engineers to deliver solutions for the global business
* Work with business analysts and our customers to define stories and sprints of work ensuring business requirements are converted effectively to technical solutions
* Follow agile methodologies during delivery including managing stakeholders effectively
* Work with stakeholders including the business leaders, product and data teams to assist with technical queries and challenges

ROLE: Lead BI Developer
SALARY: Up to £60,000
LOCATION: Worcester, some home working

You love data, and you love reporting. And what's more you're good at it. You've been places, seen things and have loads to teach.

You're happy where you are but you realise you could be happier. You want to be involved in projects and help a business improve their delivery architecture and process to ensure smooth delivery.

Ideally you'll have strong experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and pushing back. Because you know that sometimes people ask things that aren't possible. You'll have strong Power BI and SQL experience, and an interest in cloud technologies and big data. It would be even better if this was experience was centred around HR, finance and business operations data. You'll be comfortable providing technical direction and advice to others and taking the lead on BI projects.

In return you'll get to work on a multi-organisational integration project and get exposure to Azure cloud services. You'll also be offered relevant training courses and be able to work from home for a few days a week once settled.

Responsibilities:

* Manage relationships with key business stakeholders .
* Lead and coach a team of onshore and offshore engineers to deliver solutions for the global business
* Work with business analysts and our customers to define stories and sprints of work ensuring business requirements are converted effectively to technical solutions
* Follow agile methodologies during delivery including managing stakeholders effectively
* Work with stakeholders including the business leaders, product and data teams to assist with technical queries and challenges

ROLE: Lead BI Developer
SALARY: Up to £60,000
LOCATION: Worcester, some home working

IT Support and Applications Engineer

We are on the hunt for a fabulous and long established retailer to find an experienced and IT Support Engineer 

This business has built a solid reputation for delivering high end service to a loyal customer base buying a wide range of quality products for many years and is a real destination store.  The IT Support Engineer role will be tasked with ensuring this premium retail operation is totally backed up with solid IT systems and full support to ensure total efficiency for the end user and customer experience. 

Who are we looking for...

Someone that values loyalty and comes with a sold career history of Tech Support Management ideally in the retail sector with an understanding of how that operates, the challenges you face and being able to 

A quick thinker and problem solver with a methodical analytic approach. You will be overseeing a bespoke EPOS application and day-to-day IT support for in excess of 100 desktop users and you will need to be at ease communicating and conveying information at all levels across the business. 


Your Day to day will a varied role inclusive of...

Supporting Day-to-day IT services via IT service desk from 1st line to some 3rd line and escalating some issues to third party vendors

• Supporting and further developing ERP/EPOS system, SQL, SSRS and PowerBi (Training provided and supported from the head of IT) 
• Configuration and deployment of new or replacement desktop hardware using MDT/WSUS/WDS
• Setting up new Active Directory user and Office 365 email users
• Supporting AD/Office 365 administrative tasks security groups and email groups
• Upgrading desktop software and applications where necessary
• Duties relating to the creation and maintenance of internal support documentation
• Assisting Head of IT with local and global projects across multiple sites
• Supporting Swan Cygnus Bespoke till systems (Windows embedded) 1st/2nd line and escalating to 3rd line third-party when required
• PDQ payment terminals 1st/2nd line and escalating to 3rd line third-party when required
• Supporting and maintaining multifunction printers and label printers throughout the business
• Supporting document management system 1st/2nd line and escalating to 3rd line when required.
• Overseeing smooth operation of the EPOS / POS system and all payment terminals 
• Overseeing networks (TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, Cisco and SonicWALL
• Supporting Payment Terminals (Verifone, Ingenico and Worldpay
• Looking after in store tech such as Apple iOS (iPad with Meraki MDM)

Overview of the Skills you will need.....

• Microsoft Windows 10 Desktop Support
• Microsoft Office 365 Support and Administration
• Microsoft Windows 2012/2016 Server Administration (ADUC, DHCP, DNS and Security Groups)
• Microsoft Windows Deployment and Updates (WDS, MDT and WSUS)
• Microsoft SQL 2008/2017 and SSRS (Previous experience would be an advantage)
• Microsoft PowerBi 
• Microsoft Excel experience
• EasySoftware Document Management System
• VMware Virtualisation Administration ideally 
• Microsoft Exchange Hybrid Administration )
• Active Directory / Azure Active Director
• EPOS/POS Retail Systems

If you have an IT degree or Microsoft Certification MCSA or MCSE that would be a great advantage. You will need to be able to think on your feet and have the be ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment supporting and reporting into numerous areas of this business.

An understanding of Microsoft SQL would also be an advantage as the successful candidate would become our resident specialist with SQL and reporting along with our bespoke EPOS/POS systems which are built on SQL databases. Training will be available though if needed. In addition, you should have a good working knowledge of corporate security and compliance with GDPR.

Why make a move to this business?

Great company culture within a long established very successful business. Fabulous close knit team, annual bonus and benefits with a great work life balance. Up to 40k salary.

IT Support and Applications Engineer

We are on the hunt for a fabulous and long established retailer to find an experienced and IT Support Engineer 

This business has built a solid reputation for delivering high end service to a loyal customer base buying a wide range of quality products for many years and is a real destination store.  The IT Support Engineer role will be tasked with ensuring this premium retail operation is totally backed up with solid IT systems and full support to ensure total efficiency for the end user and customer experience. 

Who are we looking for...

Someone that values loyalty and comes with a sold career history of Tech Support Management ideally in the retail sector with an understanding of how that operates, the challenges you face and being able to 

A quick thinker and problem solver with a methodical analytic approach. You will be overseeing a bespoke EPOS application and day-to-day IT support for in excess of 100 desktop users and you will need to be at ease communicating and conveying information at all levels across the business. 


Your Day to day will a varied role inclusive of...

Supporting Day-to-day IT services via IT service desk from 1st line to some 3rd line and escalating some issues to third party vendors

• Supporting and further developing ERP/EPOS system, SQL, SSRS and PowerBi (Training provided and supported from the head of IT) 
• Configuration and deployment of new or replacement desktop hardware using MDT/WSUS/WDS
• Setting up new Active Directory user and Office 365 email users
• Supporting AD/Office 365 administrative tasks security groups and email groups
• Upgrading desktop software and applications where necessary
• Duties relating to the creation and maintenance of internal support documentation
• Assisting Head of IT with local and global projects across multiple sites
• Supporting Swan Cygnus Bespoke till systems (Windows embedded) 1st/2nd line and escalating to 3rd line third-party when required
• PDQ payment terminals 1st/2nd line and escalating to 3rd line third-party when required
• Supporting and maintaining multifunction printers and label printers throughout the business
• Supporting document management system 1st/2nd line and escalating to 3rd line when required.
• Overseeing smooth operation of the EPOS / POS system and all payment terminals 
• Overseeing networks (TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, Cisco and SonicWALL
• Supporting Payment Terminals (Verifone, Ingenico and Worldpay
• Looking after in store tech such as Apple iOS (iPad with Meraki MDM)

Overview of the Skills you will need.....

• Microsoft Windows 10 Desktop Support
• Microsoft Office 365 Support and Administration
• Microsoft Windows 2012/2016 Server Administration (ADUC, DHCP, DNS and Security Groups)
• Microsoft Windows Deployment and Updates (WDS, MDT and WSUS)
• Microsoft SQL 2008/2017 and SSRS (Previous experience would be an advantage)
• Microsoft PowerBi 
• Microsoft Excel experience
• EasySoftware Document Management System
• VMware Virtualisation Administration ideally 
• Microsoft Exchange Hybrid Administration )
• Active Directory / Azure Active Director
• EPOS/POS Retail Systems

If you have an IT degree or Microsoft Certification MCSA or MCSE that would be a great advantage. You will need to be able to think on your feet and have the be ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment supporting and reporting into numerous areas of this business.

An understanding of Microsoft SQL would also be an advantage as the successful candidate would become our resident specialist with SQL and reporting along with our bespoke EPOS/POS systems which are built on SQL databases. Training will be available though if needed. In addition, you should have a good working knowledge of corporate security and compliance with GDPR.

Why make a move to this business?

Great company culture within a long established very successful business. Fabulous close knit team, annual bonus and benefits with a great work life balance. Up to 40k salary.

.NET Developer / Senior .NET Developer

Do you live local to York? Are you an enthusiastic and innovative .NET Developer looking to join a vibrant development team, working on an award winning product designed for all mobile phone platforms - Apple, Android, Windows? Clients include some of the largest blue-chip companies in the world in industries such as oil and gas exploration, banking and NGOs

My client is a dynamic and rapidly growing global organisation. This role offers an exciting opportunity in a dynamic environment for a .NET developer keen to work at the leading edge of web and mobile development.

Role brief:
*Development of the next version of their mobile app.
*Development of mobile-friendly web interfaces.
*Technical pre-sales meetings and conversations with technology partners and customers.
*Designing and creating innovative new features for the application.
*Being responsible for ensuring code written is of high quality, using SOLID principles.
*Testing code and participating in code reviews.
*Taking responsibility for day to day progress of individual tasks

My client is seeking an innovative and creative candidate with a drive to write clean, maintainable code of a high quality with a keen eye for code organization and design. Candidates must have proven prior experience working with the .NET framework and ideally knowledge of Xamarin and mobile development.

The product is highly secure and subject to industrial-strength penetration tests and hence knowledge of secure programming techniques and models and the ability to write robust software are essential.

Skillset:
*C# (with experience of LINQ, asynchronous programming etc.)
*.NET framework 4.0+
*SQL Server & T-SQL
*ASP.NET MVC & Razor
*Web API
*Mobile Development experience on iOS and Android using Xamarin
*.NET server technologies (such as Entity Framework, WCF)
*Web client technologies (JavaScript, ReactJS, knowledge of REST based APIs)
*Source control solutions (e.g. Git, TFS)
*Visual Studio (including use of NuGet)

This is an urgent requirement, looking to interview this week and next.
Please apply today to avoid missing out.

.NET Developer / Senior .NET Developer

Do you live local to York? Are you an enthusiastic and innovative .NET Developer looking to join a vibrant development team, working on an award winning product designed for all mobile phone platforms - Apple, Android, Windows? Clients include some of the largest blue-chip companies in the world in industries such as oil and gas exploration, banking and NGOs

My client is a dynamic and rapidly growing global organisation. This role offers an exciting opportunity in a dynamic environment for a .NET developer keen to work at the leading edge of web and mobile development.

Role brief:
*Development of the next version of their mobile app.
*Development of mobile-friendly web interfaces.
*Technical pre-sales meetings and conversations with technology partners and customers.
*Designing and creating innovative new features for the application.
*Being responsible for ensuring code written is of high quality, using SOLID principles.
*Testing code and participating in code reviews.
*Taking responsibility for day to day progress of individual tasks

My client is seeking an innovative and creative candidate with a drive to write clean, maintainable code of a high quality with a keen eye for code organization and design. Candidates must have proven prior experience working with the .NET framework and ideally knowledge of Xamarin and mobile development.

The product is highly secure and subject to industrial-strength penetration tests and hence knowledge of secure programming techniques and models and the ability to write robust software are essential.

Skillset:
*C# (with experience of LINQ, asynchronous programming etc.)
*.NET framework 4.0+
*SQL Server & T-SQL
*ASP.NET MVC & Razor
*Web API
*Mobile Development experience on iOS and Android using Xamarin
*.NET server technologies (such as Entity Framework, WCF)
*Web client technologies (JavaScript, ReactJS, knowledge of REST based APIs)
*Source control solutions (e.g. Git, TFS)
*Visual Studio (including use of NuGet)

This is an urgent requirement, looking to interview this week and next.
Please apply today to avoid missing out.