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

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

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

An experienced Developer that enjoys working in small teams where there's a need to engage with key business system users required for this City based opportunity. The Developer will need core C#, ASP.Net, WebForms, Entity framework experience along with strong SQL Server database skills including performance tuning. Our client has a diverse range of interests in the property sector and is one of the leaders in their field. The role will focus on the management, maintenance and ongoing development of their core Property Asset system which is an in-house developed application hosted in Azure. There are plans for major redevelopment of the system for which this Developer will be pivotal in leading on. The portfolio consists of a range of applications including Financial, Asset Forecasting and Property Management systems. In addition to the core development / coding aspects of the role (circ 60/70%) there is also an element of Requirements Gathering, DevOps and 3rd Line Support.

To be considered for the post you will need the following experience;

* C#
* ASP.Net
* Webforms
* Entity Framework
* SQL Server
* Performance Tuning
* Application and Database Architecture
* JavaScript / JQuery

Any experience of the following would be advantageous;

* Azure / AWS
* Oracle PL/SQL
* Jenkins
* PowerShell
* Source Control

Our client can offer a competitive salary in the region of £60,000 to £75,000 dependent on experience, Bonus, Private Medical Insurance, Income Protection Insurance and a Generous Pension Scheme.

For further information, please send your CV to Wayne Hawthorne at Vadis People Services Ltd. Vadis acts in the capacity of both an Employment Agent and Employment Business

An experienced Developer that enjoys working in small teams where there's a need to engage with key business system users required for this City based opportunity. The Developer will need core C#, ASP.Net, WebForms, Entity framework experience along with strong SQL Server database skills including performance tuning. Our client has a diverse range of interests in the property sector and is one of the leaders in their field. The role will focus on the management, maintenance and ongoing development of their core Property Asset system which is an in-house developed application hosted in Azure. There are plans for major redevelopment of the system for which this Developer will be pivotal in leading on. The portfolio consists of a range of applications including Financial, Asset Forecasting and Property Management systems. In addition to the core development / coding aspects of the role (circ 60/70%) there is also an element of Requirements Gathering, DevOps and 3rd Line Support.

To be considered for the post you will need the following experience;

* C#
* ASP.Net
* Webforms
* Entity Framework
* SQL Server
* Performance Tuning
* Application and Database Architecture
* JavaScript / JQuery

Any experience of the following would be advantageous;

* Azure / AWS
* Oracle PL/SQL
* Jenkins
* PowerShell
* Source Control

Our client can offer a competitive salary in the region of £60,000 to £75,000 dependent on experience, Bonus, Private Medical Insurance, Income Protection Insurance and a Generous Pension Scheme.

For further information, please send your CV to Wayne Hawthorne at Vadis People Services Ltd. Vadis acts in the capacity of both an Employment Agent and Employment Business

ERP Project Manager (Oracle ERP Cloud) - £70,000

Project Manager with Oracle ERP expertise is wanted by a major UK company. It’s a critical project to manage an entire move from on-premise to Oracle ERP Cloud, and you will be involved in the full project life cycle. It’s one of the company’s most important IT projects for many years and something you will be immensely proud of (and thanked for) when it’s completed.

You will be in charge of identifying requirements, scoping, process design and ensuring that morale is kept up within the team as it’ll be quite a big change for them.

For a full job spec and run down on the company, please get in touch and apply! Salary is to £70,000 plus package. It’s an initial fixed-term contract until August 2021 yet there’s scope to extend and become a full-time employee should the project be delivered on-time and within budget. Home-working and flexible hours and provided.

ERP Project Manager (Oracle ERP Cloud) - £70,000

Project Manager with Oracle ERP expertise is wanted by a major UK company. It’s a critical project to manage an entire move from on-premise to Oracle ERP Cloud, and you will be involved in the full project life cycle. It’s one of the company’s most important IT projects for many years and something you will be immensely proud of (and thanked for) when it’s completed.

You will be in charge of identifying requirements, scoping, process design and ensuring that morale is kept up within the team as it’ll be quite a big change for them.

For a full job spec and run down on the company, please get in touch and apply! Salary is to £70,000 plus package. It’s an initial fixed-term contract until August 2021 yet there’s scope to extend and become a full-time employee should the project be delivered on-time and within budget. Home-working and flexible hours and provided.

Solution Architect - Reigate

This role is for a highly experienced Solution Architect with excellent technical skills in UNIX / LINUX and Oracle.

As Solution Architect, you will have responsibility for the overall technical solution to deliver on time and within budget the desired enhancements to associated applications, ensuring that the appropriate choice of technology is used. This role includes reviewing technology opportunities and options and advising on their suitability and compatibility of the products selected, also ensuring that the development adheres to the appropriate strategic corporate technical direction of the Firm.

You will contribute to the evolutionary development of a technology solution covering the complete end to end process of on-boarding clients, managing investments and the monitoring and reporting on those investments. Your role will cover all aspects of the development lifecycle.

This will include varied tasks ranging from capturing and evolving requirements, enhancing and refactoring software architecture, being a key team member selecting vendors, developing new software components, maintaining and debugging existing components, documenting and testing software features.
Your experience, passion and confidence in the field will be quite apparent and will retain the strong client confidence in our vision and value proposition.

Whether dealing with technical teams or business stakeholders your ability to moderate your message accordingly and lead through expertise and dynamism will enhance our already market leading offerings

The Role

Key responsibilities:

The Solution Architect must possess the following skills:

• A comprehensive understanding of computer systems and architecture.
• Excellent technical knowledge of Oracle databases and associated technologies.
• Excellent UNIX/LINUX experience
• Strong analysis and technical design.
• The ability to work alongside clients and key stakeholders to agree on their requirements.
• Excellent communication skills.
• An awareness of the latest computing trends.
• A comprehensive understanding of IT security principles.
• The ability to manage and direct a team of architects.

• Strong client-facing communication/consulting skills
• Experience of working cross-functionally with cross-organizational teams
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, prioritise workload effectively and thrive in a dynamic and complex environment
• Experience in gathering business requirements and translating them into functional design specifications, preferably in an Agile environment
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work with limited supervision
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to understand complex IT architectures

Desirable

A good combination of the following is highly desirable, solid applicants need not possess ALL of the following - a decent mix is fine:

• Be able to demonstrate experience of successfully leading the architectural design of a product or group of products.
• Have the ability and experience to co-ordinate technical and development activities across a team.
• Experienced in the breadth of software engineering activities within an evolutionary lifecycle process including: requirements capture and analysis; architectural and detailed software design; object-orientated software implementation; unit and system-level testing; installation and deployment.
• Familiarity with software lifecycle processes and support tools, estimation and quality assurance principles.
• Ability to coordinate day-to-day development and bug-fixing activities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling effective communication between clients, client contacts/managers, product management, software engineers, DevOps team and corporate IT.
• An understanding of software architecture design best practice and awareness of how to create software which is highly performant, scalable, easily maintainable, extensible, and easy to test and debug.
• A good appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations
• Ability to learn quickly about the TAS business domain in which the solution will be deployed and be able to think and communicate in terms that users feel comfortable with.
• An aptitude to think form a user's perspective to envisage how the solution can best support the business requirements.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Ability to work unsupervised and as a member of a team.
• Self-starter attitude and ability to work with ambiguity.
• Proven experience producing quality deliverables on time.
• Undertake research and development into technologies, tools and processes to drive innovative solutions

Solution Architect - Reigate

This role is for a highly experienced Solution Architect with excellent technical skills in UNIX / LINUX and Oracle.

As Solution Architect, you will have responsibility for the overall technical solution to deliver on time and within budget the desired enhancements to associated applications, ensuring that the appropriate choice of technology is used. This role includes reviewing technology opportunities and options and advising on their suitability and compatibility of the products selected, also ensuring that the development adheres to the appropriate strategic corporate technical direction of the Firm.

You will contribute to the evolutionary development of a technology solution covering the complete end to end process of on-boarding clients, managing investments and the monitoring and reporting on those investments. Your role will cover all aspects of the development lifecycle.

This will include varied tasks ranging from capturing and evolving requirements, enhancing and refactoring software architecture, being a key team member selecting vendors, developing new software components, maintaining and debugging existing components, documenting and testing software features.
Your experience, passion and confidence in the field will be quite apparent and will retain the strong client confidence in our vision and value proposition.

Whether dealing with technical teams or business stakeholders your ability to moderate your message accordingly and lead through expertise and dynamism will enhance our already market leading offerings

The Role

Key responsibilities:

The Solution Architect must possess the following skills:

• A comprehensive understanding of computer systems and architecture.
• Excellent technical knowledge of Oracle databases and associated technologies.
• Excellent UNIX/LINUX experience
• Strong analysis and technical design.
• The ability to work alongside clients and key stakeholders to agree on their requirements.
• Excellent communication skills.
• An awareness of the latest computing trends.
• A comprehensive understanding of IT security principles.
• The ability to manage and direct a team of architects.

• Strong client-facing communication/consulting skills
• Experience of working cross-functionally with cross-organizational teams
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, prioritise workload effectively and thrive in a dynamic and complex environment
• Experience in gathering business requirements and translating them into functional design specifications, preferably in an Agile environment
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work with limited supervision
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to understand complex IT architectures

Desirable

A good combination of the following is highly desirable, solid applicants need not possess ALL of the following - a decent mix is fine:

• Be able to demonstrate experience of successfully leading the architectural design of a product or group of products.
• Have the ability and experience to co-ordinate technical and development activities across a team.
• Experienced in the breadth of software engineering activities within an evolutionary lifecycle process including: requirements capture and analysis; architectural and detailed software design; object-orientated software implementation; unit and system-level testing; installation and deployment.
• Familiarity with software lifecycle processes and support tools, estimation and quality assurance principles.
• Ability to coordinate day-to-day development and bug-fixing activities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling effective communication between clients, client contacts/managers, product management, software engineers, DevOps team and corporate IT.
• An understanding of software architecture design best practice and awareness of how to create software which is highly performant, scalable, easily maintainable, extensible, and easy to test and debug.
• A good appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations
• Ability to learn quickly about the TAS business domain in which the solution will be deployed and be able to think and communicate in terms that users feel comfortable with.
• An aptitude to think form a user's perspective to envisage how the solution can best support the business requirements.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Ability to work unsupervised and as a member of a team.
• Self-starter attitude and ability to work with ambiguity.
• Proven experience producing quality deliverables on time.
• Undertake research and development into technologies, tools and processes to drive innovative solutions