Software Developer Telford (Hybrid) 6 months contract Up to £378 p/d Umbrella Active SC Clearance required ROLE INFO: Software development activity across the full range of development life cycle; requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding/development, testing, implementation and live support. This may be within new systems development projects or enhancements and fixes to existing applications. Carrying out development in accordance with the agreed requirements and development standards Testing of products in accordance with the test strategy to ensure that they are fit for purpose Assisting the team in examining packages of work and giving realistic timescales for completion Completion of work allocated within agreed time, cost and quality criteria and providing progress reports on assigned work as required Management and control of problems and change within their area of responsibility, including negotiation with other team members Problem analysis, investigation and resolution Playing an active part in Process improvement, awareness of and compliance with all relevant quality processes and procedures, including completion of all the specified quality records Mandatory Skills: Will be used across Live Support systems wherever required: Technologies - Denodo/Talend/PDI/Git/MySQL/Redshift/Grafana Dashboard creation/consolidation Gathering requirements, understanding the service and delivery alerts to suit Should have experience in Grafana monitoring: Dashboard creation/consolidation A software engineering background with proven ability to rapidly learn and apply application development process, tools and programming/Scripting languages. Awareness of key SE engineering concepts and governance (design, development, config management and version control, quality control, continuous integration, release/deployment, documentation, built in supportability, built in maintainability, re-use and extensibility) Specific experience of data solutions development addressing data extraction, transformation and load (ETL) processing and data analytics and reporting requirements. Familiar with Agile software development principles and practices and experience of delivery as a member of an Agile Scrum team utilising Scrum methodology. If you think you have the experience and are interested in this position, please do not hesitate to apply! Either apply direct or reach out
23/04/2024
Project-based
Software Developer Telford (Hybrid) 6 months contract Up to £378 p/d Umbrella Active SC Clearance required ROLE INFO: Software development activity across the full range of development life cycle; requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding/development, testing, implementation and live support. This may be within new systems development projects or enhancements and fixes to existing applications. Carrying out development in accordance with the agreed requirements and development standards Testing of products in accordance with the test strategy to ensure that they are fit for purpose Assisting the team in examining packages of work and giving realistic timescales for completion Completion of work allocated within agreed time, cost and quality criteria and providing progress reports on assigned work as required Management and control of problems and change within their area of responsibility, including negotiation with other team members Problem analysis, investigation and resolution Playing an active part in Process improvement, awareness of and compliance with all relevant quality processes and procedures, including completion of all the specified quality records Mandatory Skills: Will be used across Live Support systems wherever required: Technologies - Denodo/Talend/PDI/Git/MySQL/Redshift/Grafana Dashboard creation/consolidation Gathering requirements, understanding the service and delivery alerts to suit Should have experience in Grafana monitoring: Dashboard creation/consolidation A software engineering background with proven ability to rapidly learn and apply application development process, tools and programming/Scripting languages. Awareness of key SE engineering concepts and governance (design, development, config management and version control, quality control, continuous integration, release/deployment, documentation, built in supportability, built in maintainability, re-use and extensibility) Specific experience of data solutions development addressing data extraction, transformation and load (ETL) processing and data analytics and reporting requirements. Familiar with Agile software development principles and practices and experience of delivery as a member of an Agile Scrum team utilising Scrum methodology. If you think you have the experience and are interested in this position, please do not hesitate to apply! Either apply direct or reach out
Harvey Nash have partnered exclusively with the University of Sheffield as they continue revolutionise their solutions and solidify its position as a leading Russell Group university. They are looking for a Senior Developer to join them. IT Services are advertising a challenging and rewarding role as part of our growing Integration Team. We are building a modern API led approach to Integrations across our estate with the design and implementation of Spring Boot REST APIs using KONG API Gateway Enterprise Products, as well as AWS Infrastructure and tools. Over time we will have a Full Lifecycle API Management Framework in place as part of this work. The team also designs and builds ETL pipelines using a modern data and event driven architecture. We provide a central point of expertise to own and manage our integration tools, processes and standards, and set our future approach to integration. As part of this we provide support to colleagues and suppliers who use our tooling to build their own integrations Essential criteria: Experience in developing systems using a variety of technologies. SpringBoot and Java are our current stack. Experience with Python is a bonus. Expertise with relational and non-relational databases. Expertise in designing and building APIs (REST, GraphQL, etc) Understanding of the life cycle of API management issues such as Security and Traffic Management, Access Control, etc. Expertise in effective collaborative working as part of a team, and the associated tools (Git, Jira, etc) and practices (Agile). Experience of driving continual improvements to systems, processes and working practices to deliver increased performance, efficiency and quality on the systems we maintain. Experience developing, monitoring, debugging and fault handling complex integrations between different systems using a variety of methods and approaches. Wide range of knowledge of tools and techniques for developing high quality software (eg continuous integration/deployment, software testing, containerisation, dependency management, etc.) Ability to learn new technologies and techniques, set standards and support team members on their use. Manage own time when working on several projects simultaneously, with an ability to prioritise and complete urgent fixes as they occur. Ability to support and mentor more junior members of the team. What we offer A minimum of 41 days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more Generous pension scheme A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, eating out and travel A commitment to your development access to learning and mentoring schemes A range of generous family-friendly policies + more! The University of Sheffield is a certified Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident is a recognition given by the Government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to employers based in Great Britain who have agreed to take action to meet thirteen commitments regarding the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees. One of these commitments is to offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. A false declaration of disability to obtain an interview will result in the invalidation of any offer made. If you consider yourself to have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and would like your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme, please make this visible in your application or send an email to the consultant (see below) Criminal record A basic DBS check will be needed for this role. More details on the checks can be found on the Government website: gov.uk/criminal-record-checks-apply-role. Possession of a criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment at the University of Sheffield. We recognise the value of steady employment in the rehabilitation process and examine each case in its own right. More information can be found on our Information for candidates page
19/04/2024
Full time
Harvey Nash have partnered exclusively with the University of Sheffield as they continue revolutionise their solutions and solidify its position as a leading Russell Group university. They are looking for a Senior Developer to join them. IT Services are advertising a challenging and rewarding role as part of our growing Integration Team. We are building a modern API led approach to Integrations across our estate with the design and implementation of Spring Boot REST APIs using KONG API Gateway Enterprise Products, as well as AWS Infrastructure and tools. Over time we will have a Full Lifecycle API Management Framework in place as part of this work. The team also designs and builds ETL pipelines using a modern data and event driven architecture. We provide a central point of expertise to own and manage our integration tools, processes and standards, and set our future approach to integration. As part of this we provide support to colleagues and suppliers who use our tooling to build their own integrations Essential criteria: Experience in developing systems using a variety of technologies. SpringBoot and Java are our current stack. Experience with Python is a bonus. Expertise with relational and non-relational databases. Expertise in designing and building APIs (REST, GraphQL, etc) Understanding of the life cycle of API management issues such as Security and Traffic Management, Access Control, etc. Expertise in effective collaborative working as part of a team, and the associated tools (Git, Jira, etc) and practices (Agile). Experience of driving continual improvements to systems, processes and working practices to deliver increased performance, efficiency and quality on the systems we maintain. Experience developing, monitoring, debugging and fault handling complex integrations between different systems using a variety of methods and approaches. Wide range of knowledge of tools and techniques for developing high quality software (eg continuous integration/deployment, software testing, containerisation, dependency management, etc.) Ability to learn new technologies and techniques, set standards and support team members on their use. Manage own time when working on several projects simultaneously, with an ability to prioritise and complete urgent fixes as they occur. Ability to support and mentor more junior members of the team. What we offer A minimum of 41 days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more Generous pension scheme A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, eating out and travel A commitment to your development access to learning and mentoring schemes A range of generous family-friendly policies + more! The University of Sheffield is a certified Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident is a recognition given by the Government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to employers based in Great Britain who have agreed to take action to meet thirteen commitments regarding the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees. One of these commitments is to offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. A false declaration of disability to obtain an interview will result in the invalidation of any offer made. If you consider yourself to have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and would like your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme, please make this visible in your application or send an email to the consultant (see below) Criminal record A basic DBS check will be needed for this role. More details on the checks can be found on the Government website: gov.uk/criminal-record-checks-apply-role. Possession of a criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment at the University of Sheffield. We recognise the value of steady employment in the rehabilitation process and examine each case in its own right. More information can be found on our Information for candidates page
IBM DataStage Expert - Banking Client - Brussels Duration: 8 months Rate: 500 - 800 per day Hybrid working: Must be able to be in Brussels for team meetings/Workshops The team helps to transform data into insights using techniques such as text mining, machine learning, process mining, network analytics, predictive modelling, and creates reports using Cognos or Power BI. Role . Collect, clean, prepare and load the necessary data into the Data Warehouse, so that they can be used for reporting purposes; creating insights and answering business challenges . Act as a liaison between the team and other stakeholders. . Review the business requirements for the development and design needs . Design dimensional models to meet the business reporting needs . Design the technical ETL solution (define the technical interface, specifications for the source systems, the ETL processes from landing zone till storage) and develop the solution with IBM DataStage . Design the physical relational data model in collaboration with the database administrator . Define the scheduling requirements for ETL processes in the data warehouse . Develop & test (unit test, functional test and data profiling) the ETL processes . Prepare the releases & installation instructions . Provide documentation and support the developers . Create best practices . Handle hotline by solving the problems linked to ETL raised by the end users . Your main responsibilities will be to handle developments. You will act in close collaboration with the other team members and our clients. . You will find the right balance between cost and quality/completeness. Your Profile: . We are looking for a profile with excellent technical skills and a strong interest for the financial business. . You have minimum 5 years' experience in designing data models in a data warehouse context and developing applications in IBM DataStage. . You have an interest in the banking business and are willing to learn more . You have a good working knowledge of the SQL language . You're a good team player . You have strong communication skills and are willing to interact with both business/internal clients and your technical colleagues . You have good analytical skills and you're interested to solve problems in a complex environment . You can work on multiple projects at once . Knowledge of Agile methodology and BI reporting tools (IBM Cognos/Power BI) is clearly an asset Please do send across to me the most up to date CV to (see below)
19/04/2024
Project-based
IBM DataStage Expert - Banking Client - Brussels Duration: 8 months Rate: 500 - 800 per day Hybrid working: Must be able to be in Brussels for team meetings/Workshops The team helps to transform data into insights using techniques such as text mining, machine learning, process mining, network analytics, predictive modelling, and creates reports using Cognos or Power BI. Role . Collect, clean, prepare and load the necessary data into the Data Warehouse, so that they can be used for reporting purposes; creating insights and answering business challenges . Act as a liaison between the team and other stakeholders. . Review the business requirements for the development and design needs . Design dimensional models to meet the business reporting needs . Design the technical ETL solution (define the technical interface, specifications for the source systems, the ETL processes from landing zone till storage) and develop the solution with IBM DataStage . Design the physical relational data model in collaboration with the database administrator . Define the scheduling requirements for ETL processes in the data warehouse . Develop & test (unit test, functional test and data profiling) the ETL processes . Prepare the releases & installation instructions . Provide documentation and support the developers . Create best practices . Handle hotline by solving the problems linked to ETL raised by the end users . Your main responsibilities will be to handle developments. You will act in close collaboration with the other team members and our clients. . You will find the right balance between cost and quality/completeness. Your Profile: . We are looking for a profile with excellent technical skills and a strong interest for the financial business. . You have minimum 5 years' experience in designing data models in a data warehouse context and developing applications in IBM DataStage. . You have an interest in the banking business and are willing to learn more . You have a good working knowledge of the SQL language . You're a good team player . You have strong communication skills and are willing to interact with both business/internal clients and your technical colleagues . You have good analytical skills and you're interested to solve problems in a complex environment . You can work on multiple projects at once . Knowledge of Agile methodology and BI reporting tools (IBM Cognos/Power BI) is clearly an asset Please do send across to me the most up to date CV to (see below)