Solution Architect required with the chance to work on interesting and forward thinking projects that will not only utilise your technical expertise but also challenge and develop your skills and experience.

Our client is easily accessed from Bradford, Leeds, Bingley, Harrogate and Preston areas and is offering an excellent salary plus excellent benefits including bonus, pension and a fantastic career opportunity with realistic progression opportunities and  a technical training & development programme.

We are looking for proven skills and experience working within a similar environment or someone who is able to demonstrate experience in a role that has required significant IT architecture interaction and looking for the next step in your career.

Solution Architect – Key skills and experience:

You will have skills, experience and qualities in some of the following areas:

• Ability to engage internal and external stakeholders building confidence and trust
• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex technical solutions and concepts to non-technical audiences
• Knowledge of eCommerce architecture and strategies
• Technical expertise in Microsoft stack: SQL, .Net, C#, Citrix and Microservices
• Forward thinking and innovative approach

Solutions Architect – Key responsibilities

Responsible for developing solution designs for business systems, providing architectural direction to teams across the wider IT function. The role will see you participate in defining technical strategies and overseeing their successful implementation.

The 3 key areas that you will contribute towards:

·        Developing Solution Designs: Here you will own the ‘big picture’ and the full end-to-end solution encompassing functional and non-functional requirements.

·        Architectural Direction: Inputting into enterprise architecture strategies and implementation as well as embedding principles and architectural thinking into our development teams

·        Implement Technical Strategy: Managing the level of technical debt to support long-term and sustainable development along with enabling incremental and iterative development.

You will be the first point of contact for developers seeking technical and/or architectural guidance during development projects and therefore it is important that you are able to demonstrate coaching and mentoring skills.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-moving global FS organisation who value career development offering a competitive salary  & Excellent Benefits including in return to join an expanding dedicated team with some exciting projects in a commercially driven sector. Apply now for further information from our Senior Consultant.

IT Project Manager required with experience of implementing a range of software and application products in a digital financial services environment. The role is based in Leeds, West Yorkshire and will be responsible for managing the delivery of a range of IT projects of various sizes within the digital banking software product environment.

IT Project Manager – Skills / Qualifications/ Experience:-

·        Solid IT industry experience ideally working in the software and application area of project delivery.

·        Ideally experience of digital banking products such browsing and internet access or mobile app technologies

·        Solid project / programme management experience including planning, reporting, budgetary and issue/risk management

·        Business knowledge (Financial services sector)

·        Project management tools and processes

·        Strong knowledge across a variety of SDLC methodologies (e.g. waterfall and agile) and best practices

·        Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to handle difficult or sensitive situations

·        Strong influencing and negotiation skills both with internal stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers.

·        Ideally a professional Project management qualification i.e. Prince2 or MSP

These projects often involve multiple third parties, delivery by resources in multiple locations/countries, changes to multiple IT systems and the introduction, removal or modification to technical architecture together with significant business change.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an exciting fast moving financial services organisation paying a salary c £45/50K + excellent benefits in a city centre location.

 We are actively recruiting a team of BI Developers & Lead BI Developers required for our clients growing Business Intelligence & Analytics team based across West and North Yorkshire.

We are looking for bright, motivated and talented individuals to work alongside some fantastic people providing a global Business Intelligence Service provision to internal and external clients.

We are looking for talented go-getting individuals with the following skills and experience:-

• Experience of BI development and support in a medium to complex organisation.
• Knowledge of the data management processes as well as the development of front-end reporting and analytics solutions.
• Experience of SQL Server, BI toolkit (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Power BI) and SQL programming plus data visualisation and performance tuning is required.
• SAP Business Objects is desirable.

For the Lead BI Developers we are looking in addition to the above technical skills:-

• Ability to collaborate and communicate well, building great working relationships, influencing others, challenge effectively and respond well to challenge from others, shares information and ideas with others, & has good listening skills.
• Has a strong work ethic and is able to deal with sometimes conflicting priorities.
• Able to give advice, mentor and pass on knowledge.

As BI Developers you will work as part of a cross-functional team to deliver high-quality, accurate data and reporting solutions which satisfy customer expectations.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to design and implement reporting/data management systems to facilitate business decisions or provide commercial opportunities whilst supporting and maintaining existing systems.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-moving global FS organisation who value career development offering a competitive salary range depending on skills and experience from £28K to £55K & Excellent Benefits including bonus and a share scheme & flexible working – in return to join an expanding dedicated BI & Analytics team with some exciting projects in a commercially driven sector.

Apply now for further information from our Senior Consultant.

HRIS Operations Team Leader required by international organisation responsible for the operational support and management of our client’s global HR systems.

Based in central London our client is offering an exceptional package for this role including a salary to £48,300 + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension Scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and 32 Days plus bank holidays, and an interest free travel season ticket loan.

HRIS Operations Team Leader – Key Skills Knowledge and Experience

• Strong Project management skills and qualification – either formal project management and/or PRINCE 2 or equivalent experience
• Experience of managing small technically oriented teams.
• Good Communication skills.
• Experience of working in a complex, global organisation.
• Broad knowledge of operational HR processes.
• Experience of supporting and/or implementing SaaS HR systems (ideally SAP SuccessFactors) and ideallyEmployee Central
• Leading a team supporting core HRIS, learning management and e-recruitment systems.

Currently, the HR system comprises a Learning Management System, an e-Recruitment system and a Performance management system. All these systems are being incorporated into the SAP based HR system called Success Factors and you will be involved in the programme to roll out the system internationally particularly using Employee Central.

HRIS Operations Team Leader – Opportunities & Challenges

The HRIS Operations Team Leader is responsible for managing all BAU HRIS services:

Manage the HRIS team to ensure that all support tickets are resolved in line with agreed service levels.

Together with the HR Vendor Manager, actively manage third party systems providers, conduct regular service reviews and in general ensure that these providers are fulfilling their contractual commitments.

Manage periodic upgrades to the LMS and e-Recruitment systems.

Ensure HRIS team have the right mix of skills to provide an effective support service to employees, line managers and HR staff across the global organisation.

As part of the global rollout, develop, implement and manage an operational management framework and support processes.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an international organisation working as HRIS Operations Team Leader based out of central London working in a professional company with a flexible work/life balance ethos. Who are offering an attractive package including a salary to £48,300 + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension Scheme (employer contributions up to 22%), 32 Days plus bank holidays, and an interest free travel season ticket loan.

This role is being offered as an initial 12 month Fixed Term Contract – Apply now for further details from our Senior Consultant

Solution Architect with extensive experience of managing and coordinating the development and delivery of technical solutions, including applications or services across using agreed standards and methodologies is required by an exciting commercial national located in Merseyside. The  Solution Architect requires an understanding of Business Engagement, Stakeholder Management as well as Project Delivery in a commercial environment. They are offering an attractive package c£66K+ Bonus & Benefits plus the opportunity to work in a dynamic fast-moving and very rewarding IT Solution delivery role for a national organisation.

Solution Architect – Key skills and experience

• Strong understanding of a commercial online environment including possibly finance, retail, telco, or utility environments and industry trends
• Experience of effectively managing change in a fast moving environment
• Broad experience in IT preferably within a commercial environment i.e. finance, retail, telco, or utility industries
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experienced in architecture frameworks e.g. TOGAF, & POET.
• Collaborative; ability to develop strong relationships within company departments to show great teamwork.
• Confident, sociable and able to interact directly and autonomously with a wide variety of stakeholders

Solution Architect – Responsibilities

• Establish strong relationships with Business Subject Matter Experts
• Champion IT processes
• Manage and coordinate with BA and technical and development leads internal and external
• Support the business analyst in to deliver change Innovation
• Liaise with the Business Analyst to understand business requirements in order to document the functional spec. Conduct a gap analysis with the BA to identify those requirements that cannot be met.
• Facilitate and or attend design workshops with technical design teams and SMEs where required to support the creation of a technical specification
• Responsible for reviewing the Technical specification and ensuring that there is clear traceability across requirements and raising and resolving any gaps before progressing to build.

This is an excellent career opportunity, based in the north west of England easily accessed from Liverpool, Manchester and the surrounding areas and offering an attractive package c£70K + Benefits. Apply now for further details.

Process Improvement Consultant / Manager required by global organisation to work closely with the HR systems team, wider HR community and global stakeholders to implement simplified and standardised core processes to support the introduction of a Global HR system (SuccessFactors) and transfer of activities to a Shared Services centre on a global business transformation programme.

Process Improvement Consultant / Manager role can be based out of either Manchester or London and our client is offering an exceptional package for this role including a salary to c £48K + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension Scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and 32 Days plus bank holidays.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE – Process Improvement Consultant / Manager 

• Ability to document processes and procedures, particularly using Visio
• Significant experience in process design / improvement
• Experience of defining processes for system automation/development
• Experience of working with SuccessFactors / cloud based HR solutions
• Experience of delivering processes into shared services models
• Strong use of Microsoft office applications, including ability to analyse data and create easy to use templates
• Senior stakeholder engagement and communication

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Process/Quality/continuous improvement qualification such as lean, six sigma
• Experience of working in a global organization, ideally a non profit

A critical part of this Process Improvement Consultant / Manager role will be to streamline the detailed processes and workflows delivered by the system and the new shared services team, while ensuring required localisations and business rules are understood, documented and delivered. This includes validating that the global process already defined is fit for purpose for each region/country, automated where possible and designing/further developing any ‘off system/manual’ processes and tools to ensure seamless delivery of core HR processes.

Supporting the deployment of the new system via production of clear process documentation, procedures, templates and guidelines will be key to success in this role.  Ensuring processes are in control, with reportable metrics as well as identifying opportunities for continuous improvement is also key.

Accountabilities – Process Improvement Consultant / Manager

• Design the detailed processes: configuration, workflows and business rules to be delivered by the HR system
• Identify where local/regional variations are (legitimately) required – working with the wider change programme to support operation/delivery model changes
• Identify and develop solutions to address business problems and deliver standardisation, efficiencies and controls – removing non value add activities where possible
• Design and document off system/manual processes – ensuring procedures are documented to standard via process manager/analysts with templates and guides.

Process Improvement Consultant / Manager role is based on an initial 12 month fixed term contract and can be based out of either central Manchester or London. It’s a fantastic opportunity to join a global organisation working on one of their largest and complex transformation programmes. In return our client is offering an exceptional package including a salary to c £48K (including £3k London allowance) + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension Scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and a flexible working environment plus 32 Days (plus bank) holidays and interest free travel season ticket loans. CV deadline 11^th January so apply online ASAP for further information.