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Candidate Source Ltd

Salary

From £10,000 to £10,000 per year + bonus + company benefits

Location

South West London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

One of the largest employers listed on the London Stock Exchange, with over 620,000 employees working across 125 countries has a vacancy for a Technical Architect. In the United Kingdom, this organisation works across a wide range of geographic markets and business sectors, we have a turnover of £1 billion and employ over 45,000 staff.

As a Technical Architect you will work as part of a team to deliver innovative, cost-effective and efficient IT solutions to an organisation.

As a Technical Architect your key responsibilities are:

• Identifying an organisation's needs
• Agreeing plans with the client
• Discussing the best products and systems with the client
• Explaining plans to designers and developers
• Producing progress reports
• Dealing with problems as they arise
• Advising clients on future developments

The Ideal Technical Architect will hold the following skills and experiences:

• Excellent organisation skills with ability to manage own workload and work effectively under pressure.
• Communicate effectively with key stakeholders
• A wide ranging knowledge of Information Security and IT Security frameworks, standards and application of best practice.
• Ability to present information concisely and to clearly identify key issues at senior management level

In return we offer the chance to join a FTSE 100 company with a competitive salary, bonus and company benefits.








The first stage of the application process is to apply online.

Candidate Source Ltd is an Advertising Agency working on behalf of an Employment Agency. By applying for this position you are giving us permission to pass your CV and covering letter to a third party in relation to this specific vacancy. A full copy of our privacy policy can be viewed on our website.

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PDA Search and Selection Ltd

Salary

From £25,000 to £35,000 per year + depending on experience

Location

South West London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Position: Junior Search Developer

Location: South West London

Salary: £25-35K depending on experience

Our client is a young and exciting company focusing on Search based applications. Following recent investment and growth, they are now looking to expand their team to further develop their existing product set, and work on new innovative solutions.

This vacancy is for a junior analyst programmer to maintain, develop and enhance applications as part of our client’s external product development.

This role requires a level of technical experience and interpersonal skills to be able to work effectively with product managers, development and architecture staff, along with and third party developers as required.

Technical skills and experience

Primary
• Strong object orientated programming skills (C++, C#, Java) – work going forward will be primarily with C# .Net (.Net 4.0) and Java.
• Ability to understand and write technical documentation.
• Experience of both Windows and *NIX based operating systems.
• Ability to learn fast.
• Exposure to SOLR (1+ years)
• Exposure to content management and more preferably search applications.

Secondary
• Experience of XML and XSLT.
• An understanding of Enterprise Search.
• Experience of test driven design and Test harness usage.
• Experience of SQL and MS SQL Server.
• Familiarity with source code control systems (e.g. TFS).
• Good academic background - degree in computer science or technical discipline or equivalent learning and experience.

Interpersonal skills and experience
• Drive and ability to learn new technical skills, with evidence of past learning.
• Team player, able to work effectively with others.
• Able to work alone and use own initiative, engaging with others when needed.
• Ability to approach problems logically. Thinks beyond the most immediate solution to consider alternatives.
• Demonstrates an awareness of how their work impacts the user experience.
• “Can do” attitude

Preferred skills
Any knowledge and experience of the following will be of benefit:
• An understanding of Microsoft technologies.
• Knowledge of Agile development practices and the SCRUM methodology.

If you are interested in this position please forward your CV in strictest confidence to Robin Davidson at PDA SEARCH & SELECTION LIMITED.

Recruiter

Candidate Source Ltd

Salary

From £10,000 to £10,000 per year + bonus + benefits

Location

South West London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

One of the largest employers listed on the London Stock Exchange, with over 620,000 employees working across 125 countries has a vacancy for a System Architect. In the United Kingdom, this organisation works across a wide range of geographic markets and business sectors, we have a turnover of £1 billion and employ over 45,000 staff.
As a System Architect you will work as part of a team to deliver innovative, cost-effective and efficient IT solutions to an organisation.

As a System Architect your duties will include:

• Liaising with suppliers and end users to ensure that IT solutions meet the needs of business in a cost effective manner.
• Providing advice, evaluation and recommendations on complex technical information and proposals that are provided by suppliers so that the most appropriate and cost effective solutions are chosen.
• Ensuring that IT security is aligned with company requirements.
• Maintaining and collating hardware, including software, networks and servers so that analysis can be done to create preventative measures.
• Advising and implementing the distribution, use and best practice of systems and processes to optimise end user consistency and efficiency.
• Recommending, maintaining and testing disaster recovery plans to mitigate business risk
• Ensuring compliance of all statutory requirements, company policies and procedures with relevant stakeholders and sub-contractors.

An ideal System Architect will hold the following skills and experiences:

• Significant proven experience in a technical management environment and should have previously delivered complex software solution projects within that time.
• A background in the utilities industry.
• Experience of developing and promoting relationships with all stakeholders.
• Practical experience building and developing new systems.

In return we offer the chance to join a FTSE 100 company with a competitive salary, bonus and company benefits.


The first stage of the application process is to apply online.

Candidate Source Ltd is an Advertising Agency working on behalf of an Employment Agency. By applying for this position you are giving us permission to pass your CV and covering letter to a third party in relation to this specific vacancy. A full copy of our privacy policy can be viewed on our website.

Recruiter

Candidate Source Ltd

Salary

From £10,000 to £10,000 per year + Bonus + company benefits

Location

South West London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

One of the largest employers listed on the London Stock Exchange, with over 620,000 employees working across 110 countries has a vacancy for a PMO Specialist. In the United Kingdom, this organisation works across a wide range of geographic markets and business sectors, we have a turnover of £1 billion and employ over 45,000 staff.

As a PMO Specialist you will:

• Maintain portfolio level view of progress and identify any portfolio level risks and issues
• Ensure project progress is reported regularly, consistently, accurately and in a manner to suit each interested party throughout the business
• Ensure that all Business Projects follow the defined governance and process and that all deliverables and gateways are approved by an appropriate level within the organisation
• Ensure that all projects are initiated correctly and have clear requirements and goals from the outset.
• Tracking and reporting on the project portfolio financial position
Project Process and Quality
• Maintain and continually improve the project management processes in line with industry best practices to provide an efficient, high quality and cost effective project management function that supports an iterative and agile development methodology and a dynamic business
• Manage the Management tools to support the needs of the project management team and project stakeholders
• Actively promote quality throughout the Business Projects group and ensure the quality of all project management deliverables
• Complete health checks at appropriate points in project lifecycles
• Participate in post project evaluations and take ownership for data collected to ensure learning is shared throughout the project management team
People
• Ensure that the Business Projects group establishes and maintains a good working relationship with all stakeholders
• Coach and mentor less experienced members of the team

The Ideal PMO Specialist will hold the following skills and experiences:

• Previous experience as a Project Manager
• In depth knowledge of working in a programme or project office environment
• Familiar with best practice project governance
• Experience of completing project health checks and quality assurance activities
• Experience of risk, issue and change management
• experience of monitoring and maintaining Project Management processes within an organisation
• Experience tracking project budgets and advanced use of Excel for project/programme/portfolio cost and benefit analysis
• Experience of completing project health checks and quality assurance activities
• Proven experience of monitoring and maintaining Project Management processes within an organisation
• Thorough understanding of the project management process throughout the lifecycle, and the ability to identify issues and take corrective action
• Knowledge of formal planning techniques, e.g. critical path analysis
• Experience of leading several projects which have required significant business change management

It would also be advantageous to have experience of Agile development methodologies.

In return we offer the chance to join a FTSE 100 company with a competitive salary, bonus and company benefits.


The first stage of the application process is to apply online.

Candidate Source Ltd is an Advertising Agency working on behalf of an Employment Agency. By applying for this position you are giving us permission to pass your CV and covering letter to a third party in relation to this specific vacancy. A full copy of our privacy policy can be viewed on our website.