Calling for Business Analysts based in Europe for a long-term contract with a global organisation, based in Geneva.

The role is onsite.

Start date: January 2024

EU passport holders only please!

Our client is looking for a Business Analyst with between 2-4 years’ experience to join their team.

The ideal Business Analyst will have demonstrable experience with IT software application improvement and development.

Required skills and experience:

• Ability to work in close collaboration with IT system delivery teams.
• Ability to work with business process modelling software, workflow diagrams (Business Process Management and Notation 2.0 (BPMN 2) and data models.
• Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.
• IT system requirements and acceptance criteria creation.
• Business process optimization and data workflow analysis.
• Conducting user interviews and feedback sessions.
• Participation in IT solution design process.
• Ability to work quickly and to meet deadlines.
• Excellent knowledge of English and good knowledge of at least one other language is a plus.

Desirable:

• Ability to work with JIRA and testing software.
• Understanding of enterprise relational databases.
• Knowledge of XML data exchange
• Experience with legacy IT systems.

Apply with your CV or get in touch for further details before 1^st December!

Calling for a seasoned Business Analyst with strong testing skills to join a global and reputable organisation, headquartered in beautiful Geneva.

This role is onsite, and therefore, only Swiss or EU citizens who are willing to work in our client’s location can be considered for this project.

The Business Analyst will be part of a project which is aimed at continuing the ongoing development of a common IT platform which connects multiple IT platforms of client’s fee-paying services.

Your role:

The Business Analyst is primarily responsible for supporting the design, implementation and

monitoring of Portal program features, designing and implementing business test cases, provide

customer support as well as assisting Program Manager and Project Managers for the project

execution, and carrying out other specialized activities to effectively support the work of the

program initiatives.

The Business Analyst works under the supervision of the Senior Project Manager of the Portal

Customer Experience project.

 

Skills and experience required:

• Business analyst with strong background in testing.

• Expert knowledge and experience in using tools to model test cases.

• Testing skills: JUnit, SonarQube, Selenium, Katalon

• Formal training in recognized business analysis techniques, reinforced with appropriate work experience

• Formal training and extensive experience using the proven frameworks such as SCRUM software development framework (ideally including SCRUM master or product owner certification or equivalent).

• Experience in performing the role of a business analyst in IT software application development projects

• Expert knowledge and experience in using tools to document processes and workflows, such as Use Case Diagrams, Data and Process Flow Diagrams etc.

• Expert knowledge in measuring and tracking delivery of systems as fit for purpose and in accordance with agreed requirements(KPIs, quality measurements & control points)

• Expert knowledge and experience in configuring and using test automation tools.

• Expert knowledge of SDLC and CI/CD best practices.

• Practical experience working in an international diverse environment.

• Confident communicator and team player, with advanced/proficient level written and verbal English communication skills

Please send your CV or get in touch for further details!

DevOps Co-Ordinator required for a contract position with a leading technology client based in Ireland. Fully remote role! You will act as a Release Co-Ordinator, you will manage the process of planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments; including coordinating with the deployment teams to ensure successful implementation. Our client is looking for a DevOps Co-Ordinator with excellent organisation and communication skills at all levels. The successful DevOps Co-Ordinator will be responsible for: • Preparing release builds in Java and Angular and build new projects before a release. • Supporting multiple project teams and codebases to enable the deployment of application releases to controlled test and production environments. • Verifying that releases are deployed correctly and monitor code migration between environments. • Monitoring JIRA to track and maintain the status of all scheduled releases. • Creating planned and emergency release builds and implementation plans. • Providing team with issues and resolution steps taken during Monthly Enterprise release weekends. • Working with Change Management to ensure Change Tickets (ServiceNow) are correct and have the required paperwork in place. • Submitting release builds for monthly security scanning (Snyk and Checkmarx). • Improving the process of building and deploying artefacts to test and production environments (automate builds and scans). • Adhering to and promoting internal information security policies and procedures. • Supporting software configuration management policies and procedures. • Supporting intake of production support MBP JIRAs and incidents • Working with BAs and development to provide LOEs for monthly release packages • Working with BAs and development to improve the production support process • Attending meetings with business to discuss the availability of resources for monthly packages Required skills/experience: • Experience working with the following are essential: • Git and Git branches • Bamboo/Artifactory • Unix and/or Linux platforms Experience working with the following are desired but not essential: • Maven • DevOps • Experience in SDLC methodologies/software development/release/process and configuration management • Experience in Java, Python and Angular programming desired but not essential Please get in touch for further information.

Endeavour Recruitment has a not to be missed permanent opportunity for an experience DevOps Engineer.

Excellent career and financial prospects!

Hybrid role

Cape Town or Johannesburg based

As the DevOps Engineer you will be working in an agile environment alongside a dynamic, multi-skilled team of developers and operational staff. 

You will take full responsibility for the uptime, performance, security and deployment of the entire web and development environment.

Fast- paced environment where efficiency is a priority and multi-tasking is a requirement.

You will be instrumental in being part of the transition from a traditional hosted environment to a fully cloud hosted environment with containerisation and serverless on the horizon.

This position is demanding yet very rewarding. If you can visualise the future and drive progress to move towards it, this position is made for you!

• Focus will be on delivering solutions in Azure, AWS and GCP while automating deployment, system maintenance, and keeping the platforms monitored and stable.
• Working in collaboration with the operations team.
• Architect and manage Azure infrastructure.
• Manage AWS and GCP infrastructure.
• Manage security.
• Manage CDN services.
• Implement and oversee secure practices in hosting and the SDLC process.
• Manage backup and disaster recovery.
• Manage infrastructure and licencing budgets.
• Automate deployment, monitoring, response, backup, and recovery procedures.
• Modernize legacy infrastructure to take advantage of Azure capability.
• Collaborate with architects to deliver solutions that are both cost efficient and highly scalable.
• Continuous scalability and cost optimisation.
• Documentation of all infrastructure and procedures.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of IIS, nGinx, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySQL, MS SQL.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Be available after hours to attend to critical outages and planned changes.

Skills and competence:

 

• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and supporting high scale services.
• Ability to match business needs with smart solutions to meet scalability and costing needs.
• Ability to constructively lead others and by so doing raise team performance.
• An excellent communicator both verbally and written.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to absorb pressure in stressful situations.
• Broad cloud knowledge, staying abreast of all tech trends.
• Flexible about working with a wide range of technologies.

 

Qualifications and experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in managing and building scalable infrastructure.
• 5+ years’ hands-on DevOps experience
• 3+ years’ experience in working in agile teams.
• Software related degree/diploma
• Preferred certifications: Microsoft Azure Architect Design / Technologies, Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions and Security Technologies
• Hands on experience with the following:
• Architectural and strategic input
• Cost calculations and budgeting for forecasts and planning
• Documentation for both knowledge sharing and auditing needs
• Azure
• Virtual Networking
• Secure practices
• Windows
• Linux
• IIS
• MS SQL
• PowerShell
• Bash
• Infrastructure as code

Desirable skills:

 

• Redis
• ElasticSearch
• AWS
• nGinx
• MySQL
• GCP
• Containerisation
• Serverless architecture

Does the above match your experience and expectations? If so, please get in touch asap. We look forward to receiving your cv!

APPLICATION OPERATIONS MANAGER required for long-term contract opportunity with global reputable organisation, based in Switzerland.

This is an excellent remote contract!

As an Application Operations Manager, you will be responsible for release, deployment and operation of a diverse portfolio of complex projects and business applications, providing a support role to the owners of business applications and ensuring operational efficiency, compliance, risk mitigation and the achievement of business area results. You will also help with onboarding of resources and setting up of development environments. 

 The selected Application Operations Manager will cover the following deliverable tasks:

• Be the first point of contact for application specific incidents. Provide analysis and details to business clients and development teams.
• Be responsible for maintaining of the lists of application specific incidents. Identify and analyse causes, prioritize improvements and work with teams on fixes.
• Working close with development and other client teams, continuously improve monitoring, alerting and resolution capabilities. Provide technical leadership and oversee the planning, design, implementation, and support of a wide range of varied and complex business software systems from release and operations point of view.
• Support and help business teams with onboarding, setting up of environments, access and using the systems. Input, correct and review business data if required.
• Support and help development teams with onboarding, setting up of environments, access to systems, interpretation of operational data, release management and CI/CD pipelines.
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies and methodologies, anticipate and analyse technological trends and assess their impact for delivering and supporting complex software applications.
• Ensure collaborative and active stakeholder engagement. Manage relationships between IT and business areas in major functional areas with multiple lines of service with a view to understanding and anticipating business and IT needs and establishing clear service expectations.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Required skills/experience:

•             Advanced university degree in computer science, information science or other closely related field. A first-level university degree, preferably in computer or information science, plus two years of relevant experience in addition to the experience required below may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

 Desirable: ITIL or another service and/or project management framework

 •            At least 5 years of experience in the provision of IT services working with the development and deployment of major IT systems. 

•             Significant hands-on experience in monitoring, problem analysis, prioritization and optimization.

•             Good understanding of release management and SDLC

•             Hands-on experience in at least 2 of the following technical areas:

o             Monitoring and alerting in AWS environment

o             CI/CD in AWS cloud

o             CI/CD of Java based applications

o             Data backup, recovery and migration

•             Experience or training in at least 2 of the following:

o             ITIL or another service management framework

o             Managing defects and incidents

o             Business continuity practices and/or ISO Quality Management Standards

o             PRINCE2 or another project management framework

•             Demonstrated soft skills in critical thinking, creativity, problem solving and adaptability.

•             Ability to cultivate innovation and manage change. Proactive in developing strategies to accomplish objectives and accountability in delivering results.

•             Ability to communicate on technical issues with a diverse audience. Excellent analytical skills.

•             Excellent written and oral communication skills.

•             Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multicultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.

Please apply ASAP or get in touch for more info on this not-to-be-missed long-term opportunity!

Endeavour has a fantastic career opportunity for an enthusiastic Scrum Master to join a global award winning client from the Marketing industry, based in London.

As a successful Scrum Master profile, you will be a team player and excellent communicator, working under the direction of the Chief Technology Officer, make a major contribution to the development of the organisations digital strategy and innovation agenda.

Our client is looking for a scrum master who goes over and above the co-ordination of sprint ceremonies and strives to improve the efficiency of the development team by continuous process improvement

Your role will include the following:

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Work with Azure DevOps engineer on the platform to be able to manage product backlog for Development Projects and provide dashboards and reporting on project and team metrics.
• Work with product owners of software developed in-house and related DevOps work to capture requirements and translate into stories and tasks.
• Identify and remove impediments or conflicts that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
• Using the insights from each sprint to strive towards increasing the velocity.
• Assist with the training and support of all 13 markets on using platforms and process. Manage support tickets for websites with front and back end issues

Experience and skills

• Detailed knowledge of the software development life cycle
• Strong experience working in an agile environment
• Certified Scrum Master
• Business Analyst background
• Understand technical language
• Exceptional communication, organization, and team building skills
• Managing projects through Azure DevOps
• Self-Motivated and creative in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
• Display a calm attitude during difficult situations
• Experience of working in a marketing-led environment is an advantage.

Please, send your CV or get in touch ASAP to discuss an excellent opportunity to join a brilliant team!

Endeavour Recruitment has a career opportunity for an IT Project Manager. This role would suit somebody who has worked in a technical role as a developer or analyst and is now looking to take a step up as a Project Manager.   The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of IT Delivery and should be prepared to show initiative, work hard and take pride in their work.  In return, our client offers an excellent working environment, location and starting salary of £40K.

 

Responsibilities for the role will include:

• Engaging with Product Owners and Business Stakeholders
• Develop Project Plans through to Delivery/Launch
• Manage all elements of Change
• Manage key relationships through the SDLC
• Ensure Projects are On Time, Within Budget and in Scope
• Preparing Technical Documentation

Skills and Experience:

• 2 Years’ Project Management experience
• Worked previously in an Agile environment
• Requirement Gathering & Analysis
• Project Planning – Gantt Charts
• Conduct Workshops
• Presentations to Executives
• Strong Attention to Detail
• Excellent Time Management Skills

If you are interested in this role and you have the right experience, then please apply for the role with your most up to date CV that includes the experience you have relevant to the role.

Endeavour Recruitment has a career opportunity for an IT Project Manager. This role would suit somebody who has worked in a technical role as a developer or analyst and is now looking to take a step up as a Project Manager.   The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of IT Delivery and should be prepared to show initiative, work hard and take pride in their work.  In return, our client offers an excellent working environment, location and starting salary of £45K.

 

Responsibilities for the role will include:

• Engaging with Product Owners and Business Stakeholders
• Develop Project Plans through to Delivery/Launch
• Manage all elements of Change
• Manage key relationships through the SDLC
• Ensure Projects are On Time, Within Budget and in Scope
• Preparing Technical Documentation

Skills and Experience:

• 2 Years’ Project Management experience
• Worked previously in an Agile environment
• Requirement Gathering & Analysis
• Project Planning – Gantt Charts
• Conduct Workshops
• Presentations to Executives
• Strong Attention to Detail
• Excellent Time Management Skills

Applications should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and you should confirm the salary required, current notice period or availability and your eligibility.

Endeavour Recruitment has an first-class opportunity for a Solution Architect to join our multinational client in based in the Hague. Initially this contract will run until the end of 2017, thereafter there will be long term contract renewals during 2018. 

The client is paying a daily rate of €625 based on a 40-hour week.

The SA will act as the overall architecture lead for the project, owning the end-to-end definition of the solution for the project across all architecture layers: business, information, application, and infrastructure.

The SA will structure and complete business demand from an architecture perspective, and translate the demand into a viable, feasible, durable, and compliant solution architecture that can be delivered to budget, on time and focusing on a high quality solution.

The SA will be responsible for the production of the Solution Architecture Document for the project, integrating all architecture layers.

Strong analytical and interpersonal skills are essential for this role, as is a fluency in English (both orally and written) A knowledge and understanding of the German and French language will be a great asset.

 Essential requirements for the role of Solution Architect:-

 A University degree with minimum 8 years hands on experience in defining the architecture of large IT systems.

• Working knowledge of TOGAF and Archimate.
• Previous system development life cycle and development experience (SDLC);
• In depth expertise in the area of systems integration;
• Experience in working in large organisations;
• Knowledge in Business Process Management and Rules engines (for instance JBPM, Drools);
• Experience with UML;
• Experience with similar projects;
• Knowledge in front-end technologies (Javascript, Angular2);
• Deep understanding of authorization mechanisms supporting fine-and coarse-grained authorisation and externalisation of authorisation from business applications (Kerberos and SPNEGO).
• Expert knowledge of J2EE technologies.
• Expert knowledge of REST architectural constraints and development of Restful web services.
• Knowledge of SOAP web services.
• Knowledge in Middle-tier (web-services, web clients, backend of web clients, Java, JBoss).
• Experience with externalising authorisation from Java applications through authorisation engines and/or business rules engines and authentication single sign on with Active Directory.
• Basic knowledge in the following Mainframe software (Z/OS, MVS, OMVS, batch, CICS, MQ Series, DB2, COBOL).
• Experience in the area of data bases, relational and non-sql;
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation.

   Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible to be included in the shortlist.