Senior Business Analyst

Our client, a world-renowned company requires a Senior Business Analyst to support the development of key systems, both internal and customer-facing. To liaise with Finance, Sales and Marketing and Web teams, and work with vendors in order to realise the development of new, business-critical systems.
The role is Hybrid, and you will be required to be onsite in the London Office 2 Days a week

Other duties include management and support of testing, documentation and implementation of lessons learned, standardisation of internal processes, advice and support implementation of best practice.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Knowledge of and experience using business analysis techniques
• Ability to elicit and capture requirements, including chairing requirements workshops
• Experience of capturing workflows, both written and in BPMN/UML format
• Experience of working with third-party APIs
• Writing test scripts / scenarios and managing testing
• JIRA experience
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Attention to detail
• Tenacity, the love of investigating data problems right to the very end
• Self-motivated, team-player

Raising awareness of business analysis
• Champion the Business Analysis function and service across the company. Provide coaching and mentoring services to support understanding and the implementation of consistent approach across all projects
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement of Business Analysis processes and technology usage, remaining abreast of best practice and guidance

Desirable
• Line Management experience
• Experience of managing projects (and knowledge / experience of using project management methodology: Prince2 or PMI) a plus
• Good Knowledge of SQL
• Understanding of ETL and data modelling
• E-commerce experience
• Experience of finance fundamentals and working on finance related projects
• Publishing experience, and experience of bibliographic databases, especially Biblio3
• Experience with Royalties related systems
• Experience of complex projects involving multiple systems and interfaces between these

Data Engineer

We have an exciting Hybrid working opportunity for a Data Engineer to join our clients growing Data team, playing a key role in surfacing data within their fast-growing Finance business on the South Coast

The role

• Responsibility for designing, building, and implementing a robust and scalable data warehouse that meets and functions with the Microsoft Azure Platform. This requires defining data models and ensuring data integrity and accuracy and enabling integrations with other platforms.
• Automating data pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into the data warehouse, identifying and implementing appropriate tools such as data bricks, designing, and testing data transformations, and ensuring data quality and consistency.
• Having a good understanding of the available data warehousing and data integration tools and be able to make informed decisions on the most suitable tools for each situation, researching, testing, and evaluating new technologies as required.
• Creation and maintenance of technical documentation for the data warehouse, including data models, data pipelines, and system configurations. Provide ongoing support and maintenance for the data warehouse, including troubleshooting, and resolving any technical issues.
• Ensuring a high-quality level of data in the data warehouse and ensuring that it is free from errors and inconsistencies. Implement data quality checks, monitoring data quality metrics, and resolving any data quality issues that arise.
• Building data visualizations using Microsoft PowerBI that effectively communicate insights and trends to employees according to their data needs for analysis and reporting, creating dashboards and reports that are both informative and visually appealing.
• Maintaining and optimising the performance of the data warehouse to ensure that it is operating efficiently and effectively. This includes analysing data usage patterns, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing performance improvements.
• Participating in the Disaster Recovery planning and testing process, ensuring that the data warehouse and associated systems are protected in the event of a disaster. Ensuring continuity of service by developing and maintaining backup and recovery procedures and testing these procedures regularly.
• Writing SQL views and stored procedures
• Database modelling, development and optimisation

Skills:

Strong SQL skills to be able to write complex queries and procedures for data extraction and analysis.Can work closely with business stakeholders, other IT teams and external providers. You must be technically competent and understand operational workflows and impacts.

• Has a can-do attitude and is able to use their initiative to bring about positive change and take initiative in spotting opportunities and finding ways to solve challenges with data.
• Has hands-on experience with data warehousing and ETL tools and packages which integrate with Azure Data Factory.
• Has a comprehensive understanding of ETL technical design, data quality testing, cleansing, and monitoring. You should have experience with data sourcing, exploration, and analysis, as well as data warehousing and data modelling capabilities.
• Has experience with PowerBI for producing data visualisations and dashboards for effective data reporting.
• Thrives on problem solving and is able to suggest solutions.
• Can distil a complex problem into a workable solution and implement it.
• Has gumption and strives to continuously learn and implement new skills and technologies on the fly. Can take an assignment and “run with it”.

Desirables: Previous experience working in the financial industry.

Experience with Azure, especially Azure Data Factory and Azure DevOps or AWS

Previous coding experience

API experience

Working knowledge of Python

Location:

We’re incredibly flexible about where, when and how you work: we don’t want anyone to be prevented from coming to work for Saltus as a result of the working pattern that they’re looking for. Ideally, you’d be able to be based out of our office between Southampton and Portsmouth for a couple of days each week, working the remainder of the week from home. We are passionate about championing flexible working for our people, so if there’s a slightly different working pattern that you’re looking for, then please come and have a chat to us about it!

Contract opportunity: calling profiles for a Head of Analytics role with our London based client!

This is a hybrid work role, with the expectation to be 2/3 days onsite.

Our client is looking for a profilewith Power BI experience and good technical knowledge of BI tools to be the face of analytics/data in the organisation and help them move forward in their analytics transformation journey.

The successful Head of Analytics will demonstrate excellent communication skills and ideally have the following experience:

• Senior leadership experience in an analytics related role, with multiple stakeholders, and a complex and technical operating environment.
• Commercial experience with a record of delivering outcomes that add value or impact on service delivery and produce ROI.
• Experience of working with a range of operational stakeholders; demonstrating excellent communication and engagement.
• Experience in managing projects or delivering analytics transformation programmes successfully.
• Experience in delivering excellent customer service; preferably delivering analytics.
• Experience of shaping strategy and vision for your service area and delivering it successfully
• Good experience of working in an agile product delivery model, ideally data related products, as the responsible person

Your technical skills will include:

• Good knowledge (Head of level) around data and analytics that optimise performance and deliver value; user experience, design, technical skills, and platform knowledge. To the level that are able to engage with technical staff and data architectures or experts.
• Excellent knowledge of Power BI and other analytics or data tools, technologies, preferably Microsoft. As well as good understanding of data architecture. To the level that you are able to engage with technical staff and data architectures or experts.
• Good knowledge of SQL, ETL technologies and data modelling. Knowledge of programming languages useful for data analytics such as Python
• Good knowledge of the Azure cloud data platform and the potential to use its services to improve analytics
• Good knowledge of testing BI software, release cycles, devops (dataops) and how to successfully move a product from development to production
• Ability to understand complex technical/technology solutions and concepts, with the ability to solve complex problems.
• Effective IT skills including basic/intermediate/advanced MS Office skills
• Ability to mitigate and manage complex risks; including technical or regulatory ones such as GDPR, SDR etc.

Please send your CV or get in touch for further information ASAP!

Calling urgently for ETL developers for an exciting REMOTE contract opportunity to join a financial sector client, based in Sweden!

Our client is looking for an ETL developer who has experience within the financial industry and working in multicultural environments.

The selected ETL developer will work closely with Scrum Master, Product Owner, Business Intelligence Architect, Data Analyst as well as business stakeholders.

The role:

Key Responsibilities:

•Develop common Enterprise Data Warehouse platform based on Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle database

•Design secure and reliable workflows for staging, cleansing and loading with high performance

•Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements, processes, and products as input to solution specification s o f a development task

•Work with the Data Governance organization to ensure alignment or additions to the current Business Glossary definitions.

•Populate data marts with quality data for use with BI solutions

•Support data quality routines

•Work with metadata management

Required experience/knowledge:

•Knowledge and experience from the financial sector

• Good knowledge and experience with databases and data modeling, preferably Oracle(and SQL)

•Good knowledge of data quality and handling quality issues

•Extensive knowledge in Informatica Powercenter

•Knowledge of business intelligence tools (QlikView etc.) is a plus

•Experience with ETL tools and processing

•Experience with data lake concepts

•Experience working with data quality

•Experience designing data warehouse solutions

•Experience with master data management

•Experience with meta data and reference data management

•Good developer skills

•Good documentation skills

•Work both individually and working together

•Structured, analytical and accurate

•Fluent in English, Awareness and handling of cultural differences

•Understand business needs and translate into technical terms and solutions

•Strong will to gain new knowledge

Apply or get in touch ASAP for more details on this fantastic remote contract opportunity!

Experienced IT Solutions Architect required for a critical program in finance based in Anderlecht, Belgium.  The scope of the project is to build an innovative augmented analytics solution leveraging R and other analytics tools.

• The IT solution architect will make sure that all components of the solution from data input, to algorithm and data output (visualization) are connected and coherent.
• Agrees and controls technical architecture and landscape for industrialization.
• Design overall solution including data input and output by working with the different architecture teams and system owners.
• Responsible for the delivery of the interfacing.
• Master the Finance Data Foundation and flows. By working with the system Solution Experts and Data owners, you will help to create the visibility on the Finance Datasets and contribute in deepening the clients ability to unlock the power of data.
• Manage and coordinate technical activities amongst different team members (data engineers, data scientists, UX developers) and follow-up on daily actions.

Required Skills:

• Master Degree in Computer Science, Economics, Engineering or related.
• 4+ years of experience with IT architecture design and expertise on core components (R, Shiny, SAP, ETL, Datawarehousing).
• Experience with Data Warehouse and Analytics / Reporting solutions in a finance context. The core solutions you will be exposed to are mainly SAP BW (Hana), Qlik, R / Shiny, Cognos BI and IBM TM1. Knowledge of SAP ERP (FI/CO) is considered a plus.
• Experience with Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
• Project management expertise and proven track record in managing relationships with business partners and external IT suppliers. Experience with Agile project methodology.
• You understand key financial concepts and have worked in this area recently. Terms as Forecasting, Opex, P&L, COGS, balance sheets; don’t scare you.
• You love to think strategically, holistic and are value focused. You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are Solution oriented.
• Fast paced, changing environment doesn’t scare you. On the contrary, you easily adapt and can contribute to the team thanks to your can-do attitude.
• Fluent in English.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent opportunity for a Business Analyst to join our client, a leading publishing company, based in Central London, near Covent Garden. You will provide your expertise to realise the development of new systems, you will ideally have experience working within the Publishing industry and have experience with Bibliographic databases. Salary IRO £45,000 per annum.

You will be responsible for defining requirements, analysing data, managing vendors and stakeholders, and supporting the Project Office.

Required Skills and Knowledge –

• Requirement gathering
• BPMN/UML Workflow
• Experience working with third-party APIs
• Stakeholder management
• Beneficial – Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies
• Beneficial – Knowledge of SQL and understanding of ETL and data modelling
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills

Please apply as soon as possible to be included on the shortlist for this role.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for Senior Oracle Database Administrator to work for a large client in Brussels, Belgium. The duration of this role is 6 months and the daily all-inclusive rate is €533 euros.

Role and Responsibilities:

• PL/SQL programming
• ERD realisation and validation (3NF modelling)
• Query tuning (xplain, trace)
• DB tuning (ASH, AWR, Advisor, DB parameters)
• Writing complex queries (also recursive queries and hierarchical queries)
• Architectural solution
• Security model (also GDPR)
• Data workflow analysis
• Provide high value technical solutions in Oracle for specific problems
• Test and Validation through proof of concept
• Assure daily DBA operational activities covering:
• Daily Monitoring
• Day to day DBA tasks (import/export, space management –TBS - ASM, problem solving, ACL, Schema management, security, session, promotion management, application migration to another database)
• Maintenance of monitoring tools
• DB installation and configuration
• Technical lead on DB upgrades and migration
• Be the first technical support in the scope of the projects and in operations

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• You have a master’s degree in computer science and at least 10 years of relevant experience as DBA and/or DB developer
• Administration of Oracle 11R2, 12R1 and 12R2.
• APEX 5  (Oracle express)
• SQL (Oracle style and sql ansi standard)
• PL/SQL
• Sqlloader
• EXPDP/IMPDP
• RMAN
• Basic Linux knowledge + scripting
• Dynamic queries
• Links (db_link, Sqlloader, impdp, Sftp)
• Transaction validation (A.C.I.D.)
• Java in DB
• XML
• Scheduler Job
• Triggers (tables, system)
• Compression
• Data security
• Data loading
• ETL
• Partitioning

Please get in touch for further details on this excellent, not to be missed contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting new contract opportunity for a Business Intelligence Technical Expert to join an international security client in Mons, Belgium. This contract is until the end of December 2019 and the rate for this role is €78 euros per hour.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• MUST HAVE CURRENT SC OR NATO CLEARANCE.
• Extensive database knowledge
• Experience developing complex SQL queries
• Experience in MS SQL Server (2014 and higher) Database administration
• Experience with Database Backup (full and incremental/differential) and Recovery
• In-depth knowledge of Extract, Transformation & Load (ETL) and Analytical tool
• Experience in developing in Java
• Experience with installation and configuration of MS Power BI Report Server

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Extensive knowledge of KNIME Analytics Platform is an advantage
• Knowledge of Oracle OBIEE & Analytics is a plus

Role and Responsibilities:

• Manage and administer the analytics and BI technology platform in line with guidance and in coordination with other Service Lines
• Contribute to BI architecture documentation as tasked
• Apply techniques and methods for object extraction and relationship identification
• Support the implementation of the enterprise reporting & business intelligence by developing initial visualizations of existing data
• Receive and document knowledge transferred from the team currently supporting the analytics and BI platform (PMAR). This task may require occasional travel to The Hague, The Netherlands.

If you are experienced and NATO/ SC cleared wanting to enhance your career and join an international client in the security sector do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a SQL Database Specialist with SC clearance for an initial 8 week contract in Brussels. Working language is English.

Essential skills :

Data Analytics -

• Extensive database knowledge
• Experience in developing with SQL queries
• Experience in MS SQL Server Database administration
• Experience with Database Backup-full, differential, Recovery
• In depth Knowledge of ETL and Analytical tools (preferably KNIME Analytics Platform)
• Extensive knowledge of KNIME Analytics Platform is an advantage (currently using system)
• Experience in developing in Java
• Experience with installation and configuration of Power BI Report Server

Duties:

• Design  and  develop  workflows  for  extracting  data  from  production databases  /legacy systems
• Design and develop business data marts
• Design of business reports and dashboards
• Monitor and maintain the execution of the system

Kindly apply for consideration. We look forward to hearing from you.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Technical Data Architect  to join a reputable client in the banking sector in Brussels, Belgium. This duration of this role is until the end of 2018 with possibility of long term extension.

Required Skills:

• Must have versatile experience in data architecture.
• It is advantageous to have a technically oriented profile.
• Experience with ETL tools.
• Experience with ETL development, ideally from Informatica.
• Relevant experience with data lineage.
• Relevant experience with metadata management integration.
• Must be able to set up the data lineage / metadata ETL strategy and execution for our client.
• Fluent in English.

Preferable Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Informatica BDM
• Experience in the banking sector
• Dutch speaking

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.