Marvellous opportunity for up to 6 .Net Developers to work for our multinational client in Stockholm, Sweden.  This is a 12 Month Contract with the opportunity to work 10% remote and 90% onsite.  €350 remote and €450 Onsite day rates.

This contract will start on the 1^st February 2018 for one year and extensions are usually offered.  Successful candidates will be implementing and maintaining systems on the .Net Framework.  Additionally, you would provide third level support and bug fix reported errors on TFS.   Maintaining the code base and contributing to planning and execution of testing to ensure quality standards.

Essential Skills:

• University degree with minimum 6 years of experience in IT
• Experience with system maintenance, development and refactoring of existing systems.
• Excellent working knowledge of C# and the .NET 4 framework
• Working knowledge of ASP.NET and IIS 7/8/8.5,
• Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS, AJAX and jQuery
• Proven abilities with T-SQL and experience with MS SQL Server 2008R2/2012
• Experience in WCF and Entity Framework (EF) in .NET 4.
• Proven experience with ADFS
• Prior experience of working in a multinational team
• Excellent communication skills in English

Other Skillset:

• Visual studio 2010/2012/2013
• Team Foundation Server
• MS SQL Management Studio / MS SQL Profiler
• InstantAtlas or ArcGIS API for JavaScript
• RedGate SQL Compare and RedGate SQL Data Compare

Applicants must be eligible to live and work in Sweden.

Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible in order to be included in the shortlist.  Please confirm your availability and rate required in Euros for this Permanent position.

Our client is currently recruiting for a SQL Administrator to join a large European Organisation on a short term contract to start asap.

Duties and required skills :

•             6 years of professional experience within large-scale Data Centre environments.

•             Extensive experience relating to the technical aspects and concepts in relation to SQL Server and its environment.

•             Solid understanding of the operational organisation of industrialised service delivery.

•             Ability to write scripts in administrative language to automate operations.

•             Day-to-day infrastructure operations.

•             Incidents resolution and problems identification.

•             Infrastructure monitoring, availability testing and reporting.

•             Implement standard changes and service requests.

•             Good communication and presentation skills.

•             Able to work autonomously and be flexible with regards to working hours.

•             Service and customer oriented.

•             Documentation management.

•             On-call service.

Technical Knowledge:

•             Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008, 2012 and 2016 on Windows platform.

•             Scripting skills (PowerShell for Microsoft SQL).

•             Experience with SQL/T-SQL, procedures, functions.

•             Experience with MS-SQL Failover Clustering.

•             SQL Server performance tuning.

•             Experience in Windows Server 2008/2012 installations and performance tuning.

•             Experience in Active Directory.

•             Familiar with Storage backend technologies.

Please get in touch for further details on this excellent contract opportunity. 

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a talented Database Administrator to join our leading client based in the wonderful city of Vienna. This is a long-term contract with an hourly rate in the region of €54EUR per hour. Candidates must have excellent knowledge of German.  

Key skills and experience required:

• Administration of the databases: Windows, MS SQL, Oracle
• Experience in the structure of high-availability environments in the database environment (SQL Server)
• Results in virtual environments
• Experience in troubleshooting and performance tuning
• T-SQL Scripting
• Desirable multi-year experience SQL Server DBA: replication, log shipping, clustering, availability groups (large databases)
• SAN storage, SQL Server CLR, Error tracking, PowerShell Scripting

Beneficial skills:

• Virtualization (VMware ESXi)
• Monitoring (Nagios / Icinga / Check_MK)
• Windows Server 2012R2/ 2016
• IIS
• ARR

Endeavour Recruitment has an urgent contract opportunity for a Business Analytics Report Developer to join our client based in East Grinstead.

Purpose of Job:

• Deliver developments within Business Analytics (BA) aligned to the Group's business strategy and collaborate with end users to identify needs and opportunities for improved business insight and to correctly analyse the data presented.
• Responsible for quality development, unit testing and performance testing in adherence to the Group BI technical architecture roadmaps and lead key initiatives.
• Provide functional technical support for the maintenance of the business analytics platform.
• Provide data insights to provide data supporting the 10 year strategic plan.

Key Tasks/Responsibilities:

• Engage middle manager and peer level staff across the group and promote the appropriate development of business analytics usage within the respective departments.
• Lead individual developments and manage small sized IS projects, using a combination of agile and PRINCE2 methodologies. These will mostly be report creation.
• Demonstrate self-sufficiency in development and support but also enhance business self sufficiency of the group to rely less on IS to provide business analysis (eg via training, coaching, facilitated workshops)
• Perform report development, including building of queries, templates and workbooks
• Perform analysis & debugging of complex data issues, working together with business to resolve errors and provide performance tuning to reports.
• Provide statistical data models to support reporting requirements.
• Understand and contribute to the Logical and Physical Datamodelling process for the business analytics platform
• Suggest improvements to processes regarding data flow and data quality in order to improve data accuracy, viability and value.
• Responsible for the quality of the design, build, test, implementation and support solutions in MSSQL Server, SSIS and Tableau, packaging and delivering new service offerings developed by the developer or peers is performed in line with all relevant guidelines and data protection regulations.
• Deliver the solution through QA to achieve customer sign-off and smooth deployment into production
• Preferred: Design and create objects such as tables, stored procedures and ETL packages.
• Preferred: Test, monitor and tune software code for stability and performance.
• Work with other areas of the IS Dept including Basis team, ABAP developers, Quality Assurance and Operational Services to ensure that the platform and architecture is robust and should enable BA applications to adapt with the changing needs of the business.
• Provide technical support for Legacy transactional databases, reporting systems and business analytics platforms.

Knowledge:

• Exposure to and an understanding of a recognised project management methodology such as PRINCE2 and AGILE, whether it is CMM, PMI, MSP etc.
• Experience and expert knowledge of being a team member in implementing Business Analytics data warehouse through at least 1 full lifecycle project is desireable
• Degree level or equivalent is desirable
• Microsoft certification

Skills:

• Proven communication, presentation and negotiation skills
• Capable of managing expectations and pushing back when necessary
• Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills
• Good command of English language, good verbal and written skills, a believer that documentation is valuable.
• Self-motivated team player who is committed to achieving results

Technical skills:

• Tableau Desktop
• Tableau Server
• MS SQL Server
• T-SQL
• SSIS
• SQL Server
• Sharepoint
• MS

Experience:

• Proven ability to deliver the application of data driven decisions based on business analytics technical solutions
• A proven strong track record in successfully delivering against a number of projects on time and with quality in the reporting area.
• Proven expertise in working in multi-function, multi-supplier teams to deliver successful projects.
• The ability to communicate at all levels across the Group and develop productive partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to demonstrate passion, commitment and enthusiasm to drive through change.
• Worked in a Scrum team
• Industry experience in travel & hospitality, insurance and/or membership organisations

Please get in touch for further details.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent career opportunity for an experienced C# Software

Developer to work with our Southampton-based client.

The successful Software Developer will  join our client’s team, responsible for estimating, designing and developing high quality functional software solutions.

Technical Skills and experience:

• Strong analytic skills, strategic vision, and logical approach to problem solving.
• 4+ years commercial experience of C#, T-SQL, MVC and ASP.NET (CSS, JavaScript frameworks)
• Strong Transact SQL skills and experience of programming complex Stored Procedures working with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience creating/maintaining web sites on Internet Information Services
• Knowledge of performing test driven development.
• Understands the Agile software development lifecycle and working knowledge of SCRUM
• Ability to work in a deadline-oriented environment, and be a highly organized individual with the ability to multi-task and have a high attention to detail.
• Working knowledge of design patterns and Object Orientated Design.
• Full development life cycle experience.
• Strong knowledge of refactoring, including improving the design of existing code.
• Experience in large, complex system implementation projects
• An Interest in programming best practices

Soft skills:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, independent and proactive in solving problems. 

Endeavour Recruitment has an urgent contract opportunity for a Business Analytics Report Developer to join our client in East Grinstead.

Purpose of Job:     

• Deliver developments within Business Analytics (BA) aligned to the Group’s business strategy and collaborate with end users to identify needs and opportunities for improved business insight and to correctly analyse the data presented.
• Responsible for quality development, unit testing and performance testing in adherence to the Group BI technical architecture roadmaps and lead key initiatives.
• Provide functional technical support for the maintenance of the business analytics platform.
• Provide data insights to provide data supporting the 10 year strategic plan.

Key Tasks/Responsibilities:         

• Engage middle manager and peer level staff across the group and promote the appropriate development of business analytics usage within the respective departments.
• Lead individual developments and manage small sized IS projects, using a combination of agile and PRINCE2 methodologies. These will mostly be report creation.
• Demonstrate self-sufficiency in development and support but also enhance business self sufficiency of the group to rely less on IS to provide business analysis (e.g. via training, coaching, facilitated workshops)
• Perform report development, including building of queries, templates and workbooks
• Perform analysis & debugging of complex data issues, working together with business to resolve errors and provide performance tuning to reports.
• Provide statistical data models to support reporting requirements.

• Understand and contribute to the Logical and Physical data modelling process for the business analytics platform
• Suggest improvements to processes regarding data flow and data quality in order to improve data accuracy, viability and value.
• Responsible for the quality of the design, build, test, implementation and support solutions in MSSQL Server, SSIS and Tableau, packaging and delivering new service offerings developed by the developer or peers is performed in line with all relevant guidelines and data protection regulations.
• Deliver the solution through QA to achieve customer sign-off and smooth deployment into production
• Preferred: Design and create objects such as tables, stored procedures and ETL packages.
• Preferred: Test, monitor and tune software code for stability and performance.
• Work with other areas of the IS Dept including Basis team, ABAP developers, Quality Assurance and Operational Services to ensure that the platform and architecture is robust and should enable BA applications to adapt with the changing needs of the business.
• Provide technical support for legacy transactional databases, reporting systems and business analytics platforms.

Knowledge

• Exposure to and an understanding of a recognised project management methodology such as PRINCE2 and AGILE, whether it is CMM, PMI, MSP etc.
• Experience and expert knowledge of being a team member in implementing Business Analytics data warehouse through at least 1 full lifecycle project is desireable
• Degree level or equivalent is desirable
• Microsoft certification

Skills

• Proven communication, presentation and negotiation skills
• Capable of managing expectations and pushing back when necessary
• Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills
• Good command of English language, good verbal and written skills, a believer that documentation is valuable.
• Self-motivated team player who is committed to achieving results

Technical skills

• Tableau Desktop
• Tableau Server
• MS SQL Server
• T-SQL
• SSIS
• SQL Server
• Sharepoint
• MS

Experience

• Proven ability to deliver the application of data driven decisions based on business analytics technical solutions
• A proven strong track record in successfully delivering against a number of projects on time and with quality in the reporting area.
• Proven expertise in working in multi-function, multi-supplier teams to deliver successful projects.
• The ability to communicate at all levels across the Group and develop productive partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to demonstrate passion, commitment and enthusiasm to drive through change.
• Worked  in a Scrum team
• Industry experience in travel & hospitality, insurance and/or membership organisations.

Please get in touch for further information.

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Database Developer.   In-depth T-SQL knowledge is essential.  This role is in a prime location close to Air/Rail/Road Networks.  Candidates should have a minimum of 4 years’ experience.   Salary guide £40,000 to £50,000.

Perhaps you have gained valuable experience in in a junior role and are now looking to progress your career?   If so, we would like to hear from you to discuss your experience.   The ideal candidate will have wide experience of different database types, specifically OLTP and OLAP. 

Essential Skills: 

• Writing and Refactoring SQL and T-SQL
• OLTP, OLAP and Data Warehouse
• SQL/DB Best Practice
• Debugging

Desirable Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Logical and Physical Design for Performance
• SQL Server Database Security
• Data and Algorithmic Analysis
• Reverse Engineering

Advantageous Experience:

• Unit Testing
• TFS, GIT SVN or equivalent
• Java, C#, Python, VB.Net, Ruby
• SQL Server BI
• Data Mining Techniques

If you are looking to progress your career, this could be the right role for you!  Please apply quickly to be shortlisted.

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Skilled C#, ASP.Net Developer with Strong SQL Server, ETL, T-SQL  Skills to join our client on an initial 6 month contract in Ireland.

You will be involved in Requirements Analysis and Application Design and will be working as part of a large team with clients globally.

The position involves:

• Development experience in C# and ASP.Net

• Data Extraction, Transforming and Loading (ETL) between systems using SQL tools (SSIS, DTS, Bulk Insert, BCP, XML) and .Net Applications.

• MS SQL Server including Strong T-SQL (Stored Procedure) skills

• Exposure to .Net 4.5 and MVC 4

• Knowledge of Restful and WCF Web Services, ADO.NET, Custom control development and SQL Server 2008/2012.

• Commercial development experience with SOA and related technologies

• Experience with using MQ

• Awareness of code management solutions such as Team Foundation Server and Git.

• Comfortable with Test Drive Development using mocking frameworks and libraries eg. RhinoMocks, Moq, MsTest, NUnit, Qunit etc

• Software development using Agile methodologies

For further information regarding this exciting position, please don't hesitate to apply