SAP Software Engineer required for a remote contract opportunity with a Swedish client.

Our client is looking for a SAP FICO profile who will be responsible for maintaining and developing end-to-end application including initiate, design, create functional requirements, test, and configurations in the SAP solution.

The selected SAP FICO profile will be part of a team of highly competent people with advanced SAP platform which is used globally.

Skills & Requirements:
You have a solid experience in SAP Accounting and Controlling areas regarding design, concepts, principles, and configurations.

• You can explain deep subject matter situations relating to finance, accounting, and SAP to all stakeholders.
• You are a team player and excellent communicator.
• 9+ years of experience within SAP FICO configuration, testing and support.
• Experience with SAP Logistics (SD/MM)
• Should have experience in at least 3 end to end Implementation.
• Good communication skills with fluent in English, oral and written.

Good to have:

• POS Inbound (CAR-POSDTA)
• Knowledge in the areas of ABAP, integrations and/or Fiori is a plus.
• Experience within Agile ways of working
• Good MS office skills, as design improvements need to be documented and presented.

Apply ASAP or get in touch for further details on this exciting new opportunity!

URGENT!

Exciting REMOTE contract opportunity for a skilled Kubernetes Administrator to join a financial sector client, based in Sweden!

The selected Kubernetes Administrator will be responsible for:

•             Designing and implementing solutions to leverage a Kubernetes cluster

•             Configuring hardware peripherals and services, managing settings and storage

•             Deploying cloud-native applications, monitoring, and supporting a Kubernetes environment

Required skills and experience:

•             Experience managing Kubernetes in production

•             Experience with monitoring tools like ELK/Prometheus/Grafana preferred

•             Experience with building and maintaining Kubernetes Operators

•             Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)

•             Experience managing AWS EKS clusters

•             General cloud architecture experience with AWS, in particular services used for administering a full software solution over time (CloudWatch, IAM, API Gateway, SNS, SES)

•             Highly experienced with Docker and Linux containers in general

•             Top notch Linux skills, Terraform and bash scripting skills

•             SRE experience for a mid-large system at least

General DevOps Experience a plus

•             A Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) is a plus

•             Working understanding of Kafka is a plus

Apply and send your CV ASAP or get in touch for further info on this excellent contract opportunity.

Fantastic 12 months fixed-term contract opportunity for a Data Specialist to join global award-winning publishing organisation, based in London!

The role would suit someone with publishing experience looking to improve their systems knowledge and skills, or a systems-orientated profile who is looking to gain their first experience in publishing.

The selected Data Specialist will be reporting to Data Integration and Support Manager. You will be working from home until our client’s offices re-open.

As a Data specialist, your main responsibility is to execute the tasks required for various data quality initiatives. This includes the coordination and execution of acquisition-related data migration, and provide professional and effective support to the users of our client’s core finance and publishing systems.

Duties include:

• Supporting data quality initiatives, including assessing, cleaning and loading data in bulk on acquisition projects, backlist data reviews, etc. as directed by the Data Integration and Support Manager
• Maintenance and bulk loading of title data on third party title databases  (e.g. Amazon Vendor Central)
• Providing excellent first line support on business applications managed by the Business Systems team, including Biblio, VI Portal, Focal Point, Dimensions and (future) Cognos, including user account set up, to agreed service levels.
• Escalating support issues to colleagues and vendors.
• Managing the support queue, including the proper classification of tickets in Zendesk.
• Assisting with systems testing and configuration.
• Monitoring operations, such as scheduled feeds and interfaces; troubleshooting and escalating issues with these to Line Manager or team leads as directed.
• Fielding and investigating issues with data feeds to 3^rd parties (aggregators and retailers); maintaining a log of these issues; working to reduce issues and improve the mechanism generally.
• Using third party ticketing systems (e.g. Amazon Vendor Central) to log, monitor and progress issues.
• Referring data issues to responsible business (mainly editorial) staff for correction and following up as required
• Producing reports on data quality and open issues for Business Systems team and colleagues within the business.

Required skills and experience:

• Customer-focused, with a professional, patient and friendly manner
• Conversant with basic IT concepts
• Strong systems aptitude
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good MS Office skills, especially Excel
• Biblio3 software a plus
• ONIX a plus

Please apply ASAP or get in touch for further details on this exciting opportunity!

Murex expert required for long-term contract opportunity with financial client based in Luxembourg.

Our client is looking for a financial Murex expert with configuration skills; Datamart reporting expertise; functional knowledge; functional understanding of Fixed Income, Money Markets, IRS, CCS and FX derivatives instruments and excellent communication skills.

The selected Murex expert will support the IT team and provide the following deliverables:

• Analyse and review ESM’s FO, BO, interface and reporting requirement.
• Gather, design and test business requirements on Murex.
• Build business reports on Murex end to end.
• Contribute to the sign-off process of the scope/design/test/go-live documents for projects undertaken by the ESM’s business.
• Contribute to the SIT and UAT phases of projects affecting the ESM’s business requirement.
• Provide a technical design, FO, BO , interface and reports/enhancements;
• Build and test  FO, BO , interface and reports/enhancements;
• Prepare/draft/provide documentation about any ESM’s projects undertaken in Murex.

Required skills/experience:

• At least 5 years of experience with Murex financial systems at a bank or other financial institution;
• At least 5 years’ experience on datamart reporting;
• Experience with interfacing;
• Experience with Back Office;
• Experience with Front office;
• University degree in finance, economics, business administration,  or equivalent education;
• Good experience with market risk management, risk systems and risk reporting;
• Integrity, reliability and independence;
• Accuracy, precision and attention to detail;
• Good organisational skills;
• Confident working to deadlines without supervision;
• Ability to form good working relationships with staff at all levels;
• Excellent organisational skills;
• Ability to document clear and complete business requirements;
• Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written.

Apply or get in touch ASAP for this excellent long-term opportunity!

Are you a looking for an excellent permanent role? We are recruiting for a Windows Build and Deployment Engineer to join a client in Southampton, Hampshire. This role is a permanent position.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Windows build and update deployment in accordance with industry best practices for secure systems.
• Updates and patches are to be reviewed and tested whilst liaising with the security team to ensure any vulnerabilities are remediated effectively.
• Optimise and improve the system build and imaging processes for customer systems.
• Working with the security team to maintain system hardening standards (CIS).
• Maintaining anti-virus and anti-malware configuration.
• Testing software patches in line with regression test scripts.
• Maintain the security patching process for OS system images, ensuring systems receive then action appropriate updates on time and with minimal system impact.
• Deploying and managing application deployment into system images.
• Work with all stakeholders to ensure ongoing compliance and governance is maintained.
• Support third party vulnerability testing and audit of system builds.
• Working with the security council and raising security incidents relating to system builds.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Must have Desktop, EPOS build and configuration experience
• Experience of deployment tools, Ghost, Windows MDT and WDS
• You must have Product Activation Techniques (MAK/KMS)
• Proven experience of creating and deploying custom OS images
• You should have Windows 7, Windows 10 build and MS troubleshooting experience
• Intermediate network skills
• Technical Knowledge of Intel based hardware systems
• You must have commercial experience in basic IT infrastructure

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Scripting (PowerShell/Python)
• Understanding of windows licencing models.
• Windows or InfoSec industry Certifications

Please, get in touch for further details on this exciting career opportunity as a Windows Build and Deployment Engineer!

Are you a Business Analyst with experience in the Logistic Sector looking for an excellent contract opportunity?

Based in The Netherlands, our client is looking for an experienced Business Analyst who has worked in the Logistics Sector to join a dynamic team on an English speaking site.

Objectives and responsibilities:

• In this role as a Business Analyst  you will be responsible for the controlled implementations of new and also existing IT solutions.
• Part of the role as Business Analyst  is to implement specialised IT solutions for the WMS and TMS systems that are used for the implementation of operations and the services provided to customers.
• You must be able to adopt business requirements by analysing the process in consultation with Business development, operations and the client.
• You also need to specify the system development with functionalities, data and interfaces. Testing software, training colleagues and accompanying clients will also be part of your role as a Business Analyst.

Duties:

• Undertake detailed project work, including business analysis, as required to meet project objectives.
• Generate specified project documentation to best practice quality standards, in line with Project Management Methodology standards.
• Prepare test plans and conduct system testing, as required, to professional quality standards.
• Support User Acceptance Testing with Operations and External Customers.
• Perform implementation and post implementation support tasks as required by the project team.
• Maintain good on-going working relationships with all customers and service providers as part of the day to day execution of project delivery.
• Provide logistics and systems consultancy to internal and external customers
• Prepare and perform management presentations as required.
• Training Key Users on the system and best practice.

As a Business Analyst you are part of the IT team. But you will have a close contact with other colleagues all over Europe in different roles.

Required skills and experience

• Bachelor degree  with Business Analyst, Logistics or IT background.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a large international  logistic environment.
• Experience with WMS and TMS systems and experience with Red-prairie DLx dispatcher is essential.
• Excellent knowledge of information technology and experience with software configuration, testing and information analysing.
• Excellent and strong communication, social and negotiating  skills.
• Analytical and flexible.
• Comfortable with working under pressure and willing to travel.

We are looking for a Database Administrator or Database Developer, who can demonstrate experience with Mongo DB and SQL server databases, to join an innovative and leading financial services client, working with the retail sector, based in beautiful Vienna

The successful candidate will work as part of global team of database administrators and will be responsible for  managing and administering more than 600 databases on more than 140 servers. To succeed in this position you should possess an expert level knowledge of MongoDB as well as experience administering MS SQL server (2005-2017).

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• MongoDB  and MS SQL server administration
• Backup administration: Backup and restore MongoDB database within different servers
• Security Administration: User management, security hardening and auditing.
• Performance Management
• Redundancy and High Availability Planning and Design, Disaster Recovery (SHARDIng, Replication, SQL Cluster Administration, Mirroring, Availability Group).
• Mongo DB and MS SQL monitoring and performance tuning using Mongo DB management console, SQL profiler, Perfmon, and Extended events.
• Development Team Support and Advisory
• Checking for installed SQL server version and install required updates and patches
• Troubleshooting, optimizing and configuring SQL Server database servers for performance and availability.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Min. Bachelor´s degree from a recognized and accredited University or equivalent qualification, skills, certification or working experience
• Min. 3 years of experience as Database Developer or Database  Administrator with focus on MongoDB and SQL server databases
• Experience with administering, installing and configuring Mongo DB – is mandatory!
• Experience with MS SQL server (2005-2017)
• Experience with other databases is advantage: Oracle, MySQL, Progress, Pervasive (SQL)
• Working experience with data migration and integration, SSIS/SSRS/SSAS deployment and development
• Working experience with SQL server Cluster, Mirroring and Availability Group
• Experience with SQL server replication technologies
• Knowledge on capacity management and maintenance of transaction log files
• Knowledge of developing and optimizing advanced SQL/TSQL queries
• Experience with JSON, PowerShell and/or Python – desired
• Fluent in English both written and spoken
• Great self-organizational skills and autonomy, able to work in a virtual/global and multi-cultural team and able to work effectively and efficiently under stress
• Result-oriented with affinity towards precision and quality.
• Willingness to work on stand-by (approximately 10 hours per months) plus weekend activity from time to time

If this role sounds of interest to you, please apply with your 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 has an excellent contract opportunity for a Sharepoint Administrator to join a reputable client, based in Brussels, on an English speaking site, initially for 6 months.

The successful candidate will join the team in charge of the administration of Sharepoint on site.

Your tasks deliverables will include the following:

• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
• Install, configure, integrate, test and maintain
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Monitor and test these systems and infrastructure performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions and work with other engineers/developers to implement fixes
• Maintain security, backup and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Liaise with other engineers for problem resolution
• Provide guidance and insurance of the policies defined by the SP Architect
• Ensure that best practices are followed for the designed solutions
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support
• Watch duty and weekend work
• support of SharePoint functional designers, developers and end-users:
• Guide in Site structure, Content modelling and Content Types, Metadata and taxonomy development, Search integration
• Define, design and review technical architecture/designs to support new business requirements.
• Vision, evolution and strategy tasks

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Very good knowledge (not only technical, but as well functional aspects) of SharePoint 2013 (on premise) SharePoint-office 365 & SharePoint 2016 will be an asset
• Ability to configure and maintain a SharePoint server or a Farm
• Ability to promote user adaption, new features, new functionalities
• Can take part in implementing a good governance plan
• Monitoring, backup, failover, compliance, discovery, security, performance
• Ability to meet deadlines depending on business requirements
• Good knowledge of PowerShell
• Experience with ShareGate, SPDocKit tool
• Experience with building workflows with Nintex

Desirable skills:

Dutch and/or French would be an asset

Please, get in touch ASAP for further details on this exciting opportunity!

Endeavour is looking for a skilled Senior Magento Developer to join our a large Software development and E-Commerce client, based in Cork, initially for a 6 months contract.

The ideal candidate will have proven, strong execution skills and ability to manage client expectations, as well as excellent technical skills.

The successful developer will have a minimum of 3 years commercial experience implementing high traffic web applications with highly dynamic user interface, and be comfortable in leading a project from both a technical and delivery perspective.

Skills and experience required:

• Minimum of 3-5 years PHP web development experience
• Minimum of 3 years real-world e-commerce experience with Magento development in the last 2 years
• Experience with both Magento 1 and 2
• Expert understanding of Magento's code structure, extension architecture, theming hierarchy, and fallback components
• Expertise in authoring and extending Magento extensions
• Thorough experience in customizing Magento's front-end components using layout XML, blocks, and templates
• Thorough knowledge of vanilla Magento feature set and configuration
• Magento Certification is a huge plus

• Experience developing with modern front-end frameworks, e.g. Bootstrap, as well as JavaScript frameworks, e.g. Ember.js, AngularJS, Backbone.js, React.js
• Firm grasp of Git-based source control
• Competent with PHP object-oriented programming & MVC applications
• Competent with MySQL-based database concepts
• Demonstrated understanding of Responsive Web Design principles
• Proficiency with cross-browser/cross-platform issues, DOM and web standards
• Experience working with cross-functional and cross-office teams using Agile Methodology
• Experience with multiple CMS solutions
• Familiarity with automated deployment strategies
• Solutions-oriented thinking; always looking for the smart solution to a problem rather than jumping at the first answer
• A preoccupation with staying on top of industry trends and technologies

Please, get in touch ASAP for further details on the excellent contract opportunity!