Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting new contract opportunity for an experienced Infosphere CDC Specialist with experience in the banking sector to join a leading client in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Infosphere CDC Specialist must have extensive functional experience with Infosphere CDC to meet the requirements for the role as an Infosphere CDC Specialist.

It is desirable that the Infosphere CDC Specialist is fluent in Dutch but fluency in the English language is essential. The duration of this role is initially 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is market related.

Required Skills and Knowledge for the Infosphere CDC Specialist:

• Configuration of data from mainframe to Hadoop via Infosphere and by Kafka Connect.
• Must be able to work in a cloud environment with AWS/Azure.
• Must have Banking sector experience
• It is essential to have extensive functional experience with Infosphere CDC and you must have a technical background
• Ability to configure CDC to address Non Functional Requirements like completeness checks, performance, guaranteed deliveries and monitoring.
• Similar work experience
• Good communication skills (client contact)
• English speaking is mandatory, Dutch is a preference.

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

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic new contract opportunity for an experienced Kafka Connect Developer with experience in the banking sector to join a leading client in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Kafka Connect Developer must have Java development experience to meet the requirements for the role as an Kafka Connect Developer.

It is desirable that the Kafka Connect Developer is fluent in Dutch but fluency in the English language is essential. The duration of this role is initially 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is market related.

Required Skills and Knowledge for the Kafka Connect Developer:

• Configuration of data from mainframe to Hadoop via Infosphere and by Kafka Connect.
• Must be able to work in a cloud environment with AWS/Azure.
• Must have Banking sector experience
• Must be a Kafka developer.
• Create KAFKA topics, define streams, define schema registries to cope with schema evolution.
• It is essential to have Java development experience.
• Must have knowledge of Kafka in combination with Hadoop
• Similar work experience
• Good communication skills (client contact)
• English Speaking is mandatory, Dutch is a preference

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

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for an experienced Data Scientist ideally with experience in energy sector to join a leading client in Brussels, Belgium.

Data Scientist  with knowledge of VBA & Excel to fulfil the requirements for the role as a Data Scientist.

It is desirable that the Data Scientist speaks either French or Dutch but English speaking is essential. The duration of this role is for 9 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is €620 euros.

What is expected of the Data Scientist? - Role and Responsibilities:

• Support the customer grid development scenario’s and market adequacy team for the different tasks that need to be accomplished
• Extend existing I/O tools of the ANTARES simulator with new functionalities
• Increase robustness of existing tools
• Increase tool flexibility
• Automate data handling
• Gather data from External platforms
• Extend the team’s VBA add-in to increase VBA scripting efficiency
• Handle large amount of output data to generate pre-defined indicators
• Visualization of results with maps, graphs that are flexible and can be adapted to any study

Required Skills:

• Good knowledge of R, particularly the DataTable and tidy verse packages
• Good knowledge of VBA & Excel
• Fluent in English
• Bachelor’s degree in applied information technology, master’s degree or equivalent by experience is a plus
• Knowledge of either Dutch or French is a big plus
• Prior knowledge of energy markets, or economical dispatch models is a plus
• Knowledge of the flow based electricity market coupling process is a plus
• Knowledge of QGIS, similar GIS software or equivalent R packages is a plus
• Knowledge of Github is a plus

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

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for an experienced Functional Analyst with electronic invoicing experience to work for a large client in the Public sector in the centre of Brussels, Belgium. 

5 + years’ experience as a Functional Analyst with Electronic Invoicing experience.

It is preferential that the Functional Analyst speaks either French or Dutch but English speaking will be considered. The duration of this role is initially for 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is €535 euros.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Be an authority in your area of specialization
• Analyse the existing systems and highlight areas of improvement
• Enhance opportunities by identifying new software/services to be developed
• Analyse and decompose complex requirements
• Perform gap analysis and recommend solutions, considering the existing building blocks
• Operate within the organisations Agile Way of Working
• Document requirements, create functional specifications and prepare wireframes/mock-ups/flowcharts
• Oversee the development of the product as per the specifications
• Validate the functionality of the product according to the requirement specifications
• Prepare user manuals and occasionally organize workshop or training sessions

Required Skills:

• French or Dutch speaking is preferential.
• Solid educational background
• Knowledge of E-invoicing/ electronic invoicing, purchasing cycle.
• 5+ years of experience in functional analysis
• Experience in working in agile development environments
• Analytical and investigation track record
• Ability to understand the bigger picture
• Working knowledge of data and process modelling
• Organizational and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills

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

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Lead Software Architect to work for a large client in Brussels, Belgium. The duration for this role is initially 6 months and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is €722 euros.

Required skills and knowledge:

• Must have a university degree or equivalent in experience.
• 3 - 5 years direct experience in system design or software architecture, spanning backend systems, mobile apps and/or IoT. Working knowledge of programming styles and languages is required.
• Functional analysis skills, including gathering of functional and non-functional requirements and functional specifications, analysing their impact and producing supporting documentation.
• Well-versed with documenting complex systems; proficient in modelling languages such as UML or SysML.
• End-to-end software architecture design spanning all layers (including complex, large-scale and distributed systems), using proven styles and patterns where applicable.
• Hands-on experience with SOAP, REST, layered, event-driven and (micro)service architectures.
• Experience with code analysis, complexity and dependency analysis.
• A solid understanding of software security essentials.
• Knowledge of testing methodologies, techniques and tools.
• An analytical approach and attitude, with an eye for detail, yet able to maintain the oversight of the overall architecture.
• Experience with agile methods and DevOps.
• Ability to articulate the relationship between business strategy and technology strategy.
• Continuously staying up to date on new technologies, trends and architectural patterns, and evaluating their implications.
• Strong project management skills and high performance ensuring agile delivery of complex solutions complying with high quality standards.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Experience with regulated environments (GxP, HIPAA).
• French and/or Dutch speaking is an asset.

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.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a French or Dutch Speaking Business Analyst to work for an renowned consumer protection client in Saint Gilles, Belgium. The duration of this role is 12 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is €600 euros.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Gather and document the business requirements for a new data integration platform and translate these into clear functional requirements (with the help of the integration team)
• Define and implement data quality KPI’s for the new platform
• Maintain, expand and document the Conceptual Information Model (CIM)
• Coach all systems to build a logical data model and to link it to the CIM
• Design and document the data flows involved in the development of the integration platform
• Use of modelling practices to analyze requirement and create suggestions for improvements and changes
• Understanding of functional analysis and UI mock-ups in order to better communicate with all the stakeholders involved in the product definition
• Drafting of written documentation to support work, report on findings and present to  stakeholders when necessary

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• A university degree or equivalent in experience
• Excellent knowledge of Enterprise Architect (Sparx)
• Expert knowledge in the field of data modelling
• Able to build and maintain a conceptual and logical information model
• Able to document these models in detail (included glossary and data dictionary maintenance)
• Design and document data lineage models
• Describe and document business rules and data related processes
• Conduct requirements gathering workshops
• Can resolve complex requirements conflicts through good stakeholder engagement
• Knowledge of data integration concepts is a plus
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure and PowerBI is a plus

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.

Excellent, long term contract opportunity for an experienced, French speaking Linux Administrator to join a client based in Sint- Gillis, Belgium.

Role:

• As part of a migration project from mainframes to Linux technology, you will be responsible for managing Linux servers (OS and Software) and daily operations.
• Attend to correcting existing scripts and writing again (Perl).
• You will be responsible to accompany and upgrade the current operators on the new OS.
• The knowledge of Nagios is a plus.

Skills required:

• 3  + years in Linux system management and Perl programming.
• You demonstrate adaptability, openness and a sense of service.
• You are autonomous and a team player.
• The knowledge of Nagios is a plus.
• Knowledge of French and English is required. Knowledge of Dutch is a plus

Please get in touch for further details. We look forward to hearing from you.

Are you looking for an excellent, new long-term contract role as a Data Scientist working in Brussels, Belgium? Can you speak fluent French or Dutch? Then this role is for you! This contract is for a duration of 12 months and pays an all-inclusive daily rate of €530 euros.

What are our clients expectations:

• In the TV division, our client works hard to improve the customer experience. Our client uses advanced tools based on technologies for big data, predictive models and machine learning.
• As a Data Scientist, you will strengthen the team to discover innovative ways to enhance the customer experience and consecutively launch these improvement initiatives.
• You will be faced with various challenges for which you will work with big data & TV experts in order to achieve tangible results.

What do you need to be right for this role?:

• Hold a PhD or Master's degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics)
• Be fluent in French or Dutch.
• Have a particular interest in techniques of statistical analysis and machine learning (significance / multinomial confidence intervals and correlations, data reduction, clustering, segmentation, Bayesian algorithms, hierarchical regression).
• Have experience in programming (Python, R, SparkR, Shiny, ggplot2, html, PHP, C, SQL, VBA)

Desirable and Soft Skills:

• Experience in big data environments (HDFS, Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Spark, Ambari, Hortonworks)
• Experience with IDTV environments.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skills.

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

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Fluent Dutch or French Speaking Change / Release Manager to work for a client in the financial sector in Anderlecht, Belgium. The duration of this role is until the end of 2019 and the daily rate is highly negotiable.

What you will be doing:

• As Change Manager, you are responsible for coordinating, scheduling and following up all planned changes to hardware and software.
• You ensure that all IT services to be provided are coordinated, correctly built, tested and delivered so that availability can be guaranteed.
• You are responsible for planning the changes and preparing and controlling the deployment, both in test, acceptance, production, capitalization and training environment so that the modified and new applications are available to the users.
• Convening, preparing and chairing the FCAB (Functional Change Advisory Board) and / or Technical Change Advisory Board (TCAB) in which you evaluate and decide whether to implement changes, in consultation with the members of the committee, in order to minimize the risks of an implementation on a specific date.
• Analysing the impact of changes and detecting the risks and dependencies in the release in order to have a high availability of the IT systems.
• Responsible for clear communication regarding the changes that are placed in production, so that users, both from the Office and in agencies, know exactly what changes are in the new release.

What our client is looking for:

• You are fluent in either Dutch or French and English.
• You have a master's degree (or equivalent in experience).
• You have at least 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in a banking environment
• You are eager to learn, and you can always evolve with the changing environment
• You are communicative
• You have a service and customer-oriented attitude
• You have knowledge of ITIL

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