Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for an experienced Head of Software Development. The successful candidate should come from a development background and have significant experience of leading development teams.  The Head of Development should be a natural and strong leader with a good work ethic that can lead by example.  You should be confident, organised, analytical with excellent attention to detail.   This role is based in Central London and the salary will be in the region of £75K plus benefits.

Responsibilities:

Act as Scrum Master, mentor and creating a professional team culture.

Ensure quality and technical approach adheres to the company strategy.

Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a similar role.

Be responsible for web solutions that meet client needs.

Attend client facing meetings.

Manage outsourced vendor relationships.

Work with other teams to ensure delivery of work is on time and to budget.

Technical Skills:

• HTML5
• LINQ
• ASP.Net
• MVC
• C#
• Umbraco / Sitecore
• SQL Server
• Cloud
• GIT
• Team City
• Octopus
• Lucene and SOLR

Additional Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken
• Self-motivated
• Natural leadership ability

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

Endeavour is looking for a Solution/Infrastructure Architect (T1 SR) with experience in broadcast/media & entertainment company, to join our UK based client  for a contract, initially till the end of the year, with possible extension.

You will work for Data Center Technologies (DCT), subs Infrastructure Solutions Design or Network Solutions Design. DCT is part of Core Networks & Operations and responsible for designing solutions for our client’s new Data Centers. Day-to-day key accountabilities are chasing input for and create solutions designs for this project.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following duties:

• Define, design and document IT business solutions, delivering Business Solution Architecture (BSA) document, corresponding UML artefacts (i.e. Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Use Cases) and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) in support of documenting the program/project scoped IT business solution.
• Ensure that the solution architecture is compliant and aligned to the published Enterprise Architecture blueprints and product, technology and infrastructure roadmaps. Direct a design change control to ensure that all changes are considered in relation to the end-to-end design baseline. Ensure that the solution is aligned to defined scope but also positioned for future requirements.
• Review and approve design artefacts for the IT business solution (i.e. Functional Designs, Technical Designs, Interface Specifications, Data Mappings etc.), liaising with cross functional teams to achieve high quality designs.
• Co-operate with the Enterprise Architects on definition of the E2E architecture to assure the integrity, robustness and efficiency of the future E2E solutions. Identify opportunities to increase reusability and maximise cost synergies.

Required experience and skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT or other technical studies
• Experience in solution/infrastructure architecture
• Experience in software development and/or software design
• Knowledge of and/or certification in at least one enterprise architecture methodology (TAM,

eTOM, SID, TOGAF, SOA, Web 2.0., etc.)

• Experience in large scale enterprise architecture, ideally in a telecom. setting
  Analytics skills
• Communication, presentation & facilitation skills
• Stakeholder, vendor, and relationship management.
• Ability to understand and analyze business needs and bridge the gap between business and IT
• Project management

Please get in touch for further details and apply ASAP!

Endeavour is looking for a Solution/Infrastructure Architect (T1 SR) with experience in broadcast/media & entertainment company, to join our UK based client  for a contract, initially till the end of the year, with possible extension.

You will work for Data Center Technologies (DCT), subs Infrastructure Solutions Design or Network Solutions Design. DCT is part of Core Networks & Operations and responsible for designing solutions for our client’s new Data Centers. Day-to-day key accountabilities are chasing input for and create solutions designs for this project.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following duties:

• Define, design and document IT business solutions, delivering Business Solution Architecture (BSA) document, corresponding UML artefacts (i.e. Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Use Cases) and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) in support of documenting the program/project scoped IT business solution.
• Ensure that the solution architecture is compliant and aligned to the published Enterprise Architecture blueprints and product, technology and infrastructure roadmaps. Direct a design change control to ensure that all changes are considered in relation to the end-to-end design baseline. Ensure that the solution is aligned to defined scope but also positioned for future requirements.
• Review and approve design artefacts for the IT business solution (i.e. Functional Designs, Technical Designs, Interface Specifications, Data Mappings etc.), liaising with cross functional teams to achieve high quality designs.
• Co-operate with the Enterprise Architects on definition of the E2E architecture to assure the integrity, robustness and efficiency of the future E2E solutions. Identify opportunities to increase reusability and maximise cost synergies.

Required experience and skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT or other technical studies
• Experience in solution/infrastructure architecture
• Experience in software development and/or software design
• Knowledge of and/or certification in at least one enterprise architecture methodology (TAM,

eTOM, SID, TOGAF, SOA, Web 2.0., etc.)

• Experience in large scale enterprise architecture, ideally in a telecom. setting
  Analytics skills
• Communication, presentation & facilitation skills
• Stakeholder, vendor, and relationship management.
• Ability to understand and analyze business needs and bridge the gap between business and IT
• Project management

Please get in touch for further details and apply ASAP!

Natural/Adabas Developer required to join a dynamic team based in Geneva, Switzerland. 6 month initial contract.

Requirements:

• Experience in software development and operation, with a minimum of five years' experience developing with ADABAS/Natural based systems
• Knowledge of formal development management methods.
• Excellent English (French will be an advantage)
• Swiss Work Permit is essential

Services:

• ADABAS/Natural software development necessary to implement required modifications to existing operational activities.
• Undertaking operational support activities.
• Producing required documentation of system changes.
• Regular reporting to coordinators.

Deliverables:

• Application updates as specified by supervisor, specifically including addressing of issues regarding numbering of transactions and documents.
• Documentation of modified software and workflow procedures.
• Regular status reporting.
• Committing the applications source code to the repository.

Please apply for further details on this excellent contract opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Software Architect with strong development experience, to join a client based in Switzerland, initially for a 6 months contract.

Required Skills:

• First-level university degree in information technology, computer science or a related field.
• Proficient (certified) in an industry leading cloud Architecture framework.
• 12 years+ of relevant software development and architecture, as well as professional experience in SOA architecture (specifically microservices and API development), as well as integrations combining custom and off-the-shelf products.
• Experienced at producing multi-tier, high-availability secure software architecture in a cloud environment adhering to Security, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Resilience best practice.
• Building and recommending a migration approach to architecting a green field development and/or production platform for new applications. Able to help shape transition and transformation strategies.
• Ability to maintain technology awareness, and provide analytical comparisons against specified criteria.
• Experience working with local and remote technical teams.
• Excellent knowledge of English (French will be an advantage).

Desirable experience:

• Exposure and understanding of automated build pipeline, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Experience with highly secure ICT solutions.
• Knowledge and experience of cloud.

Please apply and get in touch for further details about this excellent contract role!

Endeavour Recruitment has a FANTASTIC opportunity for an experienced Software Platform Engineer to join a well-established and fast growing company, covering a wide range of sectors, based in West London.

As the successful Software Platform Engineer, you would be part of a team responsible for developing our client’s state of the art compiler technology and software tools.

Required skills and experience:

Java, C and C++

Object oriented programming

Linux software development

A degree or equivalent professional qualification in Computer Science or a related discipline

Desirable experience in any of the following:

Post-graduate research (e.g. PhD, EngD, EU research projects, papers/journal articles)

Software testing (e.g. JUnit, Jenkins CI)

Compiler development

Digital hardware design (e.g. Verilog/VHDL, FPGAs)

RTOS/Embedded software

Please get in touch ASAP to discuss this exciting opportunity.

• Are you an experienced Test manager?
• Do you have Business Intelligence experience?
• Are you a fluent French or Dutch speaker?
• Are you a problem solver with a pragmatic mind, looking for a new challenge?

If so, Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a skilled Test Manager/ Coach with BI experience to join leading client in the financial sector, based in Brussels.

As a successful applicant, you will have the following experience/skills:

• ISTQB Foundation (CTFL)
• Advanced ISTQB Test Manager or Expert Test Manager (CTAL / CTEL)
• Fluency in French or Dutch
• Software development technologies and lifecycle models
• Quality Centre (all modules) - HP Quality Centre 9.0 CPM
• Project Management training / certification (PMP / PMBOK or equivalent)
• Worked on projects using PowerCenter on Oracle & Sybase
• Functional knowledge of the “application under test” and the concerned business processes   as well as non-functional / technical / architecture knowledge of ‘application under test’
• Functional and non-functional test skills (for different test levels and test types) i.e. reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability, portability, install & deployment …

If this sounds like you and you would like to be put forward for this role, please don’t hesitate to apply.

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic opportunity for a C/C++ Engineer to work for a famous household name for a 12 months fixed-term contract.

The ideal candidate will come from C/C++ environment and be enthusiastic about gaming technologies.

The successful applicant, will join our client’s established, high performance team in central London and  be involved in the implementation of features, porting, maintenance and support of an existing C++ application framework.

Responsibilities                                                   

Implementing and testing required features and software components within the framework. 
Keeping implementation on target to meet a tight schedules.
Providing innovation to current technology. 
Building and updating framework samples and documentation. 
Integrating the framework with other application components being designed and implemented on parallel schedules. 
Working closely with other technology teams in different countries responsible for middleware components within the framework. 


Qualifications/Skills/Experience 
Bachelor’s degree or 4+ years of relevant work experience 
A minimum of  5 years of Software Development experience 
Proficient in C/C++. 
Experience in developing video streaming protocol stack and video streaming application 
Good knowledge in HLS protocol 
Good knowledge and experience writing test units used for validating and regression testing of software components. 
Good communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with differing groups both inside and outside of the company. 
Ability to work to strict deadlines without direct supervision. 
Experience with source code revision control, Git preferred. 

Please get in touch for further information if this role sounds of interest to you or anyone you may know.