Calling for a seasoned Business Analyst with strong testing skills to join a global and reputable organisation, headquartered in beautiful Geneva.

This role is onsite, and therefore, only Swiss or EU citizens who are willing to work in our client’s location can be considered for this project.

The Business Analyst will be part of a project which is aimed at continuing the ongoing development of a common IT platform which connects multiple IT platforms of client’s fee-paying services.

Your role:

The Business Analyst is primarily responsible for supporting the design, implementation and

monitoring of Portal program features, designing and implementing business test cases, provide

customer support as well as assisting Program Manager and Project Managers for the project

execution, and carrying out other specialized activities to effectively support the work of the

program initiatives.

The Business Analyst works under the supervision of the Senior Project Manager of the Portal

Customer Experience project.

Skills and experience required:

• Business analyst with strong background in testing.

• Expert knowledge and experience in using tools to model test cases.

• Testing skills: JUnit, SonarQube, Selenium, Katalon

• Formal training in recognized business analysis techniques, reinforced with appropriate work experience

• Formal training and extensive experience using the proven frameworks such as SCRUM software development framework (ideally including SCRUM master or product owner certification or equivalent).

• Experience in performing the role of a business analyst in IT software application development projects

• Expert knowledge and experience in using tools to document processes and workflows, such as Use Case Diagrams, Data and Process Flow Diagrams etc.

• Expert knowledge in measuring and tracking delivery of systems as fit for purpose and in accordance with agreed requirements(KPIs, quality measurements & control points)

• Expert knowledge and experience in configuring and using test automation tools.

• Expert knowledge of SDLC and CI/CD best practices.

• Practical experience working in an international diverse environment.

• Confident communicator and team player, with advanced/proficient level written and verbal English communication skills

Please send your CV or get in touch for further details!

Experienced Solution Architect required to join a Leading client, onsite in Amsterdam.

The design and communication of end-to-end solutions to enable and guide the design and development

of integrated solutions across multiple platforms that meet current and future business needs.

Professional qualifications

• BCS, TOGAF, SWEBOK or other equivalent and valid architecture certificates
• Relevant professional qualifications in designing cloud-based solutions (e.g.Azure, PowerApps Portal, MS Dynamics 365, MS SharePoint Online, SAP, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Salesforce)

Role specific experience

• Proven record in designing and delivering end-to-end business solutions implemented across multiple components, platforms and technologies (both cloud and on-prem);
• Experience using agile software development methodologies (i.e. Scaled Agile Framework, Kanban, Scrum and other lean techniques);
• Strong knowledge Microsoft cloud technologies (Microsoft Dynamics Portals, Microsoft SharePointOnline Experience in working with Azure DevOps, JIRA SDLC and ServiceNow modules (IT Operations Management Visibility, IT Service Management
• Professional and Customer Service Modules) is desired

Role specific skills, competencies & responsibilities

• Lead the creation and review of an end-to-end domain architecture and processes to support the strategic requirements of the business. Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Ensure compliance between business strategies, enterprise architecture and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
• Develop and present business cases, for high-level initiatives and approvals.
• Create and communicate multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the domain design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. Identify and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
• Ensure that domain architecture decisions are justified and documented.
• Assess and manage associated risks.
• Ensure that platforms and components selected for delivery of a domain specific solution are integrated to achieve domain objectives.
• Provide effort / cost estimates and work breakdown structure.
• Present domain architecture to governance bodies, address resulting architectural actions and participate in the overall IT governance structures.
• Collaborates strongly with architects in developing the solution, by applying the architectural principles

Topic Description

• Partner with Platform Architects and Managers from the Strategic Platforms department in order to assess and optimise domain functional requirements and augment with technical requirements from the platform
• architecture.
• Partner with the Enterprise Architect to ensure that the domain architecture fits into the broader enterprise architecture.
• Partner with Customer Portfolio Leads from the Customer Advocacy in order to assess and incorporate business needs and requirements to build these into technical solutions and platform architecture,
• Contribute to solutions testing and identify potential improvements to the domain solution, processes and to the strategic platforms according to agreed designs/requirements;
• Collaborates with Business Analysis function in identifying and preventing risks from the requirements gathering phase and all through the lifecycle

  Experienced Solution Architect required to join a Leading client, onsite in Amsterdam.

  The design and communication of end-to-end solutions to enable and guide the design and development

  of integrated solutions across multiple platforms that meet current and future business needs.

  Professional qualifications

• BCS, TOGAF, SWEBOK or other equivalent and valid architecture certificates
• Relevant professional qualifications in designing cloud-based solutions (e.g.Azure, PowerApps Portal, MS Dynamics 365, MS SharePoint Online, SAP, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Salesforce)

• Role specific experience

• Proven record in designing and delivering end-to-end business solutions implemented across multiple components, platforms and technologies (both cloud and on-prem);
• Experience using agile software development methodologies (i.e. Scaled Agile Framework, Kanban, Scrum and other lean techniques);
• Strong knowledge Microsoft cloud technologies (Microsoft Dynamics Portals, Microsoft SharePointOnline Experience in working with Azure DevOps, JIRA SDLC and ServiceNow modules (IT Operations Management Visibility, IT Service Management
• Professional and Customer Service Modules) is desired

• Role specific skills, competencies & responsibilities

• Lead the creation and review of an end-to-end domain architecture and processes to support the strategic requirements of the business. Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Ensure compliance between business strategies, enterprise architecture and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
• Develop and present business cases, for high-level initiatives and approvals.
• Create and communicate multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the domain design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. Identify and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
• Ensure that domain architecture decisions are justified and documented.
• Assess and manage associated risks.
• Ensure that platforms and components selected for delivery of a domain specific solution are integrated to achieve domain objectives.
• Provide effort / cost estimates and work breakdown structure.
• Present domain architecture to governance bodies, address resulting architectural actions and participate in the overall IT governance structures.
• Collaborates strongly with architects in developing the solution, by applying the architectural principles

• Topic Description

• Partner with Platform Architects and Managers from the Strategic Platforms department in order to assess and optimise domain functional requirements and augment with technical requirements from the platform
• architecture.
• Partner with the Enterprise Architect to ensure that the domain architecture fits into the broader enterprise architecture.
• Partner with Customer Portfolio Leads from the Customer Advocacy in order to assess and incorporate business needs and requirements to build these into technical solutions and platform architecture,
• Contribute to solutions testing and identify potential improvements to the domain solution, processes and to the strategic platforms according to agreed designs/requirements;
• Collaborates with Business Analysis function in identifying and preventing risks from the requirements gathering phase and all through the lifecycle of the solution
• Support continuous knowledge transfer to team members and transparent approach in sharing risks/issues/dependencies
• Autonomous in managing activities based on priorities given by the Project Manager
• Report outcome of testing through the relevant tools
• Identify potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs/requirements;
• Experience working with key users in a fast paced and changing business environment to design and develop software that meets business needs;
• Experience of the full development lifecycle of complex large scale and multiuser applications;
• Production of the relevant technical documentation, such as system designs, class designs and documentation for the support team;
• Capacity to assist the support team in training the users of the system;
• A strong technical background, specifically the delivery of complex software systems;
• Knowledge in IT Service Management and/or Risk frameworks, and/or international standards.

• Please don’t hesitate to apply for further details.

  of the solution
• Support continuous knowledge transfer to team members and transparent approach in sharing risks/issues/dependencies
• Autonomous in managing activities based on priorities given by the Project Manager
• Report outcome of testing through the relevant tools
• Identify potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs/requirements;
• Experience working with key users in a fast paced and changing business environment to design and develop software that meets business needs;
• Experience of the full development lifecycle of complex large scale and multiuser applications;
• Production of the relevant technical documentation, such as system designs, class designs and documentation for the support team;
• Capacity to assist the support team in training the users of the system;
• A strong technical background, specifically the delivery of complex software systems;
• Knowledge in IT Service Management and/or Risk frameworks, and/or international standards.

Please don’t hesitate to apply for further details.

Excellent contract opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer (Azure)  to join our leading clients growing development team who will contribute to the continued success of products and technical solutions.

You will design, develop and in some cases own the automated deployment, maintenance and monitoring of  SaaS products, using your experience to achieve this within optimal cost.

Working with Development Teams, within a Scrum framework, you will design and implement robust procedures for deployment to internal and external environments to minimise downtime and proactively address information security risks through principles of shared responsibility across the Microsoft Azure platform.

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code across Azure.
• Implement continuous integration, deployment and infrastructure / application monitoring through collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Implement processes to support the availability of appropriate pre and production environments for team members including Developers and QA Professionals.
• Support and improve monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of (1) Compliance to performance, availability, incident SLA’s; (2) scaling
• decision making around addition resources; (3) escalation of critical events (from security to performance  and capacity management).

Role relationships:

Internal

Architects, Development/Scrum Teams, Project Managers, Technical and Business Analysts, Product/Process Owners, and Business Users.

External

3rd party solutions and service providers.

Role accountabilities

• Build and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions in an Azure environment with Jenkins at the centre and automate the code delivery pipeline with the goal of one click deployments, rollbacks, and parameterised builds.
• Create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code across Azure.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement, through automation, documentation, process change, or working methods, in addition to business-generated requirements.
• Implement continuous integration, deployment and infrastructure / application monitoring through collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Implement processes to support the availability of appropriate pre and production environments for team members including Developers and QA Professionals.
• Support and improve monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of (1) Compliance to performance, availability, incident SLA’s; (2) scaling decision making around additional resources; (3) escalation of critical events (from security to performance and capacity management).
• Be a DevOps champion, subscribe to the DevOps mentality and the philosophy of automating everything.
• Work with the development team to cross-pollenate DevOps processes and ensure that new architectures are drawn up with “ease of management”, delivery, and operability in mind.
• Collaborate with the Information Security team to review risks as well as implement and maintain appropriate controls.
• Troubleshoot application and service issues or system outages while clearly communicating status updates with management and engineering teams.
• Coach and mentor staff members through training and individual support.
• Manage a junior DevOps Engineer in the creation and maintenance of high[1]quality deliverables within agreed project deadlines.

General

• Ensure you follow the financial regulations, policies and procedures.
• Ensure that you follow relevant Health and Safety policies and related
• procedures, keeping up to date with changes and taking action to maintain personal health and safety and that of others.
• The tasks and responsibilities outlined above are not exhaustive, the post holder may undertake other duties as is reasonably required

Please get in touch for further details on this not to be missed contract opportunity.

Scrum Master required for a 6 months contract opportunity with a Belgium based client.

The selected Scrum Master will help the team and the organisation to apply agile methodologies in order to provide added value to the customer and guide the team to become self-organising and work in a multidisciplinary way.

Required Responsibilities:

• Removes impediments and prevents distraction so that the team can come up with the best possible solution to achieve the sprint goals
• Assist with inside and outside communication of the team with the purpose to maximize transparent and valuable information
• Support the product owner with the maintenance of the product backlog
• Facilitate the rituals and discipline the team in doing so: backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-up, sprint review, sprint retrospective
• Guides the team to become self-steering regarding the use of methods and techniques for the team to achieve tangible results
• Ensure transparency towards stakeholders (product owner, PMO, Management Team)

Skills & Experience required:

• 10 years in IT deliveries
• 5 years in scrum and agile management
• Knowledge of the SAFe principles is an asset
• Kanban
• XP
• CI/CD
• Lean

Send your CV ASAP or get in touch for further details

Our Defence client based in Plymouth requires an ILS Functional Analyst to join them on a 6-month basis. Your team will support the delivery and maintenance of a variety of COTS and internally developed applications, which support a variety of business functions.

About the role

• As an ILS Functional Analyst, you will be joining a wider team of Functional Analysts providing solution consultancy and contributing to the delivery of work packages being managed by Business Solutions.
• The main purpose of the Functional Analyst is to support the facilitation of customer requirements from interpretation to delivery, whilst ensuring that to the solutions are delivered in line with the IT strategy.
• In this role, you will be adding value by using your knowledge of the ILS suite to support the development of solutions that will enhance its capabilities.

Requirements

• Excellent Analytical skills
• Experience of working with / alongside the ILS function and an awareness of the IT tools that support it
• Capability to expand this awareness and gain a holistic understanding of the solutions that support the ILS
• Ability to coach/mentor/supervise other team members when required
• Experience of using ERP tools
• Able to take high level project requirements and break them down into functional requirements to communicate to a delivery team
• Able to appreciate requirements robustly and challenge them in order to understand the must have changes

Qualifications

• Diploma in Business Analysis or equivalent qualification and/or proven experience
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with ILS focused IT/Business Applications
• Excellent customer engagement and analysis skills
• Knowledge of SQL
• Broad knowledge of business practices and procedures
• Knowledge of Agile SCRUM methodology

If this sounds of interest, please apply with your CV

Calling for an experienced DevOps Engineer!

Our client, a large Housing association, based in central London is looking for a DevOps engineer to join our growing development team.

As the successful DevOps Engineer you will design, develop and in some cases own the automated deployment, maintenance and monitoring of our client’s SaaS products, using your experience to achieve this within optimal cost. As part of your role you will be required to create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code, across Azure.

The ideal DevOps engineer will have proven experience working as a .Net Developer and the ability to coach junior DevOps colleagues .

Skills /experience:

• Azure for DevOps (VSTS).

• Microsoft Azure cloud-based applications including App Services, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, Azure AD, Azure Data Factory, Azure Resource Manager, Identity Services, Service Fabric and Key Vault.

• Azure for DevOps (VSTS).

• Programming language experience using PowerShell and C#.

• Application Insights.

• Certificates, Ciphers and Encryption.

• Atlassian suite of applications i.e. Confluence, Jira, Lucid Charts.

• Agile techniques such as SCRUM.

• Excellent organisational and analytical abilities.

• Outstanding problem solver.

• Good written and verbal communication skills.

• Load balancing, routing, switching, DNS, network firewalls, and web application firewalls.

• Unix / Linux.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field. (Master’s degree preferred)

Please apply ASAP and send us your CV or get in touch to discuss this excellent career opportunity!

Excellent new opportunity for a Senior PHP Developer to work for a large transportation client in Brussels, Belgium.

Our client has requested that the candidate chosen for this role is fluent in Dutch or French with a good understanding of the other and English.

The duration of this role is initially until the end of 2019 with possibility of extensions and the all-inclusive daily rate is €435 euros.

What is expected of the Senior PHP Developer? - Role and Responsibilities:

• As a PHP Developer, you have the opportunity to collaborate on projects that are technically and functionally challenging.
• You are not afraid to look for and find a good technical solution for all types of problems
• Monitor standards in our PHP domain and ready to promote the overall quality of the code
• Ready to pass on your knowledge
• Ready to promote the general quality of the code
• This project is both back-end and front-end oriented. Equal attention will therefore be paid to the technical skills required for the back-end as well as for the front-end.

Extensive experience with the following skills is required:

• PHP
• HTML/HTML5
• XML/XSD/XSLT
• CSS/CSS2
• AngularJS
• Zend Framework
• Symfony 3 & 4
• GIT
• Linux : Debian/CentOS/Ubuntu
• Windows
• Node JS
• Grunt
• Jenkins
• C++
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• Percona cluster
• MsSql
• SQL
• Agile / Scrum

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

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Senior .Net and Angular Developer to work for a large transportation client in Brussels, Belgium. The selected .Net and Angular Developer is expected to have at least 5 years of experience as a .Net Developer. Our client has requested that the .Net and Angular Developer chosen for this role is fluent in Dutch or French with a good understanding of the other and English.

The duration of this role is initially until the end of 2019 with possibility of extensions and the all-inclusive daily rate is €435 euros.

What is expected of the .Net and Angular Developer? - Role and Responsibilities:

• Our client is looking for a Senior .NET software engineer for project development (TrackPro, MOTIF) and corrective and scalable application maintenance.

• As a senior NET & Angular, you have the opportunity to collaborate on projects that are full of technical and functional challenges: planning and optimizing the maintenance of track and equipment infrastructure.

• This project is both back-end and front-end oriented. Equal attention will therefore be paid to the technical skills required for both back-end and front-end.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Must be able to speak fluent Dutch or French with an understanding of the other and English.
• You have a very broad technical background;
• You are ready to pass on your knowledge, ready to find a good technical solution for all types of problems, ready to promote the general quality of the code. You must be able to coach junior developers.
• At least 5 years of experience working with .NET, C#, ASP.NET WebApi, Entity Framework, code first, migrations, Windows services and batch consoles.
• 5 years of experience with IoC & DI concept, unit testing, Source control (TFS / Git) and Fiddler.
• At least 3 years of experience working with HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, minification and uglification.
• 5 years of experience with Visual Studio 2015/2017, Visual Studio Code, NuGet, PostGre, SqlServer and Oracle.
• 5 years’ experience with NUnit and MS Test
• 3 years’ experience with WebPack, NPM, BootStrap, PrimeNG and TeamCity (continuous integration)
• Experience working in an Agile/ Scrum environment

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

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our client based in Brighton, salary up to £50k. You will own the development roadmap, develop project plans and resource projects, manage the team, and ensure high standards of software quality.

You must have previous experience with hands on software development, our client mainly works in PHP, SQL, Linux, AWS, and their future roadmap includes Docker and Kubernetes.

To be successful in this Technical Project Manager role you must have the following –

• Hands on Software Development experience
• Previous experience working as a Project Manager/Development Team Lead
• Technical delivery experience
• Scrum/Agile

Please apply as soon as possible to be considered for this Technical Project Manager role.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Senior Full Stack .Net Developer to work for a large pharmaceutical client in Belgium. The selected .Net Developer is expected to have at least 7 years of experience as a .Net Developer. Our client has requested that the .Net Developer chosen for this role is fluent in English. Experience working with Xamarin is desirable.

The duration of this role is initially for 6 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is €525 euros.

What is expected of the .Net Developer? - Role and Responsibilities:

• You'll be responsible for developing web and mobile applications backed by RESTful API’s for both internal users as patients and healthcare professionals

• You'll have the function of translating functional requirements into technical solutions with your team, in collaboration with business partners

• You’ll join an existing SCRUM team and will take part in delivering cutting-edge digital solutions, bringing value to the end users

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• You are an ambitious and passionate developer with at least 7 years of experience, of which 3+ years of experience was in an environment with complex business logic applications

• You have a bachelor or master’s degree in IT or equivalent experience

• You are fluent in English.

• You are an expert in .NET 4.5 and preferably have experience in .NET Core 2.1+ (C#, Web API, LINQ, async/await)

• You know that a RESTful API means more than having GET and POST methods

• You have basic knowledge of web development (HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, XML, JSON)

• You have knowledge of AngularJS and Angular 2+ with a deep understanding of observables

• Experience with Azure cloud computing (Azure App Services, Azure AD/B2C, API management)

• Experience with SCRUM methodology

• Experience with VSTS / Azure DevOps and Git

• Experience in writing automated tests

• Knowledge of Vue, React and Redux is a plus

• Knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Azure AD or Azure B2C is desirable

• Experience in Xamarin is desirable

• Experience in writing unit/integration/e2e tests for frontend applications is considered a plus

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