Endeavour Recruitment has an superb opportunity for a Cloud native developer  to join our leading client based in Leuven (Belgium). This is a 12 month contract with possible extension, paying a  daily rate of €400 all-inclusive based on a 40-hour week.

Requirements of the project

You will need to be a creative mind, a critical and outside of the box thinker showing a degree of flexibility and able to function in a sociable and creative environment.

The highly skilled, enthusiastic, communicative developer will build applications with a cloud native design in function incorporating flexible releases and integration with cloud eco-systems.

In-depth experience and knowledge as a Senior Java engineer with the ability to build and design the backend services and technical capabilities in a logical process.

The developer will work together in a multi-functional team to automatize build-integration-deploy-test processes and build functional, qualitative applications. 

Focus on the base layer of the newly designed platform, adopting the best technologies to apply.

Evaluation on how to build and maintain the different components of this layer will be undertaken  during the design and build of the new platform.

An ability to clearly communicate with project teams and stakeholders within the business is essential for this role, therefore a positive attitude and focus to keep motivation high when challenged will be a benefit to this role. 

Detail orientated individuals with good in multitasking abilities when working under strict deadlines will succeed in this role. 

A fluency in English is essential  and the ability to speak Dutch is a positive benefit in this role.

Essential skills and experience required for the role.

• A determination to keep up to date with the latest web technologies
• Expertise in object-oriented en-functional programming in modern programming languages
• Relevant experience in the following technologies: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Javascript Angular (2), Maven, Jenkins, Git, Virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes), …
• Database knowledge and experience: PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL (mongoDB, …)
• Java frameworks like spring/springboot and cloud related databases (SQL and No-SQL). For a few pilot applications (K ‘ching and Appyourservice).
• Expertise with front end and RESTful webservices, JSON, …
• Very good knowledge of software development best practices
• Design patterns
• Unit testing, continuous integration, build pipelines (grunt, gulp)
• Code analyses (Sonar)
• Experience in an Agile environment (Scrum, kanban)
• A passion for coding and end-to-end development.

This is a stunning opportunity to create the foundation of a platform that will reform the client’s application landscape.

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 Recruitment has a new opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer.  Based in Vienna, this is a 12-month contract opportunity looking to pay €52EUR per hour. Previous experience of working within banking, credit risk or limit management is highly beneficial!

Responsibilities in this role include working with international scrum teams and developing professional applications. Other tasks include unit testing, generating/testing Java code, and writing technical documentation.

Essential Skills:

• 4-5 year’s in Java application development
• Java programming
• IBM InfoSphere DataStage
• IBM ACA/ ACL
• Java frameworks (Birt, JMS)
• Groovy
• SQL
• Scrum
• Unix based operation systems
• Collaborate via Skype, Jira and confluence
• CI and source code management tools (Git, Jenkins, SonarCube, SVN)
• Test automation and experience of using testing tools
• A degree or equivalent with a technical background

Additional Competencies:

• Strong English is essential with German being an added benefit
• Pro-active attitude and team orientation
• Excellent communication skills in a multi-cultural environment

Calling for an Agile Guru to join a leading company in the Telecoms industry, based in Belgium, for an initial 6 months contract!

ROLE

As an Agile evangelist you will be, teaching and mentoring on different levels (teams, managers, partners) as our client is initiating enterprise wide Agile transformation.

 You will be part of the Agile centre of excellence, which is setting direction, overseeing and supporting the overall Agile transformation. You are able to review existing and elaborate on new processes, governance, & structure to support a successful transformation.

PROFILE

You thrive on forming and influencing Agile communities raising awareness of Agile methods in the organization. You are able to connect with scrum masters & Agile coaches, who are part of the delivery teams, communicate & align with them to ensure the teams are moving in the direction in-line with the overall Agile transformation strategy.

 SKILLS

• 7+ years acting as an Agile Evangelist in technology sector  with large-scale technology programs ;
• You have deep knowledge regarding Agile development methods (Scrum, Kanban, Extreme, Test Driven Development), Agile-at-scale (SAFe) methods, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
• You have strong servant leadership skills with a passion for teaching and mentoring others and have experience in coaching Agile
• You have excellent communication skills and are able to adapt your communication to different audiences
• You are at your best and thrive in a fast paced culture full of collaboration, transparency and trust across teams
• You have strong change management skills
• Preferably you have at least one Agile certification
• English + (Dutch/French are assets)

If this sounds like your next challenge, please get in touch to find further information on this excellent contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an extremely capable individual for the senior role of Head of Technology.  The successful candidate must come from a development/architect background and has since progressed their career to a Lead/Managerial level.  Previous experience of working within Retail, Finance, Marketing or Travel would be advantageous.  This is a permanent opportunity based in Central London, with an attractive salary in the region of £90K plus benefits package.

As an individual, you must be creative with good UX/UI knowledge, plus innovative and passionate about new technology trends.  You should have the ability to lead a talented team applying best practice principles, quality assurance and governance.   Familiarity of working in an Agile/Scrum environment is essential.   A particular interest in developing mobile applications, Native, Web or Hybrid is essential along with accompanying technical knowledge.

Essential Experience/Skills for the role:

• Creativity
• Leadership skills
• From a Development/Architectural Background
• Mobile Development
• Responsive Design
• UI/UX
• Best Practice/Governance/Quality
• Integration with CMS
• New platform knowledge: AI, NLP, 36 / AR
• Agile/Scrum
• Managing client relationships
• Industry experience in Finance, Retail, Marketing or Travel

Our client is looking to fill this role as soon as possible.   Therefore, please apply quickly.

Endeavour Recruitment have an FANTASTIC opportunity for a Solution Architect to join a Leading European client in The Hague on an initial 6 month contract.

Role:

• As a Solutions Architect, you will be part of a project team translating business and IT requirements into fit-for-purpose technical architecture designs for medium and large scale systems using your knowledge of current technologies and integrating existing products and new developments.
• Document technical architecture designs and communicate them to stakeholders.
• Participate in the implementation phase coaching the development team. Ensure that development best practices are applied and that development is of a high quality.

Your Profile:

• Computer science degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of 5 years experience in the IT sector including 2 years in IT architecture design.
• Eager to learn new technologies; you are constantly up-to-date with IT evolutions and trends.
• Excellent communication skills, you will be writing complex documents and delivering persuasive presentations.
• Knowledge and experience of associated tools, techniques, methods within their specialist technology area.
• Flexible, pro-active, structured and quality oriented.
• Experience working on complex integrated systems engineering projects.

Skills and experience:

• Concrete experience in software development and application support.
• Extensive technical architecture and design skills.
• Knowledge of the SOA paradigm(SOA principles/SOA Governance/SOA Design Patterns).
• Excellent Drool/JBPM experience.
• Excellent knowledge of the JEE platform.
• Good knowledge of UI/UX processes technologies (AngularJ, CSS, HTML, Web Components).
• Good knowledge of at least one Application Server (Weblogic, JBoss).
• Good knowledge of at least one Enterprise Service Bus (OSB, ServiceMix).
• Good knowledge of at least one RDBMS (Oracle Database, IBM DB2).
• Good knowledge of development methodologies (RUP, Scrum).
• Good experience of Spring, Hibernate and JPA frameworks.

Please apply for further details on this excellent contract opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for a proficient Python Developer.  This is an English-speaking role, with Luxembourgish, French or German being an asset.   6-month contract to start end of June.  Renewal potential.   Rate IRO €450EUR per day.

Essential Experience:

• Python 2x/3x
• NLP Platform
• Django
• Flask
• MySQL
• SQLalchemy
• MongoDB
• SOAP
• XML
• JSON
• REST
• Scrum

Please apply quickly to be shortlisted for this role. 

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity with longer term career prospects for our Top client based in East Grinstead.

• Responsible to fill the gap between business and technology. Liase with the development team to ensure they deliver the required solutions for the business. Will be working in a .Net/C# environment.
• A key role joining a new multi-disciplined team to drive forward a large list of items of work. To create a managed work stream for a team who are committed, work hard and aiming to make a difference.

Duties:

• Create qualified stories of work based on RFC s and bug reports. Preparing work for developers to take into sprints ensuring inclusion of clear acceptance criteria and clear description of work requirements.
• Gathering and writing requirements and specification from a number of stakeholders, challenging working processes to ensure requirement and solutions make best use of technology and offer efficiencies.
• Work closely with the development team to maximise the efficiency of development with the creation of work items.
• Develop relationships across multiple areas of the business and departments.
• Supporting an agile software development team in a fast paced environment.
• Help plan and run workshops.
• Conduct meetings with system users and managers to gather requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Join as a member of a multiple disciplined team working in an Agile working method and take a key role to support and drive them forward.
• Contribute to retrospective meetings to help maximise team efficiency.
• Help build strong working relationships with stakeholders across the entire organisation.

Essential Skills:

• Able to demonstrate the ability to build rapport and engagement with key stakeholders across the entire business and support business transformation and change alongside the delivery of new innovations
• Pragmatic approach to work levels ensuring always producing clear work item and acceptance criteria for pickup of work
• Ability to manage multiple stories.
• Possesses strong intellectual integrity. Critical thinking and problem-solving. Intellectually inquisitive.
• Very self-motivated and proactive.
• Agile/Scrum methodology experience.
• Expert analytical abilities.
• Business process understanding.
• Planning and organisation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Great analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Commitment and enthusiasm to drive through change.
• Team player able to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Confidence to challenge and be challenged in a fast paced environment.
• Able to take direction and work to achieve deadlines.

Required Experience:

• Relevant experience in a similar role.
• Experience working within a multi skilled agile development team.
• Experience of work stream management using VSTS.
• Preferred - Working knowledge of the travel industry.
• Preferred Some experience of development work would be a highly desirable.

Kindly apply for further details on this excellent opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity with their Publisher client for an excellent Full Stack Developer.  The successful candidate should have experience as a C# .Net Developer or be able to demonstrate potential to fulfil this role.  As this is a permanent role candidates should be commutable distance to the Oxford area.   If you are now looking for the chance to work for a successful company and you have over 3 years’ experience of the full SDLC you can expect a salary between £30K to £45K plus bonuses and benefits. 

The successful candidate will be responsible for the development, maintenance and updating of applications.  It is anticipated 80% of the work will be on new projects.  The ability to ‘jump in at the deep end’ is essential and we are looking for somebody who is an excellent communicator and is quick to learn.

Skills Required:

• C#
• .Net
• Entity Framework
• MVC
• jQuery
• PHP
• ASP.Net
• Web API
• SQL Server
• HTML 5 , CSS 3
• JavaScript, jQuery
• Agile
• Requirement Gathering
• Architecture

If you are looking for a challenging role in an exciting environment, then please do not hesitate to apply!!

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting long-term contract role for a GIS Developer to work for a multinational client in Stockholm.

Our client is looking for a GIS developer with good communication skills and keen to work in a multinational team.

• Do you have a university degree and at least 4 years’ experience in IT?

• Can you demonstrate proven experience with GIS integration and GIS web applications development in .NET environment using ArcGIS Server 10.5, ESRI ArcGIS API for JavaScript and Python?

• Do you have good knowledge of relational databases (MS SQL and ESRI SDE) and experience with development with C# in .NET and MS SharePoint environments?

• Have you got experience in the development of web GIS applications in public health ?

• Have you worked with agile software development (for instance, Scrum)?

If you can answer yes to all of these questions, we would like to hear from you.

Please get in touch to find out further information on this excellent opportunity.