Release and Environments Manager required by market leading, professional services organisation based in Central Bristol. This is a hybrid role with 1-2 days a week onsite with flexibility.

The successful Release and Environments Manager will report into the Head of Architecture and will be responsible for organising, directing and managing activities and environments for releasing and maintaining our clients’ multichannel environments.

Our client is in the process of transforming from a largely on-prem set-up to Cloud based Software / Platform as a Service based applications and integrations. As part of this role, you will demonstrate the required skills and manage resources (both internal and external) needed to deliver the Release and Environments Service across a range of platforms, all seamlessly integrated within one another, hosted in a mix of Salesforce, Azure, AWS, on-premise and more.

Main Responsibilities Include:

• Create a Release and Environments strategy, and own the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases across the enterprise for multiple applications and platforms.
• Act as the primary contact and escalation point for stakeholders for anything related to Release or Environment policies and processes.
• Maintaining consistency between environments, from development through SIT, UAT, pre-production and production
• Ensure delivery and assurance of all environments (production and non-production) to support the entire estate, including definition, provision and configuration of environments, plus assure automation excellence through CICD and DevOps best practices.
• Evaluate scope and set priorities for release criteria and product quality requirements.
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process.
• Work with multiple technical teams to ensure appropriate handover of any new service into the appropriate team takes place.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the definition and execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
• Develop scripts and automations using best practice tooling that will be used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms – knowledge of Azure DevOps is highly desirable.
• Participate in service acceptance meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.
• Maintain a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
• Oversee the overall co-ordination and management of all release and non-production environment activities, including internal resource and external suppliers.

Ideal Background:

• You will have extensive experience in a similar Release & Environments Management role within a complex fast paced Technology landscape.
• You are an experienced DevOps and CI/CD practitioner, with a proven track record in creating release strategies and seeing them through to business as usual through the use of automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines and data refresh processes.
• Demonstratable ability to manage complex environments and have overcome complex programme interdependencies.
• A great communicator, both verbal and written. You excel in the relationships you build with stakeholders, able to work across various teams.
• Experience of Salesforce, Websites, Apps, Oracle, AWS and Azure are all highly desirable.

This fantastic role comes with a salary of £70,000-80,000 p/a and is accompanied with a 10% annual bonus, 25 days paid holiday, a flexible pension scheme, flexible working opportunities, shared Parental Leave – 18 weeks full pay, continued investment in your career, Bike to Work, discounts and many more.

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Technical Architect required by market leading, financial services organisation based in North Bristol. The successful application will work remotely with 1 day per week onsite with flexibility.

The successful Technical Architect will have a proven track record as a Senior Developer / Technical Architect or within a hands-on management role, leading projects from requirements through to delivery. Our client needs someone who can demonstrate a broad awareness of the technology landscape and who has researched and used different technologies to solve problems.

Main Responsibilities:

• Largely be focused around analysis, architectural design and web framework implementation
• Design, develop and maintain complex web applications based on the Kafka streaming platform
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientist, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions
• Writing and testing code to develop scalable and robust solutions, which meet the high performance and availability standards of global financial institutions
• Discussing client’s requirements and proposed solutions with a senior developer to fully understand and translate business requirements
• Collaborating with other developers and other departments
• Investigation of problems and determining the best solution
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting
• Build credibility with team members and support junior team members by providing feedback

Required Background:

• Previous experience gained within a Technical Architect role
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and be able to communicate effectively with technical teams
• Coaching/mentoring the existing teams in best practices in design and implementation.
• Java (SE + EE)
• Angular
• Git, Maven, Jenkins Pipelines
• Spring Framework and Spring Boot Microservices
• Apache Kafka Event Streaming Platform
• Experience with Hibernate and JPA,
• REST, Swagger/OpenAPI
• Kafka Streams, NoSQL Databases e.g. ElasticSearch, MongoDB
• Traditional RDBMS
• Automated Unit and System level tests using frameworks such as JUnit, Cucumber, Playwright etc.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Thinking ahead and incorporating technologies that deliver better software

Desirables:

• BSc (Honours) Computer Science or a similar degree with significant computing bias.
• Experience developing in a software vendor environment
• Financial software experience

This fantastic role comes with a starting salary of £75,000-80,000 p/a and is accompanied by a benefits package which includes: Free onsite parking, 25 days annual leave (Rising to 28 with length of service), an annual Holiday scheme also lets you `roll over’ up to a maximum of 10 days into the next year, a company pension scheme matching up to 5% of salary with the option to make contributions via Salary Sacrifice and Group Life Assurance to name a few. You also have the flexibility work from home.

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Web Development Lead required by market leading, award-winning professional services organisation based in Bristol. This is a hybrid role with 2 days a week onsite.

The Web Development Lead will need to be a proactive self-starter with broad experience in a range of roles and technologies. You will lead a team of Web/Software Engineers within an Agile digital engineering team, you will design, build and support quality software solutions on web based platforms, integrating with core platforms and third-party services to meet the needs of stakeholders and enhance customer experience.

Responsibilities will include:

• Determine and implement appropriate technologies, toolkits and frameworks, leading projects in your area of specialism and learning new skills to support development in others.
• Be responsible for assuring and ensuring high quality and performance of the deliverables of your team, a mix of on shore and off shore capabilities.
• Deliver features and changes to meet agreed requirements with a strong focus on automation, best practice, scalability, re-usability and security.
• Support and enhance the end-to-end secure software development and delivery lifecycle using Agile methodologies, DevOps automation and CI/CD best practice release management techniques and strategies.
• Support teams in triaging and resolving issues that arise within the web platforms.
• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside IT about progress, risks and issues.
• Work closely with the Architecture, Product and UX teams to deliver market leading features, and capabilities, to time and to budget.
• Provide mentoring and support to less experienced developers.
• Keep abreast of and actively promote development best practice and technology developments
• Build relationships with relevant business users, and other technical development and support teams as needed.

Ideal Background:

• Extensive experience in design and delivery of web applications in a commercial environment
• Knowledge of DevOps practices includes source control, continuous integration and release management, code coverage and analysis, load testing and functional automated testing tools.
• Ability to leverage a wide variety of tools, techniques and technologies to deliver the best solution, e.g. JavaScript, Node.js, JSON, RESTful web services, GraphQL, SQL, No-SQL, HTML, CSS, Azure DevOps, .net/C#
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with AWS and Azure desirable
• Strong communication skills and a professional, service-oriented manner
• Passion for learning and self-development

This fantastic role comes with a salary of £80,000-90,000 p/a and is accompanied with a 10% annual bonus, 25 days paid holiday, a flexible pension scheme, flexible working opportunities, shared Parental Leave – 18 weeks full pay, continued investment in your career, Bike to Work, discounts and many more.

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Head of IT required by market leading, award-winning manufacturing business based in South Wales. The role will be hybrid with flexibility on days onsite and from home.

The Head of IT will be responsible for leading and managing all aspects of our client’s day-to-day IT operations, infrastructure, technology strategy, security, and projects. You will ensure that the tech systems are aligned with our client’s business goals and objectives.

Main Responsibilities Include:

• Lead the strategic direction, manage the IT team, and ensure the efficient and secure operation of all IT systems aligned to our client’s global IT requirements.
• Driving the organisations digital transformation, ensuring the security of its information assets, and enhancing operational efficiency through technology, as well as providing guidance, support, and mentorship to team members, fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Provide visionary leadership to the IT department and align IT strategy with overall business objectives.
• Develop and implement IT policies and procedures to ensure the security and integrity of the organisations IT infrastructure.
• Collaborate with other senior leaders to understand business needs and develop IT strategies that support company goals.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and skill development.
• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of all enterprise applications.
• Manage the implementation of new applications and upgrades, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends in applications to recommend and implement improvements.
• Lead and oversee IT projects, ensuring timely delivery, budget adherence, and successful outcomes.
• Oversee the maintenance and enhancement of the company’s IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, and hardware.
• Collaborate with the security team to implement and maintain robust cybersecurity measures.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards related to IT security.

Ideal Background:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a senior IT management role, with a focus on applications management.
• 3+ years’ experience as an IT application expert / architect etc.
• Proven experience leading and managing a high-performing IT team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Relevant certifications such as PMP, ITIL, or CISSP are a plus.
• A “can-do” attitude to ensure all work is done to the highest possible standard.
• A team player with the ability to actively participate within the team and lead by example, acting in a professional manner at all times to encourage respect from colleagues.
• Ability to work hands on as an IT subject matter expert.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Technical Background:

• Good knowledge of SAP ERP
• Knowledge of BI / Data warehouse / Embedded BW
• Knowledge of CRM / Microsoft CRM
• Knowledge in M365
• Cloud services – Experience in integrating cloud services in on-prem IT
• Works in virtual teams
• Aware of security standards

This fantastic role comes with a basic salary of £70,000-75,000 p/a. The great benefits package includes BUPA Private Medical Insurance, contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, 33 days annual leave including Bank Holidays, x2 Life Insurance, pool vehicle use for site visits, flexible working, Retail Discount, Gym Membership Discount, Eye Care Voucher.

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Data Solution Architect required by market leading, award winning, financial services organisation. This role can be completed remotely with occasional days onsite at one of the organisations multiple locations across the UK.

Our client is in a period of change, they are currently working on a large number of transformation projects in an Agile environment and need a forward-thinking, innovative Data Solution Architect with a background in Customer Data Platforms and transformation projects to help take the business to the next level. This is a brand new and exciting role to the business which will be pivotal in supporting the execution of the enterprise data strategy by offering technical architecture guidance for data initiatives and driving business progress with pragmatic, value-focused data approaches.

Duties Include:

• Apply data architecture principles and technologies to capture the current data landscape and contribute to shaping the target design while focusing on adding value through effective translation of data architecture into implementable solutions.
• Collaborate with the data architecture team to help steer the organisations data strategy and establish architectural benchmarks.

Required Experience:

• Understanding with previous experience of architecture frameworks like TOGAF & BIAN and data-specific frameworks.
• Knowledge of customer data management technologies like Customer Data Platforms.
• Specific experience, knowledge and understanding of Mongo DB Atlas across Azure and AWS.
• Hands on experience working with Mongo DB.
• Experience in designing, architecting, and implementing business critical services using Mongo DB.
• Knowledge and best practice understanding of patterns for real time and analytical use case.
• Knowledge of logical and physical data modelling and metadata management.
• Skills in delivering data migration design including strategies and data reconciliation.
• Understanding of data security, privacy and regulatory considerations.

This successful candidate will be rewarded with a starting salary between £70,000-75,000 p/a (Depending on experience) which is accompanied with a great benefits package which includes a 5-10% annual bonus, company car allowance, annual salary reviews, hybrid and flexible working (Our client promotes and supports a healthy work/life balance), a flexible benefits option, a very good contributory pension, 25-28 days holiday (With the ability to buy more), private medical cover and discounted gym membership to name but a few.

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Java Developer required by market leading, award winning, financial services organisation. This role can be completed remotely with occasional days onsite at one of the organisations multiple locations across the UK. This is a new role to the business.

Responsibilities Include:

• Working in an Agile and DevOps environment, you will be responsible for crafting, developing, and refining technical components to meet the needs of our clients and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Development Leads and other team members to ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of products, taking responsibility for your own work from requirements to acceptance in production.
• Develop a strong technical understanding, best practices and provide support for technical problems.
• Translate user stories to functional applications.
• Translate technical challenges to non-technical audiences

Required Background:

• Experience of writing clean and testable code.
• Ability to translate user stories to functional applications.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical challenges to non-technical audiences.
• Significant engineering experience with a proven track record of coding in Java11 (ideally Java17) using TDD/BDD.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, Graph Ql, spring Integration, Kafka or Confluent stack.
• Experience of working on AWS Cloud, micro services using DevSecOps pipelines.
• Experience of enterprise Java frameworks such as Spring (particularly SpringBoot, Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Security, Spring Data).
• Good understanding of Functional Programming (Lambda, Streams) and of Web security.
• Experience of working within scaled Agile settings and feature teams.

This successful candidate will be rewarded with a starting salary between £70,000-75,000 p/a (Depending on experience) which is accompanied with a great benefits package which includes a 5-10% annual bonus, annual salary reviews, hybrid and flexible working (Our client promotes and supports a healthy work/life balance), a flexible benefits option, a very good contributory pension, 25-28 days holiday (With the ability to buy more), private medical cover and discounted gym membership to name but a few.

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SharePoint Administrator required by our market leading, award winning, professional services organisation. This role will be remote with 1-2 days a month onsite in either Bristol or London.

The successful SharePoint Administrator will join an experienced, systems team who work closely with all parts of our clients business. The team supports the use and governance of internal collaboration tools including their intranet platform and MS Teams as well as some client facing automation and collaboration tools. In addition, the systems team also pilots and tests the use of new tools and applications.

Our client is looking for an organised, highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who has the ability to work under pressure and build lasting relationships.

Responsibilities Include:

• Support the Systems Manager in the day-to-day management of the SharePoint based Intranet and related MS 365 apps including Teams, Power BI and Power Automate.
• Provide backup support for the other systems platforms.
• Acting as primary point of contact for the SharePoint Intranet, providing support to the business and colleagues across the business, troubleshooting any queries.
• To be the subject matter expert for configuration and development of SharePoint, including templates, webparts, SP Lists, workflows, Power Automate, integrations with Power BI and other tools.
• Manage and maintain the support framework ensuring there is a network of content owners and editors for the relevant practices and business services areas.
• Working with the IT training team to design and develop the training programme for content editors.
• Create and own the library of support resources and governance documentation, including FAQs, training guides and videos, policies and procedures.
• Keeping Intranet profiles up to date as part of the joiner, leaver transfer process. Updating images, charge out rates and other relevant info.
• Providing backup support and training for DocuSign.
• Supporting the Systems Manager in the promotion of systems and the identification and development of any client specific solutions.

Required Background: 

• Experience in administering and configuring SharePoint and other MS 365 Apps.
• Broad and deep understanding of SharePoint technology, Power BI, Power Automate and wider MS365 suite.
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken English.
• A highly competent user of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Experience of data migration and database maintenance.
• Have previous experience of working in a professional services environment.
• Accuracy, sound organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Good at building relationships with people at all levels.

This fantastic role comes with a basic salary of £37,500-45,000 p/a and on top of the bespoke training package, comes with the following benefits: A performance related bonus, remote working, annual salary review, 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service), private medical insurance, pension and many more.

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Technical Service Delivery Engineer required by market leading, award winning, financial services organisation. This role can be completed remotely with occasional days onsite at one of the organisations multiple locations across the UK.

Please note, candidates must have a strong understanding of Payments to be a success within this role.

How You Will Fit In:

The successful Technical Service Delivery Engineer will report directly into Service Manager, joining a new and exciting function within the organisation. This division provides the link between business delivery and the technical solutions which underpin the Integration of Payment and Digital Services. The Technical Service Delivery Engineer be responsible for delivering excellent infrastructure and application support to help our clients business, meet their customer’s needs.

Ideal Background:

• Experience of Payments second level support at a technical manager level, covering both infrastructure and application support. (Any of the following will be considered: Faster Payments, SWIFT, SEPAL, ISO20022, International Payments, BACS, CHAPS or similar).
• A broad knowledge of Technology Service Management and an understanding of how to manage service challenges.
• An excellent understanding of the architectural landscape and ability to own the operational view on how the service is formed.
• Ability to define and agree service requirements.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance technical and business/customer considerations.
• Ability to champion and quality asses that changes meet the defined production support standards and are fit for production.

This successful candidate will be rewarded with a starting salary between £35,000-50,000 p/a (Depending on experience) which is accompanied with a great benefits package which includes an annual bonus, annual salary reviews, hybrid and flexible working (Our client promotes and sup-ports a healthy work/life balance), a flexible benefits option, a very good contributory pension, 25-28 days holiday (With the ability to buy more), private medical cover and discounted gym membership to name but a few.

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Lead DevOps Architect required by market leading, award winning, financial services organisation. This role can be completed remotely with occasional days onsite at one of the organisations multiple locations across the UK.

Our client is in a period of change, they are currently working on a large number of transformation projects in an agile environment and need a forward-thinking, innovative Lead DevOps Architect to help take the business to the next level. Our client needs someone who can help shape the future of technology as they build on cloud native technologies and embrace modern ways of working.

Responsibilities:

• Help shape the future of DevOps across our clients business.
• You will head-up and lead a team of Engineers & Architects making it easier for people to use cloud technologies and deploy code
• Design and implement new tools
• Working closely with architects and engineers to build reusable patterns in code
• Mentoring and coaching engineers to help develop the architects of tomorrow.
• Managing senior stakeholders and presenting to the board

Ideal Background:

• Tooling and cloud knowledge gained as a platform or DevOps engineer.
• Any relevant cloud or DevOps certifications would be highly beneficial but not essential.
• Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines
• Integrating technologies like Jira, GitHub, Terraform, Snyk, Artifactory, and Kubernetes/Openshift/Istio.
• Skills on AWS and Azure learnt from configuring and deploying infrastructure as code.
• Great attitude and passion to keep finding answers, learn and become a master of your craft.

This successful candidate will be rewarded with a starting salary between £90,000-125,000 p/a (Depending on experience) which is accompanied with a great benefits package which includes a 5-10% annual bonus, annual salary reviews, hybrid and flexible working (Our client promotes and supports a healthy work/life balance), a flexible benefits option, a very good contributory pension, 25-28 days holiday (With the ability to buy more), private medical cover and discounted gym membership to name but a few.

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Azure Architect required by market leading, award winning, financial services organisation. This role can be completed remotely with occasional days onsite at one of the organisations multiple locations across the UK.

Our client is in a period of change, they are currently working on a large number of transformation projects in an agile environment and need a forward-thinking, innovative Azure Architect to help take the business to the next level. Our client needs someone who can help shape the future of technology as they build on cloud native technologies and embrace modern ways of working.

Responsibilities Include:

• Day-to-day you’ll be setting direction and creating technical roadmaps.
• Help the engineering teams deliver features to customers.
• Act as the Azure SME and lead projects and stand-ups with stakeholders
• Deploy cloud solutions

Ideal Background:

• Deep Azure cloud knowledge gained as an architect or engineer
• A preference given to candidates who hold an Azure certifications (Desirable)
• Experiences designing and deploying cloud solutions on Azure, where speed, security and resilience are critical.
• Stories on how best to use Azure, thinking beyond the tech, recognising the people and processes which make it happen.
• A set of strengths and qualities which make the team stronger.

This successful candidate will be rewarded with a starting salary between £70,000-75,000 p/a (Depending on experience) which is accompanied with a great benefits package which includes a 5-10% annual bonus, annual salary reviews, hybrid and flexible working (Our client promotes and supports a healthy work/life balance), a flexible benefits option, a very good contributory pension, 25-28 days holiday (With the ability to buy more), private medical cover and discounted gym membership to name but a few.

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