Technology

Bluestones staffing specialised IT Division is recruiting a Database Developer for a Global organisation based in Manchester.

Job Purpose:

This role is responsible for database aspects of application and report development, including supporting tools. It also involves database management, optimisation/performance management, ad-hoc queries and manipulation, and database design.

Principal Accountabilities:

·Share information effectively with other technical staff and project teams.

·Understand and analyse requirements, seeking clarification as necessary.

·Communicate problems appropriately and in a timely manner.

·Identify and consult subject matter experts as required.

·Seek appropriate guidance when making architectural decisions.

·Help maintain a culture of learning and creativity.

·Create clear documentation, guides and commented code.

·Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions.

·Maintain current knowledge in areas of database development, documentation and security.

·Carry out database development, according to specification, and in line with development/coding standards.

·Carry out database maintenance in response to QA feedback and ad-hoc business requests.

·To efficiently manage your workload and accurately record your time using the company timesheet system.

·To freely share knowledge, insight, best practice and ideas.

·Work appropriately, according to defined processes and procedures

Identify and communicate opportunities for improvement in development.

Key contacts and Relationships:

This role involves working closely with stakeholders across the business, the main stakeholders on a daily basis are:

·Service Desk Support team

·Database Development Team

·Report Development Team

·Service Application Team

·Application Development Team

Infrastructure Team

Knowledge, qualifications and experience
Essential

·Minimum of 3 years’ experience with Microsoft SQL server

·Strong TSQL skills

·Experience of working with SSIS in a production server environment

·Excellent communication skills to technical and non-technical stakeholders

·Ability to work as a part of a team and individually

·Ability to create and maintain robust and coherent documentation.

·Work appropriately, according to defined processes and procedures

·Experience using SSRS

Desirable

·Exposure to PowerBI

·Exposure to Microsoft Azure SQL server

·Experience/ awareness of Data Science Modelling/ Predictive Analytics

Experience using SSAS

Attitude and skills

·Attention to Detail

·Professional approach to work and when dealing with internal and external customers.

·Team player who demonstrates a high level of commitment, adopts a flexible and positive approach.

·The role holder must have the ability to work unsupervised with good time management skills in order to prioritise workload, meet tight deadlines, in a fast paced, pressurized and challenging environment.

Opened to new challenges

For further information please contact Debbie or send cv via the link below.

BSNI is acting as a recruitment business

Bluestones staffing IT division has been acquired buy a Global organisation based in Vienna to recruit an experienced It Project Manager (German essential) due to restructure.

Job Purpose:

Accountable for managing technical and business aspects and whole BM software implementation projects. Account management (incl. sales, securing client budget, internal testing before client delivery, managing of project team, preparation work for invoicing (approval, project progress documentation)) and technical consultancy for service managers with regard to client CRs, client and standard implementations. Requirements engineering, documentation and specification of requested changes and solutions for development team to follow up. Meet/exceed client expectations and managing customer relations.

Fact and Figures:

To deliver contractual obligations to the client within a designated timeline to provide additional revenue to the business by sales of new products/ product modules and client adapted requests. Ensuring coverage of project from technical and business point of view. Responsible for capturing and reviewing the planned costs v budgeted costs within a project, set up and control of project plan and costs as well as hand over work packages to development and business implementation and internal testing.

Principal Accountabilities:

§  Engage in advance preparation, to identify clients’ needs through written and verbal consultation

§  Ensure thorough documentation of product and process inconsistencies/ issues/software concerns for follow-up and/or resolution by programming staff

§  Actively participate in required team meetings and provide feedback and updates to the team

§  Actively participate in ensuring the project is on schedule and on budget and stays within scope

§  Identify & document potential risks and issues and in conjunction with the project team determine mitigation strategies

§  Participate in the on-going quality improvement efforts for processes

§  Serve as a subject matter expert on all client related topics

§  Clearly communicate internally and externally to ensure business requirements line up with project scope

§  Deliver analysis documentation by identifying requirements and meeting with client

§  Ensure all technical design specifications meet business requirements and are in lign with client expectations

§  Assist QA with information on test cases and scenarios to ensure they meet requirements as needed

§  Lead the client in test execution (approval)

§  System changes, translating business objectives into business requirements, performing analysis such as screen and functional design, business processes, and the end-to-end mapping of data processing flows for both inbound and outbound data feeds.

§  Serve as a link between the business (PM) and technical teams (QA and Dev) to ensure technical understanding of the appropriate business requirements

§  Provide insight to alternative means of meeting business needs

§  Thoroughly document the project progress

§  Adhere to contractual obligations

§  Managing BM-software implementation in worldwide projects independently from concept to acceptance phase from functional and technical point of view

§  Customer requirements elicitation, concept creation and functional/technical alignment with internal/external contacts

§  Clarify project goals, conduct IT-project plan (incl. resource management and risk analysis)

§  Close alignment with other project managers, business and IT customer contacts and responsible for high customer satisfaction

§  Responsibility to discuss, implement and develop project requirements with the project team and/or development team

Key contact and relationships:

Potentially will work with all of the following during the lifecycle of a project

·       ASE DS/VIE Account Managers/PMs

·       ASE DS/VIE DBS Support Team

·       ASE DS/VIE Products & Solutions Team

·       ASE DS/VIE Testing & Compliance Team

ASE DS/VIE & ASE HQ Commercial Team

Knowledge, qualifications and experience:

·       Sound MS Office Knowledge

·       Very good understanding of the SQL Server platform and relational databases

·       Sound technical education (seconardy technical schools, university)

·       Experienced in process oriented It service management (ITIL, SCRUM)

·       Management of Financial Resources

·       Resource Management

·       Time Management

·       Good understanding of Accountancy principles

·       At least 2 years of professional experience in a similar role

·       Versed in handling IT projects and process-oriented work style

·       Distinct analytical and communications skills

·       Self-reliant, reliable and pronounced collaboration skills

·       Knowledge in Microsoft Project/Visio

·       Experience in SQL (development perspective)

·       PM-certificate of advantage (PMI, IPMA)

·       Experience in IT-requirements engineering and IT-Change Management

·       Very good command of German and English in word and script

For a full JD please contact Debbie via link below:

BSNI is acting a recruitment agency

Bluestones staffing is working with a Global organisation to recruit a IT project manager based within their Manchester office.

Job Purpose:

Accountable for managing technical and business aspects and whole BM software implementation projects. Account management (incl. sales, securing client budget, internal testing before client delivery, managing of project team, preparation work for invoicing (approval, project progress documentation)) and technical consultancy for service managers with regard to client CRs, client and standard implementations. Requirements engineering, documentation and specification of requested changes and solutions for development team to follow up. Meet/exceed client expectations and managing customer relations.

Facts and Figures

To deliver contractual obligations to the client within a designated timeline to provide additional revenue to the business by sales of new products/ product modules and client adapted requests. Ensuring coverage of project from technical and business point of view. Responsible for capturing and reviewing the planned costs v budgeted costs within a project, set up and control of project plan and costs as well as hand over work packages to development and business implementation and internal testing.

Principal accountabilities

§  Engage in advance preparation, to identify clients’ needs through written and verbal consultation

§  Ensure thorough documentation of product and process inconsistencies/ issues/software concerns for follow-up and/or resolution by programming staff

§  Actively participate in required team meetings and provide feedback and updates to the team

§  Actively participate in ensuring the project is on schedule and on budget and stays within scope

§  Identify & document potential risks and issues and in conjunction with the project team determine mitigation strategies

§  Participate in the on-going quality improvement efforts for processes

§  Serve as a subject matter expert on all client related topics

§  Clearly communicate internally and externally to ensure business requirements line up with project scope

§  Deliver analysis documentation by identifying requirements and meeting with client

§  Ensure all technical design specifications meet business requirements and are in lign with client expectations

§  Assist QA with information on test cases and scenarios to ensure they meet requirements as needed

§  Lead the client in test execution (approval)

§  System changes, translating business objectives into business requirements, performing analysis such as screen and functional design, business processes, and the end-to-end mapping of data processing flows for both inbound and outbound data feeds.

§  Serve as a link between the business (PM) and technical teams (QA and Dev) to ensure technical understanding of the appropriate business requirements

§  Provide insight to alternative means of meeting business needs

§  Thoroughly document the project progress

§  Adhere to contractual obligations

§  Managing BM-software implementation in worldwide projects independently from concept to acceptance phase from functional and technical point of view

§  Customer requirements elicitation, concept creation and functional/technical alignment with internal/external contacts

§  Clarify project goals, conduct IT-project plan (incl. resource management and risk analysis)

§  Close alignment with other project managers, business and IT customer contacts and responsible for high customer satisfaction

Responsibility to discuss, implement and develop project requirements with the project team and/or development team

For a full JD contact Debbie on 02895219313 or email your cv via the link below.

BSNI is acting as a Recruitment agency

Bluestones staffing NI is working with a Global organisation in Manchester, due to rapidly expanding they have a required for an DEVEOps Engineer.  Working with their team in Vienna you will be working remotely in the Manchester office, (once fully opened).

Location:  Manchester

Salary:  £45,000 – £55,000

Duration:  Permanent

Duties / Tasks 

• You will be responsible for maintenance, deployment, monitoring, first error analysis including problem solving for our customer systems and applications.
• Monitor compliance and the service levels agreements
• Manage the safe operation and planning of our customer systems.
• Working closely with developers, test engineers and the IT department and support the optimization of internal processes through automation.
• You promote the development of cloud-based technologies and solutions for our customers systems / applications and processes.
• Implement the expansion of our IT infrastructure through Linux environments
• Actively contribute to the continuous development of the technical platforms.

Your Profile  

• Sound technical training or professional experience as a software engineer / DEVOps
• Experience in management of Microsoft infrastructure solutions (IIS, Windows Server, SQL Server)
• Experience with SQL and maintenance of database systems
• Talent for error analysis and correction
• Independent, structured and precise way of working
• Very good communication skills
• Experience with continuous integration and / or delivery solutions
• Experience with automation (powershell knowledge) is an advantage
• Experience with Linux is an advantage

What you can expect:

Our client offers and attractive, flexible workplace and a very friendly working atmosphere in an extraordinary company with customers in the well-known premium manufacture segment (including from Bavaria) and excellent growth opportunities.  We offer you the opportunity to participate in the success story of an internationally oriented software company in the automotive industry.

BSNI is acting as a Recruitment Agency

For more information please contact Debbie on 02895219313 or email your cv via link below