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Harris Global are currently looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our leading Media client based in Central London. The successful candidate will possess strong Power BI experience and must have worked within Media, Publishing or an Online business.

Responsibilities will include:

• Create and develop data models for reporting and advanced analysis scenarios.
• Taking a lead approach within the organisations analytics team, owning the reporting, analysis and data requirements endeavours to support the daily operations of the business’s internal and external platforms (web site, apps, social platforms etc.).
• Determine and ensure correct data and analytics flows for new projects and initiatives.
• Execute different analytics to ensure the completeness, quality, and consistency of data used for analytics across different systems.

The successful candidate will possess:

• Minimum 4 years of experience in analytics; ideally within publishing/media or a business focused around online/web
• Strong experience in Power BI visualizations.
• Strong experience creating models and reports in Power BI and SSAS along with associated languages (DAX, M).
• Experienced in SQL to perform data quality assessments.
• Strong knowledge of data migration/ETL, data management, data analysis, and relational data models.
• Very good knowledge of Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics.
• Exhibit a high level of expertise in understanding data and interpreting it within real life business situations.
• Degree educated, ideally in a numerical or science discipline

For more information, please apply now.

Harris global are currently recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst to join a leading Publishing client in central London on a Salesforce transformation project.

The Successful Senior Business Analyst will be able to perform the Business analyst role over large complex systems, having a wide scope of influence and ownership. Excellent stakeholder management, commercial awareness and documentation skills are essential.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead on all Business requirements, mentor and coach more junior team members
• Set standards of requirements definition and documentation.
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders and subject matter experts within the business, working across a range of departments, challenging them in order to uncover key detail and needs
• Authoring of Business user stories that are complete, unambiguous and represent the value sought by the business. Including complete acceptance criteria.
• Responsible for advising on and be closely involved with all UAT testing.

The successful Senior Business Analyst will possess the following skills and experience:

• Ideally Salesforce or similar CRM experience
• Detailed analysis of customer requirements, gathering both functional and non-functional requirements
• Creation of user stories and acceptance criteria, with a strong focus on business and commercial considerations
• Participating in agile & waterfall practices, including backlog grooming, planning, stand-ups & formal demo’s
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to non-technical individuals
• Experience working within a financial services organisation is desirable as is experience with Commodities market data.
• Strong & sensitive stakeholder management skills are required.

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris Global are currently looking for a Product Manager to join our leading client in their West London office. This is a great opportunity to join the organisations rapidly expanding Video Player team who build and maintain video players across the business. The successful candidate will support the development of a rapidly expanding player feature set and to keep up with all the latest and greatest changes in the video player space. Candidates with prior experience working in a similar environment will be highly desirable.

Role responsibilities will include:

• Taking ownership of the development roadmap and fulfilling the duties of a product owner
• Meeting with stakeholders to understand the needs of the products
• Augmenting, refining and prioritising the product backlog
• Working with designers and engineers to provide product requirements for proposed features
• Defining acceptance criteria and verifying deliverables
• Working with senior management to develop and maintain our product roadmap

Skills and Requirements

• 5+ years total work experience
• 3+ years of technical product management experience
• Experience of working as a product owner within a development team
• Experience of software engineering or an engineering-related discipline
• Experience of establishing or maintaining best practices in an agile development environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Interest in start-up culture & being involved with a dynamic team
• Passion for sport and entertainment highly advantageous

Harris Global are currently looking for a Data Engineer to join our client who are an exciting data-driven start up on a fully remote basis.

The successful candidate will come from a strong data engineering background and will have had exposure to the full Microsoft BI stack and be able to show proven experience with these technologies.

The successful Data Engineer will possess the following skills and experience:

• Has experience with the design and build of modern data platforms in the cloud and data science and data products
• Delivering scalable data solutions using cloud services (Azure preferred but AWS & GCP also considered)
• Programming/Scripting experience, eg, C#, Python, PowerShell
• Strong SQL skills and in-depth SQL RDBMS experience, including complex queries, automating the build of analytical models
• Infrastructure provisioning, service architecture, administration
• CI/CD solutions such as Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins
• MSSQL BI Stack, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS
• DAX and/or MDX query language – desirable
• Knowledge of Data Science – AzureML, Python and/or R – desirable
• Real Time analytics – Azure Stream Analytics – desirable
• Knowledge of data lake, ETL and data warehousing and BI technologies

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris Global is currently seeking an enthusiastic IT Technical Support Analyst with a background in Mobile Device Management to join our team. Someone with drive, passion, and creativity, helping keep our clients at the cutting edge of technology.

The IT Support Analyst will specialise in supporting onboarding and transition to iOS devices. You will drive technical knowledge sharing and documentation to ensure that customer enquiries and incidents are resolved in a timely and professional manner, delivering a world class customer service experience. You will manage and oversee the MDM activities for customer devices, working closely with 3rd party providers to maintain a seamless end user experience.

You will also have/be

• Experience managing and maintaining a Mobile Device Management (MDM) system
• Basic iOS troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to actively listen and understand stakeholder requirements and translate into solutions.
• Highly analytical with excellent organisation and problem-solving skills.
• Customer service experience
• Minimum A-level standard or equivalent.

Desirable but not essential

• CompTIA A+ or equivalent.
• ITIL v3 Foundation or previous Service/Support Desk experience
• IT security (Firewalls, anti-virus, etc).
• Experience of technical authoring both internal (knowledge base) and customer-facing support documentation or articles.

For more information, please apply.

Harris global are currently recruiting for a Senior Product Manager to work for a leading Publishing client in West London.

As the Senior Product Manager, you are responsible for owning, communicating and driving product visions and roadmaps within the wider product and company strategy. Working in close collaboration with stakeholders and maintaining regular touch points with customers is essential to the success of this role and the product function overall.

The successful Senior Product Manager will undertake the following duties:

• Leading and promoting a data and insight driven approach to product development and evaluation of success
• Working closely with the Marketing Manager to ensure latest product improvements are communicated to new and existing customers
• Define capabilities to drive the product in line with the product vision and strategic technology direction
• Working closely with UX to deliver best-in-class, end-to-end user journeys with a human centered mindset working
• Ensuring latest analytics and learnings are fed into product development and shared with key stakeholders

The successful Senior Product Manager will have experience wit the following.

• Demonstrable experience of working as a Senior digital product manager in publishing, media or a consumer business achieving successful product growth
• Experience of working on subscription products and launching new products into market with a track record of growing the subscriber base
• Experience working on, with and delivering growth through publishing platforms (for example Content Management Systems)
• Strong stakeholder management and coaching skills with the ability to prioritise to the needs of the business and key stakeholder groups balanced with user needs and technical feasibility.

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris Global are currently on the lookout for a QA Analyst with automation experience to join our leading client in their London office. The successful candidate will have proven experience creating automated test suites written in .NET and C#.

Key skills will include:

• Configured testing frameworks, tools and libraries including x/nUnit, SpecFlow, Cucumber, Cypress, Selenium
• Implemented Back End automated integration testing against systems combining Legacy monoliths and modern REST API based microservices
• Produced automated test suites written in languages such as .NET C#
• Used SQL to prepare data and verify results
• Evaluated which tests are suitable for automation
• Worked with BDD and TDD methodologies
• Used exploratory test techniques to reveal valuable insights about the system under test
• Contributed to improvements to agile practices within projects you’ve been involved with

Harris global are currently recruiting for an experienced SQL Server DBA to work on a Fixed Term contract with a leading financial client in central London.

The successful candidate will provide technical MS SQL expertise to support the aims and objectives of the Technology function. Working within the DBA operations team, led by the DBA Team Lead, the role will contribute to the security, availability, integrity and end-to-end support of all MS SQL services.

The successful SQL Server DBA will possess the following skills and experience;

• Experience in all aspects of database management with versions of MS SQL Server up to 2019, including:
• Administering, managing & maintaining very large databases requiring 24/7 availability
• ETL – SSIS (Data Factory preferable)
• Azure DevOps (Nice to have)
• Data warehousing – SSAS (Analysis Services in Azure preferable)
• SSRS & PowerBI
• Database & server health monitoring (DPA preferable)
• SQL Server HA/DR
• SQL Server Availability Groups/Always On

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris global are currently recruiting for an experienced DevOps area for an industry leading organisation in the Guildford Area.

The successful DevOps Engineer will have a passion for cloud infrastructure and automation. You’re a self-starter and keep up to date with the latest developments in cloud, configuration management and container technologies.

The successful hire will have demonstrable experience in a number of the following technologies:

• Experience in developing & deploying Containerized workloads, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in developing serverless microservices on cloud using Azure functions or AWS lambda, API Management gateway.
• Experience on integration of any of the Azure data systems eg (DataBricks, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, Synapse, Data Lake, AKS, etc.)
• Experience of using Jenkins/Azure DevOps or other equivalent automation tool in a data science context.

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris global are currently recruiting for an industry leading data driven organisation in central London for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the team.

The successful DevOps Engineer will have a passion for cloud infrastructure and automation. You’re a self-starter and keep up to date with the latest developments in cloud, configuration management and container technologies.

As Senior DevOps Engineer you will automate the build and deployment of infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes & other orchestration technologies in a hybrid-cloud environment. You will influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability, cost and high-performance.

The successful hire will have demonstrable experience in a number of the following technologies;

• Expert Linux administration skills and deep understanding of networking and TCP/IP.
• Experience with a cloud vendor such as Google cloud or AWS
• Terraform experience
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrable skills in a Configuration Management tool such as Puppet or Ansible.
• Set up and supporting CI/CD pipelines and tooling using either Gitlab or Jenkins.
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language such as Python, Ruby or Go

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris Global are currently looking for a Software Developer in Test to join our industry leading Media client on a permanent basis. The successful candidate must be able to create automated test scripts from scratch using Java.

Key skills will include:

• Previous experience of at least 3 years in similar position at being hands-on and leading people and process.
• Experience of working in Agile teams and an excellent understanding of Agile Testing practices, including:
  • Good understanding of Selenium/Serenity Framework
  • Good programming abilities with experience in Java.
  • Knowledge and experience with Linux machines/Servers
  • Knowledge and experience with Git (Source control)
  • Knowledge and experience with MVN (Package library manager)
  • Knowledge and experience with Jenkins (Job Builder/Runner).
  • Knowledge and experience with Python, Scala Scripting and Apache groovy programming languages
  • Basic knowledge of Docker

• Experience in testing of high transactional and high-volume applications, data security and test management.
• Experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support test process.
• Experience in JIRA to utilise testing tools, bug tracking systems, and test case management applications.
• Good understanding of automation best practices and methodologies.

Desirable skills:

• Gatling/JMeter performance libraries
• Experience with AWS (EC2/IAM/S3)
• Experience with Browserstack/Selenium Hub/Zalenium
• Experience with Appium for Andriod/Windows based testing
• Experience with cucumber

Harris Global are currently looking for an IT Collaboration Service Manager to join our global client on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will have prior experience working as a Service Manager within an IT team, they will also possess strong expertise working with the Microsoft 365 Collaboration platform with a strong focus on Teams, Sharepoint and e-mail.

Reporting to the Global Head of ICT Operations they will also be responsible for the complete life cycle of the collaboration tool suite. Including driving adoption of the collaboration tools across the whole organisation.

Skills required:

• Strong analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills
• Broad understanding of a business or service environment and awareness of the factors that influence business decisions and strategy
• Strong experience with the Microsoft 365 Collaboration platform with a focus on Teams, Sharepoint & E-Mail (related certifications a plus)
• Experience in a role as Service Manager in a global IT organization
• Strong written and oral presentation skills
• ITIL/ISO20000 certification (or other IT Service Management related) a plus
• Ability to communicate openly and effectively with Senior Management, Business Units Management, with other IT Managers, with staff, etc.
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Fluent command of oral and written English as the corporate language; knowledge of any other language would be an advantage