Technology Permanent

Harris Global are currently looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Market Research client on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will have previous experience working within data and analytics alongside Data Engineers and Data Scientists. Any experience with forecasting and predictions is highly desirable.

Role responsibilities:

• You’ll own the product backlog and roadmap, working actively with your on-site engineering team to build out new features that achieve the area vision.
• You’ll have a strong desire to improve customer experiences and will partner with and lead Engineering and Experience Design to work out what the next awesome experiences you want to ship for our customers
• Own the customer and business value for your product backlog, working to deliver maximum customer and business value whilst making effective prioritisation choices to deliver the maximum value and return on capital
• Collaborate with other Product Managers to ensure consistency, drive product goals/shared objectives, and continuously improve product management across the division
• Make build vs buy decisions in collaboration with senior technology counterparts based on what is best for the product strategy
• Maintain and establish new relationships with suppliers and business partners relating to your product portfolio
• Own, decide and communicate the vision and strategy for your product portfolio (the product mix, new products and retirement of old products)

Candidate will possess:

• 5+ years experience working as a Product Manager
• Passion for Product
• Creative problem solving
• Experience working within data and analytics
• Knowledge of forecasting and predictions (highly desirable)
• Enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology
• Ability to switch between strategic visioning and getting into the detail, being the authority in all aspects of your product
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, adapting your decision making to different levels of ambiguity and urgency

Harris Global are currently seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our start up data client in London. This is a permanent role with remote working opportunities. The successful candidate will possess strong Azure experience within a DevOps environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Defining and technically delivering a DevOps implantation roadmap
• Infrastructure provisioning, configuration and automation (infrastructure as code)
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for development and testing teams
• Implementing DevOps tools for monitoring and performance management
• Defining and developing processes and tools to make support and operations as automated and efficient as possible

You will also have/be:

• DevOps/Platform Engineer with Azure Cloud experience.
• Experience deploying and supporting Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS resources including App Services, VMs, Front Door and AKS
• Experience with CI/CD tooling in an DevSecOps environment: GitHub, Azure DevOps etc
• Strong experience of PowerShell Scripting
• Knowledge of Windows/Linux Administration and basic database administration tasks

For more information, please apply

Harris Global are currently seeking a Cloud Engineer to join a leading organisation based in Hertfordshire. This is a permanent role with remote working opportunities. The successful candidate will possess strong PowerShell and AWS experience.

Key responsibilities include:

• Install applications and execute processes under standards for optimal use of cloud service provider offerings
• Compile IaC and Configuration Management scripts as templates to aid re-use and repeatable deployment provisioning of resources
• Stay well-informed of failures and complications related to a cloud offering
• Collaborate closely with existing Development and DevOps team members
• Liaise with cloud consolidators providing security, DR, support and maintenance services

Skills to include:

• AWS certification
• Experience of using PowerShell (or other IaC applications) in a AWS production environment
• Experience of using Configuration Management Tools in an AWS production environment
• Experience of Windows OS Server and Web platforms
• Experience of Scrum or Kanban
• Knowledge of .NET/C# development

For more information, please apply

Harris global are currently looking for a Head of Machine Learning to join our global client, a leading market research institute, on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will have prior experience working as a Senior Machine Learning professional within a team that has global reach. The candidate will be confident in taking Machine Learning as a practise to the next level across a growing organisation.

Candidates will possess:

• Proven leadership qualities by excellent track records
• Ability to fluently communicate in an English business environment, speaking German is a big plus
• Ability to translate and clearly communicate sophisticated analytical information to non-expert stakeholders and clients
• Ability to think creatively in addressing analytical objectives
• Proven budget planning and management skills
• Proven people management skills with extended span of command ( >10 FTEs, multiple teams, multiple locations)
• Proven platform management or ownership skills
• PhD or Master degree that reflects strong statistical/mathematical/computer science skills (highly desirable)
• Typically 10+ years of relevant work experience
• Expert statistical skills
  • either in survey statistics (sampling, non-response adjustments, Bayesian statistics),
  • or econometric modelling (program evaluation, forecasting, economic theory, panel data),
  • or observational causal inference (potential outcomes, structural equation models, instrumental variables)
  • or experimental design.

• Expert knowledge of analytic programming languages (ie Python) and the respective Python Machine Learning ecosystem
• Expert understanding of AI principles, Explainable AI and AI pipelines
• Expert knowledge of optimization and/or machine learning algorithms and/or deep learning algorithms
• Expert knowledge of computer science fundamentals, software design principles and patterns, patterns and testing strategies
• Expert skills with regard to working in (big) database environments
• Expert skills with regard to performance optimization and scalability
• Expert knowledge of cloud computing environments and machine learning pipelines (eg mlflow, kubeflow, TFX)

Harris Global are currently recruiting for a Purchasing Manager to join our leading Managing Services Provider on a permanent basis.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage the end to end procurement process including: sourcing, category management, RFP, RFI, tendering and ongoing supplier relationship
• Management of the indirect supplier base to ensure GDPR/Schrems II compliance and instigate Data Protection Agreements/Standard Contractual Clauses where required
• Develop methodology to effectively manage and audit our supplier base on an ongoing basis
• Ensure that the supply chain is safe, sustainable and appropriately accredited
• Continually evaluate supplier contractual terms to ensure SLAs are being adhered to
• Execute global category strategies across Facilities, Travel, Mobile and other generalist indirect spend areas
• Review and ensure our global procurement strategy is being adhered to
• Management of procurement systems and related policies, processes and purchase order management
• Management of small team of direct reports
• Keep up to date with purchasing trends and associated legislation and apply these as appropriate

Key skills to include:

• Bachelor’s degree or MCIPS qualified
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in strategic and tactical sourcing, negotiation, purchasing and supply chain management in multinational markets across multiple indirect categories
• Experience of working within a fast-paced, global, multi-site organisation
• Extensive experience of preparation of pre-tender and tender documents in conjunction with key user departments, evaluation of supplier responses, summary and recommendations
• Experience using procurement software SRM/SAP
• Previous management/supervisory experience
• Should be comfortable working autonomously and will be able to work with and influence stakeholders across the business

Harris Global are currently seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a leading organisation based in Farnham/Measham. This is a permanent role with remote working opportunities. The successful candidate will possess strong Azure Cloud, Docker and Kubernetes experience.

Key responsibilities:

Plan and execute the sprint to meet the planned deliverables.

Development and maintenance of automated model training and publishing pipeline.

Building and maintaining a data integration, data science, analytics & reporting systems environments in Azure (Dev/UAT/Production versions).

Building contingency plans and testing them.

Skills and expertise:

Experience in developing & deploying Containerised workloads, in Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience in developing serverless microservices on cloud using Azure functions

A broad understanding of data science and machine learning.

Experience on integration of any of the Azure data systems eg (DataBricks, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, Synapse, Data Lake, AKS, etc.)

For more information, please apply

Harris Global are currently looking for a Business Analyst to join our Wealth Management client on a permanent basis in their London office. The successful candidate must have experience working in regulated environments within Financial Services and have strong experience managing an array of projects across business and IT.

Responsibilities will include:

• Analysing and understanding business needs, developing clear and accurate.
• Capture user requirements and user stories, in collaboration with the assigned project manager and business stakeholders.
• Developing clear requirement specifications, ensuring that all needs are identified clearly and unambiguously, with detailed consideration for all project and technical dependencies and risks.
• Carry out data analysis by identifying sources, gap analysis, requirements for migration and integration to existing systems.
• Produce documentation to reflect business processes, user and data requirements and business benefits.
• Work with application developers to ensure user requirements are successfully translated into technical requirements.
• Work with system testers and system users to support the completion of testing activities.
• Produce user guides in support of new system development, as well as workflows for ongoing management and support.
• Establish credible relationships with business stakeholders.
• Able to work effectively and self-sufficiently in a fast changing working environment.
• Adhere to all Information Security PoliciesSkills will include :
  • Experience as a Business Analyst in a regulated environment (eg banking/financial services/wealth management) and have strong experience in managing a portfolio of projects covering business change and IT.
  • Strong understanding of regulatory and reporting requirements.
  • Experience with JHC Figaro is desirable.
  • Proven stakeholder management experience and relationship building skills.
  • Excellent organisational, verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to produce clear written material and communicate technical information in a clear and understandable manner to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong planning and organisation skills.
  • Strong sense of ownership and ability to follow tasks through to completion.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to communicate effectively and professionally. Excellent spoken and written English.

Harris Global are currently looking for a MAC/JAMF Engineer to join our leading client on a permanent basis. To act as technical lead for the Company’s MAC estates (OS and iOS devices) strategic design, development and implementation.

About The Role

• Ownership of OS builds for MAC estate; to include design, development and maintenance.
• Manage change implementation for MAC estate, software and infrastructure using tools like JAMF, MCX and SCCM.
• 3rd line escalation point for issues surrounding our MAC estate (this may involve out of hours support in extreme cases)

Knowledge & experience

• Active Directory (including integration with mac)
• In depth knowledge and experience of maintaining (setting up/supporting) a large MAC estate
• Excellent understanding of MAC management solutions, protocols and Scripting
• Knowledge of mobile technologies

Are you available/interested – apply now for further details

Harris Global are currently recruiting for a 2nd Line Support Manager to join our leading online media organization on a permanent basis.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Staff the second-line support desk between the hours of 08.00 – 18.00 (on a shift rota basis). Monday to Friday.
• Develop a good understanding of business workflow and tools and provide efficient and effective response to users.
• Understand and keep up to date with the solutions provided by the technology department.
• Take ownership of requests in the second line support queue and ensure users and the service desk are kept up to date with progress through timely feedback.
• Troubleshoot users’ tools issues – eg InCopy, InDesign, web browsers, Mac management.
• Perform routine setup and tests for desktops and laptops, and data restores.
• Manage user accounts, endpoints and server access using tools such as Active Directory, SCCM and JAMF.
• Set up, test, and manage computer and mobile devices.
• Maintain a pool of relevant spares.
• Resolve user hardware issues.
• Build, test and deploy application software packages.
• Escalate issues to other relevant teams in a timely fashion when they fall outside your area of expertise and inform first line support of escalation.
• Escalate issues to your manager if further action is blocked or if users express concern at the rate of progress.
• Suggest and help implement technologies that might improve the remote user experience.
• • Customer service.
  • In depth knowledge and experience of setting up and supporting PC and/or Mac hardware and OS (Windows 10 & 11 and Mac OSX).
  • Good understanding of the following: web-based applications; Google Workspace applications; Adobe InCopy, InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator; Microsoft Office; and all major web browsers.
  • Good understanding of Active Directory, SCCM and/or JAMF.
  • Good understanding of Scripting languages.
  • Experience of video and audio applications such as Adobe Premiere and Audition.
  • Experience of working in a media/publishing environment.Knowledge & experience

    For more information, please apply now!

Harris Global are currently recruiting for a Network and Systems Manager to join a leading organisation based in London. This is a permanent role with hybrid working opportunities. The successful candidate will possess strong Cisco, Microsoft OS and applications experience.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing IT budgets, selecting and purchasing appropriate hardware and software and ensuring software licensing laws are followed
• Manage the internal IT support function within the business, to help set up systems or resolve issues, troubleshoot system, and network problems, diagnosing and solving hardware or software faults, replace parts as required
• Ensuring that the daily and regular tasks are completed within agreed timeframes either by the MSSP/MSP or your team
• Provide other support, including procedural documentation, weekly KPI updates to CTO and board and any relevant reporting that is required

You will also have/be:

• Have a wide understanding of network technologies eg Cisco and of system management requirements and operational software ie Microsoft OS and applications
• You must be able to work with stakeholders, business partners, internal teams, and business analysts, and have great enthusiasm and attitude for the role, a high level of resilience and strong written and verbal communication skills and emotional intelligence.
• You will be able to communicate technical issues in plain simple language to the business whilst being able to talk technically with the development and technical staff

For more information, please apply

Harris Global are currently recruiting for a Java Technical Lead to join a leading Telecommunication organisation based in London. The successful candidate will possess strong Java 11, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, AWS Lambdas and ECS experience.

Key responsibilities include:

• Hands on with development to design and maintain core micro services architecture to ensure an up-to-date documentation for the relevant services is readily available; ensuring knowledge is disseminated.
• Coordinate/prepare report status on development tasks: design, unit test, code, source control.
• Work with Project Managers, Product Owners and Development team to ensure coordinated approach to the long-term product architecture roadmap and digital/platform strategy.
• Articulate and recommend technical enhancements to support business objectives.

Skills to include:

• Experience in designing solution following Agile practices (SAFe methodology); designing for testability, deployability and releaseability; rapid prototyping, domain modelling, and decentralized innovation.
• Demonstrable experience owning and developing Microservice architecture to build a stable technology layer to support platforms, especially web (B2B & B2C), mobile app, and API based architecture.
• Design for Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CD pipeline) and enables Built-in Quality & Security from the start.
• Leads/coordinates development activities, solution elaboration, and implementation process

For more information, please apply

My Client is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Cloud Engineer to join their DevOps team offering the opportunity to work on cloud-hosted applications in use by many major law enforcement organisations. You’ll be familiar with cloud-hosted IaaS and MSP solutions and services.

Key Responsibilities

Install applications and execute processes under standards for optimal use of cloud service provider offerings
Compile IaC and Configuration Management scripts as templates to aid re-use and repeatable deployment provisioning of resources
Stay well-informed of failures and complications related to a cloud offering
Resolve technical issues relating to cloud platform
Collaborate closely with existing Development and DevOps team members
Liaise with cloud consolidators providing security, DR, support and maintenance services
Liaise with cloud service providers
Maintain accreditation to be eligible for cloud provider partnerships
Provide on-call support for environments if required on a rota basis

Essential

At least 3 years IT experience either as Sys Admin on prem or Hybrid cloud operations
Experience of using Terraform and PowerShell (or other IaC applications) in a AWS production environment
Experience of using Configuration Management Tools in an AWS production environment
Experience of Windows OS Server and Web platforms
Good communication skills

Site attendance 2 days a week.

My client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team to help with the delivery of their projects. These projects include m365 cloud migration, site specific risk software project and HR as well as crew availability software migration.

– They’re looking for an individual to gather user/organisation requirements, analyse and prioritise these against system capabilities.

– Produce comprehensive process flow diagrams and data dictionaries

– Conduct meetings across all levels of the organisation

– Understand SLAs

– Align future system developments with changing environmental demands etc.

– Public Sector experience is extremely desirable.

– 2 days a week in the office.

Harris Global are currently recruiting for an Application Support Analyst to join our leading Financial Services client on a permanent basis based in London or Newcastle.

Responsibilities Include:

• Check and monitor correct running of all applications and processes including start/end of business day checks.
• Investigate and resolve application and business issues relating to applications and processes.
• Resolve high priority issues under the direction of senior members of the application support team.
• Develop full understanding of key applications/business functions.
• Develop business or support reports using SQL and SSRS.
• Provide training and guidance to 1st line teams and provide additional support to this function when business volumes demand.
• Escalate problems and errors to 3rd line support or vendor teams and act as problem owner to deliver resolution.
• Improve and enhance application and system monitoring and alerting.
• Perform application implementations and upgrades.
• Provide support and guidance to projects working on new developments of production systems; run and monitor test environments in support of new releases.
• React to ad-hoc requests from the business when appropriate.

Skills:

• Have previous experience working in an application support position
• Experience of applying logical and systematic trouble-shooting techniques of application support issues.
• Experience of supporting SharePoint online and Dynamics 365 (highly desirable)
• Financial business understanding ideally from working in the financial sector
• End to end application functionality knowledge; be able to demonstrate clear understanding of patterns of business activity, user journeys and application capabilities.
• Experienced with Microsoft server platform.
• Available for regular shift work patterns covering varying shifts (07:30-15:30/08:00-16:00/09:00-17:00/10:00-18:00).
• Available for on-call technical escalation overnight and weekends.

Harris Global are currently seeking a Senior Systems Consultant to join a leading organisation based in London. This is a permanent role with hybrid working opportunities. The successful candidate will possess strong knowledge of cloud solutions and Microsoft stack.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure systems are being monitored effectively and the monitoring process is documented and agreed.
• Take ownership of the patch management of clients infrastructure including compute devices, software and other hardware.
• Ensure that new clients are onboarded into the monitoring platform and monitoring thresholds and remedial actions are configured appropriately.
• Ensure that appropriate technical implementation plans, test plans, and contingency plans are in place and ensure that existing systems are not compromised by any proposed changes.
• The ability to deliver a methodical, logical and practical approach when diagnosing and leading technology changes within the business

Skills to include:

• Proven NOC/L3/L4 experience
• Excellent understanding of ITIL
• Excellent problem solving and root cause analysis skills
• Good knowledge of quality standards, compliance and best practice

For more information, please apply

Harris Global are currently recruiting for a Senior Technical Business Analyst to join our leading Market Research client in their Central London office. This is a permanent role with hybrid working opportunities. The successful candidate will possess strong experience business analysis expertise, working across an array of Infrastructure and Security projects. Any experience leading a team of BA’s will be highly beneficial.

Key responsibilities include:

• 5+ years experience working as a Technical Business Analyst
• Experience working with the business and IT on change projects
• Working with teams that have global reach
• Must have proven experience as a Senior BA, ideally leading small teams
• Proven experience working on Infrastructure and Information Security projects throughout their career
• Drive the analysis and collection of information to create recommendations for service improvements
• You know how to gather insight from senior stakeholders and communicate modelling results clearly to them
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of the target operating model and identify the impact on operational service
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working within Data Intelligence or Market Research organisations is highly desirable

For more information, please apply now!

Harris Global are currently looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our Insurance client on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will have a wealth of experience working as a Tech PM, possessing strong Azure and Information Security experience ideally within Insurance or Financial Services.

Skills will include:

• Minimum of 3 years Project Management experience and at least 5 years within an IT environment
• Experience of working on security related IT projects
• Knowledge of security and regulatory frameworks such as NiST, ISO27001
• End to end cyber security project experience
• A good understanding of the technical challenges faced by a global business
• Experience of working with Agile delivery methods with Kanban and Scrum teams
• Cloud and security knowledge
• AIP (Azure Information Protection) OR UPN (user principal name)
• GDPR projects
• Data loss preventions
• Azure cloud experience
• Insurance experience is preferred

If you think your skill set aligns with this role, please apply now!