Technology Permanent

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client, who are looking to hire a Senior Integration Developer to join their team in London, Newcastle or Edinburgh. The successful candidate must possess strong C#, .NET and SQL development skills and Azure integration experience, candidates who do not possess these skills will not be considered.

Key skills required:

• Candidates must have experience in C# .NET/SQL development
• Candidates must have Azure Integration experience
• Must have Financial Services experience, ideally within Wealth
• Candidates should have worked in agile environments
• Cloud computing, services and models eg Azure, AWS – API Management, Service Bus, Serverless Functions, Logic Apps
• BizTalk
• Scripting languages eg Powershell
• Messaging formats eg REST, XML, CSV

Harris global are working closely with a market leading financial institution based in central London who are looking to hire a Data Scientist paying c£60,000 plus competitive bonus and benefits. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding team offering huge scope for both technical and career progression.

The Data Scientist will have enterprise-wide responsibility to define and lead advanced analytical projects globally across the business, in support of marketing, sales, editorial and product development.

As a Data Scientist you will propose ideas and drive innovation using Business Intelligence and advance analytical techniques to generate incremental business benefit. Work closely with commercial stakeholders to ensure appropriate solutions are fully comprehended and business value is realised

Work closely with the IT teams and 3rd parties to implement all solutions in the optimum manner and support the department head in the management and delivery of advanced analytics

Responsibilities:

• Deliver modelling, segmentation and total addressable market analytical solutions
• Work closely with global business teams in the achievement of business objectives (increase revenue from online subscriptions and delegate sales and sponsorship for events).
• Delivery of impactful advanced analytics that are aligned to business definitions and metrics
• Work with CDO and IT teams to ensure data is defined, structured and accessible in a way that supports advanced analytical developments
• Highlight issues and advise on the quality of input data, to ensure results and recommendations can always be relied upon for business decision making
• Proactively look for opportunities where Data Science could be used to improve customer or market understanding
• Ensure that realistic and achievable timelines are agreed and met for projects undertaken

This is an urgent requirement with interview availability next week. Due to Covid-19 my client are looking complete the full interview process and on-boarding remotely.

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client who are looking to hire a SharePoint Technical Lead to own the full application suite. The successful candidate will possess strong SharePoint, SpFx, React, Azure and C# development experience, candidates that do not have these skills will not be considered. This is a technical lead role and will require strong written and verbal communication skills as you will be communicating with stakeholders and vendors regularly.

Skills:

• SharePoint Online development
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 technical experience
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 entities, workflows, configurations, customization, and integrations development.
• Office 365 development for Office and Outlook add ins
• SPFX development for SPO extensions and webparts etc.
• Azure development with Function Apps, Service Bus, Logic Apps, Web Jobs and App services.
• Microsoft 365
• Working as part of an Agile team.
• C# application development
• Data warehouse and Azure SQL technical knowledge
• Suite of Azure Integration Services
• Microsoft Business Intelligence: SQL Server Management Studio, SSRS, SSIS. Azure Data Factory

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of a rapidly expanding global entertainment company who are looking for a Technical Account Manager to join their team on a permanent basis.

The Technical Account Manager will act as a key member within an energetic team helping to solve a broad range of challenges and tasked with on-boarding/managing a number of high profile clients whilst helping to share their product road-map.

Responsible for the following:

• Stakeholder management of various large global clients
• Maintain client integration timelines
• Maintain platform training documentation
• Helping stakeholders to translate their digital viewpoint into the product road-map
• Champion customers internally
• Experience with video encoding highly desirable
• Experience of working in a global fast paced environment.
• Flexible and autonomous with a “can do” attitude

Skills & requirements:

• Love of Technology
• Excellent communication & analytical skills
• Experience of working within software engineering
• Experience of working as a technical contributor to the organisation
• 3 years+ technical/account management experience

It’s a diverse & vibrant environment to work in, where they would look for you to act as a key pivot in a rapidly expanding part of their business.

The company is regularly listed as a fantastic place to work, with a great atmosphere/excellent benefits and perks. They are growing rapidly, and this particular role offers significant opportunity for progression!

Harris global are currently recruiting for an experienced BI Developer to work for our client, an industry leading organisation in central London.

The successful BI Developer will join a team designing and building a data warehouse covering both relational and dimensional models, developing reports, data marts and other extracts and delivering these via SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and PowerBI.

Responsibilities will include:

• Write clear and concise supporting documentation for deliverable items.
• Become a member of the skilled development team willing to contribute and share experiences and learn as appropriate.
• Work within the company’s approved processes.

The successful BI Developer will possess:

• Candidates must possess numerous years’ experience in SSIS, SSRS, SSAS
• SQL Server development
• Experience of Azure
• Financial Services experience is a must have!
• Power BI/DAX experience

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

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client who are looking to hire an Infrastructure Engineer to join their team. The successful candidate will possess strong 3rd line skills but will also be willing and able to carry out hands on 2nd line responsibilities such as desk moves.

Key skills will include:

• 6-7 years’ experience in technical support
• ITIL and Prince 2 frameworks desirable
• MSCE – desired or equivalent experience
• Focused experience as a 2nd/3rd line technician
• VMware
• Powershell
• Office 365, Azure, MS Teams
• Microsoft Windows 10 and server environments, SQL, PC builds, Active Directory, PowerShell, Citrix, VMware and Storage
• Networking, design, WAN, LAN, SCCM, DFS/DFSR, GPO, SCCM, DNS, DHCP, IP telephony-SIP, open-DNS, VLAN’s
• Strong IT troubleshooting skills in relation to end user support and Back End Servers

Harris global are currently recruiting for an Application Support Team Lead to work for an industry-leading FS client in central London

The successful Application Support Team Lead will supervise and provide support alongside a team of 2nd line support analyst on various Trading, Middle and Back office applications. The successful candidate will be required to have demonstrable experience of this within a Financial Services or heavily regulated environment.

You will possess the following skills and experience.

• Prior experience supporting Windows and Linux environments
• Financial Services experience
• Previous leadership experience
• Support of market data, trading, Front and Back office applications
• Strong SQL experience
• An interest or understanding of automation technologies.

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

Harris Global are currently for a Technology Strategy Manager to work for an industry-leading Financial Services client in central London.

The successful Technology Strategy Manager will work closely with the organisation’s CTO to draft IT Strategy for the business and help them adopt and deliver new tech throughout.

The ideal candidate will possess Financial Services experience and ideally will have worked within a Consultancy.

Wider deliverables of the role include Board Communication and exposure to Risk and Regulatory frameworks.

The successful Technology Strategy Manager will possess the following skills and experience:

• A degree in IT, Business, Engineering, or related fields
• Prior experience Draughting and Delivering IT Strategy from scratch
• Ability to operate at C-Level
• Consultancy experience (Nice to have)
• A keen interest and background in Financial Services
• Risk and Regulatory experience
• Exposure to workforce planning

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

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client who are looking for an Infrastructure Operations Lead to join their team. The successful candidate must possess Azure experience and be able to write their own PowerShell scripts proficiently. Candidates who do not possess this knowledge will not be considered.

Responsibilities will include:

• Hands-on experience as a lead or senior engineer in an infrastructure operations support function including very good understanding of ITSM processes and ways of working (eg incident, request, problem and change management)
• 5+ years specialising in Windows server infrastructure operational support, including administration of on-premise and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS platforms (particularly Microsoft Azure)
• Understanding of creation, modification and maintenance of scripts using popular Scripting languages (eg PowerShell), with a focus on reducing manual effort through creative deployment of these tools
• Support and development of core infrastructure services, including:
• Windows Server 2012/16/19
• Virtualisation technologies (VMware)
• SAN and file storage technologies
• Active Directory
• Backup and Recovery tools (eg eVault, Azure Backup, Recovery Manager for AD)
• Configuration Management tools (eg SCCM, Group Policy)
• Automation tools (eg Powershell, Git, Azure DevOps)
• Cloud technologies (eg Azure AD, Azure Site Recovery)
• Monitoring tools (eg SCOM, Nagios, Solarwinds)
• Security tools (McAfee AV/ePO, Microsoft Defender)

Senior Project Manager required for a Greenfield implementation of Workday with a leader in professional services.

You will be working with Senior Stakeholders to manage the implementation across the organisation.

Successful candidates will have:

• Full Lifecycle experience of a Workday Implementation
• Experience in multinational programmes.
• Ability to communicate with senior stakeholders.

This position has a 50/50 on site/remote working arrangement.

Harris global are currently recruiting for a Systems Developer to work for an industry leading data driven organisation in central London.

The successful Systems Developer will be strong on SQL in particularly SSIS and will have worked on databases hosted in Azure coupled with experience developing in C#/.NET.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop data management systems and processes that support the sourcing, validation, normalisation, production and delivery of data provided to clients
• Support new client implementations, including liaison with external IT departments
• Develop data quality assurance processes, procedures and applications
• Maintain code quality and testing procedures
• Manage and optimise the use of cloud-based infrastructure to provide cost effective business continuity, service resilience and disaster recovery solutions.

The successful Systems Developer will possess the following skills and experience;

• SQL Server Administration, Monitoring and Fault-Resolution (2016 onwards)
• SQL Server – Transact SQL
• SQL Server – Integration Services/SSIS
• SQL Server IaaS and PaaS in Microsoft Azure
• C# .Net
• REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of FTP and SFTP
• Microsoft Azure IaaS & PaaS

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

Harris Global are currently recruiting for an Application Support Lead who will be responsible for 2nd and 3rd level support for a range of vendor and internally developed financial applications.

Responsibilities will include:

• Recognised as the subject matter expert on all the critical applications supporting the business
• Maintaining a high level of hands-on support across the application portfolio, with a detailed understanding of the relationships between applications and business functions
• Ensure correct running of all applications and processes including start/end of business day checks
• Monitor and ensure compliance with all required processes and procedures, specifically change management, access control and security
• Take the lead to investigate and resolve application and business issues relating to applications and processes
• 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
• Coordinate application implementations and upgrades.
• Develop and maintain relationships with other internal technology, project & business groups and external vendors
• Encourage continuous service improvement and manual task automation

Candidate must possess:

• The suitable candidate will be a well experienced Application Support lead with excellent knowledge of supporting financial applications within a high-paced Investment Management/banking environment
• Experience applying logical and systematic trouble-shooting techniques of application support issues
• Candidates will have at the very minimum of 3 year’s SQL and Windows server experience.
• Knowledge of SWIFT SAA/SAG environment support, FIX messaging, Fiserv Accurate and/or MS Dynamics CRM
• Experience using automated tools
• Strong financial business understanding ideally from working in the financial sector
• Proven track record and experience of supporting high availability solutions in business critical environments
• End to end application functionality knowledge; be able to demonstrate clear understanding of patterns of business activity, user journeys and application capabilities

Harris Global are recruiting for a Senior IT Support Engineer to join an industry leading organisation based in the Essex area

The Role

The firm is on an exciting IT journey of transition and change, adopting and implementing modern technologies to enable it to deliver the best in client service. This role will be a key part of this journey and will share knowledge, technical expertise and support to the team.

We are seeking a lead technical specialist, with the ability to demonstrate experience in delivering first class and hands on in-house and homeworking support to a range of users operating in a hybrid Microsoft environment. The successful candidate will also have experience in project implementation and improving the quality and efficiency of services and support delivery.

Skills & Experience Required:

You will have experience providing third line support and be the final point of escalation from your colleagues. You will work closely with the IT Manager and IT Director to support and develop first- and second-line team members ensuring that the service provided is best practice’ and confirms with agreed KPI’s.

You will have strong technical knowledge of:

• Supporting IT software, hardware and services
• Working within a ticketing system
• Hands-on operational IT systems and managing a hybrid Microsoft 365 environment involving Azure Active Directory, Intune, Exchange Online, including administration and troubleshooting Defender ATP, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams (incl. direct call routing)
• Windows 10 Enterprise & Microsoft Office 365
• PowerShell Scripting
• Desktop and server hardware (Microsoft Surface, HP, NetApp)
• Citrix (XenApp)
• Windows Server 2008-2019
• VMware
• Windows Active Directory including Group Policy Management
• Networking services and protocols eg, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP

Harris Global are recruiting for a Scrum Master to join an leading FTSE250 listed financial institution in Central London.

As the Scrum Master you will join a large transformation programme working in the integration stream to support the delivery of a number of interface builds between core business applications.

Responsibilities Include:

• Conduct daily stand-ups
• Maintain wiki entries/appropriate documentation
• Agree scheduling and priority of backlog items
• Interpret written/spoken business requirements
• Report on delivery progress
• Become a member of the skilled development team willing to contribute and share experiences and learn as appropriate.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Working knowledge and experience of Integration and API based technical projects
• Minimum 5 years experience working as a Scrum Master in an Agile Environment.

For further information, please apply for immediate review!

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client, who are looking to hire a Resource and Capacity Planning Manager to join their team on a 12 month fixed term contract. The successful candidate will play a key role in managing the resource pool across the Technology Change and Transformation functions.

Responsibilities include
Act as a key point of contact for resource and capacity planning
Ensure any resourcing issues and/or gaps are flagged and resolved
Track and maintain resource databases
Work with HR to submit resource requests, track requests and provide recruitment information to Managers and HR.
Manage contractor timesheet process and work with Contractors and Finance to ensure smooth payments
Ensure data records eg org charts and headcount reports are maintained and accurate
Work with the leadership team to create a talent Matrix for all staff and formulate development and training plans to support

Skills
Experience in a resource planning role or similar applicable skill set
Good understanding of Change Management
Proven ability to develop strong relationships with senior stakeholders across various departments
Highly adaptable and flexible as a part of a fast-paced environment with evolving hiring requirements
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and effective influencing skills
Able to prioritise workload effectively, strong time management and organisational skills
Good understanding of Change methodologies
Willingness to learn and adapt

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client, who are looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst to work closely with the Digital Product team, understanding the end user requirements and reporting into the Head of Digital Product. The successful candidate will have a digital background and have an understanding of Market Data.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for large sub-systems or areas of functionality
• 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
• Formally document requirements so that they remain understandable for the business to subscribe to, while sufficiently comprehensive, structured and technically-oriented to be translated into technical solutions by the development team
• Authoring of user stories that are complete, unambiguous and have complete acceptance criteria so that the Engineering teams may base their development and testing purely on the user story to deliver successful features first time
• Driving the backlog grooming of their user stories and the UAT testing of them
• Participate in agile ceremonies to ensure the Engineering teams can deliver features
• Collaborate with the digital product team to ensure that that the user stories accurately address the customers’ requirements
• Fully evaluate the desired customer experience from start to end of their interaction, and hone requirements to optimise the desired customer experience

Skills:

• Detailed analysis of customer requirements, gathering both functional and non-functional requirements
• Creation of user stories and acceptance criteria
• Participating in agile ceremonies, including backlog grooming, print planning, stand-ups, demo’s
• Previous digital and/or market data experience
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to non-technical individuals

Harris global have an exciting opportunity for a SWIFT Support Analyst to join a prestigious financial institution based in central London, paying competitive salary bonus and benefits. My client are looking for an Application Support Analyst to be part of a high performing Application Support team, delivering technical support to both internal and external clients.

The SWIFT Support analyst will have strong experience and knowledge of Middle and Back Office along with knowledge around Market Data. You responsible for implementing technical sides of new SWIFT projects, providing technical support to projects whilst ensuring the success of solutions being delivered and responding quickly to production taking responsibility for seeing those issues through to resolution, recording all actions taken and communicating the impact of the actions to appropriate levels of management.

Skills & Experience required:

Deep knowledge of SWIFT technical aspects,

Strong working knowledge of SSRS and SSIS

Experience in Data Warehousing

Strong knowledge of Back Office processes, trading, clearing and financial markets

Excellent analytical and diagnostic skills

Strong Windows and Red Hat Linux skills

Unix secure Shell Scripting and Python

This is an urgent requirement with interview availability early next week. Due to Covid-19 my client is looking complete the full interview process and on-boarding remotely.

Harris Global are currently looking for an Application Owner to join our FTSE250 client based in their London office. The successful candidate will be the voice of Application Change and Development and the broader technology department for their application.

Responsibilities will include:

• Accountable for driving the change agenda for the application both in terms of upgrades/maintenance but also new features and functionality, all linked to business outcomes.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the BAU/Change budgets for their application(s); therefore, manage how development’ days are reassigned ie when a project requires less/more development days than estimated.
• Be the day-to-day contact for Vendor relationships associated with their application(s) and be a key stakeholder as part of the associated Service Reviews.
• Responsible for live service ie ensuring that the Infrastructure and Operations team are proactively resolving service interruptions to ensure optimal service availability and that performance/capacity requirements are being met.
• Ensure Management Information/Business Intelligence is defined, developed and run to prove the benefits associated with an Application’s Roadmap.

Skills will include:

• Financial Services experience with knowledge of the main products, services provided in these markets as well as the terminology used
• Must have a background mainly in technology and business change
• Ability to articulate business solutions that balance technical capability, cost, and time, against business needs.
• Excellent Stakeholder management
• Must have implemented and delivered change to business critical applications
• A stakeholder in managing technology risk controls and processes

Harris global are currently recruiting for an IT Chief of Staff to work for an industry-leading Financial Services client in central London.

The role’s core responsibilities include Strategy, Board Communications, IT Marketing and Communication, Regulatory and Company IT Information, Governance and Mode of Operation, Workforce management and Operating Queries.

The successful IT Chief of Staff will possess the following skills and experience.

• Demonstrable leadership experience
• In-depth experience of IT Department structures and functions
• Workforce planning and management
• Experience of driving transformation and delivering change.
• Insight to the commercial aspects of running IT as a business.
• Understanding of the financial services regulatory landscape and experience working within regulated entities.
• Degree educated ideally within Business or IT

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

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our client a leading Trading organisation in central London for an experienced Senior Data Engineer.

The successful Senior Data Engineer will promote and drive data analytics through the business and will be required to have strong Stakeholder management experience to collaborate across all departments.

The successful Senior Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

• Ability to build Data Structures and Pipelines
• Data Warehouse and Data lake experience (Azure)
• BI Tools – SQL – PowerBI – Tableau
• Experience in data science – Python or R
• Exposure to Kafka
• Azure cloud experience
• Financial Services experience is essential for this role
• Exposure to machine learning techniques
• Automation experience

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

Harris global are currently recruiting for a FIX Support Analyst to work for an industry-leading FS client in central London

The successful Support Analyst will be required to provide 1st line support of FIX systems and associated technologies such as Windows, SQL, and various other MS-related technologies.

You will possess the following skills and experience.

• Prior experience a sa support analyst
• Prior experience supporting Windows
• FIX protocol and FIX messaging
• Financial Services experience
• SQL experience

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