CEF - City Electrical Factors
Durham, County Durham
About CEF: At CEF we have a bold ambition for growth. We are passionate about delivering an unrivalled service for our customers and providing a strong culture with career opportunities for our people. Across IT we are on an exciting mission to ensure we harness our growth opportunities by designing our technology architecture and solutions for constant evolution. We recognise that technology and data are at the forefront of enabling our business to better serve our customers today and in the future. We have a fast-growing technology team delivering a portfolio of transformative work, expanding our digital options, and upgrading and future-proofing our systems to place us at the forefront of the marketplace. We believe that teams who design, own and run our technology solutions are more connected to the value they create. We are always looking to improve, collaborate and innovate and this is where you come in Life as a Senior Delivery Lead at CEF: As a Senior Delivery Lead in Finance IT, you will be responsible for project managing our Finance IT solutions and overseeing the delivery of the Workday implementation. You will ensure they are delivered in collaboration with our highly skilled Finance IT Domain team and other cross functional IT teams, adding significant value for our stakeholders in the wider business. You will be playing a pivotal role in ensuring the appropriate methodology is consistently followed to a high standard, working in collaboration with Global Delivery Practice. You will be primarily focused on determining a plan against key global Workday deliverables and then taking accountability to drive team performance to deliver against agreed objectives using a tool like JIRA. The Senior Delivery Lead proactively encourages sustained continuous improvement; they facilitate close engagement between the Team & business stakeholders, ensuring a common understanding of latest position, as well as fostering a collective approach to overcoming obstacles that may arise. Your Objectives: Build co-ordinated plans to deliver a range of software solutions in cross functional teams of talented Systems Analysts, Engineers, architects and BAs. Keep a finger on the pulse of delivery, anticipating blockers and managing risks to ensure delivery isn't impacted. Provide regular status updates in governance forums Drive continuous improvement within Global Delivery teams, ensuring open feedback loops and fostering a community of continuous improvement. Support Delivery maturity within the global organisation enhancing your Community of Practice Lead and mentor Associate Delivery Leads Key Skills and Experience: Experience delivering major software solutions across the full software development life cycle, including the transition of working software into service. You'll have an excellent eye for detail and a keen knowledge of major IT systems like Finance, HR or People Systems Knowledge and experience working with Agile, Waterfall or other SDLC methodologies - we don't have a one size fits all approach! You will be an excellent communicator, able to foster strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders Ability to influence and implement changes across diverse stakeholder groups Desired Skills and Experience: Experience leading a full ERP or finance system implementation project (eg. Workday, Oracle, SAP) Qualification in Accounting or in depth knowledge of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Interview Process: Screening call with Talent Acquisition Microsoft Teams call with members of our Finance IT Domain Microsoft Teams call with our Global Head of Finance IT and one of our Delivery Directors Package: Competitive basic salary Annual IT Bonus scheme Our teams predominantly work remotely but we have an award winning IT Headquarters based in Durham where you'll always receive a warm welcome! Pension: 3% ee'e / 3% e'er (Total 6%) Champion Health - a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life including recipes, workouts, blogs and loads of other content for you Free use of the state of the art private gym at our IT Headquarters
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
About CEF: At CEF we have a bold ambition for growth. We are passionate about delivering an unrivalled service for our customers and providing a strong culture with career opportunities for our people. Across IT we are on an exciting mission to ensure we harness our growth opportunities by designing our technology architecture and solutions for constant evolution. We recognise that technology and data are at the forefront of enabling our business to better serve our customers today and in the future. We have a fast-growing technology team delivering a portfolio of transformative work, expanding our digital options, and upgrading and future-proofing our systems to place us at the forefront of the marketplace. We believe that teams who design, own and run our technology solutions are more connected to the value they create. We are always looking to improve, collaborate and innovate and this is where you come in Life as a Senior Delivery Lead at CEF: As a Senior Delivery Lead in Finance IT, you will be responsible for project managing our Finance IT solutions and overseeing the delivery of the Workday implementation. You will ensure they are delivered in collaboration with our highly skilled Finance IT Domain team and other cross functional IT teams, adding significant value for our stakeholders in the wider business. You will be playing a pivotal role in ensuring the appropriate methodology is consistently followed to a high standard, working in collaboration with Global Delivery Practice. You will be primarily focused on determining a plan against key global Workday deliverables and then taking accountability to drive team performance to deliver against agreed objectives using a tool like JIRA. The Senior Delivery Lead proactively encourages sustained continuous improvement; they facilitate close engagement between the Team & business stakeholders, ensuring a common understanding of latest position, as well as fostering a collective approach to overcoming obstacles that may arise. Your Objectives: Build co-ordinated plans to deliver a range of software solutions in cross functional teams of talented Systems Analysts, Engineers, architects and BAs. Keep a finger on the pulse of delivery, anticipating blockers and managing risks to ensure delivery isn't impacted. Provide regular status updates in governance forums Drive continuous improvement within Global Delivery teams, ensuring open feedback loops and fostering a community of continuous improvement. Support Delivery maturity within the global organisation enhancing your Community of Practice Lead and mentor Associate Delivery Leads Key Skills and Experience: Experience delivering major software solutions across the full software development life cycle, including the transition of working software into service. You'll have an excellent eye for detail and a keen knowledge of major IT systems like Finance, HR or People Systems Knowledge and experience working with Agile, Waterfall or other SDLC methodologies - we don't have a one size fits all approach! You will be an excellent communicator, able to foster strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders Ability to influence and implement changes across diverse stakeholder groups Desired Skills and Experience: Experience leading a full ERP or finance system implementation project (eg. Workday, Oracle, SAP) Qualification in Accounting or in depth knowledge of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Interview Process: Screening call with Talent Acquisition Microsoft Teams call with members of our Finance IT Domain Microsoft Teams call with our Global Head of Finance IT and one of our Delivery Directors Package: Competitive basic salary Annual IT Bonus scheme Our teams predominantly work remotely but we have an award winning IT Headquarters based in Durham where you'll always receive a warm welcome! Pension: 3% ee'e / 3% e'er (Total 6%) Champion Health - a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life including recipes, workouts, blogs and loads of other content for you Free use of the state of the art private gym at our IT Headquarters
Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid) needed in Preston, Paying £22.51ph - Reference: RQ This role is a hybrid role mainly working from home. This role is for approx 6 months Hours per week are 37 Your role will give you opportunities to:• contribute to the ongoing development of the OCI platform• provide support to in-house DBA Team• ensure delivery of best-practice across the existing Oracle services Candidate: We are looking for an Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. The role• contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines.• provide Oracle database administration expertise.• software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate.• security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform.• undertake performance diagnostics & tuning.• work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer for databases and the project management community to ensure delivery of agreed solutions and maintenance of existing services.• work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer ensuring that strategic initiatives are delivered, and best practice standards are embedded within the design process. • drive efficiencies and cost-savings through continuous improvement of people, process and technology.• ensure that customer aspirations & requirements are the driving force behind everything we do.• represent the Digital Service at all levels and attend customer meetings.About you• in-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure• Substantial experience of designing and implementing highly available, performant and secure database solutions that are aligned to availability and disaster recovery strategies.• Experience of management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance and capacity planning• Experience of Data Guard• Experience of Oracle upgrades and database migrations. Experience of Linux operating system and Oracle RU patching in OCI.• Oracle Forms and Reports This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis. If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to quoting the reference number. Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared. Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage. You can also follow us at Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn or via our website .
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid) needed in Preston, Paying £22.51ph - Reference: RQ This role is a hybrid role mainly working from home. This role is for approx 6 months Hours per week are 37 Your role will give you opportunities to:• contribute to the ongoing development of the OCI platform• provide support to in-house DBA Team• ensure delivery of best-practice across the existing Oracle services Candidate: We are looking for an Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. The role• contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines.• provide Oracle database administration expertise.• software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate.• security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform.• undertake performance diagnostics & tuning.• work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer for databases and the project management community to ensure delivery of agreed solutions and maintenance of existing services.• work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer ensuring that strategic initiatives are delivered, and best practice standards are embedded within the design process. • drive efficiencies and cost-savings through continuous improvement of people, process and technology.• ensure that customer aspirations & requirements are the driving force behind everything we do.• represent the Digital Service at all levels and attend customer meetings.About you• in-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure• Substantial experience of designing and implementing highly available, performant and secure database solutions that are aligned to availability and disaster recovery strategies.• Experience of management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance and capacity planning• Experience of Data Guard• Experience of Oracle upgrades and database migrations. Experience of Linux operating system and Oracle RU patching in OCI.• Oracle Forms and Reports This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis. If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to quoting the reference number. Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared. Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage. You can also follow us at Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn or via our website .
Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid) Description: This post is for the recruitment of a Senior Oracle Database Administrator" based at County Hall, Preston, PR1 8XJ. Pay Rate: £22.51/per hour via Umbrella. 37 hours per week. Initial 6 month contract (with chance of extension). Duties: We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. You will have detailed knowledge of managing, monitoring and maintaining databases within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, patching and upgrades as well as backup and recovery, cloning and maximum availability. Over and above you will have experience of: Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites Implementing robust OCI database security measures Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI Supporting experienced in-house DBAs in the delivery of ongoing workloads Duties: Contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and LCC through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines. Provide Oracle database administration expertise. Software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate. Security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform. Requirements: Must have experience of: Oracle estate (databases, Weblogic, forms, reports) into the Oracle Cloud (also known as Oracle OCI). This role is for candidates who have proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI, effective communication and collaboration skills as well as experience in OCI database security, performance tuning and monitoring.
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid) Description: This post is for the recruitment of a Senior Oracle Database Administrator" based at County Hall, Preston, PR1 8XJ. Pay Rate: £22.51/per hour via Umbrella. 37 hours per week. Initial 6 month contract (with chance of extension). Duties: We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. You will have detailed knowledge of managing, monitoring and maintaining databases within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, patching and upgrades as well as backup and recovery, cloning and maximum availability. Over and above you will have experience of: Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites Implementing robust OCI database security measures Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI Supporting experienced in-house DBAs in the delivery of ongoing workloads Duties: Contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and LCC through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines. Provide Oracle database administration expertise. Software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate. Security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform. Requirements: Must have experience of: Oracle estate (databases, Weblogic, forms, reports) into the Oracle Cloud (also known as Oracle OCI). This role is for candidates who have proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI, effective communication and collaboration skills as well as experience in OCI database security, performance tuning and monitoring.
Job Title: Oracle Database Administrator (OCI) - 3 Month Contract Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom (Mostly Remote) Pay rate: £25/hr Are you an experienced Oracle Database Administrator with a penchant for cloud infrastructure? Do you thrive in ensuring maximum service availability and security in a dynamic environment? We're seeking an Oracle DBA to join a a local authority in Lancashire, where you'll play a pivotal role in supporting and advancing their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform. Role Overview: As an Oracle OCI Database Administrator, you will be responsible for managing, monitoring, and enhancing their OCI database environment. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring seamless operations, including patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and high availability across multiple sites. Additionally, you'll implement robust security measures, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with in-house DBAs to deliver ongoing workloads. Responsibilities: Contribute to strategic initiatives, delivering projects of various scales within challenging deadlines. Provide expertise in Oracle database administration, including software installation, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and ensuring maximum service availability. Implement and maintain robust security measures, compliance, risk management, and capacity planning on the OCI platform. Perform performance diagnostics & tuning, ensuring optimal database performance. Collaborate closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer and project management teams to deliver solutions and maintain existing services. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Prioritise customer aspirations & requirements, representing the Digital Service at all levels and attending customer meetings. About You: In-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Substantial experience in designing and implementing highly available, performant, and secure database solutions aligned with availability and disaster recovery strategies. Proficiency in management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance, and capacity planning. Experience with Data Guard, Oracle upgrades, database migrations, Linux operating system, and Oracle RU patching in OCI. Familiarity with Oracle Forms and Reports is desirable. Why Join Us: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects within a forward-thinking local authority. Flexible and mostly remote working arrangements. Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience. If you're ready to take the next step in your Oracle DBA career and make a tangible impact in a supportive environment, apply now!. Make a difference while advancing your expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
Job Title: Oracle Database Administrator (OCI) - 3 Month Contract Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom (Mostly Remote) Pay rate: £25/hr Are you an experienced Oracle Database Administrator with a penchant for cloud infrastructure? Do you thrive in ensuring maximum service availability and security in a dynamic environment? We're seeking an Oracle DBA to join a a local authority in Lancashire, where you'll play a pivotal role in supporting and advancing their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform. Role Overview: As an Oracle OCI Database Administrator, you will be responsible for managing, monitoring, and enhancing their OCI database environment. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring seamless operations, including patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and high availability across multiple sites. Additionally, you'll implement robust security measures, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with in-house DBAs to deliver ongoing workloads. Responsibilities: Contribute to strategic initiatives, delivering projects of various scales within challenging deadlines. Provide expertise in Oracle database administration, including software installation, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and ensuring maximum service availability. Implement and maintain robust security measures, compliance, risk management, and capacity planning on the OCI platform. Perform performance diagnostics & tuning, ensuring optimal database performance. Collaborate closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer and project management teams to deliver solutions and maintain existing services. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Prioritise customer aspirations & requirements, representing the Digital Service at all levels and attending customer meetings. About You: In-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Substantial experience in designing and implementing highly available, performant, and secure database solutions aligned with availability and disaster recovery strategies. Proficiency in management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance, and capacity planning. Experience with Data Guard, Oracle upgrades, database migrations, Linux operating system, and Oracle RU patching in OCI. Familiarity with Oracle Forms and Reports is desirable. Why Join Us: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects within a forward-thinking local authority. Flexible and mostly remote working arrangements. Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience. If you're ready to take the next step in your Oracle DBA career and make a tangible impact in a supportive environment, apply now!. Make a difference while advancing your expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid) Description: This post is for the recruitment of a Senior Oracle Database Administrator" based at County Hall, Preston, PR1 8XJ. Pay Rate: 22.51/per hour via Umbrella. 37 hours per week. Initial 6 month contract (with chance of extension). Duties: We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. You will have detailed knowledge of managing, monitoring and maintaining databases within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, patching and upgrades as well as backup and recovery, cloning and maximum availability. Over and above you will have experience of: Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites Implementing robust OCI database security measures Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI Supporting experienced in-house DBAs in the delivery of ongoing workloads Duties: Contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and LCC through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines. Provide Oracle database administration expertise. Software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate. Security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform. Requirements: Must have experience of: Oracle estate (databases, Weblogic, forms, reports) into the Oracle Cloud (also known as Oracle OCI). This role is for candidates who have proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI, effective communication and collaboration skills as well as experience in OCI database security, performance tuning and monitoring.
Mar 27, 2024
Full time
Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid) Description: This post is for the recruitment of a Senior Oracle Database Administrator" based at County Hall, Preston, PR1 8XJ. Pay Rate: 22.51/per hour via Umbrella. 37 hours per week. Initial 6 month contract (with chance of extension). Duties: We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. You will have detailed knowledge of managing, monitoring and maintaining databases within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, patching and upgrades as well as backup and recovery, cloning and maximum availability. Over and above you will have experience of: Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites Implementing robust OCI database security measures Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI Supporting experienced in-house DBAs in the delivery of ongoing workloads Duties: Contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and LCC through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines. Provide Oracle database administration expertise. Software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate. Security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform. Requirements: Must have experience of: Oracle estate (databases, Weblogic, forms, reports) into the Oracle Cloud (also known as Oracle OCI). This role is for candidates who have proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI, effective communication and collaboration skills as well as experience in OCI database security, performance tuning and monitoring.
Job Title: Oracle Database Administrator (OCI) - 3 Month Contract Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom (Mostly Remote) Pay rate: 25/hr Are you an experienced Oracle Database Administrator with a penchant for cloud infrastructure? Do you thrive in ensuring maximum service availability and security in a dynamic environment? We're seeking an Oracle DBA to join a a local authority in Lancashire, where you'll play a pivotal role in supporting and advancing their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform. Role Overview: As an Oracle OCI Database Administrator, you will be responsible for managing, monitoring, and enhancing their OCI database environment. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring seamless operations, including patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and high availability across multiple sites. Additionally, you'll implement robust security measures, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with in-house DBAs to deliver ongoing workloads. Responsibilities: Contribute to strategic initiatives, delivering projects of various scales within challenging deadlines. Provide expertise in Oracle database administration, including software installation, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and ensuring maximum service availability. Implement and maintain robust security measures, compliance, risk management, and capacity planning on the OCI platform. Perform performance diagnostics & tuning, ensuring optimal database performance. Collaborate closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer and project management teams to deliver solutions and maintain existing services. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Prioritise customer aspirations & requirements, representing the Digital Service at all levels and attending customer meetings. About You: In-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Substantial experience in designing and implementing highly available, performant, and secure database solutions aligned with availability and disaster recovery strategies. Proficiency in management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance, and capacity planning. Experience with Data Guard, Oracle upgrades, database migrations, Linux operating system, and Oracle RU patching in OCI. Familiarity with Oracle Forms and Reports is desirable. Why Join Us: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects within a forward-thinking local authority. Flexible and mostly remote working arrangements. Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience. If you're ready to take the next step in your Oracle DBA career and make a tangible impact in a supportive environment, apply now!. Make a difference while advancing your expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Mar 27, 2024
Contractor
Job Title: Oracle Database Administrator (OCI) - 3 Month Contract Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom (Mostly Remote) Pay rate: 25/hr Are you an experienced Oracle Database Administrator with a penchant for cloud infrastructure? Do you thrive in ensuring maximum service availability and security in a dynamic environment? We're seeking an Oracle DBA to join a a local authority in Lancashire, where you'll play a pivotal role in supporting and advancing their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform. Role Overview: As an Oracle OCI Database Administrator, you will be responsible for managing, monitoring, and enhancing their OCI database environment. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring seamless operations, including patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and high availability across multiple sites. Additionally, you'll implement robust security measures, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with in-house DBAs to deliver ongoing workloads. Responsibilities: Contribute to strategic initiatives, delivering projects of various scales within challenging deadlines. Provide expertise in Oracle database administration, including software installation, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and ensuring maximum service availability. Implement and maintain robust security measures, compliance, risk management, and capacity planning on the OCI platform. Perform performance diagnostics & tuning, ensuring optimal database performance. Collaborate closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer and project management teams to deliver solutions and maintain existing services. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Prioritise customer aspirations & requirements, representing the Digital Service at all levels and attending customer meetings. About You: In-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Substantial experience in designing and implementing highly available, performant, and secure database solutions aligned with availability and disaster recovery strategies. Proficiency in management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance, and capacity planning. Experience with Data Guard, Oracle upgrades, database migrations, Linux operating system, and Oracle RU patching in OCI. Familiarity with Oracle Forms and Reports is desirable. Why Join Us: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects within a forward-thinking local authority. Flexible and mostly remote working arrangements. Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience. If you're ready to take the next step in your Oracle DBA career and make a tangible impact in a supportive environment, apply now!. Make a difference while advancing your expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
CEF - City Electrical Factors
Durham, County Durham
About CEF: At CEF we have a bold ambition for growth. We are passionate about delivering an unrivalled service for our customers and providing a strong culture with career opportunities for our people. Across IT we are on an exciting mission to ensure we harness our growth opportunities by designing our technology architecture and solutions for constant evolution. We recognise that technology and data are at the forefront of enabling our business to better serve our customers today and in the future. We have a fast-growing technology team delivering a portfolio of transformative work, expanding our digital options, and upgrading and future-proofing our systems to place us at the forefront of the marketplace. We believe that teams who design, own and run our technology solutions are more connected to the value they create. We are always looking to improve, collaborate and innovate and this is where you come in Life as a Senior Delivery Lead at CEF: As a Senior Delivery Lead in Finance IT, you will be responsible for project managing our Finance IT solutions and overseeing the delivery of the Workday implementation. You will ensure they are delivered in collaboration with our highly skilled Finance IT Domain team and other cross functional IT teams, adding significant value for our stakeholders in the wider business. You will be playing a pivotal role in ensuring the appropriate methodology is consistently followed to a high standard, working in collaboration with Global Delivery Practice. You will be primarily focused on determining a plan against key global Workday deliverables and then taking accountability to drive team performance to deliver against agreed objectives using a tool like JIRA. The Senior Delivery Lead proactively encourages sustained continuous improvement; they facilitate close engagement between the Team & business stakeholders, ensuring a common understanding of latest position, as well as fostering a collective approach to overcoming obstacles that may arise. Your Objectives: Build co-ordinated plans to deliver a range of software solutions in cross functional teams of talented Systems Analysts, Engineers, architects and BAs. Keep a finger on the pulse of delivery, anticipating blockers and managing risks to ensure delivery isn't impacted. Provide regular status updates in governance forums Drive continuous improvement within Global Delivery teams, ensuring open feedback loops and fostering a community of continuous improvement. Support Delivery maturity within the global organisation enhancing your Community of Practice Lead and mentor Associate Delivery Leads Key Skills and Experience: Experience delivering major software solutions across the full software development life cycle, including the transition of working software into service. You'll have an excellent eye for detail and a keen knowledge of major IT systems like Finance, HR or People Systems Knowledge and experience working with Agile, Waterfall or other SDLC methodologies - we don't have a one size fits all approach! You will be an excellent communicator, able to foster strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders Ability to influence and implement changes across diverse stakeholder groups Desired Skills and Experience: Experience leading a full ERP or finance system implementation project (eg. Workday, Oracle, SAP) Qualification in Accounting or in depth knowledge of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Interview Process: Screening call with Talent Acquisition Microsoft Teams call with members of our Finance IT Domain Microsoft Teams call with our Global Head of Finance IT and one of our Delivery Directors Package: Competitive basic salary Annual IT Bonus scheme Our teams predominantly work remotely but we have an award winning IT Headquarters based in Durham where you'll always receive a warm welcome! Pension: 3% ee'e / 3% e'er (Total 6%) Champion Health - a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life including recipes, workouts, blogs and loads of other content for you Free use of the state of the art private gym at our IT Headquarters
Mar 26, 2024
Full time
About CEF: At CEF we have a bold ambition for growth. We are passionate about delivering an unrivalled service for our customers and providing a strong culture with career opportunities for our people. Across IT we are on an exciting mission to ensure we harness our growth opportunities by designing our technology architecture and solutions for constant evolution. We recognise that technology and data are at the forefront of enabling our business to better serve our customers today and in the future. We have a fast-growing technology team delivering a portfolio of transformative work, expanding our digital options, and upgrading and future-proofing our systems to place us at the forefront of the marketplace. We believe that teams who design, own and run our technology solutions are more connected to the value they create. We are always looking to improve, collaborate and innovate and this is where you come in Life as a Senior Delivery Lead at CEF: As a Senior Delivery Lead in Finance IT, you will be responsible for project managing our Finance IT solutions and overseeing the delivery of the Workday implementation. You will ensure they are delivered in collaboration with our highly skilled Finance IT Domain team and other cross functional IT teams, adding significant value for our stakeholders in the wider business. You will be playing a pivotal role in ensuring the appropriate methodology is consistently followed to a high standard, working in collaboration with Global Delivery Practice. You will be primarily focused on determining a plan against key global Workday deliverables and then taking accountability to drive team performance to deliver against agreed objectives using a tool like JIRA. The Senior Delivery Lead proactively encourages sustained continuous improvement; they facilitate close engagement between the Team & business stakeholders, ensuring a common understanding of latest position, as well as fostering a collective approach to overcoming obstacles that may arise. Your Objectives: Build co-ordinated plans to deliver a range of software solutions in cross functional teams of talented Systems Analysts, Engineers, architects and BAs. Keep a finger on the pulse of delivery, anticipating blockers and managing risks to ensure delivery isn't impacted. Provide regular status updates in governance forums Drive continuous improvement within Global Delivery teams, ensuring open feedback loops and fostering a community of continuous improvement. Support Delivery maturity within the global organisation enhancing your Community of Practice Lead and mentor Associate Delivery Leads Key Skills and Experience: Experience delivering major software solutions across the full software development life cycle, including the transition of working software into service. You'll have an excellent eye for detail and a keen knowledge of major IT systems like Finance, HR or People Systems Knowledge and experience working with Agile, Waterfall or other SDLC methodologies - we don't have a one size fits all approach! You will be an excellent communicator, able to foster strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders Ability to influence and implement changes across diverse stakeholder groups Desired Skills and Experience: Experience leading a full ERP or finance system implementation project (eg. Workday, Oracle, SAP) Qualification in Accounting or in depth knowledge of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Interview Process: Screening call with Talent Acquisition Microsoft Teams call with members of our Finance IT Domain Microsoft Teams call with our Global Head of Finance IT and one of our Delivery Directors Package: Competitive basic salary Annual IT Bonus scheme Our teams predominantly work remotely but we have an award winning IT Headquarters based in Durham where you'll always receive a warm welcome! Pension: 3% ee'e / 3% e'er (Total 6%) Champion Health - a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life including recipes, workouts, blogs and loads of other content for you Free use of the state of the art private gym at our IT Headquarters
New permanent opportunity for an Oracle DBA to join an exciting IT Services Provider on a fully remote basis with immediate effect. Please note: The role will be fully remote and candidates must be readily available and set up to work from home full-time. Oracle DBA Responsibilities Proactively manage and support AWS RDS instances Conduct regular healthchecks on AWS RDS Oracle instances and provide recommendations based on these results Performance investigation, troubleshooting issues and and fine-tuning configurations Optimising database operations through cross-collaboration Databse healthchecks Oracle DBA Required Experience 3-5 years' experience as an Oracle DBA AWS RDS (2+ years' experience) Oracle Performance tuning tools Database monitoring tools (e.g. solarwinds, ignite etc.) Oracle DBA Application Process This is a permanent requirement with a start date ASAP; CV's are currently being considered and interviews are taking place from 25th March 2024. The interview process will be 1 stage and candidates will need to be available in no more than 4 weeks in order to be considered. Why Should You Apply? This is an excellent permanent opportunity to join a client that are helping organisations create value using new technologies. If this role isn't what you're looking for then don't worry, at X4 Technology we have excellent relationships with companies ranging from some of the most exciting start-ups to the biggest names in tech, covering a wide range of mid to senior level permanent and contract positions. You can check out all of our roles on our website. Please apply via the link if you believe you are suited to this position or you can get in touch with me directly and I can run though all my current vacancies within the Network & Infrastructure market.
Mar 25, 2024
Full time
New permanent opportunity for an Oracle DBA to join an exciting IT Services Provider on a fully remote basis with immediate effect. Please note: The role will be fully remote and candidates must be readily available and set up to work from home full-time. Oracle DBA Responsibilities Proactively manage and support AWS RDS instances Conduct regular healthchecks on AWS RDS Oracle instances and provide recommendations based on these results Performance investigation, troubleshooting issues and and fine-tuning configurations Optimising database operations through cross-collaboration Databse healthchecks Oracle DBA Required Experience 3-5 years' experience as an Oracle DBA AWS RDS (2+ years' experience) Oracle Performance tuning tools Database monitoring tools (e.g. solarwinds, ignite etc.) Oracle DBA Application Process This is a permanent requirement with a start date ASAP; CV's are currently being considered and interviews are taking place from 25th March 2024. The interview process will be 1 stage and candidates will need to be available in no more than 4 weeks in order to be considered. Why Should You Apply? This is an excellent permanent opportunity to join a client that are helping organisations create value using new technologies. If this role isn't what you're looking for then don't worry, at X4 Technology we have excellent relationships with companies ranging from some of the most exciting start-ups to the biggest names in tech, covering a wide range of mid to senior level permanent and contract positions. You can check out all of our roles on our website. Please apply via the link if you believe you are suited to this position or you can get in touch with me directly and I can run though all my current vacancies within the Network & Infrastructure market.
End Date Wednesday 17 April 2024 Salary Range £77,301 - £85,890 We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary . Job Description Database Engineer Data Resilience) Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us: Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of leading-edge financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Background: Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group s Important Business Services. The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this: Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group s ability to maintain service within ITOL. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group s Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV; 10+ years DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We re disability confident. So, if you d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?Apply today and find out more At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Mar 25, 2024
Full time
End Date Wednesday 17 April 2024 Salary Range £77,301 - £85,890 We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary . Job Description Database Engineer Data Resilience) Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us: Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of leading-edge financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Background: Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group s Important Business Services. The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this: Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group s ability to maintain service within ITOL. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group s Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV; 10+ years DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We re disability confident. So, if you d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?Apply today and find out more At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. Our client has been in business since 1765 and are the UK's largest Bank. Data resilience instils confidence and trust with customers, the Data Resilience team are expanding, and they are looking for a Database Administrator to join the team. Role: Database Administrator (Resilience) Contract: 6 Months (extension options) Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol (Hybrid 2 days a week in the office) Rate: £750 per day (inside ir35 Umbrella) As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. Key Accountabilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. About you 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies. Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures. Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation). Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory. Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh. Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW). Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
Mar 22, 2024
Full time
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. Our client has been in business since 1765 and are the UK's largest Bank. Data resilience instils confidence and trust with customers, the Data Resilience team are expanding, and they are looking for a Database Administrator to join the team. Role: Database Administrator (Resilience) Contract: 6 Months (extension options) Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol (Hybrid 2 days a week in the office) Rate: £750 per day (inside ir35 Umbrella) As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. Key Accountabilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. About you 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies. Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures. Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation). Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory. Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh. Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW). Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. Our client has been in business since 1765 and are the UK's largest Bank. Data resilience instils confidence and trust with customers, the Data Resilience team are expanding, and they are looking for a Database Administrator to join the team. Role: Database Administrator (Resilience) Contract: 6 Months (extension options) Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol (Hybrid 2 days a week in the office) Rate: 750 per day (inside ir35 Umbrella) As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. Key Accountabilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. About you 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies. Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures. Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation). Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory. Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh. Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW). Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
Mar 22, 2024
Contractor
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. Our client has been in business since 1765 and are the UK's largest Bank. Data resilience instils confidence and trust with customers, the Data Resilience team are expanding, and they are looking for a Database Administrator to join the team. Role: Database Administrator (Resilience) Contract: 6 Months (extension options) Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol (Hybrid 2 days a week in the office) Rate: 750 per day (inside ir35 Umbrella) As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. Key Accountabilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. About you 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies. Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures. Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation). Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory. Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh. Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW). Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
Your role will give you opportunities to: contribute to the ongoing development of the OCI platform provide support to in-house DBA Team ensure delivery of best-practice across the existing Oracle services Candidate: We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. You will have detailed knowledge of managing, monitoring and maintaining databases within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, patching and upgrades as well as backup and recovery, cloning and maximum availability. Over and above you will have experience of Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites Implementing robust OCI database security measures Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI Supporting experienced in-house DBAs in the delivery of ongoing workloads This role is for candidates who have proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI, effective communication and collaboration skills as well as experience in OCI database security, performance tuning and monitoring The role contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and LCC through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines. provide Oracle database administration expertise. software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate. security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform. undertake performance diagnostics & tuning. work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer for databases and the project management community to ensure delivery of agreed solutions and maintenance of existing services. work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer ensuring that strategic initiatives are delivered, and best practice standards are embedded within the design process. drive efficiencies and cost-savings through continuous improvement of people, process and technology. ensure that customer aspirations & requirements are the driving force behind everything we do. represent the Digital Service at all levels and attend customer meetings. About you in-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Substantial experience of designing and implementing highly available, performant and secure database solutions that are aligned to availability and disaster recovery strategies. Experience of management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance and capacity planning Experience of Data Guard Experience of Oracle upgrades and database migrations. Experience of Linux operating system and Oracle RU patching in OCI. Oracle Forms and Reports
Mar 21, 2024
Contractor
Your role will give you opportunities to: contribute to the ongoing development of the OCI platform provide support to in-house DBA Team ensure delivery of best-practice across the existing Oracle services Candidate: We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. You will have detailed knowledge of managing, monitoring and maintaining databases within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, patching and upgrades as well as backup and recovery, cloning and maximum availability. Over and above you will have experience of Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites Implementing robust OCI database security measures Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI Supporting experienced in-house DBAs in the delivery of ongoing workloads This role is for candidates who have proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI, effective communication and collaboration skills as well as experience in OCI database security, performance tuning and monitoring The role contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and LCC through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines. provide Oracle database administration expertise. software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate. security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform. undertake performance diagnostics & tuning. work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer for databases and the project management community to ensure delivery of agreed solutions and maintenance of existing services. work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer ensuring that strategic initiatives are delivered, and best practice standards are embedded within the design process. drive efficiencies and cost-savings through continuous improvement of people, process and technology. ensure that customer aspirations & requirements are the driving force behind everything we do. represent the Digital Service at all levels and attend customer meetings. About you in-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Substantial experience of designing and implementing highly available, performant and secure database solutions that are aligned to availability and disaster recovery strategies. Experience of management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance and capacity planning Experience of Data Guard Experience of Oracle upgrades and database migrations. Experience of Linux operating system and Oracle RU patching in OCI. Oracle Forms and Reports
Database Engineer (Data Resilience) Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us: Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of leading-edge financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Background: Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services. The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this: Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group's ability to maintain service within ITOL. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV; 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
Mar 21, 2024
Full time
Database Engineer (Data Resilience) Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us: Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of leading-edge financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Background: Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services. The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this: Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group's ability to maintain service within ITOL. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV; 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
The primary function of the Senior Technical Analyst is to respond to customer queries within given SLAs, providing advice, guidance and resolutions to a range of technical based queries related to Zellis products and services. In this role you'll not only learn the infrastructure behind a leading HR & Payroll system, you'll also gain and improve on globally recognised technical skills in software and hardware such as Oracle, SQL, Windows, Apache, etc. This is an exciting opportunity that provides you with a strong foundation to help develop your personal career. You'll work with a wide variety of teams, gaining experience and knowledge across Support, Infrastructure, Change, Development, Account Management and others as you investigate cases and implement preventative measures to customer problems. This position offer hybrid working, 2 days per week from either our Bristol or Peterborough office. Key responsibilities include: Investigation and fault finding as a part of the resolution process. Continuously looking for ways to improve the service offered to customers. Working alongside your team to track and discuss errors, identify trends and proactively implement preventative measures to avoid future recurrence. Working with individuals outside of your direct technical team, building relationships with every area of the business as you investigate and implement service improvements. Representing Zellis via phone, email, live chat and other communication methods. Face-to-face meetings and on-site customer visits may be required on occasions. Diagnosing hardware and software faults, finding solutions to technical and applications problems. Assisting with Root Cause Analysis reports where required. Assisting other departments as required with installing our core software on hosted and on-premise environments. Working to departmental service levels by achieving individual targets, which include initial response times, resolution times and customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey results. Ensuring that the customer experience is at the heart of all decisions. Skills and experience required Previous experience (3 years+) within a fast-paced technical support environment. Proven knowledge and experience in SQL Server 2012 or later. Windows Server experience, including Active Directory. Experience in configuring & maintaining database servers and processes. Monitoring experience - system health & performance. Data and trend analysis. Continuous service improvement thought process. Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel. High level of initiative to resolve problems that may have never been experienced before. Willingness to learn & understand the infrastructure that makes up the Zellis environments. Strong customer service skills; always client centric, appreciating the expectations of our customers. Demonstrates good communication skills with a confident style. Other desirable skills include: SQL Server DBA or similar role. Performance Tuning and Optimisation (PTO). Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server. Working within complex environments supporting multiple product lines. Experience in supporting Payroll or HR software. Windows server. UNIX (AIX, Solaris, Linux). Oracle databases (12c, onwards). SQL server databases. MS Azure. Apache/Reverse proxies. Tomcat. Glassfish/Payara/JBoss container setups. Java. SAML/LDAP/Single sign on technologies. Infrastructure monitoring tools such as New Relic, SolarWinds, Oracle Statspack, etc. About us Zellis is the leading provider of payroll and HR solutions for the UK & Ireland. Together with Benefex and Moorepay we form the Zellis Group, serving a vast array of companies across every vertical and industry. Our purpose is to power exceptional employee experiences so that our customers and their people do better. We have over 50 years of heritage and industry experience - and we've been ahead of the curve throughout. More than half a century ago, we were founded as Peterborough Data Processing. Quite a lot has changed since then - not least our name. We were acquired by Northgate, becoming NorthgateArinso in 2007 and NGA Human Resources UK and Ireland in 2014, where we were joined by Moorepay. In 2018, the UK and Ireland division was sold to Bain Capital and now we operate as a standalone company, Zellis. After acquiring Benefex, we're now even better equipped to serve the complex needs of our customers. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're proud of our culture and we work hard to create an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, are not empty words on a poster: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Salary package Competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off! Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension. Range of additional flexible benefits.
Mar 21, 2024
Full time
The primary function of the Senior Technical Analyst is to respond to customer queries within given SLAs, providing advice, guidance and resolutions to a range of technical based queries related to Zellis products and services. In this role you'll not only learn the infrastructure behind a leading HR & Payroll system, you'll also gain and improve on globally recognised technical skills in software and hardware such as Oracle, SQL, Windows, Apache, etc. This is an exciting opportunity that provides you with a strong foundation to help develop your personal career. You'll work with a wide variety of teams, gaining experience and knowledge across Support, Infrastructure, Change, Development, Account Management and others as you investigate cases and implement preventative measures to customer problems. This position offer hybrid working, 2 days per week from either our Bristol or Peterborough office. Key responsibilities include: Investigation and fault finding as a part of the resolution process. Continuously looking for ways to improve the service offered to customers. Working alongside your team to track and discuss errors, identify trends and proactively implement preventative measures to avoid future recurrence. Working with individuals outside of your direct technical team, building relationships with every area of the business as you investigate and implement service improvements. Representing Zellis via phone, email, live chat and other communication methods. Face-to-face meetings and on-site customer visits may be required on occasions. Diagnosing hardware and software faults, finding solutions to technical and applications problems. Assisting with Root Cause Analysis reports where required. Assisting other departments as required with installing our core software on hosted and on-premise environments. Working to departmental service levels by achieving individual targets, which include initial response times, resolution times and customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey results. Ensuring that the customer experience is at the heart of all decisions. Skills and experience required Previous experience (3 years+) within a fast-paced technical support environment. Proven knowledge and experience in SQL Server 2012 or later. Windows Server experience, including Active Directory. Experience in configuring & maintaining database servers and processes. Monitoring experience - system health & performance. Data and trend analysis. Continuous service improvement thought process. Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel. High level of initiative to resolve problems that may have never been experienced before. Willingness to learn & understand the infrastructure that makes up the Zellis environments. Strong customer service skills; always client centric, appreciating the expectations of our customers. Demonstrates good communication skills with a confident style. Other desirable skills include: SQL Server DBA or similar role. Performance Tuning and Optimisation (PTO). Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server. Working within complex environments supporting multiple product lines. Experience in supporting Payroll or HR software. Windows server. UNIX (AIX, Solaris, Linux). Oracle databases (12c, onwards). SQL server databases. MS Azure. Apache/Reverse proxies. Tomcat. Glassfish/Payara/JBoss container setups. Java. SAML/LDAP/Single sign on technologies. Infrastructure monitoring tools such as New Relic, SolarWinds, Oracle Statspack, etc. About us Zellis is the leading provider of payroll and HR solutions for the UK & Ireland. Together with Benefex and Moorepay we form the Zellis Group, serving a vast array of companies across every vertical and industry. Our purpose is to power exceptional employee experiences so that our customers and their people do better. We have over 50 years of heritage and industry experience - and we've been ahead of the curve throughout. More than half a century ago, we were founded as Peterborough Data Processing. Quite a lot has changed since then - not least our name. We were acquired by Northgate, becoming NorthgateArinso in 2007 and NGA Human Resources UK and Ireland in 2014, where we were joined by Moorepay. In 2018, the UK and Ireland division was sold to Bain Capital and now we operate as a standalone company, Zellis. After acquiring Benefex, we're now even better equipped to serve the complex needs of our customers. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're proud of our culture and we work hard to create an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, are not empty words on a poster: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Salary package Competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off! Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension. Range of additional flexible benefits.
Do you have strong Oracle Applications DBA experience and strive for a new and exciting challenge? We are looking for a strong Senior Database Administrator to provide Production and Development Support Services to a major Oracle E-Business Suite. The team comprises of 11 DBA's who are all ensuring that issues and changes resulting from live incidents, maintenance or approved change requests are identified, resolved and tested prior to implementation. The estate primarily comprises the Oracle eBusiness Suite (Payroll, HR, Finance and CRM). A Strategic Management Information (SMI) solution using OBIEE with an Exadata hosted data warehouse. A Hub interface between the main database and satellite systems, some of which are also in-house while others have third party COTS packages as their front end. This is an exciting time for the team, with plans well underway to transform from current systems to the Cloud. This would give you the opportunity to deploy your skills to support the transition and grow with the team. You will also be supported with training on different areas to help you broaden your knowledge. The role is hybrid with 2 days a week in our Gosport Office. What you will be doing: Maintain the Oracle EBusiness system running in a closed secure network. Maintain the Strategic Management Information (SMI) system, running on a mixture of AIX and Linux, and assist in the upgrade to Oracle Analytics Server (OAS 5.9) Maintain and support the SMI Data Warehouse solution hosted on Exadata appliances. Install Oracle software patches to the relevant environments according to the patch's instructions, as advised by the Patching Manager. Supervise and tune the database environment, ensuring system integrity and performance. Respond to and resolve database problems to ensure system availability. Ensure that the operations team are able to make direct contact when on call. Ensure the Disaster Recovery system is always receiving shipped logs, and they are being applied in a timely fashion to meet the SLAs. Action allocated incident investigation and ensure that resolutions and actions are performed in the required timescales as prioritised and agreed by the DBA Team. Be available for scheduled out of hours maintenance tasks and on-call rotas as agreed with the DBA Team Leader. What you'll bring: Oracle E-Business maintenance skills Performance Tune On experience. Oracle technology installs and upgrades to databases and WebLogic on Unix and Windows Multi-node database installations RMAN Backup and Recovery experience Disaster Recovery with Standby and Fail-Over Ability to attend site out-of-hours, and at weekends if required, for on-call response. It would be great if you had: Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Oracle Business Intelligence technical experience Oracle Enterprise Manager experience SQL & PL/SQL coding experience Unix shell scripting If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Although the role is advertised as full time, we support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent Location: Gosport Security Clearance Level: DV Internal Recruiter: Theo Salary: £49,781 Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Loved reading about this job and want to know more about SSCL? Shared Services Connected Ltd was established as a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria, in 2013 as part of the Government's Shared Services Strategy for Smarter Government programme and operates from four regional centres of excellence: Blackpool; Newcastle; Newport; and York. We deliver best in class business transformation programmes to across the Public Sector with a target to release one billion pounds of savings to the public. We have established an enviable track record in the design and delivery of large-scale innovative HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance & Accounting solutions to significantly improve efficiencies and enhance service levels across Government and Public Sector. Our clients include several government agencies including the Department for Work and Pensions, Environment Agency Department for Education, Ministry of Justice and Home Office as well as the Metropolitan Police Service and the Construction Industry Training Board. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Sep 24, 2022
Full time
Do you have strong Oracle Applications DBA experience and strive for a new and exciting challenge? We are looking for a strong Senior Database Administrator to provide Production and Development Support Services to a major Oracle E-Business Suite. The team comprises of 11 DBA's who are all ensuring that issues and changes resulting from live incidents, maintenance or approved change requests are identified, resolved and tested prior to implementation. The estate primarily comprises the Oracle eBusiness Suite (Payroll, HR, Finance and CRM). A Strategic Management Information (SMI) solution using OBIEE with an Exadata hosted data warehouse. A Hub interface between the main database and satellite systems, some of which are also in-house while others have third party COTS packages as their front end. This is an exciting time for the team, with plans well underway to transform from current systems to the Cloud. This would give you the opportunity to deploy your skills to support the transition and grow with the team. You will also be supported with training on different areas to help you broaden your knowledge. The role is hybrid with 2 days a week in our Gosport Office. What you will be doing: Maintain the Oracle EBusiness system running in a closed secure network. Maintain the Strategic Management Information (SMI) system, running on a mixture of AIX and Linux, and assist in the upgrade to Oracle Analytics Server (OAS 5.9) Maintain and support the SMI Data Warehouse solution hosted on Exadata appliances. Install Oracle software patches to the relevant environments according to the patch's instructions, as advised by the Patching Manager. Supervise and tune the database environment, ensuring system integrity and performance. Respond to and resolve database problems to ensure system availability. Ensure that the operations team are able to make direct contact when on call. Ensure the Disaster Recovery system is always receiving shipped logs, and they are being applied in a timely fashion to meet the SLAs. Action allocated incident investigation and ensure that resolutions and actions are performed in the required timescales as prioritised and agreed by the DBA Team. Be available for scheduled out of hours maintenance tasks and on-call rotas as agreed with the DBA Team Leader. What you'll bring: Oracle E-Business maintenance skills Performance Tune On experience. Oracle technology installs and upgrades to databases and WebLogic on Unix and Windows Multi-node database installations RMAN Backup and Recovery experience Disaster Recovery with Standby and Fail-Over Ability to attend site out-of-hours, and at weekends if required, for on-call response. It would be great if you had: Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Oracle Business Intelligence technical experience Oracle Enterprise Manager experience SQL & PL/SQL coding experience Unix shell scripting If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Although the role is advertised as full time, we support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent Location: Gosport Security Clearance Level: DV Internal Recruiter: Theo Salary: £49,781 Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Loved reading about this job and want to know more about SSCL? Shared Services Connected Ltd was established as a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria, in 2013 as part of the Government's Shared Services Strategy for Smarter Government programme and operates from four regional centres of excellence: Blackpool; Newcastle; Newport; and York. We deliver best in class business transformation programmes to across the Public Sector with a target to release one billion pounds of savings to the public. We have established an enviable track record in the design and delivery of large-scale innovative HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance & Accounting solutions to significantly improve efficiencies and enhance service levels across Government and Public Sector. Our clients include several government agencies including the Department for Work and Pensions, Environment Agency Department for Education, Ministry of Justice and Home Office as well as the Metropolitan Police Service and the Construction Industry Training Board. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Are you an expert in SQL scripts for JPA (Joint Personnel Applications) and Oracle!? Are you considering a new and exciting challenge, where you can make the most of your skills? If so this role may be just for you! We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an in depth knowledge of SQL to our team of Software Engineers. The team run the technical infrastructure applications that are responsible for coordinating pay for veterans. They complete data fixes on JPA, the support of archived preserved data for Management Information (MI) purposes and the data loading activities associated with refreshing the Virtual Training Environments. The service was formed in 2007 to provide harmonised administration services and accurate processing of pay, allowances, and pensions to the veterans' communities. IT looks to modernise the way the Client carry out pay administration, based on the introduction of policy and regulations supported by new administration processes and Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software. The role is Hybrid with two days per week based in our Gosport office and 3 days remote. What you'll be doing: Manage SQL scripts, collaborating closely with ORACLE on the content of scripts and running scripts on JPA. Producing paperwork for RCB, updating dimensions, creating DBA requests, obtaining customer approval for the changes, Liaising with the functional team members during process. Assist with the resolution of queries raised with the Data Team and other teams. Maintain reference data as supplied approved agencies from the Authority, taking them through the Release Control Board (RCB) process. Maintain accurate figures for work carried out against the Measure of Performance identifiers. Correction of bulk corrupt records, including, creating GFF or SQL correction scripts. Maintain Serena Incidents for the team. Create Data Loader scripts. Interrogate the DPR using SQL to formulate responses to customer queries. Advise on matters relating to VTE, DPR and DPRR as required. The team is growing as workload increases and therefore there may be responsibility to deliver training and support to newer members of the team in the future. What you'll Bring: Experience working with Oracle / JPA Knowledge of writing SQL Scripts SQL and PL experience Ability to prioritise and facilitate large workloads. It would be great if you had: Prior experience working with a government client. If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Employment Type: Full-time Permanent Location: Gosport Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Theo Salary: £46,969 - £56,363 DOE Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Loved reading about this job and want to know more about SSCL? Shared Services Connected Ltd was established as a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria, in 2013 as part of the Government's Shared Services Strategy for Smarter Government programme and operates from four regional centres of excellence: Blackpool; Newcastle; Newport; and York. We deliver best in class business transformation programmes to across the Public Sector with a target to release one billion pounds of savings to the public. We have established an enviable track record in the design and delivery of large-scale innovative HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance & Accounting solutions to significantly improve efficiencies and enhance service levels across Government and Public Sector. Our clients include several government agencies including the Department for Work and Pensions, Environment Agency Department for Education, Ministry of Justice and Home Office as well as the Metropolitan Police Service and the Construction Industry Training Board. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Sep 24, 2022
Full time
Are you an expert in SQL scripts for JPA (Joint Personnel Applications) and Oracle!? Are you considering a new and exciting challenge, where you can make the most of your skills? If so this role may be just for you! We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an in depth knowledge of SQL to our team of Software Engineers. The team run the technical infrastructure applications that are responsible for coordinating pay for veterans. They complete data fixes on JPA, the support of archived preserved data for Management Information (MI) purposes and the data loading activities associated with refreshing the Virtual Training Environments. The service was formed in 2007 to provide harmonised administration services and accurate processing of pay, allowances, and pensions to the veterans' communities. IT looks to modernise the way the Client carry out pay administration, based on the introduction of policy and regulations supported by new administration processes and Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software. The role is Hybrid with two days per week based in our Gosport office and 3 days remote. What you'll be doing: Manage SQL scripts, collaborating closely with ORACLE on the content of scripts and running scripts on JPA. Producing paperwork for RCB, updating dimensions, creating DBA requests, obtaining customer approval for the changes, Liaising with the functional team members during process. Assist with the resolution of queries raised with the Data Team and other teams. Maintain reference data as supplied approved agencies from the Authority, taking them through the Release Control Board (RCB) process. Maintain accurate figures for work carried out against the Measure of Performance identifiers. Correction of bulk corrupt records, including, creating GFF or SQL correction scripts. Maintain Serena Incidents for the team. Create Data Loader scripts. Interrogate the DPR using SQL to formulate responses to customer queries. Advise on matters relating to VTE, DPR and DPRR as required. The team is growing as workload increases and therefore there may be responsibility to deliver training and support to newer members of the team in the future. What you'll Bring: Experience working with Oracle / JPA Knowledge of writing SQL Scripts SQL and PL experience Ability to prioritise and facilitate large workloads. It would be great if you had: Prior experience working with a government client. If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Employment Type: Full-time Permanent Location: Gosport Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Theo Salary: £46,969 - £56,363 DOE Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Loved reading about this job and want to know more about SSCL? Shared Services Connected Ltd was established as a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria, in 2013 as part of the Government's Shared Services Strategy for Smarter Government programme and operates from four regional centres of excellence: Blackpool; Newcastle; Newport; and York. We deliver best in class business transformation programmes to across the Public Sector with a target to release one billion pounds of savings to the public. We have established an enviable track record in the design and delivery of large-scale innovative HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance & Accounting solutions to significantly improve efficiencies and enhance service levels across Government and Public Sector. Our clients include several government agencies including the Department for Work and Pensions, Environment Agency Department for Education, Ministry of Justice and Home Office as well as the Metropolitan Police Service and the Construction Industry Training Board. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Are you an OCI expert looking for a new challenge? Role Overview: Are you an Oracle Architect with experience of cloud migrations and OCI? Would you like to expand your experience of cloud technologies with a focus on OCI? Are you the person who understands and "owns" the end-to-end solution during a project? Do you enjoy inspiring and leading a successful cloud transformation team? Do you enjoy developing and growing new business in a dynamic cloud environment? Do you understand how to sell and position business value to senior stakeholders? Would you like to further these skills and take your career to the next level? Then you could be our next OCI Architect. We are looking for an experienced, motivated lead OCI Architect who can (a.) lead and inspire more junior members of a delivery team, (b.) act as the presales lead to develop and win new cloud business. We are looking to grow our team with architects who have big ambitions to succeed in the IT Industry and are keen to build and enhance their careers with one of the leading technology companies of our time. You will be supported by ADS Consulting's extensive network of industry and technical experts along with our innovative, collaborative and fun training and development opportunities both in the UK and across Europe. Key Responsibilities: Provides advice and guidance to development teams on architectures and application designs Identifies and promotes best practice, including standards, frameworks and solution methodologies Proactively identify opportunities for extending existing and new developments into re-usable resources, and maintains a central repository of resources, including code, design documentation, standards, patterns and guidance Tracks market trends and competitor activities in 'expert' area and ensure this data is utilised for the ongoing service development Defines scope and deliverables for assignment with 'client' (may be internal or external) for the design of complex systems architectures to integrate business and IT requirements Delivers effective technical architecture designs in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of technology partners and subcontractors) Completes assignment review with 'client' at the end of each and every assignment (or six monthly for long term assignments) Actively promotes Sopra Steria consulting, application management, business process and IT-outsourcing services. Seeks and gains recognition outside Sopra Steria within 'expert' area by active involvement in industry / specialist groups that develops recognition of Company's capability that is transferable into sales opportunities Develops and exploits personal network of contacts within Sopra Steria to ensure high levels of chargeable personal utilisation Shares personal knowledge of 'expert' area through coaching and mentoring, running workshops, establishing 'special interest groups' To identify and manage risk in his/her business activities and take responsibility for reporting risks in a timely, open and appropriate manner What you'll bring: Experience of Cloud solutions Proven experience assessing client's Oracle workloads and technology landscape for OCI suitability, Including OCI Network and Security design for complex architectures to support high availability and disaster recovery requirements. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the latest and emerging developments in IT and cloud technologies; Have delivery experience from cloud migrations; Have a good understanding of cloud offerings from the leading cloud vendors; Be able to present a point of view in a compelling way and defend it when needed; Be able to clearly articulate and document cloud transformation strategies and roadmaps; Link business requirement to technology and cloud solutions; Capture and interpret business requirement; Have an understanding of how to build financial TCO and/or ROI models; Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills; Be comfortable interacting with stakeholders including C level when needed. Desirable Skills: SaaS Oracle EBS Apps DBA Implementation and Production Support experience Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCP) and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.) and mentor team to build necessary capability. In depth knowledge of Oracle SaaS and PaaS If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time Location: UK Remote, with some travel Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith Salary: £95,000 Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, couple medical cover, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Sep 24, 2022
Full time
Are you an OCI expert looking for a new challenge? Role Overview: Are you an Oracle Architect with experience of cloud migrations and OCI? Would you like to expand your experience of cloud technologies with a focus on OCI? Are you the person who understands and "owns" the end-to-end solution during a project? Do you enjoy inspiring and leading a successful cloud transformation team? Do you enjoy developing and growing new business in a dynamic cloud environment? Do you understand how to sell and position business value to senior stakeholders? Would you like to further these skills and take your career to the next level? Then you could be our next OCI Architect. We are looking for an experienced, motivated lead OCI Architect who can (a.) lead and inspire more junior members of a delivery team, (b.) act as the presales lead to develop and win new cloud business. We are looking to grow our team with architects who have big ambitions to succeed in the IT Industry and are keen to build and enhance their careers with one of the leading technology companies of our time. You will be supported by ADS Consulting's extensive network of industry and technical experts along with our innovative, collaborative and fun training and development opportunities both in the UK and across Europe. Key Responsibilities: Provides advice and guidance to development teams on architectures and application designs Identifies and promotes best practice, including standards, frameworks and solution methodologies Proactively identify opportunities for extending existing and new developments into re-usable resources, and maintains a central repository of resources, including code, design documentation, standards, patterns and guidance Tracks market trends and competitor activities in 'expert' area and ensure this data is utilised for the ongoing service development Defines scope and deliverables for assignment with 'client' (may be internal or external) for the design of complex systems architectures to integrate business and IT requirements Delivers effective technical architecture designs in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of technology partners and subcontractors) Completes assignment review with 'client' at the end of each and every assignment (or six monthly for long term assignments) Actively promotes Sopra Steria consulting, application management, business process and IT-outsourcing services. Seeks and gains recognition outside Sopra Steria within 'expert' area by active involvement in industry / specialist groups that develops recognition of Company's capability that is transferable into sales opportunities Develops and exploits personal network of contacts within Sopra Steria to ensure high levels of chargeable personal utilisation Shares personal knowledge of 'expert' area through coaching and mentoring, running workshops, establishing 'special interest groups' To identify and manage risk in his/her business activities and take responsibility for reporting risks in a timely, open and appropriate manner What you'll bring: Experience of Cloud solutions Proven experience assessing client's Oracle workloads and technology landscape for OCI suitability, Including OCI Network and Security design for complex architectures to support high availability and disaster recovery requirements. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the latest and emerging developments in IT and cloud technologies; Have delivery experience from cloud migrations; Have a good understanding of cloud offerings from the leading cloud vendors; Be able to present a point of view in a compelling way and defend it when needed; Be able to clearly articulate and document cloud transformation strategies and roadmaps; Link business requirement to technology and cloud solutions; Capture and interpret business requirement; Have an understanding of how to build financial TCO and/or ROI models; Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills; Be comfortable interacting with stakeholders including C level when needed. Desirable Skills: SaaS Oracle EBS Apps DBA Implementation and Production Support experience Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCP) and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.) and mentor team to build necessary capability. In depth knowledge of Oracle SaaS and PaaS If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time Location: UK Remote, with some travel Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith Salary: £95,000 Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, couple medical cover, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Are you an OCI expert looking for a new challenge? Role Overview: Are you an Oracle Architect with experience of cloud migrations and OCI? Would you like to expand your experience of cloud technologies with a focus on OCI? Are you the person who understands and "owns" the end-to-end solution during a project? Do you enjoy inspiring and leading a successful cloud transformation team? Do you enjoy developing and growing new business in a dynamic cloud environment? Do you understand how to sell and position business value to senior stakeholders? Would you like to further these skills and take your career to the next level? Then you could be our next OCI Architect. We are looking for an experienced, motivated lead OCI Architect who can (a.) lead and inspire more junior members of a delivery team, (b.) act as the presales lead to develop and win new cloud business. We are looking to grow our team with architects who have big ambitions to succeed in the IT Industry and are keen to build and enhance their careers with one of the leading technology companies of our time. You will be supported by ADS Consulting's extensive network of industry and technical experts along with our innovative, collaborative and fun training and development opportunities both in the UK and across Europe. Key Responsibilities: Provides advice and guidance to development teams on architectures and application designs Identifies and promotes best practice, including standards, frameworks and solution methodologies Proactively identify opportunities for extending existing and new developments into re-usable resources, and maintains a central repository of resources, including code, design documentation, standards, patterns and guidance Tracks market trends and competitor activities in 'expert' area and ensure this data is utilised for the ongoing service development Defines scope and deliverables for assignment with 'client' (may be internal or external) for the design of complex systems architectures to integrate business and IT requirements Delivers effective technical architecture designs in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of technology partners and subcontractors) Completes assignment review with 'client' at the end of each and every assignment (or six monthly for long term assignments) Actively promotes Sopra Steria consulting, application management, business process and IT-outsourcing services. Seeks and gains recognition outside Sopra Steria within 'expert' area by active involvement in industry / specialist groups that develops recognition of Company's capability that is transferable into sales opportunities Develops and exploits personal network of contacts within Sopra Steria to ensure high levels of chargeable personal utilisation What you'll bring: Experience of Cloud solutions Proven experience assessing client's Oracle workloads and technology landscape for OCI suitability, Including OCI Network and Security design for complex architectures to support high availability and disaster recovery requirements. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the latest and emerging developments in IT and cloud technologies; Have delivery experience from cloud migrations; Have a good understanding of cloud offerings from the leading cloud vendors; Be able to present a point of view in a compelling way and defend it when needed; Be able to clearly articulate and document cloud transformation strategies and roadmaps; Link business requirement to technology and cloud solutions; Capture and interpret business requirement; Have an understanding of how to build financial TCO and/or ROI models; Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills; Be comfortable interacting with stakeholders including C level when needed. Desirable Skills: Oracle EBS Apps DBA Implementation and Production Support experience Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCP) and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.) and mentor team to build necessary capability. If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time Location: UK Remote, with some travel Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith Salary: £75,000 Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, single medical cover, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Sep 24, 2022
Full time
Are you an OCI expert looking for a new challenge? Role Overview: Are you an Oracle Architect with experience of cloud migrations and OCI? Would you like to expand your experience of cloud technologies with a focus on OCI? Are you the person who understands and "owns" the end-to-end solution during a project? Do you enjoy inspiring and leading a successful cloud transformation team? Do you enjoy developing and growing new business in a dynamic cloud environment? Do you understand how to sell and position business value to senior stakeholders? Would you like to further these skills and take your career to the next level? Then you could be our next OCI Architect. We are looking for an experienced, motivated lead OCI Architect who can (a.) lead and inspire more junior members of a delivery team, (b.) act as the presales lead to develop and win new cloud business. We are looking to grow our team with architects who have big ambitions to succeed in the IT Industry and are keen to build and enhance their careers with one of the leading technology companies of our time. You will be supported by ADS Consulting's extensive network of industry and technical experts along with our innovative, collaborative and fun training and development opportunities both in the UK and across Europe. Key Responsibilities: Provides advice and guidance to development teams on architectures and application designs Identifies and promotes best practice, including standards, frameworks and solution methodologies Proactively identify opportunities for extending existing and new developments into re-usable resources, and maintains a central repository of resources, including code, design documentation, standards, patterns and guidance Tracks market trends and competitor activities in 'expert' area and ensure this data is utilised for the ongoing service development Defines scope and deliverables for assignment with 'client' (may be internal or external) for the design of complex systems architectures to integrate business and IT requirements Delivers effective technical architecture designs in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of technology partners and subcontractors) Completes assignment review with 'client' at the end of each and every assignment (or six monthly for long term assignments) Actively promotes Sopra Steria consulting, application management, business process and IT-outsourcing services. Seeks and gains recognition outside Sopra Steria within 'expert' area by active involvement in industry / specialist groups that develops recognition of Company's capability that is transferable into sales opportunities Develops and exploits personal network of contacts within Sopra Steria to ensure high levels of chargeable personal utilisation What you'll bring: Experience of Cloud solutions Proven experience assessing client's Oracle workloads and technology landscape for OCI suitability, Including OCI Network and Security design for complex architectures to support high availability and disaster recovery requirements. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the latest and emerging developments in IT and cloud technologies; Have delivery experience from cloud migrations; Have a good understanding of cloud offerings from the leading cloud vendors; Be able to present a point of view in a compelling way and defend it when needed; Be able to clearly articulate and document cloud transformation strategies and roadmaps; Link business requirement to technology and cloud solutions; Capture and interpret business requirement; Have an understanding of how to build financial TCO and/or ROI models; Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills; Be comfortable interacting with stakeholders including C level when needed. Desirable Skills: Oracle EBS Apps DBA Implementation and Production Support experience Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCP) and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.) and mentor team to build necessary capability. If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time Location: UK Remote, with some travel Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith Salary: £75,000 Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, single medical cover, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Lead DBA - Remote Working (Telford Based) The Job on Offer The Telford Database Delivery Centre (DDC) are currently seeking a Lead Database Administrator to join their team. You will join a team who are responsible for the complete life-cycle of databases within the organization. Your Role The ideal applicant will have: • A strong interest and desire to succeed in the world of Database technologies along with the ability to update skills frequently as new technologies evolve. • An analytical and critical eye for detail with an interest in learning a range of technical skills. • Drive, enthusiasm and resilience - to work in a multi-faceted challenging environment • Commitment to attain delivery goals and personal goals • Strong interpersonal skills and growing eminence in your skill Your Profile • Strong Senior DBA experience working with Oracle. Experience in other database technologies such as MySQL, SQL Server or Postgres advantageous but not essential • Previous technical leadership experience • Deep understanding of Oracle database Architecture • Strong Performance Tuning skills and experience • High Availability, Replication, Clustering • Upgrades, backups, recoveries, migrations • Cloud vendor experience preferably AWS or Azure • Working with the Architecture team to help define the technical architecture in relation to database systems • Planning and managing all improvements and ongoing maintenance (routine updates, upgrades, new releases) ensuring that any disruption is kept to a minimum • Managing the availability of databases that underpin all systems ensuring resources are correctly allocated to guarantee optimum performance and high resilience Why Capgemini is unique We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. Capgemini offers the opportunity to shape your career path, based on your interests and ambitions. For example, if you want to become a 'People Manager' Connected Manager learning journey is there for you. If you want to become an 'Architect' our Global Architect Community offerings can help you get there. Get the future you want Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses. And it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. And you'll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is. , Capgemini. Get The Future You Want. About Capgemini Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion.
Sep 23, 2022
Full time
Lead DBA - Remote Working (Telford Based) The Job on Offer The Telford Database Delivery Centre (DDC) are currently seeking a Lead Database Administrator to join their team. You will join a team who are responsible for the complete life-cycle of databases within the organization. Your Role The ideal applicant will have: • A strong interest and desire to succeed in the world of Database technologies along with the ability to update skills frequently as new technologies evolve. • An analytical and critical eye for detail with an interest in learning a range of technical skills. • Drive, enthusiasm and resilience - to work in a multi-faceted challenging environment • Commitment to attain delivery goals and personal goals • Strong interpersonal skills and growing eminence in your skill Your Profile • Strong Senior DBA experience working with Oracle. Experience in other database technologies such as MySQL, SQL Server or Postgres advantageous but not essential • Previous technical leadership experience • Deep understanding of Oracle database Architecture • Strong Performance Tuning skills and experience • High Availability, Replication, Clustering • Upgrades, backups, recoveries, migrations • Cloud vendor experience preferably AWS or Azure • Working with the Architecture team to help define the technical architecture in relation to database systems • Planning and managing all improvements and ongoing maintenance (routine updates, upgrades, new releases) ensuring that any disruption is kept to a minimum • Managing the availability of databases that underpin all systems ensuring resources are correctly allocated to guarantee optimum performance and high resilience Why Capgemini is unique We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. Capgemini offers the opportunity to shape your career path, based on your interests and ambitions. For example, if you want to become a 'People Manager' Connected Manager learning journey is there for you. If you want to become an 'Architect' our Global Architect Community offerings can help you get there. Get the future you want Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses. And it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. And you'll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is. , Capgemini. Get The Future You Want. About Capgemini Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion.
Are you looking for an opportunity as a Senior Oracle Developer where you will take responsibility for the completion of allocated work packages within agreed time, quality and cost? What you will be doing: You will maintain the status of development activities pertaining to allocated work package. In addition, you will work closely with the business consultants, developers, designers & business/system leg testers, ensuring timely communication of dependencies, risks & issues relating to allocated work package, dependant work packages and upcoming stages Rapid generation and demonstration of prototypes in consultation with business consultants using Oracle SQL, PL-SQL and Oracle forms/Reports. Design and develop routines using PL/SQL. Develop user interface screens using Oracle 12c Forms and Reports Participate in low level application design workshops and contribute to database design activities; Preparation of design specifications (DS) based on the first draft of the functional specifications (FS); Submit review comments on FS, DS. Construct code based on the Functional and Design Spec; submit feedback on potential scope creep situations. Perform peer group unit test & code reviews. Perform defect analysis and bug fixing duly maintaining defect evolution Identify, document and monitor issues & risks and advise the impact of the same to the Delivery Manager Adhere to quality processes What you'll bring: You will have proven experience with the following skills - SQL, PL/SQL Oracle 12c Forms and Reports Oracle 12c Database Serena Dimensions or any equivalent tool It would be great if you had knowledge of: Oracle APEX Java Oracle Identity and Access Management Employment Type - Full Time, Permanent Location - Hemel Hempstead with hybrid working Security Clearance Level - eligible for SC Internal Recruiter - Lee Brown Salary - up to £55k Benefits - 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous benefits fund of up to £1650 per annum (3% of salary) Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Sep 21, 2022
Full time
Are you looking for an opportunity as a Senior Oracle Developer where you will take responsibility for the completion of allocated work packages within agreed time, quality and cost? What you will be doing: You will maintain the status of development activities pertaining to allocated work package. In addition, you will work closely with the business consultants, developers, designers & business/system leg testers, ensuring timely communication of dependencies, risks & issues relating to allocated work package, dependant work packages and upcoming stages Rapid generation and demonstration of prototypes in consultation with business consultants using Oracle SQL, PL-SQL and Oracle forms/Reports. Design and develop routines using PL/SQL. Develop user interface screens using Oracle 12c Forms and Reports Participate in low level application design workshops and contribute to database design activities; Preparation of design specifications (DS) based on the first draft of the functional specifications (FS); Submit review comments on FS, DS. Construct code based on the Functional and Design Spec; submit feedback on potential scope creep situations. Perform peer group unit test & code reviews. Perform defect analysis and bug fixing duly maintaining defect evolution Identify, document and monitor issues & risks and advise the impact of the same to the Delivery Manager Adhere to quality processes What you'll bring: You will have proven experience with the following skills - SQL, PL/SQL Oracle 12c Forms and Reports Oracle 12c Database Serena Dimensions or any equivalent tool It would be great if you had knowledge of: Oracle APEX Java Oracle Identity and Access Management Employment Type - Full Time, Permanent Location - Hemel Hempstead with hybrid working Security Clearance Level - eligible for SC Internal Recruiter - Lee Brown Salary - up to £55k Benefits - 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous benefits fund of up to £1650 per annum (3% of salary) Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.