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Systems Engineer (Defence)Duration: 6 monthsLocation: Site based predominantly but there will be an option to work from home 50% of the time but must be able to get into site, as and when required.Working Schedule: 37.5 hours over 4 day week.Rate: Neg (inside IR35).The role is for an experienced, motivated and professional System Engineer who is interested in involvement in the development of any and all aspects of complex systems across the whole systems engineering lifecycle.Key areas of work will include requirements analysis, system design, supplier technical liaison, preparation and presentation of supplier acceptance evidence, integration and test of system components, fault analysis, change proposal generation and assistance in the development of qualification tests and evidence.Required skills:Whole lifecycle systems engineering on complex systems.Conducted Trade Studies.Experience in the Verification and Validation lifecycle.Desired skills: qualifications and experience in any of the following:Conducted Operational analysis and Mission effectiveness studies.Technical management of supplier sub-system development programmes.Development of cost estimations for technical work.Experience of technical and programme risk identification and mitigation.Change impact assessment and management.Development of Verification & Acceptance (V&A) statements.Use of DOORS for requirements management.Experience in the Verification and Validation lifecycle.Root cause analysis and reporting as part of a DRACAS process.Experience of Integration and Test activities.Development of Systems for Defence applications.Experience of Data Analysis.Use of DOORS/Jazz for requirements management.Experience of SysML / UML.Experience in Ballistic Missile Defence or strategic weapons.Experience of Distributed Architectures.Experience of MilCAN / Ethernet / Serial bus.The Systems Engineer role will involve working on UK classified programmes the candidate must therefore be willing and able to obtain a security clearance.

Role: IT Procurement Manager - Managed Services & Hardware Salary: Competitive + bonus % and other benefits Employment Type: Full-Time role - Permanent Location: Whitbread Court, Dunstable (currently remote) Responsible and accountable for the sourcing of IS services for Premier Inn & Restaurants and Whitbread Group requirements, in the UK and Germany, total annual IS BAU spend c£25m p.a., in managed services, service integration, cloud systems and hardware sub-categories. Plus working with delivery team to deliver projects in IT pipeline for the business functions such as hotel, commercial, data, new site openings where the annual project spend is c£10m Working with stakeholders to create and implement strategies and to identify suppliers to deliver against specific objectives. Managing cost, build a category plan, quality and performance across the supply base and working with stakeholders in managed services and hardware categories and managing relationship with suppliers within the category including strategic Tier 1 suppliers.. Inside the role: Responsible for the application of best practice procurement across the breadth & depth of the category including provision of market insight, assist with the development of category strategies & associated sourcing plans, tendering, negotiation and supplier management. Continuous maintenance and update of market insight regarding the relevant IS market place, best-practices, trends, key suppliers etc as well as maintenance of a rolling 12-month sourcing plan covering planned stakeholder initiatives, Procurement initiatives, contract renewals etc. Tender evaluation including commercial analysis, product/service evaluation, vendor capability evaluation etc and negotiation to maximise savings and/or optimise price / quality / service / risk / SLAs & KPIs. Present contract award recommendations to key stakeholders and Senior Executives as required. Identification of key suppliers across the category and establishment of appropriate supplier management activities to oversee supplier performance against SLA / KPI's and provide a forum for ongoing supplier development and improvement and lead regular supplier review meetings including Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. Develop and manages contracts with suppliers to meet key performance indicators and agreed targets, taking account of information security of third parties. Is responsible for the liaison between the organisation and designated supplier(s). Develop strong personal relationships with appropriate stakeholders and senior Executives across the business. Open to you: Strong IT Procurement experience and knowledge managing IT services categories Experienced in a broad range of sourcing strategies to underpin the IT category Previous experience of strategy development and implementation CIPS qualified (beneficial although not essential) Outstanding communication and able to influence at a senior level Strong Relationship management both with internal customers, stakeholders & suppliers Procurement execution including business requirements and market analysis, tender negotiation and contract award Managerial or leadership experience highly beneficial In return for your commitment, we've got some great benefits to offer: • A market competitive base salary + up to 30% annual bonus • Sharesave scheme • A collaborative work culture that focuses on supporting your success • A flexible working policy you can rely on • Up to Family Cover BUPA healthcare • Optional contributory pension matched up to 10% • Up to 25% discount off our brands We're 1,200 hotels and restaurants in the UK, Germany and the UAE, but we're more than that. We're the 35,000 people supporting our brands every day. The ones sourcing the nation's favourite breakfast, plating up family favourites, and the great night's sleep guaranteed people. We're also always preparing for new openings, looking ahead and revamping our online presence. We do it for our guests, and it's the details that keep them returning time and time again. We could be at the end of their road, their trusty choice for business trips, or we could be the place they associate with big celebrations up and down the country. We're a constant in a changing world, and we'd love you to join us. Bring your energy, ideas and sense of fun, we're waiting and so are our brands. Meeting our ambitious goals to expand and reach new locations across the globe requires serious planning. It means analysing every little detail, spotting and overcoming barriers and working towards our ambitious plans. Think decision science, pricing, revenue and sales, and you're there. With a lot of doing to be done, you can be part of making big change happen across the globe. Bring your drive and enthusiasm, and we'll welcome you in. Whitbread is an inclusive employer, strongly believing that everyone is unique and there should be no limits to ambition. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. We are open to flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this.

Data Architect | Dunstable | Permanent We have an exciting opportunity to work on our Data Platform, which is the centre of all insights and used for business and customer decision-making. Are you a technical visionary? Would you like to lead the technical work on a product that underpins the success of a FTSE100? If so, we'd love to hear from you! About the role: Acting as the technical lead for Whitbread Data Platform, the ideal candidate will be the technical visionary to make our Data Platform an exemplary, state of the art platform enabling our vision to be a data-driven organisation. The purpose of this role will be act as our Data SME, and architect Data Platform transformation using our tech stack, comprising mainly of Microsoft Azure Data products. This will be to enable self-service for widespread use of data and analytics capability by analysts, data scientists and users across organisation in an easy and user-friendly way, by design. What you'll be doing: Produce and maintain high quality architectural design documentation for Data Platform. Define data structure and access patterns for secure and easy availability of data depending on requirement. Be the technical visionary to keep Data CoE and architect teams abreast with emerging data technologies and architectural advancements, such as data mesh. Maintain a realistic roadmap for technical changes and influence delivery, with hands on attitude to create prototypes to test them and implement to enable our vision for an exemplary Data Platform of the future behind a truly data-driven organisation. Understand business requirements and translate them technically to produce elegant data solutions/products in collaboration with architects, analysts and developers. Define and maintain a reference architecture in collaboration with Principal Data Architect, which will include a future view of the product in line with strategic vision. Responsible for influencing and defining effective and efficient DevOps principles and practices for data delivery and support teams to work with. Take accountability for enforcement and maintenance of Whitbread design principles by representing data designs in required design authority forums to seek approval and create visibility of changes. What you'll need: Common Data and Solution design approaches including; Experience managing senior stakeholders and presenting at that level AWS, Azure or GCP Data experience. Data Modelling techniques such as 3NF, Kimball dimensional modelling, SCV Data Warehousing methodologies Agile development as well as conventional SDLC: design patterns, OOD Demonstrable experience with automated build and container tools preferably Azure based, i.e., DevOps and Kubernetes. Lambda Architecture and Big data processing techniques Software Engineering patterns & standards Real-time data processing Cloud infrastructure designs for setup using ARM templates, terraform scripting Programming experience with Python, Scala, Java or R.

Support Engineer - Azure Monitoring | Dunstable | Permanent We have an exciting opportunity to work as part of our rapidly growing data engineering team, who build products and services for Premier Inn. We are the UK's leading hospitality company, a FTSE 100 organisation with almost 30,000. Owning successful brands such as Premier Inn and hub by Premier Inn, we have over 850 hotels - which is over 80,000 bedrooms - across the UK, Germany and the Middle East (with a committed pipeline of over 20,000 more). We're also proud to own over 420 restaurants across the UK including Beefeater and our newer brands Bar + Block and Cookhouse & Pub. With exciting plans to innovate and grow our core UK and international business, we always keep our customers at the heart of what we do. There has never been a more exciting time to join Whitbread! About the role: Support data-based decision making and analytics capabilities by ensuring quality, robust and auditable data processes are in place through consistent monitoring, trend analysis and proactive remediation measures to address root causes added to product backlogs. Ensure quality management dashboards through engagement with business and BI stakeholders representing Data CoE delivery teams. What you'll be doing: Maintain and manage high quality data structures and support provision, consistency and quality of data.Active communication and engagement on data quality with both technical and functional stakeholders Represent system and data development change with technical teams, acting the product owner for monitoring and performance across Data CoE. Governance of published, productionised reporting and data extract environments. Act as the conduit between functional business change, BI team and the evolving requirements of BI products managed and supported by Data CoE. Create, refine, implement, document and maintain monitoring policies and processes for successful monitoring of data pipelines and infrastructure. What you'll need: 2 years + experience in a support role, mainly around monitoring (specifically azure monitoring) Track record in delivering successful data systems change through quality control and robust testing processes. Experience across a range of auditable testing scenarios. Experience of implementing and using monitoring tools such as datadog, solarwinds, appdynamics etc. Demonstrable experience of defining and maintain monitoring and logging policies and processes for data platforms. Strong/intermediate Tableau and PowerBI skills. Understanding of cloud-based architectures such as Azure.

Infrastructure Cloud Engineer | Dunstable | Permanent With a recent move to Office 365 and a planned move into Azure, the Platform Services Team now requires a team of dedicated cloud engineers to help develop, manage and maintain the Azure platform. About the role: The Platform Services Engineer (Cloud) will contribute towards the development of the cloud framework and will be responsible for the continued management and support of the Azure platform. The role holder will be responsible for the deployment of Azure Infrastructure components and will have demonstrable experience in designing, building and deploying solutions using a variety of technologies, such as ARM, Powershell and Azure DevOps. The Cloud Engineer will use their technical knowledge to maintain and monitor the underlying platform, ensuring it remains performant and available in line with business requirements, suggesting improvements and contributing towards project delivery. Forming strong business relationships, the role will translate between technical and non-technical colleagues. Gathering requirements and forming technical solutions and processes. What you'll be doing: Be part of the Azure SME team, feeding into the cloud governance model and defining future ways of working within our Azure platform. Design, build and deploy required infrastructure components into Azure Proactively look for opportunities to move workloads from the traditional datacentres into cloud Define and evolve the CI/CD pipeline Ensure our cloud platforms are maintained and monitored, remains complaint and adheres to our security policies and standards Interface with the business, building strong relationships to ensure that translate business requirements into technical solutions that align to the Cloud roadmap Ensure that all platforms remain performant in line with business requirements and have enough capacity to deliver the underlying service now and for the future Perform adequate DR and Failover tests in line with the business RPO and RTO Facilitate the delivery of project work according to business need Highlight opportunities to improve/evolve technology platforms to the benefit of the business Assist with testing and validation of changes and/or deployments where necessary What you'll need: Expert knowledge of the Azure platform, including deployment methodologies and best practices Strong knowledge of scripting and automation technologies such as ARM, Powershell and Azure DevOps Good Understanding of CI/CD pipelines Knowledge of the latest industry trends / standards / tools / technologies for cloud infrastructure Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complicated technical issues Strong communication skills with a proven ability to understand key concepts and communicate effectively with technical staff, business stakeholders and senior management/executives Strong Experience with cloud technologies, including designing, building and deploying solutions into Azure Experience in migrating workloads from traditional on-premise environments to cloud Comprehensive experience of Microsoft Server platforms In return for your commitment, we've got some great benefits to offer: • A market competitive base salary + up to 30% annual bonus • Sharesave scheme • A collaborative work culture that focuses on supporting your success • A flexible working policy you can rely on • Up to Family Cover BUPA healthcare • Optional contributory pension matched up to 10% • Up to 25% discount off our brands We're 1,200 hotels and restaurants in the UK, Germany and the UAE, but we're more than that. We're the 35,000 people supporting our brands every day. The ones sourcing the nation's favourite breakfast, plating up family favourites, and the great night's sleep guaranteed people. We're also always preparing for new openings, looking ahead and revamping our online presence. We do it for our guests, and it's the details that keep them returning time and time again. We could be at the end of their road, their trusty choice for business trips, or we could be the place they associate with big celebrations up and down the country. We're a constant in a changing world, and we'd love you to join us. Bring your energy, ideas and sense of fun, we're waiting and so are our brands. Meeting our ambitious goals to expand and reach new locations across the globe requires serious planning. It means analysing every little detail, spotting and overcoming barriers and working towards our ambitious plans. Think decision science, pricing, revenue and sales, and you're there. With a lot of doing to be done, you can be part of making big change happen across the globe. Bring your drive and enthusiasm, and we'll welcome you in. Whitbread is an inclusive employer, strongly believing that everyone is unique and there should be no limits to ambition. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. We are open to flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this.

About the role: Lead the transformation agenda for the IT function, mobilising and facilitating a senior cross-functional group of SMEs to deliver the 'transformation plan', covering accountability for: Whitbread's IT Vision The function's Working Principles by working closely with each of the ITLT to create and embed a cohesive and integrated set of working principles A comprehensive and robust RACI Defined R&Rs across all key roles All communications required related to these Close mapping to all governance and PMO processes and tools Improving efficiency and effectiveness Establishing and managing the governance and structure for all IT communications, creating and championing regular communications channels via multiple mediums and ensuring the function has a communications 'heartbeat' Establishing and manage the governance and structure for all IT comms, creating and championing regular comms channels via multiple mediums and ensuring the function has a comms 'heartbeat' Establishment and oversight of the supplier management process ensuring its applied consistently across the division Current and future planning for the 'Transformation' plan, embedding the 'People Plan' within that plan Drive the plan for enabling functional aspirations and priorities (i.e., where do we want the function to be in 3 years, and how do we get there) What you'll be doing: Review, design, and execute on improvements to organisational structure Improve and create processes and coordinate organisational procedures for optimised efficiency and productivity Manage third-party supplier relationships Take responsibility for financial and budget management as well as resourcing for Digital Technology Manage financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing budgets, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions Acting as the facilitator/conduit to communicate wants, needs, concerns, ideas from staff to the Head of Digital Technology in an effective and efficient way. Attending meetings and calls on the behalf of the Head of Digital Technology if they are unavailable What you'll need: Strong technology and Change Management knowledge and ability to adapt new skills and techniques as they emerge in the fast-moving digital technology sector Staff development and coaching - respected by peers, actively participates in training and mentoring Experienced in planning and leading strategic initiatives Experience delivering change within both programme and operations management Ability to manage multiple workstreams, assign and manage work activities, meet deadlines and deliver reporting in a timely and effective manner Advanced negotiation skills Experience with budget management and cost control

Delivery lead - Data engineering, Hybrid working 1 day office, Data lead, Python, SQL, Scala, Azure, Big data, DevOps My leading client is looking for Delivery lead - Data engineering, who is responsible for leading internal and external resources within the Data Engineering practice who contribute to and execute on delivering enterprise-grade data products for the business. The role will also manage budgets, supplier relationships and work closely with the service teams to deliver the needs of the projects and programmes into Production service. The technical Skills below Salary £80,000 to £90,000 per annum Proven demand and delivery management experience, gained in a big data and analytics environment Experience of managing and delivering data projects Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, both in-person and remotely Line management experience, coaching and developing capabilities within the team Understanding of Data Engineering and Data Science concepts Proven stakeholder management skills, experienced in management and influencing in a Matrix organisation. Understanding of operational procedures and process standards (eg ITIL) and applying and evaluating them for continuous improvements in the service. Familiar with SDLC models, a broad range of delivery methods (Agile and Waterfall) and successfully driving improvements in this area. Experience working in a continuous integration & delivery environment and embracing a DevOps/DataOps/MLOps culture. Ability to understand and challenge the delivery approach when needed Practical knowledge of big data and integration technologies and working practices The ability to form strong, mutual, and professional business relationships with external partners and suppliers, strong vendor management skills and proven experience in managing offshore supplier teams If this opportunity sounds like it could be of interest, please send me your CV ASAP

Senior Data Engineer, Hybrid working 1 day office, Senior Data Developer, Data Lead, Python, SQL, Scala, Azure, Big Data, ETL My leading client is looking for x2 Senior Data Engineers to help them expand their data practise to drive the business to harness the power of data to championing the central Data Platform and Data Product adoption for all analytical needs. They are looking to grow the function across all level of Data experience Technical Skills below Salary - £70,000 to £80,000 per annum Strong Unix and Shell Scripting. Strong data concepts and Datamodelling principles (eg Normalisation (OLTP), Dimensional (DWH), Data Vault). Experience of building solutions on a Big Data distributed system (data lakes and data lakehouses). Strong software development background, with previous hands-on experience building data applications in Python, Scala on TDD/BDD approach and constant refactoring in continuous integration environment. Experience with building Real Time pipelines, leveraging message brokering and stream processing technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Flink, Spark Streaming). Experienced in building data applications in distributed data programming languages/frameworks such as Python, Scala, Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Commercial exposure working with and building solutions on cloud-based Big Data such as technologies like: Storage: Blob Storage, S3, EFS Processing: Spark, EMR, Data Factory, DataProc Serving: Athena, SQLAnalytics, BigQuery, Hive, Presto, SQL Server, Synapse Analytics Data Warehousing SaaS: Delta Lake, Snowflake, Redshift Scheduling/Toolsets: Airflow, Control-M Security: Kerberos, KMS, Anonymisation, Tokenisation ELT: DataFactory, FiveTran, AWS Glue, NiFi If this opportunity sounds like it could be of interest please send me your CV ASAP

Data Engineering Technical Lead, Hybrid working 1 day office, Big data, SQL, Apache Airflow Salary: £80,000 to £90,000 My leading client is looking for a Data Engineering Technical lead, who is responsible for technical design of data solutions and platforms within the IT estate, adhering to enterprise standards and best practice. The role will involve working closely with the enterprise architects, technical architects, solution architects, business analysts, engineers, and project managers to deliver IT change that meets the needs of projects and programmes within the enterprise portfolio. The technical Skills below: Solid understanding of data concepts and Datamodelling principles; applied across traditional warehousing, OLTP and also modern data lakes. 5+ years of solid experience in designing and building solutions on a big data distributed system - data lake, data warehouse, or lakehouse. Strong software development background, with previous hands-on experience of applying modern development and release engineering practices (TDD, BDD, CICD etc). Proficient in Apache Spark or any other distributed data programming frameworks (eg Flink, Arrow, MapR). Strong SQL background - comfortable writing efficient SQL (Transact-SQL, Hive -HQL) to meet the requirement. Commercial experience of building and architecting scalable Extract Load Transform (ELT) data pipeline implementations at varying frequencies - batch, near-Real Time and Real Time, from a myriad of source types - relational, non-relational, API, streaming (eg Kafka topic) Experience with Apache Airflow/Spring DataFlow, Control-M, or a similar orchestration tool in a Production setting. Exposure to working with large datasets (transforming, cleansing, loading) on a distributed computing environment. Experience working with low-latency data requirements where the speed of decision making dictates the speed of data delivery to the consumer. Strong understanding of Data Management principles (security and data privacy) and how they can be applied to Data Engineering processes/solutions, eg access management, data privacy, handling of sensitive data (eg GDPR) Experience working with a combination of cloud-based big data technologies (HDFS, Blob Storage, Spark, Kafka, Delta, Hive, Oozie, NiFi). If this opportunity sounds like it could be of interest, please send me your CV ASAP.

Contract Type: Project Work AboutAutoglass®andLaddaw® We're arecognised superbrand and we know where we're going.We're a business with direction and purpose and regardless ofyour rolehere, it's about us all making a difference with real care.We never stand still. We're relentless, innovative and ambitious, always looking to go further and improve, which creates a world where we need genuine and driven people to help us get there. Making a Difference Together. As a truly people focused business, we believe in promoting opportunities for all, welcoming people who share our passion for enabling exceptional customer experience.We'll support you with fantastic tools and training in an atmosphere that encourages idea contribution and collaboration working with warm, friendlyand real people.If this sounds like somewhere you'll thrive, keep reading. -- We currently have a Fixed term contract opportunity to join us as the IT test Coordinator. You will have responsible for the production and maintenance of comprehensive test plans to ensure timely testing that meets the needs of your stakeholders. Testing of software releases, faults fixes, and developments, across multiple Test and Production environments. Key responsibilities: Support and plan testing activities for a variety of simultaneous projects, whether development or service improvement based, in conjunction with the team. Owner of the testing environments signing off any releases made to those environments. Organizing the refresh of test environments, balancing disruption to projects and data being out of date. The generation, validation, review, maintenance, and storage of test documentation, scripts, reports, and packs for each release type. Creation and ownership of a suite of repeatable testing templates and standards. Arrange reviews of supplier test evidence with relevant stakeholders. Provide support and development to a variety of business users in the creation, scope, and types of tests to be performed. Leading defect triage meetings with users and 3rd parties and ensuring test scripts are refined to test defects during testing phases. Creation and execution of test scripts. Work with Project Managers and Business Analysts to coordinate testing resource requirements, including organising and overseeing temporary testing staff requirements to deliver testing activities to plan. Provide exceptional customer service and performing user training on testing software used by business. Hands on involvement with and overseeing of all user acceptance testing requirements including, functional testing in-line with requirement specifications, and regression and negative testing for each iteration. Responsible for improving the speed, accuracy and efficiency of our testing process and use of automated tools. Creation of reports for relevant stakeholders on the status of their projects, including executive summaries, status graphs and detail of the testing progress. Ensuring all details are supplied to enable identified defects to be fixed, which would include accurate re-creation steps from the user and available test data. Skills, Experience and Qualifications Strong skills in working with Business users when analysing test scope, boundaries, and converting this jointly into "Business owned" and relevant test scripts and plans. The ability to liaise between developers and Business converting tech speak and business speak into understandable language for both parties. Strong written and oral communication skills, ability to present ideas in a user-friendly language. Good problem-solving skills in relation to defect investigation. Experience in presenting testing outcomes to project and management teams in a structured way. Keen attention to detail striving for quality through meticulous testing. Knowledge and experience of testing tools such as TestRail and Jira for script development and execution and defect management. Experienced software test practitioner. Knowledge of software test processes, tools, automation, and best practices. Robust and engaging test management experience with specific focus on outsourced development teams. Experience testing with multiple systems that integrate with one another. Experience using or testing CRM systems is desirable. Benefits Include: Salary up to £40,000pa Up to 15% pension contributions - based on employee contribution of 5% 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays) Discounted shopping vouchers -- Accessibility: We make every effort to make our web presence accessible to all.Upon request and consistent with applicable laws, we'll provide reasonable accommodations to individuals who need assistance in the application/hiring process. For assistance, contact us at .

A C# ASP.Net developer is required to join a leading cutting edge web development team based in Dunstable, offering hybrid working. My client, an established market leader throughout the UK, based in Dunstable is once again expanding and looking to bring in a specialist developer who will be developing new web-based applications using the latest technologies and practices. The C# ASP.Net developer must hold huge success stories utilising but not limited to; C#, ASP.NET, MVC, JavaScript, APIs, SQL Server and possess a good knowledge and enthusiasm for the latest technologies and design patterns. Any experience with Umbraco CMS is seen highly advantageous. Please apply now!

Interim Assignment up to £370 PAYE Day Rate - but possibly Outside depending on IR35 determination which is in process at the moment...- revised higher rate for Outside 4 months min assignment - possible for further troubleshooting of new processes ACCA/CIMA/ACA or QBE Process driven and experienced Accountant needed for positive process change for a large manufacturing business in Leighton Buzzard Seeking a professional interim for 'hit the ground running' role looking at processes and possible improvements Observing current processes Making suggestions for positive change processes Order to cash Procure to pay Manufacturing process - costing - reviewing how they develop standard costs How they create Bill of Materials Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

The company provides a range of IP based services nationwide, from Network Infrastructure, Electrical, IT, Audio Visual and CCTV, within the commercial, industrial and education sectors. This is a fantastic opportunity for a College leaver or a part-time student with a keen interest in developing their career as a Data Engineer. A keen interest in the industry is advantageous but not essential as full training will beprovided. Main Responsibilities: Carry out network cabling installations as required Testing, fault finding and maintenance Comply with instruction from Project Managers/Senior Engineer The ability to work well as part of a team Compliance with all safety rules and regulations of working on site at all times Applicants must have: Strong hands-on work ethic Current driving licence No criminal convictions Good communication skills Willingness to work evenings and weekends The applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS (CRB) check.

As a SDET do you want to work in a dynamic environment working with one of the largest e-commerce businesses in the world? Do you want to work on systems used by 90 million users on a global scale? Salary: up to £85,000 Location: Luton Working pattern: work from home 4 days a week One of the largest commercial businesses in the world is on the lookout for a SDET to join their growing team. You will work closely with the Product team and broader tech team providing consultancy and subject matter expertise on Test Automation, as well as being recognised as an expert to the broader group on Test Automation practises. Ideally, they would like the SDET to be experienced with: Microsoft Technologies such as: C#, ASP.NET, .NET CORE, Web Services, Web API and SQL Server. Extensive experience using a variet of Test Automation frameworks: MSUnit, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, NUnit or JMeter General front end skils - JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React or Angular Testing at multiple levels including TDD and BDD Experience of developing solutions in a high transactional, high availability environment at enterprise scale Experience providing a level of technical leadership within Product teams - both in solution design and technical implementation Ideally, they would love the SDET to be experienced with: Experience of DevOps and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) Experience of software-automation production systems (TeamCity) Experience of code deployment tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation) For this role they would like you to be in the office 1 day a week and working remotely for the other 4 days. Their office day is Wednesday. They can offer a competitive salary up to £85,000 with benefits such as: 7% pension, life insurance, an up to 20% bonus as well as other benefits. The client is unable to provide sponsorship for this position and you must be located in the UK to apply. They are conducting fully remote interviews and can onboard remotely If you are interested, please apply. Contact Danielle Blake on OR for more information.

Since 2001 our client has enabled over 70,000 students to develop valuable digital skills through their accelerated training programmes, and for the last eight years have been recognised amongst the Top 20 IT Training Companies in the World. They have a new opportunity for a Management Information Officer to work remotely. Purpose of the role:• Plan, organise and manage the data reconciliation ensuring accuracy and readiness for timely DfE submissions.• Create all invoices and evidence packs for audit and submission on behalf of the MI & Compliance Manager.• Work with all Departmental leads to understand and support the data requirements and supporting with removing or minimising obstacles to achieve clear, timely and accurate recording of evidence.• Validate and process data efficiently in accordance with DfE Funding Rules and internal processes• Correct Data validation errors and work on correction reports as directed.• Liaise with the enrolment, delivery and operational teams ensuring timely and compliant submission of all starts leavers and completion evidence.• Monitor and report on compliance with the rules, polices and/or procedures associated to funding claims.• Support with invoicing and credit control ensuring timely collection of required co-investments. They are looking for someone with the following:• Strong Excel skills required with use of pivot tables and formulas• Previous experience in data reconciliation • Outstanding attention to detail • Experience of creating invoices • Familiarisation with the Ofsted EIF beneficial but not essential• Ability to understand, interpret and comply with company policies, procedures, and employment law• Familiarisation with the DfE Plan for Jobs initiative beneficial • Good standard of general education (minimum C in 5 GCSE's or equivalent including English and Maths) Index Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. "Due to the high volume of applications we currently receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you do not hear from a Consultant within 5 working days unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion"

Lead BI Developer is required by leading software development team based in Dunstable. Working a hybrid model, the Lead BI Developer must boast at least 5+ years solid experience as a BI Developer and have an excellent knowledge of the SQL Server BI Stack including SSIS, SSAS and SSRS. The Lead BI Developer will be required to work as part of a team to build out the DW from scratch. Most of the role will centre around the development of the DW and the ETL procedures that accompany it. Once built there will be requirements for Tabular modelling (SSAS) and report building also. The Lead BI Developer will boast - Experience of data import packages using ETL procedures with a variety of data formats Data architecture experience in creating and maintaining well performing data solutions Experience in Data Warehousing, Kimball Methodology and SSAS (Cubes) Experience and technical knowledge of the full Microsoft SQL Server BI stack Salary on offer is £55k plus package and fantastic growth potential in an established company including training courses and more! Please apply now!

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Kempston for an intial period of 6 months. A Studio Administrator you would be responsible for supporting the studio co-ordinator to ensure they produce and deliver high quality content for ecomm and marketing channels in line with our SLA. You will help manage the product flow through the studio ensuring every item is ordered, unpacked, logged, tracked and processed through the creative stations and then made available online within deadline. You will also assist in updating the studio schedule, supporting with resource and model bookings as well as admin tasks suchas raising purchase orders, ordering sundries and maintaining studio tidiness.

Our client, a leading Retail group, are currently recruiting for a D365 Technical Integration Consultant to join their team on a 3 month initial contract. Need to know the following areas of D365: O2C (order to cash) R2R (record to report) CE (customer engagement) F&SCM (finance and supply chain management) Integration experience And Azure knowledge is essential. This client is based in Dunstable and is looking for hybrid working, paying up to £675 per day If you feel like you could be right for this position please feel free to get in contact. Successful applicants will be contacted within 24 hours of applying. The processing and use by us of your personal data is in accordance with our Privacy Notice which can be found on our website William Alexander Diversity & Inclusion Policy, actively promotes the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in all its dealings with employees, workers, job applicants, clients, customers, suppliers, contractors and the public. We fully feel an inclusive work culture where people of different backgrounds are valued equally will ensure better outcomes for us all and we approach recruitment for our clients with the same perspective and qualities

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DescriptionJob Description:SUMMARY:The Software Engineer role plays an important part in our company's product development process. The engineer will be responsible for enhancing and evolving the software solutions to meet the requirements of organisation.Working within an Agile...

DescriptionJob Description:SUMMARY:The Software Engineer role plays an important part in our company's product development process. The engineer will be responsible for enhancing and evolving the software solutions to meet the requirements of organisation.Working within an Agile...

Role: Master Data Analyst Function: Finance - Shared service centre Locations: Dunstable, Bedfordshire (Hybrid) Employment Type: 14 month Fixed Term Contract We have an exciting new opportunity for a Data Analyst to join our Finance Shared Service team based here at our head office in Dunstable. As the Master Data Analyst, you will be responsible for the timely, consistent and accurate management of supplier and client data while providing full visibility to all relevant stakeholders. Reporting into the Finance Shared Service Controller you will support on identifying trends through analysis that can improve performance. What you will be doing: Ensure all suppliers bank details checks are completed timely, and efficiently to prevent any risk to the business with fraudulent data Challenging and working closely with the Managers within the Finance Shared Service Centre to create detailed monthly reporting and balance sheet packs Ensure supplier master data is managed accurately and cleansed as well as performing regular audits Manage controls over bank account and sensitive master data changes Engaging and communicating with suppliers ensuring they have been validated Work and build relationships with the wider business including Managers and Stakeholders in Finance Shared Service Centre Conduct monthly reporting on master data Why we'd love you to apply: Strong experience within a Finance function or domain Ability to interact with suppliers and vendors in a professional manner Outstanding communication with the ability to build relationships Good experience / skillset using Microsoft Excel Brilliant attention to detail Experience reconcile balance sheet accounts to full resolution We are the UK's leading hospitality company, a FTSE 100 organisation with over 35,000 employees worldwide. Owning successful brands such as Premier Inn and hub by Premier Inn, we have over 750 hotels and over 70,000 rooms across the UK, Germany and the Middle East. We are also proud to own over 420 restaurants across the UK including Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and our newer brands Bar + Block and Cookhouse & Pub. We have exciting plans to deliver our strategy that innovates and grows our core UK and international business, always keeping our customers at the heart of what we do. In return, we will offer you: A market competitive base salary Up to 10% annual bonus Sharesave scheme A collaborative work culture that focuses on enabling your success and continuing your personal development combined with a genuine flexible working policy Individual BUPA healthcare and optional contributory pension matched up to 10% Free parking across our Head Office campus and up to 25% discount off our brands

Test Assurance Manager | Permanent | Dunstable / Hybrid The Test Assurance Manager is responsible for designing and implementing the Test Approach and Strategy across all projects and programmes, which could include PCI, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Point of Sale, Infrastructure, Networks, etc... This role is accountable for the governance, assurance and delivery of testing products, deliverables, and services by test service providers, third parties and internal Whitbread teams thereby supporting the deployment of high-quality solutions into the production environment. You will be the primary point of contact for testing for delivery teams in projects and programmes and will work in collaboration with the PMO office to ensure the appropriate level of governance and assurance is applied to technology change delivery. You will work closely with testing service suppliers continually evaluating service provision and driving efficiency improvements, tool adoption and risk-based approaches. What you'll be doing: Responsible for implementation of test assurance strategy, test plan design & processes and directs teams with diverse scope on complex programmes of work. Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, are signed off, and aimed to achieve personal and team utilisation targets. Able to coach team how to apply, articulate and construct business specific end to end scenarios, defining standards for the development of test scripts, maintenance, and reuse. Responsible for the oversight of test environments for STLC and ensuring it reflects business requirements for execution. Allocates and co-ordinates test schedules, work and resource plans. Manage progress of all activities against the plan, including own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines. Ensure that project testing services are delivered in a consistent, effective and efficient manner with respect to cost, quality and performance. Engagement with testing services suppliers to agree and manage the delivery of testing services to projects including contractual elements and service delivery and quality measures To provide leadership to all internal stakeholders and external suppliers involved in the projects & programme as part of a single test plan Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitates buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues. Lead the Whitbread test community along with the QA Leadership team to enhance consistency and standards A major contributor / decision-maker to the vendor selection processes for test service suppliers (tendering, SLAs, warranty, outsourcing etc.). Coordinating with finance and procurement teams for managing any third party contracts and Statement of Works. Direct line management responsibility for any Whitbread or Third-Party Test resources including performance management and retention for internal team members Overseeing and reporting on all testing conducted. This includes coordination with the UAT testing that will be conducted elsewhere within the programme What you'll need: Proven experience of test assurance and delivery in a leadership role Demonstrable experience of implementing robust test approaches, techniques and principles Demonstrable experience of motivating, coaching and managing high-performing test/QA teams Extensive technical knowledge and experience with complex IT programmes Strong understanding of multiple delivery methodologies including waterfall, KANBAN, TDD. Strong knowledge of new and emerging technologies based on own area of expertise Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, cloud technology and virtualisation services Experience in managing test service providers Experience in managing senior stakeholders

Software Engineering Team Lead skilled in C#, .Net and a Cloud technology either AWS or Azure is required to join a UK Top 100 finance company based in the heart of Bedford. The Software Engineering Team Lead will be utilising their skills of C#, .Net and cloud technology (either AWS or Azure) to solve business problems trough innovation. You'll be initially be based in the office but after settling in, will have the option of remote working should you desire. You'll be leading a tight knit team of 4 highly skilled Developers through the different stages of a 3 month development life cycle. In return you'll be compensated with a salary up to £70,000 + Bonus. The Software Engineering Team Lead will split their time between hands-on coding with C#, .Net themselves and also arranging the workload of the team. You'll need to perform code reviews and uphold a high standard of quality to ensure the solution is fit for purpose. This is a great opportunity to enhance a bespoke in house CRM system by adding new features and solving any lag or downtime. You'll also be expected to keep one eye on new and emerging technology and methods that can be brought in to the business to aid a better solution. The Software Engineering Team Lead for this position will need previous team lead experience and an ability to lead by example of good quality code written in C#, .NET. You'll also need SQL Server for the backend and have experience of the full Development Lifecycle from requirements gathering through the Development phase to delivery.Apply now.

Role: eCommerce Technology Executive Function : eCommerce Location: Holborn, London- we have a fantastic hybrid working environment, you'll need to be in the office at least 2 days per week but the rest of your week can be flexible to what works best for you and your role. Type of role: Permanent This role a unique opportunity to kick start your career or/and expand and develop on your technology expertise in the eCommerce team here at Whitbread. What you will be doing: Create technical requirements to build and implement the desired solutions using a Data Layer and Tag Management System (Adobe Launch) Thorough testing to ensure data quality is accurate to the highest standards (Adobe Analytics) Maintain and enhance integrations between various tools to ensure we are able to run the AB testing and personalisation programme (Adobe Target) Research to be able to provide suggestions on how other teams can enhance their activities and highlight potential improvements. · Follow best practice methods and procedures for all stages of the engineering lifecycle Keep up to date with latest product releases and roadmaps for the systems we use. Apply consideration to multiple systems to enhance value Assist with gathering and refining requirements with team and stakeholders Support with solution design Utilising the agile methodology. Why we'd love you to apply: Problem solving skills Strong attention to detail Strong planning skills Knowledge of marketing principles Understanding of commercial principles. Sound judgement in relation to risk management We're 1,200 hotels and restaurants in the UK, Germany and the UAE, but we're more than that. We're the 35,000 people supporting our brands every day. The ones sourcing the nation's favourite breakfast, plating up family favourites, and the great night's sleep guaranteed people. We're also always preparing for new openings, looking ahead and revamping our online presence. We do it for our guests, and it's the details that keep them returning time and time again. We could be at the end of their road, their trusty choice for business trips, or we could be the place they associate with big celebrations up and down the country. We're a constant in a changing world, and we'd love you to join us. Bring your energy, ideas and sense of fun, we're waiting and so are our brands. # In return, we will offer you: An annual Whitbread performance incentive worth up to 10% of base salary An optional contributory pension matched up to 10% BUPA healthcare Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and a regular 25% discount in our Restaurant brands Access to Whitbread's Save As You Earn scheme, with a fantastic 20% discount on Whitbread shares Recognition for service anniversaries, starting from 1 year Access to a range of discounts from everyday brands Charity donations through our Give and Match and Raise and Match schemes A collaborative work culture that focuses on enabling your success and continuing your personal development Hybrid working and a genuine flexible working policy

Would you like to build a product that handles £4bn in transactions per year? Are you an experienced Software Engineer who wants to help build the future of the cloud-based dynamic pricing system for Premier Inn hotel rooms? Would you like to work in a collaborative team who genuinely make a difference to millions of customers a year? As a software engineer you will deliver incremental slices of value to commercial and data science teams, which enable the optimisation of room prices against demand. Sounds interesting, right?!! Responsibilities Include: Design, development and delivery of solutions on Microsoft Azure based architectures. Working within a combined onshore/offshore (India) development and test team working under an agile SCRUM based model. Developing prototypes and demonstrations to support the sales process. Playing a key role in client project delivery to help see client engagements through to a commercially successful conclusion. Working within blended teams of colleagues, client and partner resources to help share knowledge and develop an integrated delivery ethic. Working with the managed service team to support the transition process from delivery team to ongoing support of a production system. Producing technical documentation. Experience Profile: We are looking for the following experience profile: .Net - Application development c# (7+) .Net Core/.Net (5+) Microservice Architecture - Proven experience building highly-available, scalable, distributed applications using a microservice approach, ideally using Microsoft Service Fabric. Experience using both NoSQL and Relational data stores to provide a highly scalable transactional data storage layer. Good understanding of application life cycle management ideally using Team Foundation Services or Visual Studio Online / Jira. Business facing skills and a proven consultative approach. Business analysis skills and experience of delivering discovery sessions with clients. Proven ability to successfully deliver projects, within a development team using both Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall based management techniques.

Product Support Engineer WANTED! Based in Bedford. Reporting to the Product Support Manager. Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm. We at OA have a rare role available for a Electrical Engineer who wants to look with a company which develops brand new aviation products and design. They are looking for someone who has a hands on approach to solving problems and to help improve the design of their products within in the avaiation industry. If your someone who has left the aviation industry behind because of Covid'19 but still has the passion for it and want to return but with social hours? A Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineer would give you a massive advantage but not essential when applying for the Product Support Engineer role. This being said you would need an electrical engineering qualification. There is plenty of opportunities to progress within this Product Support Engineer role also. Keys Skills you MUST have: Electrical Engineering qualification Hands on approach Driven Ability to work alone or as a team. Benefits for you: Monday - Friday Free on-site parking 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Social events for you and your family Pension

Dementia AdviserContract Type: Fixed TermLocation: Community BasedSalary: £20,872 - £22,143 pro rata per annum, rising to £23,294 after 9 months pro rata per annum (depending on skills and experience)Working Hours: 21 per week (Full times hours available)Closing Date: 01 July 2022Interview Date: TBCContract: This is a fixed term contract for 18 months, with possible extension.Hours: This is a part time role, working 21 hours per week. Full time hours opportunity is available (35 hours max)Location: This is a community based role within Luton, with the opportunity to work from home.Please note, the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is 23:59pm on the closing date.Our client reserve the right to close this vacancy early if they receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.About the roleOur client has an exciting opportunity available for a Dementia Adviser to join their dedicated and hard-working team and who would be up for a challenge and help make a huge difference!Specifically covering the Luton region, you will focus on work they're undertaking to provide dementia support specifically to those individuals living or caring for someone with dementia in diverse communities.You'll aim to raise awareness of dementia, to reduce stigma, offering timely and culturally appropriate information on support and service. Their Dementia Advisers will provide dementia support for people with a diagnosis, their carers, and their wider family from communities that traditionally have been underrepresented in the past. You'll manage Community Link Volunteers to enable us to extend their reach people who may have previously been isolated by language, accessibility needs, identity, or background.Additionally. you'll deliver education sessions and peer support groups to people living with dementia, their carers and family members. You'll be improving people's sense of well-being, enabling them to have more control over their livesAbout youThey are looking to welcome an approachable, enthusiastic and knowledgeable Dementia Adviser who is looking for a new and highly rewarding challenge. - Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. - Excellent IT skills. - Ability to work independently or within a group and working collaboratively. - Demonstrate passion for supporting people to maintain their independence, improve their sense of well-being, and help them take more control of their lives - A solid and compassionate understanding of the needs of people affected by dementia - Work inclusively with people affected by dementia, along with an understanding of the need for client confidentially - Effective networking and influencing skills and the ability to manage several tasks at once and keep yourself motivated to perform under pressureAbout themWho they areOur client are a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia. They will not rest until people with dementia and their carers live more fulfilled and less fearful lives, free from stigma and inequality.What they doThey support people affected by dementia through some of the hardest and most frightening times, to improve their lives and help to avoid crisis.No matter whoever you are, whatever you're going through, you can turn to them for expert support through practical advice, emotional support, and guidance for the best next stepThey join forces with people affected by dementia, leading scientists and policy makers, amplifying voices to push for cutting edge breakthroughs and societal change that'll improve the lives of people affected by dementia, now and in the futureHow they do itThey're the friendly face of support, the warm voice at the end of the phone and the determined minds who will fight passionately for the cause of everyone affected by dementiaYou may have experience of the following: Dementia Adviser, Care Assistant, Caseworker, Special Needs Assistant, Social Worker, Social Care, Community Care, Helpline Coordinator, Volunteering Officer, Support Worker, Mental Health, Dementia, etc.Ref:

Location: Luton & DunstableSalary: £24,840 - £27,600 per annumContract: Full-time, fixed term contact until 31 March 2023 with potential to extend subject to fundingOur client is undergoing an exciting time of significant growth and expansion and they are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated behaviour change officer to enable the success of their e-cycle behaviour change programme in Luton & Dunstable. Cycling Made E-asy is an exciting new scheme funded by the Department for Transport and run by Our client and partners to get more people cycling.Delivering events within the community or workplaces, this engaging role will be ensuring beneficiaries are supported and signposted to opportunities driving the uptake in e-cycle use. Delivering activities such as 'try and ride' sessions or long-term e-cycles loans from top brands such as Raleigh, Specialized, Islabikes, Brompton and many more, this programme really will help to make e-cycling a regular part of daily life.As a key local contact across a network of stakeholders, you will be integral to enabling communities to cycle in an inclusive way, creating impactful change. Creative and confident, you must be able to set your own priorities and deliver these within tight timescales. First-hand experience in engaging and working with community-based organisations, social enterprises, the voluntary sector, or statutory public services will be beneficial.As the UK's cycling charity, they inspire more people to ride, making their streets safer for cyclists and opening up traffic-free routes to reach their vision of millions more people cycling across the UK. Our client's extensive experience of engaging with people from all walks of life means they recognise the barriers, challenges and perceptions that can deter people from trying cycling, and they are about to embark on an innovative new programme for people who might not normally consider riding a bike.If you have the qualities, skills, and experience to fulfil this vital role, and would like to help drive the e-cycle programme, tell us!Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to both the job description and person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.You may have experience of the following: Project Officer, Project Manager, Junior Project Manager, Assistant Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Project Support Officer, Project Management, Project Planning, Charity, Not for Profit, Third Sector, etc.Ref:

If you have experience in video editing, a proven ability to manage and process large volumes of media, and a desire to watch hours and hours of beautiful wildlife footage then this could be the role for you. Junior Video Editor - RSPB UKHQ - The Lodge, Sandy Reference: JUN Location: RSPB UKHQ - The Lodge, Sandy. Salary: £26,180.00 - £29,043.00 Per Annum Hours: 37.5 hours per week. Contract: Fixed-Term role for 12 months Benefits: Pension, Annual Leave, Life Assurance What's the role about? As Junior Video Editor, you will be responsible for turning unedited footage straight from the field into broadcast-quality video assets that are ready for use across the RSPB and beyond. Your work will be fundamental to the creative output of the whole organisation, the growth of our video library, and the promotion of our incredible wildlife archive around the world. Your impressive organisational skills and experience with Adobe Premiere Pro will both be central to the role. Whether defining your own workflows or following the direction of others, you will be required to transform large volumes of new rushes into video assets that can help drive our work to save nature. What we need from you? Essentials: At least one year's experience in editing video footage from a range of sources, preferably in natural history or documentary production environment or as a student of film. A proven ability to assemble, edit and deliver consistent video outputs in a logical way, using insights from the field, whilst meeting specific technical specifications. IT proficiency within a video production environment: Expert knowledge of Mac OS Fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud apps (particularly Premiere Pro and Media Encoder, knowledge of After Effects would be beneficial but not essential) Expert knowledge of key video editing processes (including organising premiere projects and editing, stabilising, colour grading and exporting footage from a timeline) as well as media asset workflows (including transcoding and backing-up media) A detailed and proactive approach to managing video files from multiple different cameras, through each post-production phase and into long-term archiving. Specifically, you will have experience of offloading, tracking, and editing large volumes of newly-captured footage in a safe and efficient way. The relevant knowledge to help develop policies and standards around video production and, alongside the Video Editor, to act as a technical adviser to internal and external stakeholders with regards processes, equipment, and software. An ability to work unsupervised and independently, exercising initiative and judgement. Alongside a desire to proactively develop your own skills and capabilities, you will have the skills to support others (internal staff, commissioned agencies and production companies) in compiling, editing and delivering their own engaging content to an appropriate standard that is aligned to organisational priorities and on-brand. Central to this will be your experience of building strong working relationships that empower and inspire those around you to do their best. Desirables: Experience managing small projects or work programmes. Knowledge of UK wildlife including identification of commons species and their habitats. Experience working with media asset management systems or other video archive platforms. Understanding of professional video editing structures including multi-edit workstations, video data storage architectures and network setups. The RSPB reserves the right to extend or make this role permanent without further advertising dependent on business needs at the end of the contract term. Closing date: 23:59, Thursday, 21st July 2022 We are looking to conduct interviews from 1st August. Interested? If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position. The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. No agencies please.

Senior IT Project Manager | Whitbread Court | Permanent The core purpose of the role is to project manage the delivery of new IT-enabled business capabilities in line with the Whitbread strategic objectives. This includes all aspects of project management; Project Planning, Resource Management, Financial Management, Risk Management, Communication, Supplier Management, Investment Planning, Governance & Compliance, Change Control and Solution Delivery. The role has a specific focus with: Successfully delivering multiple projects to agreed schedule, budget and scope in line with the agreed business plan and IT roadmap Shaping the planning of future IT initiatives to support the business plan Day to day engagement with multi-stakeholder group, including senior stakeholders, IT & business team colleagues, external IT suppliers to ensure all parties are fully aware of project timelines, expectations and status. Ensure compliance with IT and business governance standards What you'll be doing: Overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of IT projects Setting realistic and practical goals for the project Evaluate progress of the project on a frequent basis and make timely interventions as needed to drive down project risk Manage third-party supplier project deliverables to time, cost and quality. Take responsibility at project level for all dimensions of the project: delivery, governance, reporting, risk & issues, financial/budget management, resourcing and communication Manage the transition from project delivery into managed support arrangements Manage, direct and motivate key IT project resources (business analyst, test) and other key resources across the technology function in a matrix style organisational structure Maintain project quality by establishing and enforcing organisational standards Manage financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing project budgets, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions Support preparation of project investment cases Responsible for alignment of IT solution with business objectives. What you'll need: Significant experience managing multiple IT projects, including budgets over £500k Demonstrable experience of delivering business IT solutions from concept through to operational use Proven experience of directing and motivating project teams Experienced in Agile & Waterfall methodologies Solid foundation of technology knowledge and ability to adapt new skills and techniques as they emerge in the fast-moving technology sector Strong collaborative approach to stakeholder management Ability to manage multiple projects, assign and manage work activities, meet deadlines and develop project management reporting in a timely and effective manner. Strong problem-solving skills and strong organisational skills Strong written and verbal communication skills Self-drive - responds to challenging priorities with a sense of urgency and pace Strong project planning, budget planning and resource management Transparent risk & issue management with response mitigation Strong third-party management Fluent German speaking would be beneficial as well as experience with international stakeholders

Our client, a Digital Agency / Software House, has an exciting opportunity for a web application developer, to be based at our their Sharnbrook HQ. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies for a number of household name clients. As part of the in-house development team, your projects will involve working with the latest .NET Core, and EF, NoSQL, Angular IO, Node JS, React and much more. The client works with both Azure and AWS cloud providers, utilising the best micro-services for the tasks in hand, from distributed caches to AI services. The client uses the best software to help us design, handover, develop, project-manage, communicate, test, package and deploy including Visual Studio and the full suite of Jetbrains IDE's, TFS online, GIT, XD, Zeplin, Postman, Teamwork, Slack and more. Applicants must have a background of C# and .NET frameworks, (preferably with some experience with Core 2+) and be fully conversant with Javascript, Typescript, REST etc. Front end skills are also required with an eye for detail essential. This role provides a high degree of variety and responsibility for the successful candidate. You will be working on the very latest web technologies with forward thinking clients.

JAVA/ANDROID DEVELOPER - 2 WEEK CONTRACT - £400-£500/DAY - OUTSIDE IR35 - FULLY REMOTE If you are a skilled Android/Java Developer who's looking for their next role then I have the perfect opportunity for you. My clients are currently seeking a Java/Android developer to come in for 2 weeks and resolve a variety of bugs that are causing issues on their client-facing system. The system is made up of a CMS (developed in PHP), and an app built in java/android that sits on an android screen. The CMS pushes a variety of content types down to the app (including video, touch etc), which then displays that content on the android screen. The java app sends information back to the CMS so that it knows it's online and functioning correctly, we call this heart beating. Some of the problems we currently face are: Heart Beating: The heart beating isn't functioning correctly. The app keeps timing out and therefore will only heartbeat once a day rather than every 30 mins! Rebooting: Issue 1: We used to have the capability of rebooting the device from both the device and remotely from the CMS. This functionality has stopped working. Issue 2: The device should reboot itself every morning at 0:01. This only works if the device is connected to the internet. This should work if the device isn't connected to the internet also. Essential Skills and Experience Java PHP/Laravel Android CMS knowlege Please apply ASAP as interviews are taking place next week with a view to take on straight away. So if you are interested or know anyone with the above skillset, please get in touch with me or apply below!

Job Description National Highways currently has an exciting opportunity to join the Major Projects Delivery Services (MPDS) Leadership Team. We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join us as the Head of information and knowledge Management, to lead a small yet diverse team with a strong work ethos of collaboration, on a 2-year fixed term basis. This role could be delivered from any of our National Highways locations' What you'll be leading on Lead the Division in the formation and delivery of strategy, fostering an environment of engagement and transparency across the Division. Lead the Information and Knowledge Management team in providing information and knowledge management services across Major Projects and the supply chain. Understand and translate the strategic intent, policy and direction of the National Highways Information Strategy, in consultation with wider National Highways stakeholders. Lead and maintain strong, collaborative, working relationships with key stakeholders -including Major Projects Senior Leadership Team, Major Projects Professions Team, Major Projects Innovation and Development, and Major Projects Centre of Excellence, to ensure a strong understanding of business needs, to ensure that the requirements are fully understood and addressed at both project and programme level, to identify key areas for improvement, to share lessons learnt and to resolve complex issues. Direct all information and knowledge management activities across Major Projects to ensure optimum business benefit and alignment to corporate initiatives. Develop and assure consistent document management processes in all projects and programmes that are compliant with GG184 (based on ISO19650) and lead a programme of assurance, compliance and quality checks to support this. Develop collaborative relationships with other external organisations including delivery partners, to foster collaboration, buy-in and develop networks to share lessons and experience. Lead on implementation of the of the Major Projects Knowledge Management Strategy. To be successful you'll need Evidence of leading in complex, project and programme orientated organisation Experience of leading a diverse team with a focus on wellbeing and supporting development. Evidence of managing suppliers alongside a team to enable effective and value for money delivery of services to the business. Experience of developing strategies and implementing change as part of information and knowledge management disciplines and driving continuous improvement. Knowledge of technologies available: document management systems, collaborative technologies, search engines and expert systems. Managing Successful Programmes or P3O - Accreditation at Practitioner level or equivalent experience A bit about us The Major Projects Delivery Services (MPDS) purpose is to make successful delivery outcomes possible through business level controls, developing professions and capability, maximising innovative thinking and being a critical friend. About Us At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times. Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible. Our benefits package Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%. We also offer: Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays) Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home Life assurance of 4 times annual salary Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience And we are: Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation And finally we reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires

Security Engineer required for our client who are a leading fire and security company in the Luton area. They install, service and perform maintenance tasks on a variety of fire and security systems, such as CCTV, access controls, door entry, intruder and fire alarms. Due to their recent success, they are looking to grow and expand their current teams. Security Engineer Position Overview They are looking for an experienced security engineer to join their growing team, they are based in Luton but work nationwide. They are looking for an individual who can install, service and maintain fire and security systems. Previous experience with HIkvsion, Paxton and Galaxy would be beneficial. Security Engineer Position Requirements The ideal candidate would have- Experience in the fire and security industry A valid driving licence Commercial and Domestic experience Potentially have to stay away, once every few months Security Engineer Position Remuneration £35,000 - £40,000 8am - 5pm Van + fuel card 20 days holiday + bank holidays Christmas shutdown Full package discussed at interview Bennett & Game Recruitment are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

A world leading specialist consultancy and engineering technology business that sit at the intersection of operational know how and information technology. The role is to extract, transform and visualize information using machine learning and analytics for live data regarding travel information. This is the perfect opportunity for a graduate to get their foot into the industry and with the full training provided, pass through onto a more senior position and have opportunities to work and lead new and exciting projects. They are looking to expand their team for a new project in Qatar for the world cup which will give you real world experience and opportunities to grow and network out there. Requirements: Computer Science Degree or Relevant Python Java Good to Have: Data Experience SQL Interest in the Rail Industry / Live Data Information Systems If you are a graduate looking for full training and development within Python and Java then this is the perfect opportunity for you! Apply with CV today to be considered for the role immediately, Looking to hire ASAP! BeTechnology Group Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

The Redline Group are seeking an experienced Contract Buyer - SAP to support a client in Central Bedfordshire on an initial 3-month basis, working with a small but dynamic team to ensure that the purchasing department continues to run effectively.This role has an indicative INSIDE IR35 determination therefore candidates will be required to operate via an Umbrella company.Our client are a specialist in the FMCG sector, providing critical support to a large range of businesses based around the world. This is an opportunity to support new and existing supplier relationships to develop effective and efficient supply chains. Key Skills Required - Contract Buyer - SAP, Bedfordshire:-Experienced in using SAP-Experience working to short lead times-FMCG-type backgroundFor more information or to apply for the Contract Buyer - SAP position in Bedfordshire, please contact Cameron Traynor - quoting reference CJT30691/15