Alexander ash - Recruitment specialists for financial services, technology & consultancy.

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Web & Digital consultant - London

Web & digital consultant required by our client a global consultancy. You will be working in the consulting practice to aid the delivery of cutting edge web solutions including; Multiplatform rich media websites, e-service applications and ecommerce applications. You will be enthusiastic and excited about with top organisations across a range of industries. You will be Agile and a very hands-on internet technologist and a desire about web technology. You will be used to working in a fast paced environments and use to the rapidly changing trends in digital development.

As a Web & digital consultant, you will be working in a client facing position so good communication skills are required for the position. You will also contribute to the end to end delivery on large scale technology solutions. You will provide technology expertise to support design and implantation work. You will interpret client needs and define the information architecture to optimise user experiences. You will have a natural ability to build rapport and manage stakeholder expectations. You will need to have diverse technology knowledge and have some experiences in project management / project delivery from inception to final delivery.

If you feel that you have the right skills for this role please submit CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-BAWD-001

Services Manger - Systems Integration - London

Alexander ash are looking to recruitm a Systems Integration Services Manager. In this role the successful candidate will have primary responsibility for the operational and engineering activities of a team of Systems Engineers, tasked with the delivery, management and support of Directory, Wintel and Virtualisation services.

Mandatory Skills

The following skills are mandatory for this role:

• Windows Server 2008/12 and related technologies.
• Active Directory 2008/12 and related services.
• VMware vSphere 5.1
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Totally service orientated (ITIL V3)
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good Project Management Skills
• Strong planning and organizing skills
• Discretion and reliability

To discuss the opportunity in greater detail, please submit CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - SIMAN - 01

Windows systems engineer - London

Alexander Ash are looking to recruit a senior windows server engineer for a global client based in London. As the windows systems engineer you will be responsible for providing day to day 3rd / 4th line support for critical business applications.

You will need to have a good overall understanding of IT infrastructure with a minimum of 3-year's experience of managing, monitoring and maintaining a large, globally dispersed server farms. The individual will also be familiar with both VMware and Microsoft virtualisation technologies.

You will need to have the following technology experiences: Active directory / HP Blade servers, SCOM, SCCM, SQL reporting services experience, PowerShell scripting, Windows server 2000, 2008 & 2012.

You will need to have a Microsoft certification such as MCSE, MCITP & also a Prince 2 certification.

If you feel that you are a suitable candidate for this position, please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com or call 0207 688 8435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - WINE - 01

System Administrators, Linux / UNIX, Digital, London

Systems administrator is required by our client a large global consultancy. The role will be working with one of therir clients who are also an International organisation. They are looking for 2 systems administrators who are passionate web enthusiasts and are continually exploring the latest web technologies and best practises as well as experience of infrastructure cloud architecture.

You will be able to get involved in the design, build and maintainance of cutting edge infrastructure and platforms that facilitate rapid development. You will be involved in the launch of new sites, channels and applications, working hand in hand with developers, architects and end clients. You will also be a working member of an operations team responsible for the continued running of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) based web hosting environment, ensuring a high availability quality service to our client.

They are looking for individuals with experience of managing Linux/Unix servers, working with Apache HTTP Server and common modules, NGINX HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, PHP, WordPress, MYSQL, SVN, Git, Package Managers such as Yum, developing scripts code components in a functional language, e.g. Bash, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Database skills including schema design and optimised SQL statement development.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on some cutting edge technology projects, and to enhance your career further with exposure to some of the best projects in this space currently.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/SA02

Java Developer - Systems Development - Risk Engines team £600 - £700 P/D

The successful candidate will be expected to fulfil the role of a developer as follows:

* Develop, implement and unit test the required solution

* Translate requirements into solutions.

* Document solutions for maintenance and support.

* Take part in peer group code reviews

* Take part in quality assurance reviews

* Provide estimates for work

* Provide updates of status and estimates to complete

* Identify risks and issues, and help monitor them

* Plan, design, perform, support and document integration tests

* Plan, design, perform, support and document system tests

* Plan, design, perform, support and document regression tests

* Support user tests

To apply for the role please send your CV to shane.mallon@alexanderash.com or call 07880194372

Please not this is an URGENT requirement

London / Contract / Ref: SM-JD-1804

Business Analyst, Service Management, Jersey

Business Analyst is required by my client a Telecommunications organisation. This role is to help to set up a Service Desk for there clients.

You will need to have a good ITIL background and be able to design processes for the service desk from scratch. There is a high level business case already defined, and this role will be to take this through the process and get it up and running. The service desk will mainly be supporting the fault management of the network with clients.

This is a very exciting role that will joining the project at a very early stage and seeing it through to go live.

The role will interview very quickly, as they need to start an individual as soon as possible.

As well as a day rate there is an allowance for expenses (5 days a week) and a return flight paid for once every two weeks.

For more information please contact Ram Basra and I will be in touch as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/SMJ001

Key Responsibilities

• Collaboration with Service Management for the development and periodic review of Service Delivery and Support Models.

• Close liaison with Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management, to ensure that issues are recorded, tracked through to resolution, and that new services are delivered in to Production in controlled manner, in line with the firm's ITIL V3 based Service Delivery framework.

• Development and delivery of management, monitoring and audit systems, procedures and process, in order to accurately measure team and service performance against agreed service levels. Regular review of management reporting, to identify gaps and areas for improvement, in order to drive Continual Service Improvement.

• Capacity, DR and BCP planning, to ensure the uninterrupted availability of the systems and services that the Systems Engineering Team provide.

• Maintain controls and auditing capabilities to ensure data security and integrity. Working with IT Risk to ensure that Windows Server and Directory Services remain secure and compliant with internal, legislated and client security policies.

• Management and quality control of the services provided my clients outsourcing partner. Identifying opportunities where additional tasks and services could also be transferred to external partners - and where appropriate - managing the transition of these services.

• Provide technical, engineering and design support to Management, global IT teams, Architecture, project teams, business units, clients and external third-parties.

• Plan and oversee the introduction of new systems and services in to my client, and their integration in to the firm's Production, DR and support environments. Liaison with business units, Architecture and the Technical Design Authority

• Identification, evaluation and implementation of new technologies and tools, which will enhance and improve both IT and business processes. Coordination of regular upgrade activity, to ensure that existing infrastructure and systems remain up-to-date, and consistent with best practice and vendor support and maintenance agreements.

SKills & Qualifications

• A detailed knowledge of Active Directory Services, such as, AD DS, GPOs, DNS, WINS, DHCP, AD CS, AD LDS, AD RMS, ADFS etc.

• A detailed knowledge of Virtualisation technologies VMware (vSphere 5.1) and Hyper-V.

• A working knowledge of at least one scripting language, ideally the development and use of PowerShell 2 and/or 3 scripts.

• An excellent understanding of server hardware and all supporting back-office infrastructure, i.e. storage (SAN), networking (LAN, WAN, VPN), security (Firewalls) etc. Ideally you will be familiar with the current HP DL and BL server ranges.

• Accustomed to working within the ITIL framework of Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management.

• Familiarity with FIM, Remedy 7, Unix & Linux based systems and Oracle databases, will be an advantage.

Mandatory Skills

• Windows Server 2008/12 and related technologies.
• Active Directory 2008/12 and related services.
• VMware vSphere 5.1
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Totally service orientated (ITIL V3)
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good Project Management Skills

If you are interested in this opportunity, please submit your application today

London / Permanent / Ref: KeysSISM

Development Lead/Scrum Master - JAVA- London

Our client, a global consultancy are looking for experienced Development Leads/Scrum Masters to manage development projects for Tier 1 Clients.

The Development Leads / Scrum Masters will be expected to lead the engineers in solving technical challenges for the business. You will draw from your technical expertise to mentor engineers, and provide leadership & new processes, whilst helping define project metrics and requirements.

You will have experience in solving technical issues on performance, scalability and enterprise system architecture, and the Development Manager is expected to providing independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.

This is a very good opportunity to join a leading consultancy with some top projects.

Please send your CV to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/DL001

Development Manager. London, Consulting

Development Manager is required by our client a global consultancy. They are looking for individuals who are happy working as client leads, and being able to work at any stage of the lifecycle of large- technology solutions. You will be leading teams which will be a mixture of an on-shore, near-shore and off-shore, as well as using various delivery methodologies including Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall.

The projects will vary in size and scope and the technologies that will be required by the end client, and this is all dependent on the solution required by the end client.

You will need to have experience of a few of the following technologies:-

Software Development: PHP, Java / J2EE, JavaScript / HTML 5 / CSS, JQuery, Flex, XML / XSLT

• Content Management: Adobe CQ, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Oracle UCM, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, OpenText WCM, Alfresco, Sitecore
• Portal: Oracle Weblogic & Webcenter, IBM Websphere, Liferay
• Search: Google Site Search, Search Engine Optimisation, FAST, Autonomy, Lucene/Solr,
• Web Analytics: Google Analytics, Adobe SiteCatalyst (Omniture)
• Commerce: ATG, IBM Websphere Commerce, Microsoft Commerce Server, Hybris
• CDN: Akamai, Limelight
• Devices: iOS (iPhone / iPad), Android / Android Tablet, set-top boxes
• Cloud / Hosting: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Rackspace

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on some very large scale projects, and be able to work with multiple clients.

For more information please contact Ram Basra with your CV and I will be in contact with you as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/DM001

Head of Infrastructure and Networks, e-Commerce, London

Head of Infrastructure and Networks is required by my client a Global e-Commerce organization. This will be a key role working in the Operations Department. The key responsibilities for this role will include that all Hardware Infrastructure is readily available for its clients' needs. This will be from a capacity, performance and availability perspective.

The Head of Infrastructure and Networks will have direct responsibility and control of the networks team, and ensure effective operation of network infrastructure with all client needs. You will be responsible for ensuring all incident and change management is in order to support these clients as well as being the point of escalation for major incidents.

As the Head of Infrastructure you will also need to validate that the infrastructure designs meet performance, availability and capacity requirements with no detrimental impact expected on current infrastructure.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a online business and work on a global scale with clients.
For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact with more information.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/HIN01

My client, a leading front, middle and back office platform vendor are currently undergoing a period of rapid growth. They are seeking strong project managers to drive forward large, bespoke client facing implementations within major financial institutions.

Each project is uniquely different and a high caliber project manager is required to own the full implementation process, including leading teams of developers and Business Analysts to ensure strict timelines are met and project milestones delivered within scope and budget.

To be successful in this position, you will have experience of working for a systems vendor and driving forward implementation within a large financial institution. You will be a strong communicator with a consultative approach to project management.

To be considered for this position, please forward you details.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM483

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Project Manager

Alexander Ash is looking to recruit a customer focused project manager / service delivery manager for a global ecommerce client. As the project manager / service deliver manager you will be supporting the clients customer satisfaction team & you will manage, control and lead the day-to-day delivery of the portfolio of tactical projects and initiatives. This will include the definition, planning, financial management, risk and dependency management, acceptance and closedown to support Customer Care initiatives and efficiencies.

Project manager

The successful applicant will manage on site team of Developers, DBA and test resource to meet Customer Care objectives outside of the strategic program of work. You will take the Customer satisfaction teams requirements into the central strategic program and work with the program manager responsible to assist understanding and prioritisation of Customer satisfaction team requirements. You will also support the Head of IT Services in Strategic planning, supplier and financial management with regard to Customer satisfaction teams initiatives. You will also support the Head of the department to articulate the technology requirements, develop a prioritised plan to deliver the appropriate technology solutions and associated transformation tasks. You will integrate with the IT Services team and the Business IT projects to ensure coordinated approach to communications, finance, delivery and risk.

Project manager

• Project Management and/or Strong Business Analysis experience
• Financial Management experience including Business case and ROI creation, budget management and forecasting.
• A strong understanding of PRINCE2, Agile and ITIL working practices.
• Preferably Solution Architecture experience including application, integration, network, storage and databases.
• Commercial and Financial Acumen
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information and risks to non-technical users.
• Service related focus with the ability to place yourself in the position of the customer to understand their concerns and issues
• Ability to present ideas and information to both technical and non-technical audiences

If you feel that you are suitable for this position, please send your CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com / 02076888435.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-PM-SDM-01

Database (SQL Server) Developer - eCommerce - Birmingham

Our client, a globally recognised eCommerce organisation, is looking for an experienced and passionate SQL Database/Business Intelligence Developer to be pivotal in the planning and design of their Datawarehouse and CRM solutions.

The Database/Business Intelligence Developer will have solid Data Warehousing experience in an E-commerce/online fast paced environment. They must have at least 5 years experience using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 BI Stack. The Database Developer must have in-depth knowledge of Data Warehousing methodologies, techniques and Datamodelling tools.

The Database Developer should be a strong SSIS Developer as well as have a lot of experience with T-SQL. They will be using SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, including SSAS.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

Midlands / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/DBDVB

Service Desk - Web application support manager - London

Alexander Ash are looking to recruit a Global service desk / Application support manager for a global ecommerce client based in London. This position is very significant to the client and will require a candidate that thrives in a challenging and changing environment. The successful individual will be a self starter and will possess the ability to learn quickly, build effective relationships with the business stakeholders and technical teams.

The successful candidate will need to have experiences managing a Global service desk and managing web teams of application support engineers which will operate on a 27/7 basis. You will need to have supported web based applications focused on Javascript / HTML / CSS / SQL in a UNIX / Linux environment. This role will not be suitable if you come from a desktop support background.

This position will be split 50 / 50 with the ratio split between Service desk management and web application support management. You will need to be ITIL certified, have a minimum of 5 years management experience and experienced in supporting critical systems.

If you are suitable for this role, please get in touch with norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-GHOSD-01

Head of Infrastructure and Networks, e-Commerce, London

Head of Infrastructure and Networks is required by my client a Global e-Commerce organization. This will be a key role working in the Operations Department. The key responsibilities for this role will include that all Hardware Infrastructure is readily available for its clients' needs. This will be from a capacity, performance and availability perspective.

The Head of Infrastructure and Networks will have direct responsibility and control of the networks team, and ensure effective operation of network infrastructure with all client needs. You will be responsible for ensuring all incident and change management is in order to support these clients as well as being the point of escalation for major incidents.

As the Head of Infrastructure you will also need to validate that the infrastructure designs meet performance, availability and capacity requirements with no detrimental impact expected on current infrastructure.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a online business and work on a global scale with clients.
For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact with more information.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/HIN01

Account Manager - Datacenter Technologies #Aa1 - Market Leader - Munich

Account Manager urgently sought by international Market Leader to work as an Account Manager as part of managed services team for a global acocunt in the company's fantastic offices in Munich.

Responsibilities: * Drive revenue, profit and growth within the company's major international account, with predominant focus on Data Centers and related technologies.

Requirements * Multiple years experience in Account Management on Sales Function * Excellent awareness of Data Center technologies - BMC, HP etc. * Friendly. Team player * A2 German or better.

Reward: * Fantastic brand name company * Excellent remuneration and compensation * Friendly and interesting team * Great location

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic Account Manager - Data Center position. Interviewing NOW! For more information call me on +44 7970 557 304 or email your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Instant feedback provided!

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/AMan/DE/M/04/017

Security Consultant (Senior) urgently sought by leading global telecommunications company in Dortmund to work in their fantastic new offices as part of their IT division, in a friendly team based environment.

This is an unbelievable chance for an Information Security Consultant to take the next step up in their career to act as a senior and vital member in the company's security division.

Senior Security Consultant

Requirements:

• CISSP
• Experience in ArcSight or similar
• A2 German or better.

Reward:

• Fantastic brand name company!!
• Above average remuneration and compensation
• Excellent development or progression opportunities!

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic Security Consultant Position. Interviewing ASAP!! For more information call me NOW on +44 (0)7867 451 958 or email me your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Quick feedback provided.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/SECCONS/TE/DE/418

Software Developer #Aa1 - Global Brand Name Company! - Berlin

This is a great chance for an experienced software developer to grab the bull by the horn and join this fantastic and exciting company on their new venture. Consultant to take the next step upwards in their career at a market leading company with great growth and development prospects and big projects.

Software Developer (c#, ruby)

Responsibilities:

* Software Development in an AGILE environment * Development in C# or Ruby

Requirements:

* specialism in either C# or Ruby * Additional skills in any of the following: C++, Perl, Python, Javascript or other OOs

Rewards:

*Amazing brand name company *Above average remuneration and compensation *Friendly and fun team based environment.

Click apply NOW to be considered and for more information on this fantastic Software Developer Position. C# or Ruby developers urgently sought. Interviewing NOW. For more information call me now on +44 (0)7867 451 958 or email me your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Instant feedback provided.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/SOFT/CorR/DE/4/15

Services Manger - Systems Integration - London

Alexander ash are looking to recruitm a Systems Integration Services Manager. In this role the successful candidate will have primary responsibility for the operational and engineering activities of a team of Systems Engineers, tasked with the delivery, management and support of Directory, Wintel and Virtualisation services.

Mandatory Skills

The following skills are mandatory for this role:

• Windows Server 2008/12 and related technologies.
• Active Directory 2008/12 and related services.
• VMware vSphere 5.1
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Totally service orientated (ITIL V3)
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good Project Management Skills
• Strong planning and organizing skills
• Discretion and reliability

To discuss the opportunity in greater detail, please submit CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - SIMAN - 01

Payments Design Authority - CHAPS / BACS / SEPA / SWIFT / CREST

Payments Design Authority / SME is required by our client a Global Outsourcer. They are looking for individuals to be the design authority and lead technical teams to undertake day to day delivery of large scale complex change projects. You will be involved in providing technical expertise to ensure compliance and quality standards are adhered too at all times, and assit in leading technical direction on the various platforms.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a large payments project, and be the Lead Design Authority.

For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/PSME01

System Administrators, Linux / UNIX, Digital, London

Systems administrator is required by our client a large global consultancy. The role will be working with one of therir clients who are also an International organisation. They are looking for 2 systems administrators who are passionate web enthusiasts and are continually exploring the latest web technologies and best practises as well as experience of infrastructure cloud architecture.

You will be able to get involved in the design, build and maintainance of cutting edge infrastructure and platforms that facilitate rapid development. You will be involved in the launch of new sites, channels and applications, working hand in hand with developers, architects and end clients. You will also be a working member of an operations team responsible for the continued running of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) based web hosting environment, ensuring a high availability quality service to our client.

They are looking for individuals with experience of managing Linux/Unix servers, working with Apache HTTP Server and common modules, NGINX HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, PHP, WordPress, MYSQL, SVN, Git, Package Managers such as Yum, developing scripts code components in a functional language, e.g. Bash, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Database skills including schema design and optimised SQL statement development.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on some cutting edge technology projects, and to enhance your career further with exposure to some of the best projects in this space currently.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/SA02

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is looking for a strong Project Manager to join their Project Management team. The role is focused on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. The dieal candidate will have experience of implementing concurrent projects across multiple client sites.

The candidate may come from outside of the banking industry. However, it is imperative that the candidate display a structured, grammatically correct and concise CV.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

US / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Infrastructure Project Manager

Project Manager is required by my client, a leading global manufacturing company, in Munich.

The infrastructure project manager will manage the full project lifecycle of key projects across the Desktop portfolio but including work in Hosting and information security projects.

You will be an experienced Project Manager with a strong background in infrastructure transformation projects previously. You will be Agile minded, and have the personality to drive change in a complex, international organisation.

Email me now to apply for this fantastic positioin of Infrastructure Project Manager.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major player in the transformation space.

Email me now for this fantastic opportunity as Infrastructure Project Manager

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/DE/InfraPrjM/4/13

Senior SAP IS-U Consultant #Aa1 - International Brand Name Company! - Munich/Hamburg

Senior IS-U Consultant urgently sought by leading Brand-Name Company in Frankfurt to act as a senior and leading member of their SAP IS-U team.

This is a great chance for an experienced or budding SAP IS-U Consultant to take the next step upwards in their career at a market leading company with great growth and big projects within Germany.

Senior SAP IS-U Consultant

Responsibilities:

* Customising of SAP IS-U module* Close interaction with stakeholders and key users * Full project lifecycle implementations, project management responsibilities or progression opportunities

Requirements:

*multiple years SAP IS-U customising experience * Consulting or multiple full life-cycle implentation experience *B1 German or better.

Rewards:

*Amazing brand name company *Excellent remuneration and compensation with great progression and learning options *Friendly and interesting team based opportunities available at fixed global clients

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic SENIOR IS-U Consultant Position. Interviewing NOW. For more information call me now on +44 (0)7970 557 304 or email me your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Feedback always provided.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/DE/IS-U/4/012

Our client, a leading global consutlancy, is looking for a high calibre Recovery Manager to work onsite for their large scale Financial Services client based in the City of London. It is very important that the candidate have experience of working within the Payments space. (Transaction Banking, Liquidity, Cash Management).

Alexander As is acting as an agency.

London / Contract / Ref: GM955

Our client, a leading global consutlancy, is looking for a high calibre Configuration Manager to work onsite for their large scale Financial Services client based in the City of London. It is very important that the candidate have experience of working within the Payments space. (Transaction Banking, Liquidity, Cash Management).

Alexander As is acting as an agency.

London / Contract / Ref: GM4494

Telecoms Project Manager- Hosted Voice

My client who are an international communications company are searching for a Telecoms Project Manager to work on lengthy and high value projects within their complex business organisation. You will have:
* Strong Project management experience - specifically around B2B product launches
* Background in fixed/virtual telecoms

Telecoms Project Manager- Hosted Voice

South East / Contract / Ref: SS TEL HOST

Network Engineer (contract) - Global Brand Name Company!

Network Engineers urgently sought by leading Global Brand-Name End-User Company to work in Baden-Wurrtemberg. This is a fantastic contract job for an experienced Network Engineer at a multinational company.

Network Engineer

Requirements: * Cisco, Switches / Routers, LAN / WAN, PIX / ASA Firewalls, VPN and Juniper * Ideally CCNA Certified * A2 German or better.

Reward: * Amazing brand name end-user company *Excellent rate *Interesting work in friendly environment

Apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic Network Engineer contract opportunity, call me now on +44 (0)7970 557 304 or email your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com.

Germany / Contract / Ref: RW/DE/NETEN/FR/04/09

Senior Systems Administrator - Linux - Web/eCommerce

Senior Systems Administrator with a strong Linux background is required for our client, a West London based Technology Consultancy. Playing a key technical role in a major client programme of work, the Senior Systems Administrator will act as a project lead across the UK Unix estate (Linux and Solaris primarily), network, and be able to ensure high availability for services such as Apache, DNS, mail, SCM. This role also requires individuals with strong Scripting experience (Shell, Perl, Python or Ruby).

Working in a flexible team across incident resolution and implementation areas, Senior System Administrators will focus on ensuring exemplary services are maintained for customers, and the organisations own infrastructure is robust. 6+ years experience in Linux administration is required (Linux/Redhat/CentOS preferred), as is experience in networks, and database administration. Exposure to virtual server environments is essential, as well as experience working in companies heavily reliant on their technology.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting are acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: APSSALN1

BMC ITSM Consultant

BMC ITSM Consultants and Lead Architect urgently sought for large scale project in Frankfurt.

Responsibilities: Deployment, configuration, and support for BMC ITSM. Implementation and integration with BMC ITSM Service Assurance applications. The design of custom or product-based solutions based on BMC ITSM Service Assurance applications.

Requirements: Multiple project-lifecycle experiences in BMC ITSM. Good communication skills. A2 German or better

Reward: Fantastic brand name consultancy and end-user position. Multiple extensions likely.

Email me now for these fantastic BMC ITSM Consultant positions: ruben@alexanderash.com.

BMC ITSM, BMC Remedy, BMC Atrium CMDB, BMC SaaS (RemedyForce),

Germany / Contract / Ref: RW/DE/BMC/04/09

Development Lead/Scrum Master - JAVA- London

Our client, a global consultancy are looking for experienced Development Leads/Scrum Masters to manage development projects for Tier 1 Clients.

The Development Leads / Scrum Masters will be expected to lead the engineers in solving technical challenges for the business. You will draw from your technical expertise to mentor engineers, and provide leadership & new processes, whilst helping define project metrics and requirements.

You will have experience in solving technical issues on performance, scalability and enterprise system architecture, and the Development Manager is expected to providing independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.

This is a very good opportunity to join a leading consultancy with some top projects.

Please send your CV to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/DL001

Development Manager. London, Consulting

Development Manager is required by our client a global consultancy. They are looking for individuals who are happy working as client leads, and being able to work at any stage of the lifecycle of large- technology solutions. You will be leading teams which will be a mixture of an on-shore, near-shore and off-shore, as well as using various delivery methodologies including Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall.

The projects will vary in size and scope and the technologies that will be required by the end client, and this is all dependent on the solution required by the end client.

You will need to have experience of a few of the following technologies:-

Software Development: PHP, Java / J2EE, JavaScript / HTML 5 / CSS, JQuery, Flex, XML / XSLT

• Content Management: Adobe CQ, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Oracle UCM, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, OpenText WCM, Alfresco, Sitecore
• Portal: Oracle Weblogic & Webcenter, IBM Websphere, Liferay
• Search: Google Site Search, Search Engine Optimisation, FAST, Autonomy, Lucene/Solr,
• Web Analytics: Google Analytics, Adobe SiteCatalyst (Omniture)
• Commerce: ATG, IBM Websphere Commerce, Microsoft Commerce Server, Hybris
• CDN: Akamai, Limelight
• Devices: iOS (iPhone / iPad), Android / Android Tablet, set-top boxes
• Cloud / Hosting: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Rackspace

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on some very large scale projects, and be able to work with multiple clients.

For more information please contact Ram Basra with your CV and I will be in contact with you as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/DM001

Business Analyst, Comverse, Jersey

Business Analyst is required by my client to work on a Comverse Project. You will be responsible for understanding and determining the business needs and the definition of the functional and non-functional business requirements.

You will ideally need to have experience working on a Comverse project, as you will be writing work instructions for business users on convergent billing systems. You will also carry out funtional and technical analysis of implemented solutions with a good understanding of batch processes and underlying databases in order to support questions from stakeholders. You will need to work with business streams to translate business requirements and daily task operation into operational processes on the new system.

The role will paty £350 per day as a day rate with £90 per day on top of this for daily expenses. You will also be able to claim back a return flight once every two weeks.

For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/BAC001

Programme Manager, eCommerce Transformation

Programme Manager is required by my client, a leading retailer aiming to continue their substantial growth in the online space.

Due to a huge demand for their products and services, the Programme Manager will be able to understand high level functional requirements, and engage with C level stakeholders to ensure change and development in their eCommerce platform and capabilities.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions.

You will be an experienced Programme Manager with a strong background in transformation programmes previously. You will be Agile minded, and have the personality to drive change across a complex, international organisation.

Email me now to apply for this fantastic positioin of Programme Manager.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major player in the ecommerce and retail space. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/DE/PRG/eT

Our client, a global financial services organisation, is looking for a number of high calibre change manegement professionals to work on a large scale HR transformation programme in Birmingham. The roles will range from business analysis, through to project management and also business architecture. It is ideal for the candidate have experience of using Peoplesoft, from either a user perspective or implementation perspective. There will be anumber of different workstreams and projects taking place, focusing on; Talent Aquisition and Rewards Management.

Please send your CV through in order to be considered.

AlexanderAsh is acting as an agency.

Midlands / Permanent / Ref: GM3449

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Business Analyst - Digital Transformation - Consultancy

My client. a leading global Consultancy firm are searching for Business Analysts with strong business and IT change experience, to play a key role in the scoping and delivery of web and digital technology programmes for a range of blue-chip clients.

Working as part of a portfolio of programmes based around cutting edge technical workstreams (Video On Demand, eCommerce platform builds, etc), the Business Analyst will be involved from the initial definition of the opportunity, through to the successful implementation of the business solution. You will be part of Agile and/or Prince 2 project groups, facing into senior stakeholders and communicating ideas to technology functions.

Our client require a Business Analyst with 3+ years experience in digital/web organisations previously. You will have a strong requirements gathering, stakeholder management, UML, behaviour driven models and Agile experience (Scrum experience is a bonus), plus the ambition to grow with an organisation which is expanding aggressively in the digital technology space.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/BADTC

Senior QA Analyst - Selenium/Automation, Agile, eCommerce - London

Our client, a global online retailer, is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join their fast-paced Agile team. The Senior QA will contribute to continued improvement of the company QA Test strategy and best practice, as well as acting as a lead on project-based work in Scrum teams.

Working in a mixture of manual and automation Testing with Selenium and have knowledge of Agile/XP practices, the Senior QA Analyst must have excellent working knowledge of writing test scripts, unit testing, 3rd party integration testing, use of SQL to query databases and run test cases and most importantly Automated testing using Selenium. You will also be responsible for mentoring and educating more junior QA Analysts.

You will have strong experience in Agile development groups, and you will have experience working in an large, complex online organisation. Candidates with experience in neither will NOT be considered. Experience around TDD or BDD is highly preferable.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/QAAN

Senior Modelling Analyst - £50,000 to £52,000 - West Midlands

A globally recognised company within Financial Services require a Senior Modelling Analyst within the Credit Risk Function to provide expert assistance to Senior Management, ensuring that the company achieves their operational aims and objectives.

You will be responsible for development, enhancement and maintenance of risk measurement methodologies to facilitate credit risk identification, management and governance for the Retailer Solutions business.

Key role deliverables:

* Trend analysis and model development

* Development, enhancement and maintenance of risk measures encompassing Exposure At Default (EAD), Loss Given Default (LGD) and Probability of Default (PD)

* Development and maintenance of systems/reporting tools encompassing application processing and monitoring of exposures in the live environment e.g. limit monitoring, sanction monitoring and provision of exception reports for the operational areas

* Provision of regular Management Information to Senior Management commenting and providing recommendations on trends

* Provision of monthly Regulatory reporting of counterparty exposures to Risk Committees

* Continuously evaluate procedures and implement enhancements to improve overall efficiency & service

* Scorecard Modelling and maintenance

Critical Competencies:

* Communicating

* Achieving Excellence

* Gathering Information

* Influencing

* Finding Solutions

* Understanding Issues

* Developing People

Experience:

* Experience within a credit function focusing either on portfolio, counterparty exposures or credit policy

* Familiarity with risk portfolio management techniques

* Understanding of Scorecard performance monitoring

* Ability to foster an environment that actively promotes teamwork and the sharing of ideas

* Possess a passion for continuous improvement

* Leadership skills

* Highly motivated to succeed

* Strong attention to detail

* Team skills

* Ability to work under pressure to tight timescales, whilst maintaining quality

* Must be commercially aware of the impact of economic factors on acquirer risk

* Fully conversant in both business oral and written English and be able to converse on technical issues at all levels internally and externally

* Must be adaptable to changing needs and circumstances within the office

* Creative approach to problem solving, identifying practical solutions

Technical Knowledge:

* Experience of SQL and SAS programming

* Knowledge of portfolio management techniques (i.e. PD, LGD, EAD)

* Detailed knowledge and functional use of Microsoft suite products (including the creation and development of risk analysis models via Excel, Access)

This is an outstanding opportunity with a salary of up to £52,000 for a Senior Modelling Analyst to develop their career further in a credible company based in the West Midlands. If you feel this matches your skillset please feel free to give me a call on 07880194372 or drop me an email with your CV on shane.mallon@alexanderash.com for further information.

Midlands / Permanent / Ref: SM/WSA/0513

Modelling Analyst - £38,000 to £40,000 - West Midlands

A globally recognised company within Financial Services require a Modelling Analyst within the Credit Risk Function to provide expert assistance to Senior Management, ensuring that the company achieves their operational aims and objectives.

You will be responsible for development, enhancement and maintenance of risk measurement methodologies to facilitate credit risk identification, management and governance for the Retailer Solutions business.

Deliverables:

* Trend analysis and model development

* Development, enhancement and maintenance of risk measures encompassing Exposure At Default (EAD), Loss Given Default (LGD) and Probability of Default (PD)

* Provision of regular Management Information to Senior Management commenting and providing recommendations on trends

* Provision of monthly Regulatory reporting of counterparty exposures to Risk Committees

* Development and maintenance of systems/reporting tools encompassing application processing and monitoring of exposures in the live environment e.g. limit monitoring, sanction monitoring and provision of exception reports for the operational areas

* Continuously evaluate procedures and implement enhancements to improve overall efficiency & service

* Scorecard Modelling and maintenance

Skills and abilities required for the role:

* Database interrogation

* Gathering Information

* Influencing

* Finding Solutions

* Understanding Issues

Experience:

* Experience within a credit function focusing either on portfolio, counterparty exposures or credit policy

* Familiarity with risk portfolio management techniques

* Understanding of Scorecard performance monitoring

* Ability to foster an environment that actively promotes teamwork and the sharing of ideas

* Possess a passion for continuous improvement

This is an outstanding opportunity with a salary of up to £40,000 for a Modelling Analyst to develop their career further in a credible company based in the West Midlands. If you feel this matches your skillset please feel free to give me a call on 07880194372 or drop me an email with your CV on shane.mallon@alexanderash.com for further information.

Midlands / Permanent / Ref: SM/JA/0513

Infrastructure Engineering Lead/Manager - eCommerce - Linux/Open Source

Our client, a highly successful eCommerce organisation, require a Infrastructure Engineering Manager to ensure efficient operation of the company's open source technical engineering group, including overseeing multiple projects and ongoing improvements to a high availability eCommerce platform.

The Systems Engineering Manager will manage and lead a team of Linux systems engineers and architects, and deliver a resolute and effective infrastructure to underpin a complex business & technology environment. You will continuously push for improvements in existing operations, recommend and drive through service improvements.

This is a large Linux/Solaris based data centre environment, with a range of open source, cutting-edge products included within this platform. As such, the Engineering Manager will have a background in systems administration in similar environments, and you will have then gone on to develop a more leadership-focussed role. You will be a strong manager, and will have substantial experience of managing high-availability systems & architecture.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/INFEM

Senior SAP SD Consultant #Aa1 - International Brand Name Company! - Munich/Hamburg

Senior SD Consultant urgently sought by leading Brand-Name Company in Munich to act as a senior and leading member of their SAP Logistics team.

This is a great chance for an experienced or budding SAP SD Consultant to take the next step upwards in their career at a market leading company.

Senior SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

* Customising of SAP SD module* Close interaction with stakeholders and key users * Full project lifecycle implementations, project management responsibilities or progression opportunities

Requirements:

*multiple years SAP SD customising experience * Further experience within either SAP CS, SAP LE, or SAP MM modules a big advantage thought not a requirement *B1 German or better.

Rewards:

*Amazing brand name company *Excellent remuneration and compensation with great progression and learning options *Friendly and interesting team based opportunities available at fixed global clients

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic SENIOR SD Consultant Position. Interviewing NOW. For more information call me now on +44 (0)7970 557 304 or email me your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Feedback always provided.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/SAPSD/C/M/04/05

Senior Infrastructure Analyst #Aa1 - Global Brand Name Company!

Senior Infrastructure Analyst urgently sought by leading Global Brand-Name End-User Company to work in their fantastic New offices in Baden-Wurrtemberg; acting as a senior and leading member of their IT team.

This is a great chance for an experienced Infrastrucuture Analyst or Operations Manager to take the next step upwards in their career at a global market leader in their field.

Senior Infrastructure Analyst

Responsibilities: *Initiate, plan & manage infrastructure change *Strategic planning, controlling, maintenance and monitoring of the regions infrastructure services *Quality control of operation activities *Manage services lifecycles and roadmaps

Requirements: *Excellent understanding of infrastructure and related functions *Expertise in IT Service Management best practices - ideally Six Sigma, though not a must *A2 German or better.

Reward: *Amazing brand name end-user company *Excellent remuneration and compensation *Friendly and interesting work in companies beautiful new offices

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic SENIOR Infrastructure Analyst Position. Interviewing NOW. For more information call me now on +44 (0)7970 557 304 or email me your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Instant feedback provided.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/INFRA/DE/BW/4/02

Development Lead/Scrum Master - JAVA- London

Our client, a global consultancy are looking for experienced Development Leads/Scrum Masters to manage development projects for Tier 1 Clients.

The Development Leads / Scrum Masters will be expected to lead the engineers in solving technical challenges for the business. You will draw from your technical expertise to mentor engineers, and provide leadership & new processes, whilst helping define project metrics and requirements.

You will have experience in solving technical issues on performance, scalability and enterprise system architecture, and the Development Manager is expected to providing independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.

This is a very good opportunity to join a leading consultancy with some top projects.

Please send your CV to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/DL001

My client is undertaking a period of change to meet ambitious global targets. A key part of the transformation is the replacement of legacy core banking platforms with a new single system. To support the programme changes are required to the Finance's business, technology and organisational architectures.

These changes include:

* New enterprise transformation layers and system interfaces.
* Enhanced management and local regulatory reporting systems.
* Enhanced risk management processes and systems.
* Roll-out of new general ledgers.

The Key Qualifications needed are;

• Accountancy qualification (must be fully qualified)
• Banking experience (Investment, Wealth or Retail)
• Degree from a top university

London / Permanent / Ref: PB - 7 - 01

Senior QA Analyst - Selenium/Automation, Agile, eCommerce - London

Our client, a global online retailer, is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join their fast-paced Agile team. The Senior QA will contribute to continued improvement of the company QA Test strategy and best practice, as well as acting as a lead on project-based work in Scrum teams.

Working in a mixture of manual and automation Testing with Selenium and have knowledge of Agile/XP practices, the Senior QA Analyst must have excellent working knowledge of writing test scripts, unit testing, 3rd party integration testing, use of SQL to query databases and run test cases and most importantly Automated testing using Selenium. You will also be responsible for mentoring and educating more junior QA Analysts.

You will have strong experience in Agile development groups, and you will have experience working in an large, complex online organisation. Candidates with experience in neither will NOT be considered. Experience around TDD or BDD is highly preferable.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/QAAN

Development Lead/Scrum Master - ASP.NET, C#, Agile - London

Our client, a global leader in the ecommerce and online space, requires an experienced Development Lead/Scrum Master to manage a .Net, C# and SQL-aligned development group in the midst of a number of large projects.

The Development Lead/Scrum Master will be expected to lead the engineers in solving technical challenges for the business. You will draw from your technical expertise to mentor engineers, and provide leadership & new processes, whilst helping define project metrics and requirements.

You will have experience in solving technical issues on performance, scalability and enterprise system architecture, and the Development Manager is expected to providing independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.

You will be Agile-minded and degree educated with 3-5 years of ASP.NET and/or C# development experience building large scale distributed systems. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in a major player in the online space.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/DEVLD

Database (SQL Server) Developer - eCommerce - Birmingham

Our client, a globally recognised eCommerce organisation, is looking for an experienced and passionate SQL Database/Business Intelligence Developer to be pivotal in the planning and design of their Datawarehouse and CRM solutions.

The Database/Business Intelligence Developer will have solid Data Warehousing experience in an E-commerce/online fast paced environment. They must have at least 5 years experience using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 BI Stack. The Database Developer must have in-depth knowledge of Data Warehousing methodologies, techniques and Datamodelling tools.

The Database Developer should be a strong SSIS Developer as well as have a lot of experience with T-SQL. They will be using SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, including SSAS.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

Midlands / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/DBDVB

This leading Global IT Services Company is looking for a highly experienced Oracle Application Administrator to join one of their top tier clients, based in Switzerland, on an initial 6 month basis. The key focus will be around Database Administration, Data Movement tools, Performance Tuning, Upgrades and Migrations. The successful candidate must demonstrate past experience of the former as well as the ability to communicate with key stakeholders and other technical individuals.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: TJ/OAA

Process Consultant UPSTREAM Oil & GAS UAE. My client requires a Process Consultant for their Technology Infrastructure Services. You must have excellent knowledge of upstream processes with at least 10 years of experience demonstrating proven specialization in more than one of the upstream areas (such as drilling, geology, geophysics, production). Should be well familiar with upstream market dynamics, current technological trends and their IT implications. Should be able to engage with senior upstream client business stakeholders and articulate the organization's IT capabilities in terms of solving business problems. Should be able to work as consultant on large IT projects for upstream clients. Excellent knowledge on business process. Should have oil & gas or related service industry experience of at least 3 years. Should be able to perform the role of functional lead in the projects (development/support). Ability to train the team members on domain.

Asiapac / Contract / Ref: BenP:UAE: Process

Service Desk Engineer (Linux & Application Support)

£30,000 - £38,400 p/a

London

This market-leading eCommerce Company is looking for a highly proactive Service Desk/ Helpdesk Engineer with a focus on Linux and Open Source Applications within a 24/7 environment to join their growing team and provide 1st line support to a number of top tier clients and high street names.

The Service Desk/ Helpdesk Analyst will support, validate and troubleshoot bugs & issues before assigning them to Engineering teams, and troubleshoot and resolve issues via ticketing systems.

Working across a range of eCommerce best practices and technologies (HTML, Linux/ Unix, Javascript in particular), you will respond to support requests, build relationships with customers, and see problems through to completion.

You will have at least 2 years' worth of previous experience as a Help Desk Analyst or Service Desk Analyst, with experience in the Internet/ Ecommerce sector highly desirable. A strong log reading and troubleshooting skillset is crucial, as is previous knowledge with Unix/Linux and application support.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing organisation.

If you would like to explore this opportunity further please contact Tom Johnston via Tom.Johnston@alexanderash.com, with your CV attached.

London / Permanent / Ref: TJ/SDE

Business Analyst, Comverse, Jersey

Business Analyst is required by my client to work on a Comverse Project. You will be responsible for understanding and determining the business needs and the definition of the functional and non-functional business requirements.

You will ideally need to have experience working on a Comverse project, as you will be writing work instructions for business users on convergent billing systems. You will also carry out funtional and technical analysis of implemented solutions with a good understanding of batch processes and underlying databases in order to support questions from stakeholders. You will need to work with business streams to translate business requirements and daily task operation into operational processes on the new system.

The role will paty £350 per day as a day rate with £90 per day on top of this for daily expenses. You will also be able to claim back a return flight once every two weeks.

For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/BAC001

Our client, a growing cross sector consultancy, is looking for two high calibre PMOs top work on a new programme for a retail sector client in the North West of London. The ideal candidates will have experience of the full project lifecycle, and hands on business analysis experience. The role will involve the implementation of new processes in order to increrase the efficiency across their IT group.

Please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Contract / Ref: GM-PMO-338

LEAD INFORMATION SECURITY CONSULTANT #Aa1 - International Brand Name Company. - Frankfurt

Lead Information Security Consultant urgently sought by leading international company in Frankfurt to work in their fantastic offices as part of their IT division, in a team based project environment.

This is a great chance for an Information Security Consultant to take the next step up in their career to Lead Consultant and in interesting position with great rewards:

Lead Information Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Pre-Sales to C-Level
• Managing Supply Teams
• Information Security Strategy Development
• Workshops

Requirements:

• High level of experience in Information Security - IT technologies
• Some experience in consultancy or pre-sales
• A2 German or better.

Reward:

• Fantastic brand name company
• Excellent remuneration and compensation
• Friendly and interesting work

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic Information Security, Lead Position. Interviewing NOW. For more information call me on +44 7970 557 304 or email me your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Quick feedback provided.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/DE/INFSEC/F6/001

Change Manager Business Analyst, Project / Portfolio Manager London. I have a client that requires a strong Change Manager who can help them transform their IT PMO (processes and tools). They have a PMO function but our client feels that the scope can be increased in order to add greater value and provide better support to the operational running of the department, projects and programmes. They aim to remove a lot of the administrative activity and embed more value adding services, as well as improve the rigour and completeness of governance processes and tools used across the IT Group. You will require strong business analysis skills, some experience of IT portfolio management & reporting, strong interpersonal skills, you must be able to work across multi-disciplinary teams, and have significant experience of the Project Management Lifecycle. You must have excellent document presentation skills, Process Mapping / Re-engineering etc. You must have a consulting approach, no specific industry expertise required.

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:ChangeManager

EMC Storage Backup-Spezialist, Design Implementation & Build Engineer. Unser Kunde benötigt dringend eine EMC Storage Backup-Spezialist mit Erfahrung in der Konzeption, Umsetzung und Erstellung. Sie müssen starke Erfahrung mit Data Domain, Spectra Logical Tape Library und EMC Networker besetzen. Sie müssen mindestens 2 oder 3 ziemlich großen Projekt Implementierungen und erstellungen durchgeführt haben. Dies ist eine dringende Aufgabe. Startdatum: Nächste Woche / SBWM. Schicken Sie mir bitte Ihren Lebenslauf oder rufen Sie mich an, um die Rolle so schnell wie möglich zu diskutieren! Ben Price +44 (0) 207 688 8432

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:EMCNetworker

Sharepoint Consultant / Architect, Home based with client travel, Sharepoint 2013

Sharepoint Consultant / Architect is required by our client a global outsourcer. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Sharepoint 2013 on a global scale. They require a consultant / architect with a very strong Sharepoint background specifically on the Infrastructure side. You will be working with a team designing new products and services in Sharepoint 2013, building a portfolio of solutions which will then be implemented with clients.

You will need to demonstrate the abiity to consult with the client on the differences between Sharepoint 2010 and 2013, and looking at what they would need to do from an Infrastructure perspective to ensure all upgrades where successfully delivered.

This role will be split working from home, and on customer site in Holland. This is an exciting opportunity to work on one of the largest Sharepoint projects happening globally right now.

For further information please send me through your CV and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/SA01

Project Manager - Front Office Applications - £90,000 base

Each project is uniquely different and a high calibre project manager is required to own the full implementation process, including leading teams of developers and Business Analysts to ensure strict timelines are met and project milestones delivered within scope and budget.

To be successful in this position, you will have experience of working for a systems vendor and driving forward implementation within a large financial institution. You will be a strong communicator with a consultative approach to project management.

To be considered for this position, please forward you details.

London / Permanent / Ref: CA-2503-PMIMP

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global financial services organisation, is looking for a number of high calibre change manegement professionals to work on a large scale HR transformation programme in Birmingham. The roles will range from business analysis, through to project management and also business architecture. It is ideal for the candidate have experience of using Peoplesoft, from either a user perspective or implementation perspective. There will be anumber of different workstreams and projects taking place, focusing on; Talent Aquisition and Rewards Management.

Please send your CV through in order to be considered.

AlexanderAsh is acting as an agency.

Midlands / Permanent / Ref: GM3449

Development Lead/Scrum Master - ASP.NET, C#, Agile - London

Our client, a global leader in the ecommerce and online space, requires an experienced Development Lead/Scrum Master to manage a .Net, C# and SQL-aligned development group in the midst of a number of large projects.

The Development Lead/Scrum Master will be expected to lead the engineers in solving technical challenges for the business. You will draw from your technical expertise to mentor engineers, and provide leadership & new processes, whilst helping define project metrics and requirements.

You will have experience in solving technical issues on performance, scalability and enterprise system architecture, and the Development Manager is expected to providing independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.

You will be Agile-minded and degree educated with 3-5 years of ASP.NET and/or C# development experience building large scale distributed systems. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in a major player in the online space.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/DEVLD

Senior QA Analyst - Selenium/Automation, Agile, eCommerce - London

Our client, a global online retailer, is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join their fast-paced Agile team. The Senior QA will contribute to continued improvement of the company QA Test strategy and best practice, as well as acting as a lead on project-based work in Scrum teams.

Working in a mixture of manual and automation Testing with Selenium and have knowledge of Agile/XP practices, the Senior QA Analyst must have excellent working knowledge of writing test scripts, unit testing, 3rd party integration testing, use of SQL to query databases and run test cases and most importantly Automated testing using Selenium. You will also be responsible for mentoring and educating more junior QA Analysts.

You will have strong experience in Agile development groups, and you will have experience working in an large, complex online organisation. Candidates with experience in neither will NOT be considered. Experience around TDD or BDD is highly preferable.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/QAAN

Our client, a global financial services organisation, is looking for a number of high calibre change manegement professionals to work on a large scale HR transformation programme in Birmingham. The roles will range from business analysis, through to project management and also business architecture. It is ideal for the candidate have experience of using Peoplesoft, from either a user perspective or implementation perspective. There will be anumber of different workstreams and projects taking place, focusing on; Talent Aquisition and Rewards Management.

Please send your CV through in order to be considered.

AlexanderAsh is acting as an agency.

Midlands / Permanent / Ref: GM3449

Sharepoint Consultant / Architect, Home based with client travel, Sharepoint 2013

Sharepoint Consultant / Architect is required by our client a global outsourcer. They require a consultant / architect with a very strong Sharepoint background, on the Infrastructure side. You will be working with a team designing new products and services in Sharepoint 2013, building a portfolio of solutions which will then be implemented with clients.

You will need to demonstrate the abiity to consult with the client on the differences between Sharepoint 2010 and 2013, and looking at what they would need to do from an Infrastructure perspective to ensure all upgrades where successfully delivered.

This role will be split working from home, and on customer site in Holland. This is an exciting opportunity to work on one of the largest Sharepoint projects happening globally right now.

For further information please send me through your CV and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/SA01

Linux Administrator Storage Backup Unix Networking. A Global IT Services Client requires an experienced Linux Administrator with experience of Storage & Backups, you must have very strong Linux experience. This role will require fully expensed travel to Western Europe plus you will be extensively trained on HP StoreOnce Backup products. When travelling you will be paid an additional daily sum.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in designing or planning the HP StoreOnce solution implementation
• Onsite implementation of HP StoreOnce Backup products (Installation & Configuration)
• Provide consultation on HP's StoreOnce backup implementation to the customers
• Assist in integration HP StoreOnce with customers data backup infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues while setting up backup

Skills Needed:

• Strong Linux Administration experience
• Strong Unix Networking experience
• Good experience on Commercial Backup presently available in the industry
• Ability to effective communicate with the customer

Other Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 75% of time and sometimes on short notice
• Work Permit/Visa: Appropriate work visa to work in UK and Europe

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:Storage

Programme Manager, eCommerce Transformation

Programme Manager is required by my client, a leading retailer aiming to continue their substantial growth in the online space.

Due to a huge demand for their products and services, the Programme Manager will be able to understand high level functional requirements, and engage with C level stakeholders to ensure change and development in their eCommerce platform and capabilities.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions.

You will be an experienced Programme Manager with a strong background in transformation programmes previously. You will be Agile minded, and have the personality to drive change across a complex, international organisation.

Email me now to apply for this fantastic positioin of Programme Manager.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major player in the ecommerce and retail space. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/DE/PRG/eT

Oracle Trainer - Oracle Retail grocery

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: JSNA-ORCTRAN-02

Business Analyst TOM Retail Pricing & Promotions. My client requires a Business Analyst with grocery retail experience and experience of producing deliverables for a Target Operating Model, specifically pricing and promotions. You must have experience of producing process maps and running workshops, and you must be a problem solver and solution orientated. Please send me your cv and call me asap to discuss this urgent role: ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:BARetailTOM

Business Analyst Oracle Retail Master Data Management.My client requires a Business Analyst with strong experience in Oracle Retail and Master Data Management. You must have must have grocery retail experience and have strong consulting experience or at least a consultative approach. You must be hands on and a strong problem-solver and solution oriented. This is an urgent role so please send me your cv and call me asap to discuss the role in more detail. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:OracleBIMDMReta

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Senior QA Analyst - Selenium/Automation, Agile, eCommerce - London

Our client, a global online retailer, is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join their fast-paced Agile team. The Senior QA will contribute to continued improvement of the company QA Test strategy and best practice, as well as acting as a lead on project-based work in Scrum teams.

Working in a mixture of manual and automation Testing with Selenium and have knowledge of Agile/XP practices, the Senior QA Analyst must have excellent working knowledge of writing test scripts, unit testing, 3rd party integration testing, use of SQL to query databases and run test cases and most importantly Automated testing using Selenium. You will also be responsible for mentoring and educating more junior QA Analysts.

You will have strong experience in Agile development groups, and you will have experience working in an large, complex online organisation. Candidates with experience in neither will NOT be considered. Experience around TDD or BDD is highly preferable.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/QAAN

Development Lead/Scrum Master - ASP.NET, C#, Agile - London

Our client, a global leader in the ecommerce and online space, requires an experienced Development Lead/Scrum Master to manage a .Net, C# and SQL-aligned development group in the midst of a number of large projects.

The Development Lead/Scrum Master will be expected to lead the engineers in solving technical challenges for the business. You will draw from your technical expertise to mentor engineers, and provide leadership & new processes, whilst helping define project metrics and requirements.

You will have experience in solving technical issues on performance, scalability and enterprise system architecture, and the Development Manager is expected to providing independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.

You will be Agile-minded and degree educated with 3-5 years of ASP.NET and/or C# development experience building large scale distributed systems. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in a major player in the online space.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/DEVLD

Sharepoint Consultant / Architect, Home based with client travel, Sharepoint 2013

Sharepoint Consultant / Architect is required by our client a global outsourcer. They require a consultant / architect with a very strong Sharepoint background to application level. You will be involved in designing new products and services in Sharepoint 2013, building a portfolio of solutions which will then be implemented with clients.

This is working with clients on a global scale, and you will need to be able to define and sell concepts for new / upgraded services (application development, search integrated services, application operations, Rapid Application Development) all based on the SP2013 family of products.

You will need to demonstrate the abiity to consult with the client on the differences between Sharepoint 2010 and 2013.

This role will be split working from home, and on customer site in Holland. This is an exciting opportunity to work on one of the largest Sharepoint projects happening globally right now.

For further information please send me through your CV and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/SA01

Development Manager. London, Consulting

Development Manager is required by our client a global consultancy. They are looking for individuals who are happy working as client leads, and being able to work at any stage of the lifecycle of large- technology solutions. You will be leading teams which will be a mixture of an on-shore, near-shore and off-shore, as well as using various delivery methodologies including Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall.

The projects will vary in size and scope and the technologies that will be required by the end client, and this is all dependent on the solution required by the end client.

You will need to have experience of a few of the following technologies:-

Software Development: PHP, Java / J2EE, JavaScript / HTML 5 / CSS, JQuery, Flex, XML / XSLT

• Content Management: Adobe CQ, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Oracle UCM, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, OpenText WCM, Alfresco, Sitecore
• Portal: Oracle Weblogic & Webcenter, IBM Websphere, Liferay
• Search: Google Site Search, Search Engine Optimisation, FAST, Autonomy, Lucene/Solr,
• Web Analytics: Google Analytics, Adobe SiteCatalyst (Omniture)
• Commerce: ATG, IBM Websphere Commerce, Microsoft Commerce Server, Hybris
• CDN: Akamai, Limelight
• Devices: iOS (iPhone / iPad), Android / Android Tablet, set-top boxes
• Cloud / Hosting: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Rackspace

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on some very large scale projects, and be able to work with multiple clients.

For more information please contact Ram Basra with your CV and I will be in contact with you as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/DM001

Linux Administrator Storage Backup Unix Networking. A Global IT Services Client requires an experienced Linux Administrator with experience of Storage & Backups, you must have very strong Linux experience. This role will require fully expensed travel to Western Europe plus you will be extensively trained on HP StoreOnce Backup products. When travelling you will be paid an additional daily sum.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in designing or planning the HP StoreOnce solution implementation
• Onsite implementation of HP StoreOnce Backup products (Installation & Configuration)
• Provide consultation on HP's StoreOnce backup implementation to the customers
• Assist in integration HP StoreOnce with customers data backup infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues while setting up backup

Skills Needed:

• Strong Linux Administration experience
• Strong Unix Networking experience
• Good experience on Commercial Backup presently available in the industry
• Ability to effective communicate with the customer

Other Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 75% of time and sometimes on short notice
• Work Permit/Visa: Appropriate work visa to work in UK and Europe

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:Storage

LEAD INFORMATION SECURITY CONSULTANT #Aa1 - International Brand Name Company. - Frankfurt

Lead Information Security Consultant urgently sought by leading international brand-name company in Frankfurt to work in their fantastic offices as part of their IT division, in a team based project environment.

This is a great chance for an Information Security Consultant to take the next step up in their career to Lead Consultant and in interesting position with great rewards:

Lead Information Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Pre-Sales to C-Level
• Managing Supply Teams
• Information Security Strategy Development
• Workshops

Requirements:

• High level of experience in Information Security - IT technologies
• Some experience in consultancy or pre-sales
• A2 German or better.

Reward:

• Fantastic brand name company
• Excellent remuneration and compensation
• Friendly and interesting work

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic Information Security, Lead Position. Interviewing NOW. For more information call me on +44 7970 557 304 or email me your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Quick feedback provided.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/DE/INFSEC/F6/001

Technical Product Manager - Digital Channels - £65,000

My client, a leading software vendor/systems integration company who specialise in providing a broad portfolio of banking, treasury, trading and risk solutions, are currently seeking an exceptional Technical Product Manager to provide technical input to the Product Management Process across the retail banking environment.

As a technical Product Manager, your day to day responsibilities will include;

• Acting as the primary technical expert across retail banking products
• Evaluating 3rd party technology solutions and working with vendors to elevate technical integration issues for existing products
• Developing an in-depth knowledge of competitor products
• Collaborate with Engineers and QA;s to define software and testing requirements
• Prioritise and defects

To be successful, you will be able to demonstrate exceptional understanding of;

• Architecting and delivering enterprise level product management solutions
• Mobile operating systems (Android/iOS)
• Multi Channel technologies
• Web 2.0, .net and Java development
• Middleware (message driven)

To be considered for this exciting role, please forward your details today.

Alexander Ash Consulting are acting as a search practice.

London / Permanent / Ref: CA-1403-DCPROD

QA Lead - Software Development - £60,000 base

My client, a leading software vendor/systems integration company who specialise in providing a broad portfolio of banking, treasury, trading and risk solutions, are currently seeking an exceptional QA Lead to work alongside development teams during the definition and development of software, as well as act as the primary point of day to day contact into the software development function.

The key responsibilities will include;

Actively monitoring the prospective and ongoing software development activities; Participating in design and development meetings; Identifying and proposing systematic breakdowns of the test activities for each individual development; Leading defect status expediting sessions with the project managers responsible for the delivery of the software; Delivery of tactical test automation and utilities to support software testing; Prepare briefs for other resources; Define test data patterns to support the testing.

To be considered for this role, you will be able to demonstrate extensive experience of;

System testing within a product or software development organisation (Not UAT testing); Ground up test identification (incl. inconsistency/incompleteness/informality/fluidity - working from business requirements and/or system specifications); Construction and execution of SQL queries to interrogate database states; Interpretation of XML schemas / XML and in the use of XML aware editors to construct XML messages; Use of VBA for the preparation of advanced macros for office applications; programming in a mainstream compiled strongly typed programming language; Test automation (Commercial thick client test automation tools such as QTP, Functional web-client test automation tools such as Selenium, load test tools such as the Grinder or LoadRunner); Systematic software test case selection and specification; Operating in a defect coordination / management role

To be considered fo this exciting opportunity, forward your details today.

Alexander Ash Consulting are acting as a search practice.

London / Permanent / Ref: CA-1403-QA

eCommerce Consultant - Global Consulting Firm - London

Global Consultancy require a number of talented and engaging eCommerce Consultants to join a newly formed group leading bids, pre sales engagements and transformation projects across Digital and eCommerce technologies.

The core remit of the eCommerce Consultant will be to translate business needs into effective and resilient technology solutions, and seeing these through to the point of BAU (build, test and implementation). Consultants will also help design solutions, transition clients towards their new solutions, and maintain a high client focus throughout the full project lifecycle.

Previous exposure to Business Analysis and/or Internal Consulting in a UK Products organisation (retail, consumer goods, travel etc) is required, as is a solid understanding of technical change around areas like Java, ATG, SOA is highly preferential.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/ECOMCON

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

IT Project Manager - SAP SD/MM #Aa1 - Massive Global Brand Name Manufacturing Co. - Munich

IT Project Manager urgently sought by leading global manufacturing company in Munich to plan and run the company's international SAP roll-out. While primarily a Project Management position, with multi-project responsibility, occasional hands-on SAP SD/MM involvement is likely required.

Responsibilities:

• Project Management of European-wide SAP roll-out
• Special involvement in SAP Logstics modules - SAP SD & SAP MM

Requirements

• Very experienced in project management
• Experience in hands-on SAP SD/MM customisation
• A2 German or better.

Reward:

• Fantastic brand name company
• Excellent remuneration and compensation
• Really friendly team
• Lesser / flexible travel requirements

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic SAP Project Management position. Interviewing ASAP! For more information call me on +44 7970 557 304 or email me your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Instant feedback guaranteed!

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/SAP/PM/M8/002

Web/Digital Consultant

My client who are a global Tier 1 consultancy are urgently seeking a number of Web/Digital Consultants across a number of disciplines including positions for business analyts, project managers and product managers,
Typical Web/Digital Consultant roles will involve working within a team to perform some or all of the following:

• Delivery of industry-leading web solutions that support millions of users, define new ways of consuming content and provide innovative or surprising customer experiences
• Contribute to different phases of the development lifecycle, from strategy and planning to design, build, test, deploy using a variety of Agile methodologies from Scrum to Kanban
• Design and implementation of eCommerce, social media, corporate collaboration and consumer portal architectures across an exciting range of cutting-edge devices and platforms
• Planning, designing and building the multi-platform web applications and Content Management products with other standard software products
• Project management, business development and requirements analysis

Web/Digital Consultant

London / Permanent / Ref: SS WEB-DIGITAL

Oracle Financials Functional Analyst R12 #Aa1 - Global Brand Name Manufacturing Co. - Munich

Oracle Financials Business Analyst urgently sought by leading international manufacturing company in Munich to work in their fantastic offices as part of their central IT department in a friendly team based environment.

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, set up and upgrade of the Oracle E-Business Suite
• Supervision of Financial and HR subsystems
• Creation of technical documents
• 2nd line support

Requirements

• Experience in Oracle eBS, Oracle Financials, and R11 / R12
• Friendly. Team player
• A2 German or better.

Reward:

• Fantastic brand name company
• Excellent remuneration and compensation
• Friendly and interesting team based project work

Click apply NOW to be considered for this fantastic Oracle Financials - Business Analyst position. Interviewing NOW/ASAP. For more information call me on +44 7970 557 304 or email your CV to: ruben@alexanderash.com. Instant feedback guaranteed!

Germany / Permanent / Ref: RW/Oracle/M8/001

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Linux Administrator Storage Backup Unix Networking. A Global IT Services Client requires an experienced Linux Administrator with experience of Storage & Backups, you must have very strong Linux experience. This role will require fully expensed travel to Western Europe plus you will be extensively trained on HP StoreOnce Backup products. When travelling you will be paid an additional daily sum.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in designing or planning the HP StoreOnce solution implementation
• Onsite implementation of HP StoreOnce Backup products (Installation & Configuration)
• Provide consultation on HP's StoreOnce backup implementation to the customers
• Assist in integration HP StoreOnce with customers data backup infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues while setting up backup

Skills Needed:

• Strong Linux Administration experience
• Strong Unix Networking experience
• Good experience on Commercial Backup presently available in the industry
• Ability to effective communicate with the customer

Other Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 75% of time and sometimes on short notice
• Work Permit/Visa: Appropriate work visa to work in UK and Europe

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:Storage

Development Manager, London

Development Manager is required by my client a leading ecommerce organization. Due to there success, they are expanding their engineering practice.

This has created the need to bring on 3 Development Managers. You will be directing and supporting the delivery teams for your platform/product and ensuring work is prioritized effectively within your team, individual/team objectives are consistently allocated and achieved on a day to day basis. The team will be made up of .NET Developers, Front End Developers and QA's.

You will need experience of working closely with Quality Assurance & Testing to advocate and adopt development standards and support testing, user acceptance, training and knowledge sharing. Ideally they are looking for certified Scrum Masters, with strong facilitation and leadership skills including proficiency in delivering standard Agile ceremonies, such as retrospectives, reviews and Scrum planning sessions

It would be highly beneficial if you have Transactional, high volume website, ideally eCommerce, experience.

This is a very exciting opportunity to join a fast paced environment and a client who are building a very good engineering practice.

For more information please send through your details to Ram Basra and I will get in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/DM01

Sharepoint Consultant / Architect, Home based with client travel, Sharepoint 2013

Sharepoint Consultant / Architect is required by our client a global outsourcer. They require a consultant / architect with a very strong Sharepoint background to application level. You will be involved in designing new products and services in Sharepoint 2013, building a portfolio of solutions which will then be implemented with clients.

This is working with clients on a global scale, and you will need to be able to define and sell concepts for new / upgraded services (application development, search integrated services, application operations, Rapid Application Development) all based on the SP2013 family of products.

This role will be split working from home, and on customer site in Holland. This is an exciting opportunity to work on one of the largest Sharepoint projects happening globally right now.

For further information please send me through your CV and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/SA01

Release Analyst - Ecommerce

£25,000 - £30,000 + Bonus + Benefits

London

This market-leading Sports Betting/ Gaming Company, based in London, is looking for an ambitious Release Analyst, looking for an opportunity to push forward with their career within a fast-paced environment working directly with multiple teams to coordinate the release and delivery of internal and client-specific software related to the company's core Ecommerce platform.

The focus is around release management support, helping to imporve the efficiency of release deployment, documentation and process improvement.

To be successful you must demonstrate the following:

• Delivery of Web applications within an Ecommerce environment
• ITIL, Release and Deployment Management, Service Design, Service Transition
• Version control - GIT, CVS or equivalent
• Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, JIRA, RT
• A pro-active attitude to go above and beyond expectations
• An ability to interact with individuals at all levels
• Impeccable presentation and communication skills

The following is also highly desirable:

• Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS)

If you would like to explore this further please contact Tom Johnston via tom.johnston@alexanderash.com, with your CV attached

London / Permanent / Ref: TJ/RA

Linux Administrator Storage Backup Unix Networking. A Global IT Services Client requires an experienced Linux Administrator with experience of Storage & Backups, you must have very strong Linux experience. This role will require fully expensed travel to Western Europe plus you will be extensively trained on HP StoreOnce Backup products. When travelling you will be paid an additional daily sum.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in designing or planning the HP StoreOnce solution implementation
• Onsite implementation of HP StoreOnce Backup products (Installation & Configuration)
• Provide consultation on HP's StoreOnce backup implementation to the customers
• Assist in integration HP StoreOnce with customers data backup infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues while setting up backup

Skills Needed:

• Strong Linux Administration experience
• Strong Unix Networking experience
• Good experience on Commercial Backup presently available in the industry
• Ability to effective communicate with the customer

Other Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 75% of time and sometimes on short notice
• Work Permit/Visa: Appropriate work visa to work in UK and Europe

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:Storage

My Client a Big 4 consultancy are looking for a HR transformation Project Manager to join their ever growing Global Team. This is a fantastic and unique opportunity to join a Big 4 consultancy, who are a leading organisation within the HR and People change space.

You will need to have experience in:

• Demonstration of a delivery across the project lifecycle for multiple HR Transformation or People related change programmes
• HR functional knowledge and understanding of the full HR Employee proposition
• Business analysis techniques, organisation design, HR technology specification and/or implementation.
• Managing Senior Stakeholders
• Workday or top tier HR Software (SaaS) as-a Service implementation
• Project leadership with a strong understanding of project management approaches

London / Permanent / Ref: PB - 4 - 01

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Senior Web Developer, HTML / CSS / Javascript, London

My Client a global consultancy are looking for Web Developers to join a growing team. This expansion is due to an ever increasing client base, and some very exciting cutting edge projects are in the pipeline.

They are looking for Developers with very strong hands-on knowledge of HTML(5), CSS(3), OO JavaScript, AJAX and XML, as well as having strong experience with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery.

You will need to have experience of translating wireframces in flexible and usable code templates, as well as good understanding of cross-browser / cross-platform compatibility issues. They are very strong on web standards and best practices.

It would be very useful if you have experience developing for multiple devices such as mobile and tablets.

This is a great opportunity to join a consultancy who pride themselves on innovation, and using the latest and best technologies. The roles are available at all levels from Junior Developers right up to Team Lead.

For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact with you as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/SWD01

Tester - Retail Software - Retalix Storeline, London

Tester is required by my client who are a global organization and provider of services in the retail sector.

They are looking for a Tester who will be able to write scripts to test various types of software, but ideally Retalix Storeline or Storepoint.

You will be involved in the production of Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Status reports.

As a must you will need to have worked on testing Retail software for a major retail organization.

For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will give you a call as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RTER001

Storage Consultant SAN NAS Hamburg Germany. A leading company requires a Storage specialist who can design and implement Storage, SAN & NAS solutions, you will take up DR assessment & implementation engagement which invilves a detailed study to recommend the tatical and strategical solution to the customer. You must have experience in the following, Sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies, (For any vendor product) EMC VNX Unified Storage Backup Technologies: Data Domain, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker, installing, upgrading & maintaining storage environment.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:San

Team Lead, SQL DBA - eCommerce - London

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Lead, SQL DBA to join a fast-growing, innovative E-commerce organisation based in London. Acting as a Lead on SQL related projects and support work, and assisting in the ongoing development of more junior DBAs, The Lead SQL DBA will play a key role in the midst of substantial growth within the organisation.

The Lead SQL DBA will need experience working in a high OLTP environment and implementing and Transactional Replication. They will also have significant experience of using MS SQL 2005, SQL Server 2008 and strong T-SQL. The successful individual will have a background (ideally 7-8 years +) in development database administration and ideally have previous experience working in the ecommerce or online space.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing, and hugely successful organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/LSQDBA

Development Manager Agile Scrum XP Kanban ecommerce London. A leading global ecommerce company is seeking to hire a Development Manager that enjoys working in a fast paced environment utilising their Agile Scrum, XP and Kanban experience. This is a hands of role but you must have a strong understanding and experience with .Net, SQL, C#. You must be able to motivate and mentor Agile teams of developers in a highly charged environment. This role guarantees excitement, rewards and rapid promotion. Please call me asap to discuss the spec and the company in detail. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:DevMngr

Principal Consultant - Managed services - London

Our client a leading global outsourcer is looking for a Principal consultant from a managed services background. As the principal consultant you will have good experiences with regards to understanding the clients managed services deliverables, Lead Managed Service technical point of contact for technical governance. Act as the Client technical authority for engaging relevant managed service technical personnel. Undertake roadmap sessions for the client. Ensure Technical leaders are following standards and processes. Work with the technical teams to ensure they are focused on efficient delivery of technical services and highlight managed services technical risks.

The successful candidate will have regular meetings with Managed Service client, to discuss on-going projects. Assist with Managed Service Pre-Sales technical enquiries & attend Customer opportunity / strategy meetings. You will work with Account team and Service managers on account to identify opportunities.

To be successful in this position you will need to have a minimum of 5 years experience of managed Services. Demonstrable ability to provide input into commercial/technical documents and to develop solution specific business cases. You must have effective delivery of a service outcome using the clients Service factory methodology. Use your commercial awareness to gain new business on managed Service accounts. You must possess knowledge and experience of a clients datacenter environment and have the experience of working within a large organisation with more than 1000 IT users.

If you feel that this role is suitable, please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-PC-SM-01

Oracle Business Analyst - Middlesex

Our client a global hosting organisation is looking for an oracle business analyst to serve as a liasion between the global CFO group and the global technical team. As the business analyst you will gather and document the business processes, system and functional requirements of a particular product. You will assist in user stories, use cases and test scenarios and UAT.

To be successful in this role you will need to have a Bachelor's degree in business or a related field. Upto 3 years experience as a Business analyst. You will possess an intermediate level knowledge of Accounting encompassed with an understanding of general ledger, financial statements, account payable, account recievable and tax practices.

You must have working knowledge of Oracle R-12 accounting, particularly Fixed assets and general ledger experience which is mandatory.

If you feel that you are a suitable candidate, please get in tocuh by sending you CV + coverletter to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

South East / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - BA - ORC - 01

Telecoms Project Manager- SCRUM

My client who are an international communications company are searching for a Telecoms Project Manager to work across multiple, complex, cross-functional projects within their Business Intelligence practice. You will have experience of delivering multiple projects concurrently in an Agile / Scrum environment and be adept at dealing with ambiguity and change requests.

You must have strong Agile project management experience within a SCRUM environment and any knowledge of Microstrategy or Oracle Data Warehousing is beneficial.

Telecoms Project Manager- SCRUM

South East / Contract / Ref: SS TEL SCRUM

Technical Product Manager - Digital Channels - £65,000

My client, a leading software vendor/systems integration company who specialise in providing a broad portfolio of banking, treasury, trading and risk solutions, are currently seeking an exceptional Technical Product Manager to provide technical input to the Product Management Process across the retail banking environment.

As a technical Product Manager, your day to day responsibilities will include;

• Acting as the primary technical expert across retail banking products
• Evaluating 3rd party technology solutions and working with vendors to elevate technical integration issues for existing products
• Developing an in-depth knowledge of competitor products
• Collaborate with Engineers and QA;s to define software and testing requirements
• Prioritise and defects

To be successful, you will be able to demonstrate exceptional understanding of;

• Architecting and delivering enterprise level product management solutions
• Mobile operating systems (Android/iOS)
• Multi Channel technologies
• Web 2.0, .net and Java development
• Middleware (message driven)

To be considered for this exciting role, please forward your details today.

Alexander Ash Consulting are acting as a search practice.

London / Permanent / Ref: CA-2602-DCPROD

PMO Analyst SharePoint MS Project PowerPoint Leeds. An large organisation requires a PMO Analyst who can pull project plans together and produce a project master plan and map out the time scales. You must have excellent stakeholder management skills, SharePoint Admin experience, MS Project, Power Point, and experience from a large scale enterprise environment.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:PMO

Principal Database Engineer

My client who are an international online retailer are searching for a Principal Database Engineer. This is the top technical position responsible for all aspects of the Relational OLTP Databases, BI, ETL, Data warehousing, Structured and non-structured data. As a Principal you will work alongside the delivery team and a core of 5 other principals forming the technical governance for all Engineering and the continued improvement of tools, processes and technologies.

Principal Database Engineer

• The education and enactment of the Reference architecture across the Product development team and third party suppliers.
• To act as a technical reference point for members of the team and to provide guidance, mentoring and skills development for the members of the team.
• Support the team in the planning estimating and design of solution in accordance with best practice and the reference architecture.
• Setting and maintaining Coding standards and development practices.
• Working with the Technical Team Leads to develop a Technical lead community responsible for the furtherment of the Technical Team Lead role
• Active member of the Product development Management team, working with the team to improve and maintain the strategic and operational goals of Product Development.
• Work as an ambassador for the technical and engineering capability both internally and externally
• A keen advocate of quality and continual improvement; an agent of change.
• Work closely with the Development Team managers to ensure that training and career development of the Technical staff is aligned with the technology road map and reference architecture.
  
  Principal Database Engineer Technologies:
• SQL (T-SQL),
• Software design patterns
• Performance orientated design/domain driven design/SOA.
• Enterprise wide system design (Transactional/Merge Replication, SQL Service Broker)
• Designing database systems with 99.9% availability and uptime
• Broader Base of knowledge on the following technologies:
• Experience of non-relational data patterns and management (nosql)
• Experience of Cloud based data storage
• Database & Table Partitioning and Data Compression
• High Availability - Clustering, Mirroring, SQL Server running on VM
• SQL Server BI Tools - SSRS/SSIS/SSAS
• Physical Server Design and database optimized SAN/Drive alignment

Principal Database Engineer

London / Permanent / Ref: SS PRINCIPAL DB

PHP Developers

My client who are an international ecommerce company are urgently searching for a number of PHP Developers to maintain the legacy system's of one of their recent accquisition's. You will also be responsible for design and creating enhancements and improvements to a variety of systems from front end websites, 20M+ record catalogue systems, checkouts, order management systems to cutting edge web 3.0 semantic offerings.

The successful PHP Developers will understand the importance of analysing problems and designing solutions and will use their wealth of technical, creative and commercial experience in the team around them to achieve this.

PHP Developers

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PHP DEV

System Administrator-Linux

My client who are an international ecommerce company are searching for a System Administrator who will be responsible for systems architecture, security and support, along with specific support of LAMP based systems across several different customer propositions within the group..
The role requires supporting a variety of systems from front end websites, 20MM+ record catalogue systems, checkouts, order management systems to cutting edge web 3.0 semantic offerings.

System Administrator Requirements

• Commercial experience of:
• Linux System Administration, ideally CentOS, RedHat or SuSE
• Apache / PHP / MySQL expertise
• Windows System Administration.
• Good familiarity with TCP/IP protocols and applications.
• Great communication skills coupled with a strong desire for personal development.
• Good understanding of object oriented design patterns and distributed systems.
• Demonstrable knowledge of web standards.

Desirable

• Security, penetration testing and threat detection tools.
• Confident administering Windows Server, Active Directory and Exchange 2007/2010.
• Experience with Nagios, Nginx or Cisco software environments.
• Experience with LDAP and Microsoft Exchange.
• Understanding of cross-browser and cross-platform technical issues.
• Experience in an Agile methodology, preferably Scrum.
• Domain knowledge of ecommerce processing including search, payment processing, order processing, data protection and security.
• Understanding of scaling technologies and solutions.
• Knowledge of Books Retail and related markets.

System Administrator- Linux

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS SYS ADMIN

Implementation Manager HR Payroll Finance ERP or MS Dynamics AX.

My client has an urgent requirement for a Consultant to take a Back Office lead implementation role. The individual must ideally have MS Dynamics AX functional experience, in retail and HR/Payroll/finance or hands on ERP implementation experience in HR/Payroll/Finance which is essential. Our client is a conglomerate with businesses in several industries in the Middle East; It is experiencing a period of significant growth and the business is looking to ensure that the IT Systems and supporting infrastructure is fit for purpose and scalable for the future. MS Dynamics AX is being used to support their fashion retail business as well as their Back Office operations across the ventures business.

We are in urgent need of a MS Dynamics AX Back Office Lead who will lead the Change Management activities and work with the business and project teams to develop the overall change approach, plan and communicat e the business resource/participation requirements and manage the plan for all change management activities. He/She will also support the Change activities on the HR, Payroll and Finance work streams. Therefore we are looking for a hands-on individual who has functional knowledge of AX (in HR/Payroll & Finance) or at least ERP but who also has done change management and has strong interpersonal skills.

The role will be based in Dubai for a 6 months contract

Asiapac / Contract / Ref: NKDUBAI

*****URGENTLY REQUIRED*****

My client, a leading Tier 1 organisation requires an Oracle BI, who can perform a dual role as a Reporting Analyst. You must have experience in the Retail / FMCG sector. You must have experience with full life cycle reporting, defining data structures, configuring reports, requirements gathering, specifying data requirements and you must be able to deliver the UAT testing of reports.

If you are IMMEDIATELY available for interview and a start this week, please get in touch and apply today

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: NKOBIEE

Senior Application Packager - Outsourcing - Hatfield / Herts

Our client a global outsourcing organisation is looking for an experienced senior applications packager to work on a broad range of windows based applications. As the applications packager you will need to have experience with Softgrid / App-V. The successful candidate will be brought on to make a positive difference and contribute to the development of the services provided, responsible for the quality of packaged /sequenced applications in line with regards to the external customer requirements.

The candidate must have 4 years+ as an application packager background, with good knowledge of ICE Validation, Softgrid / App-V, working experience of SMS/SCCM, ability to demonstrate quality application packaging using MSI technology. Experience in Managed Services / consultancy environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

If you feel that you are a suitable candidate for this position, please get in touch with norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-APP-01

Storage Backup Implementation Consultant Unix Linux Bristol. A Global IT Services Client requires an experienced Storage Backup Implementation Consultant with strong experience of Unix and Linux Administration. The role will be interesting and varied involving Installations, Configurations, Designing, Planning, Consultation and some Networking, you will be extensively Lab trained on HP StoreOnce Backup products. This role will require travel to Western Europe which will be fully expensed.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in designing or planning the HP StoreOnce solution implementation
• Onsite implementation of HP StoreOnce Backup products (Installation & Configuration)
• Provide consultation on HP's StoreOnce backup implementation to the customers
• Assist in integration HP StoreOnce with customers data backup infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues while setting up backup

Skills Needed:

• Strong Linux Administration experience
• Strong Unix & Windows Networking experience
• Good experience on Commercial Backup presently available in the industry
• Ability to effective communicate with the customer

Other Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 75% of time and sometimes on short notices
• Appropriate work visa to work in UK and Western Europe required
• Selected members to undergo lab oriented 60 day product training.

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:Storage

Infrastructure Project Manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won (primarily in financial services and private sector accounts). The role will focus on complex single projects / multiple projects to the value £300k - £2m.

The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2-aligned Infrastructure project management background, change management experience, and managing the scope of projects. Projects will particularly be focused on data centre migrations or builds (UNIX, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc.), Network implementations. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - PM - 002

Unified communications architect - Outsourcer - UK Wide

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Unified communications architects / consultants to work on a broad range of Unified communications projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won. The success individual will be responsible for providing a high level of pre-sales and post-sales customer consultancy in multiple enterprise scale engagements, and act as an internal technology evangelist in the Unified Communication.

The Unified communications architect / consultant will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects.

The candidate must have 4 years+ experience as a Unified Communications Architect or as a Consultant background, particularly with great experiences with the following technologies: Avaya, Cicso telepresence or Micrsoft Lync. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - UCCA - 01

Storage Backup Consultant Unix Linux Bristol. A Global IT Services Client requires an experienced Storage Backup Implementation Consultant with strong experience of Unix and Linux. This role will require fully expensed travel to Western Europe plus you will be trained on HP StoreOnce Backup products.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in designing or planning the HP StoreOnce solution implementation
• Onsite implementation of HP StoreOnce Backup products (Installation & Configuration)
• Provide consultation on HP's StoreOnce backup implementation to the customers
• Assist in integration HP StoreOnce with customers data backup infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues while setting up backup

Skills Needed:

• Strong Linux Administration experience
• Strong Unix & Windows Networking experience
• Good experience on Commercial Backup presently available in the industry
• Ability to effective communicate with the customer

Other Requirements:

• Coverage: EMEA and AMS
• Ability to travel up to 75% of time and sometimes on short notices
• Work Permit/Visa: Appropriate work visa to work in UK and rest of the EMEA Selected members to undergo lab oriented 60 day product training.

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:Storage

Storage Backup Implementation Consultant HP StoreOnce Bristol. A Global Client requires an experienced Storage Backup Implementation Consultant with strong experience of HP StoreOnce, Unix and Linux. this role will require travel to Western Europe.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in designing or planning the HP StoreOnce solution implementation
• Onsite implementation of HP StoreOnce Backup products (Installation & Configuration)
• Provide consultation on HP's StoreOnce backup implementation to the customers
• Assist in integration HP StoreOnce with customers data backup infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues while setting up backup

Skills Needed:

• Strong Linux Administration experience
• Strong Unix & Windows Networking experience
• Good experience on Commercial Backup presently available in the industry
• Ability to effective communicate with the customer

Other Requirements:

• Coverage: EMEA and AMS
• Ability to travel up to 75% of time and sometimes on short notices
• Work Permit/Visa: Appropriate work visa to work in UK and rest of the EMEA Selected members to undergo lab oriented 60 day product training

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:Storage

Service Delivery Manager - Online Retail - ITIL

Our client, a globally successful E-commerce organisation, require a Service Delivery Manager to ensure efficient operation of the company's IT Infrastructure which supports a global multichannel retail business.

Managing the relationship between IT and a complex, multi-national retail community, you will continuously push for improvements in existing operations, recommend and drive through service improvements, as well as play a key role in continuing growth abroad, as well as manage key relationships with technical engineering teams, change functions and external stakeholders. You'll be commercially savvy, with budget management required as well.

You will have a strong ITIL background, as well as a solid technical understanding around infrastructure technology, and ideally have a solid functional understanding of the retail or eCommerce industry.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SDM1

Project Manager Mobile Network Berkshire. I urgently need a Project Manager with experience of Field Testing and Field Trials on Mobile and/or Satellite Networks. You must be able to gather data and test results and present them to Business Analysts as well as liase with and manage test Leads. Please call me urgently and send me your cv, you must be able to start on Monday 25/02/13 Ben Price : 0207 688 8432

South East / Contract / Ref: BenP:PMTestMobile

Senior Systems Administrator - Linux - Web/eCommerce

Senior Systems Administrator with a strong Linux background is required for our client, a London based eCommerce organisation. Playing a key technical role in the rapid growth of this company's infrastructure and with client demand growing, the Senior Systems Administrator will act as a project lead across the UK Unix estate (Linux and Solaris primarily), network, and be able to ensure high availability for services such as Apache, DNS, mail, SCM. This role also requires individuals with strong Scripting experience (Shell, Perl, Python or Ruby).

Working in a flexible team across incident resolution and implementation areas, Senior System Administrators will focus on ensuring exemplary services are maintained for customers, and the organisations own infrastructure is robust. 6+ years experience in Linux administration is required (Linux/Redhat/CentOS preferred), as is experience in networks, and database administration. Exposure to virtual server environments is essential, as well as experience working in companies heavily reliant on their technology.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting are acting as an agency.

South East / Permanent / Ref: APSSALN1

System Administrator-Linux

My client who are an international ecommerce company are searching for a System Administrator who will be responsible for systems architecture, security and support, along with specific support of LAMP based systems across several different customer propositions within the group..
The role requires supporting a variety of systems from front end websites, 20MM+ record catalogue systems, checkouts, order management systems to cutting edge web 3.0 semantic offerings.

System Administrator Requirements

• Commercial experience of:
• Linux System Administration, ideally CentOS, RedHat or SuSE
• Apache / PHP / MySQL expertise
• Windows System Administration.
• Good familiarity with TCP/IP protocols and applications.
• Great communication skills coupled with a strong desire for personal development.
• Good understanding of object oriented design patterns and distributed systems.
• Demonstrable knowledge of web standards.

Desirable

• Security, penetration testing and threat detection tools.
• Confident administering Windows Server, Active Directory and Exchange 2007/2010.
• Experience with Nagios, Nginx or Cisco software environments.
• Experience with LDAP and Microsoft Exchange.
• Understanding of cross-browser and cross-platform technical issues.
• Experience in an Agile methodology, preferably Scrum.
• Domain knowledge of ecommerce processing including search, payment processing, order processing, data protection and security.
• Understanding of scaling technologies and solutions.
• Knowledge of Books Retail and related markets.

System Administrator- Linux

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS SYS ADMIN

PHP Developers

My client who are an international ecommerce company are urgently searching for a number of PHP Developers to maintain the legacy system's of one of their recent accquisition's. You will also be responsible for design and creating enhancements and improvements to a variety of systems from front end websites, 20M+ record catalogue systems, checkouts, order management systems to cutting edge web 3.0 semantic offerings.

The successful PHP Developers will understand the importance of analysing problems and designing solutions and will use their wealth of technical, creative and commercial experience in the team around them to achieve this.

PHP Developers

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PHP DEV

PMO Analyst SharePoint MS Project PowerPoint Leeds. An large organisation requires a PMO Analyst who can pull project plans together and produce a project master plan and map out the time scales. You must have excellent stakeholder management skills, SharePoint Admin experience, MS Project, Power Point, and experience from a large scale enterprise environment.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:PMO

Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst - Online Retailer - London

Our client, a highly successful eCommerce organisation, require a Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst to join a growing team, to play a key role in providing first and second line to major customers.

The Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst will support, validate and troubleshoot bugs & issues before assigning them to Engineering teams, and troubleshoot and resolve issues via ticketing systems.

Working across a large Desktop and Windows/Microsoft technology platform and facing into a range of business users, you will respond to support requests, build relationships with customers, and see problems through to completion.

You will have previous experience as a Help Desk Analyst or Service Desk Analyst, with a strong log reading and troubleshooting skillset.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing organisation.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SERVDESK1

Implementation Manager HR Payroll Finance ERP or MS Dynamics AX. We have an urgent requirement for an Consultant to take a Back Office lead implementation role. The individual must ideally have MS Dynamics AX functional experience, in retail and HR/Payroll/finance or hands on ERP implementation experience in HR/Payroll/Finance which is essential. Our client is a conglomerate with businesses in several industries in the Middle East; It is experiencing a period of significant growth and the business is looking to ensure that the IT Systems and supporting infrastructure is fit for purpose and scalable for the future. They have selected MS Dynamics AX to support their fashion retail business as well as their back office operations across the ventures business.

We are in urgent need of a MS Dynamics AX Back Office Lead who will lead the Change Management activities and work with the business and project teams to develop the overall change approach, plan and communicate the business resource / participation requirements and manage the plan for all change management activities. He/She will also support the Change activities on the HR, Payroll and Finance work streams. Therefore we are looking for a hands-on individual who has functional knowledge of AX (in HR / Payroll & Finance) or at least ERP but who also has done change management and has strong interpersonal skills.

The role will be based in Dubai for a 6 months contract, you will recieve an allowance of $2k per month for accommodation/medical insurance etc plus one overseas economy return flight during term and a Visa if necessary.

Asiapac / Contract / Ref: BenP:Dubai

QA Lead - Software Development - £60,000 base

My client, a leading software vendor/systems integration company who specialise in providing a broad portfolio of banking, treasury, trading and risk solutions, are currently seeking an exceptional QA Lead to work alongside development teams during the definition and development of software, as well as act as the primary point of day to day contact into the software development function.

The key responsibilities will include;

Actively monitoring the prospective and ongoing software development activities; Participating in design and development meetings; Identifying and proposing systematic breakdowns of the test activities for each individual development; Leading defect status expediting sessions with the project managers responsible for the delivery of the software; Delivery of tactical test automation and utilities to support software testing; Prepare briefs for other resources; Define test data patterns to support the testing.

To be considered for this role, you will be able to demonstrate extensive experience of;

System testing within a product or software development organisation (Not UAT testing); Ground up test identification (incl. inconsistency/incompleteness/informality/fluidity - working from business requirements and/or system specifications); Construction and execution of SQL queries to interrogate database states; Interpretation of XML schemas / XML and in the use of XML aware editors to construct XML messages; Use of VBA for the preparation of advanced macros for office applications; programming in a mainstream compiled strongly typed programming language; Test automation (Commercial thick client test automation tools such as QTP, Functional web-client test automation tools such as Selenium, load test tools such as the Grinder or LoadRunner); Systematic software test case selection and specification; Operating in a defect coordination / management role

To be considered fo this exciting opportunity, forward your details today.

Alexander Ash Consulting are acting as a search practice.

London / Permanent / Ref: CA-1902-QA

Project Manager Field Testing / Trials Mobile Satellite Network. I urgently need a Project Manager with experience of Field Testing and Field Trials on Mobile and/or Satellite Networks. You must be able to gather data and test results and present them to Business Analysts as well as liase with and manage test Leads. Please call me urgently and send me your cv, you must be able to start on Monday 25/02/13 Ben Price : 0207 688 8432

South East / Contract / Ref: BenP:PMTestMobile

Principal Database Engineer

My client who are an international online retailer are searching for a Principal Database Engineer. This is the top technical position responsible for all aspects of the Relational OLTP Databases, BI, ETL, Data warehousing, Structured and non-structured data. As a Principal you will work alongside the delivery team and a core of 5 other principals forming the technical governance for all Engineering and the continued improvement of tools, processes and technologies.

Principal Database Engineer

• The education and enactment of the Reference architecture across the Product development team and third party suppliers.
• To act as a technical reference point for members of the team and to provide guidance, mentoring and skills development for the members of the team.
• Support the team in the planning estimating and design of solution in accordance with best practice and the reference architecture.
• Setting and maintaining Coding standards and development practices.
• Working with the Technical Team Leads to develop a Technical lead community responsible for the furtherment of the Technical Team Lead role
• Active member of the Product development Management team, working with the team to improve and maintain the strategic and operational goals of Product Development.
• Work as an ambassador for the technical and engineering capability both internally and externally
• A keen advocate of quality and continual improvement; an agent of change.
• Work closely with the Development Team managers to ensure that training and career development of the Technical staff is aligned with the technology road map and reference architecture.
  
  Principal Database Engineer Technologies:
• SQL (T-SQL),
• Software design patterns
• Performance orientated design/domain driven design/SOA.
• Enterprise wide system design (Transactional/Merge Replication, SQL Service Broker)
• Designing database systems with 99.9% availability and uptime
• Broader Base of knowledge on the following technologies:
• Experience of non-relational data patterns and management (nosql)
• Experience of Cloud based data storage
• Database & Table Partitioning and Data Compression
• High Availability - Clustering, Mirroring, SQL Server running on VM
• SQL Server BI Tools - SSRS/SSIS/SSAS
• Physical Server Design and database optimized SAN/Drive alignment

Principal Database Engineer

London / Permanent / Ref: SS PRINCIPAL DB

Technical Business Analyst - Telecoms

My client who are an international communications company are urgently searching for a Technical Business Analyst who has worked within a mixed scrum team. You will have a particular focus on recording and translating business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements that can be implemented by the team as a whole. You will have conducted detailed impact assessments on the delivery of new functionality and have challenged the business requirements where appropriate.

The successful candidate must have experience with a good selection (but not necessarily all) of the following technologies and development practices:

Technical Business Analyst Technical skills
* Java
* Other JVM languages (Groovy, Scala, Clojure etc)
* Spring and Spring MVC
* Velocity
* Webservices - both SOAP and REST
* Build tools (Gradle, Maven, Ant)
* Version control (Subversion, GIT)
* Mocking (Mockito, EasyMock, JMock)
* Selenium
* Tomcat
* Mongo (and other NoSQL databases)
* Intellij or Eclipse
* Linux/Unix
* Understanding of wider web and networks technologies
Process and practices
* Agile
* Scrum
* TDD
* CI
* Pair programming

Technical Business Analyst- Telecoms

London / Contract / Ref: SS TECH BA

SharePoint Administrator 2010 London. A company requires a SharePoint 2010 Administrator who has experience as a SharePoint Administrator who can add pages, create pages, develop and print org charts, add colours and logos and do general customisation. This role is due to start in one week and there is a potential extension.

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:SharepointAdmin

Business Intelligence Manager - eCommerce, London

Our client, a global eCommerce organisation, require a Business Intelligence Manager to inherit a team of BI Analysts and Developers, and oversee a number of key Data Warehousing, Analytics & BI initiatives.

The BI Manager will hold the responsibility for a cross-functional team, analysing, designing, and delivering all aspects of BI for a complex stakeholder community.

The Business Intelligence Manager will also oversee the scoping and implementation of Big Data solutions, along with various other BI and Data Warehousing projects that will benefit the business in the short and long term.

You will be a strong team manager, with previous exposure to large, enterprise environments. A track record of delivering BI & DW solutions in a digital, online or retail environment is highly useful. Familiarity with technologies such as SQL (T-SQL) and Big Data (Hadoop etc), is preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Contract / Ref: AP/C/BIMGR

Oracle Retail Consultant "Retail Demand Forecasting" RDF. My client requires an Oracle RDF Functional Consultant who has strong Change Management or UAT Management or Functional expertise within the Retail industry. You must speak French and have strong Functional RDF Knowledge and Retail experience along with excellent communication skills. Travel to Paris will be required. Please call me asap to discuss the role and project in detail. Ben Price +44 (0) 207 688 8432

France / Contract / Ref: BenP:IOracleFrance

Oracle Retail Consultant "Retail Demand Forecasting" RDF. My client requires an Oracle RDF Functional Consultant who has strong Change Management or UAT Management or Functional expertise within the Retail industry. You must speak French and have strong Functional RDF Knowledge and Retail experience along with excellent communication skills. Travel to Paris will be required. Please call me asap to discuss the role and project in detail. Ben Price +44 (0) 207 688 8432

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:IOracleFrance

Development Manager Agile Scrum XP Kanban ecommerce London. A leading global ecommerce company is seeking to hire Development Managers / Leads that enjoy working in a fast paced environment utilising their Agile Scrum, XP and Kanban experience. This is a hands of role but you must have a strong understanding / experience with .Net, SQL, C#. You must be able to motivate and mentor Agile teams of developers in a highly charged environment. This role guarantees excitement, rewards and rapid promotion. Please call me asap to discuss the spec and the company in detail. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:DevMngr

Oracle RDF Functional Consultant Retail Demand Forecasting. A leading consultancy requires an Oracle RDF Functional Consultant who has strong Change Management or UAT Management or Functional expertise within the Retail industry. You must speak French and have strong Functional RDF Knowledge and Retail experience along with excellent communication skills. Travel to Paris will be required. Please call me asap to discuss the role and project in detail. Ben Price +44 (0) 207 688 8432

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:IOracleFrance

Infrastructure Project Manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won (primarily in financial services and private sector accounts). The role will focus on complex single projects / multiple projects to the value £300k - £5m.

The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2-aligned Infrastructure project management background, change management experience, and managing the scope of projects. Projects will particularly be focused on data centre migrations or builds (UNIX, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc.), Network implementations. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - IPM - 001

Test Manager Mobile Satellite GPRS Agile Berkshire. An adaptable flexible Test Manager is required by a Communications client to develop the test strategy and lead the delivery of the test project. You must be able to work in an ever changing, evolving undefined environment and you must have experience working with Vendors and disperesd teams. You ideally will have managed the testing of Mobile, Satellite & GPRS projects.

South East / Contract / Ref: BenP:TestMngr

Infrastructure Project Manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won (primarily in financial services and private sector accounts). The role will focus on complex single projects / multiple projects to the value £300k - £2m.

The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2-aligned Infrastructure project management background, change management experience, and managing the scope of projects. Projects will particularly be focused on data centre migrations or builds (UNIX, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc.), Network implementations. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - PM - 002

Unified communications architect - Outsourcer - UK Wide

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Unified communications architects / consultants to work on a broad range of Unified communications projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won. The success individual will be responsible for providing a high level of pre-sales and post-sales customer consultancy in multiple enterprise scale engagements, and act as an internal technology evangelist in the Unified Communication.

The Unified communications architect / consultant will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects.

The candidate must have 4 years+ experience as a Unified Communications Architect or as a Consultant background, particularly with great experiences with the following technologies: Avaya, Cicso telepresence or Micrsoft Lync. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - UCCA - 01

Infrastructure Architect - Microsoft Technologies - Online Retail

Our client, a globally recognised online retailer, is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to be responsible for the design and technical delivery of substantial change to help support an international eCommerce platform, based around Microsoft technologies.

Having come from a technical engineering background, the Infrastructure Architect will be able to lead the design and delivery of various projects geared around increasing capacity, replacing legacy systems, and increasing architectural governance within the team and environment. The Infrastructure Architect will scope and define requirements with the business, and translate these into logical designs for technical teams to deliver.

The Architect must have broad knowledge across Windows server platforms, Citrix, VMware (ESXi) and a broad range of web applications as well.

You will ideally come from a retail or online media/ecommerce environment previously, and have the ambition & passion to become a crucial member of an aggressively expanding group, delivering some high profile projects this year.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/INFRAR1ON

3rd line Support Engineer VMWare Exchange AD Somerset. This an urgent requirement for a 3rd line Support Engineer, with strong support experience with Windows, VMWare, Exchange, Active Directory. They need someone to start next week so you must be immediately available. Please send me your cv and call me asap. Ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432. You must have experience of the following:

• Excellent understanding of networking principles including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP
• High degree of knowledge with Windows Server 2003/2008 Operating Systems
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in a third line support role supporting the following areas:
• Exchange 2003 / 2010
• Active Directory 2003 / 2008
• Group Policy 2003 and 2008
• VmWare ESX Server
• Citrix XenApp
• IIS
• Application deployment
• Good knowledge of current server, storage & data backup products (ideally including HP Proliant)
• • Qualified MCSE 2003 or higher
  • Good knowledge of ITIL based ICT delivery processes, ideally ITIL v3 Foundation qualified
  • Good ability to operate tools, components, and peripheral accessories.

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:3rdline

Support Engineer 3rd line VMWare Exchange AD Somerset. This an urgent requirement for a 3rd line Support Engineer, with strong support experience with Windows, VMWare, Exchange, Active Directory. They need someone to start next week so you must be immediately available. Please send me your cv and call me asap. Ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:3rdline

Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst - Online Retailer - London

Our client, a highly successful eCommerce organisation, require a Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst to join a growing team, to play a key role in providing first and second line to major customers.

The Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst will support, validate and troubleshoot bugs & issues before assigning them to Engineering teams, and troubleshoot and resolve issues via ticketing systems.

Working across a large Desktop and Windows/Microsoft technology platform and facing into a range of business users, you will respond to support requests, build relationships with customers, and see problems through to completion.

You will have previous experience as a Help Desk Analyst or Service Desk Analyst, with a strong log reading and troubleshooting skillset.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing organisation.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SERVDESK1

Cisco Contact Center Architect / Consultant, UCCE, North West

Cisco Contact Center Architect /Consultant is required by my client a consultancy who have a major piece of work to migrate a clients legacy contact centre technology to Cisco UCCE.

They are looking for an individual who has done large scale migration work with CISCO previously, and can advise the client on the best fit solutions for them. You will be managing stakeholders at CxO level, and be able to present / document solutions to a very high standard.

This role will be based in the North West but with travel to multiple sites around the UK

This is at the beginning stages of a long term project. For further information please send your details to ram.basra@alexanderash.com and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and briefing.

North West / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/CCM01

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Service Delivery Manager - Online Retail - ITIL

Our client, a globally successful E-commerce organisation, require a Service Delivery Manager to ensure efficient operation of the company's IT Infrastructure which supports a global multichannel retail business.

Managing the relationship between IT and a complex, multi-national retail community, you will continuously push for improvements in existing operations, recommend and drive through service improvements, as well as play a key role in continuing growth abroad, as well as manage key relationships with technical engineering teams, change functions and external stakeholders. You'll be commercially savvy, with budget management required as well.

You will have a strong ITIL background, as well as a solid technical understanding around infrastructure technology, and ideally have a solid functional understanding of the retail or eCommerce industry.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SDM1

My client based in London are seeking a Functional Consultant for a 12 month FTC.

The Functional Consultant will work closely with key business partners to ensure the applications and systems being delivered have been specified and implemented to their initial and ongoing business requirements.

The individual will also be instrumental in ensuring that the applications meet the ongoing demands of the business in terms of new functionality; providing a roadmap for applications and accompanying business process improvement change where required and helping to ensure that issues are resolved with vendors in a timely manner.

Role Description

Application Management

• Work with business users to identify and document functional requirements for new or amended system functionality and business processes.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of the capability, configuration and roadmap for defined technical applications.
• Undertake impact assessments of proposed changes on specific technical applications.
• Ensure that business strategy is translated into workable functionality and business processes within systems.
• Coordinate with the vendor to resolve any issues/problems with the business applications and ensure that focus and prioritisation is given to any action required.
• Provide input to UAT process.

Project Analysis

• Work with the programme group and IT teams, within the delivery framework, to ensure quality and timeliness of delivery to the business.
• Provide technical application expertise to support other delivery functions (BA; Architect; Testing and Quality; Training; Development)
• Input to feasibility and initiation phases of projects with respect to requirements definitions.
• Work with the project team with regards to all application enhancements.

Key Accountabilities

The functional consultant is responsible for delivering the analytical and consulting activities required to define improvements to the finance systems and processes, including:

• Work closely with the Finance and Practice Management function to ensure best practice is developed and shared.
• Identify key business drivers and recommend how IT and appropriate technology solutions can be prioritised to;

Skills & Expertise

Experience

• An extensive functional understanding of finance and practice management systems and business processes typically implemented within a law or professional services firm.
• Extensive IT experience.
• Experience of developing and evolving strategies and implementing solutions in relation to financial processes and applications
• An understanding of workflow methodologies and knowledge of relevant technologies within IT Infrastructure.
• Strong business analyst experience and a demonstrate a background in using and applying a variety of business analyst tools to facilitate requirements gathering, analysis, business process modelling, stakeholder management, development of business cases, solution options and functional specification documentation for the proposed solution/s.

Technical

• In-depth expertise appropriate to the Finance and Practice Management area and a passion for the technology with a desire to stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends.

Written Communications

• Highly developed written communication skills and be capable of breaking down complex problems into clearly written logical arguments.

Core Competencies

Analytical Thought and Problem Solving

• A consultative approach, involving a high level of creative thinking when seeking to understand, document and resolve problems.
• An ability to think laterally and innovatively where necessary.
• Skills in a number of techniques to analyse problems and decompose them to their component parts in order to effectively communicate with business partners and team members.

Management, Communication & Influencing

• Strong communications skills, demonstrating the ability to provide a range of information and advice in a coherent manner and on a proactive basis.
• An ability to establish credibility by demonstrating an understanding of the audience's needs and the nature of the information being shared.
• An ability to influence situations through the provision of information and advice on straightforward as well as more challenging issues, and a willingness to collaborate with other decision makers on day-to-day activities.
• Strong change management skills and awareness, with the ability to be able to understand and effect minimum disruption to the business are also required. This will involve the use of various techniques including communications planning and training.
• An ability to manage the demands of multiple projects, client's requirements, vendors and deliverables by prioritising and maintaining a flexible attitude.

If this is an opportunity you would be interested in, please apply today

London / Contract / Ref: NICKFUNCON

My client based in the city of London, urgently require an Infrastructure Manager to join their team. With a global business, this is a very exciting opportunity

Job Details

The Systems Manager will;

• have primary responsibility for the global operation of the Systems teams, which is comprised of Systems Access management, Desktop Services, Remote Access Services, Wintel & Virtualisation.
• review, implement and support processes for solution upgrades; implement the technical support for each area and maintain version, risk & security controls.
• direct the day-to-day monitoring and control of their services and provide technical services & support including out-of-hours.
• Work closely with the Technical Design Authority, Architects, Infrastructure Manager, Systems Manager and Regional Infrastructure Managers to plan implement and support Infrastructure technology on a global basis.
• Ensure all Infrastructure Services are "transparent" to the users via a "seamless" interface with all other areas of IT including all external service providers, and where appropriate reviewing and managing offshore/outsource opportunities.
• frequently participate in project/engineering tasks under the overall management of the Global Programme Group and internal Projects & Planning teams.
• Ensure effective DR/BCP for Infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the daily operation of systems services
• Working with the Head of Infrastructure & Platform, Head of Service Management and your peers, design and develop a comprehensive roadmap for Infrastructure to support my clients strategy
• Work closely with the Head of Infrastructure& Platform and Head of Service Management to ensure that technology meets defined and agreed upon service levels/KPI's
• To define service levels/KPI's and metrics were they currently do not exist
• To adhere to, develop, implement and support IT Operations security
• Ensure the timely distribution of software and operational acceptance testing
• Develop & maintain systems management design solutions
• Assist in the planning, implementing and managing of a business aligned operating budget and ensure all services lines are within budget
• Provide direction towards the development and implementation of global standards and policies for Infrastructure Services
• Leading the Systems team to maintain strong morale and commitment to my clients core values
• To support all initiatives related to off-shoring and outsourcing of Infrastructure Services
• Ensure routine operational activities such as backups/re stores and monitoring of Infrastructure are carried out to ensure a seamless service
• Participate in discretionary project/engineering tasks
• Work closely with global and regional IT development project teams to ensure that new or enhanced technologies meet regional standards for operational technology. Where operational technology standards are not defined, work with appropriate IT Directors and managers to define, implement and operate new operational standards
• Conduct performance monitoring and capacity testing in conjunction with service continuity tests

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong & demonstrable experience or expert knowledge of related services
• Totally service orientated
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven global vendor management experience
• Ability to exploit IT for business benefit
• Strong leadership skills to manage team leaders and support teams
• Off-shoring and outsourcing management
• Strong skills in procedure development and implementation
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good Project Management Skills
• Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio
• Strong planning and organizing skills
• Good management experience
• Discretion and reliability

If this is an opportunity you are interested in, then please apply today

London / Permanent / Ref: NICKSYSMAN

My client based in the city of London, urgently require an Infrastructure Manager to join their team. With a global business, this is a very exciting opportunity

Job Details

The Infrastructure Manager will;

• have primary responsibility for the global operation of the Infrastructure teams, which is currently comprised of Storage & Unix, Datacenter and Databases.
• review, implement and support processes for solution upgrades; implement the technical support for each area and maintain version, risk & security controls.
• direct the day-to-day monitoring and control of their services and provide technical services & support including out-of-hours.
• Work closely with the Technical Design Authority, Architects, Infrastructure Manager, Systems Manager and Regional Infrastructure Managers to plan implement and support Infrastructure technology on a global basis.
• Ensure all Infrastructure Services are "transparent" to the users via a "seamless" interface with all other areas of IT including all external service providers, and where appropriate reviewing and managing offshore/outsource opportunities.
• frequently participate in project/engineering tasks under the overall management of the Global Programme Group and internal Projects & Planning teams.

• Ensure effective DR/BCP for Infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the daily operation of Infrastructure Services
• Working with the Head of Infrastructure & Platform, Head of Service Management and your peers, design and develop a comprehensive roadmap for Infrastructure to support my clients strategy
• Work closely with the Head of Infrastructure& Platform and Head of Service Management to ensure that technology meets defined and agreed upon service levels/KPI's
• To define service levels/KPI's and metrics were they currently do not exist
• To adhere to, develop, implement and support IT Operations security
• Ensure the timely distribution of software and operational acceptance testing
• Develop & maintain Infrastructure management design solutions
• Assist in the planning, implementing and managing of a business aligned operating budget and ensure all services lines are within budget
• Provide direction towards the development and implementation of global standards and policies for Infrastructure Services
• Leading the Infrastructure team to maintain strong morale and commitment to my clients core values
• To support all initiatives related to off-shoring and outsourcing of Infrastructure Services
• Ensure routine operational activities such as backups/re stores and monitoring of Infrastructure are carried out to ensure a seamless service
• Participate in discretionary project/engineering tasks
• Work closely with global and regional IT development project teams to ensure that new or enhanced technologies meet regional standards for operational technology. Where operational technology standards are not defined, work with appropriate IT Directors and managers to define, implement and operate new operational standards
• Conduct performance monitoring and capacity testing in conjunction with service continuity tests

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong & demonstrable experience or expert knowledge of related services
• Totally service orientated
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven global vendor management experience
• Ability to exploit IT for business benefit
• Strong leadership skills to manage team leaders and support teams
• Off-shoring and outsourcing management
• Strong skills in procedure development and implementation
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good Project Management Skills
• Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio
• Strong planning and organizing skills
• Good management experience
• Discretion and reliability

If this is an opportunity you are interested in, then please apply today

London / Permanent / Ref: NICKINFMANBE

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Delivery / Project Manager Secure Networks Billing systems PMR. My client requires Project Managers / Delivery Managers with experince of Smart metering solutions. You need to have a background in smart metering, networks, radio (LRR - Long Range Radio), PMR - private mobile radio, secure networks, billing systems, any BA skills would also be a bonus. I have a detailed spec so please call me to discuss.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:PMBilling

Infrastructure / Security Architect. A Tier 1 client requires an Infrastructure and Security Architect. You must have proven skills in networking, security and DC migration with an extensive knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, identity and access management processes and solutions, key management, PKI and Certificate Management processes. Experience in the provision and implementation of Cloud Services and an ability to evaluate which applications are suitable for the cloud from a security perspective and experience developing and designing network infrastructure. You must have experience of large-scale transformation and migration projects, proven track record of delivering Network solution over both LAN and WAN to large enterprise environment. Experience in Load balancing and caching solutions, preferably f5 and Riverbed. Experience in designing Network Security solutions and evaluating vendor products to ensure they are fit for purpose (Firewalls, IPS, IDS). Plus an understanding of security risk assessments and experience of working with information security standards such as ISO27001. Full remit of the Network solution lifecycle to include requirement gathering, scoping through to design. You must have experience with either Cisco or Juniper and Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Unified Access Gateway and Threat Management Gateway, Active Directory Federation Server or Public Key Infrastructure.m Please call me asap to discuss : Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:SecurityArch

Technical Architect, e-commerce, .NET, London

Technical Architect is required by our client a leading Retail organization. They are looking for Technical Architects who will be able to own technical design solutions for development teams, managing internal stakeholders and technical business teams. You could be involved in a number of large projects that are under way currently, from look at how to improve different aspects of the website, from Checkout services to UI. The projects will be using Technologies such as .NET 3.5 /4, ASP.NET, WCF, HTML, CSS, JQUERY.

You will need to have good experience of Agile and XP Practices as well as having worked in an e-commerce retail environment. You will need have strong technical skills in .NET 3.5/4, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL, HTML, Software design patterns, Visual Studio and TDD / BDD Frameworks.

This is a very exciting opportunity to work for an organization that is rapidly expanding, and has a very good footprint in the space it currently works in.

For further information please send your CV to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/TA01

Business Analyst eCommerce Retail London. A global ecommerce retailer who is number 1 in their field requires an experienced Business Analyst with experience in a major retail organisation, gathering requirements and delivering projects geared around a mixture of technology change and eCommerce/Multichannel growth. You must be highly personable with excellent stakeholder management skills. this company offers opportunity for growth, promotion, reward for hard work and the challenge of working on key and varied projects that are going to transform the global offering and presence of this organisation.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:BAecommerce

ecommerce Project Manager / Development Manager London. A global retailer requires a Project Manager / Development Manager with ecommerce, Scrum / Agile and Microsoft stack experience, you must be delivery focused with very strong stakeholder management skills / experience. This is a rapidly expanding and highly successful company so the opportunities are immense. Promotion, responsibility, interesting challenging projects and reward for hard work are a few of the benefits of joining this organisation as well as working with the latest technologies. Please call me to discuss the company, the projects you will be working on and the detailed spec : Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:eCommPM/DM

Project manager - Ecommerce - London

Our client, a global Ecommerce organisation is looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of ecommerce projects for the business.

The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects. The position involves delivering multiple work streams at any given time across web & business transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2 project management background, particularly with an exceptional track record of managing various ecommerce projects ranging from WEB, Supply chain, Logistics, & IT. The candidate would need to have come from an ecommerce background and have worked across various business areas of an ecommerce organisation.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - EPM - 001

Oracle RDF Functional Consultant Retail Demand Forecasting Paris. A leading consultancy requires an Oracle RDF Functional Consultant who has strong Change Management or UAT Management or Functional expertise within the Retail industry. You must speak French and have strong Functional RDF Knowledge and Retail experience along with excellent communication skills. Please call me asap to discuss the role and project in detail. Ben Price +44 (0) 207 688 8432

France / Contract / Ref: BenP:IOracleFrance

Business Analyst P&C General Insurance Surrey. A Tier 1 Company requires a Business Analyst with experience of P&C General Insurance. You will be required to undertake customer requirements investigation, analysis and solution design in accordance with assigned initiatives and work. you will play a key role in the development of functional documentation, facilitating the management of changes if required. You will support testing initiatives and deal with the resolution of problems as they emerge. As well as facilitate workshops and design sessions using the appropriate methodologies and frameworks. you must have Business Analysis experience from a P&C background with experience of eliciting requirements and creating functional design specifications. The role will involve meetings, discussions with customers and therefore customer interaction / engagement skills are mandatory.

Home counties / Contract / Ref: BenP:BAInsurance

Infrastructure Project Manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won (primarily in financial services and private sector accounts). The role will focus on complex single projects / multiple projects to the value £300k - £2m.

The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2-aligned Infrastructure project management background, change management experience, and managing the scope of projects. Projects will particularly be focused on data centre migrations or builds (UNIX, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc.), Network implementations. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - PM - 002

Infrastructure Project Manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won (primarily in financial services and private sector accounts). The role will focus on complex single projects / multiple projects to the value £300k - £5m.

The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2-aligned Infrastructure project management background, change management experience, and managing the scope of projects. Projects will particularly be focused on data centre migrations or builds (UNIX, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc.), Network implementations. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - IPM - 001

Account manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation is looking for experienced Account Manager/s to manage & develop a broad range of clients. The values of the accounts vary in value from £1m to £16m and will be focused on business development, account management and up selling of the clients IT services.

The Account Manager will interface with the account director from the business, as well as other external customer with regards to developing existing accounts. The position involves a mixture of new business, business development and account management.

The candidate must have 4 years+ experiences as a Business development manager / Account manager and should have come or worked for an outsourcer / consultancy or services provider. The successful candidate must be able to cross sell / up sell IT & Professional services and must have experiences in cross selling contractual services.

If you feel that you are a suitable candidate, please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - ACMGR - 001

Cisco Contact Center Architect / Consultant, UCCE, North West

Cisco Contact Center Architect /Consultant is required by my client a consultancy who have a major piece of work to migrate a clients legacy contact centre technology to Cisco UCCE.

They are looking for an individual who has done large scale migration work with CISCO previously, and can advise the client on the best fit solutions for them. You will be managing stakeholders at CxO level, and be able to present / document solutions to a very high standard.

This role will be based in the North West but with travel to multiple sites around the UK

This is at the beginning stages of a long term project. For further information please send your details to ram.basra@alexanderash.com and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and briefing.

North West / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/CCM01

Business Intelligence Manager - eCommerce, London

Our client, a global eCommerce organisation, require a Business Intelligence Manager to inherit a team of BI Analysts and Developers, and oversee a number of key Data Warehousing, Analytics & BI initiatives.

The BI Manager will hold the responsibility for a cross-functional team, analysing, designing, and delivering all aspects of BI for a complex stakeholder community.

The Business Intelligence Manager will also oversee the scoping and implementation of Big Data solutions, along with various other BI and Data Warehousing projects that will benefit the business in the short and long term.

You will be a strong team manager, with previous exposure to large, enterprise environments. A track record of delivering BI & DW solutions in a digital, online or retail environment is highly useful. Familiarity with technologies such as SQL (T-SQL) and Big Data (Hadoop etc), is preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Contract / Ref: AP/C/BIMGR

Business Inteligence Manager Ecommerce BIG Data Hadoop London. A leading Ecommerce company requires an experienced BI Manager who has experience with the management and implementation of big data solutions, plus eCommerce experience and experience implementing Hadoop, Hive, Vertica and MicroStrategy in the cloud.

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:BIMnger

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Our client, a leading financial services technology consutlancy, is loking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join their Trade Finance product team. The role will involve working within an Agile environment, alongside development teams during the definition and development of software in order to:

• Provide a quality assurance perspective into the decision making process during development.
• To provide early embedded but independent testing of developments using exploratory testing.
• To gain early understanding of the software being developed and to deliver effective early test preparation to facilitate later more formal testing.

It is beneficial for the candidate to have experience in the following:

• Extensive experience of system testing within a product or software development organisation (as opposed to user acceptance testing).
• Experience of ground up test identification in situations where specifications have one or more of the following characteristics - incompleteness / inconsistency / informality / fluidity - working from business requirements and / or system specifications.
• Competence in the construction and execution of SQL queries to interrogate database states.
• Competence in the interpretation of XML schemas / XML and in the use of XML aware editors to construct XML messages.
• Competence in the use of VBA for the preparation of advanced macros for office applications.
• Competence in programming in a mainstream compiled strongly typed programming language.

This is a great opportunity for a high calibre Quality Assurance Lead to move into the financial services industry, and join a company with excellent career growth and prospects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM34459

Demand Planning Manager- Network

My client which is an international communications company are looking for a Demand Planning Manager with knowledge in the field of networks who would be managing Networks team KPIs and performance centrally and would be responsible for:

• Owning, developing and managing the reporting of Networks Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Networks Incoming Demand forecast and tracking
• Key stakeholder management including suppliers

Demand Planning Manager- Network responsibilities

• Coordinate the production of monthly KPI packs for Network Management Team
• Coordinate the production of an annual end to end Networks wide Annual Operating Plan. Including inputs from all key stakeholders ensuring the appropriate governance structure is in-place
• Operate and maintain clear stakeholder engagement with the rest of the UK business employing to ensure forward planning of Networks demand and budget.
• Produce and maintain a Key Stakeholder map for Networks Business Planning
• Define, implement and operate a front door process for incoming Networks demand
• Ensure that key supplier reviews are held and associated issues/ risks are managed

Demand Planning Manager- Network

South East / Contract / Ref: SS DEMAND NETWORK

PMO- Networks

My client who is an international communications company are looking for a PMO with knowledge in the field of networks who would be responsible for business planning related and analytical activities related to OPEX, CAPEX, KPI's & Organisation within the Networks sector.

The person in this role would be expected to take ownership of the models & frameworks related to the development and tracking of annual, quarterly & monthly planning and reporting. This person would also support the thought leadership process in terms of enhancing Business Planning activities.

PMO- Networks requirements

Excellent verbal, numerical and analytical skills with a strong commercial awareness and a strong financial bias.
Educated to degree level, preferably in a business related subject. A further business related qualification would be advantageous.
A minimum of 10 years experience in high technology and business environments. Strong financial, planning and contracts experience would be advantageous.
A strong ethic of maintaining confidentiality and using discretion is a prerequisite.

PMO- Networks

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PMO NETWORK

Senior eCommerce Solution Architect - Global Consultancy - £80-115k + Package

Leading Consultancy firm require Senior eCommerce Solution Architects to play a key role in customer-driven projects, based around large scale transformation/change around digital and eCommerce environments.

The Senior eCommerce Solution Architect will be responsible for designing and developing client solution strategies, as well as the architecture of leading or bleeding-edge concepts and technologies (ATG, WebSphere, Hybris etc).

The Solution Architect will lead client assessment activities, collaborating with technical SMEs and project managers to ensure that solutions are defined to scope, and are consistent throughout the project lifecycle. You will be seen as the go-to person in the Consulting group for a range of eCommerce technologies and strategy, and regularly converse with clients.

Candidates will possess a strong experience in the Consultancy space previously, and will have strong knowledge around the latest eCommerce products and technologies - ATG, IBM Websphere and Hybris being the priority. You will be driven to progress your career, and have a client-centric approach to your work.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SAECOM

Change Manager / Oracle RDF Functional Consultant UAT Paris. A leading consultancy requires an Oracle RDF Functional Consultant who has strong Change Management or UAT Management or Functional expertise within the Retail industry. You must speak French and have strong Functional RDF Knowledge and Retail experience along with excellent communication skills. Please call me asap to discuss the role and project in detail. Ben Price +44 (0) 207 688 8432

France / Contract / Ref: BenP:IOracleFrance

Finance Analyst MIS Reporting Retail London South East. A leading Retail Consultancy requires a Finance Analyst who can analyse an internal reporting system. You must have strong Business Analysis skills as well as strong Financial Analysis experience plus excellent stake holder management skills. Retail experience is a must. Please call me to discuss the client and the specific role details. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:FinanceAnalyst

Senior Developer, Opentext, C#, London

Lead designer / developer is required by our client who are building a solution to make literature available on devices (iOS, Android, desktops). This could include many different types of documents / brochures.

You will need to have strong C# / .NET skills, and be able to utilize the OpenText API.

Due to the nature of this project I can give you further details but please send me through your CV and I will be in contact ASAP.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/OT01

Senior Social Media Consultant-

My client who are a global Tier 1 consultancy are searching for a Senior Social Media Consultant to drive superior performance. You will be part of the team responsible for the social media capability development supporting their clients with an integration of enterprise web technologies such as CMS, eCommerce, enterprise search and social media layer.

Senior Social Media Consultant Key Responsibilities:

·Help to grow the social media practice

·Develop and deliver enterprise level social business strategies to clients

·Build and support branded communities for clients

·Develop social listening and responding capabilities for our clients

·Drive insight into marketing strategies through social listening for our clients

·Participate in business development efforts and strategy engagements

Senior Social Media Consultant Required Skills

·Detailed understanding social media

·Strong familiarity with other Web 2.0 technologies such as social media, personalization and behavioral targeting

·Excellent understanding of emerging technologies and the ability to define and articulate various strategic digital technologies to our clients

·Provide digital media industry and solution expertise to apply value proposition to client business requirements and develop solution architectures to address common digital media business challenges.

·Proven entrepreneurial skills and the ability to identify, pursue and close new business opportunities

·Familiarity with agile development methodologies and the full web development life cycle, including interactions with external creative agencies. Must be able to lead a large web development project or digital marketing strategy project.

·Must be familiar with major content management systems (Vignette, Interwoven, Documentum), ecommerce systems (IBM Webshere Commerce, Microsoft Commerce Server, ATG) and search packages (FAST, Endeca).

Senior Social Media Consultant

London / Permanent / Ref: SS SOCIAL MEDIA

Principal Database Engineer

My client who are an international online retailer are searching for a Principal Database Engineer. This is the top technical position responsible for all aspects of the Relational OLTP Databases, BI, ETL, Data warehousing, Structured and non-structured data. As a Principal you will work alongside the delivery team and a core of 5 other principals forming the technical governance for all Engineering and the continued improvement of tools, processes and technologies.

Principal Database Engineer

• The education and enactment of the Reference architecture across the Product development team and third party suppliers.
• To act as a technical reference point for members of the team and to provide guidance, mentoring and skills development for the members of the team.
• Support the team in the planning estimating and design of solution in accordance with best practice and the reference architecture.
• Setting and maintaining Coding standards and development practices.
• Working with the Technical Team Leads to develop a Technical lead community responsible for the furtherment of the Technical Team Lead role
• Active member of the Product development Management team, working with the team to improve and maintain the strategic and operational goals of Product Development.
• Work as an ambassador for the technical and engineering capability both internally and externally
• A keen advocate of quality and continual improvement; an agent of change.
• Work closely with the Development Team managers to ensure that training and career development of the Technical staff is aligned with the technology road map and reference architecture.
  
  Principal Database Engineer Technologies:
• SQL (T-SQL),
• Software design patterns
• Performance orientated design/domain driven design/SOA.
• Enterprise wide system design (Transactional/Merge Replication, SQL Service Broker)
• Designing database systems with 99.9% availability and uptime
• Broader Base of knowledge on the following technologies:
• Experience of non-relational data patterns and management (nosql)
• Experience of Cloud based data storage
• Database & Table Partitioning and Data Compression
• High Availability - Clustering, Mirroring, SQL Server running on VM
• SQL Server BI Tools - SSRS/SSIS/SSAS
• Physical Server Design and database optimized SAN/Drive alignment

Principal Database Engineer

London / Permanent / Ref: SS PRINCIPAL DB

Technical Project Manager, Digital, London

Technical Project Manager is required by my client a digital agency. They are looking for an indivudal who is happy facing off to a client, and managing senior stakeholders within the client.

You will be invovled in running projects in excess of £200,000, and could be managing multiple projects at the same time.

The projects will all be based around delivering technology products to the client.

You must be able to produce clear project plans, and documentation for the customer.

For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/PM005

Account manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation is looking for experienced Account Manager/s to manage & develop a broad range of clients. The values of the accounts vary in value from £1m to £16m and will be focused on business development, account management and up selling of the clients IT services.

The Account Manager will interface with the account director from the business, as well as other external customer with regards to developing existing accounts. The position involves a mixture of new business, business development and account management.

The candidate must have 4 years+ experiences as a Business development manager / Account manager and should have come or worked for an outsourcer / consultancy or services provider. The successful candidate must be able to cross sell / up sell IT & Professional services and must have experiences in cross selling contractual services.

If you feel that you are a suitable candidate, please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - ACMGR - 001

Infrastructure Project Manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won (primarily in financial services and private sector accounts). The role will focus on complex single projects / multiple projects to the value £300k - £2m.

The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2-aligned Infrastructure project management background, change management experience, and managing the scope of projects. Projects will particularly be focused on data centre migrations or builds (UNIX, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc.), Network implementations. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - PM - 002

Our client, a leading financial services technology consutlancy, is loking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join their Trade Finance product team. The role will involve working within an Agile environment, alongside development teams during the definition and development of software in order to:

• Provide a quality assurance perspective into the decision making process during development.
• To provide early embedded but independent testing of developments using exploratory testing.
• To gain early understanding of the software being developed and to deliver effective early test preparation to facilitate later more formal testing.

It is beneficial for the candidate to have experience in the following:

• Extensive experience of system testing within a product or software development organisation (as opposed to user acceptance testing).
• Experience of ground up test identification in situations where specifications have one or more of the following characteristics - incompleteness / inconsistency / informality / fluidity - working from business requirements and / or system specifications.
• Competence in the construction and execution of SQL queries to interrogate database states.
• Competence in the interpretation of XML schemas / XML and in the use of XML aware editors to construct XML messages.
• Competence in the use of VBA for the preparation of advanced macros for office applications.
• Competence in programming in a mainstream compiled strongly typed programming language.

This is a great opportunity for a high calibre Quality Assurance Lead to move into the financial services industry, and join a company with excellent career growth and prospects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM34459

QA Lead - Software Development - £60,000 base

My client, a leading software vendor/systems integration company who specialise in providing a broad portfolio of banking, treasury, trading and risk solutions, are currently seeking an exceptional QA Lead to work alongside development teams during the definition and development of software, as well as act as the primary point of day to day contact into the software development function.

The key responsibilities will include;

Actively monitoring the prospective and ongoing software development activities; Participating in design and development meetings; Identifying and proposing systematic breakdowns of the test activities for each individual development; Leading defect status expediting sessions with the project managers responsible for the delivery of the software; Delivery of tactical test automation and utilities to support software testing; Prepare briefs for other resources; Define test data patterns to support the testing.

To be considered for this role, you will be able to demonstrate extensive experience of;

System testing within a product or software development organisation (Not UAT testing); Ground up test identification (incl. inconsistency/incompleteness/informality/fluidity - working from business requirements and/or system specifications); Construction and execution of SQL queries to interrogate database states; Interpretation of XML schemas / XML and in the use of XML aware editors to construct XML messages; Use of VBA for the preparation of advanced macros for office applications; programming in a mainstream compiled strongly typed programming language; Test automation (Commercial thick client test automation tools such as QTP, Functional web-client test automation tools such as Selenium, load test tools such as the Grinder or LoadRunner); Systematic software test case selection and specification; Operating in a defect coordination / management role

To be considered fo this exciting opportunity, forward your details today.

Alexander Ash Consulting are acting as a search practice.

London / Permanent / Ref: CA-2801-QA

Finance Analyst Functional MIS Reports Retail London South East. A leading retail organisation requires a Finance Functional Analyst who can analyse an internal reporting system. You must have some Business Analysis skills, strong Finacial Analysis experience as well as excellent stake holder management experience, retail experience is a must.

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:FinanceAnalyst

Test Manager / Consultant, Web, London

Test Manager / Test Consultant is required by my client a global consultancy. They are looking to bring on a couple of individuals who can drive testing on a couple of major projects.

This will be testing Websites with a lot of traffic and users. Dependent on level, you will be involved in actually carrying out the testing, writing test plans, and also putting together test strategy for these particular clients.

This is a client facing role, and good documentation and presentation skills are required.

This is a fantastic opportunity to propel your career whilst working on some very large projects.

For further information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/WTM

Web Developer UI Front End HTML CSS JavaScript JQuery London. A Global Organisation who is the number one in their field requires a Front End / Web developer who has experience as a UI Developer, you must have strong experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, cross browser testing, bug fixing, wireframes and Photoshop. This role will give you the opportunity to work on a World Class website and work for a highly successful / profitable organisation that is truly a World leader in their field. This role will rapidly grow in to a Senior Developer position. Please call me asap as I have a detailed spec I would like to discuss with you: Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: benP:WebDev

Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer - eCommerce - London

Our client, a major eCommerce organisation, require an experienced Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer to play a key role in the creation of QA strategies, plus test plans/cases from customer requirement specifications, based around high availability systems.

The Lead QA Analyst/Engineer will be responsible for acting as the Senior Quality Assurance individual on a range of programmes of work, assisting in the development of QA process excellence internally, as well as also contributing to building a new team from scratch. The organisation is moving from manual to automated test environments, and as such any experience of driving your current/previous business in this direction is highly advantageous.

This is an organisation with business critical systems that customers depend on - as such this is a highly challenging environment. You will have previous experience with testing web-based applications, plus a broad range of aptitude across Quality Assurance methodologies and processes, as well as Agile & XP experience. Experience with Selenium and/or SOAP UI is required. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding organisation.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/LSQAA

Scrum Master - Online Platforms - London

My client, a major online organisation, are searching for a Scrum Master, as part of major growth plans and a vast range of projects.

You will be working across a number of cutting edge development projects in London, with the Scrum Master responsible for facilitating Scrum meetings, and driving development teams adoption of Agile processes. The Scrum Master will manage daily stand-ups, and undertake spring retrospectives, addressing issues & identifying areas for improvement.

Working closely with product managers, developers and the business, the Scrum Master will oversee a range of technically innovative projects, as well as take ownership for the groups adoption of Agile.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation at the beginning of their development internationally. Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SCRMS

Principal Database Engineer

My client who are an international online retailer are searching for a Principal Database Engineer. This is the top technical position responsible for all aspects of the Relational OLTP Databases, BI, ETL, Data warehousing, Structured and non-structured data. As a Principal you will work alongside the delivery team and a core of 5 other principals forming the technical governance for all Engineering and the continued improvement of tools, processes and technologies.

Principal Database Engineer

• The education and enactment of the Reference architecture across the Product development team and third party suppliers.
• To act as a technical reference point for members of the team and to provide guidance, mentoring and skills development for the members of the team.
• Support the team in the planning estimating and design of solution in accordance with best practice and the reference architecture.
• Setting and maintaining Coding standards and development practices.
• Working with the Technical Team Leads to develop a Technical lead community responsible for the furtherment of the Technical Team Lead role
• Active member of the Product development Management team, working with the team to improve and maintain the strategic and operational goals of Product Development and ASOS IT.
• Work as an ambassador for the technical and engineering capability both internally and externally
• A keen advocate of quality and continual improvement; an agent of change.
• Work closely with the Development Team managers to ensure that training and career development of the Technical staff is aligned with the technology road map and reference architecture.
  
  Principal Database Engineer Technologies:
• SQL (T-SQL),
• Software design patterns
• Performance orientated design/domain driven design/SOA.
• Enterprise wide system design (Transactional/Merge Replication, SQL Service Broker)
• Designing database systems with 99.9% availability and uptime
• Broader Base of knowledge on the following technologies:
• Experience of non-relational data patterns and management (nosql)
• Experience of Cloud based data storage
• Database & Table Partitioning and Data Compression
• High Availability - Clustering, Mirroring, SQL Server running on VM
• SQL Server BI Tools - SSRS/SSIS/SSAS
• Physical Server Design and database optimized SAN/Drive alignment

Principal Database Engineer

London / Permanent / Ref: SS PRINCIPAL DB

My client a Global eCommerce Company is looking for a Development Manager to join their ever growing team. If you have experience in leading Software Engineers, QA's, User Interface Developers / engineering teams to deliver the software required for technical change than this is a fantastic opportunity to further your career.

What experience you must have to be successful for this role:

• Transactional, high volume website, ideally eCommerce, experience.
• Strong software engineering background
• Certified Scrum Master, with strong facilitation and leadership skills including proficiency in delivering standard Agile ceremonies, such as retrospectives, reviews and Scrum planning sessions
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies and practices (Agile, Scrum and Waterfall)

London / Permanent / Ref: PAB/203

Senior Social Media Consultant-

My client who are a global Tier 1 consultancy are searching for a Senior Social Media Consultant to drive superior performance. You will be part of the team responsible for the social media capability development supporting their clients with an integration of enterprise web technologies such as CMS, eCommerce, enterprise search and social media layer.

Senior Social Media Consultant Key Responsibilities:

·Help to grow the social media practice

·Develop and deliver enterprise level social business strategies to clients

·Build and support branded communities for clients

·Develop social listening and responding capabilities for our clients

·Drive insight into marketing strategies through social listening for our clients

·Participate in business development efforts and strategy engagements

Senior Social Media Consultant Required Skills

·Detailed understanding social media

·Strong familiarity with other Web 2.0 technologies such as social media, personalization and behavioral targeting

·Excellent understanding of emerging technologies and the ability to define and articulate various strategic digital technologies to our clients

·Provide digital media industry and solution expertise to apply value proposition to client business requirements and develop solution architectures to address common digital media business challenges.

·Proven entrepreneurial skills and the ability to identify, pursue and close new business opportunities

·Familiarity with agile development methodologies and the full web development life cycle, including interactions with external creative agencies. Must be able to lead a large web development project or digital marketing strategy project.

·Must be familiar with major content management systems (Vignette, Interwoven, Documentum), ecommerce systems (IBM Webshere Commerce, Microsoft Commerce Server, ATG) and search packages (FAST, Endeca).

Senior Social Media Consultant

London / Permanent / Ref: SS SOCIAL MEDIA

Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for an experienced Product Owner to work within their Trade Finance offering. They're currently seeking a Product Owner to work within their fully Agile development function in London; this role will be challenging and fast paced, and would suit somebody who wants to take the next step in their career and isn't shy of taking responsibility.

Although the role is sitting within the Financial Sector, they are willing to see strong candidates from outside of this, as they have previous experience as an Agile Product Owner, or have experience as a Scrum Master with a desire to move into a more business facing role.

Alexander Ash is acting as agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM349

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Blackberry Technical Support Advisor

About the Role:
The Blackberry Support Team provides IT helpdesk technical support for propositions which combine Microsoft, mobile, email and Internet technologies. Such propositions are central to the corporate strategy, and require the appropriate level of customer support (typically delivered on a helpdesk to helpdesk basis with our corporate customers)
The contractor will need to provide specialist 2nd line support and technical expertise. This involves helping to resolve high priority and complex faults, whilst continually looking for ways to improve the services we provide.
The key responsibilities include:
1. Providing 2ndline technical support
2. Validating 3rd party applications
3. Improving the support function
4. Managing stakeholders

Blackberry Technical Support Advisor Essential skills, attributes and experience:
* A level of expertise in Windows networking, to have an excellent working understating of configuration and installation of all of the current supported client (Windows 98, NT4, 2000 Pro, XP, Win 7) and server operating systems (NT4, 2000 server, 2003 server, 2007 Server) to a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) or equivalent standard.
* To have an excellent working knowledge of the BlackBerry infrastructure
* To have a good understanding of the components of the GPRS network, how they work and fit into the Network architecture.
* Customer Driven
* Ownership of customer's queries.
* Communication skills, to be able to communicate with both technical and non-technical customers.
* Responsibility and accountability
* Actively look to discover completely new solutions to problems and further improvements to current procedures in the BlackBerry arena in order to increase customer satisfaction.
* Display a can do attitude, respect for others - internal and external customers, in a friendly and polite manner
* Team work, working together, create trust
* To breed a culture within the team that is recognized in the business as leading the way in technology customer care.
* Proactive contribution to the teams culture/dynamics

Blackberry Technical Support Advisor

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: SS Blackberry

SQL Database Developer - ecommerce - London

Our client, a global ecommerce organisation are looking for an experienced SQL database developers to work on a broad range of database development projects as part of a new technology transformation for the business.

The database developer will be involved in developing bespoke applications using the latest development tools. You will be working in a fast paced Agile environment, whilst being part of a vast cross functional development team.

The candidate must have 4 years+ experience in developing SQL based applications using the Microsoft stack (SSAS, SSRS, and SSIS) and have great analytical skills with experience of developing using Agile / Scrum methodologies (TDD & BDD). Experience in ecommerce environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - DBE - 002

Infrastructure Project Manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won (primarily in financial services and private sector accounts). The role will focus on complex single projects / multiple projects to the value £300k - £5m.

The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2-aligned Infrastructure project management background, change management experience, and managing the scope of projects. Projects will particularly be focused on data centre migrations or builds (UNIX, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc.), Network implementations. Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - IPM - 001

My client a Global E-commerce organisation is looking for a Service Delivery Manager to join their ever going team. If you have delivered an IT infrastructure which supports a multichannel retail business, this is right for you. You must have either Retail or eCommerce experience to be considered for this role.

You will be managing the relationship between IT and a complex, multi-national retail community, you will continuously push for improvements in existing operations, recommend and drive through service improvements, as well as play a key role in continuing growth abroad, as well as manage key relationships with technical engineering teams, change functions and external stakeholders. You'll be commercially savvy, with budget management required as well. You will have a strong ITIL background, as well as a solid technical understanding around infrastructure technology, and ideally have a solid functional understanding of the retail or eCommerce industry. This is an excellent opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation

London / Permanent / Ref: PB/210

Service Delivery Manager - Online Retail - ITIL

Our client, a globally successful E-commerce organisation, require a Service Delivery Manager to ensure efficient operation of the company's IT Infrastructure which supports a global multichannel retail business.

Managing the relationship between IT and a complex, multi-national retail community, you will continuously push for improvements in existing operations, recommend and drive through service improvements, as well as play a key role in continuing growth abroad, as well as manage key relationships with technical engineering teams, change functions and external stakeholders. You'll be commercially savvy, with budget management required as well.

You will have a strong ITIL background, as well as a solid technical understanding around infrastructure technology, and ideally have a solid functional understanding of the retail or eCommerce industry.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SDM1

Software Development Manager - Online Retail - London

Our client, a global leader in the ecommerce and online space, requires an experience Software Development Manager to manage a .Net, C# and SQL-aligned development group in the midst of a number of large projects.

The Software Development Manager will be expected to lead the engineers in solving technical challenges for the business. You will draw from your technical expertise to mentor engineers, and provide leadership & new processes, whilst helping define project metrics and requirements.

You will have experience in solving technical issues on performance, scalability and enterprise system architecture, and the Development Manager is expected to providing independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.

You will be Agile-minded and degree educated with 3-5 years of software development experience building large scale distributed systems. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in a major player in the online space. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SDM

Infrastructure Architect - Microsoft Technologies - Online Retail

Our client, a globally recognised online retailer, is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to be responsible for the design and technical delivery of substantial change to help support an international eCommerce platform, based around Microsoft technologies.

Having come from a technical engineering background, the Infrastructure Architect will be able to lead the design and delivery of various projects geared around increasing capacity, replacing legacy systems, and increasing architectural governance within the team and environment. The Infrastructure Architect will scope and define requirements with the business, and translate these into logical designs for technical teams to deliver.

The Architect must have broad knowledge across Windows server platforms, Citrix, VMware (ESXi) and a broad range of web applications as well.

You will ideally come from a retail or online media/ecommerce environment previously, and have the ambition & passion to become a crucial member of an aggressively expanding group, delivering some high profile projects this year.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/INFRAR1ON

Project manager - Infrastructure - London

Alexander Ash is looking to recruit a number of project managers for a global services provider. As an experienced Project Manager you will be focussing on complex infrastructure projects. The role will focus on complex single projects / multiple projects to the value £300000 - c £5m. As the project manager you will have significant experience in managing this type of engagement, and will be highly proficient in change management, and managing the scope of projects. Typical infrastructure projects will include change & transformation projects, datacentre relocations, Rollouts, WAN projects, IP projects, VDI/Virtualisation engagements.

Project manager - Infrastructure - Duties

• Defining, shaping, leading and delivering transitional and/or transformational infrastructure projects of a large and/or strategic and/or complex nature.
• Running projects adopting best practices including Prince2, and ensuring the project team do so too.
• Monitoring, and reporting on, the overall profitability of the project.
• Escalating promptly any issues that may in future have an impact on Computacenter or the future relationship with the customer.
• Running stages, tranches or other parts of a complex or large project or programme.
• Participating in pre-sales presentations and meetings.

Skills

• Holds Prince2 Practitioner qualification
• Must have experience in having managed at least 3 large infrastructure projects.
• Experience of running a number of large or complex infrastructure projects successfully.
• P&L management experience.

If you feel that you are suitable for the position, please get in touch by sending cv's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 6888435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - PMCC - 01

Applications Manager - ERP - HR systems - London

Alexander Ash is looking to recruit a HR applications manager for a global client based in London. The Applications Manager (Human Resources) is responsible for the day-to-day support, management and longer-term service improvement of the existing enterprise applications used to support the HR functions within the organisation, globally. The prime system in use is PeopleSoft HRMS.

As the Applications manager you will ensure that you have deep understanding of each application, its architecture and configuration is maintained across the business. Also ensuring that the HR suite of applications operates within meaningful and relevant performance parameters creating and defining them where they are absent. You will be working with the IT Infrastructure and Architecture teams, as well as external suppliers, to improve the overall service quality and reduce the overall operational cost. The Applications Manager will be responsible for ensuring provision of skilled support expertise to the relevant internal IT resolving teams and providing updates as required to the IT Client Services and Incident management channel. You will also to providing the expert interface to the business, planning and implementation escalations relating to agreed major changes, including projects.

Skills required:

>Experience of supporting the HR function of a global business and experience of PeopleSoft HRMS or other large HR Systems which ideally includes CRM and e-performance modules.
>Oversee product updates, and therefore should have a level of project management experience.
>IT experience, including leadership responsibilities of small teams, ideally in a global or regional enterprise with a partnership structure.
>Previous experience leading regional or global teams within a matrix structure with understanding of infrastructure and application development.
>Proven track record of delivering or supporting technology solutions utilising offshore resources.

If you feel that you are more suitable for the position, please email CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - PASM - 01

Lead Developer Business Intelligence BI DW SSRS SSIS SSAS T-SQL London. A global eCommerce company requires a talented Lead BI Developer with strong experience in the successful delivery and ongoing maintenance of complex, high performing and high quality software systems and have Knowledge of Big Data, Data Warehousing, ODS, Data-Marts, CRM and OLAP concepts and designs. If you have migrated 2 DWH's in to a new DWH that would be a bonus. You must have experience leading & mentoring teams of developers. As well as experience in T-SQL, and the effective use of constraints and Indexes, SSIS Developer; Lookups, Loops, Cache, Events, and Parameterization, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, SSAS, Database & Table Partitioning and Data Compression and Data Warehousing techniques, methodologies, and data modeling tools. This role will give you the opportunity to own the technical design of solutions and own the delivery for one of the largest global ecommerce retailers. I have a detailed spec so please call me to discuss. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:BIDeveloper

Application Packaging Engineer MS Tools Install Shield France. An IT Services company requires a Application Packaging Engineer to work on a desktop deployment project, you must have experience with Installshield or Wise Package Studio, desktop imaging / deployment. You must speak French for this role.

France / Contract / Ref: BenP:applicationPack

Finance Transformation Delivery Lead, London, Consulting

Finance Change Transformation Delivery Leads are required by my client a Global Consulting Organization. Due to significant growth, they require a number of individuals who are able to work fully end to end on large scale technology programmes.

You will have responsibility for mobilizing, managing and delivering projects and programmes in the Finance and Risk space. You will shape and estimate team structures, implement programme governance and release plans as well as driving delivery.

You will be involved on large scale implementations which could include:- Risk and Regulatory Programmes, ERP System implementation, Target Operating Model design and leading transformation programmes across the Finace, Risk and Treasury Domains.

This is a great opportunity to join an established organisation who are continuing to grow. For more information please send me your CV to ram.basra@alexanderash.com and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/TDL001

SharePoint Developer HTML CSS ASP.NET JavaScript SQL Bristol. This is an opportunity to live by the coast and have a quality life style (beach, Sun, surfing) whilst still working for one of the UK's no.1 IT companies, they require a SharePoint developer with experience developing with SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net (C#), JavaScript, SQL .NET application design, development, administration and configuration. As well as demonstrable knowledge of best practice in SharePoint architecture design and if you have project management experience that will be a bonus. Please send me your cv and call me to discuss the detailed spec and the client. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

Business Analyst- Ecommerce/Digital

My client who are an international communications company are urgently searching for a Business Analyst to work on a key Ecommerce project. You will be working with a highly skilled Agile Scrum team on their flagship product.

Business Analyst- Ecommerce/Digital requirements;
Understanding requirements from business users and translating them into user stories
Generating and prioritising Scrum backlogs
Define business requirements - working with the business to create epics and user stories , maintaining the product backlog, support in planning, estimation and other activities.
Reviewing customer acceptance criteria
Plan, schedule and facilitate workshops and present to groups
Support the product owner and wider Scrum Team prior to and during development activities
SharePoint 2010 experience is desirable
Experience of web developments desirable
Passionate and ability to take ownership is a must

Business Analyst- Ecommerce/Digital

London / Contract / Ref: SS BA ECOMM/DIG

Project Manager, eCommerce Transformation

Project Manager is required by my client, a leading online retailer aiming to continue their substantial growth in the online space.

Due to a huge demand for their products and services, this organisation are growing their business internationally, and venturing into new channels. As such the Project Manager will be responsible for workstreams across business and technology problems, engaging with internal stakeholders to ensure change and development to their eCommerce platform and internal processes (supply chain, international retail etc).

The role itself will entail working in a fast-paced environment and work through the end-to-end project lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology and/or business change projects.

You will be an experienced Project Manager with a strong background in eCommerce and retail previously.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major player in the industry, with aggressive plans for growth in 2013. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/PMECB

Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for an experienced Product Owner to work within their Trade Finance offering. They're currently seeking a Product Owner to work within their fully Agile development function in London; this role will be challenging and fast paced, and would suit somebody who wants to take the next step in their career and isn't shy of taking responsibility.

Although the role is sitting within the Financial Sector, they are willing to see strong candidates from outside of this, as they have previous experience as an Agile Product Owner, or have experience as a Scrum Master with a desire to move into a more business facing role.

Alexander Ash is acting as agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM349

Test Manager Software Testing Oxford. A consultancy working on high profile international projects requires a Test Manager to run an extensive software testing project. You must be ISTQB Software Testing Foundation qualified and have experience completing projects to specifications, dealing with cross-team dependencies, testing to constantly evolving requirements in a fast paced environment and in an Open source environment. plus experience in assessing test opjectives, context & risk, monitoring test results & checking exit criteria, setting up test ware for traceability, introducing metrics and developing response strategies and processes for high-criticality and security vulnerability related bug notifications,pro-actively investigate and find potential security holes and attack vectors within both the existing and newly-developed code base. Please call me to discuss the detailed spec : Ben Price 0207 688 8432

South East / Contract / Ref: BenP:TestMNGR

Applications Manager - Human Resources - Peoplesoft

Alexander Ash is looking to recruit a HR applications manager for a global client based in London. The Applications Manager (Human Resources) is responsible for the day-to-day support, management and longer-term service improvement of the existing enterprise applications used to support the HR functions within the organisation, globally. The prime system in use is PeopleSoft HRMS.

As the Applications manager you will ensure that you have deep understanding of each application, its architecture and configuration is maintained across the business. Also ensuring that the HR suite of applications operates within meaningful and relevant performance parameters creating and defining them where they are absent. You will be working with the IT Infrastructure and Architecture teams, as well as external suppliers, to improve the overall service quality and reduce the overall operational cost. The Applications Manager will be responsible for ensuring provision of skilled support expertise to the relevant internal IT resolving teams and providing updates as required to the IT Client Services and Incident management channel. You will also to providing the expert interface to the business, planning and implementation escalations relating to agreed major changes, including projects.

Skills required:

>Experience of supporting the HR function of a global business and experience of PeopleSoft HRMS or other large HR Systems which ideally includes CRM and e-performance modules.
>Oversee product updates, and therefore should have a level of project management experience.
>IT experience, including leadership responsibilities of small teams, ideally in a global or regional enterprise with a partnership structure.
>Previous experience leading regional or global teams within a matrix structure with understanding of infrastructure and application development.
>Proven track record of delivering or supporting technology solutions utilising offshore resources.

If you feel that you are more suitable for the position, please email CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - PASM - 01

Infrastructure Project Manager - Outsourcing - London

Our client, a global Outsourcing organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure projects as part of a new portfolio of customer projects being won (primarily in financial services and private sector accounts). The Project Manager will interface with external stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the internal technical groups to ensure end-to-end delivery of projects.

The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes. The candidate must have 4 years+ Prince 2-aligned Infrastructure project management background, particularly with an exceptional track record of data centre migrations or builds (Unix, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc). Experience in Managed Services environments is also highly preferred.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: APPMI1

Technical Architect - ASP.NET/SQL - eCommerce

Our client, a globally recognised online fashion retailer, is looking for an experienced Technical Architect to be responsible for the design and technical delivery substantial change to a major eCommerce platform, running on MS stack technologies, in particular .NET and SQL.

Having come from a technical development background, the Technical Architect will be able to lead the design and development of various projects geared around increasing functionality, improving the site and delivering innovation to the group. The Technical Architect will have a strong .NET development background, and have proven design capabilities including; design code that adheres to the SOLID principles, understanding asynchronous programming techniques and message exchange patterns, and design of loosely coupled applications.

The Architect must have broad knowledge of: ASP.NET, SQL, WCF, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Visual Studio, Testing, Software Design patterns and distributed message system design.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding group, delivering a number of high-profile projects over the next few years.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/TECARC1

eCommerce Consultant - Global Consulting Firm - London

Global Consultancy require a number of talented and engaging eCommerce Consultants to join a newly formed group leading bids, pre sales engagements and transformation projects across Digital and eCommerce technologies.

The core remit of the eCommerce Consultant will be to translate business needs into effective and resilient technology solutions, and seeing these through to the point of BAU (build, test and implementation). Consultants will also help design solutions, transition clients towards their new solutions, and maintain a high client focus throughout the full project lifecycle.

Previous exposure to Business Analysis and/or Internal Consulting in a UK Products organisation (retail, consumer goods, travel etc) is required, as is a solid understanding of technical change around areas like Java, ATG, SOA is highly preferential.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/ECOMCON

Product Manager - Trading Platforms/Real-Time Data

My client, a major spread betting organisation, require an experienced Product Manager to manage a range of new services & offerings based around trading/pricing platforms and real-time data feeds.

The Product Manager will come into a small team at an early stage of the development of a portfolio of products, and will be instrumental in developing the road map and delivering product development as well as providing leadership and ideas to the technical/Scrum teams.

Digest common requirements and provide specifications of new features and enhancements, and provide leadership in the product strategy, marketing and development stages.

A strong understanding, and keen interest, in trading platforms and/or real-time data feeds is required for the Product Manager to be successful in this role. You will also be able to offer an entrepreneurial approach, as well as the ability to deal with a range of stakeholders to deliver successful new products.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/PRODMGR

Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for an experienced Product Owner to work within their Trade Finance offering. They're currently seeking a Product Owner to work within their fully Agile development function in London; this role will be challenging and fast paced, and would suit somebody who wants to take the next step in their career and isn't shy of taking responsibility.

Although the role is sitting within the Financial Sector, they are willing to see strong candidates from outside of this, as they have previous experience as an Agile Product Owner, or have experience as a Scrum Master with a desire to move into a more business facing role.

Alexander Ash is acting as agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM349

Business Intelligence Architect BI DW SSAS T-SQL Modeling London. A global eCommerce company requires a DW BI Architect with experience of re-architecting two data warehouses in to one with strong analytical & problem solving skills, experience of implementing / supporting Big Data, cloud-based solutions, large data implementations, T-SQL, SSIS, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, SSAS, SSRS, Database & Table Partitioning, Data Compression, Data Warehousing, methodologies, data modeling and SQL Server security. You should have experience of proof of concept, mapping or architecture of Big Data and experience of 3rd parties, consultancy's or vendors that provided Big data solutions. This role will give you the opportunity to own the technical design of solutions for one of the largest global ecommerce retailers. I have a detailed spec so please call me to discuss. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:BIArchitect

Business Intelligence Developer DW SSRS SSIS SSAS T-SQL London. A global eCommerce company requires a talented BI Developer with strong experience in the successful delivery and ongoing maintenance of complex, high performing and high quality software systems and Knowledge of Data Warehousing, ODS, Data-Marts, CRM and OLAP concepts and designs. As well as experience in T-SQL, and the effective use of constraints and Indexes, SSIS Developer; Lookups, Loops, Cache, Events, and Parameterization, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, SSAS, Database & Table Partitioning and Data Compression and Data Warehousing techniques, methodologies, and data modeling tools. This role will give you the opportunity to own the technical design of solutions and own the delivery for one of the largest global ecommerce retailers. I have a detailed spec so please call me to discuss. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:BIDeveloper

Business Analyst P&C General Insurance Surrey. A Tier 1 Company requires a Business Analyst with experience of P&C General Insurance. You will be required to undertake customer requirements investigation, analysis and solution design in accordance with assigned initiatives and work. you will play a key role in the development of functional documentation, facilitating the management of changes if required. You will support testing initiatives and deal with the resolution of problems as they emerge. As well as facilitate workshops and design sessions using the appropriate methodologies and frameworks. you must have Business Analysis experience from a P&C background with experience of eliciting requirements and creating functional design specifications. The role will involve meetings, discussions with customers and therefore customer interaction / engagement skills are mandatory.

Home counties / Contract / Ref: BenP:BAInsurance

Business Intelligence Analyst BI DW MicroStrategy T-SQL London. A global eCommerce company requires a talented BI Analsyt with strong experience of planning & designing Data Warehouse & CRM solutions. You must have experience of MicroStrategy Architecture, T-SQL, Data Warehousing, ODS, Data-Marts, CRM, OLAP concepts / designs & dimensional modeling. This role will give you the opportunity to own the planning & designing Data Warehouse & CRM solutions for one of the largest global ecommerce retailers and be an ambassador of the compaies technical capability. I have a detailed spec so please call me to discuss. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:BIArchitect

Web Developer Digital C# ASP.NET TDD TFS MVC Oxford. I have a Digital client looking to recruit a contract Web Developer for 6 months with the following skills: C# ASP.NET TDD TFS MVC the role is based in Oxfordshire and is paying £300 to £330 per Day. The contract will potentially last for 18 months and you will be working on high profile websites for global clients. This role will be challenging and will push you technical capabilities. Please call me to discuss the role in detail, I have a comprehensive spec: Ben Price 0207 688 8432

South East / Contract / Ref: BenP:Webdev

Business Analyst P&C General Insurance Surrey. A Tier 1 Company requires a Business Analyst with experience of P&C General Insurance. You will be required to undertake customer requirements investigation, analysis and solution design in accordance with assigned initiatives and work. you will play a key role in the development of functional documentation, facilitating the management of changes if required. You will support testing initiatives and deal with the resolution of problems as they emerge. As well as facilitate workshops and design sessions using the appropriate methodologies and frameworks. you must have Business Analysis experience from a P&C background with experience of eliciting requirements and creating functional design specifications. The role will involve meetings, discussions with customers and therefore customer interaction / engagement skills are mandatory.

Home counties / Contract / Ref: BenP:BAInsurance

Service Desk Lead - London

Alexander Ash is looking to recruit a Service desk manager for a global ecommerce service provider. The Senior Help desk Lead position is a critical role requiring exceptional leadership, analytical, problem-solving, technical, and communication capabilities. This position requires a technology professional leader capable of quickly analysing issues, communicating and documenting proper solutions. Excellent organizational skills and the ability to interact with and influence all levels of personnel including executive managers and technical staff is key to success in this role.

Service Desk Lead Duties:

• Lead the Helpdesk team to ensure proper service is provided to our clients within SLA.
• Ensure the team maintains a good overall understanding of application, architecture, and other third party services.
• Provide overall leadership and management on behalf of the Head of Helpdesk as needed including mentoring the Helpdesk team and reviewing their work.
• Aid in the diagnoses, troubleshooting and resolving of issues via ticketing system, over the phone and email, in a fast paced, challenging and dynamic environment.
• Ensure good knowledge and understanding of eCommerce best practices.
• Experience with root cause analysis, reading logs (including application and payment logs), Linux, javascript, html, css and related technologies is a plus.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Minimum 7 years' experience in a Helpdesk role with at least 3 years as a Manager or Team Lead. - Experience as a Helpdesk Analyst for a SaaS product (preferred). - Experience working with C-Level executives. - Excellent knowledge of issue and bug tracking/ticketing software. - Knowledge of and experience with Internet/Web technologies. - Knowledge of eCommerce systems infrastructure and architecture. - Knowledge of and experience with Systems Integrations (flat file and SOAP).

If you feel that you are suitable for the position. Please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - SDM - 01

Financial Services Consultant, London

My client a Tier 1 Global Consultancy, and a leader working in the Financial Services area, are looking to on board multiple Financial Services Consultants

This new hiring phase is due to organisation growth, and some very exciting plans over the coming years.

You will be working within Finance or Risk on a variety of the following projects:- large scale technology replatforming, Regulatory driven implementation programmes, Large scale off shoring or outsourcing, and the development and implementation of new target operating models / reorganization of a retained onshore function.

You could be operating in the function of a finance, risk, treasury architect, project management, business analyst, regulatory programme analysis, operating model design in Finance, Risk or Treasury. They would be interested in speaking to individuals across these roles.

This a great opportunity to join an exciting practice with a lot of work on right now, and a full pipeline going forwards.

For more information please send your details through to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FSC001

Finance and Risk Transformation Programme Leads, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers / Directors to come and join a growing Finance and Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming and Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send throough your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FR03

Imperva WAF Support Engineer, London

My client a Global Consultancy are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior WAF (Web Application Firewall) Administrator to help with the day to day administration and support of a clients systems. Duties will include to application turn up, migration from learning to protection mode, performance tuning and auditing of the system.

You will need to have mperva Web Application Firewall Administration, web application troubleshooting and Excellent documentation experience.

For more information please email ram.basra@alexanderash.com with your CV and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/IW01

Project / Programme Manager, Digital, Consulting, London

Project / Programme Managers are required by my client a leading consultancy. Due to a huge demand for there products and services within the web and digital space are looking to recruit a number of individuals in to the practice.

You will need to be able to deliver cutting edhe web solutions including eCommerce stores and Multi - Platform rich media web sites and applications, some of the projects of which will be on a global scale.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions

You will be involved in delivering programmes involving integration of common web technologies and solutions, including:

• Web Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Video Content Management
• Portal
• Identity & Access Management
• Banner & Video Advertising
• Social Media
• Search / SEO
• Web Analytics
• Multi-device support (smart-phone, tablet, desktop, console, set-top box)
• eCommerce

If you are keen to hear more about this fantastic opportunities please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PM02

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for an experienced Database Engineer to work inside an Agile team and work collectively on software design and delivery. The candidate will be working closely with team members and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements, and then work with the Solutiona Architects to design highly efficient database schema and code.

Qualifications & Experience:

• You will most likely possess a maths, science or information systems related degree
• You will hold an MCITP in SQL Server 2005/2008 Development or at least have a level of experience to that standard
• You will have a passion for SQL server, using it to its full potential, and wringing every drop of performance from it
• You will have delivered projects for high transaction 24/7 OLTP SQL Server environments
• You may have experience of delivering projects against the SQL Server BI platforms (AS, SSIS, SSRS) and Data Warehouses, or are at least very keen to learn more about them
• You will likely have a retail or eCommerce background

Essential Skills

• You will possess excellent multi-tasking and communication skills
• You will have an excellent analytical and problem solving ability
• You will have a broad base of knowledge in most of the following areas:
• OLTP Database Design, when to use constraints, and selecting the right data-types
• T-SQL (DML & DDL): How to use set based logic and writing queries beyond just CRUD
• How the all database engine components work together to explain the life of a query
• How to interpret query plans, their operators, and how to retrieve information from the plan cache
• Data movement via Transactional Replication and SQL Service Broker and message based solutions
• Visual Studio / TFS and working with Database Projects
• Unit Testing of Stored Procedures

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM492

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a certified Scrum Master to provide leadership across a number of their offerings. A background within Software Engineering would be helpful, although not essential, as well as being a practitioner of Agile, Scrum and Waterfall. You will be working with the Programme Manager and Operations Manager, to manage the pipeline of development work; including combinations of major project activity and minor enhancements.

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM3494

Our client, a leading global retailer, is looking for a high calibre programme manager to join head up one of their largest accounts in the City of London. The role will entail leading IT team, PMOs and other change management professionals inorder to ensure that all aspects of account management are running smoothly in the eyes of the client. A background in IT is not needed, as there will be the relevant IT SME's on hand to help out. It would be beneficial for the candidate to have a background in consulting, perhaps from a global firm, although this is not essential.

If you are interested in hearing more about the position, please send your CV though to 'gerard.munoz@alexanderash.com' and i'd be happy top discuss in more detail.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4933

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a high calibre Solutions Architect, to join their matrix managed, fast-paced engineering team. The role will entail leading an agile, cross-functional team and taking responsibility for the engineering team's deliverables and quality.

Expert, albeit broad knowledge in the following IT disciplines is essential:

• .Net 3.5/4
• ASP.NET
• WCF
• SQL (T-SQL, Database Design)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
• Software design patterns
• Testing (unit, integration etc.)
• Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection.
• Distributed message system design/development
• Visual Studio / TFS
• A BDD framework
• SOAP/REST/JSON
• IIS, Window Services
• JavaScript
• HTTP (headers, cookies etc.)
• XSD/XML

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM595

Service desk Analyst - London

Alexander ash is looking for a service desk analys for a global ecommerce provider based in London. As the service desk analyst you will be working closely with Clients and Engineers to troubleshoot issues and provide regular updates and feedback on all new and open client issues.

This position requires a technology professional who can quickly understand issues and guide them toward resolution or escalation. The Service Desk Team is responsible for logging and updating customer issues, responding to queries within agreed SLAs, diagnosing, investigating and resolving problems relating to the operations of the clients eCommerce website and third party systems.

Service desk Analyst skills:

• Knowledge of Internet/Web technologies (ie. javascript, html, css, dns, xml).
• Experience with root cause analysis, reading logs (including application and payment logs), Linux, and related technologies.
• Minimum 1 year experience in a Service Desk or Helpdesk role supporting proprietary software, SaaS or eCommerce (ie. not simply desktop support).
• Knowledge of issue and bug tracking/ticketing software.
• Knowledge of and experience with Internet/Web technologies.
• Knowledge of eCommerce systems infrastructure and architecture.

If you feel that you are suitable for the position, please get in touch by sending CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - SDA - 01

Product Owner - Technology Vendor - £70,000 p/a

My Client, one of the largest technology companies/vendors in Europe, are currently seeking a proven Product Owner to work within their Agile development function in London.

Responsibilities
*Be the business focussing arm of the development function, working closely alongside a Scrum Master to push through Development projects in an Agile environment.
*Create, Execute and Maintain the Product Roadmap, working with both the business and technology to create a full delivery roadmap.
*Take business requirements and translate them into user stories.
*Validate all solutions and requirements with stakeholders.
*Coordinate the requirements and dependencies with other teams throughout the business.
*Prioritise business requirements and schedule into release scope, and communicate these schedules to stakeholders.
*Maintain the team's work backlog, ensuring an adequate supply of groomed stories.
*Participate in Backlog meetings, story grooming, daily stand-ups as a member of the team.

Skills Required
*Strong experience in an Agile environments and running Agile development streams.
*Previous experience as an Agile Product Owner or experience as a Scrum Master with a desire to move into a more business facing role.
*Exceptional communication skills, including negotiation and presentation skills for internal and external stakeholders and customers.
*Proven ability to manage business requirements, product backlog and product roadmap.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please forward your details today.

Alexander Ash Consulting are acting as a search agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: CA-0901-PRODOWN

Web Developer Digital C# ASP.NET TDD TFS MVC Oxford. I have a Digital client looking to recruit a contract Web Developer for 6 months with the following skills: C# ASP.NET TDD TFS MVC the role is based in Oxfordshire and is paying £300 - £330 per Day. The contract will potentially last for 18 months and you will be working on high profile websites for global clients. This role will be challenging and will push you technical capabilities. Please call me to discuss the role in detail, I have a comprehensive spec: Ben Price 0207 688 8432

South East / Contract / Ref: BenP:Webdev

Web Developer Digital C# ASP.NET TDD TFS MVC Oxford. I have a Digital client looking to recruit a contract Web Developer for 6 months with the following skills: C# ASP.NET TDD TFS MVC the role is based in Oxfordshire and is paying £300 - £330 per Day. The contract will potentially last for 18 months and you will be working on high profile websites for global clients. This role will be challenging and will push you technical capabilities. Please call me to discuss the role in detail, I have a comprehensive spec: Ben Price 0207 688 8432

South East / Contract / Ref: BenP:Webdev

.Net Developer - Oxford

Alexander Ash requires a contract .net developer for a digital agency based in Oxford. We require a developer who has a mixture of front end and back end development. The successful developer will also need to design and develop code, develops and enhances Windows/Internet systems, including unit testing, configuration and support.

.Net developer skills:

The successful candidate will require a good knowledge of design and writing of database queries and software. You will need to have a minimum of 5 years hands-on commercial development experience in Microsoft environments. You will be experienced in the development of Internet, intranet, Winforms and building secure business systems. You must have a sound knowledge of OOPs concepts & structured testing environments

Technologies used:

C#, VB, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, XML, XSLT, Web services and SQL Server stuctured development methodologies.

Contract Duration: 6 Months - Based in Oxford - Oxfordshire

Daily Rate: £325 P/D Max

If you feel that you are suitable for this position, please send your CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

South East / Contract / Ref: JSNA-Net-FE-BE

PMO Planner, IT, Hertfordshire

PMO Planner is required by our client a highly recognizable brand. They are looking for an individual with good experiences around the set up of governance controls, processes and procedures to enable the expansion plans on a portfolio of projects, and manage senior stakeholders within IT and the business.

You will be regularly updating portfolio plans, looking at installing short and long term milestones on projects, and running the governance process to monitor how programmes are passing through gates.

You will also be enforcing compliance, chairing meetings, be involved in high level planning , working with Infrastructure teams, looking at risk issues and dependencies on projects, and be able to provide a complete picture of the portfolio of projects.

Key responsibilities for this role include:-

* Running a structured governance process
* Creating and maintaining the Portfolio plan
* Escalating to management for decisions as appropriate
* Process improvement (to foster environment of continuous improvement)
* Setting standards and using best practice
* Manage Portfolio Risks, Issues and Dependencies

This is a great opportunity to join a well known brand, and work on some very exciting large scale projects.

For further information please send me through your CV and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PMOP001

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a certified Scrum Master to provide leadership across a number of their offerings. A background within Software Engineering would be helpful, although not essential, as well as being a practitioner of Agile, Scrum and Waterfall. You will be working with the Programme Manager and Operations Manager, to manage the pipeline of development work; including combinations of major project activity and minor enhancements.

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM3494

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for an experienced Database Engineer to work inside an Agile team and work collectively on software design and delivery. The candidate will be working closely with team members and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements, and then work with the Solutiona Architects to design highly efficient database schema and code.

Qualifications & Experience:

• You will most likely possess a maths, science or information systems related degree
• You will hold an MCITP in SQL Server 2005/2008 Development or at least have a level of experience to that standard
• You will have a passion for SQL server, using it to its full potential, and wringing every drop of performance from it
• You will have delivered projects for high transaction 24/7 OLTP SQL Server environments
• You may have experience of delivering projects against the SQL Server BI platforms (AS, SSIS, SSRS) and Data Warehouses, or are at least very keen to learn more about them
• You will likely have a retail or eCommerce background

Essential Skills

• You will possess excellent multi-tasking and communication skills
• You will have an excellent analytical and problem solving ability
• You will have a broad base of knowledge in most of the following areas:
• OLTP Database Design, when to use constraints, and selecting the right data-types
• T-SQL (DML & DDL): How to use set based logic and writing queries beyond just CRUD
• How the all database engine components work together to explain the life of a query
• How to interpret query plans, their operators, and how to retrieve information from the plan cache
• Data movement via Transactional Replication and SQL Service Broker and message based solutions
• Visual Studio / TFS and working with Database Projects
• Unit Testing of Stored Procedures

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM492

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a high calibre Solutions Architect, to join their matrix managed, fast-paced engineering team. The role will entail leading an agile, cross-functional team and taking responsibility for the engineering team's deliverables and quality.

Expert, albeit broad knowledge in the following IT disciplines is essential:

• .Net 3.5/4
• ASP.NET
• WCF
• SQL (T-SQL, Database Design)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
• Software design patterns
• Testing (unit, integration etc.)
• Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection.
• Distributed message system design/development
• Visual Studio / TFS
• A BDD framework
• SOAP/REST/JSON
• IIS, Window Services
• JavaScript
• HTTP (headers, cookies etc.)
• XSD/XML

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM595

Our client, a leading global retailer, is looking for a high calibre programme manager to join head up one of their largest accounts in the City of London. The role will entail leading IT team, PMOs and other change management professionals inorder to ensure that all aspects of account management are running smoothly in the eyes of the client. A background in IT is not needed, as there will be the relevant IT SME's on hand to help out. It would be beneficial for the candidate to have a background in consulting, perhaps from a global firm, although this is not essential.

If you are interested in hearing more about the position, please send your CV though to 'gerard.munoz@alexanderash.com' and i'd be happy top discuss in more detail.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4933

Business Intelligence Developer DW SSRS SSIS SSAS T-SQL London. A global eCommerce company requires a talented BI Developer with strong experience in the successful delivery and ongoing maintenance of complex, high performing and high quality software systems and Knowledge of Data Warehousing, ODS, Data-Marts, CRM and OLAP concepts and designs. As well as experience in T-SQL, and the effective use of constraints and Indexes, SSIS Developer; Lookups, Loops, Cache, Events, and Parameterization, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, SSAS, Database & Table Partitioning and Data Compression and Data Warehousing techniques, methodologies, and data modeling tools. This role will give you the opportunity to own the technical design of solutions and own the delivery for one of the largest global ecommerce retailers. I have a detailed spec so please call me to discuss. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:BIDeveloper

Business Intelligence Analyst BI DW MicroStrategy T-SQL London. A global eCommerce company requires a talented BI Analsyt with strong experience of planning & designing Data Warehouse & CRM solutions. You must have experience of MicroStrategy Architecture, T-SQL, Data Warehousing, ODS, Data-Marts, CRM, OLAP concepts / designs & dimensional modeling. This role will give you the opportunity to own the planning & designing Data Warehouse & CRM solutions for one of the largest global ecommerce retailers and be an ambassador of the compaies technical capability. I have a detailed spec so please call me to discuss. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:BIArchitect

Business Intelligence Architect BI DW SSAS T-SQL Modeling London. A global eCommerce company requires a talented BI Architect with strong analytical & problem solving skills, experience of implementing / supporting cloud-based solutions, large data implementations, T-SQL, SSIS, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, SSAS, SSRS, Database & Table Partitioning, Data Compression, Data Warehousing, methodologies, data modeling and SQL Server security. This role will give you the opportunity to own the technical design of solutions for one of the largest global ecommerce retailers. I have a detailed spec so please call me to discuss. Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:BIArchitect

Project Manager

Alexander Ash is looking to recruit a customer focused project manager / service delivery manager for a global ecommerce client. As the project manager / service deliver manager you will be supporting the clients customer satisfaction team & you will manage, control and lead the day-to-day delivery of the portfolio of tactical projects and initiatives. This will include the definition, planning, financial management, risk and dependency management, acceptance and closedown to support Customer Care initiatives and efficiencies.

Project manager

The successful applicant will manage on site team of Developers, DBA and test resource to meet Customer Care objectives outside of the strategic program of work. You will take the Customer satisfaction teams requirements into the central strategic program and work with the program manager responsible to assist understanding and prioritisation of Customer satisfaction team requirements. You will also support the Head of IT Services in Strategic planning, supplier and financial management with regard to Customer satisfaction teams initiatives. You will also support the Head of the department to articulate the technology requirements, develop a prioritised plan to deliver the appropriate technology solutions and associated transformation tasks. You will integrate with the IT Services team and the Business IT projects to ensure coordinated approach to communications, finance, delivery and risk.

Project manager

• Project Management and/or Strong Business Analysis experience
• Financial Management experience including Business case and ROI creation, budget management and forecasting.
• A strong understanding of PRINCE2, Agile and ITIL working practices.
• Preferably Solution Architecture experience including application, integration, network, storage and databases.
• Commercial and Financial Acumen
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information and risks to non-technical users.
• Service related focus with the ability to place yourself in the position of the customer to understand their concerns and issues
• Ability to present ideas and information to both technical and non-technical audiences

If you feel that you are suitable for this position, please send your CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com / 02076888435.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-PM-SDM-01

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Delivery Lead Project Manager Data Warehouse Oil & Gas London. A top tier Oil and gas company requires a Delivery Lead / Project Manager with Data Warehouse, interface delivery and off shore delivery experience. This position will provide you with a very varied role, ranging from managing on shore and off shore delivery teams, to senior stakeholder management, to managing data Warehouse Projects. You will be responsible for Demand planning, presenting to steering committees, end to end IT Project lifecycle delivery, change control, Interface Delivery, BI / Data warehouse solutions, and change and release management. please call me to discuss the detailed spec Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Deliverylead

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

SharePoint 2010 Developer £60k plus bonus/package Bristol. This is an opportunity to live by the coast and have a quality life style (beach, Sun, surfing) whilst still working for one of the UK's no.1 IT companies, they require a SharePoint developer with experience of developing with SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net (C#), JavaScript, SQL .NET application design, development, administration and configuration. As well as demonstrable plus knowledge of best practice in SharePoint architecture and design and if you have project management experience that would be a bonus. Please send me your cv and call me to discuss the detailed spec and the client. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

Solution Architect Web eCommerce Online Retail Fashion London. A leading online fashion retailer is looking to hire a talented Solution Architect this role will give you the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, in a highly creative environment and be part of a fun positive team. You will be key to the overall success of the company and you will manage an agile, cross functional team taking responsibility for deliverables and quality and you will own the technical design of solutions and work with stakeholders, business, architecture and service. You will be a member of the Technical Design Authority, ensuring consistent high quality designs and you will own the technical delivery of the team ensuring the team delivers to required standard. You must have experience in the following technologies:.Net 3.5/4, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL (T-SQL, Database Design), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Software design patterns, Testing (unit, integration etc.), Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection, Distributed message, system design/development, Visual Studio / TFS, A BDD framework, SOAP/REST/JSON, IIS, Window Services, JavaScript, HTTP (headers, cookies etc.) and XSD/XML.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:.NETDEV

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

.Net Developer ecommerce Online Retail Fashion London. A leading online fashion retailer is looking to hire talented .Net Developers at Junior and Senior level this role will give you the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, in a highly creative environment and be part of a fun positive team of developers that are key to the overall success of the company. They require developers who are used to working in a fast pace environment, as part of an agile cross functional team, you must have experience with .Net 3.5 / 4, ASP.Net, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Testing, Inversion of Control / Dependency, Visual Studio, TFS 2010. Any experience in cloud based development or website design / Usability / Accessibility is a bonus.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:.NETDEV

.Net Developer

Alexander Ash requires a contract .net developer for a digital agency based in Oxford. We require a developer who has a mixture of front end and back end development. The successful developer will also need to design and develop code, develops and enhances Windows/Internet systems, including unit testing, configuration and support.

.Net developer skills:

The successful candidate will require a good knowledge of design and writing of database queries and software. You will need to have a minimum of 5 years hands-on commercial development experience in Microsoft environments. You will be experienced in the development of Internet, intranet, Winforms and building secure business systems. You must have a sound knowledge of OOPs concepts & structured testing environments

Technologies used:

C#, VB, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, XML, XSLT, Web services and SQL Server stuctured development methodologies.

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Daily Rate: £350 P/D.

If you feel that you are suitable for this position, please send your CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

South East / Contract / Ref: JSNA-Net-FE-BE

Front End Developer

Alexander ash consulting is looking to recruit a front end developer for a Global e commerce client. As a front end developer you will be at the forefront of digital development with this client and will be part of a dynamic team of front end developers.

You will need to posess the following to be considered: Degree or similar level qualification. Proven experience of working in teams in the successful delivery of complex, highly performing and high quality software systems. You will be experience of Agile and XP practices and also proven experience of working with business stakeholders, Product Owners and Business Analysts to analyse requirements, develop ideas and design solutions.

As a Front End Developer you will need to be experienced / proficient with the following technologies:

XHTML, HTML5, CSS3, CSS Sprites, CSS Grid Layout, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax, Cross browser development, REST/JSON, Web Design, Understands and code to the W3C standards and working with Testing frameworks such as Jasmine or QUnit etc

Front End Developer

If you feel that you have the right skills for this position, please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 6888435

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - 01 - FED

SAP Developer, Business Intelligence Data Modelling Germany. A leading utilities company requires a German speaking professionally qualified SAP Developer, who has extensive experience performing Business Intelligence Data Modelling, Data Staging and Extraction. You must be proficient in Technical Design, Analysis and Implementation and you must be able to do ABAP programming in the BI standard frame, you must also have strong project management experience. Any knowledge of the following modules would be a bonus: CO, MM and Business Objects. If you have experience with Business Intelligence release change projects that would be very beneficial.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:SAP:BIDatamodel

Project / Programme Manager, Digital, Consulting, London

Project / Programme Managers are required by my client a leading consultancy. Due to a huge demand for there products and services within the web and digital space are looking to recruit a number of individuals in to the practice.

You will need to be able to deliver cutting edhe web solutions including eCommerce stores and Multi - Platform rich media web sites and applications, some of the projects of which will be on a global scale.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions

You will be involved in delivering programmes involving integration of common web technologies and solutions, including:

• Web Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Video Content Management
• Portal
• Identity & Access Management
• Banner & Video Advertising
• Social Media
• Search / SEO
• Web Analytics
• Multi-device support (smart-phone, tablet, desktop, console, set-top box)
• eCommerce

If you are keen to hear more about this fantastic opportunities please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PM02

Imperva WAF Support Engineer, London

My client a Global Consultancy are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior WAF (Web Application Firewall) Administrator to help with the day to day administration and support of a clients systems. Duties will include to application turn up, migration from learning to protection mode, performance tuning and auditing of the system.

You will need to have mperva Web Application Firewall Administration, web application troubleshooting and Excellent documentation experience.

For more information please email ram.basra@alexanderash.com with your CV and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/IW01

Finance and Risk Transformation Programme Leads, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers / Directors to come and join a growing Finance and Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming and Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send throough your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FR03

Financial Services Consultant, London

My client a Tier 1 Global Consultancy, and a leader working in the Financial Services area, are looking to on board multiple Financial Services Consultants

This new hiring phase is due to organisation growth, and some very exciting plans over the coming years.

You will be working within Finance or Risk on a variety of the following projects:- large scale technology replatforming, Regulatory driven implementation programmes, Large scale off shoring or outsourcing, and the development and implementation of new target operating models / reorganization of a retained onshore function.

You could be operating in the function of a finance, risk, treasury architect, project management, business analyst, regulatory programme analysis, operating model design in Finance, Risk or Treasury. They would be interested in speaking to individuals across these roles.

This a great opportunity to join an exciting practice with a lot of work on right now, and a full pipeline going forwards.

For more information please send your details through to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FSC001

Finance and Risk Transformation Lead, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers to come and join a growing Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming, Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send through your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FT001

SharePoint 2010 Developer £60k plus bonus/package Bristol. This is an opportunity to live by the coast and have a quality life style (beach, Sun, surfing) whilst still working for one of the UK's no.1 IT companies, they require a SharePoint developer with experience of developing with SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net (C#), JavaScript, SQL .NET application design, development, administration and configuration. As well as demonstrable plus knowledge of best practice in SharePoint architecture and design and if you have project management experience that would be a bonus. Please send me your cv and call me to discuss the detailed spec and the client. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

.Net Developer ecommerce Online Retail Fashion London. A leading online fashion retailer is looking to hire talented .Net Developers at Junior and Senior level this role will give you the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, in a highly creative environment and be part of a fun positive team of developers that are key to the overall success of the company. They require developers who are used to working in a fast pace environment, as part of an agile cross functional team, you must have experience with .Net 3.5 / 4, ASP.Net, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Testing, Inversion of Control / Dependency, Visual Studio, TFS 2010. Any experience in cloud based development or website design / Usability / Accessibility is a bonus.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:.NETDEV

Solution Architect Web eCommerce Online Retail Fashion London. A leading online fashion retailer is looking to hire a talented Solution Architect this role will give you the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, in a highly creative environment and be part of a fun positive team. You will be key to the overall success of the company and you will manage an agile, cross functional team taking responsibility for deliverables and quality and you will own the technical design of solutions and work with stakeholders, business, architecture and service. You will be a member of the Technical Design Authority, ensuring consistent high quality designs and you will own the technical delivery of the team ensuring the team delivers to required standard. You must have experience in the following technologies:.Net 3.5/4, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL (T-SQL, Database Design), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Software design patterns, Testing (unit, integration etc.), Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection, Distributed message, system design/development, Visual Studio / TFS, A BDD framework, SOAP/REST/JSON, IIS, Window Services, JavaScript, HTTP (headers, cookies etc.) and XSD/XML.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:.NETDEV

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for two high calibre Solutions Architects to work on client site in Nottingham. The roles will be need immediate starters for January. The role will involve working with the design team to realise the architecture by providing suggestions on design options. Then reviewing and validating the design decisions taken by the design teams. Working with client architecture teams in validating the non-functional requirements and discussing and providing inputs on architecture options. It would be beneficial for the candidates to have working experience with at least one common SDLC method, such as RUP or Velociq.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

Midlands / Contract / Ref: GM3400

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for an experienced Database Engineer to work inside an Agile team and work collectively on software design and delivery. The candidate will be working closely with team members and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements, and then work with the Solutiona Architects to design highly efficient database schema and code.

Qualifications & Experience:

• You will most likely possess a maths, science or information systems related degree
• You will hold an MCITP in SQL Server 2005/2008 Development or at least have a level of experience to that standard
• You will have a passion for SQL server, using it to its full potential, and wringing every drop of performance from it
• You will have delivered projects for high transaction 24/7 OLTP SQL Server environments
• You may have experience of delivering projects against the SQL Server BI platforms (AS, SSIS, SSRS) and Data Warehouses, or are at least very keen to learn more about them
• You will likely have a retail or eCommerce background

Essential Skills

• You will possess excellent multi-tasking and communication skills
• You will have an excellent analytical and problem solving ability
• You will have a broad base of knowledge in most of the following areas:
• OLTP Database Design, when to use constraints, and selecting the right data-types
• T-SQL (DML & DDL): How to use set based logic and writing queries beyond just CRUD
• How the all database engine components work together to explain the life of a query
• How to interpret query plans, their operators, and how to retrieve information from the plan cache
• Data movement via Transactional Replication and SQL Service Broker and message based solutions
• Visual Studio / TFS and working with Database Projects
• Unit Testing of Stored Procedures

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM492

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a high calibre Solutions Architect, to join their matrix managed, fast-paced engineering team. The role will entail leading an agile, cross-functional team and taking responsibility for the engineering team's deliverables and quality.

Expert, albeit broad knowledge in the following IT disciplines is essential:

• .Net 3.5/4
• ASP.NET
• WCF
• SQL (T-SQL, Database Design)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
• Software design patterns
• Testing (unit, integration etc.)
• Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection.
• Distributed message system design/development
• Visual Studio / TFS
• A BDD framework
• SOAP/REST/JSON
• IIS, Window Services
• JavaScript
• HTTP (headers, cookies etc.)
• XSD/XML

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM595

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a certified Scrum Master to provide leadership across a number of their offerings. A background within Software Engineering would be helpful, although not essential, as well as being a practitioner of Agile, Scrum and Waterfall. You will be working with the Programme Manager and Operations Manager, to manage the pipeline of development work; including combinations of major project activity and minor enhancements.

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM3494

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for two high calibre Solutions Architects to work on client site in Nottingham. The roles will be need immediate starters for January. The role will involve working with the design team to realise the architecture by providing suggestions on design options. Then reviewing and validating the design decisions taken by the design teams. Working with client architecture teams in validating the non-functional requirements and discussing and providing inputs on architecture options. It would be beneficial for the candidates to have working experience with at least one common SDLC method, such as RUP or Velociq.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

Midlands / Contract / Ref: GM3400

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a certified Scrum Master to provide leadership across a number of their offerings. A background within Software Engineering would be helpful, although not essential, as well as being a practitioner of Agile, Scrum and Waterfall. You will be working with the Programme Manager and Operations Manager, to manage the pipeline of development work; including combinations of major project activity and minor enhancements.

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM3494

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for an experienced Database Engineer to work inside an Agile team and work collectively on software design and delivery. The candidate will be working closely with team members and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements, and then work with the Solutiona Architects to design highly efficient database schema and code.

Qualifications & Experience:

• You will most likely possess a maths, science or information systems related degree
• You will hold an MCITP in SQL Server 2005/2008 Development or at least have a level of experience to that standard
• You will have a passion for SQL server, using it to its full potential, and wringing every drop of performance from it
• You will have delivered projects for high transaction 24/7 OLTP SQL Server environments
• You may have experience of delivering projects against the SQL Server BI platforms (AS, SSIS, SSRS) and Data Warehouses, or are at least very keen to learn more about them
• You will likely have a retail or eCommerce background

Essential Skills

• You will possess excellent multi-tasking and communication skills
• You will have an excellent analytical and problem solving ability
• You will have a broad base of knowledge in most of the following areas:
• OLTP Database Design, when to use constraints, and selecting the right data-types
• T-SQL (DML & DDL): How to use set based logic and writing queries beyond just CRUD
• How the all database engine components work together to explain the life of a query
• How to interpret query plans, their operators, and how to retrieve information from the plan cache
• Data movement via Transactional Replication and SQL Service Broker and message based solutions
• Visual Studio / TFS and working with Database Projects
• Unit Testing of Stored Procedures

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM492

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a high calibre Solutions Architect, to join their matrix managed, fast-paced engineering team. The role will entail leading an agile, cross-functional team and taking responsibility for the engineering team's deliverables and quality.

Expert, albeit broad knowledge in the following IT disciplines is essential:

• .Net 3.5/4
• ASP.NET
• WCF
• SQL (T-SQL, Database Design)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
• Software design patterns
• Testing (unit, integration etc.)
• Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection.
• Distributed message system design/development
• Visual Studio / TFS
• A BDD framework
• SOAP/REST/JSON
• IIS, Window Services
• JavaScript
• HTTP (headers, cookies etc.)
• XSD/XML

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM595

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for two high calibre Solutions Architects to work on client site in Nottingham. The roles will be need immediate starters for January. The role will involve working with the design team to realise the architecture by providing suggestions on design options. Then reviewing and validating the design decisions taken by the design teams. Working with client architecture teams in validating the non-functional requirements and discussing and providing inputs on architecture options. It would be beneficial for the candidates to have working experience with at least one common SDLC method, such as RUP or Velociq.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

Midlands / Contract / Ref: GM3400

Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst - eCommerce - London

Our client, a highly successful eCommerce organisation, require a Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst to join a growing team, to play a key role in providing first and second line to major customers.

The Service Desk/Helpdesk Analyst will support, validate and troubleshoot bugs & issues before assigning them to Engineering teams, and troubleshoot and resolve issues via ticketing systems.

Working across a range of eCommerce best practices and technologies (HTML, Unix, Javascript in particular), you will respond to support requests, build relationships with customers, and see problems through to completion.

You will have previous experience as a Help Desk Analyst or Service Desk Analyst, with experience in the Internet/Ecommerce sector highly desirable. A strong log reading and troubleshooting skillset is crucial, as is previous knowledge with Unix/Linux.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing organisation.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SERVDESK1

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

SharePoint 2010 Developer £60k plus bonus/package Bristol. This is an opportunity to live by the coast and have a quality life style (beach, Sun, surfing) whilst still working for one of the UK's no.1 IT companies, they require a SharePoint developer with experience of developing with SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net (C#), JavaScript, SQL .NET application design, development, administration and configuration. As well as demonstrable plus knowledge of best practice in SharePoint architecture and design and if you have project management experience that would be a bonus. Please send me your cv and call me to discuss the detailed spec and the client. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

Solution Architect Web eCommerce Online Retail Fashion London. A leading online fashion retailer is looking to hire a talented Solution Architect this role will give you the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, in a highly creative environment and be part of a fun positive team. You will be key to the overall success of the company and you will manage an agile, cross functional team taking responsibility for deliverables and quality and you will own the technical design of solutions and work with stakeholders, business, architecture and service. You will be a member of the Technical Design Authority, ensuring consistent high quality designs and you will own the technical delivery of the team ensuring the team delivers to required standard. You must have experience in the following technologies:.Net 3.5/4, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL (T-SQL, Database Design), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Software design patterns, Testing (unit, integration etc.), Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection, Distributed message, system design/development, Visual Studio / TFS, A BDD framework, SOAP/REST/JSON, IIS, Window Services, JavaScript, HTTP (headers, cookies etc.) and XSD/XML.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:.NETDEV

.Net Developer ecommerce Online Retail Fashion London. A leading online fashion retailer is looking to hire talented .Net Developers at Junior and Senior level this role will give you the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, in a highly creative environment and be part of a fun positive team of developers that are key to the overall success of the company. They require developers who are used to working in a fast pace environment, as part of an agile cross functional team, you must have experience with .Net 3.5 / 4, ASP.Net, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Testing, Inversion of Control / Dependency, Visual Studio, TFS 2010. Any experience in cloud based development or website design / Usability / Accessibility is a bonus.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:.NETDEV

Delivery Lead Project Manager Data Warehouse Oil & Gas London. A top tier Oil and gas company requires a Delivery Lead / Project Manager with Data Warehouse, interface delivery and off shore delivery experience. This position will provide you with a very varied role, ranging from managing on shore and off shore delivery teams, to senior stakeholder management, to managing data Warehouse Projects. You will be responsible for Demand planning, presenting to steering committees, end to end IT Project lifecycle delivery, change control, Interface Delivery, BI / Data warehouse solutions, and change and release management. please call me to discuss the detailed spec Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Deliverylead

Project Manager, eCommerce Transformation

Project Manager is required by my client, a leading online retailer aiming to continue their substantial growth in the online space.

Due to a huge demand for their products and services, this organisation are growing their business internationally, and venturing into new channels. As such the Project Manager will be responsible for workstreams across business and technology problems, engaging with internal stakeholders to ensure change and development to their eCommerce platform and internal processes (supply chain, international retail etc).

The role itself will entail working in a fast-paced environment and work through the end-to-end project lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology and/or business change projects.

You will be an experienced Project Manager with a strong background in eCommerce and retail previously.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major player in the industry, with aggressive plans for growth in 2013. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/PMECB

Project/Programme Manager - Smart Metering - Technology Firm

Our client, a global technology firm are looking for an experienced Project/Programme Manager to work on a broad range of Smart Metering related projects as part of a major new initiative in 2013.

The Project/Programme Manager will interface with internal stakeholders and customers, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the technical staff. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across development of Smart Metering offerings, as well as implementation projects for national and international customers.

The candidate must have a solid track record in the Smart Metering space, ideally with a track record of delivering solutions for customers in various geographies, and previous experience managing onshore and offshore technology groups. You will possess a Prince 2 or PMP/PMI/APM certification, and ideally have some form of Consultancy experience.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: APPMSMAMET

UI Lead Developer

Alexander Ash consulting requires a lead UI Developer to work with a leading global E-commerce client based in London.

The organisation is going through a major technology transformation and they are looking to develop & improve various UI / Mobile applications focused to enhance their customer experiences.

You will be involved in various development aspects in relation to the enhancements of their ecommerce & web platforms. You will be working in a fast paced Agile environment which will be the development hub for the business. As the Lead UI Developer you will lead by example & also mentor a small development team. You will work in a Matrix managed, fast paced team helping to drive technical developments for the business. You will working closely with team members and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements and be involved with the technical design of solutions for your team.

Skills:

• XHTML, HTML5
• CSS3, CSS Sprites, CSS Grid Layout, CSS3 Media Queries
• JavaScript, JQuery
• Ajax
• Cross browser development, Progressive Enhancement
• MVC web framework (cakePHP, RoR, ASP.NET MVC etc.)
• JavaScript frameworks (LESS, Knockout.js, Backbone.js)
• REST/JSON
• Responsive Web Design
• ASP.NET WebForms or MVC
• Testing frameworks (Jasmine, QUnit etc)
• Visual Studio / TFS 2010
• Testing (unit, integration etc.)
• BDD frameworks

If you feel that you are suitable for this position please get in touch by sending CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - UI - AS01

.Net Developer

Alexander Ash consulting requires a .Net developer to work with a leading global ecommerce client based in London. The organisation is going through a major technology transformation and they are looking to develop various IT systems & applications to enhance their business.

There are various positions available ranging from .Net developer / Senior developer to Development leads & Development managers. You will be involved in various development aspects in relation to the enhancements of the IT & business strategies. You will be working in a fast paced Agile environment which will be the development hub for the business.

As a .net developer you will have various responsibilities in this position. You will work in a matrix managed, fast paced team helping to drive technical developments for the business. You will working closely with team members and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements and be involved with the technical design of solutions for your team.

Skills:

• .Net 3.5/4
• ASP.NET
• Visual Studio / TFS 2010
• SQL (T-SQL),
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
• Testing (unit, integration etc.)

If you feel that you are suitable for this position please get in touch by sending CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - Net - AS01

My client a Global eCommerce Company is looking for a Database Engineer to join their ever going team. If you have experience in SQL Server 2008 BI Stack (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS) and SQL Server security and encryption this is a fantastic opportunity for you to further on your career.

What experience you must have to be successful for this role:

• OLTP Database Design, when to use constraints, and selecting the right data-types
• T-SQL (DML & DDL): How to use set based logic and writing queries beyond just CRUD
• How the all database engine components work together to explain the life of a query
• How to interpret query plans, their operators, and how to retrieve information from the plan cache
• Data movement via Transactional Replication and SQL Service Broker and message based solutions
• Visual Studio / TFS and working with Database Projects
• Unit Testing of Stored Procedures
• YOU MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH EITHER A MEDIA OR ECOMMERCE COMPANY.

London / Permanent / Ref: PAB/205

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for an experienced Database Engineer to work inside an Agile team and work collectively on software design and delivery. The candidate will be working closely with team members and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements, and then work with the Solutiona Architects to design highly efficient database schema and code.

Qualifications & Experience:

• You will most likely possess a maths, science or information systems related degree
• You will hold an MCITP in SQL Server 2005/2008 Development or at least have a level of experience to that standard
• You will have a passion for SQL server, using it to its full potential, and wringing every drop of performance from it
• You will have delivered projects for high transaction 24/7 OLTP SQL Server environments
• You may have experience of delivering projects against the SQL Server BI platforms (AS, SSIS, SSRS) and Data Warehouses, or are at least very keen to learn more about them
• You will likely have a retail or eCommerce background

Essential Skills

• You will possess excellent multi-tasking and communication skills
• You will have an excellent analytical and problem solving ability
• You will have a broad base of knowledge in most of the following areas:
• OLTP Database Design, when to use constraints, and selecting the right data-types
• T-SQL (DML & DDL): How to use set based logic and writing queries beyond just CRUD
• How the all database engine components work together to explain the life of a query
• How to interpret query plans, their operators, and how to retrieve information from the plan cache
• Data movement via Transactional Replication and SQL Service Broker and message based solutions
• Visual Studio / TFS and working with Database Projects
• Unit Testing of Stored Procedures

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM492

My client a Global eCommerce Company is looking for a Development Manager to join their ever growing team. If you have experience in leading Software Engineers, QA's, User Interface Developers / engineering teams to deliver the software required for technical change than this is a fantastic opportunity to further your career.

What experience you must have to be successful for this role:

• Transactional, high volume website, ideally eCommerce, experience.
• Strong software engineering background
• Certified Scrum Master, with strong facilitation and leadership skills including proficiency in delivering standard Agile ceremonies, such as retrospectives, reviews and Scrum planning sessions
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies and practices (Agile, Scrum and Waterfall)

YOU MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH EITHER A MEDIA OR ECOMMERCE COMPANY

London / Permanent / Ref: PAB/203

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a high calibre Solutions Architect, to join their matrix managed, fast-paced engineering team. The role will entail leading an agile, cross-functional team and taking responsibility for the engineering team's deliverables and quality.

Expert, albeit broad knowledge in the following IT disciplines is essential:

• .Net 3.5/4
• ASP.NET
• WCF
• SQL (T-SQL, Database Design)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
• Software design patterns
• Testing (unit, integration etc.)
• Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection.
• Distributed message system design/development
• Visual Studio / TFS
• A BDD framework
• SOAP/REST/JSON
• IIS, Window Services
• JavaScript
• HTTP (headers, cookies etc.)
• XSD/XML

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM595

Our client, a leading global ecommerce retailer, is looking for a certified Scrum Master to provide leadership across a number of their offerings. A background within Software Engineering would be helpful, although not essential, as well as being a practitioner of Agile, Scrum and Waterfall. You will be working with the Programme Manager and Operations Manager, to manage the pipeline of development work; including combinations of major project activity and minor enhancements.

This is a great opportunity to join an ever growing ecommerce business, with an ever expanding portfolio of projects.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM3494

Systems Engineering Manager - eCommerce Operations

Our client, a highly successful eCommerce organisation, require a Systems Engineering Manager to ensure efficient operation of the company's open source technical engineering group, including overseeing multiple projects and ongoing improvements to a high availability eCommerce platform.

The Systems Engineering Manager will manage and lead a team of systems engineers and architects, and deliver a resolute and effective infrastructure to underpin a complex business & technology environment. You will continuously push for improvements in existing operations, recommend and drive through service improvements.

This is a large Linux/Solaris based data centre environment, with a range of open source, cutting-edge products included within this platform. As such, the Engineering Manager will have a background in systems administration in similar environments, and you will have then gone on to develop a more leadership-focussed role. You will be a strong manager, and will have substantial experience of managing high-availability systems & architecture.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/SYSENMR

Service Desk Manager - eCommerce - London

Our client, a highly successful eCommerce organisation, require a Service Desk Manager to lead a growing team, to play a key role in providing first and second line to major customers internationally. The Service Desk Manager will be responsible for a multi-location team of Service Desk Engineers, in a fast-paced, ITIL aligned environment.

Working across a range of eCommerce best practices and technologies (HTML, Unix, Javascript in particular), you will manage the improvement of responses from customers, build relationships with key partners/clients, and help up-skill the existing group technically and process-wise.

You will have previous experience as a Service Desk Manager in a fast-paced, high-availability environment, with experience in the Internet/Ecommerce sector highly desirable. A thorough ITIL background is also required.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing organisation.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/SERDES

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for a functional business analyst to join their SAP implementation in Cardiff. Good knowledge of SAP ERP products is keey, and must have experience across implementation, support, upgrades, migration and consolidation of projects. Experience of writing detailed functional specifications is key. SAP knowledgfe is fundamental. Must also be within a working distance from Cardiff.

Please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: GM449

SAP CRM Functional Consultant 7.0 UI Configuration Dusseldorf. My client requires a SAP CRM Functional Consultant with experience of SAP CRM WEB UI Configuration, CRM 7.0, ABAP OO development, WEB UI Integration OOD, SAP CRM Base Customisation, category Modeler, BDOCs, debugging / configuring middleware, CRM billing resource management, knowledge of mobile and hand held services, returns management and internet self service. experience of the following is needed clarity on MVC architecture, BSP Framework and Component structure of Web client, proficient in changes to org model and expertise in Base customization

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:SAPCRMFun

UI Designer Information Architect HTML 5 Eindhoven Netherlands. A company requires a UI Designer who can work on User Interface Design, Usability, Information Architecture using HTML 5. You will have expericence in User interface Design and you will work closely with Agile programmers, product users and other stakeholders of a tool to build the user interface for the tools. you will apply heuristics to design problems involving color or font choice, layout, photography or spot art, etc. anf create individual brand elements, visual design templates, streaming and rich media applications, and design prototypes, Create / Maintain branding standards and style guides Tool Expertise in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:UIDesigner

CAD Design Engineer Mechanical CADTools SolidWorks Germany. My client needs to hire a Mechanical CAD design Engineer with experience of EDS CAD, CADTools, Geometric dimensioning and tolerance, Design of machine elements, Product development - Mechanical, Basic knowledge in CATIA, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks and must be knowledgeable in modelling and automation concepts.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:CadENG

SAP Functional Consultant ECC Plant Maintenance Cardiff. An IT Services company requires a SAP Functional Consultant with experience of Plant Maintenance, SAP ECC functional modules. You must have the ability to map requirements and design, develop and trouble shoot complex landscapes and develop integrated solutions. you should have experience with concepts of Plant Maintenance, Machine down time costs, Asset Turnaround times etc you should have working exposure to at least one software application for plant maintenance and 2-3 yrs project experience,and also leading small teams with clearly defined deliverables you should have successfully interacted with clients/end users for requirements gathering.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:SAPFun

Project Manager Development ADM Netherlands Holland. A Global IT Services company requires an experienced Development Project Manager. you shouldv have experience of Project Management ADM & the end-to-end delivery of a fixed price development origration projects. Your experience should include defining scopes, scheduling, cost and quality objectives, ability to write/review SOW's for a large project, multiple vendor management, stakeholder analysis and defining PMIS, conducting risk assessment at initiation stage and preparation of mitigation and contingency plans, defining project execution and communication strategy, create/manage integrated project plans for different life cycle models including agile, EVM techniques, productivity enhancement & quality improvement tools, experienced in distributed project management with virtual teams, executive dashboards and Audit reports, contributing to and managing OM targets for the project.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:PM:Netherlands

My client, a Big4 Consultancy are kicking off a strategic transformation programme; front to back across business and technology. They are seeking a Project Manager with varied change experience to play a pivotal function in a large book of work spanning multiple projects.

This role sits within a centralised project group that delivers market-leading solutions across the business. The team consists of senior project and programme managers who are responsible for the mobilization, planning, delivery, governance and advisory of cross functional change initiatives projects that address issues common to multiple businesses e.g. regulatory compliance, static data, IT architecture and off-shoring.

As well as providing change and programme management expertise, they add value to the business by working closely with service providers (e.g. Finance, IT, Operations, Legal Regulatory and Compliance) to ensure change is fully integrated into the bank from front-office to back-office.

To be successful within this position, you will have; A proven track record of Project Management within the Investment Banking industry, excellent relationship management building & maintenance skills and Experience of concepts relating to Front Office products (e.g. Equities Trading, Foreign Exchange, Rates, Distressed Products, Emerging Markets, Equity Proprietary Trading, Prime Brokerage).

It is likely that the work will be cross-product, therefore an appreciation of multiple investment banking products and an understanding of front to back trade processing will be more valuable than any particular SME skills.

If you are interested in joining this market leading firm, and gaining long term contract tenure - please apply.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a search firm

London / Permanent / Ref: PAB/141

Finance and Risk Transformation Programme Leads, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers / Directors to come and join a growing Finance and Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming and Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send throough your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FR03

Financial Services Consultant, London

My client a Tier 1 Global Consultancy, and a leader working in the Financial Services area, are looking to on board multiple Financial Services Consultants

This new hiring phase is due to organisation growth, and some very exciting plans over the coming years.

You will be working within Finance or Risk on a variety of the following projects:- large scale technology replatforming, Regulatory driven implementation programmes, Large scale off shoring or outsourcing, and the development and implementation of new target operating models / reorganization of a retained onshore function.

You could be operating in the function of a finance, risk, treasury architect, project management, business analyst, regulatory programme analysis, operating model design in Finance, Risk or Treasury. They would be interested in speaking to individuals across these roles.

This a great opportunity to join an exciting practice with a lot of work on right now, and a full pipeline going forwards.

For more information please send your details through to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FSC001

Finance and Risk Transformation Lead, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers to come and join a growing Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming, Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send through your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FT001

Project / Programme Manager, Digital, Consulting, London

Project / Programme Managers are required by my client a leading consultancy. Due to a huge demand for there products and services within the web and digital space are looking to recruit a number of individuals in to the practice.

You will need to be able to deliver cutting edhe web solutions including eCommerce stores and Multi - Platform rich media web sites and applications, some of the projects of which will be on a global scale.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions

You will be involved in delivering programmes involving integration of common web technologies and solutions, including:

• Web Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Video Content Management
• Portal
• Identity & Access Management
• Banner & Video Advertising
• Social Media
• Search / SEO
• Web Analytics
• Multi-device support (smart-phone, tablet, desktop, console, set-top box)
• eCommerce

If you are keen to hear more about this fantastic opportunities please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PM02

My client a Global Consultancy is looking for a Oracle DBA to work on site with a Global Telecommunications company. If you are looking to join a fast going company with fantastic career opportunities this might be for you.

To be considered for this role you must have experience in:

• Database Admin
• Database high availability
• Database performance turning
• Database Backup and Recovery
• Infra Storage Administration

South East / Contract / Ref: PAB/204

Imperva WAF Support Engineer, London

My client a Global Consultancy are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior WAF (Web Application Firewall) Administrator to help with the day to day administration and support of a clients systems. Duties will include to application turn up, migration from learning to protection mode, performance tuning and auditing of the system.

You will need to have mperva Web Application Firewall Administration, web application troubleshooting and Excellent documentation experience.

For more information please email ram.basra@alexanderash.com with your CV and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/IW01

Technical Lead ESB Design SOA Webservices Messaging Netherlands. A leading IT Services company requires a Technical Lead to take charge of the Enterprise Service Bus design. You must be an expert in ESB and messaging concepts, proficient in SOA and Webservice, capable of design and deployment of ESB and messaging applications plus advanced knowledge on Protocol, connectivities, standards and patterns on ESB.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:ESBDesign:Neth

SAP FICO Data Analyst TSQL Stored Procedures Nuremburg Germany. A leading IT solutions company requires a SAP FICO Data Analyst who has the ability to understand the customer business processes and the IT landscape rapidly & assist in creating solution proposals, rough effort estimates , solution workshops, preparing the solution road map as well as assisting in the detailed documentation and in implementing the solution. You must be able to guide a team, prepare design documents, gather business requirements / estimations and having the knowledge of the quality processes. You should have at least 2 - 4 yrs years of SAP experience FI General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable with agood working knowledge of the CO modules comprising of Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Asset Management Module, Internal Orders and Integration with Sales and Distribution and Material Management. Plus experience of TSQL and stored procedures & you must be able to write simple and complex queries using TSQL, plus have a good understanding on indexes.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:SapFICO:Data

SAP FICO Data Analyst TSQL Stored Procedures Krakow Poland. A leading IT solutions company requires a SAP FICO Data Analyst who has the ability to understand the customer business processes and the IT landscape rapidly & assist in creating solution proposals, rough effort estimates , solution workshops, preparing the solution road map as well as assisting in the detailed documentation and in implementing the solution. You must be able to guide a team, prepare design documents, gather business requirements / estimations and having the knowledge of the quality processes. You should have at least 2 - 4 yrs years of SAP experience FI General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable with agood working knowledge of the CO modules comprising of Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Asset Management Module, Internal Orders and Integration with Sales and Distribution and Material Management. Plus experience of TSQL and stored procedures & you must be able to write simple and complex queries using TSQL, plus have a good understanding on indexes.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:SapFICO:Data

My client, a leading front, middle and back office platform vendor are currently undergoing a period of rapid growth. They are seeking strong project managers to drive forward large, bespoke client facing implementations within major financial institutions.

Each project is uniquely different and a high calibre project manager is required to own the full implementation process, including leading teams of developers and Business Analysts to ensure strict timelines are met and project milestones delivered within scope and budget.

To be successful in this position, you will have experience of working for a systems vendor and driving forward implementation within a large financial institution. You will be a strong communicator with a consultative approach to project management.

To be considered for this position, please forward you details.

London / Permanent / Ref: PAB/140

Technical Lead ESB Design SOA Webservices Messaging Netherlands. A leading IT Services company requires a Technical Lead to take charge of the Enterprise Service Bus design. You must be an expert in ESB and messaging concepts, proficient in SOA and Webservice, capable of design and deployment of ESB and messaging applications plus advanced knowledge on Protocol, connectivities, standards and patterns on ESB.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:ESBDesign:Neth

Tibco BW Solution / Integration Architect SOA Brussels Belgium. A leading organisation requires a Tibco Integration Architect with strong soultion architecture and SOA experience. You must have experience with taking the functional and non-functional requirements and be able to propose solutions, identify the design areas and the integration points, effectively track the integration points in the design to ensure there are no omissions, working with design teams to realize the architecture by providing suggestions on design options, reviewing and validating the design decisions taken by the design teams, working with client architecture teams in defining overall solution architecture, procure the enterprise standards that need to be followed, validate the non-functional requirements, presenting the architecture and design to stake holders, experience with common SDLC methods (RUP, Velociq) and you must have worked on at least one medium sized complex architecture project

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:IntegrationArch

Tibco BPM Design Architect SOA ESB Webservices iProcess Netherlands. A leading IT company requires TIBCO BW expert who has design and architecture experience on TIBCO BPM products : Business Studio, iProcess Modeler, iProcess Engine, iProcess Decisions, iProcess insight, iProcess Analytics. You must have strong experience in process discovery, process analysis, process design, process implementation and process optimization and be well versed with both design time and run-time architecture aspects for TIBCO BPM deployments. You also need to be an expert in ESB and messaging concepts, proficient in SOA and Webservice and capable of designing and deploy ESB and messaging applications and you should have advanced knowledge on Protocol , connectivities, standards and patterns on ESB.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:Tibco:Netherlan

Enterprise Service Bus ESB SOA Messaging J2EE XML Webservices Munich Germany. An organisation requires an ESB, Messaging, Webservices expert with experience in ESB and messaging concepts, SOA and Webservices, design and deployment of ESB and messaging applications, plus advanced knowledge on Protocol, connectivities, standards and patterns on ESB, design XML Schema, design web service applications, HTML, Javascript, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, Struts, XML and EJB.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:ESB-Munich

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

My client a Global ecommerce company is looking for a Hybrid Business Analyst/Project Manager to join the Customer Care team, as part of a major change programme for the global business. The Business Analyst/Project Manager will be required to manage, control and lead the day - to - day delivery of the project, from gathering initial requirements through to solutions being implemented. You will be managing the Customer Care requirements for the central strategy program, and it's likely this will consist of change to Customer Service processes & systems, CRM, and Customer Care best practice.

You must have experience in;

• Managing and leading projects from initial requirement through to completion of projects.
• Working with Architectures and Service teams to create requirements, design, sizing volumetrics and related costing hardware, software, storage and resource of projects.
• Stakeholder management, as well as analysing Customer data
• Retail or highly customer-driven enterprise environments
• Definition, planning, financial management, risk and dependency management, acceptance and closedown in a Customer Care environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst/Project Manager to join a high profile eCommerce organisation, with aggressive plans for growth in 2013. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: PAB/201

Project Manager - Oil and Gas - Change Management

My client a Global Oil and Gas company are looking for a Project Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. You must have a proven track record leading organisations to better align resources with strategy, overcome resistance and improve operations within the Oil and Gas industry.

To be successful for this role you must have;

Experience in leading several change projects within an Oil and Gas company

• Strong Project Management Skills
• Excellent Senior Stakeholder management
• Experience in mapping process flows, benchmarking process effectiveness, identify bottlenecks, suggest improvements, create roadmaps & improved governance process.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a search firm.

There are a number of positions available at all levels.

London / Permanent / Ref: PAB/202

Architect J2EE ESB UML OOAD SAP Enterprise Portal Netherlands. A Tier 1 organisation requires a J2EE Technical Lead for their Business Application Services to deliver Performance Optimization and Tuning, you must be able to architect a solution in J2EE and you must have experience of multi-tier architecture. you must have experience with stacking / layering of architecture modelling, UML, OOAD, Portal design analysis, supporting live test environments, SAP Enterprise Portal development, portal security, NWDI, NWDS, ESB design and Virtualization.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:J2EEArch

Architect J2EE ESB UML OOAD SAP Enterprise Portal Netherlands. A Tier 1 organisation requires a J2EE Technical Lead for their Business Application Services to deliver Performance Optimization and Tuning, you must be able to architect a solution in J2EE and you must have experience of multi-tier architecture. you must have experience with stacking / layering of architecture modelling, UML, OOAD, Portal design analysis, supporting live test environments, SAP Enterprise Portal development, portal security, NWDI, NWDS, ESB design and Virtualization.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:J2EEArch

SharePoint 2010 Developer £60k plus bonus/package Bristol. This is an opportunity to live by the coast and have a quality life style (beach, Sun, surfing) whilst still working for one of the UK's no.1 IT companies, they require a SharePoint developer with experience of developing with SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net (C#), JavaScript, SQL .NET application design, development, administration and configuration. As well as demonstrable plus knowledge of best practice in SharePoint architecture and design and if you have project management experience that would be a bonus. Please send me your cv and call me to discuss the detailed spec and the client. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

My client a Global consultancy is looking for a Endur Specialist to work on site at their Oil and Gas client. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing company. if you have experience working extensively with Endur applications this will be a great opportunity to further your career in Oil and Gas.

• Experience in Endur application an absolute essential
• Hands-on experience working with Endur modules
• Configuration of Endur modules
• Customisation of Endur modules
• Knowledge of Java
• Knowledge of AVS/JVS
• Business analysis in Endur
• Testing experience in Endur

London / Permanent / Ref: PAB/203

Openlink Functional Consultant, Business Analyst Dusseldorf. A leading Global IT Services company requires a Functional Consultant with extensive Endur application experience who has worked on the Openlink modules for banks or utilities or oil companies. You must have strong business analysis and testing experience in Openlink as well as configuratin and customisation of Openlink modules plus java, AVS and JVS experience. This role will give you the opportunity to work on high profile projects within blue chip organisations.

Germany / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Endur

Openlink Functional Consultant, Business Analyst London. A leading Global IT Services company requires a Functional Consultant with extensive Endur application experience who has worked on the Openlink modules for banks, utilities or oil companies. You must have strong business analysis and testing experience in Openlink as well as configuratin and customisation of Openlink modules plus java, AVS and JVS experience. This role will give you the opportunity to work on high profile projects within blue chip organisations.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Endur

Voice Network Engineer/Support CISCO NOC/NMC/Call Center Munich. A Global IT Services Company requires a 2nd /3rd line Voice Network Support Engineer with experience of Call Centers and Contact Centers, VoIP, voice-mail systems, IP phones, ACD PABX, Switches, Routers, Cisco kit. You ideally will be Cisco CME / IPCCX / CPIT certified. You will tasked with strategic and tactical planning of complex voice networks, IP telephony and Contact/Call Center solutions, as well as trouble shooting and providing technical support.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:VoiceAdmi

Solution Architect Cloud Computing HP SA, AIX Bank Edinburgh. A Global IT Services company requires an experienced Solution Architect who specialises in Cloud Computing and has extensive experience in HP SA (server automation) and HP OO (operational orchestration) as well as AIX, designing solutions to present to customers, Vendor interaction and experience in the Banking industry.

Scotland / Contract / Ref: BenP:SOLArchitect

Endur Functional Consultant, Business Analyst Dusseldorf Germany. A leading Global IT Services company requires a Functional Consultant with extensive Endur application experience who has worked on the Endur modules for banks, utilities or oil companies. You must have strong business analysis and testing experience in Endur as well as configuration and customisation of Endur modules plus java, AVS and JVS experience. This role will give you the opportunity to work on high profile projects within blue chip organisations.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Endur

Endur Functional Consultant, Business Analyst London. A leading Global IT Services company requires a Functional Consultant with extensive Endur application experience who has worked on the Endur modules for banks, utilities or oil companies. You must have strong business analysis and testing experience in Endur as well as configuration and customisation of Endur modules plus java, AVS and JVS experience. This role will give you the opportunity to work on high profile projects within blue chip organisations.

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Endur

Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Technical Lead Dusseldorf Germany. A Global IT Services company requires a Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Technical Lead who is experienced with UNIX Shell Scripting, BI, DWH-BI, SAP BI-BW and Crystal Reports. You must be able to develop complex technical solutions to meet business requirements and be able to embed OLE objects in Crystal Report. and optimize Crystal Report design and code for performance improvements and be proficient in Reports which involve Complex Design.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:DWH-BI

Architect Infrastructure VMware Wintel SAN Hamburg Germany. A Tier 1 Global company requires an experienced Technology Infrastructure Services Architect with experience in in delivering high value System Integration projects, with an ability to understand and design the business resilience and data centre strategies for customers across technology. You must have a deep understanding about the build-up of a Data centre & have performed at least a couple of Data centre builds. You need experience performing assessment reviews and assisting client organisation with development, execution and testing of the overall solution, high level designing experience across multiple technologies, risk analysis & business impact analyses, CAPEX & OPEX of projects/programs as well as a deep understanding on various aspects of technology such as SAN, Servers (VMware and Wintel), Exchange 2007/2010, Consolidation and Virtualization, Storage and backup, Data centre build & implementation, Network (LAN and WAN), Disaster Recovery/BCP. Ideally you will speak German.

Your experience should include the following:

• Good overall understanding of IT infrastructure design, IT operations, Data centre maintenance, Vendor co-ordination, Voice & Data Network setups, Application development and End User computing areas in order to review and assist in the preparation of recovery procedures in these areas
• Experience in maturing independent programs and delivering them, independently.
• Ability to calculate DC Power and Cooling requirements based on IT infrastructure design plans
• Deep understanding of DC facility related setups of Fire Prevention, Physical Security Monitoring devices, Access Control setups, Surveillance setups through Audio and Video setups, Electrical build out etc.
• Knowledge on Structured cabling design and implementation
• Ability to plan and execute large desktop rollout activities
• Excellent project management skills
• Deep understanding of DC operations and ability to define SLA's, handle sudden change requests, handle rollback requirements etc.
• Excellent ability to handle vendors (especially non IT related vendors)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively present findings and reports at the local and senior business management level
• Strong technical background in one of the core IT Infrastructure areas like Platform/Network/Database (L3 or above)

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:Architect

Senior Sales Executive:

My client who are a leading globally recognised organisation are searching for a number of Sales Executives. The Senior Sales Executive will need to have come from a telesales background & have a consultative manner when dealing with new clients. Due to my client recognised brand name the successful individual will be able to develop a solid career path with my client. This opportunity will suit an individual from a busy sales environment working with a recognised organisation who can sell to new clients over the phone and close deals over the phone.

Senior Sales Executive duties:

The Sales Executive will be involved in new business development with new clients and will mainly be selling over the telephone. The successful individual will need to have experience with business to business sales (B2B) and also have a can do attitude. You will Prospect, call, qualify and close high potential clients.

Skills Required:

* Passionate about online business, e-commerce and sales. * Educated to degree level - 2:1 minimum. * Excellent communication and negotiation skills * Strong ability to handle objections * Fluent in written and oral English * Intermediate Excel skills * Demonstrated track record of success in a sales role * Experience in e-commerce or retail.

In return for the above, my client offer a very competitive salary + Bonuses + Stock options.

Senior Sales Executive:

For a detailed discussion please get in touch with norman.areh@alexanderash.com / 020 7688 8435.

South East / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-SE-001

Project Manager - Oil and Gas - Change Management

My client a Global Oil and Gas company are looking for a Project Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. You must have a proven track record leading organisations to better align resources with strategy, overcome resistance and improve operations within the Oil and Gas industry.

To be successful for this role you must have;

Experience in leading several change projects within an Oil and Gas company

• Strong Project Management Skills
• Excellent Senior Stakeholder management
• Experience in mapping process flows, benchmarking process effectiveness, identify bottlenecks, suggest improvements, create roadmaps & improved governance process.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a search firm.

There are a number of positions available at all levels.

London / Permanent / Ref: PAB/202

Oracle Developer Informatica, PL/SQL, Modelling, Banking London. A financial services client requires an experienced Oracle Developer with a solid understanding of Database Architecture and Basic DB Administration, plus experience of data movement tools, data Modelling, XML, J2EE, PL/SQL, Logical & Physical modeling and Informatica Powercenter. Please contact me asap as I have a detailed job spec. Ben.Price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:OracleDev

Java J2EE Lead Developer Web Services Banking London. A financial services copmany requires a Lead Developer with experience developing Java, J2EE, Web Services, Java Transaction Management, Java Mail, JCA, JMS, Unix Shell Scripting, EJB and multi-tier architecture. you should be able to deisgn, develop, debug programms and perform optimization.

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:JavaDev

My client a Global ecommerce company is looking for a Hybrid Business Analyst/Project Manager to join the Customer Care team, as part of a major change programme for the global business. The Business Analyst/Project Manager will be required to manage, control and lead the day - to - day delivery of the project, from gathering initial requirements through to solutions being implemented. You will be managing the Customer Care requirements for the central strategy program, and it's likely this will consist of change to Customer Service processes & systems, CRM, and Customer Care best practice.

You must have experience in;

• Managing and leading projects from initial requirement through to completion of projects.
• Working with Architectures and Service teams to create requirements, design, sizing volumetrics and related costing hardware, software, storage and resource of projects.
• Stakeholder management, as well as analysing Customer data
• Retail or highly customer-driven enterprise environments
• Definition, planning, financial management, risk and dependency management, acceptance and closedown in a Customer Care environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst/Project Manager to join a high profile eCommerce organisation, with aggressive plans for growth in 2013. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: PAB/201

Voice Network Engineer/Support CISCO NOC/NMC/Call Center Munich. A Global IT Services Company requires a 2nd /3rd line Voice Network Support Engineer with experience of Call Centers and Contact Centers, VoIP, voice-mail systems, IP phones, ACD PABX, Switches, Routers, Cisco kit. You ideally will be Cisco CME / IPCCX / CPIT certified. You will tasked with strategic and tactical planning of complex voice networks, IP telephony and Contact/Call Center solutions, as well as trouble shooting and providing technical support.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:VoiceAdmi

Windows Administrator, Citrix VMware Active Directory Hamburg. A Global IT Services Company requires a Windows Administrator who is experienced in Citrix, VMware and Active Directory administration. You must have experience performing the following : Add / Remove Domain / Domain Controllers, Trusts Administration, Sites And Subnets Administration, Site Links Administration, Global Catalog Servers, Movement Of Users Between OUs, Organization Units Administration, Group Policy Administration, Implementation Of Group Policy, Domain Controller OS and Hardware Administrating, Server Performance, optimization and fine tuning, Checking the ADS health, Checking network health, Establishing VPN Connection , IP Security, Administering Terminal Services, Administering Certification Services, Administering DHCP, Implementing DNS Service, Implementing IIS Service, Implementing RAS service, Implementing RADIUS Service, Setting up FTP Servers, Implementing IAS Service, Administrating IAS, Domain Controller issues, Resolve alerts indicating time synchronization problems and Administer Domain Controller Hardware Monitor.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:Wind:Admin

Oil and Gas Upstream Consultant

My client are searching for an Oil and Gas Upstream Consultant with the ability to conduct Consulting engagements, do requirements gathering from customers, understand business need and articulate solutions. Negotiation, Presentation Skills should be apt to showcase technology depth and breadth of the organization. Ability to map to the right stakeholders, multivendor/practice/party coordination. Proactive approach towards generating upstream business revenue by analysing the as is business of the customer. Account Mining to generate opportunities.

Also the main things they are looking for:
- Global role so no specific location as they will be travelling
- UPSTREAM sector is a must
- good customer focus/face2face with client
- not IT but Business strong skills required

Oil and Gas Upstream Consultant

London / Contract / Ref: SS OIL/GAS

Our client, a leading systems vendor within the Financial Services space, is lookig for a strong implementations consultant to join their Project Management team. The role is focusing on delivering system implementations across a number of their product verticals. These include; Front Office Trading systems, Middle Office products (such as Collateral Management), Risk (Market and Credit) and Back Office Settlements products. For this reason, the candidate may be a specialist in any of these areas, or have had experience in a variety of areas. It will entail the provision of delivery of a number of concurrent projects.

It is ideal that the candidate come from another leading systems vendor, or perhaps from a smaller boutique firm.

Alexnader Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM4482

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From initiation roadmap design, through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Manager level team in Capital Markets, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Investment Banking and Insurance.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Solution Architect Cloud Computing HP SA, AIX Bank Edinburgh. A Global IT Services company requires an experienced Solution Architect who specialises in Cloud Computing and has extensive experience in HP SA (server automation) and HP OO (operational orchestration) as well as AIX, designing solutions to present to customers, Vendor interaction and experience in the Banking industry.

Scotland / Contract / Ref: BenP:SOLArchitect

Windows Administrator OS Support EUC Active Directory Virtualization Hamburg. A Global IT Services company requires a Windows Administrator with experience in EUC Admin, Desktop deployment Virtualisation, , VDI, Citrix, VMware, HyperV, ESX server and Active Directory. The role will include the following tasks: System configuration for the desktop, recommend Hardware upgrades for the Desktop, Specifying the OS to be used, provide upgrade options for OS, check patches for need and reliability, recommend software based on needs, taking ownership and resolving the escalated issues, installation and configuration of deployment tools, troubleshoot deployment related issues administration maintenance of deployment tools, knowledge in troubleshooting hardware and windows operating system and embedded OS related issues, desktop applications and LAN for Desktops and Knowledge in installing, configuring and troubleshooting printers, plug and play POS, PDA's, Kiosk, MFD, IPhone, I pad etc. and related issues,. you must have knowledge in Shrink wrapped products like Microsoft Office, MS Project, Visio, Adobe suite, Dream Weaver, Outlook, Lotus Notes. Knowledge on antivirus client software installations, patch and hotfix installations and troubleshooting. Knowledge on virtual concepts and different technologies used in virtualization (Citrix, VMware, HyperV)? Knowledge on Virtual desktop implementation (VDI), building VM's with standardized OS images and different virtualization technologies (VMware, citrix, HyperV), Knowledge on performance monitoring of Virtual machines via Vsphere Vcenter. Knowledge on virtual infrastructure, virtual centre, VM access control, resource management, backup and restore of, Knowledge on ESX server, VDI (virtual desktop implementation) , Vsphere DRS (distributed resource scheduler) and application virtualization concepts.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:WindAdmin

Architect Infrastructure VMware Wintel SAN Hamburg Germany. A Tier 1 Global company requires an experienced Technology Infrastructure Services Architect with experience in in delivering high value System Integration projects, with an ability to understand and design the business resilience and data centre strategies for customers across technology. You must have a deep understanding about the build-up of a Data centre & have performed at least a couple of Data centre builds. You need experience performing assessment reviews and assisting client organisation with development, execution and testing of the overall solution, high level designing experience across multiple technologies, risk analysis & business impact analyses, CAPEX & OPEX of projects/programs as well as a deep understanding on various aspects of technology such as SAN, Servers (VMware and Wintel), Exchange 2007/2010, Consolidation and Virtualization, Storage and backup, Data centre build & implementation, Network (LAN and WAN), Disaster Recovery/BCP. Ideally you will speak German.

Your experience should include the following:

• Good overall understanding of IT infrastructure design, IT operations, Data centre maintenance, Vendor co-ordination, Voice & Data Network setups, Application development and End User computing areas in order to review and assist in the preparation of recovery procedures in these areas
• Experience in maturing independent programs and delivering them, independently.
• Ability to calculate DC Power and Cooling requirements based on IT infrastructure design plans
• Deep understanding of DC facility related setups of Fire Prevention, Physical Security Monitoring devices, Access Control setups, Surveillance setups through Audio and Video setups, Electrical build out etc.
• Knowledge on Structured cabling design and implementation
• Ability to plan and execute large desktop rollout activities
• Excellent project management skills
• Deep understanding of DC operations and ability to define SLA's, handle sudden change requests, handle rollback requirements etc.
• Excellent ability to handle vendors (especially non IT related vendors)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively present findings and reports at the local and senior business management level
• Strong technical background in one of the core IT Infrastructure areas like Platform/Network/Database (L3 or above)

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:Architect

Solution Architect

A cloud solutions architect is required by our client a global consultancy based in Edinburgh, Scotland. You will be responsible for contributing to the design and architecture for small to medium projects. You will work on problems of highly complex scope, through expert usage of non standard concepts & principles. You will set directions for medium sized projects of reasonable complexity. You will also need to apply your own judgement to determine a course of action which will be executed by the project team.

Solution Architect

As the cloud solution architect you will need to have the ability to take functional and non requirements and propose solutions that will be able to meet the requirements. You will work with the design teams to realise the architecture by providing suggestions on designs. You will work with clients architecture teams to validate non functional requirements and provide inputs on Solutions Architecture.

If you feel that you are suitable for the position, please feel free to submit CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

Scotland / Contract / Ref: JSNA - 184912

Windows Administrator, Citrix VMware Active Directory France. A Global IT Services Company requires a Windows Administrator who is experienced in Citrix, VMware and Active Directory administration. You must have experience performing the following : Add / Remove Domain / Domain Controllers, Trusts Administration, Sites And Subnets Administration, Site Links Administration, Global Catalog Servers, Movement Of Users Between OUs, Organization Units Administration, Group Policy Administration, Implementation Of Group Policy, Domain Controller OS and Hardware Administrating, Server Performance, optimization and fine tuning, Checking the ADS health, Checking network health, Establishing VPN Connection , IP Security, Administering Terminal Services, Administering Certification Services, Administering DHCP, Implementing DNS Service, Implementing IIS Service, Implementing RAS service, Implementing RADIUS Service, Setting up FTP Servers, Implementing IAS Service, Administrating IAS, Domain Controller issues, Resolve alerts indicating time synchronization problems and Administer Domain Controller Hardware Monitor.

France / Contract / Ref: BenP:Wind:Admin

Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Technical Lead Dusseldorf Manchester. A Global IT Services company requires a Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Technical Lead who is experienced with UNIX Shell Scripting, BI, DWH-BI, SAP BI-BW and Crystal Reports. You must be able to develop complex technical solutions to meet business requirements and be able to embed OLE objects in Crystal Report. and optimize Crystal Report design and code for performance improvements and be proficient in Reports which involve Complex Design.

North West / Contract / Ref: BenP:DWH-BI

Architect Infrastructure Data Network London. A global IT Services Company requires an experienced Infrastructure Architect who is able to do the design & architecture for small to medium projects and solve complex problems. You must have extensive knowledge of multiple development technologies and have the ability to respond to detailed queries. you sohlud have experience of advising Sr Management on specialised technical issues. you will be responsible for coaching, guiding and mentoring junior members in the team. Experience of Avaya ACD, IVR or Voice Logger is a bonus.

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:Infra:Architect

Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Technical Lead Dusseldorf Germany. A Global IT Services company requires a Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Technical Lead who is experienced with UNIX Shell Scripting, BI, DWH-BI, SAP BI-BW and Crystal Reports. You must be able to develop complex technical solutions to meet business requirements and be able to embed OLE objects in Crystal Report. and optimize Crystal Report design and code for performance improvements and be proficient in Reports which involve Complex Design.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:DWH-BI

Business Analyst

Business Analyst is required by our client a global consultancy. You will be working in the consulting practice to aid the delivery of cutting edge web solutions including; Multiplatform rich media websites, e-service applications and ecommerce applications. You will be enthusiastic and excited about with top organisations across a range of industries. You will be Agile and a very hands-on internet technologist and a desire about web technology. You will be use to working in a fast paced environments and use to the rapidly changing trends in digital development.

As a Business Analyst you will be working in a client facing position so good communication skills are required for the position. You will also contribute to the end to end delivery on large scale technology solutions. You will provide technology expertise to support design and implentation work. You will interpret client needs and define the information architecture to optimise user experiences. You will have a natural ability to build rapport and manage stakeholder expectations

As the Business Analyst you will need to be experienced in requirements gathering / analysis, functional design and wireframing, user experience design, social media integration design, web analytics optimisation & analysis and design for various digital / web projects.

If you feel that you have the right skills for this role please submit CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-BAWD-001

C#/.NET Developer, TDD, MVC3 Razor, Entity Framework, London - IMMEDIATE START

C#/.NET Developer is required by our client, a digital agency. They are looking for a strong developer as well as someone who can be a lead on client projects, and gather requirements from clients. You will need strong experience with MVC3 Razor as well as experience with Entity Frameworks. If you have any experience of CQRS that would be a real bonus. This is an urgent opportunity to interview and start as soon as possible, although for the right candidate they will wait a notice period.

For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/DN01

Telecommunications consultant

Telecommunications consultant is required by our client a global consultancy. You will be working in the consulting practice to develop and deploy custom IT systems relating to business operations. As a Telecommunications consultant you will work within a team to deliver technology changes in communication, Technology & Media organizations.

As a telecommunications consultant you will be working with the client & IT development teams to help define and agree system functionalities and technical requirements for technology driven transformation projects. You will work closely with 3rd party / offshore teams to review development plans with various clients. You will manage delivery plans and produce status reports for senior stakeholders & be an SME lead whilst following a structured delivery methodology.

You will need to have industry experiences in these domains: Communications, Media & technology. You will need to have a proven skills in core telecommunication applications such as Billing, CRM, OSS / BSS. You will need to have strong integration experiences of medium to large scale system change projects and must have the ability to work within a team.

If you feel that you have the right skills for this role please submit CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-SIC-001

BI (Business Intelligence) Consultant Banking. This global organisation are looking for BI consultants to join their financial services team. They are looking for individuals with strong BI experience and the ability to work with data. You will ideally have data solutioning experience as well. This role will be working on varied projects related to BI. This company offers excellent career opportunities and a great benefits package. The role is available at various levels of seniority

London / Permanent / Ref: JK BISOL

SharePoint Developer HTML CSS ASP.NET JavaScript SQL Bristol. One of the UK's no.1 IT companies require a SharePoint developer with experience developing with SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net (C#), JavaScript, SQL .NET application design, development, administration and configuration. As well as demonstrable knowledge of best practice in SharePoint architecture design and if you have project management experience that will be a bonus. Please send me your cv and call me to discuss the detailed spec and the client. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Contract / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

SharePoint Developer HTML CSS ASP.NET JavaScript SQL Bristol. This is an opportunity to live by the coast and have a quality life style (beach, Sun, surfing) whilst still working for one of the UK's no.1 IT companies, they require a SharePoint developer with experience developing with SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net (C#), JavaScript, SQL .NET application design, development, administration and configuration. As well as demonstrable knowledge of best practice in SharePoint architecture design and if you have project management experience that will be a bonus. Please send me your cv and call me to discuss the detailed spec and the client. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

Scrum Master - Online Platforms - London

My client, a major online organisation, are searching for a Scrum Master, as part of major growth plans and a vast range of projects.

You will be working across a number of cutting edge development projects in London, with the Scrum Master responsible for facilitating Scrum meetings, and driving development teams adoption of Agile processes. The Scrum Master will manage daily stand-ups, and undertake spring retrospectives, addressing issues & identifying areas for improvement.

Working closely with product managers, developers and the business, the Scrum Master will oversee a range of technically innovative projects, as well as take ownership for the groups adoption of Agile.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation at the beginning of their development internationally. Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SCRMS

Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer - eCommerce - London

Our client, a major eCommerce organisation, require an experienced Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer to play a key role in the creation of QA strategies, plus test plans/cases from customer requirement specifications, based around high availability systems.

The Lead QA Analyst/Engineer will be responsible for acting as the Senior Quality Assurance individual on a range of programmes of work, assisting in the development of QA process excellence internally, as well as also contributing to building a new team from scratch. The organisation is moving from manual to automated test environments, and as such any experience of driving your current/previous business in this direction is highly advantageous.

This is an organisation with business critical systems that customers depend on - as such this is a highly challenging environment. You will have previous experience with testing web-based applications, plus a broad range of aptitude across Quality Assurance methodologies and processes, as well as Agile & XP experience. Experience with Selenium and/or SOAP UI is required. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding organisation.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/LSQAA

Product Manager - Trading Platforms/Real-Time Data

My client, a major spread betting organisation, require an experienced Product Manager to manage a range of new services & offerings based around trading/pricing platforms and real-time data feeds.

The Product Manager will come into a small team at an early stage of the development of a portfolio of products, and will be instrumental in developing the road map and delivering product development as well as providing leadership and ideas to the technical/Scrum teams.

Digest common requirements and provide specifications of new features and enhancements, and provide leadership in the product strategy, marketing and development stages.

A strong understanding, and keen interest, in trading platforms and/or real-time data feeds is required for the Product Manager to be successful in this role. You will also be able to offer an entrepreneurial approach, as well as the ability to deal with a range of stakeholders to deliver successful new products.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/PRODMGR

eCommerce Consultant - Global Consulting Firm - London

Global Consultancy require a number of talented and engaging eCommerce Consultants to join a newly formed group leading bids, pre sales engagements and transformation projects across Digital and eCommerce technologies.

The core remit of the eCommerce Consultant will be to translate business needs into effective and resilient technology solutions, and seeing these through to the point of BAU (build, test and implementation). Consultants will also help design solutions, transition clients towards their new solutions, and maintain a high client focus throughout the full project lifecycle.

Previous exposure to Business Analysis and/or Internal Consulting in a UK Products organisation (retail, consumer goods, travel etc) is required, as is a solid understanding of technical change around areas like Java, ATG, SOA is highly preferential.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/ECOMCON

Technical Project manager

Technical project manager required for a global E-commerce provider. We are looking for a dynamic Technical Project Manager to manage projects which are based on enhancements to the providers Cloud based platform and its infrastructure. You will be working alongside internal teams and partners to deliver customer agnostic enhancements & functionalities. You will need to have a passion for technology and must have technical experiences in web/E-commerce.

Technical Project manager Responsibilities:

Take ownership of technical project deliverables, produce and update project plans, and monitor progress. Manage all internal stakeholders and provide weekly reports to Operations Group & PMO to track the performance & achievement of projects against agreed milestones. Liaise with the Heads of Department to ensure that the correct resources are in place. Monitor timescales & resources and take action where these deviate from agreed plans. Identify, assess and manage risks to ensure the success of the project. Produce accurate, clear and concise documentation throughout the project life cycles. Provide post project implementation reviews on all projects and make recommendations to management on ways to improve the project management process. Contribute to and recommend initiatives for continuous improvement within the Technical PM team and department. Experience with regards to project governance.


Technical Project manager

Qualifications: Experience of MS Project or other Project Management software.

For further info, please get in touch: norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-TPM-V

Architect Infrastructure VMware Wintel SAN Hamburg Germany. A Tier 1 Global company requires an experienced Technology Infrastructure Services Architect with experience in in delivering high value System Integration projects, with an ability to understand and design the business resilience and data centre strategies for customers across technology. You must have a deep understanding about the build-up of a Data centre & have performed at least a couple of Data centre builds. You need experience performing assessment reviews and assisting client organisation with development, execution and testing of the overall solution, high level designing experience across multiple technologies, risk analysis & business impact analyses, CAPEX & OPEX of projects/programs as well as a deep understanding on various aspects of technology such as SAN, Servers (VMware and Wintel), Exchange 2007/2010, Consolidation and Virtualization, Storage and backup, Data centre build & implementation, Network (LAN and WAN), Disaster Recovery/BCP. Ideally you will speak German.

You experience should include the following:

• Good overall understanding of IT infrastructure design, IT operations, Data centre maintenance, Vendor co-ordination, Voice & Data Network setups, Application development and End User computing areas in order to review and assist in the preparation of recovery procedures in these areas
• Experience in maturing independent programs and delivering them, independently.
• Ability to calculate DC Power and Cooling requirements based on IT infrastructure design plans
• Deep understanding of DC facility related setups of Fire Prevention, Physical Security Monitoring devices, Access Control setups, Surveillance setups through Audio and Video setups, Electrical build out etc.
• Knowledge on Structured cabling design and implementation
• Ability to plan and execute large desktop rollout activities
• Excellent project management skills
• Deep understanding of DC operations and ability to define SLA's, handle sudden change requests, handle rollback requirements etc.
• Excellent ability to handle vendors (especially non IT related vendors)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively present findings and reports at the local and senior business management level
• Strong technical background in one of the core IT Infrastructure areas like Platform/Network/Database (L3 or above)

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:Architect

Big 4 Management Consultancy - Financial Services - Banking - Data Solutioning - Business Intelligence

Senior Manager required to run projects within the BI Business Intelligence space. This will include managing direct reports and ensuring end to end delivery for the clients.

If you would like to discuss this role further, please contact maria.vavoulas@alexanderash.com.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency for the purpose of this advert.

London / Permanent / Ref: MVav/BI

.Net Developer

Our client a London based digital agency requires a .Net developer for an amazing opportunity to develop some augmented reality applications. The .Net developer will be working with the latest emerging technologies and will be involved in developing various other applications based on C# / .Net technologies. The successful will also be involved in the development of a new e-commerce platform and developing mobile applications.

.Net Developer

This will be a contract opportunity initially for 3 months and will be ongoing due to the amount of work available with this client.

Skill requirements:

> .Net 4.0, C#, MVC 3 Razor, ASP.net, WCF, Entity Framework.

.Net Developer

Rate - £400 p/d - Based in London.

For a further discussion please send CV to notman.areh@alexanderash.com / 0207 688 8435

London / Contract / Ref: JSNA-HMD-002

Javascript Developer - CSS3/HTML5 - London - IMMEDIATE START

Javascript / CSS3 / HTML5 Developer is required to start as soon as possible for our client a digital agency. It will be working on various applications for a large FTSE client. Strong Javascript / Jquery skills are a must, and any experience with knockout.js would be a huge bonus.

This is an URGENT requirement and will interview THIS WEEK.

Please send your details to me as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/FE05

Storage Consultant SAN NAS Hamburg Germany. A leading company requires a Storage specialist who can design and implement Storage, SAN & NAS solutions, you will take up DR assessment & implementation engagement which invilves a detailed study to recommend the tatical and strategical solution to the customer. You must have experience in the following, Sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies, (For any vendor product) EMC VNX Unified Storage Backup Technologies: Data Domain, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker, installing, upgrading & maintaining storage environment.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:San

Backup Consultant Data Domain, VNX Hamburg Germany. A leading company requires a Backup specialist who can design and implement a Backup solutions, you must have experience of the following, Sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies. Primary: Backup Technologies: Data Domain, Symantec Netback up, EMC Networker. Array : EMC VNX Unified Storage, HP EVA.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:San

C#/.NET Developer, TDD, MVC3 Razor, Entity Framework, London - IMMEDIATE START

C#/.NET Developer is required by our client, a digital agency. They are looking for a strong developer as well as someone who can be a lead on client projects, and gather requirements from clients. You will need strong experience with MVC3 Razor as well as experience with Entity Frameworks. This is an urgent opportunity to interview and start at the latest 3rd December 2012.

For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/DN01

My client is a large global consultancy that is looking to build a new division for their capital markets consulting capability. This is a great opportunity to join a new team of specialists and work for one of the most respectable organisations in the market.

My client is looking for an individual with capital markets experience and preferably with experience working for a large consultancy. The focus of this division will be data, and information technology for various financial services organisations.

London / Contract / Ref: AGN - 874

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Financial Services Consultant, London

My client a Tier 1 Global Consultancy, and a leader working in the Financial Services area, are looking to on board multiple Financial Services Consultants

This new hiring phase is due to organisation growth, and some very exciting plans over the coming years.

You will be working within Finance or Risk on a variety of the following projects:- large scale technology replatforming, Regulatory driven implementation programmes, Large scale off shoring or outsourcing, and the development and implementation of new target operating models / reorganization of a retained onshore function.

You could be operating in the function of a finance, risk, treasury architect, project management, business analyst, regulatory programme analysis, operating model design in Finance, Risk or Treasury. They would be interested in speaking to individuals across these roles.

This a great opportunity to join an exciting practice with a lot of work on right now, and a full pipeline going forwards.

For more information please send your details through to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FSC001

Android Developer, London

Android Developer is required by my client a Tier 1 organisation.

You will be required to produce, modify and update Android applications, and be responsible for writing architecture and software specification documents.

You will need strong Java and specific Android SDK and development skills, as well as the ability to build native applications written for Android. HTML/CSS experience, coding skills in JavaScript and an interest in user interface design are a plus.

Please send your details through to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/AD2

Finance and Risk Transformation Programme Leads, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers / Directors to come and join a growing Finance and Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming and Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send throough your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FR03

Project / Programme Manager, Digital, Consulting, London

Project / Programme Managers are required by my client a leading consultancy. Due to a huge demand for there products and services within the web and digital space are looking to recruit a number of individuals in to the practice.

You will need to be able to deliver cutting edhe web solutions including eCommerce stores and Multi - Platform rich media web sites and applications, some of the projects of which will be on a global scale.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions

You will be involved in delivering programmes involving integration of common web technologies and solutions, including:

• Web Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Video Content Management
• Portal
• Identity & Access Management
• Banner & Video Advertising
• Social Media
• Search / SEO
• Web Analytics
• Multi-device support (smart-phone, tablet, desktop, console, set-top box)
• eCommerce

If you are keen to hear more about this fantastic opportunities please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PM02

Finance and Risk Transformation Lead, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers to come and join a growing Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming, Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send through your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FT001

Messaging Archiving Email Migration Specialist Hamburg Germany. A Global Tier 1 client requires an Archiving and PST Ingestion specialist who will be responsible for designing the archive solution for a new messaging 2010 setup and setup the process for PST ingestion from client systems to the new systems. You will lead & participate in the design & delivery of an archive migration solution which includes migrating archiving from DOXIS system to Exchange 2010. You will interact with end user and establish processes for migrating archives. You must have experience with Mailing systems ideally Microsoft or Lotus Dominos, and experience with Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Archiving Solution, Exchange Servers, Process orientation, any experience with DOXIS is a bonus, you must speak GERMAN and have excellent written and oral communication skills. Proven experience in handling MS Exchange Archive Migration Project would ensure your application will be successful. Please email me your cv and call me asap : ben.price@alexanderash.com +44 (0) 207 688 8432

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:PST

Software Architect, Rational RSA RTC London. I have a Tier 1 client looking to recruit a Rational Software Architect who can look after the Design, Development and Management of Reusable assets using Rational Toolsets (RSA, RTC) and work with Content Contributors to define structure of Assets being contributed and provide a migration path to load assets to the Reuse Repository and define the governance around reuse repository. You must have the following excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills, extensive experience with Rational Software Architect including Topology Modelling, strong knowledge of Architecture Process and Governance controls, hands on experience with Data Modeling, Security Design and Infrastructure Design, strong knowledge of RUP, UML, TOGAF, willing to protoype and experience with a blend of technologies. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:RatsoftArch

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

Oracle Functional Consultants Leeds. This is an opportunity to work with a leading Oracle Services provider to work on a high profile, challenging and interesting implementation project where you will get reward generously for your hard work and talent. They require Functional Consultants who have experience of implementing Oracle R12 end to end. You must have experience in one of the following:1. Oracle Process Manufacturing modules: Make & costing 2. Oracle ASCP 3. Inventory & WMS Modules. In these roles you will work closely with SME's, senior stakeholders and onsite and offshore teams. You will be able to put your stamp on this project and your input will be crucial to the success of the implementation. Please apply asap with a cv and I will call you back immediately.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:FunctionalOracl

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

SharePoint Developer HTML CSS ASP.NET JavaScript SQL Bristol. This is an opportunity to live by the coast and have a quality life style (beach, Sun, surfing) whilst still working for one of the UK's no.1 IT companies, they require a SharePoint developer with experience developing with SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, HTML, CSS, ASP.Net (C#), JavaScript, SQL .NET application design, development, administration and configuration. As well as demonstrable knowledge of best practice in SharePoint architecture design and if you have project management experience that will be a bonus. Please send me your cv and call me to discuss the detailed spec and the client. ben.price@alexanderash.com 0207 688 8432

South West / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

Messaging Archiving Email Migration Specialist Hamburg Germany. A Global Tier 1 client requires an Archiving and PST Ingestion specialist who will be responsible for designing the archive solution for a new messaging 2010 setup and setup the process for PST ingestion from client systems to the new systems. You will lead & participate in the design & delivery of an archive migration solution which includes migrating archiving from DOXIS system to Exchange 2010. You will interact with end user and establish processes for migrating archives. You must have experience with Mailing systems ideally Microsoft or Lotus Dominos, and experience with Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Archiving Solution, Exchange Servers, Process orientation, any experience with DOXIS is a bonus, you must speak GERMAN and have excellent written and oral communication skills. Proven experience in handling MS Exchange Archive Migration Project would ensure your application will be successful. Please email me your cv and call me asap : ben.price@alexanderash.com +44 (0) 207 688 8432

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:PST

Product Manager - Trading Platforms/Real-Time Data

My client, a major spread betting organisation, require an experienced Product Manager to manage a range of new services & offerings based around trading/pricing platforms and real-time data feeds.

The Product Manager will come into a small team at an early stage of the development of a portfolio of products, and will be instrumental in developing the road map and delivering product development as well as providing leadership and ideas to the technical/Scrum teams.

Digest common requirements and provide specifications of new features and enhancements, and provide leadership in the product strategy, marketing and development stages.

A strong understanding, and keen interest, in trading platforms and/or real-time data feeds is required for the Product Manager to be successful in this role. You will also be able to offer an entrepreneurial approach, as well as the ability to deal with a range of stakeholders to deliver successful new products.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/PRODMGR

Partner Solution Architect-

My client who are a Tier 1 global consultancy are searching for a number of Solution Architects to provide deep technical expertise and knowledge of Partner solutions and products to build credibility with clients and vendors.. You will develops technical architecture, blueprint, and product configuration deliverables presentable to the client as a part of the sales cycle and have deep skills in a particular technology domain space or with a particular vendor's products.

Partner Solution ArchitectKey Responsibilities:

* Demonstrate technology product expertise and credibility with the client and showcases solution, offering, and product strengths, capabilities, and fit into an architecture during initial meetings and early sales stages; helps close opportunities during the final stages of a sales cycle
* Demonstrate to Alliance Partners, knowledge of the client's technology environment, requirements, and buying values; and the ability to effectively represent Alliance Partner's offerings, solutions, and products to the client
* Understand client requirements and work to define the Alliance Partner product aspect of a solution blueprint, and tests alignment of the blueprint with client buyer values
* Identify, build, and contribute to offerings centered on Alliance Partner solutions and products
* Maintain a broad knowledge of Alliance Partner solutions and products to bring innovation and value add solutions to Accenture engagements and client projects
* Complete the Alliance Partner technology architecture aspect of RFI/RFP proposal responses in coordination with Alliance Sales, Consulting/Outsourcing Response teams, and Client and Sales Support teams

Partner Solution Architect

London / Permanent / Ref: SS PARTNER

Network Project Manager

My client which are an international communications company are searching for a Network Project Manager to work within the Mobile Packet Core on their long term evolution project for 4G.

The Network Project Manager will need to absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. The PM will need to be able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Network Project Manager Required skills:
Experienced project manager
Telecommunications or IT background required
3rd party supplier management
Experience in Mobile Packet Core area preferred

Network Project Manager

South East / Contract / Ref: SS Network PM

Network Project Manager LTE Rollout

My client which are an international communications company are searching for a Network Project Manager to work on their long term evolution rollout project.

The Network Project Manager will need to absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. The PM will need to be able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Network Project Manager LTE Required skills:
Experienced project manager
Telecommunications or IT background required
3rd party supplier management
Experience in Mobile Packet Core area preferred

Network Project Manager LTE

South East / Contract / Ref: SS Network PM

Scrum Master - Online Platforms - London

My client, a major online organisation, are searching for a Scrum Master, as part of major growth plans and a vast range of projects.

You will be working across a number of cutting edge development projects in London, with the Scrum Master responsible for facilitating Scrum meetings, and driving development teams adoption of Agile processes. The Scrum Master will manage daily stand-ups, and undertake spring retrospectives, addressing issues & identifying areas for improvement.

Working closely with product managers, developers and the business, the Scrum Master will oversee a range of technically innovative projects, as well as take ownership for the groups adoption of Agile.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation at the beginning of their development internationally. Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/SCRMS

Android Developer Mobile Telecomms Java HTML CSS JavaScript London. This is an opportunity to join a leading global telecomms company to work on cutting edge telecommunications systems, to join this team you must be a talented Android developer who is ahead of the curve and enjoys developing new products. Skills required are Android SDK, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SOAP, REST, XML RPC, design, unit testing, Agile. Please apply with a cv asap and please call me Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Android

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Oracle Functional Consultants Leeds. This is an opportunity to work with a leading Oracle Services provider to work on a high profile, challenging and interesting implementation project where you will get reward generously for your hard work and talent. They require Functional Consultants who have experience of implementing Oracle R12 end to end. You must have experience in one of the following:1. Oracle Process Manufacturing modules: Make & costing 2. Oracle ASCP 3. Inventory & WMS Modules. In these roles you will work closely with SME's, senior stakeholders and onsite and offshore teams. You will be able to put your stamp on this project and your input will be crucial to the success of the implementation. Please apply asap with a cv and I will call you back immediately.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:FunctionalOracl

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

My client, a Big4 Consultancy have kicked off a strategic transformation programme; front to back across business and technology. They are seeking a Project Manager or Business Analyst with varied change experience to play a pivotal function in a large book of work spanning multiple projects.

The team consists of senior project and programme managers who are responsible for implementing complex change projects that address issues common to multiple businesses e.g. regulatory compliance, static data, IT architecture and off-shoring.

As well as providing change and programme management expertise, they add value to the business by working closely with service providers (e.g. Finance, IT, Operations, Legal Regulatory and Compliance) to ensure change is fully integrated into the bank from front-office to back-office.

To be successful within this position, you will have;

• Ability to work well under pressure
• Appropriately assertive with excellent relationship mgt building & maintenance skills.
• The ability to interact with senior management internally as well as externally
• The ability to demonstrate innovation, good judgment and problem solving skills when making decisions.

If you are interested in joining this market leading firm, and designing and delivering a cutting edge solution please send through your details.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a search firm

London / Permanent / Ref: PB/134

Financial Services Consultant, London

My client a Tier 1 Global Consultancy, and a leader working in the Financial Services area, are looking to on board multiple Financial Services Consultants

This new hiring phase is due to organisation growth, and some very exciting plans over the coming years.

You will be working within Finance or Risk on a variety of the following projects:- large scale technology replatforming, Regulatory driven implementation programmes, Large scale off shoring or outsourcing, and the development and implementation of new target operating models / reorganization of a retained onshore function.

You could be operating in the function of a finance, risk, treasury architect, project management, business analyst, regulatory programme analysis, operating model design in Finance, Risk or Treasury. They would be interested in speaking to individuals across these roles.

This a great opportunity to join an exciting practice with a lot of work on right now, and a full pipeline going forwards.

For more information please send your details through to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FSC001

Finance and Risk Transformation Programme Leads, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers / Directors to come and join a growing Finance and Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming and Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send throough your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FR03

Sales Manager

Alexander Ash is looking to recruit an internal sales manager for our client a global outsourcing organisation. A new position has opened for an experienced Sales Team Manager to join our client. As the Sales manager you will be managing an internal sales team in which to lead, motivate and drive the performance of the clients financial markets, retail and commercial internal sales team. The successful candidate will be managing 22 Sales Support staff and a Team Leader. This Role will be based in London and liaising with existing clients around the london / surrounding areas.

The role will focus on team management and performance, strategy, customer engagement, commercial management, and sales maximisation.

Sales Manager responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring the day to day product business opportunities are maximised and transacted efficiently and profitably by the team of Sales Supports.
• Manage customer liaison to transact product, services and solution sales to maximise profit.
• Responsible for the end to end management staff - including appraisals, reviews, performance management.
• Identify customer queries and resolve to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Commercially accountable for the team profitability maximisation, e.g. Balancing cost of sale with return, Product Structure and maximising deal registration.

Sales Manager

The successful candidate will need to have come from an IT sales background with strong Sales management experiences. You will need to have the ability to build effective relationships across a number of customers and opportunities working with my clients existing customer base. You will need a good understanding of IT infrastructure technologies & products and be able to advise clients on upgrades, new product versions and be very customer centric.

If you feel that the opportunity is right for you, please do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss the opportunity further. You can send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

Sales Manager

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-ISM-01

Project Manager - Infrastructure/Applications - Online Retail

Our client, a global online retail organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure and applications projects as part of a large internal change programme.

The Project Manager will interface with internal stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the technical staff. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Infrastructure project management background, particularly with an exceptional track record of data centre migrations or builds (Unix, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc), and previous experience managing software development projects. You will possess a Prince 2 or PMP/PMI/APM certification. Former exposure to large, fast-paced environments such as eCommerce or Media would be highly advantageous.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: AAPPMIN1

Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer - eCommerce - London

Our client, a major eCommerce organisation, require an experienced Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer to play a key role in the creation of QA strategies, plus test plans/cases from customer requirement specifications, based around high availability systems.

The Lead QA Analyst/Engineer will be responsible for acting as the Senior Quality Assurance individual on a range of programmes of work, assisting in the development of QA process excellence internally, as well as also contributing to building a new team from scratch. The organisation is moving from manual to automated test environments, and as such any experience of driving your current/previous business in this direction is highly advantageous.

This is an organisation with business critical systems that customers depend on - as such this is a highly challenging environment. You will have previous experience with testing web-based applications, plus a broad range of aptitude across Quality Assurance methodologies and processes, as well as Agile & XP experience. Experience with Selenium and/or SOAP UI is required. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding organisation.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/LSQAA

eCommerce Consultant - Global Consulting Firm - London

Global Consultancy require a number of talented and engaging eCommerce Consultants to join a newly formed group leading bids, pre sales engagements and transformation projects across Digital and eCommerce technologies.

The core remit of the eCommerce Consultant will be to translate business needs into effective and resilient technology solutions, and seeing these through to the point of BAU (build, test and implementation). Consultants will also help design solutions, transition clients towards their new solutions, and maintain a high client focus throughout the full project lifecycle.

Previous exposure to Business Analysis and/or Internal Consulting in a UK Products organisation (retail, consumer goods, travel etc) is required, as is a solid understanding of technical change around areas like Java, ATG, SOA is highly preferential.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/ECOMCON

Technical Architect - ASP.NET/SQL - eCommerce

Our client, a globally recognised online fashion retailer, is looking for an experienced Technical Architect to be responsible for the design and technical delivery substantial change to a major eCommerce platform, running on MS stack technologies, in particular .NET and SQL.

Having come from a technical development background, the Technical Architect will be able to lead the design and development of various projects geared around increasing functionality, improving the site and delivering innovation to the group. The Technical Architect will have a strong .NET development background, and have proven design capabilities including; design code that adheres to the SOLID principles, understanding asynchronous programming techniques and message exchange patterns, and design of loosely coupled applications.

The Architect must have broad knowledge of: ASP.NET, SQL, WCF, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Visual Studio, Testing, Software Design patterns and distributed message system design.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding group, delivering a number of high-profile projects over the next few years.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/TECARC1

Project Manager - Infrastructure/Applications - Online Retail

Our client, a global online retail organisation are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work on a broad range of infrastructure and applications projects as part of a large internal change programme.

The Project Manager will interface with internal stakeholders, as well as third party vendors and have a strong interaction with the technical staff. The position involves delivering multiple workstreams at any given time across data centre transformation projects, as well as systems/applications changes.

The candidate must have 4 years+ Infrastructure project management background, particularly with an exceptional track record of data centre migrations or builds (Unix, AIX, Storage, Wintel etc), and previous experience managing software development projects. You will possess a Prince 2 or PMP/PMI/APM certification. Former exposure to large, fast-paced environments such as eCommerce or Media would be highly advantageous.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment consultancy.

London / Permanent / Ref: AAPPMIN1

Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer - eCommerce - London

Our client, a major eCommerce organisation, require an experienced Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer to play a key role in the creation of QA strategies, plus test plans/cases from customer requirement specifications, based around high availability systems.

The Lead QA Analyst/Engineer will be responsible for acting as the Senior Quality Assurance individual on a range of programmes of work, assisting in the development of QA process excellence internally, as well as also contributing to building a new team from scratch. The organisation is moving from manual to automated test environments, and as such any experience of driving your current/previous business in this direction is highly advantageous.

This is an organisation with business critical systems that customers depend on - as such this is a highly challenging environment. You will have previous experience with testing web-based applications, plus a broad range of aptitude across Quality Assurance methodologies and processes, as well as Agile & XP experience. Experience with Selenium and/or SOAP UI is required. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding organisation.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/LSQAA

QA Manager - eCommerce

Our client, a globally leading eCommerce organisation require a QA Manager with a strong technical testing background, to play a key role in the middle of international expansion and transformation.

The QA Manager will be expected to be able to still contribute to automated testing and QA activities, although the priority will be for this person to manage teams of testers/QAs across various projects, and help the organisation move towards a fully automated quality assurance environment.

It is essential that the QA Manager is Agile minded, ideally with previous Scrum, Kanban or XP exposure also. You will be a self-starter with solid leadership capabilities, and the ability to drive testing processes through into the business. Strong automation testing (Selenium) experience is essential.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation, and play a key role in its continuing development.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/QAM1

eCommerce Consultant - Global Consulting Firm - London

Global Consultancy require a number of talented and engaging eCommerce Consultants to join a newly formed group leading bids, pre sales engagements and transformation projects across Digital and eCommerce technologies.

The core remit of the eCommerce Consultant will be to translate business needs into effective and resilient technology solutions, and seeing these through to the point of BAU (build, test and implementation). Consultants will also help design solutions, transition clients towards their new solutions, and maintain a high client focus throughout the full project lifecycle.

Previous exposure to Business Analysis and/or Internal Consulting in a UK Products organisation (retail, consumer goods, travel etc) is required, as is a solid understanding of technical change around areas like Java, ATG, SOA is highly preferential.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/ECOMCON

Software Architect, Rational RSA RTC London. I have a Tier 1 client looking to recruit a Rational Software Architect who can look after the Design, Development and Management of Reusable assets using Rational Toolsets (RSA, RTC) and work with Content Contributors to define structure of Assets being contributed and provide a migration path to load assets to the Reuse Repository and define the governance around reuse repository. You must have the following excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills, extensive experience with Rational Software Architect including Topology Modelling, strong knowledge of Architecture Process and Governance controls, hands on experience with Data Modeling, Security Design and Infrastructure Design, strong knowledge of RUP, UML, TOGAF, willing to protoype and experience with a blend of technologies. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Contract / Ref: BenP:RatsoftArch

Business Analyst Life Insurance Pensions & Annuity Norwich. This Tier 1 financial client requires a Business Analyst with experience in UK Life Insurance, you must have in-depth knowledge of the UK Pension products (Pensions & Annuity) & end-to-end process knowledge of the Product value chain as well as functional knowledge of the core Contract Engines supporting these products. Knowledge of Unisure and FNZ is desirable. You must have the ability to quickly understand the IT Landscape and use this understanding to manage business workshops for requirements gathering, gap analysis and generating the business requirements document. You will provide support during the micro design, include Review of screen changes (enhancements / new screens), Data model ( Table / File changes), Interface File changes, Calculations / Business Logic and review System test plan / cases. Please send me your cv ben.price@alexanderash.coms

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:BAInsurance

Senior SQL Database engineer

Our client a UK based e-commerce organisation is looking to take on a senior database engineer. Our client is a unique and forward thinking organisation which understands how data and technology drives its business forward.

duties:

• Taking a key role in the planning and design of Data Warehouse and CRM solutions in accordance with best practice and the reference architecture.
• Working with the DB/BI Engineering Team Leads to set and maintain standards and development practices.
• Working with the BI Team Lead and Data Architect to understand the requirements needed of the data stored in the DWH.
• Advising DB Engineers to ensure their code meets both quality and performance requirements.
• Making sure that data is available to allow BI projects to align with the business strategy.
• Working with IT Architects, technical specialists, third party software vendors and consultants to ensure that the client becomes an innovative developer and adopter of Data Warehousing & CRM solutions
• Experienced with the following: T-SQL, and the effective use of constraints and Indexes , SQL Server Security, SQL Server Transactional Replication, Net 3.5, VB, C# and Active, Windows Server 2008 R2 & TCP/I, Source Control particularly TFS, Experience of optimizing SSAS for large data volumes and incremental.

Senior SQLDatabase engineer

Experience & Qualification

2:1 in Computer Science, Maths or similar first/bachelor's degree preferred.

At least 5 years commercial Data Warehousing experience in a fast paced environment using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 BI stack, SQL.

If you feel that you are a suitable candidate, please feel free to get in touch to discuss further and send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

Senior SQL Database engineer

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-BIDB-01

Senior SQL Business Intelligence developer

Our client a UK based e-commerce organisation is looking to take on a senior business intelligence (BI). Our client is a unique and forward thinking organisation which understands how data and technology drives its business forward.

duties:

• Taking a key role in the planning and design of Data Warehouse and CRM solutions in accordance with best practice and the reference architecture.
• Working with the DB/BI Engineering Team Leads to set and maintain standards and development practices.
• Working with the BI Team Lead and Data Architect to understand the requirements needed of the data stored in the DWH.
• Advising DB Engineers to ensure their code meets both quality and performance requirements.
• Making sure that data is available to allow BI projects to align with the business strategy.
• Working with IT Architects, technical specialists, third party software vendors and consultants to ensure that the client becomes an innovative developer and adopter of Data Warehousing & CRM solutions
• Experienced with the following: T-SQL, and the effective use of constraints and Indexes , SQL Server Security, SQL Server Transactional Replication, Net 3.5, VB, C# and Active, Windows Server 2008 R2 & TCP/I, Source Control particularly TFS, Experience of optimizing SSAS for large data volumes and incremental.

Senior SQL Business Intelligence developer

Experience & Qualification

2:1 in Computer Science, Maths or similar first/bachelor's degree preferred.

At least 5 years commercial Data Warehousing experience in a fast paced environment using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 BI stack, SQL.

If you feel that you are a suitable candidate, please feel free to get in touch to discuss further and send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

Senior SQL Business Intelligence developer.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - BIDB - 02

Senior SQL Database engineer

Our client a UK based e-commerce organisation is looking to take on a senior database engineer. Our client is a unique and forward thinking organisation which understands how data and technology drives its business forward.

duties:

• Taking a key role in the planning and design of Data Warehouse and CRM solutions in accordance with best practice and the reference architecture.
• Working with the DB/BI Engineering Team Leads to set and maintain standards and development practices.
• Working with the BI Team Lead and Data Architect to understand the requirements needed of the data stored in the DWH.
• Advising DB Engineers to ensure their code meets both quality and performance requirements.
• Making sure that data is available to allow BI projects to align with the business strategy.
• Working with IT Architects, technical specialists, third party software vendors and consultants to ensure that the client becomes an innovative developer and adopter of Data Warehousing & CRM solutions
• Experienced with the following: T-SQL, and the effective use of constraints and Indexes , SQL Server Security, SQL Server Transactional Replication, Net 3.5, VB, C# and Active, Windows Server 2008 R2 & TCP/I, Source Control particularly TFS, Experience of optimizing SSAS for large data volumes and incremental.

Senior SQLDatabase engineer

Experience & Qualification

2:1 in Computer Science, Maths or similar first/bachelor's degree preferred.

At least 5 years commercial Data Warehousing experience in a fast paced environment using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 BI stack, SQL.

If you feel that you are a suitable candidate, please feel free to get in touch to discuss further and send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

Senior SQL Database engineer

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-BIDB-01

Contract Tester (Insurance Experience Essential)

My client who are an international consultancy are looking for experienced contract testers with knowledge of the Insurance markets. You must have knowledge of insurance and any experience with TCS Bancs system for insurance is preferred.
Successful contract testers will also have:
Strong analytical and communication skills
Ability to work with onsite - offshore teams
Involvement in test planning and execution from an IT perspective
Understanding of SIT / regression and functional testing requirements

Contract Tester (Insurance Experience Essential)

North West / Contract / Ref: SS CON TEST

Graduate Talent & Development Lead - Digital Technology Firm

Our client, a globally recognized Technology firm in Central London, require a Graduate Talent & Development Lead, to design & deliver a Graduate Programme for the international business, to ensure the company attracts, sustains and develops talent early in their career.

The Talent & Development Lead will design and manage the delivery of an innovative career development programme aimed at individuals at the junior level, for multiple functions and geographies in the business (IT/software engineering, project management, etc).

You will identify and continuously improve the company profile with partners (universities, communities, new media etc) to support recruitment and development activities. You will have prior experience of designing global HR and Graduate recruitment programmes, with a strong background of working with staff early in their careers in blue-chip environments.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-profile organisation with substantial growth plans internationally. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/GRDTDL

The Enterprise Solutions Architect has overall authority on the architecture and design of the solution offered to a client. Working as part of the Verizon Core Account Team you will be responsible for strategic product sales activities driving new opportunities to closure.

The SEA will work with account teams and customers to find solutions to customer's business issues. A proven ability to engage at executive levels within each account is required. Creative thought on driving new revenue for the branches supported is required. In this role a SEA must challenge the account teams to think outside of normal processes and should demonstrate leadership qualities within their own team.

Enterprise Solutions Architect Desired Skills & Experience

Enterprise Solutions Architect Qualifications:

* Extensive experience in development and implementation of IT and/or managed telecommunications solutions
* Strong architecture experience in conceptualization, definition and development of IT and or telecom based products and service
* Strong project management skills with accountability for end to end delivery
* Strong experience in the development and implementation of one or more of the following:
o Data and IP Services (ATM, Frame Relay, VoIP, PIP, VPN, IP PBX)
o Managed Network Services (LAN, WAN, Content Delivery, Managed IP PBX)
o Managed Security Solutions
o Data Center Outsourcing (application hosting, managed storage)
o Call Center Technologies (ACD, IVR, Customer Portal)
o IT Applications Management (SOA, Web Services, RTE)
* Good experience in customer facing positions (sales, sales engineering, consulting)
* BS or BA in Engineering or Computer Science

Enterprise Solutions Architect Additional Qualifications:

* Experience in sales or service of Fortune 500 companies
* Successful project delivery in a Fortune 100 company
* Successful delivery with matrixed reports in a cross discipline project
* "Big 5" consulting experience
* Experience in Financial Services/Banking Industry.

Enterprise Solutions Architect

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS ENT SOL ARCH

Project Manager- Procurement and Supplier Management
My client which are an international communications company are searching for a Project Manager to work with establishing a procuremnt process for vendors and logistics on a new multi-company regulatory body. You will alsbe responsible for establishing governance throughout the new establishment.

The Project Manager- Procurement and Supplier Management will need to absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. The PM will need to be able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Project Manager- Procurement and Supplier Management Required skills:

* Drive Procurement Process for Filters (Vendor interaction, TGS)
o Vendors include Braun, Filtronic, Mugler, Radio Design, Spaun, Technetix, Tecky
* Drive Procurement Process for Logistics
* Transition to MitCo
* Establish Governace, specifically for
o TEF Governance - MitCo Mobilisation Team and LTE Programme
o MNO Governance - relationships with other operators
o MitCo Goveranance - relationship with emerging MitCo
o Potential interface to broadcast community (BBC etc) for testing
o Interfaces to all of the above

Project Manager- Procurement and Supplier Management

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PM PROC

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From solution architecture, to target operating model design, to process change and through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Senior Manager team, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Retail Banking.

The types of project they involved with spans risk, regulatory and finance areas; with a focus on technology.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Android Developer Mobile Telecomms Java HTML CSS JavaScript London. This is an opportunity to join a leading global telecomms company to work on cutting edge telecommunications systems, to join this team you must be a talented Android developer who is ahead of the curve and enjoys developing new products. Skills required are Android SDK, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SOAP, REST, XML RPC, design, unit testing, Agile. Please apply with a cv asap and please call me Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Android

The Enterprise Solutions Architect has overall authority on the architecture and design of the solution offered to a client. Working as part of the Verizon Core Account Team you will be responsible for strategic product sales activities driving new opportunities to closure.

The SEA will work with account teams and customers to find solutions to customer's business issues. A proven ability to engage at executive levels within each account is required. Creative thought on driving new revenue for the branches supported is required. In this role a SEA must challenge the account teams to think outside of normal processes and should demonstrate leadership qualities within their own team.

Enterprise Solutions Architect Desired Skills & Experience

Enterprise Solutions Architect Qualifications:

* Extensive experience in development and implementation of IT and/or managed telecommunications solutions
* Strong architecture experience in conceptualization, definition and development of IT and or telecom based products and service
* Strong project management skills with accountability for end to end delivery
* Strong experience in the development and implementation of one or more of the following:
o Data and IP Services (ATM, Frame Relay, VoIP, PIP, VPN, IP PBX)
o Managed Network Services (LAN, WAN, Content Delivery, Managed IP PBX)
o Managed Security Solutions
o Data Center Outsourcing (application hosting, managed storage)
o Call Center Technologies (ACD, IVR, Customer Portal)
o IT Applications Management (SOA, Web Services, RTE)
* Good experience in customer facing positions (sales, sales engineering, consulting)
* BS or BA in Engineering or Computer Science

Enterprise Solutions Architect Additional Qualifications:

* Experience in sales or service of Fortune 500 companies
* Successful project delivery in a Fortune 100 company
* Successful delivery with matrixed reports in a cross discipline project
* "Big 5" consulting experience
* Experience in Financial Services/Banking Industry.

Enterprise Solutions Architect

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS ENT SOL ARCH

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Oracle Functional Consultants Leeds. This is an opportunity to work with a leading Oracle Services provider to work on a high profile, challenging and interesting implementation project where you will get reward generously for your hard work and talent. They require Functional Consultants who have experience of implementing Oracle R12 end to end. You must have experience in one of the following:1. Oracle Process Manufacturing modules: Make & costing 2. Oracle ASCP 3. Inventory & WMS Modules. In these roles you will work closely with SME's, senior stakeholders and onsite and offshore teams. You will be able to put your stamp on this project and your input will be crucial to the success of the implementation. Please apply asap with a cv and I will call you back immediately.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:FunctionalOracl

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Technical Project manager

Technical project manager required for a global e-commerce provider. We are looking for a dynamic Technical Project Manager to manage projects which are based on enhancements to the providers Cloud based platform and its infrastructure. You will be working alongside internal teams and partners to deliver customer agnostic enhancements & functionalities. You will need to have a passion for technology and must have technical experiences in web/ecommerce.

Technical Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of technical project deliverables, produce and update project plans, and monitor progress.
• Manage all internal stakeholders and provide weekly reports to Operations Group & PMO to track the performance & achievement of projects against agreed milestones.
• Liaise with the Heads of Department to ensure that the correct resources are in place.
• Monitor timescales & resources and take action where these deviate from agreed plans.
• Identify, assess and manage risks to ensure the success of the project.
• Produce accurate, clear and concise documentation throughout the project lifecycles.
• Provide post project implementation reviews on all projects and make recommendations to management on ways to improve the project management process.
• Contribute to and recommend initiatives for continuous improvement within the Technical PM team and department.

Technical Project manager

Qualifications:

• Experience of MS Project or other Project Management software tools.
• Experience of iterative / agile development methodologies.
• Full software delivery life cycle
• Technical analysis (gap analysis, impact analysis, planning to produce delivery timeline)
• Knowledge of change management standards to minimize implementation risk
• Experience of JIRA
• Possess a good knowledge and understanding of technical processes and workflows.
• Proven PM experience within a technical (web) environment.
• Previous experience of working in a start-up/flexible environment an advantage.

If you are interested in the position, please email CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com for further details.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - TPM - V01

Javascript Developer - CSS3/HTML5 - London - Monday 12th November Start

Javascript / CSS3 / HTML5 Developer is required to start on Monday 12th November for our client a digital agency. It will be working on various applications for a large FTSE client. Strong Javascript / Jquery skills are a must.

This is an URGENT requirement and will interview THIS WEEK.

Please send your details to me as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/FE05

Business Analyst, Billing Systems, Jersey. Day rate + living allowances plus flights paid for once every 2 weeks.

Business Analyst is required by our client a Telecommunications company. They are currently looking for a Business Analyst to carry out requirements gathering on a project that will be delivering COMVERSE in to the business. Comverse experience is NOT essential. You will be involved in multiple projects, mainly based around the implementation of a converged billing system. It would be highly beneficial to have experience of either Amdocs, Comverse or Oracle Billing Systems, as well as mobile, Fixed Line or Broadband experience.

You will be involved in projects which involve a lot of stakeholder management to CxO level. You will be involved in high level solution designs, and ideally have a background in the Telecommunications Industry.

This role will interview straight away with a view to starting in December. You will be provided with a living allowance during the week and will also be reimbursed for one flight every two weeks. Please send your details to me as soon as possible and I will be in contact immediately.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/BABS02

Junior Project manager

Junior project manager required for an e-commerce vendor. The ideal candidate will need to come from an e-commerce background or have some e-commerce experience. As the Junior project manager you will manage and deliver a number of web enhancements projects for existing customers. You will also be involved in the management of internal & external resources.

Junior Project manager

As the Junior Project manager you will manage and deliver a programme of web enhancements for e-commerce sites & maintain a knowledge base of all information and known issues on a per client basis.

Junior Project manager

The requirements for this role are as follows:

>Prince 2 foundation qualification.

>E-commerce experience.

>Experience with RUP methodology.

>Change management experience.

>Good communication / organisational skills.

>Open to travel

>Strong customer management ability

Junior Project manager

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to discuss the opportunity in more detail - please send CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - JPM - 01

Service Delivery Manager

service delivery manager required for an e-commerce vendor. The ideal candidate will need to come from an e-commerce background. As the service delivery manager you will manage and deliver a number of web enhancements projects for existing customers. You will also be involved in the management of internal & external resources.

Service delivery manager

As the service delivery manager you will manage and deliver a programme of web enhancements for e-commerce sites & maintain a knowledge base of all information and known issues on a per client basis.

Service Delivery manager

The requirements for this role are as follows:

>Prince 2 foundation qualification.

>E-commerce experience.

>Experience with RUP methodology.

>Change management experience.

>Good communication / organisational skills.

Service delivery manager

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to discuss the opportunity in more detail - please send CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - SDM - 01

Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments

My client who are an international communications are seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager with a Telecommunications background in NFC Payments preferred.
Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments Key tasks:

Plans, directs and manages activities to manage and implement tasks and activities from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project. Lead the virtual team in determining business requirements and translating requirements in to operational plans. Determine, monitor and review all project economics to include project costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, project resources and project risks. Ensure that the project is managed to realise business benefits and programme management is informed by an awareness of current commercial and technical developments. Manage key stakeholders and risks, issues that arise on the project.

Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments

South East / Contract / Ref: SS TDM NFC

Project Manager- Procurement and Governance (4G)
My client which are an international communications company are searching for a Project Manager to work with establishing a procuremnt process for vendors and logistics on a new multi-company regulatory body. You will alsbe responsible for establishing governance throughout the new establishment.

The Project Manager- Procurement and Governance (4G) will need to absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. The PM will need to be able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Project Manager- Procurement and Governance (4G)Required skills:

* Drive Procurement Process for Filters (Vendor interaction, TGS)
o Vendors include Braun, Filtronic, Mugler, Radio Design, Spaun, Technetix, Tecky
* Drive Procurement Process for Logistics
* Transition to MitCo
* Establish Governace, specifically for
o TEF Governance - MitCo Mobilisation Team and LTE Programme
o MNO Governance - relationships with other operators
o MitCo Goveranance - relationship with emerging MitCo
o Potential interface to broadcast community (BBC etc) for testing
o Interfaces to all of the above

Project Manager- Procurement and Governance (4G)

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PM PROC

Software Developer

My client who are a global ecommerce organization are currently searching for a number of talented engineers to join the development team to work on global features in their web services platform, web development, big screen devices, and tablet devices development teams. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be creative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide.

Qualifications

- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
- Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Experience developing in at least one of Java, C, C++, or Perl

London / Permanent / Ref: SS SOF DEV

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From solution architecture, to target operating model design, to process change and through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Senior Manager team, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Retail Banking.

The types of project they involved with spans risk, regulatory and finance areas; with a focus on technology.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

User Experience Designer

My client who are a leading Multi-Channel retailer are looking for a User Experience Designer that will play a key role in the production of visual designs for new developments across websites and other partner facing systems and applications. The projects demand the highest level of creative design and execution and you will work in an agile (inspired) development environment.

User Experience Designer Key Skills

Visual Design - Expert in creating visual concepts and designs to create excellent customer experiences, in close collaboration with the Product Owner and Information Architect.

• User Centred Design - Strong experience working with user centred design methodologies throughout the design process from research to end-user testing.
• Information Architecture - Experience working with information architecture and interaction design techniques.
  
  Should haves
  
• Optimisation Tools - Use of multivariate testing and web analytics to support and optimise designs.
• Search - internal product search, faceted browse, visual search.
• Portal Design - experience of designing internal and external portals would be a nice to have.
• Ecommerce Merchandising - price, promotions, rules editors, content and image management.

User Experience Designer

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: SS UX DESIGN

Programme Manager-Retail Consulting


My client who are a global ecommerce organisation are seeking a Programme Manager to develop, maintain, and grow relationships with key sellers using the Ecommerce platform product. The Programme Manager will actively manage high-value customers acting as the primary owner of these relationships post launch by on-boarding. A key job function will be growing existing seller revenue by implementation of initiatives around traffic driving, conversion and fulfilment.

Programme Manager is responsible for running the ecommerce web presence for a well-known high street retailer

• Manage a team ofdirect reports
• Set and manage targets of team including GMS, customer satisfaction and project delivery.
• Handle account escalations
• Provide consulting and mentoring services to account management team with expert knowledge of the account management process

Programme Manager-Retail Consulting
Candidate Requirements:

• University educated - MBA would be advantageous
• Proven track record of success in managing B2B sales or account management teams gained within ecommerce, retail, SaaS or a related industry
• Polished, consultative approach to sales, able to communicate a value proposition to a wide range of people at all decision-making levels
• Strong quantitative analytical skills, either in professional experience (data analysis) or education

London / Permanent / Ref: SS RETAIL PM

As an E-commerce Technical Consultant, you will develop, maintain, and grow relationships with counterparts inside the clients' IT, retail and eCommerce organizations. You will be an accomplished technical contributor and recommend opportunities to improve the performance and sales of existing tools and processes.

• Contributing to development of technical artefacts for new programs and projects. Artefacts include functional and technical design documentation, UML diagrams, (XML) schema definitions, project plans and workload/resource plans.
• Identifying and resolving technical blockers to new project development. Becoming a go-to point for technical consultancy and seller configuration on the platform to remove project impediments.
• Interacting directly with internal and external constituents. Daily and/or weekly contact with sellers via in-person meetings, phone calls/conferences and email. Daily and/or weekly contact with internal development teams via in-person meetings, phone conferences and email. Communicating ideas to all stakeholders (internal and external), up-to the Director level.
• Working with diverse teams and development methodologies to build consensus around technology, being the voice of the seller in all activities impacting and relating to customer success.

London / Contract / Ref: SS ECOMMERCE TECH

A rapidly growing Global ecommerce Retail organisation who have fantastic careers prospects are looking for talented developers at all levels. You must have two of these technologies Java, C++ or Perl on either a Unix/Linux or windows platform that is looking for their next move this could be the ideal role.

London / Permanent / Ref: PB/124

Backup Consultant Data Domain, VNX Hamburg Germany. A leading company requires a Backup specialist who can design and implement a Backup solutions, you must have experience of the following, Sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies. Primary: Backup Technologies: Data Domain, Symantec Netback up, EMC Networker. Array : EMC VNX Unified Storage, HP EVA.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:San

Storage Consultant SAN NAS Hamburg Germany. A leading company requires a Storage specialist who can design and implement Storage, SAN & NAS solutions, you will take up DR assessment & implementation engagement which invilves a detailed study to recommend the tatical and strategical solution to the customer. You must have experience in the following, Sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies, (For any vendor product) EMC VNX Unified Storage Backup Technologies: Data Domain, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker, installing, upgrading & maintaining storage environment.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:San

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

Storage / Backup Consultant SAN NAS Hamburg Germany. A leading company requires a Storage and a backup specialist who can design and implement Storage, SAN & NAS solutions or perform solution design & implementation on Backup Technology. you must have experience in eitherof the following.

1. Sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies. For any vendor product) EMC VNX Unified Storage Backup Technologies: Data Domain, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker.

2. Sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies. Primary: Backup Technologies: Data Domain, Symantec Netback up, EMC Networker. Array : EMC VNX Unified Storage, HP EVA.

Germany / Contract / Ref: BenP:San

Oracle Functional Consultants Leeds. This is an opportunity to work with a leading Oracle Services provider to work on a high profile, challenging and interesting implementation project where you will get reward generously for your hard work and talent. They require Functional Consultants who have experience of implementing Oracle R12 end to end. You must have experience in one of the following:1. Oracle Process Manufacturing modules: Make & costing 2. Oracle ASCP 3. Inventory & WMS Modules. In these roles you will work closely with SME's, senior stakeholders and onsite and offshore teams. You will be able to put your stamp on this project and your input will be crucial to the success of the implementation. Please apply asap with a cv and I will call you back immediately.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:FunctionalOracl

Senior eCommerce Solution Architect is required by our client a Leading Global Consultancy. They are looking for an individual who can work with client teams to select, design and implement e-Commerce solutions based on various packages such as ATG (Oracle), IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite, Hybris and potentially others. You will be responsible for client solution strategy using leading or bleeding-edge concepts and technologies to provide our client/s with a differentiated product in the marketplace.

You will be involved in designing and developing client strategies around ecommerce solutions and design business architecture associated with eCommerce strategy and solutions,

You will require strong knowledge with either ATG, IBM Websphere, Hypris or other packaged eCommerce applications.

This is a Consultancy role, and will require flexibility to travel to client sites.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/EA001

User Experience (UX) Architect, Consulting, London

User Experience (UX) Architect is required by our client a Tier 1 Global Consultancy. You will be required to work with Tier 1 blue chip organizations on complex, sometimes Global projects across many different industries to deliver highly usable, beautiful user interfaces.

You will need to be passionate about UX and be able to build close relationships with your clients. You will need to understand the clients needs and their customers needs, and provide solutions that meet or exceed customer requirements. You will work with cross functionally across project teams including graphic designers, developers, client stakeholders and sponsors within a UCD framework.

It would be highly desirable if you have experience on large-scale UX / UCD projects using Agile or other iterative approaches, creating high fidelity prototypes and wireframes (Using Axure / Omnigraffle / Balsamiq / Visio etc) researching and defining customer journeys, and creating information architectures.

For more information please contact ram.basra@alexanderash.com for more information.

Alexander Ash is a recruitment agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: UX/RB/02

Project / Programme Manager, Digital, Consulting, London

Project / Programme Managers are required by my client a leading consultancy. Due to a huge demand for there products and services within the web and digital space are looking to recruit a number of individuals in to the practice.

You will need to be able to deliver cutting edhe web solutions including eCommerce stores and Multi - Platform rich media web sites and applications, some of the projects of which will be on a global scale.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions

You will be involved in delivering programmes involving integration of common web technologies and solutions, including:

• Web Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Video Content Management
• Portal
• Identity & Access Management
• Banner & Video Advertising
• Social Media
• Search / SEO
• Web Analytics
• Multi-device support (smart-phone, tablet, desktop, console, set-top box)
• eCommerce

If you are keen to hear more about this fantastic opportunities please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PM02

Finance and Risk Transformation Lead, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers to come and join a growing Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming, Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send through your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FT001

Business Analyst, Billing Systems, Jersey. Day rate + living allowances plus flights paid for once every 2 weeks.

Business Analyst is required by our client a Telecommunications company. They are currently looking for a Business Analyst to carry out requirements gathering on a project that will be delivering COMVERSE in to the business. Comverse experience is NOT essential. You will be involved in multiple projects, mainly based around the implementation of a converged billing system. It would be highly beneficial to have experience of either Amdocs, Comverse or Oracle Billing Systems, as well as mobile, Fixed Line or Broadband experience.

You will be involved in projects which involve a lot of stakeholder management to CxO level. You will be involved in high level solution designs, and ideally have a background in the Telecommunications Industry.

This role will interview straight away with a view to starting in December. You will be provided with a living allowance during the week and will also be reimbursed for one flight every two weeks. Please send your details to me as soon as possible and I will be in contact immediately.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/BABS02

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From solution architecture, to target operating model design, to process change and through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Senior Manager team, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Retail Banking.

The types of project they involved with spans risk, regulatory and finance areas; with a focus on technology.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Storage consultant

My client is looking, a global consultancy is looking to recruit a Storage solutions consultant for a long term contract based in Germany.


- Storage consultant will involve in designing and implementation of the Storage, SAN, and NAS solutions for Energy & Utility Client in Germany.

- Storage consultant will take up DR assessment and implementation engagement which involves detailed study to recommend the tactical and strategically solution to customer and also implement the same.

- Storage consultant is responsible for solution implementation to customer.

- Storage consultant will be sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies.( For any vendor product )

- Storage consultant will have the experiences of EMC VNX Unified Storage.

- Storage consultant will also work with & implement backup technologies such as Data Domain, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker.

- Storage consultant will have working knowledge of Unix & Windows operating systems.

- Storage consultant will have working experience installing, configuring and using EMC's replication manager (server & Client)

Storage consultant

This role is a long term contract based in Germany - The duration of the contract will be for 12 months split in to a 3 month rolling contract paying a daily rate up to £550 p/d.

If you feel that you are suitable for this position, please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

Storage consultant

Germany / Contract / Ref: JSNA - Storage -01

Javascript Developer - CSS3/HTML5 - London - Monday 5th November Start

Javascript / CSS3 / HTML5 Developer is required to start on Monday 5th November for our client a digital agency. It will be working on various applications for a large FTSE client. Strong Javascript / Jquery skills are a must.

This is an URGENT requirement and will interview THIS WEEK.

Please send your details to me as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/FE05

Business Analyst, Billing Systems, Jersey. Day rate + living allowances plus flights paid for once every 2 weeks.

Business Analyst is required by our client a Telecommunications company. They are currently looking for a Business Analyst to carry out requirements gathering on a project that will be delivering COMVERSE in to the business. Comverse experience is NOT essential. You will be involved in multiple projects, mainly based around the implementation of a converged billing system. It would be highly beneficial to have experience of either Amdocs, Comverse or Oracle Billing Systems, as well as mobile, Fixed Line or Broadband experience.

You will be involved in projects which involve a lot of stakeholder management to CxO level. You will be involved in high level solution designs, and ideally have a background in the Telecommunications Industry.

This role will interview straight away with a view to starting in December. You will be provided with a living allowance during the week and will also be reimbursed for one flight every two weeks. Please send your details to me as soon as possible and I will be in contact immediately.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/BABS02

Partner Solution Architect-

My client who are a Tier 1 global consultancy are searching for a number of Solution Architects to provide deep technical expertise and knowledge of Partner solutions and products to build credibility with clients and vendors.. You will develops technical architecture, blueprint, and product configuration deliverables presentable to the client as a part of the sales cycle and have deep skills in a particular technology domain space or with a particular vendor's products.

Partner Solution ArchitectKey Responsibilities:

* Demonstrate technology product expertise and credibility with the client and showcases solution, offering, and product strengths, capabilities, and fit into an architecture during initial meetings and early sales stages; helps close opportunities during the final stages of a sales cycle
* Demonstrate to Alliance Partners, knowledge of the client's technology environment, requirements, and buying values; and the ability to effectively represent Alliance Partner's offerings, solutions, and products to the client
* Understand client requirements and work to define the Alliance Partner product aspect of a solution blueprint, and tests alignment of the blueprint with client buyer values
* Identify, build, and contribute to offerings centered on Alliance Partner solutions and products
* Maintain a broad knowledge of Alliance Partner solutions and products to bring innovation and value add solutions to Accenture engagements and client projects
* Complete the Alliance Partner technology architecture aspect of RFI/RFP proposal responses in coordination with Alliance Sales, Consulting/Outsourcing Response teams, and Client and Sales Support teams

Partner Solution Architect

London / Permanent / Ref: SS PARTNER

Project Manager (Sharepoint)

My client who are a digital agency are looking for an experienced project manager who has worked on large web and intranet builds. You will have experience of managing the entire project lifecycle, a good technical understanding and have come from a development background. Ideally you will have worked on Content Management Systems and SharePoint projects.

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day running of multiple projects for the client through the entire project lifecycle, within budget and set timescales

• Business analysis on projects, including gathering client and user requirements and defining and writing functional specifications
• Support the pre-sales process with high level scoping, planning and consultancy
• On-going support of solutions post-deployment
• Management of project teams
• Informing the Operations Director of future resource requirements

Project Manager (Sharepoint)

London / Permanent / Ref: PM Sharepoint

Programme Manager-Retail Consulting


My client who are a global ecommerce organisation are seeking a Programme Manager to develop, maintain, and grow relationships with key sellers using the Ecommerce platform product. The Programme Manager will actively manage high-value customers acting as the primary owner of these relationships post launch by on-boarding. A key job function will be growing existing seller revenue by implementation of initiatives around traffic driving, conversion and fulfilment.

Programme Manager is responsible for running the ecommerce web presence for a well-known high street retailer

• Manage a team ofdirect reports
• Set and manage targets of team including GMS, customer satisfaction and project delivery.
• Handle account escalations
• Provide consulting and mentoring services to account management team with expert knowledge of the account management process

Programme Manager-Retail Consulting
Candidate Requirements:

• University educated - MBA would be advantageous
• Proven track record of success in managing B2B sales or account management teams gained within ecommerce, retail, SaaS or a related industry
• Polished, consultative approach to sales, able to communicate a value proposition to a wide range of people at all decision-making levels
• Strong quantitative analytical skills, either in professional experience (data analysis) or education

London / Permanent / Ref: SS RETAIL PM

Sitecore Developer, Agency, London

Sitecore Developer is required by my client a digital agency to help support on an exciting project.

You will need to be able to Install, Set up and use Sitecore on client projects.

Other useful skills would be solid .NET / C#, MVC, WCF and Entity Framework experience.

This is an urgent role to interview and and start asap.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/SD01

My client who are a global e-commerce company are searching for an E-commerce Technical Project Manager who will be responsible for the success of one of their UK-based large sellers

As an E-commerce Technical Project Manager, you will develop, maintain, and grow relationships with counterparts inside the clients' IT, retail and eCommerce organizations. You will be an accomplished technical contributor and recommend opportunities to improve the performance and sales of existing tools and processes.

• Contributing to development of technical artefacts for new programs and projects. Artefacts include functional and technical design documentation, UML diagrams, (XML) schema definitions, project plans and workload/resource plans.
• Identifying and resolving technical blockers to new project development. Becoming a go-to point for technical consultancy and seller configuration on the platform to remove project impediments.
• Interacting directly with internal and external constituents. Daily and/or weekly contact with sellers via in-person meetings, phone calls/conferences and email. Daily and/or weekly contact with internal development teams via in-person meetings, phone conferences and email. Communicating ideas to all stakeholders (internal and external), up-to the Director level.
• Working with diverse teams and development methodologies to build consensus around technology, being the voice of the seller in all activities impacting and relating to customer success.

London / Contract / Ref: SS ECOMMERCE TECH

Java Technical Lead

Java Technical Leadis required by a world leading eCommerce organisation, to lead the software development teams in a number of projects varying in size and length.

You will have a background as a software engineer with strong knowledge of multi-threaded programming, distributed systems and data structures. The Software Projects Lead will ideally have a strong knowledge of delivering large-scale projects & programmes based around software development, and ideally a track record in the E-commerce/online space and a technical understanding of Unix, C++ and preferred,

Java Technical Lead

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS Java Lead

Our client, a global consultancy, is looking for experience change / project managers with a background in delivery. The model they currently have in place enables the consultant to aid in everystage stage of the project. From solution architecture, to target operating model design, to process change and through to project handover / delivery. There are a number of positions available within their Senior Manager team, and they are looking for candidates with previous / current experience within Retail Banking.

The types of project they involved with spans risk, regulatory and finance areas; with a focus on technology.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM454

Solution Architect-

My client who are a Tier 1 global consultancy are searching for a number of Solution Architects to provide deep technical expertise and knowledge of Partner solutions and products to build credibility with clients and vendors.. You will develops technical architecture, blueprint, and product configuration deliverables presentable to the client as a part of the sales cycle and have deep skills in a particular technology domain space or with a particular vendor's products.

Solution Architect Key Responsibilities:

* Demonstrate technology product expertise and credibility with the client and showcases solution, offering, and product strengths, capabilities, and fit into an architecture during initial meetings and early sales stages; helps close opportunities during the final stages of a sales cycle
* Demonstrate to Alliance Partners, knowledge of the client's technology environment, requirements, and buying values; and the ability to effectively represent Alliance Partner's offerings, solutions, and products to the client
* Understand client requirements and work to define the Alliance Partner product aspect of a solution blueprint, and tests alignment of the blueprint with client buyer values
* Identify, build, and contribute to offerings centered on Alliance Partner solutions and products
* Maintain a broad knowledge of Alliance Partner solutions and products to bring innovation and value add solutions to Accenture engagements and client projects
* Complete the Alliance Partner technology architecture aspect of RFI/RFP proposal responses in coordination with Alliance Sales, Consulting/Outsourcing Response teams, and Client and Sales Support teams

Solution Architect

London / Permanent / Ref: SS ALLIANCE

My client who are a global ecommerce organisation are seeking a Senior Account Manager to develop, maintain, and grow relationships with key sellers using the Ecommerce platform product. The Senior Account Manager will actively manage high-value customers acting as the primary owner of these relationships post launch by on-boarding. A key job function will be growing existing seller revenue by implementation of initiatives around traffic driving, conversion and fulfilment.

The Senior Account Manager is responsible for running the ecommerce web presence for a well-known high street retailer

• Manage a team ofdirect reports
• Set and manage targets of team including GMS, customer satisfaction and project delivery.
• Handle account escalations
• Provide consulting and mentoring services to account management team with expert knowledge of the account management process

Candidate Requirements:

• University educated - MBA would be advantageous
• Proven track record of success in managing B2B sales or account management teams gained within ecommerce, retail, SaaS or a related industry
• Polished, consultative approach to sales, able to communicate a value proposition to a wide range of people at all decision-making levels
• Strong quantitative analytical skills, either in professional experience (data analysis) or education

London / Permanent / Ref: SS ECOMM ACCOUNT

Scala Developer

Scala Developer is required by a world leading eCommerce organisation, to joind the software development teams in a number of cutting edge projects.

You will be an accomplished software engineer with strong knowledge of multi-threaded programming, distributed systems and data structures. The Scala Developerwill ideally have a strong knowledge of delivering large-scale projects & programmes based around software development, and ideally a track record in the E-commerce/online space.

Scala Developer

London / Permanent / Ref: SS Scala Developer

Application Architect - Consultancy - PHP/Java/Web Transformation

Our client, a globally recognised Consultancy, require a number of experienced Application Architects to join their Web & Digital technology practice based in London.

Working on behalf of a range of blue-chip customers, the Application Architect will advise and contribute across the delivery lifecycle of large web technology change projects & solutions, ranging from rich media web solutions for global enterprise organisations, to eCommerce and eServices implementations.

You will be used to working in Agile environments, delivering & delivering highly scalable and maintainable web technology solutions, and working with the client throughout the project lifecycle - including delivery planning, overall solution architecture, functional and technical design, development, test and deployment.

Technically, you will have a broad range of hands-on experience, ideally around areas such as PHP, Java/J2EE, HTML/CSS, JQuery, Flex, XML etc. Exposure to areas such as Content Management Systems, Portals, and Search (SEO, FAST, Autonomy) technology is preferred.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation with a wide berth of programmes in the pipeline. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/APARCWD

Business Analyst, COMVERSE, Jersey. Day rate + living allowances plus flights paid for once every 2 weeks.

Business Analyst is required by our client a Telecommunications company. They are currently looking for a Business Analyst to carry out requirements gathering on a project that will be delivering COMVERSE in to the business. You will be involved in multiple projects, mainly based around the implementation of a converged billing system. It would be highly beneficial to have experience of either Amdocs, Comverse or Oracle Billing Systems, as well as mobile, Fixed Line or Broadband experience.

You will be involved in projects which involve a lot of stakeholder management to CxO level. You will be involved in high level solution designs, and ideally have a background in the Telecommunications Industry.

This role will interview straight away with a view to starting in December. You will be provided with a living allowance during the week and will also be reimbursed for one flight every two weeks. Please send your details to me as soon as possible and I will be in contact immediately.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/BA03

Oracle Inventory Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have Functional experience in Oracle Inventory Warehouse Management and Procurement modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle ASCP Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have experience in Advanced Supply Chain and Planning Modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

SharePoint 2010 Developer Telecoms Yorkshire, A leading global telecommunications company requires a SharePoint developer to help build a new service offering. You must have SharePoint 2010 experience, ideally an MCTS qualification or experience, and experience in the folllowing Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net, Java Script, C#, HTML, CSS, XHTML, PowerShell, XSLT, XML, .net 3.5, .net 4.0, MS IIS, 5,6 & 7 & TFS 2010. This role is going to give you access to the latest technologies and challenges within the Telecoms space. Please call me to discuss my deatiled spec.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Oracle SCM Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have Functional experience in Oracle Procurement, i-Procurement & payables modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12. You also must have experience in designing solution application based on customer requirements, configuring applications based on the customer requirements, excellent written and oral communication and the aility to work independently with onsite-offshore solution and delivery teams. This role will give you the opportunity to work closely with customer Subject Matter Experts (SME's) to understand their requirements, provide solutions in line with customer requirements and guide both onsite & offshore teams. You will have responsibilty to review all deliverables to the customer and ensure a smooth signoff.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Product Manager

My client who are a digital agency require an experienced Product Manager to manage their new SharePoint Intranet Solution. You will be instrumental in developing the road map and delivering product development as well as providing hands-on management to the technical team.

Responsibilities:

• Developing road map and delivering product development
• Liaise with customers and potential customers on their requirements
• Digest common requirements and provide specifications of new features and enhancements.
• Create excellent client and internal documentation
• Using business analysis skills to demonstrate how the product will meet clients business needs
• Scoping/up sell additional services when appropriate
  Provide leadership in the product strategy, marketing and development

Product Manager

London / Permanent / Ref: Product Manager

Scrum Coach/Agile Coach - eCommerce

Our client, a major eCommerce organisation, require a Scrum Coach to play a pivotal role in the strategic development of the business, and improvement of technology delivery.

As part of a technology transformation group, you will inherit a team of Scrum Masters, and be responsible for the company-wide Agile adoption strategy. The Scrum Coach will ensure adoption of Scrum values and practices, whilst heading up training initiatives, and acting as an advocate for change for the business when it comes to innovation.

The ideal candidate will be a recognised Agile Expert with a track record of leading organisations through the process of adopting Agile methodologies. You will be highly personable, with a proven ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences. A strong knowledge around Scrum, Agile, and XP frameworks is essential, as is an understanding around development techniques such as TDD, BDD and continuous integration.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major online retailer with substantial plans for growth internationally over the next few years. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/SCCOH

My client who are a global e-commerce company are searching for an E-commerce Technical Project Manager who will be responsible for the success of one of their UK-based large sellers

As an E-commerce Technical Project Manager, you will develop, maintain, and grow relationships with counterparts inside the clients' IT, retail and eCommerce organizations. You will be an accomplished technical contributor and recommend opportunities to improve the performance and sales of existing tools and processes.

• Contributing to development of technical artefacts for new programs and projects. Artefacts include functional and technical design documentation, UML diagrams, (XML) schema definitions, project plans and workload/resource plans.
• Identifying and resolving technical blockers to new project development. Becoming a go-to point for technical consultancy and seller configuration on the platform to remove project impediments.
• Interacting directly with internal and external constituents. Daily and/or weekly contact with sellers via in-person meetings, phone calls/conferences and email. Daily and/or weekly contact with internal development teams via in-person meetings, phone conferences and email. Communicating ideas to all stakeholders (internal and external), up-to the Director level.
• Working with diverse teams and development methodologies to build consensus around technology, being the voice of the seller in all activities impacting and relating to customer success.

London / Contract / Ref: SS ECOMMERCE TECH

C#/.NET Developer, TDD, MVC3 Razor, Entity Framework, London - IMMEDIATE START

C#/.NET Developer is required by our client, a digital agency. They are looking for a strong developer as well as someone who can be a lead on client projects, and gather requirements from clients. You will need strong experience with MVC3 Razor as well as experience with Entity Frameworks. This is an urgent opportunity to interview and start ASAP. This is an URGENT role to fill. For more information please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/DN01

Telecoms Project Manager- Mobile Data / IP

My client who are an international communications are seeking an experienced project manager with a Telecommunications background in Mobile Data / IP area.

Telecoms Project Manager- Mobile Data / IP Key tasks:

* Review / agreed Project Definition Report. Defines and agrees…
o Overall scope of work
o Involved parties
o Roles and Responsibilities
o Project Delivery Schedule
o Initial Risks, Issues, dependencies & agreements
* Prepare & Present project definition workshop
* Maintain Project schedule of delivery
* Maintain Risks, Issues, Actions & dependencies logs
* Manage key internal stakeholders and hold regular project reviews & provide reports
* Interface with suppliers (e.g. TGT, TCS)
o Delivery of User Data System hardware implementation

Plans, directs and manages activities to manage and implement tasks and activities from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project. Lead the virtual team in determining business requirements and translating requirements in to operational plans. Determine, monitor and review all project economics to include project costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, project resources and project risks. Ensure that the project is managed to realise business benefits and programme management is informed by an awareness of current commercial and technical developments. Manage key stakeholders and risks, issues that arise on the project.

Telecoms Project Manager Mobile Data / IP- Requirements

Can absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. Is able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Telecoms Project Manager- Mobile Data / IP

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PM MOBILE DATA

A rapidly growing Global ecommerce Retail organisation who have fantastic careers prospects are looking for talented developers at all levels. You must have two of these technologies Java, C++ or Perl on either a Unix/Linux or windows platform that is looking for their next move this could be the ideal role.

London / Permanent / Ref: PB/124

Scala Developer

Scala Developer is required by a world leading eCommerce organisation, to joind the software development teams in a number of cutting edge projects.

You will be an accomplished software engineer with strong knowledge of multi-threaded programming, distributed systems and data structures. The Scala Developerwill ideally have a strong knowledge of delivering large-scale projects & programmes based around software development, and ideally a track record in the E-commerce/online space.

Scala Developer

London / Permanent / Ref: SS Scala Developer

Solution Architect-

My client who are a Tier 1 global consultancy are searching for a number of Solution Architects to provide deep technical expertise and knowledge of Partner solutions and products to build credibility with clients and vendors.. You will develops technical architecture, blueprint, and product configuration deliverables presentable to the client as a part of the sales cycle and have deep skills in a particular technology domain space or with a particular vendor's products.

Solution Architect Key Responsibilities:

* Demonstrate technology product expertise and credibility with the client and showcases solution, offering, and product strengths, capabilities, and fit into an architecture during initial meetings and early sales stages; helps close opportunities during the final stages of a sales cycle
* Demonstrate to Alliance Partners, knowledge of the client's technology environment, requirements, and buying values; and the ability to effectively represent Alliance Partner's offerings, solutions, and products to the client
* Understand client requirements and work to define the Alliance Partner product aspect of a solution blueprint, and tests alignment of the blueprint with client buyer values
* Identify, build, and contribute to offerings centered on Alliance Partner solutions and products
* Maintain a broad knowledge of Alliance Partner solutions and products to bring innovation and value add solutions to Accenture engagements and client projects
* Complete the Alliance Partner technology architecture aspect of RFI/RFP proposal responses in coordination with Alliance Sales, Consulting/Outsourcing Response teams, and Client and Sales Support teams

Solution Architect

London / Permanent / Ref: SS ALLIANCE

My client who are a global ecommerce organisation are seeking a Senior Account Manager to develop, maintain, and grow relationships with key sellers using the Ecommerce platform product. The Senior Account Manager will actively manage high-value customers acting as the primary owner of these relationships post launch by on-boarding. A key job function will be growing existing seller revenue by implementation of initiatives around traffic driving, conversion and fulfilment.

The Senior Account Manager is responsible for running the ecommerce web presence for a well-known high street retailer

• Manage a team ofdirect reports
• Set and manage targets of team including GMS, customer satisfaction and project delivery.
• Handle account escalations
• Provide consulting and mentoring services to account management team with expert knowledge of the account management process

Candidate Requirements:

• University educated - MBA would be advantageous
• Proven track record of success in managing B2B sales or account management teams gained within ecommerce, retail, SaaS or a related industry
• Polished, consultative approach to sales, able to communicate a value proposition to a wide range of people at all decision-making levels
• Strong quantitative analytical skills, either in professional experience (data analysis) or education

London / Permanent / Ref: SS ECOMM ACCOUNT

Java Technical Lead

Java Technical Leadis required by a world leading eCommerce organisation, to lead the software development teams in a number of projects varying in size and length.

You will have a background as a software engineer with strong knowledge of multi-threaded programming, distributed systems and data structures. The Software Projects Lead will ideally have a strong knowledge of delivering large-scale projects & programmes based around software development, and ideally a track record in the E-commerce/online space and a technical understanding of Unix, C++ and preferred,

Java Technical Lead

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS Java Lead

Software Developer

My client who are a global ecommerce organization are currently searching for a number of talented engineers to join the development team to work on global features in their web services platform, web development, big screen devices, and tablet devices development teams. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be creative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide.

Qualifications

- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
- Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Experience developing in at least one of Java, C, C++, or Perl

London / Permanent / Ref: SS SOF DEV

Perl, MySQL Application Developer, LAMP London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated with excellent application development experience and have strong LAMP development skills & SDLC experience. The most important experience for this role is proven professional experience of application development using object oriented Perl on Unix platforms, particularly Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL or other widely used SQL database products and demonstrable experience of the value of key programming best practice such as unit testing using common test harness software, documentation standards and application design and expertise of existing and emerging LAMP technologies and the potential to enhance performance and robustness in services and productivity. You should be familiar with industry standard development tools such as Subversion, Trac, Fogbugz or similar. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

Web Developer TV, Consoles, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong front & back-end Web development / Web application experience using Javascript, CSS, HTML. You must have experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS. Experience of developing scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles is a bonus as Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD, understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC, OOP, design patterns, MVC, Version control, Git and SVN. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Xbox Developer .NET, C#, WPF, XAML, JSON, MVVM London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong .NET and C# development experience as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight, XAML, XML and JSON, MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect, Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend and a good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:XBOXdev

iPhone iPad Developer, iOS, UX, C, Javascript, CSS, HTML London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong iOS application development exerience for iPhone & iPad. you must have strong experience developing in Objective C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, and UX. You must have experience with views, layers, animations, drawing & touch responders, building streaming video applications & version control (GIT). This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:IOSDev

Java, C, C++, Perl Developer, Web, Mobile Gaming, London. A leading global ecommerce & internet services provider requires talented developers from junior to senior level who are degree educated and have strong OO design & SDLC experience as well as development experience in either Java, C, C++ or Perl. Any experience in the following is a bonus, web services, distributed systems, games consoles, mobile, tablets, Agile, IDEs, or source control management. This role will give you the opportunity to rapidly promote your career, learn cutting edge technologies and work in a modern friendly environment as well as earn a bonus from day 1 and be given shares, along with a fantastic benefits package, pension, health care, on-going training, social activities, 25 days holiday, gym, cafe, games room and free snacks/refreshments. Please send me your cv asap ben.price@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:SoftDEng

SharePoint 2010 Developer Telecoms Yorkshire, A leading global telecommunications company requires a SharePoint developer to help build a new service offering. You must have SharePoint 2010 experience, ideally an MCTS qualification or experience, and experience in the folllowing Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net, Java Script, C#, HTML, CSS, XHTML, PowerShell, XSLT, XML, .net 3.5, .net 4.0, MS IIS, 5,6 & 7 & TFS 2010. This role is going to give you access to the latest technologies and challenges within the Telecoms space. Please call me to discuss my deatiled spec.

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: BenP:Sharepoint

SharePoint Developer

SharePoint Developer required for a global telecoms provider based in Leeds.

As a SharePoint developer you will be working on a project based on the SharePoint platform, this project will deliver the capability for advisors to collaborate with one another quickly and easily. This will also involve integration with YouTube and other third party services, use of responsive design with Isotope framework, this project is both exciting and challenging for any experienced SharePoint developer.

SharePoint Developer

Skill set:

-> Excellent SharePoint 2010 knowledge and experience
-> MCTS qualified or equivalent experience or evidence of work being done to achieve this
-> Experience of Visual Studio 2010,
-> ASP.Net, Java script, C#, HTML, CSS, XHTML, PowerShell, XSLT and XML
-> .net 3.5 and .net 4.0
-> MS IIS 5/6 & 7
-> TFS 2010
-> Agile SCRUM experience
-> Extreme Programming (Pair Programming, TDD, BDD etc.)
-> REST
-> Working with API
-> AJAX
-> MS Build

SharePoint Developer

The Type of person required for this role should have the following attributes; you hate duplication in code & you don't like having bugs in your code. You feel unit testing is a necessity but also like to simple designs. You have the ability to understand complex problems and break them down into smaller, simpler tasks. You feel being hands-on on multiple tech stacks is necessary for your technical development and you strive to keep yourself up to date with the latest developments trends. You are focused on delivering the best solution to customers and evaluate technologies accordingly & you feel that collaborating with team members brings about the best delivery results rather than isolated, individual contribution.

SharePoint Developer

This is a contract opportunity for duration of 6 months & will be based in Leeds. The rate is up to £350 P/D. Please get in touch to discuss further and send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: JS-NA-SP10-01

SharePoint 2010 Developers

My client who are an international communication company have urgent requirements for SharePoint 2010 Developers. The project will deliver the capability for advisors to collaborate with one another quickly and easily. With integration with YouTube and other third party services, use of responsive design with Isotope framework, this project is both exciting and challenging for any experienced SharePoint developer.

SharePoint 2010 Developers Skill set:
Must Haves
- Excellent SharePoint 2010 knowledge and experience
- MCTS qualified or equivalent experience or evidence of work being done to achieve this
- Experience of Visual Studio 2010,
- ASP.Net, Java script, C#, HTML, CSS, XHTML, PowerShell, XSLT and XML
- .net 3.5 and .net 4.0
- MS IIS 5/6 & 7
- TFS 2010
- Passion for being a developer (see type of person)

Nice to have
- Agile SCRUM experience
- Extreme Programming (Pair Programming, TDD, BDD etc)
- REST
- Working with API
- AJAX
- MSBuild

SharePoint 2010 Developers

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: SS SP 2010

Graphic Designer ( Photoshop, Illustrator)

My client who are an international communications company have an immediate requirement for a Graphic Designer ( Photoshop, Illustrator)

Graphic Designer ( Photoshop, Illustrator)

Key skills and attributes for a Creative Web Designer
* Brand - Being able to understand and apply a brand to a high level (including TOV)
* Big creative visions - Being able to push the digital environment and generate a big vision that creatively answers a brief no matter how big or small
* Through the line - Being able to creatively apply the above and below creative's, through an online experience which will enriches the overall campaign
* Experience - Experience of creatively delivering national/international brand projects to the required standards is an added benefit.
* Responsive Design - Knowledge and experience of designing for mobile, tab and desktop in a responsive ways is an added benefit.
* Agile - A good knowledge of delivering creative projects through an agile environment is an added benefit.

Graphic Designer ( Photoshop, Illustrator)

South East / Contract / Ref: SS GRAPHIC DES

Oracle Application DBA 10g 11g SOA Administrator Yorkshire This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career using cutting edge technology. You will be part of a team of DBA's and have the opportunity to be involved in a very large implementation as well as onshore and offshore projects. You must have very strong implementation, SOA & DBA experience with Oracle 10g 11g and strong communication skills are a must.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle Inventory Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have Functional experience in Oracle Inventory Warehouse Management and Procurement modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle ASCP Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have experience in Advanced Supply Chain and Planning Modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle DBA 10g 11g RAC RMAN R12 Ebusiness suite EBS 11i SOA. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your management career. You will manage a team of DBA's and have the opportunity to be involved in a very large implementation as well as onshore and offshore projects. You must have very strong implementation & DBA experience with Oracle DBA 10g 11g, RAC, RMAN, R12, Ebusiness suite EBS 11i , SOA, leadership of a team of DBA's and strong communication skills are a must.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle SCM Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have Functional experience in Oracle Procurement, i-Procurement & payables modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12. You also must have experience in designing solution application based on customer requirements, configuring applications based on the customer requirements, excellent written and oral communication and the aility to work independently with onsite-offshore solution and delivery teams. This role will give you the opportunity to work closely with customer Subject Matter Experts (SME's) to understand their requirements, provide solutions in line with customer requirements and guide both onsite & offshore teams. You will have responsibilty to review all deliverables to the customer and ensure a smooth signoff.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Finance and Risk Transformation Lead, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers to come and join a growing Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming, Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send through your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FT001

My client who are a global e-commerce company are searching for an E-Commerce Architect / Consultant who will be responsible for the success of one of their UK-based clients.

As an e-Commerce Architect / Consultant, you will develop, maintain, and grow relationships with counterparts inside the clients' IT, retail and eCommerce organizations. You will be an accomplished technical contributor and recommend opportunities to improve the performance and sales of existing tools and processes.

• Contributing to development of technical artefacts for new programs and projects. Artefacts include functional and technical design documentation, UML diagrams, (XML) schema definitions, project plans and workload/resource plans.
• Identifying and resolving technical blockers to new project development. Becoming a go-to point for technical consultancy and seller configuration on the platform to remove project impediments.
• Interacting directly with internal and external constituents. Daily and/or weekly contact with sellers via in-person meetings, phone calls/conferences and email. Daily and/or weekly contact with internal development teams via in-person meetings, phone conferences and email. Communicating ideas to all stakeholders (internal and external), up-to the Director level.
• Working with diverse teams and development methodologies to build consensus around technology, being the voice of the seller in all activities impacting and relating to customer success.

This is an exciting project which will interview and start immediately, and will extend past 12 months.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/EC02

Android Developer, London

Android Developer is required by my client a Digital Agency.

You will be working on building an Android App that will enable users to upload content to a website. This could be video or pictures.

This is an exciting opportunity that will probably extend on to a second project for a further 3 months in the New Year.

This role will interview this week, and could start as early as next week, although they could potentially wait a short notice period.

Please send your details through to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/AD02

Project / Programme Manager, Digital, Consulting, London

Project / Programme Managers are required by my client a leading consultancy. Due to a huge demand for there products and services within the web and digital space are looking to recruit a number of individuals in to the practice.

You will need to be able to deliver cutting edhe web solutions including eCommerce stores and Multi - Platform rich media web sites and applications, some of the projects of which will be on a global scale.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions

You will be involved in delivering programmes involving integration of common web technologies and solutions, including:

• Web Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Video Content Management
• Portal
• Identity & Access Management
• Banner & Video Advertising
• Social Media
• Search / SEO
• Web Analytics
• Multi-device support (smart-phone, tablet, desktop, console, set-top box)
• eCommerce

If you are keen to hear more about this fantastic opportunities please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PM02

Scrum Coach/Agile Coach - eCommerce

Our client, a major eCommerce organisation, require a Scrum Coach to play a pivotal role in the strategic development of the business, and improvement of technology delivery.

As part of a technology transformation group, you will inherit a team of Scrum Masters, and be responsible for the company-wide Agile adoption strategy. The Scrum Coach will ensure adoption of Scrum values and practices, whilst heading up training initiatives, and acting as an advocate for change for the business when it comes to innovation.

The ideal candidate will be a recognised Agile Expert with a track record of leading organisations through the process of adopting Agile methodologies. You will be highly personable, with a proven ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences. A strong knowledge around Scrum, Agile, and XP frameworks is essential, as is an understanding around development techniques such as TDD, BDD and continuous integration.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major online retailer with substantial plans for growth internationally over the next few years. Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as a recruitment agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/SCCOH

User Experience Designer

My client who are a leading Multi-Channel retailer are looking for a User Experience Designer that will play a key role in the production of visual designs for new developments across websites and other partner facing systems and applications. The projects demand the highest level of creative design and execution and you will work in an agile (inspired) development environment.

User Experience Designer Key Skills

Visual Design - Expert in creating visual concepts and designs to create excellent customer experiences, in close collaboration with the Product Owner and Information Architect.

• User Centred Design - Strong experience working with user centred design methodologies throughout the design process from research to end-user testing.
• Information Architecture - Experience working with information architecture and interaction design techniques.
  
  Should haves
  
• Optimisation Tools - Use of multivariate testing and web analytics to support and optimise designs.
• Search - internal product search, faceted browse, visual search.
• Portal Design - experience of designing internal and external portals would be a nice to have.
• Ecommerce Merchandising - price, promotions, rules editors, content and image management.

User Experience Designer

Rest of Europe / Contract / Ref: SS UX DESIGN

Oracle SCM Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have Functional experience in Oracle Procurement, i-Procurement & payables modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12. You also must have experience in designing solution application based on customer requirements, configuring applications based on the customer requirements, excellent written and oral communication and the aility to work independently with onsite-offshore solution and delivery teams. This role will give you the opportunity to work closely with customer Subject Matter Experts (SME's) to understand their requirements, provide solutions in line with customer requirements and guide both onsite & offshore teams. You will have responsibilty to review all deliverables to the customer and ensure a smooth signoff.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle Inventory Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have Functional experience in Oracle Inventory Warehouse Management and Procurement modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle ASCP Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have experience in Advanced Supply Chain and Planning Modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle ASCP Functional Consultant Yorkshire. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career in a fast paced environment. You must have experience in Advanced Supply Chain and Planning Modules and you must have completed at least one end to end implementation in Oracle Application R12.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Oracle Application DBA 10g 11g SOA Administrator Yorkshire This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your career using cutting edge technology. You will be part of a team of DBA's and have the opportunity to be involved in a very large implementation as well as onshore and offshore projects. You must have very strong implementation, SOA & DBA experience with Oracle 10g 11g and strong communication skills are a must.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Principal Citrix Consultant Architect, VMware Virtualisation. A leading global consultancy wishes to employ a talented Citrix Architect/Consultant who wishes to play a lead role within this organisation and help service their high profile FTSE 100 clients. You will interact with clients taking responsibility for their requirements and designing the technical solutions, lead the pre-sales & bid process, provide project & technical documents and be an integral part of the negotiations and delivery. You will be able to fully utilise your Architecture and Virtualisation skills and have the satisfaction of successfully implementing large scale solutions. Please call me asap to discuss the detailed spec: Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:Citrix

My client who are a global e-commerce company are searching for an E-Commerce Architect / Consultant who will be responsible for the success of one of their UK-based clients.

As an e-Commerce Architect / Consultant, you will develop, maintain, and grow relationships with counterparts inside the clients' IT, retail and eCommerce organizations. You will be an accomplished technical contributor and recommend opportunities to improve the performance and sales of existing tools and processes.

• Contributing to development of technical artefacts for new programs and projects. Artefacts include functional and technical design documentation, UML diagrams, (XML) schema definitions, project plans and workload/resource plans.
• Identifying and resolving technical blockers to new project development. Becoming a go-to point for technical consultancy and seller configuration on the platform to remove project impediments.
• Interacting directly with internal and external constituents. Daily and/or weekly contact with sellers via in-person meetings, phone calls/conferences and email. Daily and/or weekly contact with internal development teams via in-person meetings, phone conferences and email. Communicating ideas to all stakeholders (internal and external), up-to the Director level.
• Working with diverse teams and development methodologies to build consensus around technology, being the voice of the seller in all activities impacting and relating to customer success.

This is an exciting project which will interview and start immediately, and will extend past 12 months.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/EC02

A rapidly growing Global ecommerce Retail organisation who have fantastic careers prospects are looking for talented developers at all levels. You must have two of these technologies Java, C++ or Perl on either a Unix/Linux or windows platform that is looking for their next move this could be the ideal role.

London / Permanent / Ref: PB/124

Technical Architect Citrix, CCIA, XenApp, VMware Pre-Sales. This is an oportunity to work for one of the UK's leading companies where you will be instrumental in the pre-sales process, solutioning, design & implementation of large scale solutions, keeping up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies. You must have: Practical experience of using a consultancy framework / methodology, extensive experience of pre-sales, RFP responses and determining customer requirements, detailed product knowledge of Citrix, VMware and Microsoft desktop and application virtualisation technologies; XenApp, XenDesktop, VMware View, App-v. Citrix CCIA, Knowledge of other vitualisation technologies is also essential: MS HyperV, Citrix Xenserver and Vmware, Windows Server technologies and Active ability to deal with sensitive customer issues, provide input into bids, project and technical documents, input into business case development, negotiating skills, presentation experience to large audiences & consultancy experience. Please call me to discuss in detail Ben Price 0207 688 8432

Midlands / Permanent / Ref: BenP:CitrixArch

Technical Architect Citrix, CCIA, XenApp, VMware Pre-Sales. This is an oportunity to work for one of the UK's leading companies where you will be instrumental in the pre-sales process, solutioning, design & implementation of large scale solutions, keeping up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies. You must have: Practical experience of using a consultancy framework / methodology, extensive experience of pre-sales, RFP responses and determining customer requirements, detailed product knowledge of Citrix, VMware and Microsoft desktop and application virtualisation technologies; XenApp, XenDesktop, VMware View, App-v. Citrix CCIA, Knowledge of other vitualisation technologies is also essential: MS HyperV, Citrix Xenserver and Vmware, Windows Server technologies and Active ability to deal with sensitive customer issues, provide input into bids, project and technical documents, input into business case development, negotiating skills, presentation experience to large audiences & consultancy experience. Please call me to discuss in detail Ben Price 0207 688 8432

North West / Permanent / Ref: BenP:CitrixArch

Technical Architect Citrix, CCIA, XenApp, VMware Pre-Sales. This is an oportunity to work for one of the UK's leading companies where you will be instrumental in the pre-sales process, solutioning, design & implementation of large scale solutions, keeping up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies. You must have: Practical experience of using a consultancy framework / methodology, extensive experience of pre-sales, RFP responses and determining customer requirements, detailed product knowledge of Citrix, VMware and Microsoft desktop and application virtualisation technologies; XenApp, XenDesktop, VMware View, App-v. Citrix CCIA, Knowledge of other vitualisation technologies is also essential: MS HyperV, Citrix Xenserver and Vmware, Windows Server technologies and Active ability to deal with sensitive customer issues, provide input into bids, project and technical documents, input into business case development, negotiating skills, presentation experience to large audiences & consultancy experience. Please call me to discuss in detail Ben Price 0207 688 8432

London / Permanent / Ref: BenP:CitrixArch

Technical Architect Citrix, CCIA, XenApp, VMware Pre-Sales. This is an oportunity to work for one of the UK's leading companies where you will be instrumental in the pre-sales process, solutioning, design & implementation of large scale solutions, keeping up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies. You must have: Practical experience of using a consultancy framework / methodology, extensive experience of pre-sales, RFP responses and determining customer requirements, detailed product knowledge of Citrix, VMware and Microsoft desktop and application virtualisation technologies; XenApp, XenDesktop, VMware View, App-v. Citrix CCIA, Knowledge of other vitualisation technologies is also essential: MS HyperV, Citrix Xenserver and Vmware, Windows Server technologies and Active ability to deal with sensitive customer issues, provide input into bids, project and technical documents, input into business case development, negotiating skills, presentation experience to large audiences & consultancy experience. Please call me to discuss in detail Ben Price 0207 688 8432

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:CitrixArch

Silverlight Developer

My client a global e-commerce organisation is looking for a number of frontend developers working with Microsoft Silverlight. You will be working in an organisation that is working with the latest emerging web technologies, to enable viewers to watch content across a wide range of TV's, Games consoles & connected devices. This organisation believes in combining two media technologies, designs and development to create user interfaces that are elegant and powerful.
This is an opportunity for a Silverlight Developer to develop and learn new skills whilst developing with existing technologies. You will be working with developers from various development backgrounds and you will be in the midst of a technology minefield, with the chance to learn skills that will develop you as an individual. The Silverlight developer will have to be customer focused and design various applications from a user perspective.

Silverlight Developer

If you think you would be suitable for this position then I would like to hear from you.
We are looking for candidates who are passionate about tech and application development, keep up with the latest advances and have the following qualifications, skills and experience:

* Using our in-house framework, develop scalable and maintainable applications for TV's and consoles
* Work with designers to rapidly prototype ideas and concept UIs
* Knowledge of both front- and back-end web developments
* A proven track record of building web applications in JavaScript, CSS & XHTML
* JavaScript + other languages
* Experience of JavaScript frameworks such as: jQuery, Node.Js, backbone, MooTools, Closure Library, Sench Touch or Ext JS
* You love keeping up to date on the latest tools and trends, and keep an eye on industry blogs to make sure you stay in the know
* Keep browsers in line / find bugs
* Unit test experience or knowledge of TDD is beneficial
* Understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC
* OOP
* Your happy to figure things out without someone holding your hand every step
* Git and SVN
* Very strong development with MS Silverlight.
* An appreciation of the importance of unit testing and test driven development
* The ability to clearly explain object oriented solutions to problems
* Understanding and experience of design patterns including MVC
* The ability to collaborate and finish projects in a timely manner and manage your own workloads
* Experience of working with version control, preferably Git

Silverlight Developer

Salaries to £85k + Benefits - Location - London.

Please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA-SLVR-DEV-1

Software Developer

My client who are a global ecommerce organization are currently searching for a number of talented engineers to join the development team to work on global features in their web services platform, web development, big screen devices, and tablet devices development teams. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be creative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide.

Qualifications

- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
- Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Experience developing in at least one of Java, C, C++, or Perl

London / Permanent / Ref: SS SOF DEV

iOS Developer - London

My Client, a globally leading ecommerce and online organisation, require a talented iOS Developer to work within a creative and dynamic technical team, to work on a range of high profile projects. Coming in early in the client programme, the iOS Developer will have a proven background in developing Mobile Applications for iOS devices (iPhone, Mobile, iPad).

The iOS Developer will have experience with iOS development (ideally Objective-C, XCode, SDK Frameworks), a keen eye for UX, plus a well-rounded knowledge of the application life cycle, and experience with cross platform development would be desirable. Experience building streaming video applications would be highly advantageous.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a world leader in the online space.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AP/IOS1

Xbox Developer (C# .NET)

My client who are a global ecommerce company are seeking talented C# .NET developers to join their XBox team in London . You'll be part of the development team who are engineering next generation video applications for the Microsoft console.

The successful candidate will take pride in the work they deliver and have a passion for application development. As part of the team developing Xbox video applications, you will be working on a wide range of activities, ranging from front-end UI template creation to back-end component coding and data integration.

You'll have the opportunity to work within a modern MVVM framework that takes advantage of the latest .NET principles, while also helping to shape future developments the team are investigating such as new UI paradigms to provide more immersive user experiences, together with tools, test harnesses and automated scripts that increase dev cycle efficiency.

Xbox Developer (C# .NET) Qualifications

You should have a University degree in Computer Science (or relevant overseas equivalent) and solid experience in the following:
* .NET and C#
* Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight
* XAML, XML and JSON
* Experience with MVVM, IoC, Smooth Streaming, PlayReady, Kinect
* Knowledge of Photoshop and Expression Blend
* A good creative eye with an understanding of UI principles for the TV

Xbox Developer (C# .NET)

London / Permanent / Ref: SS XBOX

Android Developer, London

Android Developer is required by my client a Digital Agency.

You will be working on building an Android App that will enable users to upload content to a website. This could be video or pictures.

This is an exciting opportunity that will probably extend on to a second project for a further 3 months in the New Year.

This role will interview this week, and could start as early as next week, although they could potentially wait a short notice period.

Please send your details through to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/AD02

My client a Leading Organisation in Financial Services specialising in Investment Banking, is looking for a Solution Architect to be part of their Management Consulting Practice.

The Solution Architect will play a critical role in client facing that interprets and translates the Clients requirements into a solution that can be configured. As the Solution Architect you might be the Single Point of Contact or work as part of a team to be accountable for Stage 1 to deal closure and delivery or transition to the delivery.

To be successful for this role you must have:

• Understanding of the whole value chain from data to outcome and vice versa
• Proven experience in problem analysis and problem solving skills
• Analytics offerings and strategy
• Excellent Analytics Delivery experience and familiarity with analytic outputs and database
• Solution Pursuit management
• Solution Planning for Outsourcing Methodology
• Solution Configuration

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: PB/121

A top tier consultancy is looking for senior hybrid Project Manager/Business Analyst with Market Risk experience.

We are looking for someone that has experience in Market Risk approaches, including VaR methodologies, scenarios/stress testing, and sensitivities/Greeks.

Your Key Responsibilities will be:

* Managing and mentoring a team of business analysts in the Market Risk Projects team.

* Coordination of the Project of a variety of Risk systems and risk engines, which includes planning, governance and project reporting.

* Overseeing the production of project deliverables, including business requirements and test plans relating to new functionality.

London / Contract / Ref: PB/102

Project Manager (Messaging & Services)

My client who are an international communications company arw urgently seeking a Project Manager for Messaging & Services delivery project management responsible for managing the end to end project management and delivery following projects.
- EADC Enhancements
- Messaging Service Gateway
- MMS Capacity
- MMS TCO Cleanup and Decommissioning

Project Manager (Messaging & Services)

Key Activities
* Prepare & Present project plan to all project stakeholder
* Maintain and control project schedule of delivery
* Maintain and control risks, Issues, Actions & dependencies logs
* Manage key internal stakeholders and hold regular project reviews
* Interface with suppliers

Project Manager (Messaging & Services)

South East / Contract / Ref: PM Message & Ser

Telecoms Project Manager-Transmissions

My client who are an international communications are seeking an experienced project manager with a Telecommunications background in Transmission area preferred

Telecoms Project Manager-Transmissions Key tasks:

Plans, directs and manages activities to manage and implement tasks and activities from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project. Lead the virtual team in determining business requirements and translating requirements in to operational plans. Determine, monitor and review all project economics to include project costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, project resources and project risks. Ensure that the project is managed to realise business benefits and programme management is informed by an awareness of current commercial and technical developments. Manage key stakeholders and risks, issues that arise on the project.

Telecoms Project Manager Transmissions- Requirements

Can absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. Is able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Telecoms Project Manager-Transmissions

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PM TRAMS

Project / Programme Manager, Digital, Consulting, London

Project / Programme Managers are required by my client a leading consultancy. Due to a huge demand for there products and services within the web and digital space are looking to recruit a number of individuals in to the practice.

You will need to be able to deliver cutting edhe web solutions including eCommerce stores and Multi - Platform rich media web sites and applications, some of the projects of which will be on a global scale.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions

You will be involved in delivering programmes involving integration of common web technologies and solutions, including:

• Web Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Video Content Management
• Portal
• Identity & Access Management
• Banner & Video Advertising
• Social Media
• Search / SEO
• Web Analytics
• Multi-device support (smart-phone, tablet, desktop, console, set-top box)
• eCommerce

If you are keen to hear more about this fantastic opportunities please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PM02

Java Technical Lead

Java Technical Leadis required by a world leading eCommerce organisation, to lead the software development teams in a number of projects varying in size and length.

You will have a background as a software engineer with strong knowledge of multi-threaded programming, distributed systems and data structures. The Software Projects Lead will ideally have a strong knowledge of delivering large-scale projects & programmes based around software development, and ideally a track record in the E-commerce/online space and a technical understanding of Unix, C++ and preferred,

Java Technical Lead

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS Java Lead

Telecoms Project Manager- IP/ Circuit Switch- User Data

My client who are an international communications are seeking an experienced project manager with a Telecommunications background in IP/ Circuit Switch area preferred

Telecoms Project Manager- IP/ Circuit Switch- User Datas Key tasks:

* Review / agreed Project Definition Report. Defines and agrees…
o Overall scope of work
o Involved parties
o Roles and Responsibilities
o Project Delivery Schedule
o Initial Risks, Issues, dependencies & agreements
* Prepare & Present project definition workshop
* Maintain Project schedule of delivery
* Maintain Risks, Issues, Actions & dependencies logs
* Manage key internal stakeholders and hold regular project reviews & provide reports
* Interface with suppliers (e.g. TGT, TCS)
o Delivery of User Data System hardware implementation

Plans, directs and manages activities to manage and implement tasks and activities from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project. Lead the virtual team in determining business requirements and translating requirements in to operational plans. Determine, monitor and review all project economics to include project costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, project resources and project risks. Ensure that the project is managed to realise business benefits and programme management is informed by an awareness of current commercial and technical developments. Manage key stakeholders and risks, issues that arise on the project.

Telecoms Project Manager IP/ Circuit Switch- User Data- Requirements

Can absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. Is able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Telecoms Project Manager- IP/ Circuit Switch- User Data

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PM IP/CIRCUIT

Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments

My client who are an international communications are seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager with a Telecommunications background in NFC Payments preferred.
Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments Key tasks:

Plans, directs and manages activities to manage and implement tasks and activities from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project. Lead the virtual team in determining business requirements and translating requirements in to operational plans. Determine, monitor and review all project economics to include project costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, project resources and project risks. Ensure that the project is managed to realise business benefits and programme management is informed by an awareness of current commercial and technical developments. Manage key stakeholders and risks, issues that arise on the project.

Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments

South East / Contract / Ref: SS TDM NFC

Product Manager

My client who are a digital agency require an experienced Product Manager to manage their new SharePoint Intranet Solution. You will be instrumental in developing the road map and delivering product development as well as providing hands-on management to the technical team.

Responsibilities:

• Developing road map and delivering product development
• Liaise with customers and potential customers on their requirements
• Digest common requirements and provide specifications of new features and enhancements.
• Create excellent client and internal documentation
• Using business analysis skills to demonstrate how the product will meet clients business needs
• Scoping/up sell additional services when appropriate
  Provide leadership in the product strategy, marketing and development

Product Manager

London / Permanent / Ref: Product Manager

My client who are a global ecommerce organisation are seeking a Senior Account Manager to develop, maintain, and grow relationships with key sellers using the Ecommerce platform product. The Senior Account Manager will actively manage high-value customers acting as the primary owner of these relationships post launch by on-boarding. A key job function will be growing existing seller revenue by implementation of initiatives around traffic driving, conversion and fulfilment.

The Senior Account Manager is responsible for running the ecommerce web presence for a well-known high street retailer

• Manage a team ofdirect reports
• Set and manage targets of team including GMS, customer satisfaction and project delivery.
• Handle account escalations
• Provide consulting and mentoring services to account management team with expert knowledge of the account management process

Candidate Requirements:

• University educated - MBA would be advantageous
• Proven track record of success in managing B2B sales or account management teams gained within ecommerce, retail, SaaS or a related industry
• Polished, consultative approach to sales, able to communicate a value proposition to a wide range of people at all decision-making levels
• Strong quantitative analytical skills, either in professional experience (data analysis) or education

London / Permanent / Ref: SS ECOMM ACCOUNT

My client who are a global e-commerce company are searching for an E-Commerce Technical Consultant who will be responsible for the success of one of their UK-based large sellers

As an e-Commerce Technical Consultant, you will develop, maintain, and grow relationships with counterparts inside the clients' IT, retail and eCommerce organizations. You will be an accomplished technical contributor and recommend opportunities to improve the performance and sales of existing tools and processes.

• Contributing to development of technical artefacts for new programs and projects. Artefacts include functional and technical design documentation, UML diagrams, (XML) schema definitions, project plans and workload/resource plans.
• Identifying and resolving technical blockers to new project development. Becoming a go-to point for technical consultancy and seller configuration on the platform to remove project impediments.
• Interacting directly with internal and external constituents. Daily and/or weekly contact with sellers via in-person meetings, phone calls/conferences and email. Daily and/or weekly contact with internal development teams via in-person meetings, phone conferences and email. Communicating ideas to all stakeholders (internal and external), up-to the Director level.
• Working with diverse teams and development methodologies to build consensus around technology, being the voice of the seller in all activities impacting and relating to customer success.

London / Contract / Ref: SS ECOMMERCE TECH

Oracle DBA 10g 11g RAC RMAN R12 Ebusiness suite EBS 11i SOA. This is an opportunity to work for one of the UK's most successful organisations, the role will be challenging, rewarding and will give you the opportunity to further your management career. You will manage a team of DBA's and have the opportunity to be involved in a very large implementation as well as onshore and offshore projects. You must have very strong implementation & DBA experience with Oracle DBA 10g 11g, RAC, RMAN, R12, Ebusiness suite EBS 11i , SOA, leadership of a team of DBA's and strong communication skills are a must.

Rest of Europe / Permanent / Ref: BenP:OracleDBA

Project / Programme Manager, Digital, Consulting, London

Project / Programme Managers are required by my client a leading consultancy. Due to a huge demand for there products and services within the web and digital space are looking to recruit a number of individuals in to the practice.

You will need to be able to deliver cutting edhe web solutions including eCommerce stores and Multi - Platform rich media web sites and applications, some of the projects of which will be on a global scale.

The role itself will entail working in a highly client-facing environment and work end-to-end of the delivery lifecycle on complex and large-scale technology solutions

You will be involved in delivering programmes involving integration of common web technologies and solutions, including:

• Web Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Video Content Management
• Portal
• Identity & Access Management
• Banner & Video Advertising
• Social Media
• Search / SEO
• Web Analytics
• Multi-device support (smart-phone, tablet, desktop, console, set-top box)
• eCommerce

If you are keen to hear more about this fantastic opportunities please send your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/PM02

QA Manager - eCommerce

Our client, a globally leading eCommerce organisation require a QA Manager with a strong technical testing background, to play a key role in the middle of international expansion and transformation.

The QA Manager will be expected to be able to still contribute to automated testing and QA activities, although the priority will be for this person to manage teams of testers/QAs across various projects, and help the organisation move towards a fully automated quality assurance environment.

It is essential that the QA Manager is Agile minded, ideally with previous Scrum, Kanban or XP exposure also. You will be a self-starter with solid leadership capabilities, and the ability to drive testing processes through into the business. Strong automation testing (Selenium) experience is essential.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join an aggressively growing organisation, and play a key role in its continuing development.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: AA/AP/QAM1

Project Manager (Sharepoint)

My client who are a digital agency are looking for an experienced project manager who has worked on large web and intranet builds. You will have experience of managing the entire project lifecycle, a good technical understanding and have come from a development background. Ideally you will have worked on Content Management Systems and SharePoint projects.

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day running of multiple projects for the client through the entire project lifecycle, within budget and set timescales

• Business analysis on projects, including gathering client and user requirements and defining and writing functional specifications
• Support the pre-sales process with high level scoping, planning and consultancy
• On-going support of solutions post-deployment
• Management of project teams
• Informing the Operations Director of future resource requirements

Project Manager (Sharepoint)

London / Permanent / Ref: PM Sharepoint

Product Manager

My client who are a digital agency require an experienced Product Manager to manage their new SharePoint Intranet Solution. You will be instrumental in developing the road map and delivering product development as well as providing hands-on management to the technical team.

Responsibilities:

• Developing road map and delivering product development
• Liaise with customers and potential customers on their requirements
• Digest common requirements and provide specifications of new features and enhancements.
• Create excellent client and internal documentation
• Using business analysis skills to demonstrate how the product will meet clients business needs
• Scoping/up sell additional services when appropriate
  Provide leadership in the product strategy, marketing and development

Product Manager

London / Permanent / Ref: Product Manager

Junior Sharepoint Developer

My client who are a leading digital agency that provide intranets, and website solutions for a wide range of clients are looking for a Junior Sharepoint Developer using Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. This role will be to develop SharePoint projects for both new and existing clients. Candidates should be experienced at developing in SharePoint for and have some experience of .net development

Essential skills:

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming
• Experience of working with a .Net framework/environment and use of C#
• Implemented Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and/or SharePoint 2010
• Experience in working with HTML/CSS/XML

Some experience in writing ASP.net and client side scripting

Junior Sharepoint Developer

London / Permanent / Ref: SS Jun Sharepoint

A top tier consultancy is looking for senior hybrid Project Manager/Business Analyst with Market Risk experience.

We are looking for someone that has experience in Market Risk approaches, including VaR methodologies, scenarios/stress testing, and sensitivities/Greeks.

Your Key Responsibilities will be:

* Managing and mentoring a team of business analysts in the Market Risk Projects team.

* Coordination of the Project of a variety of Risk systems and risk engines, which includes planning, governance and project reporting.

* Overseeing the production of project deliverables, including business requirements and test plans relating to new functionality.

London / Contract / Ref: PB/102

A top tier consultancy is looking for senior hybrid Project Manager/Business Analyst with Market Risk experience.

We are looking for someone that has experience in Market Risk approaches, including VaR methodologies, scenarios/stress testing, and sensitivities/Greeks.

Your Key Responsibilities will be:

* Managing and mentoring a team of business analysts in the Market Risk Projects team.

* Coordination of the Project of a variety of Risk systems and risk engines, which includes planning, governance and project reporting.

* Overseeing the production of project deliverables, including business requirements and test plans relating to new functionality.

London / Contract / Ref: PB/102

Project Manager - Front Office Applications - £95,000 base + Bonus + Benefits

My client, a leading front, middle and back office platform vendor are currently undergoing a period of rapid growth. They are seeking strong project managers to drive forward large, bespoke client facing implementations within major financial institutions.

Each project is uniquely different and a high calibre project manager is required to own the full implementation process, including leading teams of developers and Business Analysts to ensure strict timelines are met and project milestones delivered within scope and budget.

To be successful in this position, you will have experience of working for a systems vendor and driving forward implementation within a large financial institution. You will be a strong communicator with a consultative approach to project management.

To be considered for this position, please forward you details.

London / Permanent / Ref: CA-0210-IMPPM

User experience Architect - (UX Architect)

Our client a Tier 1 consultancy runs some of the most popular and widely used Internet and digital services, including some of the top sites in the UK. The are in need for User experience Architects. The UX Group works with Fortune 500 clients on complex, global projects across many different industries to deliver highly usable, beautiful user interfaces. With a well-defined User Centred Design approach, we apply our expert knowledge of UCD via a consulting model to design experiences that delight our clients, their employees and customers.

The User experience Architect must be a passionate user advocate and evangelising UCD within your project and to your client. You must be able to build close relationships with your client, understanding their needs and their customers' needs, and providing solutions that meet or exceed requirements whilst working with cross functional project teams including graphic designers, developers, client stakeholders, and sponsors within a UCD framework to ensure delivery of usable interfaces. You must be hands on and also provide consultancy-level expert advice to clients on usability and IA issues.

As a User experience Architect you will have experience in some or all of the following:

> leading or contributing to large-scale UX / UCD projects, using Agile or other iterative approach.
> You must be able to creating high fidelity prototypes and wireframes (using Axure / Omnigraffle / Balsamiq /Visio etc), researching and defining customer journeys, and creating information architectures, while pulling together usability audits, competitor analyses, and customer research.

User experience Architect - (UX Architect)

If you are an agile (in both senses of the word) hands-on Internet technologist then we want you to join our growing community of like minded individuals. Passionate about technology you will favour a prototype over a document and be excited about delivering leading edge User experience solutions for our clients.

If you feel that you are right for the opportunity then please do not hesitate to get in touch with your CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com - 0207 688 8435.

User experience Architect - (UX Architect)

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - UXA - 01

Technical Project manager

My client a leading online retail organisation is looking to recruit a technical project manager. The project manager will play a significant role in managing & delivering infrastructure & development projects across various areas of the business. The project manager will control and lead day to day delivery of a number of technical service projects and initiatives including definition, planning, financial management, risk and dependency management, acceptance and closedown.
The project manager will support the IT Services function in Strategic planning, supplier and financial management aspects and also monitor and enforce delivery principles and methods across technical and business solutions projects. The project manager will also integrate the IT Services team with the Business IT projects to ensure coordinated approach to communications, delivery and risk. This will involve the use of either waterfall (Prince2) or Agile (Scrum) methodologies.

Technical Project manager

Working in the IT services department the suitable candidate will have experience in managing the delivery of IT infrastructure to support the following:

- Production infrastructure delivering the clients website and associated services.
- Software development projects to deliver infrastructure changes required.
- Corporate IT systems supporting the internal users

The required technical project manager's skills are as follows:

- Managing the delivery of 3rd party hosting and service suppliers to common project objectives;
- Some experience in managing projects involving Agile/Scrum teams;
- Working with technical services, DBA, service delivery management, security and desktop specialists.
- Data center migrations and new service implementations
- Working in a fast paced business environment - ideally a high volume transaction ecommerce organisation.

Technical project manager will have the technical experience of delivering the following:

Networking (LAN, MAN, WAN), security, firewalls, servers, storage, Microsoft AD infrastructure, virtualisation, mid-range servers, load-balancers, cloud technologies, content delivery networks, telephony.

If you feel that you have the right experiences for this position, please send your CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com.

Technical Project manager

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - TPM - 01

Technical Project manager

My client a leading online retail organisation is looking to recruit a technical project manager. The project manager will play a significant role in managing & delivering infrastructure & development projects across various areas of the business. The project manager will control and lead day to day delivery of a number of technical service projects and initiatives including definition, planning, financial management, risk and dependency management, acceptance and closedown.
The project manager will support the IT Services function in Strategic planning, supplier and financial management aspects and also monitor and enforce delivery principles and methods across technical and business solutions projects. The project manager will also integrate the IT Services team with the Business IT projects to ensure coordinated approach to communications, delivery and risk. This will involve the use of either waterfall (Prince2) or Agile (Scrum) methodologies.

Technical Project manager

Working in the IT services department the suitable candidate will have experience in managing the delivery of IT infrastructure to support the following:

- Production infrastructure delivering the clients website and associated services.
- Software development projects to deliver infrastructure changes required.
- Corporate IT systems supporting the internal users

The required technical project manager's skills are as follows:

- Managing the delivery of 3rd party hosting and service suppliers to common project objectives;
- Some experience in managing projects involving Agile/Scrum teams;
- Working with technical services, DBA, service delivery management, security and desktop specialists.
- Data center migrations and new service implementations
- Working in a fast paced business environment - ideally a high volume transaction ecommerce organisation.

Technical project manager will have the technical experience of delivering the following:

Networking (LAN, MAN, WAN), security, firewalls, servers, storage, Microsoft AD infrastructure, virtualisation, mid-range servers, load-balancers, cloud technologies, content delivery networks, telephony.

If you feel that you have the right experiences for this position, please send your CV to norman.areh@alexanderash.com.

Technical Project manager

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - TPM - 01

Storage consultant

My client a global consultancy is looking to recruit a Storage solutions consultant for a long term contract based in Germany.


- Storage consultant will involve in designing and implementation of the Storage, SAN, and NAS solutions for Energy & Utility Client in Germany.

- Storage consultant will take up DR assessment and implementation engagement which involves detailed study to recommend the tactical and strategically solution to customer and also implement the same.

- Storage consultant is responsible for solution implementation to customer.

- Storage consultant will be sizing of VTL, Tape library and defining the backup policies.( For any vendor product )

- Storage consultant will have the experiences of EMC VNX Unified Storage.

- Storage consultant will also work with & implement backup technologies such as Data Domain, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker.

- Storage consultant will have working knowledge of Unix & Windows operating systems.

- Storage consultant will have working experience installing, configuring and using EMC's replication manager (server & Client)

Storage consultant

This role is a long term contract based in Germany - The duration of the contract will be for 12 months split in to a 3 month rolling contract paying a daily rate between £400 - £475 p/d.

If you feel that you are suitable for this position, please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

Storage consultant

Germany / Contract / Ref: JSNA - Storage - 01

Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments

My client who are an international communications are seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager with a Telecommunications background in NFC Payments preferred.
Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments Key tasks:

Plans, directs and manages activities to manage and implement tasks and activities from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project. Lead the virtual team in determining business requirements and translating requirements in to operational plans. Determine, monitor and review all project economics to include project costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, project resources and project risks. Ensure that the project is managed to realise business benefits and programme management is informed by an awareness of current commercial and technical developments. Manage key stakeholders and risks, issues that arise on the project.

Technical Delivery Manager - NFC Payments

South East / Contract / Ref: SS TDM NFC

Storage Architect - Consultancy/Outsourcer - London and Germany

My client, a leading Global Outsourcer is looking for a backup and storage lead architect to design and implement Storage, SAN, and NAS solutions. The ideal candidate will take up DR assessment and implementation engagements which involve detailed study to recommend the tactical and strategic solution to customer.

You will need to have experience of EMC, VNX and EMC Data Domain.

This is a 12 month project, with interviews and start date immediately.

You will need to be able to be based in Germany for initial phases of the project.

For more information please send me your details through as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/SA01

Telecoms Project Manager- IP/ Circuit Switch- User Data

My client who are an international communications are seeking an experienced project manager with a Telecommunications background in IP/ Circuit Switch area preferred

Telecoms Project Manager- IP/ Circuit Switch- User Datas Key tasks:

* Review / agreed Project Definition Report. Defines and agrees…
o Overall scope of work
o Involved parties
o Roles and Responsibilities
o Project Delivery Schedule
o Initial Risks, Issues, dependencies & agreements
* Prepare & Present project definition workshop
* Maintain Project schedule of delivery
* Maintain Risks, Issues, Actions & dependencies logs
* Manage key internal stakeholders and hold regular project reviews & provide reports
* Interface with suppliers (e.g. TGT, TCS)
o Delivery of User Data System hardware implementation

Plans, directs and manages activities to manage and implement tasks and activities from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project. Lead the virtual team in determining business requirements and translating requirements in to operational plans. Determine, monitor and review all project economics to include project costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, project resources and project risks. Ensure that the project is managed to realise business benefits and programme management is informed by an awareness of current commercial and technical developments. Manage key stakeholders and risks, issues that arise on the project.

Telecoms Project Manager IP/ Circuit Switch- User Data- Requirements

Can absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. Is able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Telecoms Project Manager- IP/ Circuit Switch- User Data

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PM IP/CIRCUIT

Telecoms Project Manager-Transmissions

My client who are an international communications are seeking an experienced project manager with a Telecommunications background in Transmission area preferred

Telecoms Project Manager-Transmissions Key tasks:

Plans, directs and manages activities to manage and implement tasks and activities from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage; plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project. Lead the virtual team in determining business requirements and translating requirements in to operational plans. Determine, monitor and review all project economics to include project costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, project resources and project risks. Ensure that the project is managed to realise business benefits and programme management is informed by an awareness of current commercial and technical developments. Manage key stakeholders and risks, issues that arise on the project.

Telecoms Project Manager Transmissions- Requirements

Can absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. Is able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Telecoms Project Manager-Transmissions

South East / Contract / Ref: SS PM TRAMS

Looking for junior Sales Executives to join a global internat retailer!! This client is based in Slough, but boast a truly global reach. They offer a wide breadth of services, and are keen to find junior graduates with a around 1-3 years sales experience to join their growing team!

This is an exiting opportunity for grads to enter an ever growing organisation! Please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment!

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

South East / Permanent / Ref: GM443

Java Technical Lead

Java Technical Leadis required by a world leading eCommerce organisation, to lead the software development teams in a number of projects varying in size and length.

You will have a background as a software engineer with strong knowledge of multi-threaded programming, distributed systems and data structures. The Software Projects Lead will ideally have a strong knowledge of delivering large-scale projects & programmes based around software development, and ideally a track record in the E-commerce/online space and a technical understanding of Unix, C++ and preferred,

Java Technical Lead

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS Java Lead

.Net Developer / Architect

A .Net Developer / Architect is required for my client a global retail organisation based in the UK is expanding its global presence. The organisation is looking to invest heavily in technology and looking to build a platform that will support the organisations growth.

The .Net Developer / Architect will need to have experience in the online / e-commerce domains. You will be working as part of a strong Agile team and you will be driving technology forward. The successful candidate will be working in a Matrix managed, fast paced engineer team. He / She will be responsible for the line management and career development of a small team. You will also be working in a cross functional team taking responsibility for the development teams derivable. You will work with the solution architect to make sure the team delivers to required quality and adheres to best practices. You will be expected to lead by example, be proactive and have a hand of approach to development whilst promoting good engineering practices.

The .Net Developer / Architect will need to have a solid background using MS technologies focused on the following:

> .Net 3.5/4
> ASP.net
> WCF
> SQL
> Visual Studios
> TFS
> Agile (TDD, BDD) and testing.

.Net Developer / Architect

If you feel that this opportunity is right for you, please feel free to contact norman.areh@alexanderash.com or call 0207 688 8435.

London / Permanent / Ref: JSNA - AS -001

Finance and Risk Transformation Lead, Consulting, London

My client a global Tier 1 consultancy are looking for Senior Managers to come and join a growing Risk practice. As a group they carry out Large Scale technology replatforming, Regulatory Implementation Programmes, as well as development and implementation of new operation models / retained onshore functions for their Banking and Finance Clients.

They are now looking to onboard Senior Management / Senior Executives who can manage large scale programmes and have good content knowledge within Finance, Risk or Treasury functions. These are pivotal roles for the growth of this practice, with plenty of opportunity going forwards for the right individuals.

You will need to have a strong background in delivering large scale finance programmes, and working at CxO level.

For further information please send through your details to Ram Basra and I will be in contact as soon as possible.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/FT001

Senior eCommerce Solution Architect is required by our client a Leading Global Consultancy. They are looking for an individual who can work with client teams to select, design and implement e-Commerce solutions based on various packages such as ATG (Oracle), IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite, Hybris and potentially others. You will be responsible for client solution strategy using leading or bleeding-edge concepts and technologies to provide our client/s with a differentiated product in the marketplace.

You will be involved in designing and developing client strategies around ecommerce solutions and design business architecture associated with eCommerce strategy and solutions,

You will require strong knowledge with either ATG, IBM Websphere, Hypris or other packaged eCommerce applications.

This is a Consultancy role, and will require flexibility to travel to client sites.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: JS/RB/EA001

User Experience (UX) Architect, Consulting, London

User Experience (UX) Architect is required by our client a Tier 1 Global Consultancy. You will be required to work with Tier 1 blue chip organizations on complex, sometimes Global projects across many different industries to deliver highly usable, beautiful user interfaces.

You will need to be passionate about UX and be able to build close relationships with your clients. You will need to understand the clients needs and their customers needs, and provide solutions that meet or exceed customer requirements. You will work with cross functionally across project teams including graphic designers, developers, client stakeholders and sponsors within a UCD framework.

It would be highly desirable if you have experience on large-scale UX / UCD projects using Agile or other iterative approaches, creating high fidelity prototypes and wireframes (Using Axure / Omnigraffle / Balsamiq / Visio etc) researching and defining customer journeys, and creating information architectures.

For more information please contact ram.basra@alexanderash.com for more information.

Alexander Ash is a recruitment agency and business.

London / Permanent / Ref: UX/RB/02

TalenD. Unix. Data Architect. ETL. Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for a high calibre ETL focused data consultant, to join their expanding niche team. The role will be spanning a number of differnet sectors, and so there will be no bias towards exepreince of any sector. This a great opportunity to create a niche for yourself within an ever expanding market. The ideal candidate will be proficient in the use of TalenD, as well as ETL techniques.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM339

Alexander ash is currently looking to recruit a Flash developer / designer for a London based digital consultancy. We are looking for a Middleweight/Senior Developer & Designer who needs to be a quick worker and has good eye for design. We are looking for an individual who would fit into a team of great designers and developers who are at the fore front of digital advertising. You will be dealing with the biggest agencies in the industry the candidate should be excited about working on a large portfolio of clients.

The candidate must have a passion for everything related to Flash and online advertising and have vast knowledge of 3rd party media Adservers like Doubleclick, Mediamind & Flashtalking, with a great understanding of putting together different components to achieve the clients creative objectives. This is a very challenging opportunity and a great company to develop your skills and work on great projects.

The candidate should have the following:

> Minimum 2 years agency experience
> University degree in Web / Multimedia
> Competent user of Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop / Flash/ After Effects knowledge
> Excellent Flash skills (as2 / as3 coding essential)
> Heavy experience with rich media ad servers. (Doubleclick, Mediamind, Flashtalking)
> Great attention to detail including a firm knowledge of typography.
> Good turnaround speeds on resizing of banners
> Be able to work in a fast paced environment
> Be prepared to be involved with campaigns as and when required.

Salary £32,000-£40,000 depending on experience.

Location: London

Please send CV's to norman.areh@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: Flash-AS2/AS3 -01

WebSense Administrator - London

Our client, a global law firm, require an experienced WebSense Administrator to play a key role in the implementation and troubleshooting of a Websense environment for the European business.

Working across Websense Web Security Gateway (v7.6 / v7.7) and Triton v7.6/7.7, you will be responsible for implementation activities in both appliance and cloud environments, as well as providing troubleshooting services, including reviewing logs from within Websense and other security devices.

Ideally you will come from a background in a large blue chip organisation or reseller, where you have installed Websense, as well as assisted in operational issues/escalations. Candidates who are Websense WSGA or TRITON Web Olympian certified will be highly regarded.

Alexander Ash Consulting is acting as an agency.

London / Contract / Ref: AP/C/WBSSA

Looking for junior Sales Executives to join a global internat retailer!! This client is based in Slough, but boast a truly global reach. They offer a wide breadth of services, and are keen to find junior graduates with a around 1-3 years sales experience to join their growing team!

This is an exiting opportunity for grads to enter an ever growing organisation! Please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment!

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

South East / Permanent / Ref: GM443

TalenD. Unix. Data Architect. ETL. Our client, a leading global consultancy, is looking for a high calibre ETL focused data consultant, to join their expanding niche team. The role will be spanning a number of differnet sectors, and so there will be no bias towards exepreince of any sector. This a great opportunity to create a niche for yourself within an ever expanding market. The ideal candidate will be proficient in the use of TalenD, as well as ETL techniques.

Alexander Ash is acting as an agency.

London / Permanent / Ref: GM339

Project Manager (Messaging & Services)

My client who are an international communications company arw urgently seeking a Project Manager for Messaging & Services delivery project management responsible for managing the end to end project management and delivery following projects.
- EADC Enhancements
- Messaging Service Gateway
- MMS Capacity
- MMS TCO Cleanup and Decommissioning

Project Manager (Messaging & Services)

Key Activities
* Prepare & Present project plan to all project stakeholder
* Maintain and control project schedule of delivery
* Maintain and control risks, Issues, Actions & dependencies logs
* Manage key internal stakeholders and hold regular project reviews
* Interface with suppliers

Project Manager (Messaging & Services)

South East / Contract / Ref: PM Message & Ser

Sharepoint Developer

My client who are a leading digital agency that provide intranets, and website solutions for a wide range of clients, using Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. This role will be to develop SharePoint projects for both new and existing clients. Candidates should be experienced at developing in SharePoint for and have some experience of .net development

Essential skills:

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming
• Experience of working with a .Net framework/environment and use of C#
• Implemented Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and/or SharePoint 2010
• Experience in working with HTML/CSS/XML

Some experience in writing ASP.net and client side scripting

Sharepoint Developer

London / Permanent / Ref: SS Sharepoint Dev

Sales Executive

My client who are a world leading e-commerce company are looking for a Sales Executive to help generate new business. The role requires a tenacious and sales orientated person keen to progress in the digital industry. The role will focus on selling a range of services including product hosting, fulfiment and delivery and payment services. Please apply now for immediate consideration.

Sales Executive

South East / Permanent / Ref: SS Sales Exec

Scrum Masters

My client who are an international ecommerce company are searching for a number of Scrum Masters to work in the engineering department. You will be working across a number of cutting edge development projects for one of the largest transformation programs within the UK.

Your responsibilities include;

• To facilitate Scrum meetings
• Lead workshops with business stakeholders and development teams to improve understanding and performance
• Educate and coach team members and business stakeholders in Agile principles and practices
• Build the teams passion for delivering value to customers through Agile project delivery
• Protect the team and create an environment where the team can focus on their goals
• Remove impediments that are holding the team back
• Take ownership and responsibility for the team's adoption and practice of Agile
• Build a truly effective, self-organising, cross-functional, collaborative and motivated team
• Be an active part of fostering Agile knowledge throughout the organisation
• Working with other ScrumMasters to maximise the effectiveness of all teams
• A keen advocate of quality and continual improvement; an agent of change

Scrum Masters

London / Permanent / Ref: SS SCRUM

Network Project Manager

My client which are an international communications company are searching for a Network Project Manager to work within the Mobile Packet Core on their long term evolution project for 4G.

The Network Project Manager will need to absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences. The PM will need to be able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the implications of new technologies. Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to influence and persuade.

Network Project Manager Required skills:
Experienced project manager
Telecommunications or IT background required
3rd party supplier management
Experience in Mobile Packet Core area preferred

Network Project Manager

South East / Contract / Ref: SS Network PM

Workday Implementation Consultant, London, URGENT

Workday consultant is required by our client who are currently implementing Workday. They have some urgent go-live dates coming up, and are now looking for extra support.

The role will INTERVIEW and START IMMEDIATELY. For the right person, they could start someone as soon as 25th September 2012. The role will be initially for a month, but could potentially roll on longer.

You will need to have configuration skills in Workday, and ideally around security, Absense management or iLoad.

If you are interested in this opportunity please could you send your details through asap and I will be in contact.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/WC03

My Client - Large electronic e commerce multinational with headquarters in US is looking for Sales Executives for work in London.

This role will include sales strategy planning, meeting with clients and leasing with managers. This is a great opportunity for keen and energetic graduates with some sales experience.send your CV to agnese.grasmane@alexanderash.com

London / Permanent / Ref: AGN - A2

Workday Implementation Consultant, London, URGENT

Workday consultant is required by our client who are currently implementing Workday. They have some urgent go-live dates coming up, and are now looking for extra support.

The role will INTERVIEW and START IMMEDIATELY. For the right person, they could start someone as soon as 25th September 2012. The role will be initially for a month, but could potentially roll on longer.

You will need to have configuration skills in Workday, and ideally around security, Absense management or iLoad.

If you are interested in this opportunity please could you send your details through asap and I will be in contact.

Alexander Ash is a staffing agency and business.

London / Contract / Ref: JS/RB/WC01

Sharepoint Developer

My client who are a leading digital agency that provide intranets, and website solutions for a wide range of clients, using Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. This role will be to develop SharePoint projects for both new and existing clients. Candidates should be experienced at developing in SharePoint for and have some experience of .net development

Essential skills:

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming
• Experience of working with a .Net framework/environment and use of C#
• Implemented Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and/or SharePoint 2010
• Experience in working with HTML/CSS/XML

Some experience in writing ASP.net and client side scripting

Sharepoint Developer

London / Contract / Ref: SS Sharepoint Dev

Scrum Masters

My client who are an international ecommerce company are searching for a number of Scrum Masters to work in the engineering department. You will be working across a number of cutting edge development projects for one of the largest transformation programs within the UK.

Your responsibilities include;

• To facilitate Scrum meetings
• Lead workshops with business stakeholders and development teams to improve understanding and performance
• Educate and coach team members and business stakeholders in Agile principles and practices
• Build the teams passion for delivering value to customers through Agile project delivery
• Protect the team and create an environment where the team can focus on their goals
• Remove impediments that are holding the team back
• Take ownership and responsibility for the team's adoption and practice of Agile
• Build a truly effective, self-organising, cross-functional, collaborative and motivated team
• Be an active part of fostering Agile knowledge throughout the organisation
• Working with other ScrumMasters to maximise the effectiveness of all teams
• A keen advocate of quality and continual improvement; an agent of change

Scrum Masters

London / Permanent / Ref: SS SCRUM

Product Manager (Sharepoint)

My client who are a digital agency require an experienced Product Manager to manage their new SharePoint Intranet Solution. You will be instrumental in developing the road map and delivering product development as well as providing hands-on management to the technical team.

Responsibilities:

• Developing road map and delivering product development
• Liaise with customers and potential customers on their requirements
• Digest common requirements and provide specifications of new features and enhancements.
• Create excellent client and internal documentation
• Using business analysis skills to demonstrate how the product will meet clients business needs
• Scoping/up sell additional services when appropriate
  Provide leadership in the product strategy, marketing and development