Due to growth within the team, an opportunity has arisen for an AWS Infrastructure Engineer to join the Infrastructure team. Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for helping to deliver continuous improvement in the Infrastructure function.

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the design, management & maintenance of our AWS hosted infrastructure covering our dev, UAT and production environments.

- Provide a resilient, scalable and secure platform.

- Support technology projects & sprints.

- Deliver to the maintenance plan.

- 3rd line incident and service request resolution.

- Problem management and root cause analysis.

- Provide internal guidance and support to colleagues regarding AWS best practice.

What we’re looking for from you:

- Extensive hands-on expertise in AWS, ideally gained within the financial services sector.

- A certified AWS Solution Architect Associate (or equivalent/higher level comparable certification)

- Ability to be credible and professional.

- Able to challenge appropriately and present effective solutions.

- A self-starter who can work on own initiative.

- Attention to detail.

- A high focus on delivery and continuous improvement.

Desirable skills and experience you can also bring:

- Containerisation (Docker and AWS ECS or similar)

- Linux and Windows, with emphasis on scripting and automation.

- Automation tools, focusing on deployments through CodeBuild and CodePipeline.

- AWS-based capacity and performance logging and monitoring solutions.

- Building custom dashboards and tools to support the platform.

- Experience in architecting and building solutions to support highly available and scalable web sites, mobile apps and public APIs.

- MySQL / Aurora, MongoDB, Redis and other database / NoSQL technologies.

Other information:

AJ Bell is one of the largest providers of online investment platforms and stockbroker services in the UK, with assets under administration exceeding £54.7 billion and more than 241,000 clients. Our award-winning products include AJ Bell Youinvest and AJ Bell Investcentre. 

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we take great pride in what we do and this is reflected in our guiding principles. You’ll receive all the training and support you need in order to develop within your role. There are opportunities for growth and professional development those who want to develop their career including in-house and external courses plus our study support scheme.

Our office design is centred on delivering agile and collaborative working spaces that enable us to deliver a first class service to our customers. As well as state-of-the-art work areas, the office also has its own gym, relaxed break-out zones, a roof terrace, a dining area and a lounge which transforms into a bar for staff once a month. We also offer a variety of social events throughout the year, which are open to all staff.

You may have experience of the following: AWS Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Infrastructure Specialist, AWS Engineer, AWS Specialist, etc. 

Due to growth within the team, an opportunity has arisen for an AWS Infrastructure Engineer to join the Infrastructure team. Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for helping to deliver continuous improvement in the Infrastructure function.

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the design, management & maintenance of our AWS hosted infrastructure covering our dev, UAT and production environments.

- Provide a resilient, scalable and secure platform.

- Support technology projects & sprints.

- Deliver to the maintenance plan.

- 3rd line incident and service request resolution.

- Problem management and root cause analysis.

- Provide internal guidance and support to colleagues regarding AWS best practice.

What we’re looking for from you:

- Extensive hands-on expertise in AWS, ideally gained within the financial services sector.

- A certified AWS Solution Architect Associate (or equivalent/higher level comparable certification)

- Ability to be credible and professional.

- Able to challenge appropriately and present effective solutions.

- A self-starter who can work on own initiative.

- Attention to detail.

- A high focus on delivery and continuous improvement.

Desirable skills and experience you can also bring:

- Containerisation (Docker and AWS ECS or similar)

- Linux and Windows, with emphasis on scripting and automation.

- Automation tools, focusing on deployments through CodeBuild and CodePipeline.

- AWS-based capacity and performance logging and monitoring solutions.

- Building custom dashboards and tools to support the platform.

- Experience in architecting and building solutions to support highly available and scalable web sites, mobile apps and public APIs.

- MySQL / Aurora, MongoDB, Redis and other database / NoSQL technologies.

Other information:

AJ Bell is one of the largest providers of online investment platforms and stockbroker services in the UK, with assets under administration exceeding £54.7 billion and more than 241,000 clients. Our award-winning products include AJ Bell Youinvest and AJ Bell Investcentre. 

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we take great pride in what we do and this is reflected in our guiding principles. You’ll receive all the training and support you need in order to develop within your role. There are opportunities for growth and professional development those who want to develop their career including in-house and external courses plus our study support scheme.

Our office design is centred on delivering agile and collaborative working spaces that enable us to deliver a first class service to our customers. As well as state-of-the-art work areas, the office also has its own gym, relaxed break-out zones, a roof terrace, a dining area and a lounge which transforms into a bar for staff once a month. We also offer a variety of social events throughout the year, which are open to all staff.

You may have experience of the following: AWS Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Infrastructure Specialist, AWS Engineer, AWS Specialist, etc. 

A software house based in Fareham who specialise in hosted cloud telephony products are searching for a Senior Java Engineer to join their growing team that create innovative and compelling technology for telephone network operators.

This Senior Java Engineer role is paying up to £60,000 and comes with private medical cover, 25 days holiday and 5% pension contributions.

The role of Senior Java Engineer:

• Undertake development projects - This involves the initial design through to the development
• Create innovative additions to the product portfolio
• Actively contribute to the design and architecture

The successful Senior Java Engineer requires the following skills and experience:

• Java
• Linux / Unix
• Bash / Python
• JavaScript
• NoSQL

To apply for this Senior Java Engineer role, please send your CV to or call Tom on

A software house based in Fareham who specialise in hosted cloud telephony products are searching for a Senior Java Engineer to join their growing team that create innovative and compelling technology for telephone network operators.

This Senior Java Engineer role is paying up to £60,000 and comes with private medical cover, 25 days holiday and 5% pension contributions.

The role of Senior Java Engineer:

• Undertake development projects - This involves the initial design through to the development
• Create innovative additions to the product portfolio
• Actively contribute to the design and architecture

The successful Senior Java Engineer requires the following skills and experience:

• Java
• Linux / Unix
• Bash / Python
• JavaScript
• NoSQL

To apply for this Senior Java Engineer role, please send your CV to or call Tom on

I am engaged with a leading organisation in the Insurance space who are looking to recruit experienced Data Engineers into their growing 'Cloud & Data' function, based out of their HQ in London (5 minutes walk from the Gherkin).

The organisation are going through a huge recruitment drive in 2020, focusing on improving the way they utilise data and you'll be pleased to know that unlike a lot of non-tech companies, they view technology as an enabler rather than a blocker.

The roles in question are focused primarily on the design and development of a strategic analytical platform (AWS) to enable integration, analysis and insight of a variety of data sets, as well as the development of data and analytics solutions for machine learning and data visualisation. Moreover, you will be expected to develop and manage relationships across data, technology and business functions (think stakeholder management), challenging existing paradigms in a constructive manner that demonstrate and promote the value of a mature data analytics capability.

Fundamentally, you will be given the opportunity to drive a data-first mentality within the organisation, a unique and rewarding challenge that is usually quite rare to find in established organisation such as this one.

In terms of their expectations… if you can demonstrate some of the below skills then you stand a good chance of being shortlisted to the interview stage:

• Excellent understanding of Data Architecture, including both on-premise and via the AWS Cloud.
• Strong experience with Data Modelling and Data Analysis, including the ability to query, prepare and analyse Data sets.
• Proven commercial experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Skilled in software engineering, with experience in some (not necessarily all) of the following programming languages: Python, R, Java, Scala.
• Familiarity with Linux/UNIX and tools including Git and SVN.
• Good understanding of Data Science models and Data Modelling in general (e.g. Star Schema, Kimball).
• Some commercial experience with technologies in the Big Data space (e.g. Cassandra, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Kibana etc.).

In return, you will get the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in an Agile environment.

Moreover, I have personally worked with these guys for years and they have an excellent company culture, focusing on tailored personal development, genuine career progression and flexibility, whether it be home working opportunities or simply flexible working hours. They also offer a generous bonus/benefits package as well as the chance to get huge discounts on car, travel and home insurance.

So if you like the sound of the role and would like to find out more then please contact me via the following:

• Mobile:
• Office Line:
• Email:
• LinkedIn: 'Liam Haghighat'

Anything discussed will remain completely confidential and fully compliant with GDPR.

I am engaged with a leading organisation in the Insurance space who are looking to recruit experienced Data Engineers into their growing 'Cloud & Data' function, based out of their HQ in London (5 minutes walk from the Gherkin).

The organisation are going through a huge recruitment drive in 2020, focusing on improving the way they utilise data and you'll be pleased to know that unlike a lot of non-tech companies, they view technology as an enabler rather than a blocker.

The roles in question are focused primarily on the design and development of a strategic analytical platform (AWS) to enable integration, analysis and insight of a variety of data sets, as well as the development of data and analytics solutions for machine learning and data visualisation. Moreover, you will be expected to develop and manage relationships across data, technology and business functions (think stakeholder management), challenging existing paradigms in a constructive manner that demonstrate and promote the value of a mature data analytics capability.

Fundamentally, you will be given the opportunity to drive a data-first mentality within the organisation, a unique and rewarding challenge that is usually quite rare to find in established organisation such as this one.

In terms of their expectations… if you can demonstrate some of the below skills then you stand a good chance of being shortlisted to the interview stage:

• Excellent understanding of Data Architecture, including both on-premise and via the AWS Cloud.
• Strong experience with Data Modelling and Data Analysis, including the ability to query, prepare and analyse Data sets.
• Proven commercial experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Skilled in software engineering, with experience in some (not necessarily all) of the following programming languages: Python, R, Java, Scala.
• Familiarity with Linux/UNIX and tools including Git and SVN.
• Good understanding of Data Science models and Data Modelling in general (e.g. Star Schema, Kimball).
• Some commercial experience with technologies in the Big Data space (e.g. Cassandra, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Kibana etc.).

In return, you will get the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in an Agile environment.

Moreover, I have personally worked with these guys for years and they have an excellent company culture, focusing on tailored personal development, genuine career progression and flexibility, whether it be home working opportunities or simply flexible working hours. They also offer a generous bonus/benefits package as well as the chance to get huge discounts on car, travel and home insurance.

So if you like the sound of the role and would like to find out more then please contact me via the following:

• Mobile:
• Office Line:
• Email:
• LinkedIn: 'Liam Haghighat'

Anything discussed will remain completely confidential and fully compliant with GDPR.

Global Manufacturer require a Data Engineer to work with developers, database architects / data scientists on strategic data initiatives. You will be responsible for expanding and optimizing data and pipeline architecture, as well as data flow/collection for cross functional teams. Uou will be an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.

Client Details

Global Manufacturer / Distributor

Description

Global Manufacturer are looking for a Data Engineer to work with software developers, database architects, data analysts and data scientists on strategic data initiatives. The Data Engineer will be responsible for expanding and optimizing data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.

As Data Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.

• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL/Non-SQL and Azure 'big data' technologies

• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition

• operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics

• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs

• Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centres and Azure regions

• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

• For developing, constructing, maintenance and testing of data architectures, such as databases and large-scale processing systems

• Clean, aggregate, and organize data from disparate sources and transfer it to data storage for analysis. Making sure the companies data technology is operating at its peak results in massive improvements to performance, cost, or both

• Owning the stability of new products designed, including the on-going robustness, resilience and stability of these products

• Building and maintaining custom ingestion pipelines

Experienced using the following software/tools:

• Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc
• AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
• Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming
• Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala
• Data Integration / Archiving / Relational Databases and Data Warehousing
• MS SQL, Logic Apps, Function Apps, SSIS, SSRS
• Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Data Visualisation

Profile

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.

Experienced using the following software/tools:

• Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
• Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow
• AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
• Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming
• Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala
• Data Integration / Archiving / Relational Databases and Data Warehousing
• MS SQL, Logic Apps, Function Apps, SSIS, SSRS
• Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Data Visualisation

Job Offer

Opportunity to join a rapidly expanding team

Opportunity to work in an advanced analytics function

Global Manufacturer require a Data Engineer to work with developers, database architects / data scientists on strategic data initiatives. You will be responsible for expanding and optimizing data and pipeline architecture, as well as data flow/collection for cross functional teams. Uou will be an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.

Client Details

Global Manufacturer / Distributor

Description

Global Manufacturer are looking for a Data Engineer to work with software developers, database architects, data analysts and data scientists on strategic data initiatives. The Data Engineer will be responsible for expanding and optimizing data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.

As Data Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.

• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL/Non-SQL and Azure 'big data' technologies

• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition

• operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics

• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs

• Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centres and Azure regions

• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

• For developing, constructing, maintenance and testing of data architectures, such as databases and large-scale processing systems

• Clean, aggregate, and organize data from disparate sources and transfer it to data storage for analysis. Making sure the companies data technology is operating at its peak results in massive improvements to performance, cost, or both

• Owning the stability of new products designed, including the on-going robustness, resilience and stability of these products

• Building and maintaining custom ingestion pipelines

Experienced using the following software/tools:

• Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc
• AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
• Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming
• Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala
• Data Integration / Archiving / Relational Databases and Data Warehousing
• MS SQL, Logic Apps, Function Apps, SSIS, SSRS
• Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Data Visualisation

Profile

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.

Experienced using the following software/tools:

• Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
• Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow
• AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
• Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming
• Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala
• Data Integration / Archiving / Relational Databases and Data Warehousing
• MS SQL, Logic Apps, Function Apps, SSIS, SSRS
• Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Data Visualisation

Job Offer

Opportunity to join a rapidly expanding team

Opportunity to work in an advanced analytics function

Full Stack Developer C# MVC .Net (Competitive salary plus generous benefits package)

We are seeking a Full Stack Developer that specialise in solutions for the Financial Services industry with a passion for technology to work on the internal platform within a multinational, matrix organisation within a trade finance company. The right candidate will be ready to transition to Head of Engineering and build a group wide Software Engineering department.

As a Full Stack Developer you will take a senior / lead role and build an Agile development team from scratch to work on a variety of bespoke client projects. You'll be utilising SOLID design principles and cutting edge technologies, providing guidance on technology choices per project, taking ownership and working across the full stack.

Requirements

* Strong C# .Net development experience

* Good knowledge of web technologies and frameworks: HTML5, ASP.Net, Vue / React, Typescript

* SQL (MSSQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle)

* Mentoring / technical leadership or a desire to do this going forward

* Excellent communication skills, collaborative and able to inspire others

* Desirable: Entity framework, Azure, REST API development, NoSQL, JavaScript

Full Stack Developer C# MVC .Net (Competitive salary plus generous benefits package)

We are seeking a Full Stack Developer that specialise in solutions for the Financial Services industry with a passion for technology to work on the internal platform within a multinational, matrix organisation within a trade finance company. The right candidate will be ready to transition to Head of Engineering and build a group wide Software Engineering department.

As a Full Stack Developer you will take a senior / lead role and build an Agile development team from scratch to work on a variety of bespoke client projects. You'll be utilising SOLID design principles and cutting edge technologies, providing guidance on technology choices per project, taking ownership and working across the full stack.

Requirements

* Strong C# .Net development experience

* Good knowledge of web technologies and frameworks: HTML5, ASP.Net, Vue / React, Typescript

* SQL (MSSQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle)

* Mentoring / technical leadership or a desire to do this going forward

* Excellent communication skills, collaborative and able to inspire others

* Desirable: Entity framework, Azure, REST API development, NoSQL, JavaScript