A career within Data and Analytics services will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge. About the Team The Enterprise Infrastructure capability helps clients understand and manage their technical and IT operational risk effectively, improving business outcomes and for some sectors, meeting their regulatory obligations. The EI capability has a dedicated digital resilience team who support our clients through following types of engagements: Assess Digital resilience capability assessment- review and benchmark client's IT service management processes, architectural management approach, service development method and technologies that contribute to their IT Resilience capability. End to end IT service risk maps - we conduct technical deep dives to develop risk maps that illustrate where and why Digital resilience risks are concentrated in the IT estate. Post incident review - we can help clients understand why a major incident happened, how the risks within the control and technical environment contributed, and how to prevent it in the future Plan and build Digital resilience roadmap - develop a comprehensive Digital resilience road map, combining the process, governance, technology, and people elements to help clients address their gaps in a focused, pragmatic, and sustainable journey. Digital resilience capability support - we support clients with the delivery of their Digital resilience roadmap, including end-to-end Disaster recovery and IT service management, drawing on our experience of successful implementations. Assure Ongoing assurance - we assure clients' Digital resilience programme, helping them maintain its capability. Technical testing - we help clients test their resilience capability, including full ITDR testing, technical resilience testing, and process testing. The role Our Technology Resilience business is at the forefront of supporting organisations in safeguarding against, and responding to, major technology failures and cyber threat. We are now looking to expand our rapidly growing team, and are seeking experienced Senior Managers who can support us in delivering market leading technology resilience insights and expertise to our established client base. We are looking for Senior Manager grade candidates who can demonstrate the following characteristics: Strong technology architecture skills and experience, including Cloud native and Hybrid architectures Solid understanding of latest and emerging technology trends in the resilience domain Demonstrable track record in technology resilience, either in a professional services capacity or in industry Experience of conducting, or participating in, post incident reviews Working knowledge of IT asset management and IT Service and Continuity Management (ITSCM) practices Good knowledge of cyber threat and cyber recovery considerations Effective analysis and report writing skills Solid communication and client consulting skills The ideal candidate will play a key role in: Ensuring excellence in client delivery and in helping to protect our clients from the impact of large scale technology failures Developing lasting, trusted, client relationships Supporting and mentoring more junior members of the team and, where relevant, delivering effective knowledge transfer to client teams Ensuring a high standard of quality is maintain in the work we deliver to our clients. This represents a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing market leading team, in an exciting area with considerable opportunities for personal and career development. Preferred Skills Broad understanding of IT infrastructure from both a cloud and on prem perspective IT service architecture experience and understanding IT service management understanding ITDR programme build, operation and testing experience Strong delivery experience and track record Strong verbal and written communication skills (Desirable) Experience in the above in both advisory and operational roles (Desirable) Operational resilience/Business Continuity (Desirable) Understanding of the Financial services regulations for Operational resilience
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
A career within Data and Analytics services will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge. About the Team The Enterprise Infrastructure capability helps clients understand and manage their technical and IT operational risk effectively, improving business outcomes and for some sectors, meeting their regulatory obligations. The EI capability has a dedicated digital resilience team who support our clients through following types of engagements: Assess Digital resilience capability assessment- review and benchmark client's IT service management processes, architectural management approach, service development method and technologies that contribute to their IT Resilience capability. End to end IT service risk maps - we conduct technical deep dives to develop risk maps that illustrate where and why Digital resilience risks are concentrated in the IT estate. Post incident review - we can help clients understand why a major incident happened, how the risks within the control and technical environment contributed, and how to prevent it in the future Plan and build Digital resilience roadmap - develop a comprehensive Digital resilience road map, combining the process, governance, technology, and people elements to help clients address their gaps in a focused, pragmatic, and sustainable journey. Digital resilience capability support - we support clients with the delivery of their Digital resilience roadmap, including end-to-end Disaster recovery and IT service management, drawing on our experience of successful implementations. Assure Ongoing assurance - we assure clients' Digital resilience programme, helping them maintain its capability. Technical testing - we help clients test their resilience capability, including full ITDR testing, technical resilience testing, and process testing. The role Our Technology Resilience business is at the forefront of supporting organisations in safeguarding against, and responding to, major technology failures and cyber threat. We are now looking to expand our rapidly growing team, and are seeking experienced Senior Managers who can support us in delivering market leading technology resilience insights and expertise to our established client base. We are looking for Senior Manager grade candidates who can demonstrate the following characteristics: Strong technology architecture skills and experience, including Cloud native and Hybrid architectures Solid understanding of latest and emerging technology trends in the resilience domain Demonstrable track record in technology resilience, either in a professional services capacity or in industry Experience of conducting, or participating in, post incident reviews Working knowledge of IT asset management and IT Service and Continuity Management (ITSCM) practices Good knowledge of cyber threat and cyber recovery considerations Effective analysis and report writing skills Solid communication and client consulting skills The ideal candidate will play a key role in: Ensuring excellence in client delivery and in helping to protect our clients from the impact of large scale technology failures Developing lasting, trusted, client relationships Supporting and mentoring more junior members of the team and, where relevant, delivering effective knowledge transfer to client teams Ensuring a high standard of quality is maintain in the work we deliver to our clients. This represents a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing market leading team, in an exciting area with considerable opportunities for personal and career development. Preferred Skills Broad understanding of IT infrastructure from both a cloud and on prem perspective IT service architecture experience and understanding IT service management understanding ITDR programme build, operation and testing experience Strong delivery experience and track record Strong verbal and written communication skills (Desirable) Experience in the above in both advisory and operational roles (Desirable) Operational resilience/Business Continuity (Desirable) Understanding of the Financial services regulations for Operational resilience
Open source is our beating heart and it's something that fuels our work and our culture. It's where we began. It's where we'll always be. Our vision is to become the trusted open source data platform for everyone. We are a Cast of over 400 individuals ('Crabs') located across the globe. Why Crabs? Because we believe in thinking sideways. And right now, we're looking for sideways-thinking Hyperscaler Lead in EMEA Our Sales team plays a crucial role in our growth and profitability. We want to be the trusted data source data platform for everyone - which, let's face it, is an ambitious target. But thanks to our dedicated GTM teams we are growing fast. Right now, we are looking for a Hyperscaler Lead Our sales team works directly with customers as well as with channel partners. We look for courageous people ready to revolutionize the way businesses operate and are not afraid to challenge our customers' current ways of working. Showcasing the transformative power of Aiven's open-source managed data services is essential. To join our Cast, you will need to be goal-oriented, with excellent negotiation skills and broader communication abilities. Plus you will need to be adept (like a true Crab) at venturing into all the hidden crevices and corners that could lead to more sales. Who we are So, how do we become the trusted open source data platform for everyone? By listening closely to our customers and taking action to ensure they achieve their business goals. You see, the software we create is merely a means of delivering value. Our thinking is customer-first. That's why our customers are at the front and center of all we do. And in the spirit of sideways thinking, we're by their side as well. Actively helping them solve their challenges. Collaborating. Sharing. And innovating. In other words, it really isn't just about who we are. It's about who our customers are - and where they want to be. Our values We want individuals who can embody our values of ownership, courage, and openness. What does that mean in practice? We take ownership of the problems we solve. What we do is about improving life for our customers, enabling them to meet their goals. So we own our decisions and mistakes. Sometimes that takes courage. But we don't falter - we take on challenges with confidence. And right at our heart is openness. We're always open to new ideas - from wherever and whoever they come. The Role: The Partner Lead, Hyperscalers, is responsible for selling Aiven's PaaS to senior-level executives and key decision makers across EMEA partner network, specifically focusing on AWS partnership. This role will be responsible for growing our engagement and partner affiliated pipeline with AWS and relevant ecosystem partners. These activities will involve pipeline management, partner enablement activities planning and implementation and overall partnership development through business planning and implementation. Successful candidates must develop a sound understanding of the Aiven solution, market and political landscape, as well as the partner ecosystem in their region. What You'll Do: Ensure alignment and collaboration with our partners (AWS and their ecosystem being the primary focus of this role) on the existing and new business Work closely with Account Executives, ensuring the pipeline collaboration with our partners Utilize superior presentation, proposal and negotiation skills to develop new and expanded partner opportunities, generate 'partner sourced' pipeline Lead global account management (AWS and selected ecosystem partners) Forecast partner business; drive and forecast marketplace deals Initiate and implement partner enablement activities to increase the awareness of partners' sales and technical teams about Aiven's offering. Work closely with Partner Solution Architects and Product management to initiate and implement co-innovation and technical collaboration projects with our partners Lead the relevant stakeholder alignment across partners' and Aiven teams, inclyuding executives and senior leaders Building and executing partner business plans, ensuring Aiven's status development within relevant partner programs & overachievement of agreed targets Being an active contributor within the global partner sales team, sharing best practices and developing global partner strategy and programs What We're Looking For: 7+ years of enterprise-class software sales experience; Consistent track record of overachievement against revenue targets Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline growth and development through partner engagement and enablement 7+ years of experience in partner sales and partner account management 7+ years of experience working with Hyperscalers, AWS specifically Successful track record of pipeline management in alignment with partners Deep understanding of AWS partner programs, requirements and ways of working Successful in a virtual team setting Experience with Cloud, SaaS, data infrastructure, and/or DevOps Don't worry if your experience doesn't line up perfectly - we still encourage you to apply. We believe in investing in our crabs' professional growth. Our Offer If you ask us what's the best thing about working for Aiven, many will probably say it's the high concentration of talent from around the world that we have here. Enjoy the agile environment of a hyperscale scale-up where you can truly make an impact and have fun while at it. We invest in you Participate in Aiven's equity plan. With Aiven locations spanning the globe, we want all of our crabs to find the right balance with our hybrid work policy. Get the equipment you need to set yourself up for success. Step up your career game with real employer support (use one of our learning platforms, annual learning budget, and more). Get holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program. Make a difference at Aiven Contribute to open source projects that you find meaningful outside of work - and get paid for it! Our Plankton program recognizes extra work to the open source ecosystem for developers and non-developers alike. Use up to 5 days per year to volunteer for a good cause of your choice. Join one of our team member resource groups - empower yourself and others in missions that resonate with you. What else? Your wellbeing matters: we've got your wellbeing covered with private medical & dental health insurance, as well as a childbirth cash benefit. Need insurance? We've got you covered - benefit from our: Employer's liability insurance, Personal Accident, Illness & Travel Insurance, Group Life Assurance, Office Insurance, Group Income Protection and Business & Leisure Travel Accident Insurance. Looking after your future: benefit from our provided Pension Plan. Amazing! What's next? If you think Aiven is the place for you, send us your CV and we'll get in touch. How to Recognise and Avoid Employment Scams There has been a rise in fake job postings used by scammers to get personal information. Please familiarise yourself with the red flags of a potential scam. Here at Aiven, all of our emails relating to recruitment come from domain and all of our interviews are conducted over video call or in person, our interviews will never occur over text or chat. If you're unsure of the legitimacy of a job opportunity/offer pertaining to Aiven, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at . Equal Opportunities Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment. At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at .
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
Open source is our beating heart and it's something that fuels our work and our culture. It's where we began. It's where we'll always be. Our vision is to become the trusted open source data platform for everyone. We are a Cast of over 400 individuals ('Crabs') located across the globe. Why Crabs? Because we believe in thinking sideways. And right now, we're looking for sideways-thinking Hyperscaler Lead in EMEA Our Sales team plays a crucial role in our growth and profitability. We want to be the trusted data source data platform for everyone - which, let's face it, is an ambitious target. But thanks to our dedicated GTM teams we are growing fast. Right now, we are looking for a Hyperscaler Lead Our sales team works directly with customers as well as with channel partners. We look for courageous people ready to revolutionize the way businesses operate and are not afraid to challenge our customers' current ways of working. Showcasing the transformative power of Aiven's open-source managed data services is essential. To join our Cast, you will need to be goal-oriented, with excellent negotiation skills and broader communication abilities. Plus you will need to be adept (like a true Crab) at venturing into all the hidden crevices and corners that could lead to more sales. Who we are So, how do we become the trusted open source data platform for everyone? By listening closely to our customers and taking action to ensure they achieve their business goals. You see, the software we create is merely a means of delivering value. Our thinking is customer-first. That's why our customers are at the front and center of all we do. And in the spirit of sideways thinking, we're by their side as well. Actively helping them solve their challenges. Collaborating. Sharing. And innovating. In other words, it really isn't just about who we are. It's about who our customers are - and where they want to be. Our values We want individuals who can embody our values of ownership, courage, and openness. What does that mean in practice? We take ownership of the problems we solve. What we do is about improving life for our customers, enabling them to meet their goals. So we own our decisions and mistakes. Sometimes that takes courage. But we don't falter - we take on challenges with confidence. And right at our heart is openness. We're always open to new ideas - from wherever and whoever they come. The Role: The Partner Lead, Hyperscalers, is responsible for selling Aiven's PaaS to senior-level executives and key decision makers across EMEA partner network, specifically focusing on AWS partnership. This role will be responsible for growing our engagement and partner affiliated pipeline with AWS and relevant ecosystem partners. These activities will involve pipeline management, partner enablement activities planning and implementation and overall partnership development through business planning and implementation. Successful candidates must develop a sound understanding of the Aiven solution, market and political landscape, as well as the partner ecosystem in their region. What You'll Do: Ensure alignment and collaboration with our partners (AWS and their ecosystem being the primary focus of this role) on the existing and new business Work closely with Account Executives, ensuring the pipeline collaboration with our partners Utilize superior presentation, proposal and negotiation skills to develop new and expanded partner opportunities, generate 'partner sourced' pipeline Lead global account management (AWS and selected ecosystem partners) Forecast partner business; drive and forecast marketplace deals Initiate and implement partner enablement activities to increase the awareness of partners' sales and technical teams about Aiven's offering. Work closely with Partner Solution Architects and Product management to initiate and implement co-innovation and technical collaboration projects with our partners Lead the relevant stakeholder alignment across partners' and Aiven teams, inclyuding executives and senior leaders Building and executing partner business plans, ensuring Aiven's status development within relevant partner programs & overachievement of agreed targets Being an active contributor within the global partner sales team, sharing best practices and developing global partner strategy and programs What We're Looking For: 7+ years of enterprise-class software sales experience; Consistent track record of overachievement against revenue targets Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline growth and development through partner engagement and enablement 7+ years of experience in partner sales and partner account management 7+ years of experience working with Hyperscalers, AWS specifically Successful track record of pipeline management in alignment with partners Deep understanding of AWS partner programs, requirements and ways of working Successful in a virtual team setting Experience with Cloud, SaaS, data infrastructure, and/or DevOps Don't worry if your experience doesn't line up perfectly - we still encourage you to apply. We believe in investing in our crabs' professional growth. Our Offer If you ask us what's the best thing about working for Aiven, many will probably say it's the high concentration of talent from around the world that we have here. Enjoy the agile environment of a hyperscale scale-up where you can truly make an impact and have fun while at it. We invest in you Participate in Aiven's equity plan. With Aiven locations spanning the globe, we want all of our crabs to find the right balance with our hybrid work policy. Get the equipment you need to set yourself up for success. Step up your career game with real employer support (use one of our learning platforms, annual learning budget, and more). Get holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program. Make a difference at Aiven Contribute to open source projects that you find meaningful outside of work - and get paid for it! Our Plankton program recognizes extra work to the open source ecosystem for developers and non-developers alike. Use up to 5 days per year to volunteer for a good cause of your choice. Join one of our team member resource groups - empower yourself and others in missions that resonate with you. What else? Your wellbeing matters: we've got your wellbeing covered with private medical & dental health insurance, as well as a childbirth cash benefit. Need insurance? We've got you covered - benefit from our: Employer's liability insurance, Personal Accident, Illness & Travel Insurance, Group Life Assurance, Office Insurance, Group Income Protection and Business & Leisure Travel Accident Insurance. Looking after your future: benefit from our provided Pension Plan. Amazing! What's next? If you think Aiven is the place for you, send us your CV and we'll get in touch. How to Recognise and Avoid Employment Scams There has been a rise in fake job postings used by scammers to get personal information. Please familiarise yourself with the red flags of a potential scam. Here at Aiven, all of our emails relating to recruitment come from domain and all of our interviews are conducted over video call or in person, our interviews will never occur over text or chat. If you're unsure of the legitimacy of a job opportunity/offer pertaining to Aiven, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at . Equal Opportunities Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment. At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at .
End Date Thursday 28 March 2024 Salary Range £66,861 - £100,292 We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary . Job Description JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer SALARY: £66,861 - £74,290 LOCATION: Edinburgh HOURS: Full-time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites About this opportunity You're a software engineer with experience in Enterprise JavaScript, both front and back-end. You can rapidly assimilate domain knowledge and apply this in a sophisticated technical environment. You immerse yourself in the code. You can confidently work alone. You can productively collaborate. You can lead teams. You always deliver. Come join LBG s Protection Platform, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team - come make us even better. About us Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you ll find them all here. What you ll need Proven experience as a Software Engineer of: Enterprise JavaScript/Typescript - React.js and Node.js Automated testing Microservices using OpenAPI and Kubernetes A passion for encouraging, mentoring & motivating those around you And any experience of these would be really useful Nest.js Enterprise integrations and infrastructure Build and deployment technologies for private and public cloud About working for us Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We re disability confident. So, if you d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus Share schemes including free shares Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies If you re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We d love to hear from you. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
End Date Thursday 28 March 2024 Salary Range £66,861 - £100,292 We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary . Job Description JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer SALARY: £66,861 - £74,290 LOCATION: Edinburgh HOURS: Full-time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites About this opportunity You're a software engineer with experience in Enterprise JavaScript, both front and back-end. You can rapidly assimilate domain knowledge and apply this in a sophisticated technical environment. You immerse yourself in the code. You can confidently work alone. You can productively collaborate. You can lead teams. You always deliver. Come join LBG s Protection Platform, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team - come make us even better. About us Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you ll find them all here. What you ll need Proven experience as a Software Engineer of: Enterprise JavaScript/Typescript - React.js and Node.js Automated testing Microservices using OpenAPI and Kubernetes A passion for encouraging, mentoring & motivating those around you And any experience of these would be really useful Nest.js Enterprise integrations and infrastructure Build and deployment technologies for private and public cloud About working for us Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We re disability confident. So, if you d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus Share schemes including free shares Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies If you re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We d love to hear from you. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
This role has a starting salary of £50,047 per annum, based on a 36 hour working week. We are excited to be hiring a new Platform Architect - ERP, to join our fantastic Architecture team. As a key member, you'll take a central role in shaping and managing our cutting-edge ERP platform. The newly established Client Engagement & Development Function (CEF), hosted within the Finance Service, will rely on your expertise to ensure seamless architecture, scalability, and innovation. This role is open to remote working meaning you aren't required in the office 5 days a week, although there will be occasions when you will be required to be in the office for key events and meetings. Rewards and Benefits 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service Annual leave allowance (for bank) or remove for term time Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year Paternity, adoption and dependants leave A generous local government salary related pension Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources About the Role As the Platform Architect, your role involves designing, guiding, and supporting the Council's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform. Your primary objective is to create an efficient platform architecture aligned with the organisation's strategic goals. You'll collaborate closely with other members of the Architecture Team and the Client Engagement & Development Function (CEF) hosted within the Finance Service. Shortlisting Criteria In order to apply for this role you will be asked to submit a CV and answer the following application questions: As part of the existing architecture team, how would you ensure alignment between the ERP platform's design and the overall IT strategy of Surrey County Council? Describe your approach to balancing stakeholder needs and long-term vision.As an ERP Platform Architect, you'll need to ensure smooth integration between various systems and applications. How would you handle integrating the ERP platform with existing legacy systems, third-party tools, and cloud services? Describe a complex integration scenario you've successfully managed.As an architect, staying updated on industry trends is crucial. How do you keep abreast of ERP advancements, cloud technologies, and best practices? Share your approach to continuous learning and professional development. To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your CV and answers to the above will clearly evidence the following: Experience in the practice of IT Architecture and knowledge of the TOGAF framework. Knowledge and strong record of working with ERP systems Thorough and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles of effective architecture Ability to gather service drivers and requirements Knowledge of new and emerging technologies and industry best practice. Contact us The job advert closes at 23:59 on 14/04/2024. We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit. Our Values Our values are as important as our abilities and shape who we are as an organisation. Discover more about our values . Before submitting your application, we recommend you read the job description. Our Life at Surrey handbook also attached provides insights of the culture at Surrey and how as a valued employee, you can help shape our Council. Our Commitment Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where: The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
This role has a starting salary of £50,047 per annum, based on a 36 hour working week. We are excited to be hiring a new Platform Architect - ERP, to join our fantastic Architecture team. As a key member, you'll take a central role in shaping and managing our cutting-edge ERP platform. The newly established Client Engagement & Development Function (CEF), hosted within the Finance Service, will rely on your expertise to ensure seamless architecture, scalability, and innovation. This role is open to remote working meaning you aren't required in the office 5 days a week, although there will be occasions when you will be required to be in the office for key events and meetings. Rewards and Benefits 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service Annual leave allowance (for bank) or remove for term time Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year Paternity, adoption and dependants leave A generous local government salary related pension Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources About the Role As the Platform Architect, your role involves designing, guiding, and supporting the Council's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform. Your primary objective is to create an efficient platform architecture aligned with the organisation's strategic goals. You'll collaborate closely with other members of the Architecture Team and the Client Engagement & Development Function (CEF) hosted within the Finance Service. Shortlisting Criteria In order to apply for this role you will be asked to submit a CV and answer the following application questions: As part of the existing architecture team, how would you ensure alignment between the ERP platform's design and the overall IT strategy of Surrey County Council? Describe your approach to balancing stakeholder needs and long-term vision.As an ERP Platform Architect, you'll need to ensure smooth integration between various systems and applications. How would you handle integrating the ERP platform with existing legacy systems, third-party tools, and cloud services? Describe a complex integration scenario you've successfully managed.As an architect, staying updated on industry trends is crucial. How do you keep abreast of ERP advancements, cloud technologies, and best practices? Share your approach to continuous learning and professional development. To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your CV and answers to the above will clearly evidence the following: Experience in the practice of IT Architecture and knowledge of the TOGAF framework. Knowledge and strong record of working with ERP systems Thorough and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles of effective architecture Ability to gather service drivers and requirements Knowledge of new and emerging technologies and industry best practice. Contact us The job advert closes at 23:59 on 14/04/2024. We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit. Our Values Our values are as important as our abilities and shape who we are as an organisation. Discover more about our values . Before submitting your application, we recommend you read the job description. Our Life at Surrey handbook also attached provides insights of the culture at Surrey and how as a valued employee, you can help shape our Council. Our Commitment Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where: The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.
Salary 70,000 - 95,000 GBP per year Requirements: - Key Duties & Responsibilities: You are a team member on projects with the remit to deliver successful outcomes for our clients by demonstrating capability in the following areas. Consulting Behaviours You regularly interact with client stakeholders on behalf of the team You take ownership of your own deliverables and you are aware of how your own work contributes to the outcomes of the whole team You can challenge constructively and appropriately, both externally and internally You demonstrate good task estimation skills to meet deadlines You manage expectations and commit to a realistic amount of work You understand priority and urgency of tasks You escalate blockers and delays in a timely manner Commercial mindset You take a client-centric approach and develop a deep understanding of what the client is trying to achieve, so as to deliver relevant, impactful outcomes and ROI You can describe the impact of your work in commercial terms and use this understanding to drive client-engagement You have solid stakeholder management, troubleshooting and conflict resolution skills to support successful outcomes Leadership You use data and methodical self-review to make project decisions, contribute to OKRs, and to improve your own capability You proactively offer support and coach / mentor more junior colleagues You actively seek to contribute towards AL Mission, Vision, Goals and OKRs Contribute in other areas of the business such as Interviewing and recruitment processes Supporting the bid processes with written content on your specialist knowledge Knowledge-sharing and contributing to AL repositories Responsibilities: - You will deliver hands-on, business-oriented strategic and technical consulting to our clients for cloud infrastructure and data centre automation solutions. Our Automation Engineers and Architects come from a DevOps background and are technically adept in configuration management tools, continuous development, Linux environments and have experience of delivering cloud infrastructure and cloud automation. Key Duties & Responsibilities: You will join a project engineering team and focus on adding hands-on technical expertise, ensuring outcomes meet the highest technical and agile standards. We expect our engineers to understand the client's project aims and to offer professional and commercial insight to ensure client satisfaction as well as representing the commercial interests of Automation Logic. We always expect our engineers to be very self-sufficient when engaged in smaller assignments representing Automation Logic by themselves, always ensuring customer satisfaction through high-quality work and outstanding client care. Technologies: - Azure - Security - CI/CD - Linux More: About Automation Logic: Automation Logic is a leading professional services business delivering technology-enabled transformation to enterprise clients through the delivery of Cloud, Automation and DevOps solutions. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Automation Logic has successfully delivered over 60 Cloud and Automation projects for some of the largest and most prestigious organisations in both the public and private sectors across Europe. Automation Logic offers competitive compensation packages and benefits.
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
Salary 70,000 - 95,000 GBP per year Requirements: - Key Duties & Responsibilities: You are a team member on projects with the remit to deliver successful outcomes for our clients by demonstrating capability in the following areas. Consulting Behaviours You regularly interact with client stakeholders on behalf of the team You take ownership of your own deliverables and you are aware of how your own work contributes to the outcomes of the whole team You can challenge constructively and appropriately, both externally and internally You demonstrate good task estimation skills to meet deadlines You manage expectations and commit to a realistic amount of work You understand priority and urgency of tasks You escalate blockers and delays in a timely manner Commercial mindset You take a client-centric approach and develop a deep understanding of what the client is trying to achieve, so as to deliver relevant, impactful outcomes and ROI You can describe the impact of your work in commercial terms and use this understanding to drive client-engagement You have solid stakeholder management, troubleshooting and conflict resolution skills to support successful outcomes Leadership You use data and methodical self-review to make project decisions, contribute to OKRs, and to improve your own capability You proactively offer support and coach / mentor more junior colleagues You actively seek to contribute towards AL Mission, Vision, Goals and OKRs Contribute in other areas of the business such as Interviewing and recruitment processes Supporting the bid processes with written content on your specialist knowledge Knowledge-sharing and contributing to AL repositories Responsibilities: - You will deliver hands-on, business-oriented strategic and technical consulting to our clients for cloud infrastructure and data centre automation solutions. Our Automation Engineers and Architects come from a DevOps background and are technically adept in configuration management tools, continuous development, Linux environments and have experience of delivering cloud infrastructure and cloud automation. Key Duties & Responsibilities: You will join a project engineering team and focus on adding hands-on technical expertise, ensuring outcomes meet the highest technical and agile standards. We expect our engineers to understand the client's project aims and to offer professional and commercial insight to ensure client satisfaction as well as representing the commercial interests of Automation Logic. We always expect our engineers to be very self-sufficient when engaged in smaller assignments representing Automation Logic by themselves, always ensuring customer satisfaction through high-quality work and outstanding client care. Technologies: - Azure - Security - CI/CD - Linux More: About Automation Logic: Automation Logic is a leading professional services business delivering technology-enabled transformation to enterprise clients through the delivery of Cloud, Automation and DevOps solutions. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Automation Logic has successfully delivered over 60 Cloud and Automation projects for some of the largest and most prestigious organisations in both the public and private sectors across Europe. Automation Logic offers competitive compensation packages and benefits.
Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? At Travelers, we create trusted strategic products and services to unlock the power of our data. Travelers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a Data Engineering, Assistant Vice President you will ingest data from multiple sources and relay information and actionable insights to relevant partners to accelerate growth and transformation of our analytics landscape. Leveraging your extensive technical and business expertise, you will be recognized as a thought leader internally and externally. In this role, you will mentor and lead teams designing and building data solutions that capture, explore, transform and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence/insights. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion. What Will You Do? Implement and develop analytic data products, data movement and data persistence capability from pilot/proof of concept to production, on-going support, and maintenance. Recommend data strategies to support various consumption patterns, including enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure. Oversee the operationalizing and automating of all capabilities to ensure secure, supported and scalable solutions. Present recommendations to senior management and executives and influences decisions at the executive level. Guide and coach senior team members and managers to accelerate career development. Establish functional budgets, policies and practices with impact on functional area. Establish functional strategic objectives. You will be responsible for managing teams of other people leaders engaged in the design, development, and implementation of highly complex data solutions focused on capturing, managing, storing, securing and utilizing structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources. You will be expected to follow and influence technology architecture, design standards, development practices, continuous integration/continues deployment practices and incorporates assurance processes into technology solutions The teams' benefits users across a complex/ large part of the enterprise or a line of business. You will use your knowledge of key business areas to establish functional strategic objectives. Using your industry level knowledge of value creation and business model concepts, you will anticipates business and industry issues to recommend best practices to improve the Data Engineering function across the organization. Interacting with executives and/or major customers using negotiating and influencing skills, you will contributes to the improvement of Travelers' products, services and customers. What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Bachelor's Degree in STEM related field or equivalent. Industry level expertise of capabilities and direction of technology coupled with an in-depth knowledge of the technology required and the needs of business environments necessary to lead assigned teams. What is a Must Have? Bachelor's degree or equivalent training with data tools, techniques, and manipulation. Significant data engineering or equivalent experience. Previous management experience. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counseling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist. Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. Employment Practices Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit 0
Mar 29, 2024
Full time
Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? At Travelers, we create trusted strategic products and services to unlock the power of our data. Travelers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a Data Engineering, Assistant Vice President you will ingest data from multiple sources and relay information and actionable insights to relevant partners to accelerate growth and transformation of our analytics landscape. Leveraging your extensive technical and business expertise, you will be recognized as a thought leader internally and externally. In this role, you will mentor and lead teams designing and building data solutions that capture, explore, transform and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence/insights. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion. What Will You Do? Implement and develop analytic data products, data movement and data persistence capability from pilot/proof of concept to production, on-going support, and maintenance. Recommend data strategies to support various consumption patterns, including enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure. Oversee the operationalizing and automating of all capabilities to ensure secure, supported and scalable solutions. Present recommendations to senior management and executives and influences decisions at the executive level. Guide and coach senior team members and managers to accelerate career development. Establish functional budgets, policies and practices with impact on functional area. Establish functional strategic objectives. You will be responsible for managing teams of other people leaders engaged in the design, development, and implementation of highly complex data solutions focused on capturing, managing, storing, securing and utilizing structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources. You will be expected to follow and influence technology architecture, design standards, development practices, continuous integration/continues deployment practices and incorporates assurance processes into technology solutions The teams' benefits users across a complex/ large part of the enterprise or a line of business. You will use your knowledge of key business areas to establish functional strategic objectives. Using your industry level knowledge of value creation and business model concepts, you will anticipates business and industry issues to recommend best practices to improve the Data Engineering function across the organization. Interacting with executives and/or major customers using negotiating and influencing skills, you will contributes to the improvement of Travelers' products, services and customers. What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Bachelor's Degree in STEM related field or equivalent. Industry level expertise of capabilities and direction of technology coupled with an in-depth knowledge of the technology required and the needs of business environments necessary to lead assigned teams. What is a Must Have? Bachelor's degree or equivalent training with data tools, techniques, and manipulation. Significant data engineering or equivalent experience. Previous management experience. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counseling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist. Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. Employment Practices Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit 0
This is a role for a sector specialist who has experience working as Business Intelligence or Data Management Lead in a fast-paced environment and for someone who is friendly, approachable and proactive in bringing new ideas to the table. Working within the IT department, the Head of Business Intelligence owns the reporting and analysis platform to design and deliver enterprise operational reporting, management information and analytics solutions. Capability Development: Develop a strategy to transition from manual desktop reporting to a unified business intelligence platform. Act as a Solution Architect for reporting and analytics, prioritizing activities aligned with business goals. Lead development teams, coordinate deliverables, and communicate progress. Establish a Data Governance Framework and ensure data quality and ownership. Own the Data Dictionary and standard reporting services, promoting understanding within the firm. Strategize self-service reporting and analysis, fostering business intelligence skills across functions. Provide training and documentation for effective technology usage. Business Intelligence Solution Delivery: Analyze reporting requirements and design solutions to meet objectives. Simplify, standardize, and optimize processes using BI and data tools. Identify data needs aligned with business priorities. Advise on data solution designs for performance and accuracy. Prototype, demonstrate, and document solutions. Refine delivery methods, automation, and QA processes. Manage external development teams and align delivery with cloud and change management processes. Oversee testing and contribute to solution architecture and frameworks. Performance & Quality: Update technical knowledge and skills regularly. Ensure development meets quality and timeliness standards, providing feedback and coaching. Manage time effectively between new solutions and support. Act as an IT ambassador, facilitating communication on software and service delivery and building cross-departmental relationships. Core Qualities and Skills: Proficient in leading business intelligence platforms/tools (e.g., Qliksense, PowerBI, Tableau). Expertise in business intelligence concepts, data visualization, and analytics. Skilled in data modeling for optimized reporting and analysis. Extensive experience in business analysis and process optimization. Comprehensive understanding of Azure platform and its services. Strong background in data engineering, including ETL, data cleaning, and warehousing. Hands-on experience with Azure data services like Azure SQL Database and Data Factory. Proficiency in SQL databases, particularly Azure SQL Database. Understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines, with experience in related tools. Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on technical troubleshooting and long-term strategies. Experience in Technology and Data teams within financial sectors. Desired Qualities and Skills: Stakeholder relationship management, maintaining effective communication and understanding needs. Familiarity with big data technologies like Apache Spark and Hadoop. Understanding of broader cloud architecture principles and services from AWS or Google Cloud. Additional relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Tableau certification. Experience with project management methodologies like Agile, Scrum, or Kanban.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
This is a role for a sector specialist who has experience working as Business Intelligence or Data Management Lead in a fast-paced environment and for someone who is friendly, approachable and proactive in bringing new ideas to the table. Working within the IT department, the Head of Business Intelligence owns the reporting and analysis platform to design and deliver enterprise operational reporting, management information and analytics solutions. Capability Development: Develop a strategy to transition from manual desktop reporting to a unified business intelligence platform. Act as a Solution Architect for reporting and analytics, prioritizing activities aligned with business goals. Lead development teams, coordinate deliverables, and communicate progress. Establish a Data Governance Framework and ensure data quality and ownership. Own the Data Dictionary and standard reporting services, promoting understanding within the firm. Strategize self-service reporting and analysis, fostering business intelligence skills across functions. Provide training and documentation for effective technology usage. Business Intelligence Solution Delivery: Analyze reporting requirements and design solutions to meet objectives. Simplify, standardize, and optimize processes using BI and data tools. Identify data needs aligned with business priorities. Advise on data solution designs for performance and accuracy. Prototype, demonstrate, and document solutions. Refine delivery methods, automation, and QA processes. Manage external development teams and align delivery with cloud and change management processes. Oversee testing and contribute to solution architecture and frameworks. Performance & Quality: Update technical knowledge and skills regularly. Ensure development meets quality and timeliness standards, providing feedback and coaching. Manage time effectively between new solutions and support. Act as an IT ambassador, facilitating communication on software and service delivery and building cross-departmental relationships. Core Qualities and Skills: Proficient in leading business intelligence platforms/tools (e.g., Qliksense, PowerBI, Tableau). Expertise in business intelligence concepts, data visualization, and analytics. Skilled in data modeling for optimized reporting and analysis. Extensive experience in business analysis and process optimization. Comprehensive understanding of Azure platform and its services. Strong background in data engineering, including ETL, data cleaning, and warehousing. Hands-on experience with Azure data services like Azure SQL Database and Data Factory. Proficiency in SQL databases, particularly Azure SQL Database. Understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines, with experience in related tools. Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on technical troubleshooting and long-term strategies. Experience in Technology and Data teams within financial sectors. Desired Qualities and Skills: Stakeholder relationship management, maintaining effective communication and understanding needs. Familiarity with big data technologies like Apache Spark and Hadoop. Understanding of broader cloud architecture principles and services from AWS or Google Cloud. Additional relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Tableau certification. Experience with project management methodologies like Agile, Scrum, or Kanban.
IT Service Management Specialist Inside IR35 IT Service Management Specialist required to join a leading Defence client. Responsible for supporting the vital MILSATCOM Service Delivery Organisation using an ITIL framework Service Management toolset. Assisting the IT Service Management Lead with capturing existing service management processes in leading change, ensuring smooth transition to a modern agile approach. This is a fast-paced, challenging role on a significant project. Proactive in your approach combined with the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment with new and exciting challenges each day. Specific activities in the role include: Represent the company during site visits to client Operational Sites Capture existing Service Management processes and reflect to the Enterprise Architecture team Attend stakeholder meetings, governance forums, Design reviews & Readiness Assessments to assist the delivery of a new ITSM approach. Support the definition of the Service Management Strategy of Operations, driving change using ITIL best practise, continuous improvement and automation. Work closely with the modelling and software teams to define and deliver into service improved approach using BMC Remedy Helix. Required Experience /Qualification /Attributes: Demonstratable experience in a management position in the defence of telecommunication industry, ideally MILSATCOM but not essential. Professional Qualification as ITIL Practitioner (ideally as Managing Professional) ITIL Strategic Leader Demonstratable Experience in managing change in a ITIL v3 and/ or v4 based service management organisation. Hands on experience of BMC Remedy process Designer (or similar) Demonstratable experience of project delivery in formal waterfall and agile engineering environments. Ability to identify and solve sophisticated problems and gather the information to drive through to ultimate solutions Collaborative individual. Excellent communication skills Ability to champion high performance and inspire others. MUST be UK SC Clearable Please get in touch for further details.
Mar 28, 2024
Contractor
IT Service Management Specialist Inside IR35 IT Service Management Specialist required to join a leading Defence client. Responsible for supporting the vital MILSATCOM Service Delivery Organisation using an ITIL framework Service Management toolset. Assisting the IT Service Management Lead with capturing existing service management processes in leading change, ensuring smooth transition to a modern agile approach. This is a fast-paced, challenging role on a significant project. Proactive in your approach combined with the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment with new and exciting challenges each day. Specific activities in the role include: Represent the company during site visits to client Operational Sites Capture existing Service Management processes and reflect to the Enterprise Architecture team Attend stakeholder meetings, governance forums, Design reviews & Readiness Assessments to assist the delivery of a new ITSM approach. Support the definition of the Service Management Strategy of Operations, driving change using ITIL best practise, continuous improvement and automation. Work closely with the modelling and software teams to define and deliver into service improved approach using BMC Remedy Helix. Required Experience /Qualification /Attributes: Demonstratable experience in a management position in the defence of telecommunication industry, ideally MILSATCOM but not essential. Professional Qualification as ITIL Practitioner (ideally as Managing Professional) ITIL Strategic Leader Demonstratable Experience in managing change in a ITIL v3 and/ or v4 based service management organisation. Hands on experience of BMC Remedy process Designer (or similar) Demonstratable experience of project delivery in formal waterfall and agile engineering environments. Ability to identify and solve sophisticated problems and gather the information to drive through to ultimate solutions Collaborative individual. Excellent communication skills Ability to champion high performance and inspire others. MUST be UK SC Clearable Please get in touch for further details.
WHAT MAKES US EPIC? At the core of Epic's success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it's building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we're always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We're constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE What We Do We enable Epic's online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at a massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world. What You'll Do Epic Games is looking for an experienced business development and partnerships lead for their Kids Web Services tools, used by some of the largest games and platforms in the world to help them manage youth audiences in their experiences. The ideal candidate should possess knowledge of the gaming, identity, privacy, and mobile landscapes with an awareness of the challenges faced by developers dealing with under-16 engagement. In this role, you will Lead the adoption of KWS across various verticals, focused on the largest game developers and platforms. Build and manage a pipeline of new opportunities and partnerships for the KWS developer ecosystem. Guide partners through the onboarding process, collaborating with Technical Account Management to facilitate the adoption of additional products and features. Strategize with Marketing to enhance awareness of the KWS tooling, ensuring partners grasp the capabilities and benefits. Conduct business and technical discovery with customers in collaboration with Epic Games developer-facing teams such as Unreal Engine and Epic Online Services Work with engineering, product, sales, and BD teams to create solutions that enhance the value of KWS for developers. Represent KWS at industry events and conferences, driving face to face engagement with partners and prospects. What we're looking for 5+ years working in a similar business development relations role in privacy, identity, gaming Proven network across gaming and platforms Experience managing an enterprise sales pipeline and contract process and the demonstrated ability to navigate deals across technical and legal challenges as well as multiple teams and stakeholders A track record of project management across technical implementations for large customers Balance of business and technology acumen, including ability to articulate high-level technical solutions to business problems and tie solutions to success criteria Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills, including ability to create clear observations, analysis and conclusions based on partner interviews and data Excellent customer facing skills with experience presenting to and achieving buy-in from senior executives and technical teams Team player who can collaborate with multiple stakeholders to arrive at the best solution while operating in a fast-paced environment EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. ABOUT US Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent. Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic! Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here . Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here .
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
WHAT MAKES US EPIC? At the core of Epic's success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it's building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we're always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We're constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE What We Do We enable Epic's online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at a massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world. What You'll Do Epic Games is looking for an experienced business development and partnerships lead for their Kids Web Services tools, used by some of the largest games and platforms in the world to help them manage youth audiences in their experiences. The ideal candidate should possess knowledge of the gaming, identity, privacy, and mobile landscapes with an awareness of the challenges faced by developers dealing with under-16 engagement. In this role, you will Lead the adoption of KWS across various verticals, focused on the largest game developers and platforms. Build and manage a pipeline of new opportunities and partnerships for the KWS developer ecosystem. Guide partners through the onboarding process, collaborating with Technical Account Management to facilitate the adoption of additional products and features. Strategize with Marketing to enhance awareness of the KWS tooling, ensuring partners grasp the capabilities and benefits. Conduct business and technical discovery with customers in collaboration with Epic Games developer-facing teams such as Unreal Engine and Epic Online Services Work with engineering, product, sales, and BD teams to create solutions that enhance the value of KWS for developers. Represent KWS at industry events and conferences, driving face to face engagement with partners and prospects. What we're looking for 5+ years working in a similar business development relations role in privacy, identity, gaming Proven network across gaming and platforms Experience managing an enterprise sales pipeline and contract process and the demonstrated ability to navigate deals across technical and legal challenges as well as multiple teams and stakeholders A track record of project management across technical implementations for large customers Balance of business and technology acumen, including ability to articulate high-level technical solutions to business problems and tie solutions to success criteria Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills, including ability to create clear observations, analysis and conclusions based on partner interviews and data Excellent customer facing skills with experience presenting to and achieving buy-in from senior executives and technical teams Team player who can collaborate with multiple stakeholders to arrive at the best solution while operating in a fast-paced environment EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. ABOUT US Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent. Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic! Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here . Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here .
Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? Are you a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams? If so, apply today. As an Assistant Vice President of Architecture, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to senior Technology and Business leaders as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision. This role will be based in our London offices. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion. What Will You Do? You will: Have organisational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture Work with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives Display strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernisation Drive continuous technology transformation to minimise technical debt Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership Look for opportunities to capitalise on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps Ensure alignment of IT initiatives with the target state Build strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with significant technology Architecture experience. Provided mentorship to architecture leaders. Organisational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model. Expert level Software Engineering awareness. Led development of strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organisation. Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals. Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership. Insurance technology experience. Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models. Innovation and Continuous Improvement. Demonstrated ability to drive decisions. Must be passionate about technology transformations. Has hands on experience in the last few years. Executed technology modernisation initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy. Current experience with AWS, APIs, Accelerators, DevSecOps. Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud. Good understanding of security. Experienced with large scale technology platforms. If Cyber: CISSP, CISM, Security+, CISA or equivalent Cybersecurity certification preferred Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies. If Information Architect: Experience modernising data technology and information architecture on cloud. Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI. Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud. What is a Must Have? Proven experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area. Experience with influencing people in a matrixed organisation. Must have experience in managing teams. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependants, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counselling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counselling sessions with a licensed therapist. Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. Employment Practices Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. 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Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? Are you a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams? If so, apply today. As an Assistant Vice President of Architecture, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to senior Technology and Business leaders as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision. This role will be based in our London offices. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion. What Will You Do? You will: Have organisational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture Work with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives Display strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernisation Drive continuous technology transformation to minimise technical debt Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership Look for opportunities to capitalise on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps Ensure alignment of IT initiatives with the target state Build strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with significant technology Architecture experience. Provided mentorship to architecture leaders. Organisational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model. Expert level Software Engineering awareness. Led development of strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organisation. Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals. Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership. Insurance technology experience. Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models. Innovation and Continuous Improvement. Demonstrated ability to drive decisions. Must be passionate about technology transformations. Has hands on experience in the last few years. Executed technology modernisation initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy. Current experience with AWS, APIs, Accelerators, DevSecOps. Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud. Good understanding of security. Experienced with large scale technology platforms. If Cyber: CISSP, CISM, Security+, CISA or equivalent Cybersecurity certification preferred Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies. If Information Architect: Experience modernising data technology and information architecture on cloud. Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI. Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud. What is a Must Have? Proven experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area. Experience with influencing people in a matrixed organisation. Must have experience in managing teams. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependants, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counselling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counselling sessions with a licensed therapist. Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. Employment Practices Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. 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We are looking for a Director, Field Engineering in London to join our world-class hypergrowth organisation. In this role, you will lead first-line Managers and teams of pre-sales Solutions Architects focusing on complex accounts, helping to drive our UK&I expansion in the travel, manufacturing, energy, communications, media and entertainment business. Your experience in partnering with Sales organisations will help to grow consumption, whilst coaching new sales and pre-sales team members to work together and raise the bar to best in class. You will guide your team and be involved with opportunities to enhance your team's effectiveness. You must be an expert at communicating complex, business value-focused solutions; supporting complex sales cycles; and building relationships with key stakeholders in large corporations. You will report to the AVP, Field Engineering Northern Europe. The impact you will have: Hire and manage first line Managers and a growing team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects Build a collaborative culture within a rapid-growth team. To embody and promote Databricks' customer-obsessed, teamwork and diverse culture Support increased return on investment of Solutions Architect involvement in sales cycles Create trust-based relationships with customers for the long term and understand category-specific landscapes and trends, reporting on the forces that shift the strategic direction of accounts Promote a solution and value-based selling field-engineering organisation Display an understanding of business needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region Build Databricks' brand in UK&I in partnership with the Marketing and Sales team What we look for: 5+ years of second-line leadership experience, manager of managers with teams of 20+ individuals Relevant high-growth enterprise software pre-sales success with senior-level tenure at a reputable software company, with experience of the EMEA region Ability to elevate the engagement with a track record of driving large transactions and high growth customers Proven leadership ability to influence, develop, and empower your team to achieve objectives with a team approach Proven track record of transformational success and delivery of customer value Track record of building strong ecosystems of lucrative customer relationships and cross-functional partnerships (Sales, Engineering, Marketing) Experience in complex strategic accounts generating +$1M ARR Knowledgeable in and passionate about data-driven decisions, AI, and Cloud software models Great at instituting processes for technical field members to improve efficiency Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience Benefits (United Kingdom) Private medical insurance Health Cash Plan Life, income protection & critical illness insurance Pension Plan Equity awards Enhanced Parental Leaves Fitness reimbursement Home office & work headphones reimbursement Mental wellness resources Employee referral bonus About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide - including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter ,LinkedIn and Facebook . Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
We are looking for a Director, Field Engineering in London to join our world-class hypergrowth organisation. In this role, you will lead first-line Managers and teams of pre-sales Solutions Architects focusing on complex accounts, helping to drive our UK&I expansion in the travel, manufacturing, energy, communications, media and entertainment business. Your experience in partnering with Sales organisations will help to grow consumption, whilst coaching new sales and pre-sales team members to work together and raise the bar to best in class. You will guide your team and be involved with opportunities to enhance your team's effectiveness. You must be an expert at communicating complex, business value-focused solutions; supporting complex sales cycles; and building relationships with key stakeholders in large corporations. You will report to the AVP, Field Engineering Northern Europe. The impact you will have: Hire and manage first line Managers and a growing team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects Build a collaborative culture within a rapid-growth team. To embody and promote Databricks' customer-obsessed, teamwork and diverse culture Support increased return on investment of Solutions Architect involvement in sales cycles Create trust-based relationships with customers for the long term and understand category-specific landscapes and trends, reporting on the forces that shift the strategic direction of accounts Promote a solution and value-based selling field-engineering organisation Display an understanding of business needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region Build Databricks' brand in UK&I in partnership with the Marketing and Sales team What we look for: 5+ years of second-line leadership experience, manager of managers with teams of 20+ individuals Relevant high-growth enterprise software pre-sales success with senior-level tenure at a reputable software company, with experience of the EMEA region Ability to elevate the engagement with a track record of driving large transactions and high growth customers Proven leadership ability to influence, develop, and empower your team to achieve objectives with a team approach Proven track record of transformational success and delivery of customer value Track record of building strong ecosystems of lucrative customer relationships and cross-functional partnerships (Sales, Engineering, Marketing) Experience in complex strategic accounts generating +$1M ARR Knowledgeable in and passionate about data-driven decisions, AI, and Cloud software models Great at instituting processes for technical field members to improve efficiency Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience Benefits (United Kingdom) Private medical insurance Health Cash Plan Life, income protection & critical illness insurance Pension Plan Equity awards Enhanced Parental Leaves Fitness reimbursement Home office & work headphones reimbursement Mental wellness resources Employee referral bonus About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide - including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter ,LinkedIn and Facebook . Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.
Database Engineer (Data Resilience) Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us: Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of leading-edge financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Background: Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services. The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this: Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group's ability to maintain service within ITOL. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV; 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Database Engineer (Data Resilience) Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us: Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of leading-edge financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Background: Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services. The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this: Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group's ability to maintain service within ITOL. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you will focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, managed, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented mindset to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV; 10+ years' DBA experience including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? At Travelers, we create trusted strategic products and services to unlock the power of our data. Travelers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a Data Engineering, Assistant Vice President you will ingest data from multiple sources and relay information and actionable insights to relevant partners to accelerate growth and transformation of our analytics landscape. Leveraging your extensive technical and business expertise, you will be recognized as a thought leader internally and externally. In this role, you will mentor and lead teams designing and building data solutions that capture, explore, transform and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence/insights. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion. What Will You Do? Implement and develop analytic data products, data movement and data persistence capability from pilot/proof of concept to production, on-going support, and maintenance. Recommend data strategies to support various consumption patterns, including enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure. Oversee the operationalizing and automating of all capabilities to ensure secure, supported and scalable solutions. Present recommendations to senior management and executives and influences decisions at the executive level. Guide and coach senior team members and managers to accelerate career development. Establish functional budgets, policies and practices with impact on functional area. Establish functional strategic objectives. You will be responsible for managing teams of other people leaders engaged in the design, development, and implementation of highly complex data solutions focused on capturing, managing, storing, securing and utilizing structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources. You will be expected to follow and influence technology architecture, design standards, development practices, continuous integration/continues deployment practices and incorporates assurance processes into technology solutions The teams' benefits users across a complex/ large part of the enterprise or a line of business. You will use your knowledge of key business areas to establish functional strategic objectives. Using your industry level knowledge of value creation and business model concepts, you will anticipates business and industry issues to recommend best practices to improve the Data Engineering function across the organization. Interacting with executives and/or major customers using negotiating and influencing skills, you will contributes to the improvement of Travelers' products, services and customers. What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Bachelor's Degree in STEM related field or equivalent. Industry level expertise of capabilities and direction of technology coupled with an in-depth knowledge of the technology required and the needs of business environments necessary to lead assigned teams. What is a Must Have? Bachelor's degree or equivalent training with data tools, techniques, and manipulation. Significant data engineering or equivalent experience. Previous management experience. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counseling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist. Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. Employment Practices Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit 0
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? At Travelers, we create trusted strategic products and services to unlock the power of our data. Travelers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a Data Engineering, Assistant Vice President you will ingest data from multiple sources and relay information and actionable insights to relevant partners to accelerate growth and transformation of our analytics landscape. Leveraging your extensive technical and business expertise, you will be recognized as a thought leader internally and externally. In this role, you will mentor and lead teams designing and building data solutions that capture, explore, transform and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence/insights. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion. What Will You Do? Implement and develop analytic data products, data movement and data persistence capability from pilot/proof of concept to production, on-going support, and maintenance. Recommend data strategies to support various consumption patterns, including enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure. Oversee the operationalizing and automating of all capabilities to ensure secure, supported and scalable solutions. Present recommendations to senior management and executives and influences decisions at the executive level. Guide and coach senior team members and managers to accelerate career development. Establish functional budgets, policies and practices with impact on functional area. Establish functional strategic objectives. You will be responsible for managing teams of other people leaders engaged in the design, development, and implementation of highly complex data solutions focused on capturing, managing, storing, securing and utilizing structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources. You will be expected to follow and influence technology architecture, design standards, development practices, continuous integration/continues deployment practices and incorporates assurance processes into technology solutions The teams' benefits users across a complex/ large part of the enterprise or a line of business. You will use your knowledge of key business areas to establish functional strategic objectives. Using your industry level knowledge of value creation and business model concepts, you will anticipates business and industry issues to recommend best practices to improve the Data Engineering function across the organization. Interacting with executives and/or major customers using negotiating and influencing skills, you will contributes to the improvement of Travelers' products, services and customers. What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Bachelor's Degree in STEM related field or equivalent. Industry level expertise of capabilities and direction of technology coupled with an in-depth knowledge of the technology required and the needs of business environments necessary to lead assigned teams. What is a Must Have? Bachelor's degree or equivalent training with data tools, techniques, and manipulation. Significant data engineering or equivalent experience. Previous management experience. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counseling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist. Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. Employment Practices Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit 0
Exciting opportunity for an experienced AWS Solution Architect to join our growing team here at VeUP! 13th March, 2024 Solution Architect - AWS London - £70,000 to £110,000 + Benefits About VeUP Established in 2022, VeUP is a results-oriented global team of former startup founders, cloud and technical experts, go-to-market specialists, venture capitalists, and business operations leaders. We have built a global team of industry experts that are aligned by one goal: to help startups scale UP. As experienced tech founders ourselves, we understand that startups can use help on their scale UP journey. VeUP's unique business model enables us to surround tech startups with a limitless range of value-added services, at costs that startups can afford. VeUP has thoughtfully combined unparalleled expertise, services, and infrastructure under one roof. About the role As a trusted startup advisor, VeUP Solution Architect's provide architectural and technical guidance to help founders and their teams understand the cloud and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) (and other cloud platforms in the future) cloud computing platform to build scalable, robust, and secure applications. You will focus on customer solutions that span across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, and migrations, HPC amongst many others. We work with world class startups and scaleup teams, where you will communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to establish technical credibility and help deliver business outcomes to VeUP's SaaS/ISV customers. Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers across a broad variety of complex technical and business challenges. Own the technical relationship with your customer and provide technical guidance on architecture, strategy, roadmap and enablement while translating business requirements into technical solutions. Educate startups and scale ups on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment and growth in the cloud. Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges. With your experience and technical skills, you will proactively guide customers through technical transitions to allow them to take advantage of changing business environments, maximise opportunities available to them, and support them in addressing challenges. Support the building and delivery of Marketplace listings and admin support. Support customers with training in Marketplace self-management. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals across our customer base and enable them to become cloud and VeUP advocates. In collaboration with sales, marketing and account management teams, you will help deliver customer value, excellent customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a key member of the services team, ensure any architected solution brings customer success in building and migrating customer applications. Pre-Sales support for our Sales/AM teams i.e. technical discovery and qualification, solutioning, proposal/SOW creation, workshops, Presentations etc. 13th March, 2024 Solution Architect - AWS London - £70,000 to £110,000 + Benefits About VeUP Established in 2022, VeUP is a results-oriented global team of former startup founders, cloud and technical experts, go-to-market specialists, venture capitalists, and business operations leaders. We have built a global team of industry experts that are aligned by one goal: to help startups scale UP. As experienced tech founders ourselves, we understand that startups can use help on their scale UP journey. VeUP's unique business model enables us to surround tech startups with a limitless range of value-added services, at costs that startups can afford. VeUP has thoughtfully combined unparalleled expertise, services, and infrastructure under one roof. About the role As a trusted startup advisor, VeUP Solution Architect's provide architectural and technical guidance to help founders and their teams understand the cloud and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) (and other cloud platforms in the future) cloud computing platform to build scalable, robust, and secure applications. You will focus on customer solutions that span across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, and migrations, HPC amongst many others. We work with world class startups and scaleup teams, where you will communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to establish technical credibility and help deliver business outcomes to VeUP's SaaS/ISV customers. Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers across a broad variety of complex technical and business challenges. Own the technical relationship with your customer and provide technical guidance on architecture, strategy, roadmap and enablement while translating business requirements into technical solutions. Educate startups and scale ups on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment and growth in the cloud. Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges. With your experience and technical skills, you will proactively guide customers through technical transitions to allow them to take advantage of changing business environments, maximise opportunities available to them, and support them in addressing challenges. Support the building and delivery of Marketplace listings and admin support. Support customers with training in Marketplace self-management. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals across our customer base and enable them to become cloud and VeUP advocates. In collaboration with sales, marketing and account management teams, you will help deliver customer value, excellent customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a key member of the services team, ensure any architected solution brings customer success in building and migrating customer applications. Pre-Sales support for our Sales/AM teams i.e. technical discovery and qualification, solutioning, proposal/SOW creation, workshops, Presentations etc. About you AWS Solution Architect Associate certification is a must, professional and specialties a plus. Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers. Proficient in engaging with clients, representing AWS in their operational landscape, and effectively leading conversations with key decision-makers. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology pre-sales and consulting. Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures. Broad technology experience including cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, IT transformation. At least 4 years of experience delivering modern technology stacks using cloud, such as microservices and Infrastructure-as-Code. Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud. Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers. Experience with architecting, designing, and developing cloud native applications and microservices in AWS Cloud environment. Hands-on experience in designing and implementing continuous integration platforms and solutioning highly available distributed systems. Experience in developing with containers, Kubernetes, serverless, or relevant application frameworks. Comfortable with one or more popular full stack programming languages such as Java, Golang, Typescript or Python. Working directly with VeUP service teams to ensure services align with the needs of customers. Experience leading certification or accreditation of cloud workload(s) to meet regulatory or industry standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO26262. Highly favourable: experience with emergent technologies such as High-Performance Computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT), AI/ML. Application development experience on Linux and/or Windows based systems as a plus. Multi cloud (Azure, GCP) experience is a plus. This role represents a superb opportunity for any AWS specialist Solution Architect to join a fast-growing London based founder friendly consulting business. A solid base salary of £70,000-110,000 DOE is supplements by generous holidays, pension and private health care. This role will have flexibility between WFH and being in the office and you will be expected into the office 3 days per week as a minimum. For applications . click apply for full job details
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Exciting opportunity for an experienced AWS Solution Architect to join our growing team here at VeUP! 13th March, 2024 Solution Architect - AWS London - £70,000 to £110,000 + Benefits About VeUP Established in 2022, VeUP is a results-oriented global team of former startup founders, cloud and technical experts, go-to-market specialists, venture capitalists, and business operations leaders. We have built a global team of industry experts that are aligned by one goal: to help startups scale UP. As experienced tech founders ourselves, we understand that startups can use help on their scale UP journey. VeUP's unique business model enables us to surround tech startups with a limitless range of value-added services, at costs that startups can afford. VeUP has thoughtfully combined unparalleled expertise, services, and infrastructure under one roof. About the role As a trusted startup advisor, VeUP Solution Architect's provide architectural and technical guidance to help founders and their teams understand the cloud and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) (and other cloud platforms in the future) cloud computing platform to build scalable, robust, and secure applications. You will focus on customer solutions that span across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, and migrations, HPC amongst many others. We work with world class startups and scaleup teams, where you will communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to establish technical credibility and help deliver business outcomes to VeUP's SaaS/ISV customers. Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers across a broad variety of complex technical and business challenges. Own the technical relationship with your customer and provide technical guidance on architecture, strategy, roadmap and enablement while translating business requirements into technical solutions. Educate startups and scale ups on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment and growth in the cloud. Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges. With your experience and technical skills, you will proactively guide customers through technical transitions to allow them to take advantage of changing business environments, maximise opportunities available to them, and support them in addressing challenges. Support the building and delivery of Marketplace listings and admin support. Support customers with training in Marketplace self-management. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals across our customer base and enable them to become cloud and VeUP advocates. In collaboration with sales, marketing and account management teams, you will help deliver customer value, excellent customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a key member of the services team, ensure any architected solution brings customer success in building and migrating customer applications. Pre-Sales support for our Sales/AM teams i.e. technical discovery and qualification, solutioning, proposal/SOW creation, workshops, Presentations etc. 13th March, 2024 Solution Architect - AWS London - £70,000 to £110,000 + Benefits About VeUP Established in 2022, VeUP is a results-oriented global team of former startup founders, cloud and technical experts, go-to-market specialists, venture capitalists, and business operations leaders. We have built a global team of industry experts that are aligned by one goal: to help startups scale UP. As experienced tech founders ourselves, we understand that startups can use help on their scale UP journey. VeUP's unique business model enables us to surround tech startups with a limitless range of value-added services, at costs that startups can afford. VeUP has thoughtfully combined unparalleled expertise, services, and infrastructure under one roof. About the role As a trusted startup advisor, VeUP Solution Architect's provide architectural and technical guidance to help founders and their teams understand the cloud and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) (and other cloud platforms in the future) cloud computing platform to build scalable, robust, and secure applications. You will focus on customer solutions that span across multiple domains such as cloud infrastructure, modern microservices and applications, and migrations, HPC amongst many others. We work with world class startups and scaleup teams, where you will communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to establish technical credibility and help deliver business outcomes to VeUP's SaaS/ISV customers. Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers across a broad variety of complex technical and business challenges. Own the technical relationship with your customer and provide technical guidance on architecture, strategy, roadmap and enablement while translating business requirements into technical solutions. Educate startups and scale ups on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment and growth in the cloud. Architect cloud-based solutions in response to complex technical challenges. With your experience and technical skills, you will proactively guide customers through technical transitions to allow them to take advantage of changing business environments, maximise opportunities available to them, and support them in addressing challenges. Support the building and delivery of Marketplace listings and admin support. Support customers with training in Marketplace self-management. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals across our customer base and enable them to become cloud and VeUP advocates. In collaboration with sales, marketing and account management teams, you will help deliver customer value, excellent customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a key member of the services team, ensure any architected solution brings customer success in building and migrating customer applications. Pre-Sales support for our Sales/AM teams i.e. technical discovery and qualification, solutioning, proposal/SOW creation, workshops, Presentations etc. About you AWS Solution Architect Associate certification is a must, professional and specialties a plus. Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers. Proficient in engaging with clients, representing AWS in their operational landscape, and effectively leading conversations with key decision-makers. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology pre-sales and consulting. Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures. Broad technology experience including cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, IT transformation. At least 4 years of experience delivering modern technology stacks using cloud, such as microservices and Infrastructure-as-Code. Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud. Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers. Experience with architecting, designing, and developing cloud native applications and microservices in AWS Cloud environment. Hands-on experience in designing and implementing continuous integration platforms and solutioning highly available distributed systems. Experience in developing with containers, Kubernetes, serverless, or relevant application frameworks. Comfortable with one or more popular full stack programming languages such as Java, Golang, Typescript or Python. Working directly with VeUP service teams to ensure services align with the needs of customers. Experience leading certification or accreditation of cloud workload(s) to meet regulatory or industry standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO26262. Highly favourable: experience with emergent technologies such as High-Performance Computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT), AI/ML. Application development experience on Linux and/or Windows based systems as a plus. Multi cloud (Azure, GCP) experience is a plus. This role represents a superb opportunity for any AWS specialist Solution Architect to join a fast-growing London based founder friendly consulting business. A solid base salary of £70,000-110,000 DOE is supplements by generous holidays, pension and private health care. This role will have flexibility between WFH and being in the office and you will be expected into the office 3 days per week as a minimum. For applications . click apply for full job details
Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? Are you a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams? If so, apply today. As an Assistant Vice President of Architecture, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to senior Technology and Business leaders as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision. This role will be based in our London offices. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion. What Will You Do? You will: Have organisational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture Work with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives Display strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernisation Drive continuous technology transformation to minimise technical debt Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership Look for opportunities to capitalise on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps Ensure alignment of IT initiatives with the target state Build strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with significant technology Architecture experience. Provided mentorship to architecture leaders. Organisational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model. Expert level Software Engineering awareness. Led development of strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organisation. Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals. Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership. Insurance technology experience. Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models. Innovation and Continuous Improvement. Demonstrated ability to drive decisions. Must be passionate about technology transformations. Has hands on experience in the last few years. Executed technology modernisation initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy. Current experience with AWS, APIs, Accelerators, DevSecOps. Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud. Good understanding of security. Experienced with large scale technology platforms. If Cyber: CISSP, CISM, Security+, CISA or equivalent Cybersecurity certification preferred Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies. If Information Architect: Experience modernising data technology and information architecture on cloud. Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI. Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud. What is a Must Have? Proven experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area. Experience with influencing people in a matrixed organisation. Must have experience in managing teams. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependants, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counselling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counselling sessions with a licensed therapist. Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. Employment Practices Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit 0
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? Are you a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams? If so, apply today. As an Assistant Vice President of Architecture, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to senior Technology and Business leaders as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision. This role will be based in our London offices. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion. What Will You Do? You will: Have organisational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture Work with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives Display strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernisation Drive continuous technology transformation to minimise technical debt Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership Look for opportunities to capitalise on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps Ensure alignment of IT initiatives with the target state Build strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with significant technology Architecture experience. Provided mentorship to architecture leaders. Organisational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model. Expert level Software Engineering awareness. Led development of strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organisation. Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals. Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership. Insurance technology experience. Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models. Innovation and Continuous Improvement. Demonstrated ability to drive decisions. Must be passionate about technology transformations. Has hands on experience in the last few years. Executed technology modernisation initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy. Current experience with AWS, APIs, Accelerators, DevSecOps. Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud. Good understanding of security. Experienced with large scale technology platforms. If Cyber: CISSP, CISM, Security+, CISA or equivalent Cybersecurity certification preferred Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies. If Information Architect: Experience modernising data technology and information architecture on cloud. Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI. Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud. What is a Must Have? Proven experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area. Experience with influencing people in a matrixed organisation. Must have experience in managing teams. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependants, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a basic contribution of 9% of pensionable salary to your Group Personal Pension Plan ("GPPP"). If you decide to contribute an additional amount from your salary, you will receive an increased company contribution up to a maximum of 3%. This would bring the total company contribution to 12%. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Employee Assistance programme provides access to professional counselling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through the EAP, you're eligible for five free counselling sessions with a licensed therapist. Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. Employment Practices Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit 0
Salary 45,000 - 50,000 GBP per year Requirements: - What do you need? You'll have experience of software engineering using various programming and design methodologies, and you'll have knowledge of some of our technologies - .Net including C#, ASP.NET, Azure, Serverless Azure functions, Angular framework and TypeScript, Cordova, Visual Studio, VSTS, N-Unit and Git. Your exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases such as Azure, CosmosDB and MongoDB and knowledge of software and database design patterns will allow you to add real value to a team striving to continuously improve the service provided to internal and external customers. While being a great engineer, you'll demonstrate excellent interpersonal, analytical and communication skills, and have a positive and enthusiastic approach. Responsibilities: - What will you be doing? As our new Software Engineer, you'll work across a wide technology stack which incorporates our current platforms whilst also embracing new technologies to ensure we don't stand still as a business. We will grow your product and platform knowledge and your experience guiding the customers and team members inside a product squad. You will be joining Anglian Water's customer squad who are responsible for the company website, customer application and many internal operational systems that are essential in keeping our customers' needs satisfied. The Customer squad are part AW's flagship agile initiative to build digital products with a refreshed agile mindset and deliver change within the business. The Scrum team work closely together as a ringfenced unit to delivery iterative improvement and change for the customer and the wider business at pace. The team are aiming to grow in scale, continue improving agile an DevOps practices and to deliver value for the customer at speed. Technologies: - .NET Core - C# - Azure More: Key responsibilities: Develop web software for web and mobile platforms. We also create specific mobile applications for our field users. Partner with the business, product owners, stakeholders and end- users to define and implement technical solutions. Contribute to development standards and architectural patterns including cloud and on-premise; web and mobile within agreed timescales. Understand our Product Vision and develop UI designs, re-usable software, services and micro-services. Perform code reviews, and strive for continuous improvement. Develop software to our enterprise architectural and security standard and procedures and contribute to the evolving standards. Carry out support by investigating, fixing and patching root causes. Create automated tests and deployment scripts. Design and develop database structures.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Salary 45,000 - 50,000 GBP per year Requirements: - What do you need? You'll have experience of software engineering using various programming and design methodologies, and you'll have knowledge of some of our technologies - .Net including C#, ASP.NET, Azure, Serverless Azure functions, Angular framework and TypeScript, Cordova, Visual Studio, VSTS, N-Unit and Git. Your exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases such as Azure, CosmosDB and MongoDB and knowledge of software and database design patterns will allow you to add real value to a team striving to continuously improve the service provided to internal and external customers. While being a great engineer, you'll demonstrate excellent interpersonal, analytical and communication skills, and have a positive and enthusiastic approach. Responsibilities: - What will you be doing? As our new Software Engineer, you'll work across a wide technology stack which incorporates our current platforms whilst also embracing new technologies to ensure we don't stand still as a business. We will grow your product and platform knowledge and your experience guiding the customers and team members inside a product squad. You will be joining Anglian Water's customer squad who are responsible for the company website, customer application and many internal operational systems that are essential in keeping our customers' needs satisfied. The Customer squad are part AW's flagship agile initiative to build digital products with a refreshed agile mindset and deliver change within the business. The Scrum team work closely together as a ringfenced unit to delivery iterative improvement and change for the customer and the wider business at pace. The team are aiming to grow in scale, continue improving agile an DevOps practices and to deliver value for the customer at speed. Technologies: - .NET Core - C# - Azure More: Key responsibilities: Develop web software for web and mobile platforms. We also create specific mobile applications for our field users. Partner with the business, product owners, stakeholders and end- users to define and implement technical solutions. Contribute to development standards and architectural patterns including cloud and on-premise; web and mobile within agreed timescales. Understand our Product Vision and develop UI designs, re-usable software, services and micro-services. Perform code reviews, and strive for continuous improvement. Develop software to our enterprise architectural and security standard and procedures and contribute to the evolving standards. Carry out support by investigating, fixing and patching root causes. Create automated tests and deployment scripts. Design and develop database structures.
We are seeking a Technology Architecture Leader to drive ongoing innovation! This is an excellent opportunity to work across global, regional, and local leadership to bring technology solutions to clients and colleagues. Be part of a team that partners across global business lines (Risk Capital and Human Capital), regional multi-functional leadership teams, global and regional shared operations, and global technology teams. Key partners for this role include product owners, regional technology leaders, infrastructure services leaders, business, data, and product architects. Global CTO/CSO/SL COO's. Work with technology leaders across NA, EMEA, UK and LATAM. We lead and work as a global team with shared priorities globally. The role will lead significant change while working as a team to simplify the sophisticated, handle trade-off's, service clients and colleagues while having high impact. Aon is in the business of better decisions At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed. What the day will look like Maintain the enterprise technology blueprint, reference architecture, roadmap, and standards. Scan the technology landscape to identify innovative or disruptive technology and its potential to enable business strategy. Support new technology introduction by partnering with application development, infrastructure and security. Lead solution arch function including design authority (cross functions, cross discipline team) to ensure alignment to technology and security standards, highlight and track exceptions. Lead evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of a business solution using assets across the spectrum of business platforms, regional applications, and shared capabilities (operations and tech.) Focus on creating and reusing digital services and assets, capabilities and advancing business strategy. Lead technology architecture to deliver new services and shared capabilities based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, and emerging technology landscape. Review new technologies, define Architecture standards, roadmaps, integrated technology blueprints, and compliance monitoring. Define and implement architecture governance framework and coordinate various arch functions, including business arch, data arch, application arch, security arch and infrastructure arch. Ensure information, the sharing of knowledge, and drive consistent technology selection and implementation. Skills and experience that will lead to success Experience as a technology leader with a solid understanding of arch practices and implementation of a federated model. Deep and broad understanding of technology across multiple domains with deep technical skills to drive innovation and make the delivery cycle simpler and faster. Focus on business value results. Ability to positively influence others and to break down organizational silos. Strong collaboration approach with the ability to encourage collaboration. Ability to lead by influencing without direct reporting lines. Must possess good interpersonal and communication skills, capable of engaging and connecting with various partners (much like a startup community). Ability to articulate business requirements into technology requirements. Proven track record in vendor management, including negotiations and partnership development. Ability to handle complex budgets and optimize resource allocation. Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Business Administration, Finance, or related field. How we support our colleagues In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two "Global Wellbeing Days" each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working! Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued. Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email 9
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
We are seeking a Technology Architecture Leader to drive ongoing innovation! This is an excellent opportunity to work across global, regional, and local leadership to bring technology solutions to clients and colleagues. Be part of a team that partners across global business lines (Risk Capital and Human Capital), regional multi-functional leadership teams, global and regional shared operations, and global technology teams. Key partners for this role include product owners, regional technology leaders, infrastructure services leaders, business, data, and product architects. Global CTO/CSO/SL COO's. Work with technology leaders across NA, EMEA, UK and LATAM. We lead and work as a global team with shared priorities globally. The role will lead significant change while working as a team to simplify the sophisticated, handle trade-off's, service clients and colleagues while having high impact. Aon is in the business of better decisions At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed. What the day will look like Maintain the enterprise technology blueprint, reference architecture, roadmap, and standards. Scan the technology landscape to identify innovative or disruptive technology and its potential to enable business strategy. Support new technology introduction by partnering with application development, infrastructure and security. Lead solution arch function including design authority (cross functions, cross discipline team) to ensure alignment to technology and security standards, highlight and track exceptions. Lead evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of a business solution using assets across the spectrum of business platforms, regional applications, and shared capabilities (operations and tech.) Focus on creating and reusing digital services and assets, capabilities and advancing business strategy. Lead technology architecture to deliver new services and shared capabilities based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, and emerging technology landscape. Review new technologies, define Architecture standards, roadmaps, integrated technology blueprints, and compliance monitoring. Define and implement architecture governance framework and coordinate various arch functions, including business arch, data arch, application arch, security arch and infrastructure arch. Ensure information, the sharing of knowledge, and drive consistent technology selection and implementation. Skills and experience that will lead to success Experience as a technology leader with a solid understanding of arch practices and implementation of a federated model. Deep and broad understanding of technology across multiple domains with deep technical skills to drive innovation and make the delivery cycle simpler and faster. Focus on business value results. Ability to positively influence others and to break down organizational silos. Strong collaboration approach with the ability to encourage collaboration. Ability to lead by influencing without direct reporting lines. Must possess good interpersonal and communication skills, capable of engaging and connecting with various partners (much like a startup community). Ability to articulate business requirements into technology requirements. Proven track record in vendor management, including negotiations and partnership development. Ability to handle complex budgets and optimize resource allocation. Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Business Administration, Finance, or related field. How we support our colleagues In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two "Global Wellbeing Days" each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working! Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued. Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email 9
End Date Saturday 30 March 2024 Salary Range £45,054 - £50,060 We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary n/a Job Description Cyber Security Analyst Location : Edinburgh, Halifax Salary :£45,954 to 51,060 Hours: Full time Working Pattern: Minimum of 2 days a week in the office About this opportunity This is your chance to bring your skills to the forefront and make a real difference in shaping the future of payments, making them easier, faster and safer for our customers. It s vital that we operate proactive Cyber Security service across the Payment Services Platform application landscape - identifying and pursuing opportunities for continuous improvement across our diverse platform. This is an interlock role in a niche team, working across teams to ensure the right interventions are being put in place, at the right pace and at the right time. The team is split across London, Halifax and Edinburgh - this role will be based at either Edinburgh or Halifax. We re looking for someone who has a broad understanding of payments, cyber security and project management, with the personal attributes and business skills to harness the expertise of these three areas. As a Cyber Analyst in your day to day you ll: Lead the facilitation of cyber testing and remediation of cyber vulnerabilities by collaborating with technical colleagues that have various levels of expertise from multiple teams and different departments - essentially identifying and leading the resolution of cyber weaknesses swiftly by pulling together the relevant experts effectively. Articulating cyber risks and also leading the remediation or mitigation of cyber risks. Conduct cyber control testing using the RCSA framework. There is also the opportunity to get creative as we deliver a series of cyber knowledge awareness sessions to the rest of the PSP colleagues. Opportunity to get involved in compliance, assurance and attestation work. What you ll need To have an enthusiastic interest and experience within the Cyber Security aspects of a large and complex enterprise organisation. To be operationally-focused and have experience and understanding of production environments and system architecture. Cyber Vulnerability Management - leading the remediation of cyber vulnerabilities identified in penetration tests or security assessments Have the tenacity and persistence to lead work that requires to collaborate with technical colleagues that have various levels of expertise from multiple teams and different departments - essentially identifying and leading the resolution of cyber weaknesses swiftly by pulling together the relevant experts effectively. Good communication and teamwork skills. And any experience of these would be really useful Security assessments of Cloud infrastructure or applications. Any experience of DevSecOps. Technology Risk / Control Testing experience. IT delivery experience, either as a software developer or infrastructure engineer. This could be in a bau/service team or whilst working on change project delivery. Financial Services Regulation / Payments Scheme compliance experience Any experience of the Financial Services industry in general, and payments in particular would be helpful, but don t worry if not, we can teach you that, we re more interested in your ability and hard work to deliver. About working for us Our focus is to ensure that we re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background identity or culture. We were one of the first organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We re disability confident. So, if you d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes. Just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: • A generous pension contribution of up to 15% • An annual performance-related bonus • Share schemes including free shares • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping • 28 days holiday with bank holidays on top • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
End Date Saturday 30 March 2024 Salary Range £45,054 - £50,060 We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary n/a Job Description Cyber Security Analyst Location : Edinburgh, Halifax Salary :£45,954 to 51,060 Hours: Full time Working Pattern: Minimum of 2 days a week in the office About this opportunity This is your chance to bring your skills to the forefront and make a real difference in shaping the future of payments, making them easier, faster and safer for our customers. It s vital that we operate proactive Cyber Security service across the Payment Services Platform application landscape - identifying and pursuing opportunities for continuous improvement across our diverse platform. This is an interlock role in a niche team, working across teams to ensure the right interventions are being put in place, at the right pace and at the right time. The team is split across London, Halifax and Edinburgh - this role will be based at either Edinburgh or Halifax. We re looking for someone who has a broad understanding of payments, cyber security and project management, with the personal attributes and business skills to harness the expertise of these three areas. As a Cyber Analyst in your day to day you ll: Lead the facilitation of cyber testing and remediation of cyber vulnerabilities by collaborating with technical colleagues that have various levels of expertise from multiple teams and different departments - essentially identifying and leading the resolution of cyber weaknesses swiftly by pulling together the relevant experts effectively. Articulating cyber risks and also leading the remediation or mitigation of cyber risks. Conduct cyber control testing using the RCSA framework. There is also the opportunity to get creative as we deliver a series of cyber knowledge awareness sessions to the rest of the PSP colleagues. Opportunity to get involved in compliance, assurance and attestation work. What you ll need To have an enthusiastic interest and experience within the Cyber Security aspects of a large and complex enterprise organisation. To be operationally-focused and have experience and understanding of production environments and system architecture. Cyber Vulnerability Management - leading the remediation of cyber vulnerabilities identified in penetration tests or security assessments Have the tenacity and persistence to lead work that requires to collaborate with technical colleagues that have various levels of expertise from multiple teams and different departments - essentially identifying and leading the resolution of cyber weaknesses swiftly by pulling together the relevant experts effectively. Good communication and teamwork skills. And any experience of these would be really useful Security assessments of Cloud infrastructure or applications. Any experience of DevSecOps. Technology Risk / Control Testing experience. IT delivery experience, either as a software developer or infrastructure engineer. This could be in a bau/service team or whilst working on change project delivery. Financial Services Regulation / Payments Scheme compliance experience Any experience of the Financial Services industry in general, and payments in particular would be helpful, but don t worry if not, we can teach you that, we re more interested in your ability and hard work to deliver. About working for us Our focus is to ensure that we re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background identity or culture. We were one of the first organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We re disability confident. So, if you d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes. Just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: • A generous pension contribution of up to 15% • An annual performance-related bonus • Share schemes including free shares • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping • 28 days holiday with bank holidays on top • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Enterprise Architect - London, City of London Salary - 85-100k plus excellent benefits This Global player is looking to add an 'Hands on' Enterprise Architect to their IT Solutions team based out of London. In this Enterprise Architect role, you'll play a crucial part in aligning teams, facilitate the mapping of their systems and establish a clear direction towards building a resilient, adaptable architecture with simplicity, reusability, and connectivity as its core principles. Working closely alongside IT leaders from different territories and their respective system owners/architects, you'll collaborate with diverse teams to integrate industry best practices and partner with product owners to advance their architectural evolution. This is a 'hands on' role as they look to build an architecture practice. Core skills. A proven track record in aligning local IT initiatives with overarching business objectives. Extensive experience in an ITIL Service management & governance environment. Proven leadership capabilities to lead and motivate teams of architects. Excellent collaboration & interpersonal skills to effectively engage with regional IT Directors, Domain Architects, & System Architects. Solidunderstanding of enterprise-level IT architecture, encompassing cloud technologies, security, & integration methodologies Exceptional communication skills, to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Ability to articulate and justify architectural decisions to various stakeholders. Enterprise Architect Enterprise Architect - London, City of London Salary - 85-100k plus excellent benefits This Global player is looking to add an 'Hands on' Enterprise Architect to their IT Solutions team based out of London. In this Enterprise Architect role, you'll play a crucial part in aligning teams, facilitate the mapping of their systems and establish a clear direction towards building a resilient, adaptable architecture with simplicity, reusability, and connectivity as its core principles. Working closely alongside IT leaders from different territories and their respective system owners/architects, you'll collaborate with diverse teams to integrate industry best practices and partner with product owners to advance their architectural evolution. This is a 'hands on' role as they look to build an architecture practice. Core skills. A proven track record in aligning local IT initiatives with overarching business objectives. Extensive experience in an ITIL Service management & governance environment. Proven leadership capabilities to lead and motivate teams of architects. Excellent collaboration & interpersonal skills to effectively engage with regional IT Directors, Domain Architects, & System Architects. Solidunderstanding of enterprise-level IT architecture, encompassing cloud technologies, security, & integration methodologies Exceptional communication skills, to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Ability to articulate and justify architectural decisions to various stakeholders. Core responsibilities. Develop and Execute IT Architecture Strategy: Evaluate Existing Systems: Collaborate with Senior Leadership: Lead Architecture Review Boards: Establish Relationships with Domain Architects: Facilitate Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing: Train and Coach Domain Architects: Bridge Gap between Domain and System Architects: Collaborate on Specific Projects: Stay Abreast of Emerging Technologies: The Enterprise Architect will lead the charge in shaping their IT architecture on a global scale, influencing business outcomes, and driving innovation. You will work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative and supportive environment that values your expertise and experience. If you're ready to make a significant impact as an Enterprise Architect and lead the charge in transforming their international IT architecture, apply now and join them on their journey of innovation and growth! Send your CV to or call Please follow us on for similar roles Erin Associates Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Location: London, United Kingdom Employment: Permanent Salary: £85000 - £100000 excellent benefits APPLY FOR THIS JOB
Mar 28, 2024
Full time
Enterprise Architect - London, City of London Salary - 85-100k plus excellent benefits This Global player is looking to add an 'Hands on' Enterprise Architect to their IT Solutions team based out of London. In this Enterprise Architect role, you'll play a crucial part in aligning teams, facilitate the mapping of their systems and establish a clear direction towards building a resilient, adaptable architecture with simplicity, reusability, and connectivity as its core principles. Working closely alongside IT leaders from different territories and their respective system owners/architects, you'll collaborate with diverse teams to integrate industry best practices and partner with product owners to advance their architectural evolution. This is a 'hands on' role as they look to build an architecture practice. Core skills. A proven track record in aligning local IT initiatives with overarching business objectives. Extensive experience in an ITIL Service management & governance environment. Proven leadership capabilities to lead and motivate teams of architects. Excellent collaboration & interpersonal skills to effectively engage with regional IT Directors, Domain Architects, & System Architects. Solidunderstanding of enterprise-level IT architecture, encompassing cloud technologies, security, & integration methodologies Exceptional communication skills, to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Ability to articulate and justify architectural decisions to various stakeholders. Enterprise Architect Enterprise Architect - London, City of London Salary - 85-100k plus excellent benefits This Global player is looking to add an 'Hands on' Enterprise Architect to their IT Solutions team based out of London. In this Enterprise Architect role, you'll play a crucial part in aligning teams, facilitate the mapping of their systems and establish a clear direction towards building a resilient, adaptable architecture with simplicity, reusability, and connectivity as its core principles. Working closely alongside IT leaders from different territories and their respective system owners/architects, you'll collaborate with diverse teams to integrate industry best practices and partner with product owners to advance their architectural evolution. This is a 'hands on' role as they look to build an architecture practice. Core skills. A proven track record in aligning local IT initiatives with overarching business objectives. Extensive experience in an ITIL Service management & governance environment. Proven leadership capabilities to lead and motivate teams of architects. Excellent collaboration & interpersonal skills to effectively engage with regional IT Directors, Domain Architects, & System Architects. Solidunderstanding of enterprise-level IT architecture, encompassing cloud technologies, security, & integration methodologies Exceptional communication skills, to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Ability to articulate and justify architectural decisions to various stakeholders. Core responsibilities. Develop and Execute IT Architecture Strategy: Evaluate Existing Systems: Collaborate with Senior Leadership: Lead Architecture Review Boards: Establish Relationships with Domain Architects: Facilitate Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing: Train and Coach Domain Architects: Bridge Gap between Domain and System Architects: Collaborate on Specific Projects: Stay Abreast of Emerging Technologies: The Enterprise Architect will lead the charge in shaping their IT architecture on a global scale, influencing business outcomes, and driving innovation. You will work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative and supportive environment that values your expertise and experience. If you're ready to make a significant impact as an Enterprise Architect and lead the charge in transforming their international IT architecture, apply now and join them on their journey of innovation and growth! Send your CV to or call Please follow us on for similar roles Erin Associates Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Location: London, United Kingdom Employment: Permanent Salary: £85000 - £100000 excellent benefits APPLY FOR THIS JOB
We are seeking a Junior Developer for UK Power Networks in central Ipswich. This will be for 6-6 months but could become long term. JOB PURPOSE: To play a key role in the implementation of UK Power Networks Digital Strategy by transforming the way the business utilises technology and data to sustain and increase business performance. As a Junior Developer your primary focus will be to Support the Technology Specialists to define, build and continuously improve the core systems and data infrastructure of the business. You will be involved in designing solutions for on-premise and cloud-based technologies. You will be a vital part of a dynamic team defining and delivering continuous change into our systems and data architecture driven increasingly by cloud-based solutions. What you deliver will drive the realisation of the Digital Strategy through enabling technology services that allow true business agility, robust systems resilience, and excellent data intelligence. Specifically, you will be maintaining in house business applications and also working on minor bug fixes, including front-end user interface design, server-side code, any business logic, and database integration. This role is vital to enable the delivery of the UK Power Networks digital strategy and being able to set UK Power Networks up to operate within the expectations of the RIIO-ED2 regime. investment. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: This role will be responsible for the following: Supporting technology change • Take a Supporting role in the customer service agile team, prioritising own workload. • Be primary contact in the customer service agile team, prioritise workload according to agreed attributes including understanding the impact of not delivering. • collaboration with representatives from across the business in the delivery of change for on-premises and cloud-based solutions. • Support waterfall project delivery for certain projects and scope, working with project managers and team members to achieve the required outcomes. Technology solving business challenges. • Showing thought approach in how to rapidly assess and select relevant technology solutions to deliver business needs in a scalable and supportable manner. • Showing deep understanding to keep abreast of technology advances and identifying how and when such capabilities can be tested and utilised to drive digital innovation. • Being passionate about how tech works and getting hands-on to develop cloud-based prototypes to rapidly prove business value and drive learning through action . Driving data change • Ensure your work is done with robustness, scalability and best practices in mind. • Advocating best practices in data governance, ownership and stewardship within the team Ensuring standards and controls • Document customer service technology system strategies, roadmaps and standards and ensuring their alignment and support of UK Power Networks business vision and objectives. • Support the development and adherence to technology principles and guardrails to support the realisation of the enterprise architecture and the corresponding business vision and strategy. Managing Communication • Maintain key stakeholder relationships in the business to continuously understand their biggest challenges and data needs, incorporating these needs into technology design and implementation. NATURE AND SCOPE: UK Power Networks is UK's largest electricity distribution network operator, delivering electricity to approximately 18 million customers, including critical infrastructure and businesses across the country. As we face new opportunities and challenges such as smart meters, electric vehicles and a carbon neutral future, we need to simultaneously transform the way use technology to evolve the service we offer to customers & the platform our teams use to serve them. It is the purpose of this initiative to drive this transformation, by complimenting the digital strategy that will seek to make UK Power Networks a in data driven decision making. You will have the opportunity to have a major impact across the company and change the way technology and data is utilised by employees and customers of UK Power Networks. We are accountable in supporting the business in achieving its vision of becoming an 'employer of choice', 'a respected and trusted corporate citizen' and 'sustainably cost efficient'. SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Qualifications • Education to degree level is desirable but not essential. Experience • Knowledge or experience in working in Agile Delivery Teams and/or leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFE) • Experience is required in the creation and maintenance of databases within SQL server. This includes schema normalisation, production of views, stored procedures, triggers and user access control. • Extensive experience with Office 365 and Azure as well as data visualisation tools such as PowerBI • Knowledge of the energy and utilities sector is very much preferred. Technical Skills • Writing clean, concise, commented and exceptional code standards within, but not limited to (C# / JavaScript / VBA/HTML / Razor mark-up/SQL) • Using and deploying Microsoft O365 and Azure cloud services utilising SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models • Designing and delivery of solutions on or integrating with real-time systems • Architecting, designing and delivery of packaged solutions including integration into the wider IT estate. • Designing and implementing cloud-based solutions data engineering solutions, including designing the networking and security arrangements. Using technologies such as Azure Data Lakes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Data Warehouse/Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, NoSQL DBs • Championing an automation data driven mindset and knowledge of any programming/scripting (e.g. PowerShell, Go, Python, Ruby, .NET,) • Regularly using data analytics technology and scripting (e.g. SQL, Python/R, NoSQL, PowerBI, Notebooks, machine learning) • In depth understanding of Windows, Linux and Networking systems. • Working with real-time event ingestion engines such as Azure Event Hubs or Apache Kafka, have developed connectors for a range of different data sources. • Excellent range of communication skills, including being able to translate technical issues into non-technical terms and attain complex details from stakeholders quickly and easily.
Mar 28, 2024
Contractor
We are seeking a Junior Developer for UK Power Networks in central Ipswich. This will be for 6-6 months but could become long term. JOB PURPOSE: To play a key role in the implementation of UK Power Networks Digital Strategy by transforming the way the business utilises technology and data to sustain and increase business performance. As a Junior Developer your primary focus will be to Support the Technology Specialists to define, build and continuously improve the core systems and data infrastructure of the business. You will be involved in designing solutions for on-premise and cloud-based technologies. You will be a vital part of a dynamic team defining and delivering continuous change into our systems and data architecture driven increasingly by cloud-based solutions. What you deliver will drive the realisation of the Digital Strategy through enabling technology services that allow true business agility, robust systems resilience, and excellent data intelligence. Specifically, you will be maintaining in house business applications and also working on minor bug fixes, including front-end user interface design, server-side code, any business logic, and database integration. This role is vital to enable the delivery of the UK Power Networks digital strategy and being able to set UK Power Networks up to operate within the expectations of the RIIO-ED2 regime. investment. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: This role will be responsible for the following: Supporting technology change • Take a Supporting role in the customer service agile team, prioritising own workload. • Be primary contact in the customer service agile team, prioritise workload according to agreed attributes including understanding the impact of not delivering. • collaboration with representatives from across the business in the delivery of change for on-premises and cloud-based solutions. • Support waterfall project delivery for certain projects and scope, working with project managers and team members to achieve the required outcomes. Technology solving business challenges. • Showing thought approach in how to rapidly assess and select relevant technology solutions to deliver business needs in a scalable and supportable manner. • Showing deep understanding to keep abreast of technology advances and identifying how and when such capabilities can be tested and utilised to drive digital innovation. • Being passionate about how tech works and getting hands-on to develop cloud-based prototypes to rapidly prove business value and drive learning through action . Driving data change • Ensure your work is done with robustness, scalability and best practices in mind. • Advocating best practices in data governance, ownership and stewardship within the team Ensuring standards and controls • Document customer service technology system strategies, roadmaps and standards and ensuring their alignment and support of UK Power Networks business vision and objectives. • Support the development and adherence to technology principles and guardrails to support the realisation of the enterprise architecture and the corresponding business vision and strategy. Managing Communication • Maintain key stakeholder relationships in the business to continuously understand their biggest challenges and data needs, incorporating these needs into technology design and implementation. NATURE AND SCOPE: UK Power Networks is UK's largest electricity distribution network operator, delivering electricity to approximately 18 million customers, including critical infrastructure and businesses across the country. As we face new opportunities and challenges such as smart meters, electric vehicles and a carbon neutral future, we need to simultaneously transform the way use technology to evolve the service we offer to customers & the platform our teams use to serve them. It is the purpose of this initiative to drive this transformation, by complimenting the digital strategy that will seek to make UK Power Networks a in data driven decision making. You will have the opportunity to have a major impact across the company and change the way technology and data is utilised by employees and customers of UK Power Networks. We are accountable in supporting the business in achieving its vision of becoming an 'employer of choice', 'a respected and trusted corporate citizen' and 'sustainably cost efficient'. SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Qualifications • Education to degree level is desirable but not essential. Experience • Knowledge or experience in working in Agile Delivery Teams and/or leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFE) • Experience is required in the creation and maintenance of databases within SQL server. This includes schema normalisation, production of views, stored procedures, triggers and user access control. • Extensive experience with Office 365 and Azure as well as data visualisation tools such as PowerBI • Knowledge of the energy and utilities sector is very much preferred. Technical Skills • Writing clean, concise, commented and exceptional code standards within, but not limited to (C# / JavaScript / VBA/HTML / Razor mark-up/SQL) • Using and deploying Microsoft O365 and Azure cloud services utilising SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models • Designing and delivery of solutions on or integrating with real-time systems • Architecting, designing and delivery of packaged solutions including integration into the wider IT estate. • Designing and implementing cloud-based solutions data engineering solutions, including designing the networking and security arrangements. Using technologies such as Azure Data Lakes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Data Warehouse/Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, NoSQL DBs • Championing an automation data driven mindset and knowledge of any programming/scripting (e.g. PowerShell, Go, Python, Ruby, .NET,) • Regularly using data analytics technology and scripting (e.g. SQL, Python/R, NoSQL, PowerBI, Notebooks, machine learning) • In depth understanding of Windows, Linux and Networking systems. • Working with real-time event ingestion engines such as Azure Event Hubs or Apache Kafka, have developed connectors for a range of different data sources. • Excellent range of communication skills, including being able to translate technical issues into non-technical terms and attain complex details from stakeholders quickly and easily.