One of our Insurance client is looking for Senior Business Data Analyst for a 12+ months contract

Business Data Analyst
12+ months contract
Hybrid remote - London

Requirements:

• 5+ years working experience as a Business Analyst including experience in process improvement methodologies e.g. Lean 
• Great analytical skills with experience collecting, organizing, analysing, and disseminating abundant information with accuracy 
• Prior experience with creation of performance management processes (preferred but no mandatory) 
• Prior experience in Lloyds Insurance  
• Able to work with minimal supervision 
• Excellent organizational and time management skills 
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills 
• Critical thinker 
• Creative problem solver 
• Data-driven approach 

One of our direct client is looking for a Solutions Architect on a 6+ months remote contract

EUC Solutions Architect

6+ months contract

Fully Remote

• Solutions Architect with strong experience and passion in Modern Workplace technologies

Skills: Citrix, EUC, VDI, Virtualisation

One of our direct client is looking for Lead Administrator on a contract basis in London

Lead Administrator
6+ months contract
London - Hybrid travel

Role Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to provide significant technical expertise in architecture planning and design of the concerned tower(platform, database, middleware, backup etc) as well as managing its day-to-day operations

Responsibilities:

• Provide adequate support in architecture planning, migration & installation for new projects in own tower (platform/dbase/middleware/ backup)
• Lead the structural/ architectural design of a platform/middleware/ database/ back up etc. according to various system requirements to ensure a highly scalable and extensible solution
• Conduct technology capacity planning by reviewing the current and future requirements
• Utilize and leverage the new features of all underlying technologies to ensure smooth functioning of the installed databases and applications/ platforms, as applicable
• Strategize & implement disaster recovery plans and create and implement backup and recovery plans
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the tower
• Manage day-to-day operations by troubleshooting any issues,conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and developing fixes to avoid similar issues.
• Plan for and manage upgradations, migration, maintenance,backup, installation and configuration functions for own tower
• Review the technical performance of own tower and deploy ways to improve efficiency, fine tune performance and reduce performance challenges
• Develop shift roster for the team to ensure no disruption in the tower
• Create and update SOPs, Data Responsibility Matrices, operations manuals, daily test plans, data architecture guidance etc.
• Provide weekly status reports to the client leadership team,internal stakeholders on database activities w.r.t. progress, updates,status, and next steps
• Leverage technology to develop Service Improvement Plan (SIP)through automation and other initiatives for higher efficiency and effectiveness

One of financial client is looking for Head of Cloud Migration on a contract basis

Head of Cloud Migration

6+ months contract

Hybrid remote - London

The Head of Cloud Migration drives public cloud delivery cross-functionally with a focus on outcome-oriented KPIs. This is a critical role in an exciting multi-year program of work, sitting in the context of the wider Strategic Partnership and aligned to our technology strategy, which will bring significant change and opportunity to client

Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience managing global IT organisations
• Experience driving execution of large-scale, multi-year transformation / technology modernisation
• Passionate people-leader that inspires change and organisational buy-in
• Demonstrated ability to present to and influence senior management and establish credibility with business executives
• Assurance of delivery and execution in consistent, timely manner by ensuring documentation and adoption of best practices
• Effective, detail-oriented communication and project and program management skills
• Broad technical appreciation of micro-services design and modern technology environments, specifically public cloud infrastructure and architecture
• Understanding of delivery experience, DevOps, SRE, IAM and automated toolchains
• Experience in managing people at an organisation with a large, strong public cloud program; preference for experience with Azure
• Manager of relationships and agreements with vendors (preferable cloud), emphasizing flexibility in contractual commitments to adapt to changing business needs

Responsibilities:

• Own responsibility for the overall Infrastructure program workstream, ensuring desired outcomes are delivered in migrating to Azure cloud, including transforming ways of working of the
• global workforce of over 15,000 people
• Govern overall infrastructure and engineering transformation (including cross-workstream orchestration, performance management, governance forums and dashboards/metrics); ensure simple, clear articulation and persistent, sustainable execution
• Design and build out the integrated client / Microsoft organisational structure for the transformation office and associated governance
• Enable capabilities that span across several elements of the Infrastructure workstream (e.g., FinOps, vendor management, financial reporting)
• Act as the Infrastructure workstream interface with the broader transformation programme 
• Collaborate proactively and widely across client / Microsoft to understand the aims and outcomes of all relevant initiatives to highlight and leverage the benefits of alignment
• Partner across client to deliver improvements to any processes which can accelerate delivery of this Infrastructure stream
• Support the Technology Leadership Team in driving and shaping the future state of the organization for the client's partnership with Microsoft while ensuring alignment with the client's Technology strategy

One of our Energy client is looking for Business Analyst on a contract basis

Business Analyst
3+ months contract
Remote

• BA to support the development of requirements and user stories.  
• This resource would ideally have good knowledge of wholesale markets / energy trading.
• Very strong stakeholder engagement skills needed as this will likely impact ‘customers wide’
• These resource would ideally have industry experience and knowledge of the flexibility business
• Support client through the design and delivery of the project he has been gathering requirements on. 
• As mentioned above once the plan is clearly defined, this would reduce to part time so there is an opportunity to pick up other TRM project work.

One of our banking client is looking for Project Manager on a contract basis

Project Manager - Risk & Cloud
6+ months contract
2 days' a week onsite in Sheffield

Principal Responsibilities
The Project Manager is accountable to the Head of Governance, Audit and Planning within the Risk, Assurance and Controls Strategy team, supporting effective client's operated controls assurance in Cloud, during delivery of new initiatives and for client's services operating in Cloud.  

The role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Ensure cross-programme dependencies are managed during the enhancement and embedding of processes and tooling
• Manage production of materials for workshops and reporting during the enhancement and embedding of processes and tooling                
• Instigate and manage initiatives to drive improvements to the Technology control environment including the effective design of material controls
• Partner with the Global Cloud Services team to create effective design, analysis and remediation of control measures
• Lead the application and critique of the Technology risk and controls framework
• Ensure the appropriate application of policies control standards and procedures

Knowledge & Experience

• Proven project / process management experience with a solid delivery track record driving change.
• Ability to present complex issues confidently and concisely to senior stakeholders using non-technical easily understood language.
• Innovative and able to assess needs and propose solutions.
• Ability to influence without direct management authority.
• Able to actively engage with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to drill down to root cause and write/review clearly articulated risk documentation.
• Relevant working experience in Financial Services industry.
• Proven track record in Programme Mgt / PMO role, delivering outcomes to tight timelines and on budget.
• Delivery experience in an agile environment.
• Experience working on products and services across AWS, google and Azure – Desirable.

One of our banking client is looking for Windows System Engineer on a contract basis

Windows System Engineer
Remote
12+ months contract

Requirements:

• Should have 10+ years of experiences in Windows server Management
• Sound knowledge in Windows server 2008, Windows 2012R2, Windows 2016 and VMware infrastructure.
• Experience in dealing with various server hardware like Dell, Hp, Lenovo, IBM etc.,
• Expertise with Windows Active directory, storage(SAN\NAS) administration at OS end
• Good knowledge on VM servers administration
• Data migration tools like quest
• Experience in Windows/Veritas Cluster software administration
• Having experience in performing DR and role swap exercises on Prod environments  
• Troubleshooting any technical issues independently
• Diagnosis, investigation, recovery and resolution of various types of hardware problems and software issues.
• Scripting (batch files, vbscript, PowerShell)

One of our banking client is looking for a PMO Manager/ Analyst on a 6+ months contract basis

PMO Manager/ Analyst - £300/day inside IR35

6+ months contract

Sheffield - once a week onsite

Description:
Programme Management Office (PMO) roles will be located in projects of a variety of sizes, which are single or multiple work stream, have country or global dimension, and be of both narrow and broad scope. The principal accountability of PMO roles is to support the Programme Management Office in carrying out project monitoring, governance and reporting activities.
PMO roles would not have any direct reports but may be supported by administration staff and may report to Programme or Project Managers.

Responsibilities:

• Tracking statuses of project deliverables and milestones
• Risk and issue monitoring and co-ordination
• Coordination of the regular project and programme level reporting
• Co-ordination of project governance arrangements
• Manage the collection, collation and processing of project information from stakeholders
• Monitor and report on budgets and expenditure
• Assist with the implementation of project standards across projects 
• Managing and updating project documentation, process documents and information sources