Recruiter

Absolute Solution Ltd

Salary

From £33,000 to £55,000 per year

Location

South West London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

LAMP Developer – Full stack

Candidate Requirements:
You are: A web application development superstar, who can do everything from backend development to frontend development and Linux systems administration. And you like it that way!

• You must have a very strong understanding of PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JS, jQuery, Linux administration, responsive design, and at least one MVC framework.

• You must have experience with Sass, Foundation, Mustache, Backbone, Underscore, Modernizr, JIRA, and Jenkins.

• You must have previously built at least one professional quality website on your own.

• You are familiar with the complexities of web design for mobile interfaces and can offer feedback and guidance to the designers about how to design pages that easily convert into a grid based responsive interface.

• You are comfortable with writing applications even without the help of programming frameworks.

• You must have a strong understanding of object-oriented programming with PHP and at least elementary knowledge of design patterns other than MVC.

• You must have an exceptional ability to design abstracted, high-level, and reusable solutions.

Job Description:
We are building a brand new website from scratch. Your responsibility will be to build the entire application and the required systems infrastructure. This means everything from setting up web and database servers on AWS to building the backend systems on an MVC framework, the frontend on HTML5/CSS3, and the JavaScript for the user interfaces. You will be a key figure in the development team, with a lot of responsibility and a lot of freedom to choose your technologies and development strategies.

Willingness to travel
Occasionally
The ideal candidate has worked for these companies:
The ideal candidate knows what working in a bootstrapping start-up is like, and is not afraid of the challenges of building systems from zero.
Why is your company a great place to work for:
Take advantage of working in a small team: You will have versatile projects, plenty of independence, and a real chance to influence the direction of the development. In our company, your work will make a difference.
A description of the ideal candidate:
An ideal candidate can discuss matters like these in depth without even breaking a sweat:

• Transactions with InnoDB
• Dynamic typing
• Circular references
• Closures
• PHP optimization using front and back facing techniques
• Weaknesses of PHP
• Building complex, distributed software systems
• Browser security with Ajax
• “Object-oriented” CSS
• Debugging and profiling JS and PHP
• Page loading time optimization
• Unobtrusive JS
• Cross-browser compatibility
• Raymond’s Unix philosophy
Considered beneficial, but not required:
• Java
• C++
• Yii Framework

Recruiter

Absolute Solution Ltd

Salary

From £40,000 to £43,000 per year + extensive

Location

Ealing

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

IT Support Engineer
£40-43k + bens, West London

Technical requirements
You have a wide IT skill set including an excellent working knowledge of Linux (Red Hat EL5/EL, SuSe 11), Windows 2003/2008, Oracle 10 including administration, UNIX utilities, IIS, Bash/sh., SQL and Python.
You have a good knowledge of standard computer hardware.
You have a good knowledge of network technologies.
You have experience of running and writing SQL and bash shell scripts.
You have experience of problem solving in general and in-depth analysis of large log and text files. Ideally you will have experience of your ability to analyse large data volumes, which may be in text or binary format, in a Linux environment.

THE ROLE
This is a role for a highly motivated person who will help to install, configure and provide first line support for a number of bespoke applications running under Linux and Windows platforms.

THE TEAM
The Global Client Support team work together with our partners around the world in 35 countries providing first line support. We are a multi- disciplinary team with a wide range and depth of skills in IT hardware, software, operations management and measurement technology.
You will work with a team of 4 other Support Engineers to support our panel operations people across the globe in using our audience metering and software products to provide a 24/7 service.

SO, WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?
You will assess, resolve and document client issues and requests on a daily basis.
You will be performing processing system upgrades and back-ups.
You will be responsible for system testing.
You will help to install, configure and provide first line support for a number of bespoke applications running under Linux and Windows platforms.
You will be conducting systems performance analysis.
You will develop within the role so that you can work independently on our out of hour’s helpline.


Extras:
You are enthusiastic and keen to learn in a challenging and dynamic environment.
You relish solving problems and have a logical approach to troubleshooting.
You are calm and focused when under pressure with the ability to prioritise your workload to meet multiple deadlines.
You are flexible and adaptable in responding to client queries.
You are patient and able to see a project through to the end.
You are a strong communicator with the ability to work effectively in an international support environment where the first language may not be English.
You are prepared to travel abroad, sometimes at short notice

Some Company information:
Our experts currently work with 22,000 companies Internationally and we are one of the largest Companies in our field.

Recruiter

Absolute Solution Ltd

Salary

From £24,000 to £25,000 per year + good benefits

Location

Milton Keynes

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Application configuration specialist
International Company, 1000’s of employees

Candidate Requirements:
• Working knowledge of SMART (workforce management software) or another T&A system and basic configuration.
• Experience of using SQL Server reporting services and or building; creating; writing reports
• Proven ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload whilst working on own initiative and demonstrate a flexible response to role requirements
• Knowledge of requirements capture methods and how to interpret requirements
• Proven skill of basic Config Programming
• Knowledge of SQL Server, T-SQL & SSRS
• Knowledge of requirements capture methods, and how to interpret requirements
• Awareness of the Solution deployment and how it is used by the customer
• Knowledge of automation principles using MS Products – how best to do repeated tasks
• Intermediate level Microsoft Office Products
• Flexible and adaptable to the needs of the manager/department/business

Job Description:
Support, configuration and training of our workforce management system
• Configuration of the Time & Attendance Application (workforce management) including:
• Configuration of all required Modules within the Application
• Setting up any required imports to build base data
• Unit Test the Application against the specified requirements
• Produce clear, concise Documentation for UAT
• Prepare the solution for demonstration (“Conference Room Pilot”) including scenarios.
• Update Final Config Document following changes
• Monitor Incidents reported on TOPdesk; resolving 1st line incidents where necessary:
• Analyse the requirements of actionable Change Requests/incidents, to provide a workable solution, agree the resolution with the Apps Specialist
• Conduct Training to end Users, producing and maintaining clear, concise Application documentation for Users:
• HR/Payroll/Supervisor/Super-user/Operational Managers
• Provide Project Support during the UAT phase – onsite and remotely

Willingness to travel
Occasionally

Recruiter

Absolute Solution Ltd

Salary

From £48,000 to £55,000 per year + excellent benefits package

Location

Ealing

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Senior Analyst Programmer (C++)
Working for an International Company that is one of the largest in it's field.

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED
* Strong practical C++ development experience.
* Strong practical experience of developing on the Unix / Linux environment
* Strong practical experience of UNIX tools and scripting to allow quick and efficient analysis of data files.
* Strong practical software integration experience
* Excellent testing and QA skills
* Good experience of Oracle database programming.
* Good SQL
* Good Unix shell scripting experience
* Python (desirable).
* XML (desirable).
* JAVA (desirable).



JOB PURPOSE
Reporting to one of the Team Leaders the candidate will be responsible for development and maintenance of the batch processing software running on Linux servers.

They may be expected to perform many roles across the Software Development Lifecycle from Business Analysis to System Testing. Therefore broad knowledge of Software Engineering and a flexible approach are extremely important.

High importance is attached to the analysis part of the role and the person will need to be a skilled and confident communicator who enjoys direct contact with the business. The candidate is expected to work in conjunction with others to decide 'what needs to be done' and how to achieve this. The candidate will need to quickly build an understanding of the software used in our service solutions.

The person will also be expected to use their knowledge of the business, and various data formats used within specific services, to answer data queries, and provide 2nd line support as required. Often the role will involve analysis of issues in large data sets, and devising business rules to apply to the data to correct issues. There also likely take on responsibility as the contact point for one or more of the existing services. This will involve fielding queries, impact assessments for new work, and resolving support issues and problems that cannot be dealt with elsewhere.

All work will be on Linux / Unix platforms. The code base is predominantly C++ and experience of developing in a Unix / Linux environment is expected. Strong SQL skills and experience with Database systems, preferably Oracle, are a must.

Given the skills and seniority of this role it is expected that the candidate has at least 3 years commercial experience in Software Development. Consideration may be given to exceptional candidates with less experience who can demonstrate practical skills suited to this role.


MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
* Understand existing C++ code base and design, develop, and test software solutions to meet new requirements within this software framework.
* Develop a clear understanding of the Business and how our solutions are used by our clients and what is important to them.
* Ability to take sometimes vague business requirements and work with others in the department to define this as pieces of development work.
* Ability to develop quickly small programs / scripts to aid data analysis and problem resolution.
* Understand how to integrate and test new functionality in existing complex systems. The complexity exists in terms of the business rules, rather than technical complexity.
* Organised and methodical approach to problem investigation to identify data issues raised by operations teams.
* Produce fast and innovative solutions to assist with projects to secure new business.
* Produce design documents, possibly for more junior members of staff to implement.
* Able to manage delivery of software solutions and integration of these into a working service.

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED
* Strong practical C++ development experience.
* Strong practical experience of developing on the Unix / Linux environment
* Strong practical experience of UNIX tools and scripting to allow quick and efficient analysis of data files.
* Strong practical software integration experience
* Excellent testing and QA skills
* Good experience of Oracle database programming.
* Good SQL
* Good Unix shell scripting experience
* Python (desirable).
* XML (desirable).
* JAVA (desirable).

PERSON SPECIFICATION
* Self-starter with a can-do attitude.
* Excellent customer and business skills.
* Excellent team player able to communicate with technical and non-technical team.
* Quick learner with ability to manage multiple tasks through to completion
* Good attention to detail
* Time management skills and ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently.


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Recruiter

Absolute Solution Ltd

Salary

Competitive

Location

Burgess Hill Victoria

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Job Description: C++ Team Leader

This position requires a highly self-motivated Software Developer / Software Engineer whose background strongly
demonstrates solid experience in C++. In addition to being hands on, the candidate will be expected to be the
Team Lead for others in the Software Team and therefore, experience of Team Leadership / Management is
required.
The role encompasses creating quality, reliable and tested products throughout the project lifecycle. It requires an
individual who thrives In an environment with minimal management supervision, whilst demonstrating an ability
to support others in the team from setting out work, scoping and writing specifications to the time and project
management. The individual should enjoy creating robust, efficient and scalable applications which make an
impact on end users as well as also looking to continually innovate.
A love for new technologies, a need to constantly challenge yourself, to find ways of improving systems and
process, as well as a natural intuition for elegantly solving complex technical problems is also essential.
The main day-to-day role will be a 2 pronged approach:-
• Designing, developing, documenting and maintaining our Windows-based C++, C#, Java applications. This may
include using Java and C# where required to interface with other systems (depending on your experience and
skillset there may be more of a focus on this at times)
• A Team Leader focus to develop towards understanding the team, their workload and work flow and
communicating upwards to senior Management
The role is a good fit for a Team Leader or similar with skills/experience that largely matches the following:
• Experience in Team Leading / managing a small team of Developers
• Proven programming experience using object oriented technologies
• Experience in C++, C# and Java programming- languages
• Experience with high-traffic systems where efficiency and scalability is important
• Experience of all stages of the software development life-cycle, covering investigation, requirements capture,
analysis and design (including documentation), construction, implementation, test and maintenance
• Experience of developing with agile processes
• Experience of SQL databases and TSQL
• Good understanding of application security and experience of eliminating the potential of exploits
• Experience of working on your own initiative, designing and programming complete solutions
Duties
Coding to produce, maintain and support software solutions, writing both embedded and Windows-based
applications utilising a range of technologies which will include C++, Java, C#, ADO, SOAP, and therefore, exposure
to any of these is beneficial.
The role requires the candidate to demonstrate development and documentation processing standards and
procedures as this are essential to the role. Any Agile working practices will also be advantageous.
Candidate Requirements:
Requirements
• A good working understanding of the Windows operating system
• Ability to work with many different technologies as required by different projects, and able to provide
constructive input as to which technologies should be used for a particular job

Recruiter

Absolute Solution Ltd

Salary

From £25,000 to £30,000 per year

Location

West Sussex

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Software Trainer /West Sussex


Job Description:
The Company is looking for a Trainer experienced in delivering on- site training for web-based systems.

Our Companies e-payment solutions are used by over 130 clients across the UK HE and FE sectors and our continued growth means we are looking for a second trainer to join our team. We’re looking for someone who can get our clients enthused about the products they have bought and empower them to work in the most effective way possible.

Job Description
The key focus of this role is the delivery of high-quality, professional training along with the creation and maintenance of any associated training resources. Your time will be split with 60% at client’s sites around the UK and 40% at our offices in Burgess Hill. All our training takes place at the client’s location within a classroom/IT suite environment with small groups of university or college staff.
This role has been created to meet the demands of our growing user base and the training will primarily be part of the implementation process for new systems. Each new client may require up to five days’ training for their staff which is delivered prior to their systems going live. As the role grows there will also be an opportunity to plan and deliver custom training packages as required by clients.
The delivery of high quality training is a central part of our service offering and is critical in maintaining our reputation as brand and thought leaders. We are looking for someone with a passion for face to face training and a drive to provide a great experience to our customers. No prior knowledge of payment systems is required as full training will be provided but experience in training in online systems is a must.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Deliver high quality training sessions following a standard format
• Ensure smooth planning, preparation and implementation is achieved
• Frequent travel to client locations throughout the UK, with overnight stays where appropriate
• Build and demonstrate a high level of product knowledge across all the Companies products, and keep up to date with new developments and enhancements
• Ensure that the evaluation process is followed and reviewed regularly
• Keep records of all training delivered and ensure information is recorded or passed to the training manager
• Act as an ambassador for the brand and values of the Company in all interactions with customers
• Create and maintain training content for classroom sessions, webinars, handouts, manuals and presentations
• Research training initiatives in order to adopt and build upon best practice making any recommendations to the training manager
• Liaise with clients regarding training requirements
• Build solid client relationships (so they ask you back for more!
Candidate Requirements:
Skills and Experience
Essential
• Excellent presentation, training, and communication skills (verbal and written)
• Recent experience in delivering online software training
• Aptitude to pick up new software and difficult concepts quickly
• Familiarity with creating professional content for a wide variety of training mediums, e.g. web-based, web-cast, classroom, etc
• Strong organisational skills
• Knowledge/experience of the issues affecting training in web-based systems
• Experience in the use, or training, of online or financial systems
Desirable
• Understanding of e-learning and blended learning
• Experience of developing e-learning content
• Full, clean driving license
Willingness to travel
Often

Recruiter

Absolute Solution Ltd

Salary

From £22,000 to £32,000 per year + good benefits

Location

Hounslow

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

The IT Department is currently recruiting for the role of Support Analyst to join the busy IT Helpdesk team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a support service for PC’s, printers, peripherals and software applications used within the company.

Candidates need to have 2 years’ experience in an operational IT environment and possess the following:
IT skills
• PC/Hardware Troubleshooting
• Operating Systems: Windows XP/ 7 (Advanced)
• MS Office 2010 (Advanced)
• Exchange 2010
• Working knowledge of Active Directory
• Knowledge of DHCP, WINS, DNS
• Network Security Fundamentals
• Citrix
• 2nd line Support
• Telecoms Support (VOIP, Cisco Routers, BES)
• LANDesk Administration


Key Personal Attributes
• Good interpersonal skills – works well within a small team and communicate well at all levels.
• Self-starter – will work well with minimum supervision.
• Humour, commitment and a desire to ensure customer satisfaction are key.
• Passion for technology, enthusiasm for innovation.

Key Business Attributes
• To appreciate the commercial and business implications of IT policy.
• To be able to prioritise according to business need.

Working hours will be based on a rota that covers Monday – Friday 7.30am – 5:30pm. Candidates should expect to work up to 37.5 hours over five days between Monday – Friday plus provide on call support one Weekend in Four. A full driving licence is also essential.

Recruiter

Absolute Solution Ltd

Salary

From £50,000 to £55,000 per year + Excellent bens, International Company

Location

Ealing

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

3rd Line Support and Test Analyst

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED
 Excellent testing and QA skills.
 Excellent proven analytical skills to breakdown problems and resolve 2nd / 3rd line support issues (Application support).
 Strong SQL and Oracle PL / SQL skills
 Experience of working with Data Warehouses and large data sets
 Proven experience with data analysis and complex processing systems
 Strong practical experience of UNIX tools and scripting to allow quick and efficient analysis of data files.
* Hands on Linux user
 Strong shell scripting experience
 Strong practical software integration experience
 Proven ability to understand and diagnose problems in Java/C/++ code
 Knowledge of SOAP and Webservice an advantage
 XML (desirable).


JOB PURPOSE
Reporting to the Team Leader responsible for software delivery and support for our services in the USA, the candidate will own testing and support of the Audience Measurement processing software running on Linux servers.

This role will also encompass testing new software versions to verify new functionality meets requirements, and to perform regression testing..This role requires excellent analytical skills and the ability to very quickly gain an understanding of the business, and the technical layer that implements the needs of the business.

The candidate must possess proven ability to take business requirements and specifications and test that the software produced by the team meets these.. Consequently they will act as an important conduit between the business teams in the USA, and the technical team in the UK.

Focus in this role will be on testing code from a performance perspective as the focus of the project is taking an existing system and enhancing it to cope with a 10 fold increase in data. Experience in this area and with ‘big data’ projects is highly desirable in the candidate profile.

The candidate will be expected to provide 2nd / 3rd level application support. This will include investigating complex issues with daily runs and responding to queries relating to the results produced. The candidate must be able to investigate and understand at a low level how results have been calculated. They will need to be comfortable analysing scripts, Oracle Databases and PL/SQL, and code (mainly Java but also some C++) to work out what is happening.

An ability to quickly gain knowledge and understanding to deal with problems, rather than handing over to the development team, is required. This is a senior role and the candidate is expected to work with minimal supervision once they have familiarised themselves with the domain area. The candidate must exhibit a disciplined and proactive approach to tasks.

There is a need to influence and manage people (although not necessarily direct line management) to achieve the tasks assigned to them. Consequently the candidate will need to demonstrate excellent communications skills, and be confident dealing with a range of technical and non technical people. The candidate may also be expected to act as stand-in for the Team Leader when he is not in the office.

The candidate will work closely with operational teams to resolve non standard issues and questions these teams are unable to deal with. They will also interface directly with Business team(s) to answer questions and queries about data and functionality, and provide them technical support.

As well as the hands-on technical element the person will also be responsible for problem management and prioritisation. They will be expected to handle issues self sufficiently, and request assistance via well defined focused questions. They will be the owner of the problems from creation, until resolution.

There is the possibility that some unsocial hours working and Out Of Hours Support may be required as part of this role.


MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
 Gain thorough understanding of the Audience Measurement Business and the batch processing systems that support this.
 Understanding of input, intermediate processing, output files in processing system.
 Understanding of the DB underlying the system and how to query the data contained within it to investigate problems.
 Responsible for understanding the new functionality delivered in new software releases and how to test this to ensure the software is working correctly.
 Responsibility for defining, implementing, and running tests to measure performance and ensure functional correctness.
 Ability to investigate issues resulting from testing down to code level to determine whether there is a bug or data issue.
 Act as the contact point in the team for all issues and problems related to processing.
 Ability to gain a thorough understanding of the design and implementation of existing systems and where necessary document these.
 Ability to understand detailed data and use appropriate tools to answer questions about this data
 Ability to work under pressure to help resolve production issues
 Liaison with Operational / Business / Development Teams.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
 Self-starter with a can-do attitude.
 Take responsibility for tasks through to completion
 Able to work under tight time pressures
 Excellent customer and business skills.
 Proven experience in testing and support
 Excellent team player able to communicate with technical and non-technical team.
 Quick learner with ability to manage multiple tasks through to completion
 Good attention to detail
 Time management skills and ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently.