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Mentmore is currently recruiting for a Head of Engineering for our client, a leading organisation, who are undertaking a large-scale programme. They are looking to bring on board an experienced Head of Engineering who has strong experiences in leading large, multi-year, business-critical Engineering Systems technology solutions and leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for new technology to transform our Engineering systems applications management.
• Drive continuous improvements across different application technologies
• You will set the technology strategy and direction for our applications; partners with business partners and influences overall strategy
• Develops and implements technology vision and operating plans; sets direction based on alignment to business strategy and technology opportunities
• SDLC methodologies – Waterfall, Agile & DevOps solutions delivery models
• Provides leadership to SAFe agile and teams continuous improvement.
• Manages relationship with Application vendors & SI partners, influencing technology roadmaps and contract negotiations
• Represents the CIO organization in program executive steering committees or project management board
• Ensures system, technical and product architectures are aligned with business objectives
• Defines performance objectives and development plans for team members and ensures alignment with department objectives.

Required skills:

• 10+ years’ experience working in the technology industry.
• Experience leading large, multi-year, business-critical Engineering Systems technology solutions
• Significant experiences of SDLC methodologies – Waterfall, Agile & DevOps solutions delivery models
• Must have 5 years working experience in a leadership role.
• Undergraduate degree in computer science/engineering or in related field
• Strong software product development background

Mentmore are currently recruiting for a Solution Architect for our client, a leading retail organisation who are undertaking a various project’s. They are looking to bring on board an experienced Solution Architect with extensive stakeholder management and business partnering experience from a strong customer facing background.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce high level and low-level solution designs and ensure that the solution design meet the technology strategy of the business.
• Engage and build strong relationships with business stakeholders.
• Cloud solution design, including IaaS and Azure.
• Hands on work with API design
• Work closely with business and technology SMEs to translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Assist in delivery of technical solutions.
• Work with latest developments in Cloud, e.g., serverless computing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with good senior-level stakeholder management soft skills and competencies.

Experience required:

• 5-7 years Solution Architecture experience ideally within a customer facing role.
• Strong stakeholder management experiences
• Excellent working experience with Cloud solution design, IaaS and new cloud technologies such as Azure.
• Strong business partner and ability to build relationships with stakeholders.
• Digital experiences would be a plus.
• Background: Customer facing would be a plus.

Mentmore is currently recruiting for a Business Analyst for our client, a leading retail organisation who are undertaking a various project’s. They are looking to bring on board an experienced Business Analyst with extensive analysis, business system design and digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business analysis and business systems design and ensure that systems developed fully align with business requirements.
• Work across the project lifecycle and be accountable for business analysis, design, testing, documentation, and implementation of applications systems.
• Develop a good understanding of business systems architecture, to provide knowledge to IT management and business representatives.
• Create and verify cost benefit cases for nominated projects.
• Responsible to carry out and assist in Risk Analysis.
• Working closely with IT management, devise, and scope systems development projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with good senior-level stakeholder management soft skills and competencies.

Experience required:

• 3+ years Business Analysis experience ideally within a consumer facing role.
• Significant experience in a similar IT position.
• Training in analysis and design methodologies (e.g., Data modelling, Process modelling, Entity Lifecycle, etc.)
• Good knowledge of using PC tools in support of the function is desirable.
• Understanding of business systems architecture would be a plus.
• Digital experiences would be a plus.

Mentmore is currently recruiting for a Cloud Solution Architect for our client, a global organisation who are undertaking a large-scale digital transformation programme. They are looking to bring on board an experienced Cloud Solution Architect with extensive experience of hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.

Key responsibilities:

• Craft solutions and govern the solutions as they are being deployed into the organisation.
• Ensure that the solution design meet the technology strategy of the business.
• Architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
• Responsible for the architecture vision and strategy of the organisation.
• cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
• Claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
• Working with data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake, Azure Cosmos DB etc.
• Data ingestion technologies such as Azure Data Factory
• Machine learning tools such as Azure ML / ASL
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with good senior-level stakeholder management soft skills and competencies.

Required skills:

• 5-7 years Solution Architecture experience
• 3+ years in a solution architecture role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• Experience with claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC.
• Excellent working experience of data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake, Azure Cosmos DB etc.
• Good Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, .NET etc.

Mentmore is currently recruiting for a Network Engineer for our client, a leading retailer who are undertaking a digital transformation. They are looking to bring on board an experienced Network Engineer with extensive experience of network technologies and architecture such as TCP/IP and hands on experience with Cisco Meraki network products and components.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining network infrastructure across the globe.
• Support on design and maintenance of all Networking components (routing, switching, firewalls, wireless)
• Hands on work with Cisco Meraki network products and components
• Cisco CCNA Enterprise Infrastructure or similar
• Working with Cisco AnyConnect
• Expert / SME support on complex network issues and incidents
• Support in the rollout of the new Network strategy and design.
• Work closely with Information Security, a Managed Network Support Provider and wider IT to keep their systems running stable and secure.
• WCNA (Wireshark)
• Supporting the development and adoption of new network solutions
• Support and Troubleshooting of Enterprise VPN solutions.

Required skills:

• 3+ years working as a NOC, Network Engineering or Network Support Roles
• Excellent working knowledge of Wan Technologies, Switching and Wireless.
• Hands on Experience with Cisco Meraki network products and components.
• Good understanding of ITIL concepts and change management.
• Significant experience with TCP/IP stack.
• Cisco CCNA Enterprise Infrastructure or equivalent
• PRTG or Equivalent Certified

Mentmore is currently recruiting for a Production Support Analyst for our client, a leading fintech organisation who are undertaking a large transformation programmes. They are looking to bring on board an experienced Production Support Analyst with extensive experience of middleware/integration systems and transact-SQL queries.

Please note that within the role you will provide 24/7 out of hours support on a rota basis.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing in-depth root cause analysis or request fulfilment.
• You will regularly deliver professional 2^nd and 3^rd line application support for middleware and integration systems.
• High volume application support
• Writing and using transact-SQL queries on a day-to-day basis.
• AppDynamics and IIS Server
• Configuring and maintaining multi-tier environments
• Escalating issues to 3rd line support and management.
• Involved with a blend of programming and administration tasks; working with various stakeholders to resolve technical problems through analysis, diagnosis, and solution definition.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with good senior-level stakeholder management soft skills and competencies

Required skills:

• 5+ years’ experience in a low-latency, high volume application support role
• Excellent experiences with Transact-SQL queries
• Good work experiences of application support for middleware and integration systems
• Proven work experiences with some of the following: Oracle; .NET; Firewalls; Internet security; SOAP; HTML; Java Frameworks; AppDynamics and IIS Server knowledge.
• Good working knowledge within a Windows environment.
• ITIL foundation certificate would be a plus!

Mentmore are currently supporting a rapidly growing FTSE 100 organisation across a large-scale global programme and seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to come on board with extensive Google Cloud and AWS experiences. They are on a CEO sponsored digital transformation journey using data to drive decisions around sales, marketing, manufacturing and supply chain. Data and cloud are at the heart of this journey.

Key responsibilities:

• Architect and help build data systems and data pipeline engineering on cloud platforms.
• Modern data engineering
• Continuous optimisation of data systems and data architectures
• Help drive the development of new products and tools.
• Responsible for the development of the overall data platform architecture and pipelines
• Data Engineering on eco-systems with AWS or Google Cloud
• Keep updated of new data technologies and trends and recommend areas for improvement and innovation particularly in the utilisation of Data Engineering, Data Architecture including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and New cloud technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with good senior-level stakeholder management soft skills and competencies

Required skills:

• 7+ years experiences as a Data Engineer
• Excellent knowledge of Google Cloud Platforms
• Significant working experience of modern data engineering
• Excellent experience working with SQL Server and Data Visualisation and analytics tools (Tableau, BOARD, Qlik).
• Experience of developing databases and data warehouses, and related technologies e.g., Spark, AWS, SQL Server, NoSQL, etc.
• A good understanding of Data engineering on eco system with AWS and google would be a plus.

Mentmore are currently recruiting for a Cloud Engineer – DevOps for our client, a global organisation who are undertaking a large-scale digital transformation programme. They are looking to bring on board an experienced Cloud Engineer – DevOps with Infrastructure as code, automation and AWS experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible to educate and work with development teams on automation to drive the adoption within the organisation.
• You will be involved with the transitioning from on-premise to the public cloud
• Work in various technologies and platforms in AWS
• Work with AWS multi-account structures such as (Lambda, EC2, RDS, VPC, Cloudwatch , Cloudtrail, S3, Route 53)
• High level of automation (Infrastructure as code)
• Responsible for automated deployments of workloads at scale – Pipeline Updates, building and support etc.
• High level design of technologies to drive growth and improvements
• IAM and SSO Management and Automation

• Terraform & Version control Gitlab
• Ansible

• Provide cloud expertise and 3^rd level IT technical support and tool recommendation
• Help projects into a development sustainable way
• Establish the development within an agile environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with good senior-level stakeholder management soft skills and competencies.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years’ experience in IT industry with strong expertise around various technologies
• Must have 2+ years experiences within a Cloud Engineering role
• Excellent knowledge of Terraform.

• Proven experience with AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS, VPC, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, S3, Route 53).

• Strong experience with IAM and SSO Management and Automation
• In depth knowledge with various development tools

• Must have a good knowledge of Python, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI and Ansible

Mentmore is currently recruiting for a Junior SAP Functional Analyst for our client, a leading organisation who are scaling up their IT practice. They are looking to bring on board a Junior SAP Functional Analyst with 3+ years’ experience with SAP ECC6 modules – SD, MM or FI and Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (P2P).

Key responsibilities:

• SAP ECC6 – support their product procurement (MM/P2P), customer order processing (SD/OTC) and financials (FI).
• Leverage SAP ECC6 for business efficiency and development
• 3rd Part connections and (WMS) Warehouse Management Systems integrations.
• Gather business requirements and model into system requirements that are well structured and clearly documented
• Product supply within a B2B environment and beyond to B2C fulfilment
• Define project objectives and constraints, along with clearly defined Scope documents
• Identify risks and conduct impact analysis
• Work closely with our partners throughout the system build phase
• Help facilitate meetings and workshops together with the Senior SAP Analysts
• Function tests the system to ensure compliance with functional specification
• Support the business during UAT cycle for issue resolution
• Interact with 3rd parties to deliver projects and or changes

Required skills:

• 3+ years experiences with SAP or another ERP
• Ability to leverage SAP ECC6 for business efficiency and development
• Good knowledge with SAP ECC6 modules – SD, MM or FI
• Good understanding of Order to Cash (OTC) and (P2P) Procure to Pay is a must
• Working knowledge of WMS (warehouse management system) solutions would be a plus
• ABAP knowledge/experience would be preferable

Mentmore is currently recruiting for a Lead Business Analyst for our client, a leading retailer, who are undertaking various large-scale projects. They are looking to bring on board an experienced Lead Business Analyst with significant experiences of Business analysis and BA leadership.

Note: 12-month fixed term contract

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and building the BA function within the IT department.
• You will be in charge of the management of a small team of Business Analyst and you will develop this team of BA’s.
• Providing best practice insight and business change capabilities
• Provide consultancy to business areas & problem solving
• Business analysis and business systems design
• Evaluate potential external application resources and package solutions
• Assist in Risk Analysis
• Microsoft tools in support of the function (Excel, Word, Visio)
• You will ensure design and testing aligns to the original objectives of a project
• Working closely with the project management, architecture, operations and security to scope solution development, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure suitable user documentation and training are provided as part of the solution development process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with good senior-level stakeholder management soft skills and competencies

Required Skills:

• Extensive experience in a Business Analysis and/or BA Leadership role
• Strong analysis and business system design skills
• Proven management/leadership experiences
• Broad business knowledge such as digital, infrastructure, operations etc.
• Thought leader
• Previous use/admin of Jira for managing portions of project lifecycle (e.g. backlog, project tasks and testing scenarios)
• Excellent knowledge in using Microsoft tools.
• Stakeholder management
• Background: retail, airline, hotels would be ideal.