Programme Manager – CONTRACT – North London

Programme Manager – Change Management

Skills: My client is looking for a Programme Manager to lead the build phase of a large, data-intensive, IT Change Programme that will affect the majority of functions across the structure of this global leader within their field.

I am ideally looking for a demonstrable background in successful delivery of technology focused change programmes, (preferable data-intensive applications) which have been both complex and business critical. A pragmatic approach is required to probe into the level of detail as well as the gravitas to work at board level to ensure the smooth communication and successful rigor is applied to all components across the programme. You will be managing multiple stakeholders; (at times, with conflicting views) within IT, business, vendor / supplier partners (on/off shore) to ensure the consensus and alignment of business objectives and programme deliverables.

A successful and demonstrable background of end to end delivery of technology change programmes is required.

Please Contact Robin Carton – 01920 877111 – rjc@arcamresources.com

Process Excellence Director – London – c£100k

Process Excellence Director / Programme Director – you will be responsible for the implementation of Process Excellence initiatives across both the Operations and Technology divisions of this Global Financial Services Organisation. You will take ownership of the execution of improvement initiatives employing proven process excellence tools and leading strategies.
Responsibilities will include; but are not limited to, Analysis and Recommendation, Enablement, Metrics, Reporting, and Process Excellence Projects. The incumbent will consult across the Operations and Technology leaderships teams to identify, quantify, and prioritise process improvements that complement the Companies goals and business objectives. You will manage cross-functional project teams to successfully implement these initiatives that will enable the unification of global processes across their Operations and Technologies divisions.
Requirements;
Leadership and Coaching;
Act as a mentor, coach, and process / technical leader for the successful completion of Analysis, Metrics, Reporting and related Projects with proven and industry leading business process excellence. Act as a mentor, coach and leader to external stakeholders for the completion of process excellence initiatives employing proven process excellence methodologies.
Strategic;
With a consultative approach you will provide support to the Process Owners, Operations and Technology management, perform process and data analysis, articulate your findings and deliver concise recommendations and measurements to enable the planning and approach of unified business processes.
Project Implementation;
Individually, or by leading project teams, you will eliminate specific defects, identify, document and deliver metrics proving positive change in operational excellence. Take ownership of ongoing metrics, reporting, and operational ownership processes that will enable management to effectively monitor changes in process. As Process Excellence Director / Programme Director you must demonstrate the proven ability to manage multiple projects at any given time and drive these initiatives to completion. The volume of process improvements and projects will vary in complexity and scale.
Skills and Experience;
Masters Degree
– Six Sigma Black Belt or Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB) is a plus
– Demonstrable background in process excellence methodologies and full cycle project management
– Proven track record of successful projects completion

Please contact Robin Carton – rjc@arcamresources – 01920 877111

Head of SEO – eCommerce – London – c£80k

On behalf of my client, who are a very successful eCommerce organisation that have experienced significant growth since inception, I am looking for a Head of SEO who will be take responsibility for their continued SEO / SEM success.
Responsibilities;
• To lead and continue the drive of new usage through SEO / SEM
• To work with senior stakeholders to agree global SEO – strategy, direction and targets.
• To implement a global SEO strategy whilst building upon the successful growth and seamless integration of their current online channels.
• To oversee the global SEO technical integration
• Co-ordinate the SEO requirements and efforts of the related Web Development and Web Analytics teams
• Champion SEO best practices, approach and process for website updates, integration, tools, content syndication etc
• SEO performance tracking and reporting, taking into account competitor analysis / rankings

This is an excellent opportunity within a growing organisation to progress your career with SEO.

Please Contact Robin Carton – 01920 877111 – rjc@arcamresources.com

J2EE Technical Architect – West London

Java Technical Architect
On behalf of my client, who are world renowned and market leading within their field, I am looking for a J2EE Technical Architect to help to establish, build and grow their new J2EE enterprise architecture and development team.
The Role
Your main responsibility is to architecting and developing complex web applications and leading the technical team(s) to achieve successful delivery of projects. You must improve software development competence via initiation and management of change programs and will identify emerging trends or technologies.
You will offer effective solutions to highly complicated business requirements and technical issues and make sound decisions on technical projects related to software applications & architecture.
You will create the architecture/design of the systems and justification of the solution to clients and/or 3rd parties and communicate this to the team and support them in implementing it.

For consideration, you should have experience in some of the following areas;

o Strong experience designing and building commercial, complex, enterprise systems
o Strong skills in Java: J2EE: Jetty, Tomcat, WebSphere or Weblogic; Spring; Hibernate; Struts, Spring MVC or Tapestry; Apache and Oracle; virtualisation technologies
o Knowledge of building digital media software systems and architecture
o Worked on range of platforms ie web, Client Server, o/s etc
o Strong logical design skills and logical-to-physical design skills
o Technical skills across several enterprise technologies
o Knowledge covering multiple platforms and architectures
o Can deal with requirements analysis and solution proposition
o Large architecture experience
o Worked with multiple streams of design and how they link together
o Experience of Enterprise Architecture Models
o Full life cycle experience, highly technical and hands-on
o Be committed to design, build and deployment excellence.
o Experience writing highly deployable, web-based software applications
o Experience developing enterprise software applications

Please contact Robin Carton for further details on 01920 877111 or rjc@arcamresources.com

Change Programme Manager – CONTRACT – North London

Programme Manager – Change Management

Skills: My client is looking for a Programme Manager to lead the build phase of a large, data-intensive, IT Change Programme that will affect the majority of functions across the structure of this global leader within their field.

I am ideally looking for a demonstrable background in successful delivery of technology focused change programmes, (preferable data-intensive applications) which have been both complex and business critical. A pragmatic approach is required to probe into the level of detail as well as the gravitas to work at board level to ensure the smooth communication and successful rigor is applied to all components across the programme. You will be managing multiple stakeholders; (at times, with conflicting views) within IT, business, vendor / supplier partners (on/off shore) to ensure the consensus and alignment of business objectives and programme deliverables.

A successful and demonstrable background of end to end delivery of technology change programmes is required.

Please Contact Robin Carton – 01920 877111 – rjc@arcamresources.com

Process Excellence Director – London – c£100k

Process Excellence Director / Programme Director – you will be responsible for the implementation of Process Excellence initiatives across both the Operations and Technology divisions of this Global Financial Services Organisation. You will take ownership of the execution of improvement initiatives employing proven process excellence tools and leading strategies.
Responsibilities will include; but are not limited to, Analysis and Recommendation, Enablement, Metrics, Reporting, and Process Excellence Projects. The incumbent will consult across the Operations and Technology leaderships teams to identify, quantify, and prioritise process improvements that complement the Companies goals and business objectives. You will manage cross-functional project teams to successfully implement these initiatives that will enable the unification of global processes across their Operations and Technologies divisions.
Requirements;
Leadership and Coaching;
Act as a mentor, coach, and process / technical leader for the successful completion of Analysis, Metrics, Reporting and related Projects with proven and industry leading business process excellence. Act as a mentor, coach and leader to external stakeholders for the completion of process excellence initiatives employing proven process excellence methodologies.
Strategic;
With a consultative approach you will provide support to the Process Owners, Operations and Technology management, perform process and data analysis, articulate your findings and deliver concise recommendations and measurements to enable the planning and approach of unified business processes.
Project Implementation;
Individually, or by leading project teams, you will eliminate specific defects, identify, document and deliver metrics proving positive change in operational excellence. Take ownership of ongoing metrics, reporting, and operational ownership processes that will enable management to effectively monitor changes in process. As Process Excellence Director / Programme Director you must demonstrate the proven ability to manage multiple projects at any given time and drive these initiatives to completion. The volume of process improvements and projects will vary in complexity and scale.
Skills and Experience;
Masters Degree
– Six Sigma Black Belt or Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB) is a plus
– Demonstrable background in process excellence methodologies and full cycle project management
– Proven track record of successful projects completion

Please contact Robin Carton – rjc@arcamresources – 01920 877111

Head of SEO – eCommerce – London – c£80k

On behalf of my client, who are a very successful eCommerce organisation that have experienced significant growth since inception, I am looking for a Head of SEO who will be take responsibility for their continued SEO / SEM success.
Responsibilities;
• To lead and continue the drive of new usage through SEO / SEM
• To work with senior stakeholders to agree global SEO – strategy, direction and targets.
• To implement a global SEO strategy whilst building upon the successful growth and seamless integration of their current online channels.
• To oversee the global SEO technical integration
• Co-ordinate the SEO requirements and efforts of the related Web Development and Web Analytics teams
• Champion SEO best practices, approach and process for website updates, integration, tools, content syndication etc
• SEO performance tracking and reporting, taking into account competitor analysis / rankings

This is an excellent opportunity within a growing organisation to progress your career with SEO.

Please Contact Robin Carton – 01920 877111 – rjc@arcamresources.com

Technical Business Analyst – (Systems Implementation) – London

Senior Business Systems Analyst

On behalf of my client; a Global Media Giant, I am looking for a Senior Business / Systems Analyst for involvement on a range of full cycle project across enterprise online platforms and data-rich applications and systems.

Key tasks:

Business & Systems analysis
• Develop a solid understanding of Internal systems and data issues and their relationship to strategic issues, with a view to being able to identify and make recommendations for business process or system improvements that are aligned to changing business needs
• Collect, analyse and define business and functional requirements in a structured manner and involving necessary stakeholders, in order to define deliverables and use cases
• Work with technical experts to deliver robust technical specifications and solutions, which meet business requirements
• Produce supporting materials, e.g. process/support guidance, and conduct training, as necessary, in order to guarantee successful adoption/support of project deliverables

Team leadership
• Lead, motivate and mentor two other business systems analysts to ensure that the team are trained and motivated to successfully meet objectives and add value to the organisation
• Manage and assign analysis resources to projects as required to ensure that they are appropriately resourced
• Oversee the analysis process for projects that junior team members are taking forward

Communication and stakeholder engagement
• Communicate with stakeholders, in an appropriate format, to ensure that they are provided with appropriate information for decision making
• Secure buy-in from business and technical stakeholders and maintain this throughout the project lifecycle, in order to allow projects to initiate and reach successful completion and adoption

Skills/knowledge:
• Strong analytical skills and knowledge of analysis principles, practices and techniques
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Sound self-organisation and planning skills
• High attention to detail
• Knowledge of project management principles, practices and techniques
• Experience of working within an Agile environment

Please contact Robin Carton – rjc@arcamresources.com – 01920 877111

.NET, WPF, WinForms Developer – LONDON – £55k

I am currently seeking a Senior .NET WPF, WinForms developer to work on new innovative data management applications. You’ll work within a talented team, and ultimately be responsible for crafting elegant front-end applications, but be adaptable enough to turn your attention to server side coding, low-level systems coding and more.

Ideally you will be a quick learner, enjoy challenging and interesting problems, understand the technology landscape, and get a buzz from producing the simple and elegant solutions. You will also work very closely with end customers and need to ensure your code is efficient and maintainable.

Key requirements;
• Previous experience of designing and building elegant desktop applications with .NET and WPF, WinForms.
• Happy to work with cross platform or non Windows GUI frameworks, such as Cocoa or QT
• Knowledge with scripting languages, such as PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby, and command line programming.

Skills & Experience;
• Experience of working with desktop applications.
• Proven knowledge of applying skills and experience to produce stylish user applications
• Comfortable to develop within a test driven and iterative approach.
• Previous experience within an agile/lean environment and are happy dealing with change.

Please contact Robin Carton – rjc@arcamresources.com – 01920 877111