VP of Technology – eCommerce / Online Business – North London

VP of Technology, IT Director, CTO, Technology Director, Head of IT, Programme Director

On behalf of my client, a leader within their field, I am recruiting a VP of Technology to lead a cross functional team of currently c50/60 people.

Due to my clients ambitious plans to increase their market-share and supporting IT capabilities, this is a newly created role. You will be required to harmonise a cohesive set of services to the business globally by aligning their Technology offering across Product/Applications Development, Programme Office, Operations and ultimately creating a Shared Service capability.

As part of the Technology expansion programme, it has been acknowledged that more emphasis is required on the strategic planning and delivery of Technology and other strategic projects.

Technology Management and Development

To develop and lead a more effective Technology organisation, managing and developing the technologies required to meet the Business plan targets.

To ensure the efficient use of technology infrastructure, including the development and maintenance of technical and applications architectures.

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of technology infrastructure and processes.

To deliver internal technology support capabilities in line with defined service level agreements.

Programme Management

Oversee the management of the Programme Office ensuring programme activities are being managed in accordance with business priorities, supported by accurate resource planning.

Product Development

To provide leadership in technology acquisition and development, including being responsible for technology roadmap.

In conjunction with Business Development and Sales, to develop and deliver Propositional Road Map in line with the business strategy.

Cost Control

To manage a multi-million GBP IT budget.

IT Policy and Procedures

To ensure IT policies are being adhered to across the business including customer data security and disaster recovery.

Preferred Skills and Experience

Previous experience of online/eCommerce products, applications development.

Data intensive systems/applications, such as; Content Management Systems, Data warehouse, ERP

Experience of working with Technology solution providers and Integrated Service Providers.

Experience of delivering shared service capabilities to a global business.

Leading product retirement and succession programmes.

Experience of Technology and technical organisation transformation programmes.

Experience of setting up and/or managing a global Shared Service Centre.

A technology ambassador to the business.

Driving efficiencies and cost through the Technology footprint – outsourcing, managed services, integrated business systems

Skills capability assessment and new skills adoption.

Product Legacy and retirement programmes.

Experience of working in a strong people culture organisation.

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

Programme Director (Infrastructure) – Banking

On behalf of my client, a Global Banking organisation, I am looking for an experienced Programme Director with a solid Technical Infrastructure and Banking backgroud.

Proven experience within a Programme Director Capacity managing large-scale technical service delivery environments, around operational issues and subsequent resolution, inclusive of advanced incident and problem analysis

• Large volume financial services environments, ideally within Retail banking environments would be ideal.
• ITIL certification, with particular hands on experience within a infrastructure environment

• Infrastructure Architecture;
o Large Mainframe Environments
o Complex Telecommunication
o Distributed Technology Systems
o Enterprise Storage

• Applications
o Design
o Build

• IT Operations
o Experienced in the managing of operations with first hand experience of driving the coordination of change, incident restoration, problem analysis as well as both internal and external executive communications.
o ITIL – Incident, Problem and Change

• Financial Business / Retail Banking Operations
o Treasury
o Settlement & Reporting
o ATM operations

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

J2EE Technical Architect – London – £80k

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

Enterprise Architect – Finance – £100k+

My client is now recruiting for an Enterprise Architect to support the organization in delivering their technology roadmap and blueprint for high performance.
Specific Responsibilities
Review new and existing IT projects/ideas, systems designs, and procurement/outsourcing plans for compliance with IT standards and architectural roadmaps.
Collaborate with end users and senior management to define business requirements for complex application development and gain buy-in for all development plans.
Consults with senior IT management on the design of moderately complex systems and projects. May consult with leadership on emerging technologies. Supports existing business systems applications from an enterprise architecture perspective working with the solutions architects for each application.
Strong understanding of how technology relates to business, market and industry and applies knowledge to support the needs of critical systems and projects.
Develop, document, communicate, and enforce a Global technology stands policy, build roadmaps and define application end of life scenarios.
Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of application development effort and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness time to market
Candidate requirements
Knowledge of Java, .NET and Cobol languages, working knowledge of web services and middleware technologies, Linux/Windows, Virtualization/VMWare, performance management, application lifecycles, BPM, datawarehousing, data architecture and BI tools.
Strong knowledge of IT systems, practices and functional units.
Extensive IT related experience. Bachelor’s Degree. Advanced degree is a plus.
Financial sector experience a plus.
Strong communication skills and ability to function as the business to IT liaison
Must be a self starter with ability to work remotely.
Escalates serious issues/challenges to more senior management.
Possesses in-depth knowledge of application development technologies, tools, methodologies, the enterprise and industry.

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

Head of SEO – London – £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

Unix Team Lead – LONDON – £60k

Superb opportunity to join this exciting and very well established online Retailer based in London, as Systems Administration Team Leader, you will manage the HA Linux Systems, support the eCommerce Systems, Web platforms and Development environments.

Key Skills:
• Proven commercial experience supporting High transactional web platforms
• Proven experience of working within HA clustered Linux environments
• Previously supported development environments, ideally in an agile environment
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Advanced Linux ( Redhat / RHEL v5 )
• Virtualised Platforms – VMWare / ESXi clusters
• Puppet
• Nginx
• Haproxy
• Glusterfs

Secondary Technical Skills:
• Jenkins
• Kickstart
• Shell scripting
• Zabbix
• OpenVPN
• RPM builds

Key Responsibilities:
• 24/7 Platform Administration & eCommerce project work and services support
• Interaction with Release management
• Supporting Development environments

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