I.T / Telecoms

Web Developer, Crawley, Base to £30000

Our client is a leading UK Airport Parking & Hotel Consolidator based close to Gatwick Airport and are seeking a Web developer with strong skills and experience with HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, and MySQL to work in our growing development team.

We’d be expecting you to…

• Design, build and maintain bespoke object-orientated PHP applications
• Update and improve existing internal applications •
• Building great, readable and well-documented code with an eye for QA
• Maintain up-to-date specification and technical documentation for each application 

Your Experience…

• 3+ years full time experience in a backend development role working within a LAMP stack environment 
• Complete knowledge of HTML, CSS 
• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of the JavaScript frameworks (preferably jQuery)
• Good understanding of JSON, XML and APIs 
• Working with version control (we use SVN) 
• Knowledge of database and application optimisation for better performance

We offer …

• A competitive salary
• 33 days holiday per year including bank holidays
• A friendly, dynamic working environment
• 41.25 hours per week (includes a 1 hour paid lunch break each day)
• A range of employee benefits and discounts across the group

In terms of must haves: 

• 3+ years full-time experience in a backend development role working within a LAMP stack environment
• knowledge of Object-Oriented PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• good understanding of JSON, XML, and APIs
• Basic £28-30000 

For more details please contact Jason Webber at Astral

Lead Developer, London, Base to £65000

The vision of the client is to bring a new ground-breaking social and media platform to market to allow companies, journalists, researchers and thought leaders to work together to shape their industries, not just now but for the future.

They are a fast paced company specialising in communication and reputation management by providing accurate, consistent and timely information across the media.

We are looking for an outstanding technical lead developer to be responsible for the innovative design, architecture and standards of this new platform.

Responsibilities To architect the platform to meet the functional and non-functional needs of our 1000s of users

To write well designed, testable and efficient code using software development best practices

Liaise and Integrate data from various 3 party services To help gather and expand on requirements to provide technical solutions for the team and to aid decision making by stakeholders

To have developed and architected large social or enterprise grade websites and have an understanding of the challenges faced when creating large user intensive systems.

To be an Azure expert having designed and developed SAAS software on the Microsoft platform.

Core Development using ASP.NET MVC, WebApi in C# UI Development using JavaScript, TypeScript, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap and LESS/SASS Single Page Principles using KnockoutJS or AngularJS Data Development using a variety of Entity Framework or nHibernate, SQL Azure, DocumentDB, Azure Search and REDIS will be beneficial.

Familiarity with message-oriented-middleware technologies such as ServiceBus or RabbitMQ.

Demonstrable experience of object-oriented design patterns and code refactoring and awareness of SOLID principles Experience of automated Testing using a variety of MS Test, NUnit, CodedUI, Selenium and Jasmine would be useful Sprint and Ticket management using Jira or TFS Source control and branching and merging strategies using SVN or GIT

Base to £65000 plus benefits

For more details please contact Jason Webber 

Project Manager, St Albans, Base to £55000

DETAILS: Flexible working (home/office/client sites) subject to business needs

BACKGROUND

Our client is an award-winning technology company specializing in Microsoft Unified Communications technologies and part of the PGi Group. They have successfully delivered advanced solutions and desired business outcomes to a broad portfolio of clients. Their strengths lie in its market leading technical expertise alloyed with its deep understanding of UC projects, pitfalls and business adoption. As part of its continued growth, they are seeking to strengthen their Project Management function through the recruitment of an experienced and skilled Project Manager.

THE ROLE

The successful candidate will join the Project Management practice and be responsible for the management of client engagements from planning, through delivery to closure/support transition. From time to time they will also be asked to manage internal Modality change projects. The role requires a confident, experienced and self-starting individual who is comfortable working with a broad range of clients at all organisational levels.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years IT-based PM experience with complex, multi-site projects
• Experience in a challenging, deadline and deliverable-oriented environment
• Experience of structured project methodologies (don’t expect a PRINCE2 disciple but understanding of concepts and ability to selectively apply appropriate tools/techniques)
• Ability – confident, credible and authoritative demeanour - to ‘shape’ a project and influence customers and stakeholders
• Experience of implementing change – technical and business – and understanding and executing/advising on best practice and governance/controls appropriate to the circumstances
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills….a good ‘diplomat’ and relationship builder
• Experience managing budgets and of commercial negotiations
• Commercial acumen but balanced with strong customer focus and empathy
• Experience dealing with customers and business stakeholders, at all levels
• Ability to manage more than one project at a time

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Experience of UC products and implementations, especially MS Lync
• Experience working in a consultancy environment
• Knowledge of MS Project

For more details call Jason Webber

Embedded Software Developer, Merseyside, Basics to £40000

With cyber crime costing the UK circa £30 billion a year, our client has developed a unique product to be used in the public WiFi space, offering the next generation intrusion detection and prevention system that will stop malicious attacks from hackers aiming to steal consumer identities and business information.

Its flagship product ‘Spriteguard’ is exciting, unique and will disrupt the cyber intrusion space. Spriteguard is currently midway through final development and this is the perfect time to join and be part of the creation of a product that will be in demand and will be a leader in the sector of cyber crime.

We are looking to recruit a key position that will be instrumental in the final development before deployment.

Key skills required:- Software development Embedded C Linux Networking WiFi

Major Duties:- To develop new features for a wireless intrusion detection/prevention system based on C and PCAP libraries.

This system will be part of an embedded Wi-Fi access point based on the OpenWRT operating system.

Essential:- Basic knowledge of client/server models for TCP/IP based internet communications. Development experience in Embedded C, Bash Competency in UNIX/Linux based embedded and development environments Experience in Linux Kernel and Device Driver Development Desirable:- Good knowledge of WiFi standards and threats Working knowledge of existing 802.11 device driver architectures (or similar) Development experience in Python, C/C++

For more details contact Jason Webber 

Business Development Manager, IT Solutions, London

Our client is seeking an exceptional candidate to join their rapidly growing team as a Business Development Executive. The client specialises in providing IT solutions to Businesses and building B2B platforms

The role is client facing so you will need to have excellent communication skills and conduct yourself in an assured and professional manner, with the confidence and knowledge to develop new business relationships at the C-Suite level.

The successful candidate will have an entrepreneurial attitude to defining a growth role and be interested in making a genuine impact on a rapidly scaling organisation.

Duties and responsibilities will include:

Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business

Gathering market and customer information

Acting as a contact between a company and its existing and potential markets

Pitching and presenting to potential customers and prospecting for new business 

Negotiating on price, costs, delivery and specifications with buyers and managers

Required: Confident and authoritative speaker, Excellent presentation skills Ability to communicate with senior decision makers in blue chip organisations Strong negotiation skills Able to work autonomously and as part of a team

Basics £20000 ote £65000 based nr Hackney, London 

For more information please call Jason Webber 

Head of Sales, Mobile Accessories, Basics to £60000

The Head of Sales will be in charge of developing and managing the existing sales team as well as implementing a business strategy to further stimulate our client’s already impressive growth.

Key Responsibilities 

Lead the development of strategic, insight lead, sales plans that deliver company profit targets and set the future direction for existing sales team.

Lead business development work within the sales team,

Co-ordinate recruitment of new staff whilst working closely with the CEO of the business, to design and put into practice more efficient sales and marketing processes.

Perform weekly sales meetings to include setting goals, timelines and performance for the sales team 

Manage and control pricing and contractual issues by developing a thorough understanding of internal protocol and procedures. 

Minimum 5+ years in mobile accessory / devise distribution / manufacturing.

Proven track record in achieving sales targets. 

Basics to £60,000 plus benefits

For more details please call Jason Webber 

Credit Control Manager Telecoms, London, Basic to £65000

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Credit and Risk Manager.

This new role plays a pivotal part in the success of a fast growing company that is diversifying to offer a wider range of business services and products focused on the UK small business market.

Ideally a candidate as Credit and Risk Manager/Credit Control Manager/Head of Credit and Risk, should have minimum 5yrs+ Credit Control experience in energy industry Familiarity with credit & risk strategy as well as operations, ability to demonstrate delivering a phased and continuous improvement to credit policies and management of customer queries

This is an opportunity for a positive thinking, ‘can-do’ credit and risk manager to come into a new energy department in the early stages of defining the operating model – you will be fully responsible for managing both sales entry criteria (credit and deposit) and customer collections – as a new department manager, you will own the credit and risk roadmap to enable sales to proceed and build over time in line with forecasts.

If you are an MBA qualified credit and risk manager with over 5 years’ experience both leading teams and creating processes from scratch, creating a collection and recoveries team that managed debt and cash collections and maximised the profitability of the business whilst reducing aged debt, provision movement and bad debt write off to the P&L, then this is the new position for you!

ROLE Responsible for creating and updating credit policies, supporting high risk situations through management and customer negotiation, as well as managing multiple third parties. Assess overall energy model and define roadmap to manage growth aligned to business case Take responsibility for existing credit and risk assessment policies for energy department Manage customer energy account management team and build as required Build new collections and recoveries processes and assess resource requirements to deliver Own supplier relationships (both energy supplier and credit reporting) and manage ongoing cross company reviews and improvements Stakeholder relationships with sales and operational teams XLN Business Services is one of the leading providers of services to the UK small business market. Over 10 years old and with 130,000 customers, the client supplies phone lines, calls, broadband, card processing, energy and web services and has a range of new products ready to launch to market.

Theyve won 24 major awards and appeared in the Sunday Times Fast Track list for profits, growth and technology more than 8 times in its 10 year history. We’re growing fast and going places.

For more details please call Jason Webber