Business Analyst – Transport Infrastructure – London – CONTRACT – £370-£400/Day

PTS’s Client, a High Profile Transport Infrastructure Company requires a Top Notch BUSINESS ANALYST to work within their Information Management Team.  Your role will be to ANALYSE, AGREE and DOCUMENT requirements for GIS (Geographic Information System) enhancements and Visual Surveys.

You will also be required to catalogue (FUNCTIONAL and NON-FUNCTIONAL Requirements) for the GIS enhancements and Visual Surveys.  You will be working with the Programme Data Architect, Technical Specialists and Solution Architects to confirm and outline solutions for these requirements.

Please be aware that knowledge of GIS is NOT essential but knowledge of GIS is DESIRABLE.  So Business Analysts with the above knowledge and skills are urged to apply ASAP.  Please send your WORD CV toat your earliest opportunity. Thank you.

Information Management Release Analyst – Transport Infrastructure – CONTRACT – London – £270-£300/Day

PTS’s Client, a High Profile Transport Infrastructure Company requires an INFORMATION MANAGEMENT RELEASE ANALYST.  Using IBM RATIONAL SYNERGY you will be managing and overseeing ALL technical aspects of the END TO END release.  You will also oversee the rollout of ALL software procedures for the CONTROL, DISTRIBUTION, DEPLOYMENT and INSTALLATION of ALL changes within the release.

You must have a minimum of 2 years detailed knowledge of working with IBM Rational Synergy and Change, aswell as being ITIL qualified to foundation certificate level.  An understanding of APPLICATION COMPONENTS and how applications are built is crucial; along with good knowledge of account administrations within a UNIX administration backgrounds is required and an ability to write SHELL SCRIPTS.

Experience of liaising with 3^rd Party units and an interest in the system and changes is vital.  You will need to have the ability to analyse Risk and Impact Assessments, and have knowledge of all stages of the IT delivery lifecycle from feasibility through to support.  You have to be proficient in Microsoft desktop operating systems (Office, Outlook, Excel and Word).
Release Analysts with the above experiences are urged to apply ASAP.  Please send your WORD CV to Matthew.Roberts@ptsconsulting.com or call 020 7539 6394 at your earliest opportunity. Thank you.

Infrastructure Team Leader – Dundee – Perm - £40K to£45k

Infrastructure Team Leader – Dundee – Perm - £40K to£45k

PTS’ client, a world leading online technology group are looking to attract an experienced Infrastructure Team  Leader who will lead a team of IT engineers  who  will be responsible for the installation, support, maintenance and ongoing development of the organisations internal infrastructure, Managed Hosted Clients’ Infrastructures and Data Centres  They will be responsible for delivering the agreed SLA’s and  for maintaining high technical standards through ensuring that the team consistently provide customers with a professional and positive approach.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Management

·         Providing leadership to the Infrastructure Team to ensure that the quality of its service delivery meets or exceeds the defined service levels for our services.

• Responsible for mentoring, coaching, appraising and development of the team members, including assigning individual KPIs.
• Ensuring that the Infrastructure Team exhibits a customer focused culture at all times, irrespective of whether the customer is internal or external.

Technical Quality

• Working with the Solutions Delivery Team Leader, responsible for advising on the design standards required to maintain the specified SLA and through-life-cost, and for testing against those standards when accepting an infrastructure into service. 
• Ensuring that all work executed by the Infrastructure Team is planned, documented, and subject to rigorous quality control.
• Ensuring that the Infrastructure Team has a set of procedures in place to deal with Incidents.
• Ensuring that the Infrastructure Team has systems in place to monitor the health of all our networks.

Essential Skills/Experience required:

·         Knowledge of network topologies and system design for high availability networks.

·         Installation, configuration, maintenance and ongoing support in a data centre environment of :MS Windows Servers, Linux (Redhat) Servers, Solaris Servers, Web servers (IIS and Apache), Oracle/SQL databases

• Network hardware including switches, firewalls, routers and load balancers
• Broad awareness of Emerging Technologies
• Degree qualified in relevant discipline
• ITIL certification at V2 or V3 is desirable

This is a key role to join a superb company who are at the leadign edge in their field. Please send me your latest CV NOW for IMMEDIATE consideration. An excellent salary, package and working environment awaits the lucky candidate who is successful.

Please call me on 0131 202 1741 to discuss further on mail me on paul.watson@ptsconsulting.com

C# ASP.NET SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER – PERMANENT - LONDON

ASP.NET, C# .NET Senior Web Developer urgently required. An Award-Winning Digital Design Company is looking for a special breed of Web Developer to add to their successful team as demand for their expertise increases. The ideal person will be a creative and passionate Web Developer, able to boast their own portfolio of projects, and their own website.

You will need to have strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. A clear and concise articulator of ideas, you’ll be persuasive and credible in front of clients, or prospective clients, at all levels. Although the company work in a team culture, you need to be comfortable managing your own time and workload autonomously. What is critical is that you have a real passion for the web and can bring focus and enthusiasm to the role.

You will be / have:

·         A strong Web Developer, with good written and verbal communications.

·         A solid understanding of how to apply pragmatic software engineering practices to the production of high quality and robust web sites.

·         Capable of taking account of new information or changed circumstances in a fast moving project environment, and acting accordingly.

·         Expected to provide assistance and guidance to colleagues in any aspect of software documentation, design, build, testing and support.

Responsibilities include:

·         Customer requirements gathering and system analysis

·         Identifying and researching candidate solutions, particularly CMS, for client requirements, and communicating clearly with the team and clients regarding the proposed solution.

·         Scoping, estimating, design, build, test and implementation and maintenance of .NET-based websites and applications.

Essential skills which are critical to the role:

·         Over 3 years hands on development experience with front end C# .NET projects

·         C# ASP .NET versions 2.0, 3.5

·         XML / XSLT

·         HTML / CSS / JavaScript

·         Microsoft SQL Server

·         Version Control

·         Website management and configuration with IIS

·         Continuous Integration and similar development practices

Desirable skills and experience:

·         Background in CMS development

·         Experience with Ektron CMS400

·         Experience of working with the Financial sector

·         C# ASP .NET version 4.0, MVC & LINQ

·         JavaScript framework (e.g. JQuery)

·         Version Control (SVN / VSS)

·         Experience of Agile & Lean (Kanban) software development processes

If you believe you have the skills and experience required then please waste no time and send me your CV in Word format ASAP to adam.lowe@ptsconsulting.com or call me direct on 020 7539 6325

Data Center Consultant - Investment Bank - Tokyo - CONTRACT

PTS's client, a leading investment bank, is looking for a native Japanese Data Center Architecture/Operation Consultant.

Required to have Retail Bank experience, responsible for project and vendor management. Documentation in Japanese language is mandatory, preferably with presentation ability.

Please contact kanna.sasaki@pts-consulting.jp possibly with CV for consideration. This is a position in Tokyo. Thank you.

Business Impact Analyst - Tokyo - CONTRACT

PTS's client, a leading investment bank, is looking for a native Japanese Business Impact Analyst to join our consultant team locally in Tokyo.

The project is part of Business Continuity Plan, the prospective candidate will be responsible as Business Impact Analyst to be involved in the client's BCP planning. 

More information in Japanese can be found here: http://www.daijob.com/jobs/detail/361962 

Should you be qualified and interested, please contact kanna.sasaki@pts-consulting.jp possibly along with CV. Thank you.

PROGRAMME MANAGER – TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE – LONDON – CONTRACT - £750-£800/DAY

PTS’s Client, a High Profile Transport Infrastructure Company requires a PROGRAMME MANAGER to work within the Buildings and Civils Asset Management department.  You will be required to take forward a function-wide change programme and to manage a team to co-ordinate numerous projects across the programme.  This is a £multi-million change programme and is of extremely high profile.

You MUST have excellent STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT and GOVERANCE skills as you will be reporting directly into the Director and with a range of senior stakeholders.  The need to act as a PROJECT SPONSER will be required aswell as liaising with Transport Regulators as a main point of contact.  You must be able to DRIVE engagements with change programmes and to be able to deliver presentations to act as an AMBASSADOR for the programme.

Experience in the successful management of major and complex change programmes is IMPERATIVE.  Aswell as the expertise in applying programme / project METHODOLOGIES with the need for COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL awareness.  Ideally you need to be educated to a degree level and be a member of a project association.  The need for knowledge or experience working within the UK Rail Industry and Asset Management is also needed.

Programme Managers with the above experiences and the principles of investment processes and procedures are urged to apply ASAP.  Please send your WORD CV to Matthew.Roberts@ptsconsulting.com or call on 020 7539 6394 at your earliest opportunity. Thank you.