Project Manager - Dublin

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

The main tasks and responsibilities of the project manager are:

• Taking responsibility for all aspects of the delivery of projects
• Interfacing with Sales and Program Management for commercial items
• Interfacing with Product Group regarding product releases to ensure delivery of functionality as committed to Customer
• Managing the requirement gathering from internal and external customers
• Following the change Management Process and ensuring that it is complied with by all members of the team
• Preparing and planning projects, and driving those plans through to a successful conclusion
• Managing and tracking effort, cost, progress and highlighting ways to keep the project on track in spite of issues – “can do” attitude is essential
• Delivering the resultant projects on time and to budget, managing expectations and handling issues as required
• Mitigating risks and addressing issues to ensure timely completion of project milestones
• Ability to clearly monitor and report to senior management and Customers on project progress with respect to effort, cost and duration and key milestones
• Manage risks and issues and be in a position to concisely present status at any time to management.
• Represent our clients stakeholders at customer meetings and presentations
• Interviewing and resourcing project teams
• Mentoring and review of engineers leveraging individual skills to maximise effectiveness
• Managing teams of varying sizes; sometimes located in different sites and time zones. Maintaining group dynamic to facilitate individuals working as a team
• Providing clear leadership to the team and making informed decisions on various options presented
• Willingness and flexibility to travel – Average of 25% and up to 50%

SKILLS - Essential

• Strong leadership and vision
• Formal and informal communication
• Customer Interaction
• Project development lifecycle
• Design and development methodologies
• Exposure to Telecom Services and Billing
• Previous development experience
• Understanding of Unix Operating System principals

Steve 01 4321 501
SBell@verkom.ie

Project Manager for Hangar Construction

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Ryanair is the World's favourite airline with 36 bases and 950+ low fare routes across 26 countries, connecting 150 destinations. By the end of November 2009 Ryanair will operate a fleet of 210 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft with firm orders for a further 102 new aircraft (before taking account of planned disposals), which will be delivered over the next 2.5 years. Ryanair currently employs a team of more than 7,000 people and expects to carry approximately 66 million passengers in the current fiscal year.

Based on the above information Ryanair require to expand our aircraft maintenance capability. Presently we have 3 facilities Dublin, Stansted and Glasgow Prestwick, due to the requirement for increased hangar capacity, Ryanair are in the process of choosing several sites throughout Europe to build hangars on a D&B process to fulfil this increase.

Duties Include:

• Main contractor tender assessment and recommendation
• Review construction contract conditions
• Contract administration
• Fulfil clients CDM co-ordinator role
• H&S compliance
• Liaison with airport authorities
• Liaise with planning department/officer
• Negotiate and control variations
• Control utilities connections/contracts
• On site project management through to practical completion
• Cost control
• Weekly reports
• Monthly valuations and approvals

Experience and Qualifications:

• Large construction project/site management
• Construction contract negotiations
• Employers requirements against contractor proposals
• Variation control
• Commercial focus/QS
• Familiar with CDM co-ordinator role
• Fluent written and oral English
• Confident & upbeat personality
• Excellent communication & negotiation skills
• Ability to multi task and able to work on own initiative

Closing Date: 14/12/2009

Please email full curriculum vitae with cover letter (quoting reference number FRPMHC01) to Andrea Reger at regera@ryanair.com

Infrastructure project manager for a financial institute - Dublin Ireland

This is an initial six month contract beginning in January.

This is a major technical project involving the straight set up of a green field site. You will need to have expert technical support experience and worked on numerous projects of a similar nature.

You will provide technical advice, liaise with third parties as well as be very much hands on.

Key skills /Experience:

Infrastructure design
Infrastructure backends- switches, fibres, routers
Domain controls
Deal with 3rd party vendors- quotes, contracts and deadlines
Liaise with networks team and facilities manager
Strong Citrix
Strong Security

This is a very exciting opportunity to get involved in a green field project. This is a challenging position and will give you the opportunity to deliver a high end infrastructure project that is guaranteed to ad value to your portfolio.

If you think you are the right fit for this position, please respond ASAP with an updated CV. To discuss further contact Gillian Burke on +353 1 8883444
g.burke@computerfutures.ie

.NET Program Manager - Dublin

My client enables people living or working abroad to instantly top-up mobile

phones of family and friends back home. Services are available from over

80,000 retail stores across North America, Europe and the Middle East region.

My client is seeking an experienced .NET Program Manager who will be

coordinating and directing all activities and personnel involved in the

implementation and completion of projects including but not limited to

design, scheduling, budget, and delivery. The program manager will be

working closely with the CTO, Product Manager and Developers to ensure

successful closure on all projects.

The responsibilities include:

* Run complex projects from design and development to production

* Coordinate product specifications/requirements with technical

development

* Design and maintain technical and project documentation

* Define resources and schedule for project implementation

* Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning

* Plan and schedule project deliverables, goals, milestones

* Direct and oversee project engineering team and manages conflicts

within group

* Perform team assessments and evaluations

* Efficiently identify and solve project issues

* Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills

Position requirements:

* Strong experience with .NET, C# and SQL Server, AGILE development

technique.

* PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification or equivalent

preferred.

* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Technology or related

field.

* Knowledge of project management software tools (MS Project)

* Minimum 3-7 years of project management or IT Management.

* Minimum 3 years experience coordinating and/supporting IT business

processes.

The recruiter is interested in your answers to the following question(s).

Please place your answers in the email you send when applying for the job.

T: +353 1 514 3828
E: Seamus.Breslin@solasit.ie

JAVA Developers Needed Immediately!!

Do you have experience using JAVA or J2EE Technologies? IF so, please keep reading...if not, if you know anyone that may be interested in a JAVA DEVELOPER role, please do not hesitate in passing on my details.

Our Client is based in Dublin South and they have an urgent need for JAVA Developers to join their busy office. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 2 years work experience using JAVA, should be fluent in English, and available to start on a short notice.

Location: Dublin South
Salary: €30K-€55K (depending on experience)

Job Role
· You will be working as an integral part of the product development team on all technical aspects of applications and working with an integrated team of business analysts, product managers and QA.
· You will have the ability and willingness to take ownership of product design and progress it through to development, test and delivery

Person Profile

· You will have a motivated and proactive attitude to take ownership and initiative in all work assignments
· You will have excellent analysis and problem solving skills
· You will have excellent communication skills, capable of dealing with both junior and senior colleagues
· You will have strong design, development & testing skills

Key Requirements

We are looking for a person with solid experience using Java/J2EE technologies including many of the following:
· Degree Level qualification in a computer or computer related discipline
· Strong Java skills, with 2+ years experience with enterprise Java in a commercial environment.
· Technical experience should include a knowledge of some of the following: JSP, JSF, SEAM, Hibernate, EJB3, AJAX, Eclipse, ANT, JBOSS.
· Experience of the following an advantage: SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle, Agile Development Methodologies, CSS, Javascript
· You should have experience of the full product development lifecycle


If you have atleast 2 years+ using JAVA, and feel you have the relevant experience as stated as above, please apply immediately to Sabah Chaudhri at hr@qedrecruitment.ie. If you would like more information on the role, please contact me at +353 1 474 8350.

.Net - Web Apps - Financial - Contract

Required:

.Net development experience with web applications (4-5 years)
Microsoft SQL Server (SSRS – SQL Server reporting Services)
Experience working in financial services is environment is a HUGE advantage. Ideally working on a Business banking and/or funding application where you would have liased with various divisions of the bank throughout the full life cycle of the project to ensure clarity in requirements and functionality

This is a short term contract 3-6 months based in Dublin City Centre with a large financial company.

Please apply if you have the above skills by email or call Lisa Marie Dunne on 003531 888 3444.

email l.dunne@computerfutures.ie

Senior Business Analyst - POKER GURU !!! - Permanent position

Location: Dublin / Permanent
Salary: EXCELLENT with BONUS & TOP BENEFITS

My clients is seeking to hire a talented experienced Business Analyst to join their new Project Team. You MUST HAVE a proven track record of been given a concept or idea with limited information and work with the shareholders to produce business requirements. You will have experience translating vision and strategy concepts / ideas into functional specifications. You must have excellent knowledge of Poker and understand the game well.

You will have superb listening skills. Have experience in being able to capture the concept or idea. Use your modelling tools experience to help you write clear and concise functional specifications. If you come from a technical background this would be an advantage as in their experience people who have a technical background have a stronger eye for attention to detail as you have a strong appreciation of IT systems.

If you have worked in a Product environment this would be of interest as you would be used to working off brief concept / ideas for new business requirements. You would be involved in research. Approaching your work with a "think outside the box mindset" showing strong initiative in your work.

Skills/ Experience Required:-
5 years Business Analysis of a MINIMUM
Ability to adapt to changing priorities and to thrive in a fast-paced work environment
Excellent communication skills including documentation skills and presentation experience
Strong customer focus
Demonstrate strong analytical, problem solving, interviewing, and fact-finding skills
Ability to lead by coordinating the requirements, specifications, design, and testing efforts
3+ years in an IT environment (development or testing) an advantage
Experience of customer services, payments, security or fraud detection would be an advantage.
In depth understanding and experience of the software development process and overall project life cycle
Strong Poker knowledge !!!!!

Phone 00353 1888 3444
email rachel.kelly@computerfutures.ie

Database Marketing Executive – London – 25k-28k

A world wide name in the charity sector is looking for an Database Marketing Executive. With over a 100 years experience and being a key provider to the world’s resources they are looking to expand further.

The role will include supporting individual marketing, events and commercial services in running data selections for mailing, email and telephone marketing campaigns.

You must be proficient in using T-SQL to perform data selections with advanced knowledge of MS Access or MS Excel. Extracting data to Excel you will be required to perform additional data manipulation and run data files against Cygnus.

Working with Raiser’s Edge database will be desirable

Please send all CV’s to Christopher Wright c.wright@realresourcing.com

Freelance Developer Required - Ruby on Rails

Senior Ruby on Rails developer for a high volume Ruby on Rails web application in Germany.
This is an ongoing requirement with high possibilities for contract extension. The project language is English, German is desirable.

Skills requirements:
Solid server-side web application development experience
At least 2 years experience developing commercial applications with Ruby on
Rails
RDB database design (MySQL, Postgre etc)

Further desirable experience:
PHP, Perl, Python or Java
Client-side technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript)
Scaling and message queuing architecture

Contact: Justin JOHN justin.john@capitolinternational.com

Oracle Warehouse Builder developer with excellent ETL, Informatica skills

Based in the South West of England, paying up to 350 pounds per day.

You will be building and developing the Datawarehouse environment using a BI Solution. You will be a strong OWB
developer with a fantastic working knowledge of ETL, Informatica and BI. Any ODI Skills are a bonus. Ideally you will
have come from an oracle development / dba background and moved more into the Business Intelligence / Data
warehousing area in the last few years. Ideally with two recent projects using OWB.

Please contact Lisa Forrester by email or phonewith your CV for further details.

lisa.forrester@gcsltd.com

Tel: +44 118 956 3900

Technical Architect – Financial Services - London Perm

The Opportunity
Technical Architect - Financial - London - required strong in Technical Architectural Design, Real Time Market Data Feeds (Reuters, Comstock, Infolect), Track record of delivering real time systems solutions, Scripting (Shell, Lua or similar), Linux, Java or .NET and Communications and Networks to work for an highly established financial client in London.

As the Technical Architect you will be responsible for assisting in the successful delivery of strategic initiatives through accurate and detailed analysis of business requirements for the IT Systems Architecture.
Duties will include consulting on technical architecture design; liaising with internal IT functions, Development, Operations and external 3rd party vendors; design, recommend and be responsible for end-to-end project level technical solutions; and providing recommendations.

Experience in Index design, Database Management and Design, SQL and Software Engineering is highly desirable.

If you have the above and are highly articulate, with excellent time management and organisational skills then
PLEASE APPLY NOW FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION!!!

Location: London
Salary: £60000-£80000 per annum

Interested?
Please send your CV to san.doan@harveynash.com.
If you would like more information please contact San Doan on +44 (0)20 7333 1886.

Developper Web 2.0 in PACA region in Sophia Antipolis

Developper Web 2.0 in PACA region in Sophia Antipolis

An opportunity has now arisen for a Web Developper.

My client is looking for an engineer to create/develop to imagine and therefore build!


The company:
You will join an International Group leader on its market (with 450 employees) in the PACA region (South of France)

Location: Sophia Antipolis
Duration: Open-ended

The position:
You will join a team composed of 5 to 10 people. Your mission and projects will be defined according to your profile.

To join them means you have:
- Excellent technical skills,
- Innovation spirit,
- Great interest in web interfaces and multimedia.

Profile :
We our looking for a technical profile that can handle complex projects and have good capacity to create excellent stylish graphics.

The person interested must be adaptable to the company’s policies and cultural.

This role offers the chance to work in an international environment and offers carrer opportunities.


Training/ Background:
To be considered for this position you must have a degree in an engineering school and have between 0 and 4 years professional experience.

Techniques :
- ENGLISH Fluently,
- Analysis and synthesis knowledge,
- Good communication skills,
- Modelisation / UML,
- Interest for complex interface and IHM,
- C/C++,
- Java/J2EE, JavaScript, AJAX, WEB 2.0, CSS 2.0,
- PERL and Ruby
- Unix
- Oracle.

Salary :
- 36K€-45Ke according to profile and experience

If the position interest you, please call Camille Delmas at 00 33 4 72 91 32 78.

email c.delmas@computerfutures.fr

Technical Support engineer - Toronto Canada

Technical Support engineer (3-6 month contract) in Toronto, Canada!

The role will involve product deployment and product support at the customer site. You will also be involved in installations, configurations and testing.

Candidates should have very strong Linux experience, networking knowledge as well as some proficiency with SQL and relational databases.

Key Skills:

Strong Unix (Linux)
Knowledge of TCP/IP
Experience working in Telecoms environment


Desired Skills:

SS7 communications protocols
Experience of RDBMS/SQL (MySql)


This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to spend time abroad and progress their career.
Accommodation / Flights will be taken care off as well as a daily allowance.

If this role sounds of interest to you please send in a copy of your most recent CV. To discuss further contact Gillian on 01 8883444.

Gillian Burke
Phone 00353 1888 3444
email g.burke@computerfutures.ie

Enhanced Developer Support (EDS)

About Avaya

Avaya designs, builds and manages communication networks for more than one million businesses worldwide, including over 90 percent of the Fortune 500 firms. The company’s strategy is to offer its customers a complete intelligent communication solution comprised of hardware, software, and services such that the enterprise communication system becomes a strategic asset for the business instead of just a cost centre. Avaya is the market leader in the global audio conferencing bridge market.

Avaya enables businesses to achieve superior results by designing, building and managing their communications networks. We need enthusiastic, talented people who will outperform customer expectations, be catalysts for innovation and drive technological advancement. Is this you?

Job Description:

Part of a new and exciting technical team that provides extensive technical support for Independent Software Vendor (ISVs) and other partners that develops products to work with the Avaya portfolio. Successful candidate will work closely with Business Development Managers to recruit, enable, test, and support DevConnect partners. EDS role is to help and support 3^rd party companies to develop code against Avaya products. The DevConnect partners aim is to write code against the APIs to interface with their current products or for them to write proprietary code allow them to have addition advantages over other competitors. EDS team writes sample code, answer FAQs, tutorials, provide technical support, support Forums, host webinar for wide DevConnect members.

Required:

• 5+ years (8+ desired) experience in XML, VoiceXML, Java, C/C++, C#, .net, SOAP, J2EE, CORBA, Tomcat, Web Services, SOA, VB, LDAP, JDBC, ODBC, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Bachelors degree (Masters preferred) in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Desired:

• Experience with enterprise communications (VOIP, UCC, Contact Center, Computer Telephony, SIP, etc.)
• Familiarity with Avaya products is highly desirable

Contact
Paul Nash Paul@stelfox.ie

Language Specialist, Italian (Dublin)

Facebook is continuing to expand internationally and, in support of this effort, we are looking for full-time in-house Italian Language Specialist. As a Facebook Language Specialist, you will be involved in ensuring that we deliver a great user experience to our international audience. This is full-time position based in the Facebook Dublin office.

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Responsibilities

• Acting as company’s representative for the overall quality of the language on our site. This includes supporting our community of volunteer translators, vendors, and internal groups within the company
• Reviewing and approving community-supplied translations
• Maintenance of the glossaries and style guides and performing various translation tasks, especially for highly sensitive content
• Work with remote teams in different time zones

Requirements

• Great attitude towards work and people
• Native fluency in Italian language and near-native fluency in English
• Strong familiarity with the Italian culture and trends in social networking
• Familiarity with the Facebook Translations application as well as other computer-aided translation tools
• Experience in the translation and localization space as a translator and/or project manager, especially in high-tech industry
• Knowledge of additional languages (other than Italian and English) –desirable
• An active Facebook user who is well-connected with the Italian culture

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LabView Test Engineer Wanted - Oxon, Perm, £25k - £30k

Company based near Oxford, works with large multi-national clients, providing them with cutting edge sensors to work in harsh environments. They have recently completed trials for their upcoming products and will take on a test engineer to provide testing prior to large scale production.

The role:
You will use LabView to design, run and analyse automated testing
You will gather requirements to understand the equipment needed to set-up test rigs.
Due to the nature of their clients, you will need to work to strict industry regulations and standards.

Skills required:
LabView
Proven testing experience

The company is expecting rapid growth in the coming year and now is the perfect opportunity to get in early and give yourself the best chances at fast career development.

Apply now by sending me your up-to-date CV and details on your relevant experience to:

Alexander Prentice
Progressive UK Engineering
Phone 0118 9519100
Email a.prentice@progressiverecruitment.com

Meta Data Specialist for Global Investment based in London.

Global Investment Bank currently requires an experienced Meta Data Specialist to be responsible for the specification and detailed design of the Meta Model Management services. This will include the data and metadata aspects of information flowing within middleware platforms. You will provide message meta data management process for project development teams, business users and stakeholders, participate in the overall data governance process from a meta message and model perspective and develop a message model management methodology and standards and promote to technology and the business. You will have experience of working within an Investment Bank, working in a delivery capacity of message Meta models in middleware platforms and have experience of XML schema, DTD, XSLT etc... and prior experience with data modelling and transformation engines. This is an excellent opportunity to work with a growing Investment Bank that offers excellent training and career progression. For more information please email markstainer@pentaconsulting.com or call Mark Stainer on +44 (0)20 8254 7472.
Permanent Consultant (IT)
Direct Dial 0208 2547472
Email markstainer@pentaconsulting.com
www.pentaconsulting.com

Production Manager Saudi Arabia

JOB TITLE: Production Manager
LOCATION: Saudi Arabia
SALARY : Tax Free plus benefits

Description: Review Production Plan. Ensure to run lines with maximum output by increasing efficiency and reducing down time. Increase the Hygiene awareness among Production staff. Make sure that products comply with set standards and regulations. Follow the set production plan ensuring the availability of the required raw materials. Make sure that the process parameters are followed correctly. Evaluate equipment conditions on a regular basis. Take part in new product development projects.

Requirements: Ideally candidates should have at least 5 years experience in one or more of the following areas Cheese manufacture, other Dairy products, Vegetable products, Sauces, Canned Foods and General Knowledge of Food Processes.Candidates should have well developed man management skills.

For more details contact Ann directly on 016770653 or email ann@foodjobs.ie

PROGRAMME MANAGER

Job Title: PROGRAMME MANAGER
Skills: PRINCE , PMI
Location: Dublin City
Eolas Reference: CW6581
Contact: Peter Kirby
Email:
Description:
Excellent opportunity for an Progarmme Manager with a large public service Company in Dublin City Centre. You must have a proven track record of working on large scale multi-million euro projects. The role involves complex Vendor Mgt and dealing with many senior stakeholders.

The Job:
The Core Responsibilities of the role are:
•To drive forward through co-ordination the activities of all suppliers and contractors that, when integrated, provide the end-to-end scheme.
•To manage an effective programme for the full implementation of the scheme including management of the suppliers contracted directly by the company and to co-ordinate the deliveries of those contracted to other parties involved. A key aspect of the role is constant liaison with multiple external supplies and stakeholders.
•To identify all problems in time, cost or quality sufficiently early and insist that the appropriate action is taken to ensure the overall programme is not adversely impacted.
•To work closely with the project team/ Project Director, IBM and their subcontractor to ensure efficient and effective delivery of the project.
•To report on progress against budget, programme and quality in weekly and monthly review meetings, Board meetings and other reviews as required.
•To identify risks and issues to the overall project and maintain effective risk and issue registers.
•To manage regular meetings with all suppliers to mitigate risks and resolve issues.
•To manage control mechanisms that ensure there is no scope creep in the deliverables.
•To manage control mechanisms that ensure costs are kept in line with the project budget.


In summary, to be responsible for managing programme coordination and communication between all stakeholders, including suppliers and other interested parties.

Experience:
Candidates shall have:
•Minimum 10 years experience in a senior management role in multi-million Euro projects involving IT or software development where multiple suppliers systems were integrated to deliver an effective end-user system.
•Proven experience obtained whilst managing projects that included systems where:
oModern software development processes were used
oThere was significant external stakeholder involvement oDistributed teams contributed significantly to the delivery of the overall project.
•Proven experience of managing people in a complex multi-supplier environment.
•Technical experience of implementing complex projects within a large IT infrastructure environment.
•Proven experience of budgetary control of at least 4 significant projects.
•Demonstrable experience of decisive decision making in a complex project environment.
•Excellent communication skills
•Excellent leadership abilities and Significant experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.


It is desirable that candidates have: •A formal project management qualification or accreditation. •Familiarity with smart card technology. •Good awareness of the public sector environment in Dublin. •Familiarity with high-volume low-value financial transaction processing systems.

Salary: €75-100k per annum plus befor a 12-18 month fixed term contract.

Quality Manager

Location: Northern Ireland
Salary: 25,000 - 30,000 Sterling

The Quality Manager will work closely with the Technical Manager to control the entire function of the Quality Department. This is a hands-on role. The job will require a high standard to be maintained throughout the factory and where necessary train staff to achieve good results.

The Role:
Ensure that the program of the QA Dept is undertaken on a day-to-day basis Highlight any deviations in the performance of production and oversee corrective action. Highlight non-conformances to the Technical Manager. Implement Micro Analysis Programs. Monitor hygiene standards. Investigate customer’s complaints. Maintain records of checks and under take trend analysis as required. Prepare report for the Technical Manger and Production Manager as required. Train and monitor Quality Supervisors. Train and guide production personnel.

The Candidate:
Third level qualification in food science or related discipline.3-5 years Experience in Food Processing.
A good working knowledge of HACCP and BRC / EFSIS is essential.
Auditing: Both Internal & External – Ideally (but not essential) holding a Qualified Lead Auditor.
A good appreciation of the production environment.
A team player with proven man management skills.
An excellent communicator.

Email fiona@foodjobs.ie or call 01 6729390 in confidence

Business Project Manager

Job Title: Business Project Manager
Location: Dublin
Salary: Excellent salary & benefits
Duration: Permanent



Overview
The Business Project Manager will be responsible for the management of service delivery to internal & external client accounts through the entire business process, i.e. starting from tender/prospecting stage through business requirements to end point solution delivery.

This will be achieved through the active identification of the optimum solution incorporating system and process elements, to fulfil client requirements.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing projects around operational change and technical integration management, you will work closely with commercial business owners to deliver full service solutions that meet:

- Payment processing needs of prospective new businesses

- Evolving needs of existing accounts

- Operational needs of the business


Responsibilities
Working along side business development consultations and deliver propositions along with Business Development & Sales Managers
Define and refine new business requirements, working closely and proactively with customers in identifying business needs and associated key sales drivers
Demonstrate high visibility support by taking an active role in transitioning and implementing new business
Build, present and own cohesive and specific business cases for business integration projects
Own the delivery of integrated service solutions, coordinating internal and external resources to provide a seamless end-to-end delivery of technical and operational services for end user customers
Ensure that resources, capabilities and capacity are in place to meet both existing and new business demand – through accurate and timely forecasting and management of implementation pipelines
Contribute to the evolution of change management, implementation and project management processes by closely working with the PMO to increase efficiencies
Maintain ongoing dialogue and communication with our customers – ensuring effective translation of first-rate services in line with Service Level Agreements and provision of a focus and full understanding of the customer’s business
Ensure the information systems and the review structure for SLA’s and client satisfaction are in place and effectively used at all levels
Ensure robust tools and – where relevant – technological platforms are in place to support customer environment and best service solution
Continuous and demonstrable improvement in productivity metrics towards ongoing overall increased cost effectiveness, efficiencies and value within the business
Manage internal programmes of change where required, including technical, operational and communications elements
Adopt and follow a structured approach to tender support, business requirements gathering and documentation, business case development, project planning and management of implementations, and post-implementation review and lessons learned.


Requirements & Skills
Business/IT related qualification, at minimum degree level.
A minimum of 5 + years’ experience in a solution/business integration role
Project Management qualification and experience
Experienced in developing and maintaining effective business relationships
Demonstrable success at driving performance and achieving constant growth towards and exceeding business targets
Experience in operating effective time and schedule planning within a specified objective range and assigned area
Keen commercial focus and ability to work in changing environments
Ability to demonstrate service excellence across all levels of the business
Experience in operating within a wider cross functional team, utilising available resources in an effective and timely manner.
Experience in the card acquiring business would be a distinct advantage.


If you wish to apply for this position please apply through the following link http://www.maxhire.net/cp/?E55B68361D43717B7E511E2F7755166A482E and or call John on 0669762007 for more details.

Support Engineer with extensive experience of application support.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• 5+ years experience of supporting Solaris OS, scripting
• 5+ years Oracle DB experience
• Application support experience, strong troubleshooting & client/customer skills
• Telecoms experience a huge plus

Please note that the above position is a permanent one.

Contact: dana@epeople.ie |

Software Development Project Manager

Roles/Responsibilities

Responsible for managing a complex, global, enterprise level e-banking project, including design, development, implementation, risk and controls.

Responsible for managing a software development team, of permanent employees and contractors Manage business/client relationships with the senior business leaders associated with this project; build and sustain strong relationships with these client groups. Work with the development teams and the Application and Domain architects in design and product selection. Ensure we have buy-in from all the stakeholders and track issues and manage project risks. Work with the right resources for defining a deployment strategy. The PM will coordinate with the Quality Control team Oversee the development of scopes, budgets, time line documents.

Skills/Experience Required:

Experience of managing software development projects and teams successfully, demonstrated people and project management skills

10 + years of software development experience with 5+ years of technology project management experience is required.

Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills

Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities

Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills

The candidate must demonstrate working knowledge of the Microsoft .Net stack, Sharepoint

Knowledge of Java, J2EE stack is an advantage

Experience in managing SOA application development.

Experience working with Banking & Cash management Applications a plus

Contact: Steven Bell +353 1 4321 501

Lead Program Manager - London - MS

STC Europe is currently looking for an experienced Lead Program Manager who can help build a team of 5-7 Program & Project Managers responsible for extending the reach of Core Search features to the European Markets. We are looking for a high achiever with a track record of success and multi-release Lead Program Management experience. The position will report directly to the Group Program Manager of Europe STC/UK and will play a key role on the Program Management team developing roadmaps for extending core features out to key European Markets. This role will partner closely with the core engineering team in Redmond, the Search leads for each market to and the dev and test leads in UK to prioritize features, develop a roadmap and lead the engineering team to deliver core features to the markets. For the right candidate this is a rare opportunity to combine International experience, a front line seat in our battle for Web Search in Europe and help define a new group’s charter, culture and roadmap. Required Qualifications: Success in this position requires a broad set of experiences and skills, ranging from excellence in core engineering, the ability to deeply engage with customers/partners and build a collaborative working relationship with development, test, product planning, other PM organizations, as well as marketing and product planning. You should have proven technical leadership abilities and a strong grasp of software engineering principles, exceptional problem solving skills, experience shipping products or complex product features from the ground-up, and a proven ability to schedule and meet your team’s commitments through an entire product cycle. You should be self-motivated, proactive, and possess the demonstrated ability to come up-to-speed quickly in a new technical domain. Excellent interpersonal communication skills, written communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment are very important. Fluency in at least one European language is highly desirable. • You should possess a strong technical background and an extremely good grasp of software engineering principles, exceptional problem solving and design skills. • You should proven experience in delivering software solutions in a program management capacity. • You should be self-motivated, self-directed, able to lead and motivate others and able to thrive in a start up environment. • You should have the ability to define, set expectations and lead multiple concurrent projects. • A demonstrated ability to come up-to-speed quickly on a new technical domain is presumed. • Excellent interpersonal communication skills, written communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment are very important. • Knowledge and experience in Internet search/services, machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, and distributed systems is a huge plus. This position is located in the STC Europe London office and requires extensive travel within Europe and to Redmond, USA. This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may vary based on assignment. At Microsoft, we believe that diversity enriches our performance and products, the communities where we live and work, and the lives of our employees. As our workforce evolves to reflect the growing diversity of our communities and the global marketplace, we continue to expand our efforts to understand, value, and incorporate differences as we help our people and our customers realize their potential.

Project Manager - Belgium

Cisco Gold partner urgently seeks an experienced Project Manager to work on its on going project. 

You must have design, monitoring, evaluation, and improvement of marketing campaigns as well as elaboration of online joined promotion actions, creation, sending, management, evaluation and improvement of E-mailings and marketing programs. You will be responsible for and must have experience in:         
    

You have a strong affinity with and a proven experience in ICT, the Internet world

and the multimedia's, 

You have already a background in backend development,

You have a strong knowledge of Online Sales,

You have a thorough experience in Project Management (minimum 3 years),

You have a thorough knowledge of PMI,

You are very motivated by thinking on process improvement matters,

You possess good presentation and communication skills,

You are result-oriented,

You give a strong focus on Quality and Budget,

You create turnover budgets and succeed monthly in cost effectiveness

You are responsible for the budgetary feasibility of laid down tenders

You are end responsible for the quality and calculation check of the produced

projects

You develop and provide your own insights concerning the E-needs of your

customers

You are responsible for identifying generic opportunities

You can establish you in a flexible way in rapidly growing and always modifying surroundings.  

                               

If you are interested in this project please contact stanleybuduforson@pentaconsulting.com

                                                                                                                                                

The Position is based in Belgium for 6 months (extendable). The rates of pay are excellent / negotiable you will receive a daily rate.

724 Solutions International Senior Support Engineer

724 Solutions, a worldwide leader in providing technology and solutions to mobile network operators, is looking to add to its existing staff supporting one of the Italian premier mobile operators.  As a member of the 724 Solutions onsite team, the successful candidate would be part of a team supporting 724’s customer deployments of 724 products and customizations in Milan.

 

Scope of Responsibilities

 

·         Serve as primary day-to-day technical contact for operations and support, problem analysis, product questions, and general troubleshooting as required.

·         Participate as part of an on-call rotation to support after-hours production issues.

 

 

Representative Daily Tasks

 

·         Supports and works closely with large Mobile Operator Clients Level 1 Operations / Support technical staff

·         Tracks, manages and escalates Client issues through to resolution

·         Isolates problems with little assistance from others

·         Takes on special assignments with little guidance and direction from management

·         Ability to perform troubleshooting and other problem analysis as required.  For example;

o    Isolate complex network problems with little assistance

o    Reproduce and document complex problems in a test or other environment

o    Identify software faults and isolate them to software module level

o    Isolate hardware problems to unit level

·         Assist with patch or new release deployment, user acceptance testing support, and production deployment 

·         Develops Methods of Procedures (MOPs) and performs tests required for change activities to be performed

·         Log cases into 724’s incident tracking system

·         Liaise with 724 Solutions’ Product Development organization. 

·         Ability to document, prioritize, and communicate Client issues

 

 

Other responsibilities, from time to time, might include:

 

·         Participating in customer-specific development activities as customer requirements change and expand (eg: developing operations / administration utilities or scripts)

·         Supporting the deployment of other 724 products

 

 

Experience Required

 

The qualified candidate should have:

1. A strong technical background in Linux/Unix systems administration (Redhat Linux, in particular)
2. A solid understanding of networks (IP addressing, firewalls, load balancers, etc.)

3.     Background and experience in Web protocols and configuration, plus WAP, MMS, and SMS protocols

4.     Shell and/or perl Scripting experience preferred

5. Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve problems

Other Qualifications

 

1. Wireless mobile network operator background in network engineering (vs. business applications).
2. Wireless application development / support background is preferred.

3.     Good Client communications skills

4.     Good technical analysis skills to lead and drive Client problem resolution in a timely manner

5.     Industry related Degree level education

6.     Proficient with MS Office and Windows utilities.

 

To apply for this position, please send your resume in English to aprenoveau@724.com.

 

Please note:  We thank everyone for your interest, however only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.