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Client Details:

Highly innovative organisation which only employs the best. Their focus is on continual learning, constantly adapting and keeping ahead of the market. The focus is on R&D, you will have the opportunity to work on new projects (no boring legacy systems) and to work with some of the best in the industry. This is an agile environment, good communication skills are essential as is the ability to collaborate with other subject matter experts.

Role Responsibilities:

• Conceptualising, designing and producing top quality artwork and interfaces.
• Collaborating with cross functional teams.
• Guiding / mentoring junior designers.
• Drawing on experience / technical expertise to assist in problem solving.
• Maintaining / evolving processes and efficiencies.
• Assisting with product marketing strategy.
• Displaying an advanced level of Stakeholder management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graphic Design Diploma/ BA Multimedia in Digital Visual Arts

Relevant Skills / Experience:

• 10 years’ work experience in Graphic / Game Design.
• 2 years’ experience in a senior decision making role.
• Illustrator and Photoshop experience necessary.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
• Comfortable with providing technical art direction.
• Web / interface design advantageous.
• Game design experience is beneficial.

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This is a remote position.

Client Details:

A highly successful international listed company who offers remote and international opportunities. This client looks for high achievers who wish to work with the best on a global playing field.

Role Responsibilities:

• Translating customer requirements into software specifications.
• Providing technical leadership and accountability for implementing a major product or subsystem.
• Ensuring technical viability of solutions as defined in the Statement of Work and subsequent change requests, identifying and resolving technical issues.
• Creating / validating work estimates and skills required.
• Managing technical customer interactions from kick off through UAT.
• Guiding customers through the requirements gathering, designing and documentation process within a specific domain area while fitting within the OSS/BSS infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Relevant Skills / Experience:

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Senior design experience in Unix and database applications.
• Telecommunications industry experience and related product knowledge.
• Experience with one or more billing products and implementation steps.
• Experience with business technology, telecom networks, and data structures.
• Design skills with the ability to document the designs.

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Client Details:

Our client holds the constant belief that it’s not only about money and numbers, but the lives and futures of all the people who are impacted by the work they do. With specialised capabilities in frontier and emerging markets, and a passion for Africa and China, our client provides independent advice, analyses and reporting for asset owners, investment managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, service providers and brokers.

Role Responsibilities:

• Developing / implementing digital marketing strategies and initiatives across appropriate channels.
• Conceptualising / implementing digital marketing campaigns where appropriate.
• Working with the team to ensure all new and existing content is geared for maximum digital efficacy.
• Managing / optimising email marketing, including managing mailing lists and databases.
• Ensuring the website follows global best practice, is current and content is up to date.
• Ensuring all digital touch points complement one another and are up to date.
• Finding / managing digital outlets for research and content as well as online listings and directories, ensuring consistency in appearance and description of the firm and its offering.
• Leading digital innovations and (marketing) property maintenance with external service providers.
• Ad hoc marketing project / mini-campaign coordination.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW) in social media, or multi-media or similar qualification.

Relevant Skills / Experience:

• 4 - 6 years' relevant experience.

Experience in the following:

• A wide range of digital marketing disciplines and tools
• Ability to conceptualise and implement well-thought out, comprehensive solutions.
• UX, email marketing, social media platforms (LinkedIn in particular), SEO, Google Analytics and Google AdWords etc.
• Advanced WordPress experience.
• Comfortable with handling / interpreting complex data.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Visual communication / design experience is a big plus.
• Proven organisational skills including the ability to plan and prioritise work to ensure deadlines are achieved.
• Must be proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook etc.)

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Client Details:

Our client is based in Somerset West. This global technology organisation focuses on big and complex applications for large government projects. A very secure and highly successful organisation who prefers hiring perm staff and in return offer very good benefits and long term stability. As a culture, the focus is on holistic modernization and continuous improvement.

Role Responsibilities:

• Supporting existing and developing new functionality and components.
• Understanding existing product / domain elements and working with business analysts to refine / implement new requirements.
• Refactoring / improving the code to keep the product maintainable and adaptable to new requirements.
• Following / developing product software development processes and standards.
• Evaluating / improving application performance, and high availability features.
• Creating unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended.
• Creating technical documentation that explains how the various components of the system work and how to use them.
• Performing root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system.
• Building / deploying the system on an application server.
• Creating / executing functional test scenarios.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Computer/Engineering Sciences

Relevant Skills / Experience:

• 5 years' experience as a Developer - being part of a team in a software development environment.
• 2 - 3 years' experience as an Front-end Developer as part of a team in a software development environment.
• Exposure as a Lead Developer within a team would be advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft web development tool sets is essential.
• Experience in scripting languages is preferred (e.g. JavaScript, Angular, React)
• Good understanding of the SDLC process, tools and techniques.

Experience with team development tools:

• Use of source control applications (preferably GIT)
• Use of a UML and other tools for documentation.
• Knowledge of security vulnerabilities and working impact on solutions.
• Monitoring the performance, security, backup, recovery or integrity of web server and site technical performance.

Experience in the following:

• Angular 6 and above technologies.
• In-depth ASP.Net, C#.Net, JavaScript, CSS, XML and HTML knowledge.
• Experience with an application server (Microsoft IIS Servers 2008 onwards - preferable).
• Integration experience (Web/RESTful services).
• XML and JSON messages interaction. Understanding of namespace management and utilisation.
• SQL and experience with a relational database (i.e., MS SQL 2008 onwards).
• SoapUI/Postman | Tools and toolsets | Visual Studio | IIS 7 and upwards.
• SQL Server Management Studio 2012 upwards | SOAP/REST Services.

Experience / knowledge in the following would be beneficial:

• .Net 4.7.2 | ASP.Net MVC 5.2.7 | Entity Framework 6.2.0
• jQuery 3.4.1 | Knockout 3.5.1 | Web API 5.2.7
• WCF 4.5 | Unity 5.11.1 | Bootstrap 4.4.1 | Angular 6 and above

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Client Details:

Our client has grown steadily since the 1990’s without ever retrenching anyone. They hire for attitude and train for skill. Most staff have been there for over 10 years. Flexi-time, generous bonuses and the opportunity to learn and continuously evolve is encouraged. They follow an Agile methodology and are involved in a wide range of services that cross multiple business domains. A cornerstone of the business is research and innovation and continuous improvement. This environment is best suited to someone who enjoys learning, collaboration and working in a team.

Role Responsibilities:

• Performing software development and production support.
• Providing overall expertise in the area of Data Warehouse and Reporting Applications.
• Designing, developing and modifying relational and multidimensional database structures, relationships, data flows and data interfaces.
• Analysing, creating and modifying the data structures within the data warehouse.
• Developing / modifying the data load ETL processes as needed to extract, transform and load data from various data sources into the data warehouse.
• Using programming languages, software development methods, “best practice” programming techniques and department standards guides to develop new data warehouse structures and reports and to modify existing ones.
• Unit test and debug code prior to delivery to client.
• Participating in requirements gathering and analysis, technical design, testing, etc.
• Consulting with clients to gather information about needs, objectives, functions, etc.
• Identifying / proposing technical alternatives to solving client requests and system problems.
• Following department standards and creating written documentation and diagrams as required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, Information Systems, etc.

Relevant Skills / Experience:

• Strong interest in analytical and dimensional modelling and data analytics tools.
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Knowledge / experience in relational databases, SQL, PostgreSQL.
• Experience in database design and modelling for data warehouse and BI applications, including relational database structures and normal forms.
• Analytical / troubleshooting skills with complex technical subjects and tasks.
• Ability to present and explain complex technical topics, problems, alternative solutions to others.

Experience with most of the following software, languages and tools is preferred:

• SQL Server DBMS, TSQL (ANSI), PostgreSQL, Python.
• Experience estimating solution development and delivering solutions against those estimates.
• Understand thoroughly the architecture, data structures and fundamental design principles of the data warehouse.
• Insurance knowledge would be advantageous. 

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Client Details:

Our client is responsible for designing / installing top-end technology into upmarket buildings / smart homes. This includes security, access control, WiFi, TV, Audio, home cinemas and smart controls. The team is highly experienced and qualified, they are experts in the field with an excellent reputation. The culture is collaborative, fun and has a focus on continuous improvement. This role will be predominantly remote with regular meetings for collaboration and research purposes.

Role Responsibilities:

• Handling of quotes.
• Tracking projects against budget
• Resource allocation to projects
• Vendor coordination and management as needed
• Your insight would be welcomed for design solutions
• Project management
• Stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Problem solving and quality control.

Relevant Skills / Experience:

• Good sense of humour
• Great with numbers and spreadsheets.
• Great communication skills.
• High level of responsibility and integrity.
• Focused and a problem solver.

Experience in the following would be beneficial:

• Project management / Business systems.
• Project planning / Construction industry.
• Engineering / Design / Systems integration.
• Security systems / Access control.
• Audio Visuals / IT / Business / Accounting
• Spreadsheets / Sales / Marketing.