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Specialist and Activity Don't show me jobs from Specialist and Activity

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£0 to £0 per year

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Surbiton Hill Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

At A Glance Based in Surbiton. We are currently recruiting a Front End Developer for the Specialist Holiday Group sector. SHG is part of TUI Travel PLC Specialist & Activity Sector. Involved in a range of e-commerce projects and activity, the Front End Developer is responsible for producing front-end code to deliver day-to-day web merchandising, content updates and enhancements across the Specialist websites. The web channel is a strategically critical route to market and the Web Sales & Operations teams within each location both play a central role as a driver of business success. What You'll Be Doing 1. Planning & Delivery * Be accountable for time estimates for development work and ensure that work is completed on time. * Manage own workload within a project. * Take a proactive role in identifying and resolving technical and functional errors across all sites * Escalate any requirements that become undeliverable due to changes in scope, resource or cost parameters 2. Developments * Take requirements from within the business for new or changing functionality on the site. * Translate Photoshop designs, producing highly usable, standards compliant and progressively enhanced XHTML/CSS templates and pages. * Work on day-to-day updates to the sites that involve simple graphics work and changes to existing code, taking a steer from the existing site design. * Deliver of on-site promotions, online marketing campaigns and merchandising. * Implement non-geographic published content (e.g. Sales Centre phone numbers, booking T&Cs) * Support the Sales Centre and Trade teams in answering day to day web queries * Support the UX team in developing the front-end for large-scale projects and site redesigns. * Adhere to department standards on code, environment configuration management, project lifecycle, and release procedures. * Ensure developments work across all supported browsers. * Work closely with the Online Marketing ream to ensure all relevant SEO, PPC and analytics requirements are built in from day one. * Maintain a highly organised level of working standard - adhering to our working practices and helping us to develop them to become more efficient and effective. 3. Benchmarking * Regularly monitor developments in E-Commerce, web interactivity and competitor websites and recommend enhancements to TUI Travel's Web Platform * Build your own knowledge of latest web technologies and user centred design through online and offline reading, attending events and sharing knowledge with the other web teams around the business * Transfer knowledge across brands and initiatives. What We're Looking For * 2 years solid, demonstrable web development experience ideally in a delivery focussed commercial environment * Proficient in HTML, Javascript, CSS, jQuery * Experience in at least one of the following scripting languages: PHP, ASP, JSP, .NET * Exposure to XML standards and development * Will have used a Versioning System such as CVS or SVN in a production environment * Knowledge of any of the following an advantage: Apache Webserver, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse, Velocity * Experience of working with content management systems an advantage * Ability to work in a small team, and communicate effectively with department colleagues and key business representatives * Must have excellent attention to detail and the ability to effectively multi-task * Delivery to time, budget and quality expectation, across multiple initiatives simultaneously * A desire and passion for constantly developing websites to keep up with changing technologies What We Can Offer * Competitive salary * Holiday entitlement of 25 days increasing with service to 28 days * Holiday concession purchase * Affinity reward scheme - online discounts on products & services * Late seat and accommodation offers * Childcare vouchers * Cycle to work scheme * In-flight discount of 20% * Foreign exchange discount at TUI retail outlets * Contributory Pension scheme * Career progression opportunities Job Division: Specialist & Activity Location: Surbiton front end developer surbiton workload identifying resolving technical functional errors e commerce projects and activity web sales operations photoshop designs xhtml css

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Fidessa Don't show me jobs from Fidessa

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£0 to £0 per year

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Woking Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

Fidessa is looking for a Operational Software Engineer. The Global Operational Services Team work on global projects and are based in the UK and US. You will be providing technical analysis and 3rd line support along with helping to build tools and reports to aid the smooth running of Fidessa's operational environment and services. This environment supports a large and demanding global trading community, connecting with the largest equity and derivative exchanges through a global network. Key Requirements: Hold an IT, numerate or business related Degree or equivalent experience Methodical approach to complex problem solving. Ability to work under pressure, proactively utilising contacts to resolve issues. Familiarity with a modern UNIX environment, such as Linux or Solaris. Familiarity with networking including Multicast data. Proficiency in one of the following: TCL, Python, JavaScript or PHP scripting languages. Familiarity with relational database concepts and the software development lifecycle. It would be advantageous to understand the business and practises of Equity trading and how our products support this but full training will be provided Duties and Responsibilities: Understand and become familiar with Fidessa technologies and our operational environment. Write ad-hoc scripts to analyse and summarise logs. 3rd line support for our production and test environments. Work with support, development, hardware and network specialists to identify and solve problems. Recreation of reported issues in our test environment. Raise bug reports and assist development in understanding the issues. Use PHP, SQL and TCL to write scripts or web pages to expand Fidessa's internal monitoring and reporting systems. Design, development, testing and implementation of new operational tools to clarify issues and help identify trends. Extend and enhance existing operational tools Own and develop a suite of operational tools Work with members of the Global team in the US on a day to day basis General Information: The role holder will be expected to perform any other duties that may reasonably be asked of them Fidessa does not advertise salary ranges for any of its vacancies. Whilst some departments will have a specific budget range for individual roles, salary offers are dependent on an individual's skillset and experience. If you have a salary expectation in mind, please mention this in your cover letter/email unix solaris linux tcl python javascript php operational software engineer

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Cisco Systems Don't show me jobs from Cisco Systems

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£0 to £0 per year

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SL36EZ Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play and learn. If your desire to work with leading-edge technology is matched by your drive to succeed in a highly collaborative, fast paced and global environment the Cisco Development Organization (CDO) is the right opportunity for you. We are actively seeking candidates for the Experienced Test Engineer role as part of our Media Products team focused on Multipoint Control Units (MCU) and Gateways. Based in Langley, Berkshire, the Media Products team has become a specialist R&D center for the design and implementation of the most technologically advanced video conferencing infrastructure solutions available in the market today. The test teams in CDO play a crucial role in achieving this and work as part of the R&D organization alongside the hardware and software development engineers. As a member of the team you will play an integral part in the R&D process working on new products and technology throughout the full product development lifecycle (requirements capture, through design and implementation to system testing and integration). The units are designed from the ground up with test in mind and function according to the required specification and customer use cases including scalability, performance, interoperability and usability. You will be required to meet tight deadlines, whilst effectively managing priorities and communicating progress. Cisco is the world leader in high performance video conferencing. Our products range from PC based video clients through to dedicated hardware endpoints. Our immersive multiscreen TelePresence rooms aim to give the feeling of being in the same room as the people you are talking to. This opportunity is to work in the conferencing and gateways team based in Langley, Berkshire. This is a specialised R&D centre for producing the MCU and TelePresence Server multipoint conferencing platforms as well as a variety of media transcoding GWs. We develop the network infrastructure at the heart of Cisco's TelePresence solution. Our hardware platforms are highly specialised and custom designed supercomputers running embedded software. We have an outstanding reputation for stability and quality due to the importance placed upon the testing phase of the R&D process. We achieve this by recruiting some of the brightest engineers in the country and aim to retain them by providing a fun, challenging and stimulating work environment. We are looking for a website developer to join our test tools team. You will be responsible for developing web based interfaces to some of our test tools, as well as developing and maintaining mission-critical fully-featured web applications that are used daily by our test team. These include our test plan database, automation and stress test frameworks. Required Skills of a successful Web Test Tool Engineer: * Fluent in HTML and CSS * Expert knowledge of dynamic web-related scripting languages such as PHP, Javascript * Experience with writing web front ends to complex SQL databases * Efficient SQL database design * Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Django (Optional) Eligibility Requirements: * B.Sc. / B.Eng. / M.Sc. / M.Eng. / Ph.D. from a top ranked University with a 2:1 or 1st class honors degree in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Mathematics or other analytical disciplines, plus a minimum of AAB at 'A' level * Ability to live and work in the UK with no additional VISA sponsorship from Cisco * Must be fluent in English html css php javascript sql python diango

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DAC Beachcroft LLP Don't show me jobs from DAC Beachcroft LLP

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£0 to £0 per month

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Bristol Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

The firm DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate. We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clients individual needs. We pride ourselves on measuring our performance against our clients expectations. The department Our Management Information team provide a reporting service to both internal and external clients of the firm. The demand for MI reporting has grown considerably due to an increase in the number of new clients, growth in new areas of the firm and a growing awareness of the capabilities of the MI team with regards to management information. Core responsibilities This is a challenging and demanding MI Analyst position and will include a combination of client facing, technical and 'business as usual' responsibilities: 1. Client facing * Client facing to the business managing clients expectations, recording and documenting requirements. * Interfacing with the business around new projects and technologies. * Translation of operational terminology to technical specifications (and visa versa). * Developing new reports in accordance with client requirements as well as identifying areas where value can be added. * Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that requirements are gathered/understood and delivered against agreed targets/deadlines. 2. Technical * SQL Server 2005/2008 environment * Technical development work with current and future projects within a SQL Server 2005/2008 environment. * Ability to translate operational documentation into technical requirements and take forward with coding and extraction into meaningful reports to service our clients. * Lead and contribute to existing and future technical projects from experience already gained in current role / roles. * Be able to hit the ground running 3. BAU * Analysis of both internal/external reports, running existing reports and developing new ones * Responsible for production of MI against SLA's. * Generating regular and ad hoc reports for our internal/external clients against key performance indicators. * Fielding ad hoc requests for information from internal/external clients. * Identifying and implementing ways of improving data validation and automating report production. * Analysing client and management reporting data to identify trends and issues. * Handle confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols Key skills The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following key skills and attributes: 1. Essential skills/experience: * IT literate with advanced SQL SQL Server 2005/2008. * Ability to write complex queries involving different sources of data. * Educated to degree level with relevant experience or extensive MI experience gained from previous roles. * Excellent verbal and written client multi-level communication skills. * Problem solving and consulting skills, with the ability to work from vague requirements. * Strong analytical skills, able to think laterally to identify trends and make links between data from different sources. * Ability to work on simultaneous projects whilst consistently delivering a high quality service to multiple clients. * An effective team player, who can work in collaboration with colleagues to achieve common objectives. * A commercial approach to work with a good understanding of business drivers (profit & loss etc.) and service standards. * Able to move forward successfully with projects even when business priorities change. * Solutions orientated. 2. Desirable skills/experience: * Energetic, proactive and ambitious with a 'can do attitude'. * Ability to work under pressure and to SLA's and KPI's. * Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively to non-technical individuals. * Good analytical skills with a structured and methodical approach. * Highly organised with the ability to plan for short- to medium-term objectives. * Strong service attitude; builds lasting customer relationships, strives for efficiency and effectiveness. * An understanding of relational databases. * Advanced Excel and VBA skills. * ASP.net / C# / PHP. * SSRS. * SSIS. * SSAS. DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please send your CV via our online application system. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.