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Project Manager

£45-55k package DOE

Ref : LIPM12023

Posted April 20th 2023

Contact Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic data migration consultancy based in Watford, Hertfordshire, operating a hybrid flexible working model. We are looking for a permanent experienced Project Manager who will be critical to this fast-growing company’s success in delivering large scale data integrations and migrations in the cloud.

The ideal candidate will have a strong project management background and be able to communicate effectively at all levels.

We offer investment in training and the chance to work in a fast-paced company, with on-premise and cloud environments. We provide an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8%.

Key responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the successful planning and delivery of the project(s) and ensuring the appropriate level of governance is followed
  • Ensuring that the products required are produced to the standard of quality expected and within the specified constraints of time, quality, and cost
  • Taking full responsibility for the definition, documentation, and satisfactory completion of medium to large scale projects
  • Identifying, assessing, and managing risks to the success of the project
  • Proactive RAID management
  • Managing a network of resources in support of project execution providing effective leadership to the project team

Essential skills:

  • Practitioner certificate in PRINCE2 or equivalent project management qualification
  • Proven and demonstrable experience of project delivery in a similar environment
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Skilled in information technology including application and infrastructure environments
  • Ability to communicate complex, technical processes to non-technical business stakeholders
  • Proficient in MS Project
  • A comprehensive knowledge of relevant development lifecycles including agile
  • Strong understanding of principles, methods, techniques, and tools for the effective management of projects from initiation through to implementation
  • Experience of methods and techniques for reporting progress and financial compliance against an agreed plan
  • Excellent presentation, written and communication skills.

Desirable skills:

  • Previous exposure to cloud technologies such as AWS
  • Experience of working within UK police forces or other law enforcement agencies

Mandatory Requirement:

Security Clearance is required to SC level, you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.


IT Systems Administrator – 1st / 2nd line support
(£30 – £40K package DOE)

Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Permanent
Reference: CORDSA22023
Posted: 26th July 2023
Contact Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic data migration consultancy currently based in Watford, Hertfordshire, operating a hybrid flexible working model. We are looking for a permanent experienced Systems Administrator who is keen to be involved in a diverse range of tasks in a fast-growing company.The ideal candidate will be organised, a natural problem solver, have excellent attention to detail and work in an efficient and timely manner. They must be able to work proactively to resolve customer IT issues and have a keen interest in IT and emerging technologies as well as a willingness to learn new skills.

We offer an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8% and are committed to providing investment in training to help you further develop your skills and knowledge.
This is a great opportunity to get involved in IT related projects in a fast-paced, exciting company, with on-premise and cloud technologies in an ISO27001 environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintain the IT estate, including replacing and upgrading infrastructure and software
  • Monitor system performance ensuring smooth running and security
  • Ensure data is stored securely and backed up regularly
  • Proactively maintain, support, diagnose and resolve IT systems issues
  • Provide technical support, resolving users logged tickets
  • Documenting processes to assist employees work with our technology
  • Administration of AD and Office 365 (OneDrive, Exchange, Mail Archive, SharePoint)
  • Administration of Microsoft Windows Server and Desktop OS, including OS updates, version upgrades/migrations, hardening and security and installed applications
  • Administration of Client, Server and User Group Policy Objects
  • Administration of printers, Microsoft print Servers and related printing services
  • Administration of JIRA ticketing system, checking categorisation, and prioritising responses
  • Manage Firewalls
  • Cyber-security incident response handling

Essential skills:

  • 2+ years working in a systems administration role
  • Ability to prioritise workload and adhere to critical deadlines
  • Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Professional demeanour, positive attitude and excellent customer focus
  • Experience in administration of Windows Server e.g. 2012, 2016, 2019
  • Experience in administration of MS SQL Databases, preferably 2016
  • Experience of Windows based products and services e.g. Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, RDS, WSUS
  • Experience of virtualisation e.g. Hyper-V, VMware
  • Experience using a ticketing system e.g. JIRA
  • Understanding of computer networking, Proxy Servers, Firewalls and switch configuration

Desirable skills:

  • BSc/Ba in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline; professional certification (e.g. Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
  • Understanding of the security standards necessary to adhere to ISO27001
  • Knowledge of Cloud Administration eg AWS, Microsoft Azure
  • Knowledge of administering MS Sharepoint and Skype
  • Experience of Linux

Mandatory Requirement:

Security Clearance is required to SC level; you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.

Ability to travel to the Hertfordshire office is an essential requirement.


Support Engineer

(£25 to 30k package DOE)

Ref : LISE12023

Posted: May 2nd 2023

Contact Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic data migration consultancy based in Watford, Hertfordshire, operating a hybrid flexible working model. We are looking for a permanent Support Engineer who will be critical to this fast-growing company’s success in delivering large scale data integrations and migrations in the cloud.

You will be working initially on a large data integration and data migration project providing 1st line support which will involve monitoring and resolving components in AWS environments. Once live, the role will require you to be part of an on-call rota to undertake out of hours activities and provide cover for support of the data service.

Training opportunities are available to learn new tools and IT concepts providing you with the best support to fulfil your responsibilities. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment where forming good working relationships with strong communication is essential.

The role is highly data driven with potentially complex issues so our ideal candidate will have a thirst for learning new concepts and be adaptable to changing environments. In return we offer an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8%.

Key Responsibilities:

  • First point of contact in identifying service incidents
  • Monitor network health, migration status, data errors in AWS environments to identify issues, assess and resolve known or standard incidents
  • Ability to follow escalation procedures to 2nd/3rd line support where necessary
  • Adhere to security operating procedures when fulfilling support responsibilities

Essential Skills:

  • Interest in information technology issues with basic technical knowledge
  • A desire to expand technical knowledge and gain additional qualifications and certifications through training
  • Basic understanding of cloud platforms with the interest to expand AWS knowledge and experience
  • Identify and assess complex problems
  • Analytical and systematic problem-solving skills
  • Absorbs and applies technical information
  • Good communication and ability to form good working relationships
  • Maintaining good time management in all aspects of the role

Desirable Skills:

  • Any knowledge of databases, analytical tools, reporting tools, SQL
  • Any knowledge or experience of AWS
  • Willing to learn new IT tools
  • Any knowledge of Service Management Framework (ITIL)

Mandatory Requirement:

Security Clearance is required to SC level, so you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.


Business Analyst  – UK based remote role

(£45-60k package DOE)

Ref : LIBALA12023

Posted: April 18th 2023

Contact Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic data migration consultancy in a remote role with some UK travel.

We are looking for a permanent experienced Business Analyst who will be critical to this fast-growing company’s success in delivering large scale data programmes across the public sector.

This role is part of the Landscape Assurance Team that provides ongoing support services to the Police National Database (PND). This role will:

  • Provide an assurance and compliance assessment of information held on PND that is uploaded from local systems.
  • Develop an interactive analytical product to enable feedback between and to forces and support the programme ambitions.
  • Work with all data providers (police forces and law enforcement partners) to improve data quality and legislative compliance of information held on PND.
  • Ensure that PND maximises its potential as a key enabler for intelligence led policing and law enforcement.

The ideal candidate will have a strong business analysis background, be able to communicate effectively at all levels and have successfully helped deliver data projects. We offer investment in training and the chance to work in a fast-paced company, with on-premise and cloud environments. We provide an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8%.

Essential Skills:

Strong, proven business analysis skills with significant experience of working on large scale system replacement projects.

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

Experience of analysing large volumes of data fields and be able to visualise any insights to a diverse group of stakeholders.

Experience in engaging with stakeholders at all levels and organising and running meetings and workshops.

A track record of being extremely delivery focussed.

A methodical and analytical approach to problem solving.

Ability to travel.

Desirable skills:

BCS Business Analysis Certification or equivalent

Previous experience working within UK police forces, Government Departments, or other law enforcement agencies.

Mandatory Requirement:

Security Clearance is required to SC level; you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.


 Senior QA Test Analyst (£50-60k)

Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 

Permanent

Reference: LISQAT12022

Posted: 11th July 2022

Contact Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing data migration consultancy based in Watford, Hertfordshire, operating a hybrid flexible working model. We are looking for a permanent, Senior QA Test Analyst with significant experience, to join our team.

We offer an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8%. Additionally, we are committed to providing investment in training to help you further develop your skills and knowledge.

You will be working mainly on large data integration and data migration projects but with opportunities for working on software development projects too, providing the test skills and experience which are paramount to project success. You will be responsible for test design, data preparation and test execution using your own in-depth skills in technical analysis. Previous experience of working in a technical and agile environment is necessary and knowledge of Test-Driven Development, automated testing will be useful.

Key responsibilities:

 Understand requirements/specifications and convert to test scripts
Identify / manufacture test data requirements
Execute test scripts, validating transformed data source to end point
Analyse test results to ensure data integrity and accuracy
Reconciling Data 1 way, 2 way
Log and track defects, work closely with developers and data analysts

Essential skills:

  •  Strong SQL (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora)
  • Experience of waterfall and agile project methodologies
  • Experience in use of Atlassian toolset Confluence/Jira/Zephyr
  • Experience of testing API’s i.e., Postman
  • Experience of working within cloud-based environments i.e., AWS Databases and Services
  • Good communication skills
  • High attention to detail and quality assurance
  • Understanding of ETL Data Pipeline testing

Desirable skills:

  • Agile engineering processes (Scrum/Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD/TDD Test Automation)
  • Worked in Government Agency/Public Sector/Policing environment

Mandatory Requirement:

Security Clearance is required to SC level, you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.


QA Test Analyst (£40-45k)

Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 

Permanent

Reference: Totaljobs/TJQAT12021

Job ID: 93886436

16th August 2021

Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing data migration consultancy based in Watford, Hertfordshire, operating a hybrid flexible working model. We are looking for a permanent, experienced, and proactive QA Test Analyst to join our team.

We offer an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8%. Additionally, we are committed to providing investment in training to help you further develop your skills and knowledge.

You will be working mainly on large data integration and data migration projects but with opportunities for working on software development projects too, providing the test skills and experience which are paramount to project success. You will be actively involved in test design,data preparation and test execution. Previous experience of working in a technical and agile environment is necessary and knowledge of Test-Driven Development, automated testing will be useful.

Key responsibilities include :

  • Ensuring testing is compliant with client requirements
  • Developing test conditions, test scenarios, test scripts plans and other test artefacts
  • Identifying test data requirements and preparing test data
  • Providing test execution estimates for test cases
  • Hands on test execution and defect resolution
  • Specifying test environment requirements to enable execution of relevant tests
  • Contributing to all stages of testing when required
  • Recording test execution results with Zephyr (JIRA)
  • Raising and managing defects in their entirety using JIRA
  • Reviewing requirement and design documents to identify testable requirements and scenarios
  • Performing environment verification testing

Essential skills :

  • Has good SQL skills – able to write queries, stored procedures, and test scripting.
  • Is experienced in testing data migration processes and other source-to-target verifications
  • Demonstrates a good understanding of data models, data mapping documents and data migration extract, and transform and load.
  • Has the ability to communicate effectively with developers and system users
  • Can effectively write and execute test scripts that capture desired and actual outcomes
  • Has a high standard of documentation in relation to test plans and bug reports
  • Is able to analyse results and recommend potential fixes
  • Possesses ISTQB Foundation qualification or similar as a minimum

Desirable skills :

  • Knowledge of PNC and Adabas
  • Experience of:
    • Automated testing for ETL processes and other source-to-target verifications
    • Testing in a Cloud environment e.g. AWS
    • Testing in a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline
    • Data profiling
    • Testing Data Quality

 


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