Job Title-Data Architect_CRM

Client-Global Consulting Firm

Day Rate-£500-£550 (Outside IR35)

Duration-3-6 months (extendable)

Location-Hybrid (1-2 days per week from Preston) or can work only 3 days per week (fully remote)

 

To guide and facilitate the replacement of one product with another

To determine the scope of data necessary to support the business processes facilitated by the current product.

To determine whether the existing product contains redundant functionality and supporting data structures.

To determine whether the existing product functionality needs to be extended to meet new business requirements. 

To determine whether potential replacement products contain in-built data structures to support the business processes that the organisation requires of it (both existing and future).

To determine whether potential replacement products can be customised to contain data structures to support the business processes that the organisation requires of it.

 

Produce logical and/or physical data model of the existing product.

Logical – entities, attributes and entity to entity relationships

Physical – tables, columns, primary and foreign keys

Include sample data if possible, this will help data mapping between products

Obtain models of potential replacement products

 

Data mapping – produce a business process led comparison between products.

For example:

‘Customer case’ in current product is satisfied from ‘contact’, ‘incident’, ‘root cause’, ‘owner’, ‘business unit’ and ‘activity’ tables.

In a potential replacement product this might be ‘customer’, ‘case’, ‘reason’, ’event’.

The DA would determine whether what data needs to create and store in relation to ‘customer cases’ is satisfied by the entities in the replacement product. What the mapping is, and should the model not satisfy the requirement can it be amended.

Provide best practice guidance on data modelling. Design of entities and attributes, primary and foreign key choices, relationship types between entities, naming standards.

 

 

Job Title-Relationship Manager_Vendor Manager (Finance)

Client-Global Consulting Firm

Day Rate-£400-£450 (Outside IR35)

Duration-3-6 months (extendable)

Location-Edinburgh (Hybrid, 2 days per week in the office)

 

The Vendor/Relationship Manager (Finance) will be responsible for overseeing the performance and relationship of the organisation’s outsourced finance vendor.

 

· Proven experience (7+ years) in vendor management, relationship management, or finance operations, ideally within an outsourced environment.

 

· Strong understanding of finance processes and controls, including a sound knowledge of compliance, risk management, and reporting standards.

 

· Demonstrated ability to manage complex relationships, ensuring alignment between vendor performance and organisational goals.

 

· Exceptional analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, assess trends, and make strategic recommendations.

 

Key Responsibilities

Act as the main point of contact between the organisation and the finance outsourcing vendor.

Build and maintain a strong, collaborative relationship with the vendor, addressing any issues or risks proactively.

Facilitate regular performance reviews, holding the vendor accountable to contractual obligations and service level agreements (SLAs).

Develop and oversee performance metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the vendor to ensure alignment with organisational goals.

Analyse vendor performance data, identifying trends, opportunities for improvement, and escalating issues as needed.

Prepare and present periodic performance reports to senior leadership, highlighting vendor performance, risks, and improvement plans.

Manage the contractual relationship with the vendor, including oversight of renewals, amendments, and pricing negotiations.

Regularly review SLAs and KPIs with the vendor, updating as necessary to reflect evolving business needs.

Ensure all agreements are documented, stored securely, and communicated clearly to relevant stakeholders.

Lead change management initiatives as needed to adapt to new business requirements or enhancements in vendor capabilities.

Facilitate regular meetings with stakeholders to discuss vendor performance, address any issues, and plan for upcoming needs.

 

Job Title-Business Analyst-Banking, Credit Risk

Client-Global Consulting Firm

Day Rate-£400-£450 (Outside IR35)

Duration-6 months (extendable)

Location-London (Hybrid)

 

Highly skilled and experienced Business Analyst with a strong background in data analytics and credit risk modeling.

 

Experience of working closely with risk management, data science, and regulatory compliance teams to develop and support credit risk models, ensuring accurate capital calculation, loss distribution, and model deployment lifecycle.

 

Education: Degree in Quantitative subjects such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Engineering.

Experience: 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, in a banking/financial services environment, with a focus on credit risk modelling.

 

Technical Skills:

Proficiency in SAS and Python.

Background in data analytics, including experience in data modelling, data sourcing, transformation rules, and data control and lineage.

Experience in working with large, complex datasets.

 

Credit Risk Modeling Expertise:

Knowledge of capital calculation approaches, loss distribution, credit ratings, and exposure to risk models used in banking.

Understanding of regulatory frameworks such as Basel III, IFRS 9.

Contribute to the development of credit risk models and deployment lifecycle

 

Job Title-Autmation Tester

Client-Global Consulting Firm

Day Rate-£200-£250 (Outside IR35)

Duration-6 months (extendable)

Location-London (Mostly Remote)

 

• More than 6 years in testing with a good understanding of testing practices
• ISTQB qualified
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience in functional, API and UI Automation Testing
• Good understanding of REST and SOAP APIs
• Experience with POSTMAN tool for testing APIs
• Experience in automation using Selenium
• Designing, developing, and executing manual & automated test scripts
• Programming languages experience such as Java, Javascript
• Experience in Banking domain

 

Job Title-Solution Architect_SAP ISU_Utilities Domain

 

Client-Global Consulting Firm

 

Day Rate-£500-£550 (Outside IR35)

 

Duration-6 months (extendable)

 

Location-Windsor (Hybrid, 1 day per week in the office)

 

Prepare/Validate Solution Design and Architecture

 

Strong Knowledge of documentation (BPP, CDD, FSD).

 

Ability in guiding SAP ISU design and development.

 

Provide SAP IS-U functional & technical support to the teams during design, development and testing.

 

Make sure the business requirements are captured and reflected properly in user stories as per the sprint goals

 

Possess strong analytical, configuration, process improvement skills in Utilities solution

Knowledge of Market-wide Half- Hourly Settlement (MHHS) UK regulatory program and its impacts.

 

In-depth Knowledge of UK-Utilities domain specific to Market Comms, Billing and Invoicing process, Meter- to-cash process, Settlement, different               meter types, industry flow (DTN), pricing differentiator between B2B and B2C Utility customers

   

Competency on architectural view of the aforesaid utility processes.

 

Job Title-GIS Desktop Developer

 

Client-Global Consulting Firm

 

Day Rate-£350-£400 (Outside IR35)

 

Duration-3-6 months (extendable)

 

Location-London (Hybrid, Mostly Remote)

 

• Experience of 5 – 10 years in developing GIS tools, dealing with spatial and non-spatial data.

 

• Experience in ArcGIS Desktop Application Development using ArcGIS Desktop, ArcObjects, ArcGIS Runtime SDK, ArcFM Desktop, ArcFM Server, C#/Java/VB.NET, Python/ArcPy, Geodatabase & SQL Server.

 

• Understanding and experience of handling and integrating spatial and non-spatial data

 

• Develop custom tools and scripts to automate workflows and improve efficiency.

 

• Develop and maintain geospatial databases and data models using ESRI tools, such as ArcCatalog and ArcGIS Pro.

 

• Experience in documentation including Design and technical documentation.

 

• Utilities industry experience is preferable.

 

Job Title-GIS Data Migration SME

 

Client-Global Consulting Firm

 

Day Rate-£500-£550 (Outside IR35)

 

Duration-3-6 months (extendable)

 

Location-London (Hybrid, Mostly Remote)

 

• Experience of 5-10 years in working with spatial data across various GIS solutions like ESRI ArcGIS.

 

• Experience in GIS Data transformation, data migration, work with disparate spatial and non-spatial datasets, enable required transformation to support the building of the tools & applications

 

• Experience in Utility network data model is preferable.

 

• Experience in flow from source applications through to intelligent display in Portal/Dashboard applications

 

• Database connectivity and an understanding of tables, queries, views, and stored procedures

 

• Experience in developing SQL scripts to identify available data and options for downstream classification/display.

 

• Experience of working with various data layers like address layer.

 

 

Job Title-Cloud FinOps Practitioner

 

Client-Global Consulting Firm

 

Day Rate-£350-£400 (Outside IR35)

 

Duration-6 months (Extendable)

 

Location-London (Hybrid)

 

FinOps industry experience which you apply to the client’s FinOps journey.

 

Build and embed real-time cloud cost dashboards and forecasts. Develop and embed Cloud costs KPI’s, scorecards and standard metrics.

 

Ensure monthly reporting provides valuable insights into spend versus budget at a granular level, using existing manual process, whilst identifying efficiencies, process improvement and automation.

 

Work with FinOps personas with the client to understand requirements, stakeholder interactions and paths for information, to ensure FinOp data is accessible and timely to support decision making, as well as drive ownership and cost optimisation.

 

Create and deliver targeted stakeholder presentations, dashboards and data visualisations that communicate key observations, learning and recommendations.

 

Develop and lead training / education opportunities to reinforce the collaborative working across teams. To understand the role of personas and the collaborative nature of the operating model.

 

Promote a FinOps culture and introduce tools / techniques to enable accountability of costs to be driven to the direct consumers.

 

Job Title-Apache Kafka Developer

 

Client-Global Consulting Firm

 

Day Rate-£400-£450 (Outside IR35)

 

Duration-6 months (extendable)

 

Location-London (Mostly Remote)

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Design, architect and code Kafka Streams Java based applications.

 

Integrate application in deployment pipeline and ensure scalability in high volume, low latency transactional systems, with ability to plan Apache Kafka cluster sizing based on peak capacity to ensure economic service provision with a 5 9s expectation in Cloud environments is ideal.

 

Required experience

 

5+ years Kafka work experience, using Apache Kafka, Confluent, MSK / etc

 

Experience and detailed understanding of all public cloud vendors

 

Supporting, debugging and troubleshooting Apache Kafka clusters.

 

Deployment, configuration, security Confluent certification

 

AWS / Azure / GCP certification

 

Implemented High Availability and Disaster Recovery infrastructure.

 

Experience in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including: requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, source control and production support and leadership in setting of standards for

and performance tuning of Apache Kafka.

 

Knowledge of scalability levers in high volume, low latency transactional systems, with ability to plan baseline and peak capacity to ensure economic service provision with a 5 9s expectation in Cloud environments is ideal

 

Certificate generation, validation and debugging issues.

 

Experience working in both Agile and DevOps environments, with planning sessions, estimation and retrospectives, ensuring that all operational tasks are recorded in ticketing systems.

 

Strong Unix or Linux engineering and administration background and has moved into real-time data.

 

Skills and Abilities

Essential Desirable

Java Kafka Streams, Spring, Apache Kafka, Confluent, Git / DevOps best practices, Kubernetes, Zookeeper, Kafka Connect, Ansible, Confluent platform, Docker, AWS / Azure / GCP / OpenShift, Quarkus, Jenkins, / Nexus / GitHub actions, Avro / Json schemas, Understanding of Kafka open source, tooling

 

Job Title-Business Analyst_SAP HANA to Azure Migration

 

Client-Global Consulting Firm

 

Day Rate-£350-£400 (Outside IR35)

 

Duration-6 months (extendable)

 

Location-Central London (Hybrid, 2-3 days per week in the office)

 

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis field.

 

- Strong experience with SAP HANA, with a strong understanding of its data modelling, reporting, and management capabilities.

 

- Experience with Azure Databricks and Azure platforms, with exposure to their integration and implementation in business solutions.

 

- Proficiency in business intelligence tools and data analytics software.

 

- Experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools.

 

- Lead cross-functional teams to analyze and understand business needs and translate them into detailed, actionable requirements.

 

- Design and implement business analysis and reporting tools that enhance decision-making processes.

 

- Conduct market analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and competitive threats.

 

- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure that technical solutions align with business needs and are delivered in a timely manner.

 

- Facilitate workshops and training sessions to drive understanding and adoption of new processes and systems.

 

- Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.