BI Consultant, Wolverhampton, to £36,000 + Benefits

Our client is looking to expand the Business Intelligence and Reporting team in order to continue to offer a high level of service to their client base.

Commutable from West Midlands, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Telford 

You will be responsible for: 

• Listening to client’s reporting needs and agreeing possible solutions both within and against the data contained in Dynamics and other systems.   

• Developing custom and ‘prebuilt’ reporting solutions utilising a combination of tools that include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Jet Reports and Jet Analytics.

• Developing additional fields and measures to existing Analysis Services cubes

• Advising and assisting clients with acceptance testing and data preparation

• Ensure they use accurate and secure methods to reliably extract data

• Estimating the time required to complete specified tasks

• Constructing and testing solutions for specified tasks

• Providing second line post-sales support for the solutions you and/or the team have built 

• Where required, training the user’s community on using our solutions 

• Assisting in presales questions to best match capabilities with client’s needs

Our client is a Microsoft Partner specialising in the Dynamics Business Application set. As most of the BI and Reporting will be against these applications, they will expect you to have or gain detailed knowledge of their data structures (training will be provided).

They use Microsoft Power BI as the foundation for a lot of the solutions they develop but due to client preference, multi-dimensional Analysis Services cubes, Jet Reports and Jet Analytics within Microsoft Excel are also reporting tools in frequent use. 

You will be expected to learn the above products and services and a willingness to improve and maintain that proficiency is required.  

Ultimately, you’ll help to support and contribute to an expanding area of consulting within the business.

Requirements

You will be expected to learn or have some experience of:

• Excellent Excel skills 

• Familiarity with using or more, a Business intelligence tool (Power BI, Qlik or Tableau) 

• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail

• Skills in statistics and reporting as well as problem solving. 

• An exemplary instinct to listen then communicate.

Mob: 07970 494916

Tel: 0121 687 1234

Or visit our website www.hts.co.uk

Please send CV ASAP to jayne@hts.co.uk

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Product Owner / Business Analyst, Birmingham (remote working initially)

Product Owner / Business Analyst, Birmingham (remote working initially), to £60K+ Pension, Medical, Life Assurance

Our client, a global software company seeks a Product Owner / Business Analyst, remote working for now, then office-based 2-3 days per week in the future when it’s safe to do so.

Location Birmingham or London (Birmingham preferred)

Description

In the role of Product Owner you will:

- Work closely together with implementation consultants and help them in re-engineering their customer business needs against the product offering.

- Gather requirements in close collaboration with customers.

- Make new analyses in order to extend the functionalities in the solution offering. You will translate business requirements into product specifications detailing enhancements and extensions to the product.

- Monitor and be aware of regulatory changes which may impact product and customers

- Manage the backlog and define user stories 

- You will be responsible for and participate in the full development process from requirements gathering, analysis and development to testing and documentation

- You will work together with development and quality assurance team members in order to deliver high quality software, on time and within budget.

- Represent the company being a key point of contact in relation with customers

- Organize and participate in regular customer status meetings

- Describe how the product should be configured to support the customer's re-engineered processes

- Handle customer calls and incidents in collaboration with involved parties

- Monitor customer adoption and satisfaction and report on it to the management

Required Skills

- Degree in (Business) Economics or IT, or equivalent through experience

- Strong ability to abstract and to translate business requirements in IT

- At least 3 years¿ experience with at least one of the following:

- Creation of functional analyses based upon a high level scope definition

- Application(s) with a 3 tier development structure

- Knowledge of banking is an asset

- Experience in managing projects focused on digital solutions, processes and/or digital products

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

- Eager to travel on a regular basis outside your home country when required

Personal Profile

- Passion for quality, you use high standards and you aim to achieve them

- Team player, flexible, accurate, hands-on mentality

- Leadership skills, enthusiasm, pride and a "can-do" attitude

- Excellent time management and organization, deadline focused.

- Strong communication & collaboration skills

Email: Jayne at HTS

0121 687 1234

07970 494916

Visit our website: www.hts.co.uk

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Developer - Caché ObjectScript (x-training provided if required), Birmingham, £35k - £55k pa + pension + medical

Fancy some career acceleration? Fantastic market-leading company seeks an Analyst Developer.

Our client is based in Birmingham, you will work remotely initially with only 2-3 days pw in the office later, when it is safe to do so.

Keywords: development, Full Stack Developer, Analyst Programmer, Software Engineer, Intersystems Caché, Caché Objects, Caché ObjectScript, OO framework, databases, SQL, Birmingham, West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire

The postholder will be serving some of the biggest names in our client’s sector, therefore commitment and attention to detail is essential. There will be opportunities for client site visits and engagement, so excellent communication skills are critical. You will have excellent problem-solving skills and will work as part of a team, on a variety of business & technical issues. 

The role will include:

- Review and analysis of client specifications

- Estimation and production of development proposals

- Building new software in line with client specifications

- Performing solution testing to ensure system integrity

- Servicing defect management activities

- Working within a Scrum team

Our client will train the successful candidate in:

- Development using Intersystems IRIS/Cache/Ensemble technology platform

- Industry business practices

- Agile development practices

- Configuration Management & Continuous Integration

- Atlassian JIRA Issue Management

Required Skills

- Up to 5 years' full stack development experience in an OO environment ideally with skills in HTML/JavaScript/SQL/JSP/Web Services (SOAP).

 - Previous experience with automated software testing tools would be an advantage.

Personal Profile

- Quick learner receptive to new technologies and practices.

- Team player, flexible, accurate, hands-on mentality.

- Innovative, team-oriented problem solver.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills.

- Process-oriented skills for troubleshooting, problem solving, and problem resolution.

- Thorough and dependable detail oriented.

- Strong commitment to providing quality service.

- Career minded and dedicated.

Education:

Ideally to degree level, 2:1 or above in Computer Science or similar 

Email: jayne@hts.co.uk

Connect with us at LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaynehannon 

Visit our website: www.hts.co.uk

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