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This opportunity is to work with a specialised consultancy focused on the design, delivery, and implementation of digital transformation programmes. Over the past 5 years my client has managed over £1bn worth of cloud projects working with clients within FinTech, Energy, Commercial and public sector. Currently they are looking to bolster their team with a lead full stack developer this role is hands on and will focus on digital transformations to public cloud.

Of course as a lead developer no two days will be the same, however you will be tasked with working on E2E projects with a variety of clients from enterprise investment banks to startups. As the lead full stack developer you will primarily use cloud native technology to build cutting edge modern solutions, whilst leading a small agile team. My client is cloud centric and looking for engineers who are interested in upskilling across multiple cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP. With that in mind, they would be interested in engineers with the following experience:

* Node.JS
* JavaScript, Typescript and React
* Microservices / API Development
* Agile / Scrum / Kanban
* TDD
* Team lead / management experience

My client can offer considerable upskilling. Around 30% of your time will be allocated to technical research and upskilling. Certifications include AWS/Azure/GCP and upskilling across modern development tools.

In terms of package, my client can offer a competitive salary (between £62,000 - £80,000) alongside a non-contributory pension (9%), 10% Bonus and private health care.

If you are a interested in applying, then please feel free to contact me at with any of the below. Even if you fancy a chat for insights into the market, do get in touch.

LinkedIn - 'Alexander Gray'
Office - 0191 9174994
Email - a.gray1@frgconsulting.com

Anything discussed will remain 100% confidential and fully compliant with GDPR

Backend Engineer - UK FULLY REMOTE

Salary up to £70k DOE
My client are on the hunt for an experienced Mid & Senior Backend Engineers who will play an instrumental part in creating a brand new world-leading, cross platform IP played by millions of gamers. You will be part of a skilled core server side team, who are tasked with the creation of highly scalable systems built for consistency and low latency. The size and dynamic of this team will grant you considerable responsibility and autonomy in tasks and the design and implementation of their architecture.



Here's what you will be doing:

* Form the core of their Game Server Engineering team developing an incredible cross platform product.
* Develop a deep understanding of the infrastructure and services that will be used to run an MMO game service.
* Planning and reporting project milestones and timescales on a continuous basis to all those involved.
* Work closely with the rest of the Engineering team, defining and implementing key technical goals as well as goals and concepts to bring teams to the next level
* Assist in the construction of platforms, systems and networking infrastructure using your strong background in distributed systems, OS/kernel, network system design, and large-scale storage systems.
* Implement tools that empower our Game-Design teams to create new and exciting gameplay experiences
* Load test, monitor, profile & optimise game servers
* Prioritise technical tasks and work with the team to plan for development

To do this job, you will need:

* Professional experience ideally for 4+ years.
* Experience in developing highly available back-end systems and servers for large-scale games or high-traffic web systems.
* Experience building robust solutions with a test driven approach.
* Experience developing in Python, ideally using frameworks like Celery and Tornado.
* Strong knowledge of Unix-like operating systems.
* Experience with Redis (or other database systems), ORMs and migration scripts.
* Good understanding of how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.
* Good knowledge of networking i.e. TCP, HTTP, LB, NAT, WebSockets etc.
* Experience creating and working with a dockerized environment.

While not required, below are nice to have:

* Experience working in C#/Unity..
* AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kibana, Chef, Ansible.
* Experience with automated testing.
* Experience with stateful and stateless game server architectures.
* Good knowledge of shell scripting i.e. bash, zsh.

Apply above or for more info call 0191 814 7785 or email o.king@jeffersonfrank.com

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

SALARY UP TO 70K DOE



Looking to work on some of the most interesting fin-tech projects in Europe? Now is your chance! We are recruiting a Senior Software Engineer to join a Greenfield project and drive the transformation for a Multi-Cloud Hybrid project.

This is a massive opportunity to come in, build from the ground up and start from scratch in order to drive greater analytical and business value. You will be working in an exciting team in an agile environment that includes multiple teams within the cloud driven initiative.

This business is creating a technology centre of excellence in Northern Ireland as well as not only allowing it's team to work remotely, but actively encouraging it by helping towards home office costs!

BENEFITS:

* Unlimited days holiday.
* Money towards your home office and energy-bill subsidy.
* Remote working.
* Regular social events in Northern Ireland on a quarterly basis.
* Pension.
* Life Assurance.
* Health Benefits.



SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
* Software design and coding experience.
* Experience with .NET, Java or similar language.
* Experience in application and enterprise architecture.





To apply to this role, please send an up to date CV to j.kiernan-firth@jeffersonfrank.com or call for a confidential chat on 0191 255 1421.

LinkedIn = https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-kiernan-firth-ba490a173/



Jefferson Frank is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) recruiter of choice. We work with organizations worldwide to find and deliver the best AWS professionals on the planet. Backed by private equity firm TPG Growth, we have a proven track record servicing the AWS recruitment market and, to date, have worked with over 30,000 organizations globally.

Senior Data Engineer - Exciting tech start up experiencing rapid growth over last 18 months, working with industry leaders like Vodafone and Network Rail, ever expanding with multiple exciting projects requiring exciting Data experts



Skills & Qualifications :

- Proficient in Multiple Programming Languages including Java, C#, Scala, Python

- Experience building and implementing data pipelines using tools such as AWS CodePipeline and AzureDevOps

- Communication skills to mentor and improve those working within your team



Roles/Responsibilities :

- Work closely with clients to produce enterprise grade applications within the cloud

- Building and Supporting data pipelines, ensuring timescales are adhered to along with day to day support of applications

- Mentoring others within your team, ensuring coding standards adhered to

- Work across full project life cycle, including technical solution, tools and client communication



Benefits :

- Lucrative package negotiable dependent on experience

- Open to Remote Working

- Working in a start up who values your input, values ownership of your own project and rewards those passionate about improving strategy to improve and grow the business

Senior AWS DevOps Consultant - Fully Remote

Salary up to £90,000 DOE

Company Description

Are you interested in making a difference with technology? My client make the differences. Big ones, and small ones. With over 20 years' experience, we are trusted by global brands to deliver IT solutions that drive customer success.

Job Description

They offer profit share, pension, private medical, flexible working policy and more. They offer incentives for accreditations and educational assistance for course relevant to your role.

The role is customer-facing and will entail liaising with customers to enhance current systems, plan and deliver projects, and implement new solutions. The role is varied in scope and technology and can entail the development of innovative solutions in the cloud, delivering cloud migration projects, and supporting development teams with DevOps technologies (CI/CD pipelines, config management, etc.)

Qualifications

Required:

* Experienced to a senior level with AWS
* At least one software development language (Python, NodeJS, Java, etc.)
* Experienced to a senior level with Terraform
* Experience with DevOps tooling - Ansible, Packer, Jenkins etc.
* Ability to work well with customers and in a cross-team environment.
* Good interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills.
* Good troubleshooting ability both within their area of expertise and also outside of their technical comfort zone i.e. ability to research for potential solutions outside of their area of technical expertise.
* Eligible for UK-security clearance

If you are interested in applying for the role or want more information email o.king@jeffersonfrank.com or call 0191 814 7785.

***Everything discussed will remain CONFIDENTIAL***

Cloud Data Architect - Leeds

Salary Up to £85k + Bonus FULLY REMOTE

Job Description

An expanding Analytics consultancy based is seeking a Data Architect with Cloud Platform experience (particularly MS Azure & AWS) to join them and help lead on projects with a range of clients.

You'll have an existing skillset from a range of backgrounds in legacy BI platforms (SQL Server, SAS, Teradata etc.) but also have current experience in architecting Cloud Data Platform solutions across any of the main vendors - Azure, AWS or GCP, with a preference for Azure.

You'll be responsible for end-to-end solution architecture, including translating business requirements, solution design (Cloud, on-premise or Hybrid), Data Modeling, Data Ingestion (including Event-Based data) and Security considerations.

You will be based a mixture of at home, on site or in office depending upon client preferences and safety considerations, so candidates should be commutable to the company's offices in either London or Edinburgh.

Role & Responsibilities

* Solution/Data Architecture
* Translating business requirements into Data Solution designs/proposals
* Designing ETL/Data Pipeline Architecture and Data Models

Skills & Qualifications

* Expertise in Data Solution design
* Expertise in Data Modeling concepts
* Expertise in a mainstream legacy Data Platform/RDBMS - SQL Server, Teradata, SAS, Netezza etc.
* Expertise in PaaS Cloud Solution Architecture, ideally MS Azure and AWS
* Experience in Service Bus/Event-Based Architecture

Benefits

* Starting Salary of up to £85,000
* Performance-Related Bonus
* Certification training/support to keep up to date

To apply for this role, please send an up to date CV.

Cloud Data Architect - Salary DOE

Can be remote with 1/2 days in office per month (in Edinburgh or Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Are you looking to be a part of a team that is re-thinking the way data is stored and consumed?

The role is to design products and services for the strategic data platform, a platform challenged with delivering the data infrastructure and solutions to complex business requirements.

You'll be responsibile for owning and updating the full infrastructure design of the platform, covering ingestion of raw data into the data lake and through the full life-cycle of data and associated architecture.

Responsibilites:

* Liaising with CIO Infrastructure, Security and Operational teams to support end-to-end development lifecycle and release to live.
* Act as a design and technical lead in the team on architecture and infrastructure for Data related toolsets, challenging where needed and having the knowledge and communication skills to influence and to defend decisions made.
* Evaluate emerging or novel technologies, understanding how they would integrate into the data platform.
* Feeding into the cloud strategy from a Data/EDS perspective, consideration for migration strategies from one cloud provider to another, integration of architecture in a multi-cloud strategy for a data platform.
* Perform the role of reviewing costs, cost optimisation and cost modelling for the Data Platform.
* Experience in multiple and emerging technologies. AWS/Azure, CI/CD, Spark, APIs, ETL/ELT, Lambda, Python and Jenkins are just a few of the skill sets used within the area.

Skillset:

* AWS/ Azure Cloud Experience
* Data and Analytics platforms using Cloud infrastructure.
* Big Data (Spark/Hadoop)
* Real time Data - Kafka
* Data Science tooling(R-Studio, Shiny, other).
* Machine Learning
* IAC (Terraform/ Cloudformation)
* Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
* CI/CD, Jenkins
* Python/Scala/ Java

To apply or for more information on the role please apply below and I'll reach out to you to discuss further.

Cloud Data Architect - Salary DOE

Can be remote with 1/2 days in office per month (in Edinburgh or Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Are you looking to be a part of a team that is re-thinking the way data is stored and consumed?

The role is to design products and services for the strategic data platform, a platform challenged with delivering the data infrastructure and solutions to complex business requirements.

You'll be responsibile for owning and updating the full infrastructure design of the platform, covering ingestion of raw data into the data lake and through the full life-cycle of data and associated architecture.

Responsibilites:

* Liaising with CIO Infrastructure, Security and Operational teams to support end-to-end development lifecycle and release to live.
* Act as a design and technical lead in the team on architecture and infrastructure for Data related toolsets, challenging where needed and having the knowledge and communication skills to influence and to defend decisions made.
* Evaluate emerging or novel technologies, understanding how they would integrate into the data platform.
* Feeding into the cloud strategy from a Data/EDS perspective, consideration for migration strategies from one cloud provider to another, integration of architecture in a multi-cloud strategy for a data platform.
* Perform the role of reviewing costs, cost optimisation and cost modelling for the Data Platform.
* Experience in multiple and emerging technologies. AWS/Azure, CI/CD, Spark, APIs, ETL/ELT, Lambda, Python and Jenkins are just a few of the skill sets used within the area.

Skillset:

* AWS/ Azure Cloud Experience
* Data and Analytics platforms using Cloud infrastructure.
* Big Data (Spark/Hadoop)
* Real time Data - Kafka
* Data Science tooling(R-Studio, Shiny, other).
* Machine Learning
* IAC (Terraform/ Cloudformation)
* Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
* CI/CD, Jenkins
* Python/Scala/ Java

To apply or for more information on the role please apply below and I'll reach out to you to discuss further.

Cloud Data Architect - Salary DOE

Can be remote with 1/2 days in office per month (in Edinburgh or Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Are you looking to be a part of a team that is re-thinking the way data is stored and consumed?

The role is to design products and services for the strategic data platform, a platform challenged with delivering the data infrastructure and solutions to complex business requirements.

You'll be responsibile for owning and updating the full infrastructure design of the platform, covering ingestion of raw data into the data lake and through the full life-cycle of data and associated architecture.

Responsibilites:

* Liaising with CIO Infrastructure, Security and Operational teams to support end-to-end development lifecycle and release to live.
* Act as a design and technical lead in the team on architecture and infrastructure for Data related toolsets, challenging where needed and having the knowledge and communication skills to influence and to defend decisions made.
* Evaluate emerging or novel technologies, understanding how they would integrate into the data platform.
* Feeding into the cloud strategy from a Data/EDS perspective, consideration for migration strategies from one cloud provider to another, integration of architecture in a multi-cloud strategy for a data platform.
* Perform the role of reviewing costs, cost optimisation and cost modelling for the Data Platform.
* Experience in multiple and emerging technologies. AWS/Azure, CI/CD, Spark, APIs, ETL/ELT, Lambda, Python and Jenkins are just a few of the skill sets used within the area.

Skillset:

* AWS/ Azure Cloud Experience
* Data and Analytics platforms using Cloud infrastructure.
* Big Data (Spark/Hadoop)
* Real time Data - Kafka
* Data Science tooling(R-Studio, Shiny, other).
* Machine Learning
* IAC (Terraform/ Cloudformation)
* Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
* CI/CD, Jenkins
* Python/Scala/ Java

To apply or for more information on the role please apply below and I'll reach out to you to discuss further.

Backend Engineer - UK FULLY REMOTE

Salary up to £70k DOE
My client are on the hunt for an experienced Mid & Senior Backend Engineers who will play an instrumental part in creating a brand new world-leading, cross platform IP played by millions of gamers. You will be part of a skilled core server side team, who are tasked with the creation of highly scalable systems built for consistency and low latency. The size and dynamic of this team will grant you considerable responsibility and autonomy in tasks and the design and implementation of their architecture.



Here's what you will be doing:

* Form the core of their Game Server Engineering team developing an incredible cross platform product.
* Develop a deep understanding of the infrastructure and services that will be used to run an MMO game service.
* Planning and reporting project milestones and timescales on a continuous basis to all those involved.
* Work closely with the rest of the Engineering team, defining and implementing key technical goals as well as goals and concepts to bring teams to the next level
* Assist in the construction of platforms, systems and networking infrastructure using your strong background in distributed systems, OS/kernel, network system design, and large-scale storage systems.
* Implement tools that empower our Game-Design teams to create new and exciting gameplay experiences
* Load test, monitor, profile & optimise game servers
* Prioritise technical tasks and work with the team to plan for development

To do this job, you will need:

* Professional experience ideally for 4+ years.
* Experience in developing highly available back-end systems and servers for large-scale games or high-traffic web systems.
* Experience building robust solutions with a test driven approach.
* Experience developing in Python, ideally using frameworks like Celery and Tornado.
* Strong knowledge of Unix-like operating systems.
* Experience with Redis (or other database systems), ORMs and migration scripts.
* Good understanding of how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.
* Good knowledge of networking i.e. TCP, HTTP, LB, NAT, WebSockets etc.
* Experience creating and working with a dockerized environment.

While not required, below are nice to have:

* Experience working in C#/Unity..
* AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kibana, Chef, Ansible.
* Experience with automated testing.
* Experience with stateful and stateless game server architectures.
* Good knowledge of shell scripting i.e. bash, zsh.

Apply above or for more info call 0191 814 7785 or email o.king@jeffersonfrank.com