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Job Description IT Support Technician Purpose The role of IT Support Technician will lead and manage all day-to-day ICT 2 nd and 3 rd line support activities for multiple schools as directed by the ICT Network Manager and/or ICT Schools Manager. The Support Technician will liaise with Head Office and School staff, the IT Service Desk and other 3 rd line support teams to identify, prioritise, own and resolve all IT support and service requests. Key Responsibilities • Provide 2 nd and 3 rd line support to UK staff, schools staff and students • Carry out routine maintenance of all computer hardware and network services to maintain agreed availability. • Respond to and resolve IT faults and requests through onsite visits and remote support tools to agreed service levels. • Install and configure approved computer hardware and licensed software, following agreed policies and procedures. • Maintain site documentation, including hardware and software inventories, to ensure accuracy of information, legal and financial compliance. • Manage staff and student user accounts following agreed policies and procedures. • Monitor and maintain server back-ups to ensure system and user data is protected and secure. • Monitor IT (physical and network) security and report any risks or incidents to School Head teachers, Network Manager or Schools IT Manager • Any other reasonably requested duties Person Specification • Exceptional customer service and communication skills, including written and verbal. • Excellent interpersonal skills including communicating effectively and professionally with people at all levels of the organization. • Effective communication skills in a technical respect with other IT professionals, and in non-technical terms with other colleagues • Self-motivation, effective time management and the ability to work unsupervised. • Must be able to use initiative and work under pressure, consistently employing a customer centric approach to resolving all IT issues. • Demonstrable methodical problem solving, excellent analytical skills and creative thinking. • Able to demonstrate good judgement and decision-making skills in resolving issues in challenging situations, knowing when to sign post, escalate and resolve issues. • Experience in establishing new processes and procedures as well as following those already in place and always looking for improvements. • A desire to, and demonstrable experience of supporting teaching and learning • Effective engagement with IT service partners and 3rd parties Technical Skills • Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 • Windows 10 • Active Directory support • Office365 • LAN & WAN technologies and protocols, including VLAN, wireless, DNS and DHCP. • SIMS.net and SOLUS3 support • Mobile device support including Apple, Windows, and Android tablets • AV and interactive boards and screens • Shared printing solutions • Desktop/Server Hardware support and troubleshooting • Apple device management and support Experience • Flexible working, travel to support multiple sites/offices. • Experience of working in a Service Desk environment (2nd or 3rd line support role) • Experience of working in the education or similar sector is preferable. • ITIL preferred but not essential. Key Competencies Role Specific • Work Planning and Scheduling • Time Management • Listening and Organisation • Training, Mentoring and Delegating • Problem Identification and Solution • Process Improvement Safeguarding Responsibilities • To comply with safeguarding policies, procedures and code of conduct • To demonstrate a personal commitment to safeguarding and student/colleague wellbeing • To ensure that any safeguarding concerns or incidents are reported appropriately in line with policy. • To engage in safeguarding training when required This will be a 2 to 3 months contract initially. The position will be in North London. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your daily rate and availability.

Job Description IT Manager Purpose To be part of the IT Leadership Team in Europe focused on education and learning through the delivery of quality IT services and associated support to schools, departments, and associated businesses. This role will manage the IT services and technicians in two of London's most prestigious and innovative schools. Crucial to this role is the ability to build strong relationships with school leaders, work in the bustling environment of schools, communicate clearly and pro-actively, and lead a team of school-based IT technicians. Key Accountabilities Control and governance of school / businesses IT services ensuring that all infrastructure, hardware, software and cloud services are deployed, managed, maintained, supported and changed effectively. Facilitate Stakeholder Management with business leaders and leadership teams through regular engagement and reporting regarding performance, business requirements and continuous improvement. To manage the on-site 2 nd line IT Support provided by IT Technicians using the Group ITSM tool and following IT policies, processes, procedures, and standards as deployed in line with the ITIL framework. Leadership of a group of school-based IT technicians. To be the primary IT contact for the leadership teams in your assigned schools and associated business units. • Understand the role of technology in the provision of education and learning. • Conduct regular school / site inspection to identify weaknesses in technology deployment, improve quality and drive continuous improvement. • Conduct a formal service review each term with the school / business unit, present support performance, identify opportunities and risks, and develop areas for improvement and investment. • Identify and champion school/business improvement requirements associated with technology, ensuring alignment with Group, Regional and Country Policies and Standards. • Attend and represent IT at School, POD, and Regional meetings (Including School Governance in Autumn and Summer Term). • Identify, document, and define critical services / processes and associated KPIs to be measured. • Create periodic dashboards, scorecards and reports to demonstrate IT performance against SLA / KPI. • Define and maintain a list of all IT services and applications in use for allocated schools / business units as part of the IT service catalogue. • Maintain site documentation (technical, financial, and legal), ensuring the accuracy of information is preserved, kept up to date, and readily available to colleagues. • Plan and manage all changes to IT services to ensure they are approved, deployed effectively, and have appropriate support agreements in place. • Manage service problems and customer complaints through to resolution, engaging / updating where required with Executives and School Leadership Team members. • Facilitate periodic auditing of all IT hardware, software, services, and user accounts within a school/business unit to ensure accuracy of data held in the ITSM/CMDB. • Build, Manage and Develop a team of highly skilled School IT Technicians who work in the allocated schools / business units. • Collaborate with the EdTech team to ensure technology and associated support in schools is aligned. • Ensure all support incidents and requests allocated to technicians are correctly assigned and prioritised to ensure efficient resolution of 2nd line IT work within agreed SLAs. • Provide technical escalation support and/or assist IT colleagues in troubleshooting faults • To own and manage all Significant and Major Incidents in your assigned schools / business units; especially communication, incident review and follow up actions. • Conduct periodic appraisals of team members, setting objectives, identify areas for development and facilitate training. • Implement and monitor the adoption of ITIL process with specific focus on Stakeholder, Incident, Change, Problem and Asset Management. • Support and/or manage projects and initiatives as directed by the European IT Director or European IT Service Delivery Manager. • IT Management & Leadership • IT Support environment (2nd & 3rd line support) • ITSM tools and methodology • ITIL practice and methodology • Team Management (including Matrix Management of staff) • Supporting diverse / remote businesses Education or similar sector • Windows Desktop & Server • MAC Desktop & Server • Server Rooms & Cloud Services • Device Management (e.g. InTune / JAMF) • Network technologies and protocols • Cyber Security Business Systems (e.g. Finance, MIS, CRM) • Exceptional customer service and communication skills, including written and verbal. • Excellent interpersonal skills including communicating effectively and professionally with people at all levels of the organisation. • Ability to adjust communication style (especially in terms of language) to impart technical information to non-IT colleagues. • Strong leadership ability and team spirit with a can-do attitude. • Self-motivation, effective time management and the ability to work unsupervised. Must be able to use initiative and work under pressure, consistently employing a customer centric approach. Part of the role will be based on site in Central London for 4 days a week and the remaining day will be remote. The salary for this position if £50K - £55K. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.

Job Description Application Support with FX Options Our Client is looking to recruit an experienced Application Support Specialist FX Options to join their team in the City London. You will be providing essential support for their FX Options trading platform and ensure the smooth operation of our trading and support systems. Purpose of role: Provide day-to-day support for our FX Options trading platform, including troubleshooting, issue resolution, and user assistance. Collaborate with the IT team to deploy, configure, and maintain the FX Options trading applications and associated infrastructure. Monitor system performance, identify potential issues, and implement proactive measures to ensure high availability and reliability. Act as a primary point of contact for traders and other end users, addressing their technical queries and concerns promptly and effectively. Investigate and diagnose software and hardware issues, escalating complex problems to senior IT staff or vendors when necessary. Work closely with development teams to analyze and document system requirements as well as contribute to the design and implementation of enhancements or fixes. Conduct system testing and participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure the quality and functionality of the applications. Develop and maintain technical documentation, user guides, and support procedures. Requirements: Proven experience in a similar role, providing application support for financial systems. Strong knowledge of FX Options trading concepts and terminology including currency pairs, spot, forwards, options, and market conventions. Proficiency in supporting and troubleshooting Windows applications. Solid understanding of database concepts and SQL query language. Strong knowledge of AWS/Azure. Familiarity with FIX protocol and experience with FIX connectivity troubleshooting. Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment. Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical users. Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team-oriented environment. The Client is based in the City of London. The salary for this position with be in the range £70K - £110K. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Job Description IT Systems Network Support Engineer Our Client is a Bank based in Central London, are looking to recruit an IT Systems Support Engineer ideally with at least 2 years of experience in IT within the financial industry and overall 5 years of experience in IT. You will be working in a small team managing the day-to-day technology infrastructure to ensure that the Bank can operate efficiently. • Responsible for the maintenance of the IT infrastructure of the Bank by providing first line support of software, hardware and networking that incudes installation, configuration and troubleshooting • Manage day to day operational aspects of a project and scope • To design, plan and deploy IT projects to enhance the existing IT infrastructure and also any applications required by the bank. • End User Computing support for all staff. • Coordinator between the London Users and Group IT Security on all requests for systems access and to ensure that such permissions are provided promptly, are regularly updated and that the Group Access Matrix Protocol is followed at all times • Preserve the Assets of the Bank by implementing Disaster Recovery and back up procedures and ensuring that the standards comply with Group requirements • Provide IT support to ensure the smooth running of daily and periodic reports for the London Compliance team to ensure adherence to the Anti Money Laundering Provisions • Undertake Data Extraction for reporting requirements for all the other stakeholders at the bank • To monitor the CCTV, telephony systems and door access systems and to ensure that they are well maintained with proper backup and that relevant maintenance procedures are applied • Overall networking equipment monitoring (i.e. Network Switches, Firewall and other appliances) and support • To plan and carry out maintenance checks to ensure IT Operations, infrastructures are running smoothly and ensure daily routine task completeness • To maintain and ensure that the BCP site is always ready for continuous bank operations • To maintain the branch PABX system and to ensure that the recording system is always up and running at all times The following is a list of technical skills required for the role: Technical/Functional skills • Proficient in common operating systems • Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 and above • Redhat Linux based Operating System • Software proficiency • VMWare v6.7 and above • Veeam Backup and Replication • Symantec Endpoint Protection • Symantec Endpoint Encryption • ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus • Microsoft Office 365 • Networking (IT) • Cisco Switches and Routers • Fortigate Firewalls • LAN/WAN Routing • Hardware • Dell PowerEdge Servers • Dell PowerVault SAN Storage • Project management • Data analysis Bachelor or Master's degree or professional qualification in relevant discipline (IT/Information Systems/Computer Science/Technology/Programming/Information Science/System Engineering/Computing) The salary for this role is in the range £35K - £40K. The Client is a bank based in Central London. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.

Job Description Technical Project Manager - Bank - City of London As the Technical Project Manager, you play an integral role in a high performing team to deliver technical projects on time, to budget and that achieve both the project objectives and increase internal customer satisfaction. This is a hybrid role where you apply your technical expertise in either software development or IT infrastructure projects. At times, you might need to chip in on business requirement scoping and technical delivery to get the project across the line. You leverage your project management expertise and adept communication skills to lead the end-to-end project lifecycle and by doing so, you directly shape the success of IT projects, and therefore our business. Key Responsibilities: • Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes, and implementing improvement activities wherever necessary • Taking ownership of critical risks and issues, coordinating resolution with all appropriate constituents, and establishing effective communication between stakeholders • Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery • Manage metrics reporting and analysis of business demand against capacity constraints • Manage the development and delivery of IT products utilizing Scrum and Kanban methodologies • Focus on the constant improvement of quality, speed and ensuring the team learns and gets better each sprint. • Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and security teams to comply with established policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements • Provide communication and escalation to IT and business area management on critical issues • Foster and maintain good working relationships with business area representatives to remain in sync on direction and future delivery requests Key Requirements: • Comfortable capturing and challenging briefs to ensure we are delivering the most worthwhile solutions • Experience of leading, energising and mentoring project members • Experience in IT project delivery including managing all project phases from analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and hand over to BAU teams. • Ability to work to tight deadlines and work calmly under pressure • A high level of organisation and demonstrated skills to manage a team's capacity • Comfortable multitasking and prioritising several tasks at once • Hard-working with an outgoing and positive nature • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal • Technical skillsets within IT Infrastructure and Development will be mandatory Technologies: • Microsoft based environment including - MS SQL, Exchange, Active Directory, IIS, Symantec, Citrix • Network - Cisco, Palo Alto, ForcePoint, Symantec Email Security • Programming Language - T-SQL, VB.net, C#, PowerShell, ASP The Client is a bank based in the City of London. The salary for this position will be circa £60K - £70K. This is a 12 month FTC position. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Job Description Technical Solutions Architect The primary role of the IT solutions architect, is to ensure all IT Infrastructure applications architecture and design, systems and software Integration, functional requirements gathering, whether from inception or enhancements, are delivered on-time, aligned to industry standards, redundant and simplified by design, as well as being delivered cost effectively, whilst ensuring project delivery meets architectural objectives. Responsible for providing hands-on design and technical leadership to the global IT and business related teams, with a solid technology background, experience in capability and data models, domain driven design for application strategy, across all phases of the software development lifecycle. Additional responsibilities include ensuring IT Infrastructure and application design are secure, reliable, and regularly reviewed. This role will also develop and enhance relationship management with key service partners, independent contractors, vendors, and suppliers. Key Responsibilities/Tasks: • Lead the architecture design, and delivery towards consolidation of O365 amongst operating companies globally. • Lead the architecture and design towards implementation of a robust, cost-effective disaster recovery solution for all key business applications globally. • Ownership of the workflow design between core system applications and functions. • Ownership of end architecture target designs with viable interim states. • Ownership of data integration complexity, with an aim of simplification. • Ownership of architectural and operational design and roadmap. • Ensure solutions are secure by design, with minimum customisation (as needed). • Support and train technical / business leads across functions, using agile decision making. • Responsible for ensuring the correct technical solutions and products are chosen. • Responsible for documenting the technology landscape, interfaces, and data flows. • Responsible for ensuring new and modified services, occur in a planned, controlled, and timely manner, with emphasis on design and implementation concepts. • Provide monthly reporting dashboard, on network security, IoT consumption, endpoint and server security, application security, including SLA and key KPI counters to the director of IT and associated stakeholders. • Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of IT transformation related projects and programs, to ensure application of appropriate governance processes are aligned. • Maintain and up to date solution architecture diagrams / workflows and documentation for all key IT programmes, projects and ongoing BAU activities. • Provide timely reports to management and key stakeholders on projects progress, and risks to delivery including non-compliance issues. • Collaborate with the director of IT, ensuring IT security policies & practices are adhered to within all regions and groups. Skills/Competencies Required: • Microsoft / AWS architecture (recent experience) • Agile methodology / delivery • Experience with interacting with business and technology leaders. • Experience designing physical data models (relational SQL desirable) • Experience rolling our mid-large platforms from inception to production. • SQL, Java, Oracle, Kubernetes exposure. • Hardware and software virtualisation techniques • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Prior experience in a complex IT infrastructure environment • Excellent analytical abilities and innovative problem-solving skills. • Excellent interpersonal skills and strong abilities to develop and enhance relationships with clients and peers. The Client is based in Central London. This is a hybrid role - 3 days per week in the office. The salary for this position circa £55K - £60K. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.

Job Description Database Engineer with SQL Server and SSIS Our Client is a bank based in Central London who are looking to recruit a Database Engineer with the ability to work with SSIS. Responsible for the development and delivery of new systems to automate and streamline processes required by different departments. To support the internal IT department with changes and upgrades to software platforms. To be primary contact for all technical questions relating to in-house bespoke systems and interfacing. Database Support Supporting budgeting and financial planning processes for Finance department, including loading and refreshing of data based on requirements. Understand and conduct the front-end functionality to amend and change hierarchical structures within the environment. Debug and analyse errors and anomalies within Hyperion system as raised by Finance and to pinpoint areas of failure and correct any issues. Liaise with Finance on a daily basis to ensure smooth running of the Hyperion environment. Build data flows within the SQL environment in SSIS packages. Risk & Regulatory Duties Maintain knowledge of all applicable regulatory requirements including the Bank's Risk and Compliance policies and procedures and adhere to these to avoid exposing the Bank to undue risk. Report policy/procedure breaches and areas of potential non-compliance and suspicions promptly upon identification in accordance with the Bank's Risk and Compliance policies. Accurately execute all controls within own area to minimise risk of policy, procedure, and/or regulatory breaches. Identify new risks/control gaps within own area and escalate accordingly to your Line Manager and/or Head of Department. Qualifications/Experience Degree level qualified or equivalent. SQL Programming. Knowledge and Skills Software analysis and design. SQL query language. Data warehouse design concepts, (Inmon or Kimball) Must have solid experience of working with SSIS and building data warehouses and some knowledge of reporting using SSRS. The Client is a Bank based in the Central London. This is a 12 month FTC position with a salary of circa £55K - £70K. You will be required to be in the office at least 3 days week. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Job Description IT Security Manager Our Client is a large international organisation who are looking to recruit an IT Security Manager with at least 5 to 8 years proven expertise. Provide advice, support and guidance to all Company Corporate functions to assist them to maintain and improve their information security maturity. To work collaboratively with all areas of the Company Corporate and build networks and relationships to promote Information Security. • Act as subject matter expert on for IT Security, including legal and regulatory compliance • Advise Company Corporate functions on how to achieve the required controls and assist with solutions to support them. Eg Support in the development of standards and their application in line with Group security policies. • Participate in Company BU's Projects giving support, guidance, control validation and overall security assurance. This could also involve sitting on major project steering committees. • Support and encourage the ethos and methodology of security by design. • Aid GRC to build, implement and facilitate a mechanism to aid BU's to assess and measure their security compliance to policies. • Drive the development of BU/Divisional security roadmaps. Giving oversight of key non-conformities to feed into the CISO roadmap. • Coach, train and educate the Company IT and Functions to up skill and increase the security maturity in BU's. Be an active member of the Company's IS Security community, contributing to and leveraging the experience and lessons learned from other BU's • Produce, implement and standardise protocol and guidance material to support Business unit activities - examples - Asset register templates, third party due-diligence. • Facilitate and chair the security working group meetings • Engage and manage third party relationships to support the Company and its affiliates • Aid Procurement and the tendering process • Raising the security baseline controls and standardising where it makes sense to do so. • Understanding the different business requirements and aligning to their objectives Support Security operations to continuously improve information security awareness across the group, including phishing campaigns and associated reporting Experience • Experience in an information security risk leadership role within a large organisation. • Confident in presenting, discussing and championing ideas and concepts with senior stakeholders. • Experience of running information security risk governance processes and structures • Familiarity with relevant industry standards for information security (e.g. ISO27001, NIST CSF) • Experience of creating, implementing and assessing against information security policies and standards Creativity • Able to analyse complex, ambiguous problems and summarise clearly with a view to establishing practical solutions • Able to \"bridge the gap\" between technologists and business-people, bringing to life information security risks to the business, while maintaining a pragmatic outlook on likelihood and impact of the risk and cost/complexity of the mitigation. • Ensuring initiatives/programmes are anchored in best practice whilst still being highly practical/pragmatic. • Ability to defuse situations and resolve conflict to a win-win outcome • Influence others understand their views and agree ways of working that are acceptable to all parties. Business acumen to understand business risks and the information security implications • Able to identify when information security risks need to be escalated to achieve the right level of management visibility. • Able to prioritise security risks and controls, differentiating the essential from the \"nice to have\". • Able to judge how to communicate messages to people to maximise buy-in and/or understanding. • Able to analyse data with rigour & reach sound conclusions • Can assess when further data gathering, or analysis will bring diminishing returns. Can place appropriate weight on prevailing (sometimes conflicting) evidence. • Support and manage budget Responsibility • Responsibility of information security incident management • Responsibility for security assessments and assurance activities (e.g. penetration testing) and when to use them. • Oversee and management of security compliance management and reporting in relation to any relevant regulatory or legal requirements Operational responsibility of management of third parties Responsibility for managing change management around project and change leadership. Able to judge the political and other people aspects of a situation, and tailor messages and approach to bring people along. • Able to work with others, setting challenging but realistic targets for team members, and through coaching and appropriate guidance, securing a successful outcome. • A positive collegiate approach to developing relationships and networks at all levels across the Company and the gravitas to work persuasively with senior stakeholders. Is aware of different styles of stakeholders and can adjust own leadership style successfully to bridge any gaps. The Client and the role is based in Central London - and you will be required to be in the office at least 3 days week. The salary for this position will be £75K + £85K plus Benefits. Please do send your CV to us in Word format for this exciting new position along with your salary and availability.

Job Description Cloud Architect Azure Our Client is looking to recruit a Cloud Architect with Azure to work on a new project. Key responsibilities - Work as advisor/consultant to the customer on end to end journey to Azure. Assessment of on-premises infra landscape, application rationalization and recommend strategy, roadmap and structured plan for migration to Azure. Develop complex, end to end, enterprise scale solutions for migration to Azure. Develop and review technical architecture design and recommend Azure best practices Customer facing role to lead & participate in architectural discussions and design workshops. Provide solutions critical issues identified migration to Azure. Design & develop innovative solutions, optimization solutions and automation solutions for build, engineer, migrate and operate on Azure. Required Experience - 10-15 years of total experience. 5+ years of experience in Azure with minimum 3 years as Architect. Should have exposure/experience building Accelerators, frameworks, and IPs for Cloud. CI/CD experience is required Docker, Kubernetes, IAC tools(Terraform/Cloudformation/ARM templates), Configuration Management tools(Chef/Puppet/Ansible) knowledge and experience is required. Expert in Azure Web Apps, Logic Apps, API Gateway, Application Gateways, VM Scale-sets, DB-PaaS, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs and Notification Hubs for multi-tenant environments. Experience on Assessment - Discovery, Dependency Mapping, Wave planning, migration plan Experience on Mass Migrations with migration processes, factory model & migration toolsets. Experience on Cloud operations - Monitoring management, governance, compliance, and security. Proficiency in cloud adoption frameworks. Good understating on Transformational and Optimization projects related to Cloud. Advance level Certification [AZ-303 & AZ-304] on Azure is required. Strong knowledge of Cloud related tools on automation and optimizations. Excellent communication & presentation skills with considerable exposure in Client facing role. Ability to establish good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and collaborate to drive a larger technology initiative/program. Excellent organization skills, attention to details and ability to multi-task The Client is based in Geneva Switzerland - but the role will be remote from anywhere in Europe with meetings in person from time to time. Rate will be dependent on experience. Duration will be 6 to 12 months. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your daily rate and availability.

Job Description IT Security Manager Our Client is a large international organisation who are looking to recruit an IT Security Manager with at least 5 to 8 years proven expertise. Provide advice, support and guidance to all Company Corporate functions to assist them to maintain and improve their information security maturity. To work collaboratively with all areas of the Company Corporate and build networks and relationships to promote Information Security. • Act as subject matter expert on for IT Security, including legal and regulatory compliance • Advise Company Corporate functions on how to achieve the required controls and assist with solutions to support them. Eg Support in the development of standards and their application in line with Group security policies. • Participate in Company BU's Projects giving support, guidance, control validation and overall security assurance. This could also involve sitting on major project steering committees. • Support and encourage the ethos and methodology of security by design. • Aid GRC to build, implement and facilitate a mechanism to aid BU's to assess and measure their security compliance to policies. • Drive the development of BU/Divisional security roadmaps. Giving oversight of key non-conformities to feed into the CISO roadmap. • Coach, train and educate the Company IT and Functions to up skill and increase the security maturity in BU's. Be an active member of the Company's IS Security community, contributing to and leveraging the experience and lessons learned from other BU's • Produce, implement and standardise protocol and guidance material to support Business unit activities - examples - Asset register templates, third party due-diligence. • Facilitate and chair the security working group meetings • Engage and manage third party relationships to support the Company and its affiliates • Aid Procurement and the tendering process • Raising the security baseline controls and standardising where it makes sense to do so. • Understanding the different business requirements and aligning to their objectives Support Security operations to continuously improve information security awareness across the group, including phishing campaigns and associated reporting Experience • Experience in an information security risk leadership role within a large organisation. • Confident in presenting, discussing and championing ideas and concepts with senior stakeholders. • Experience of running information security risk governance processes and structures • Familiarity with relevant industry standards for information security (e.g. ISO27001, NIST CSF) • Experience of creating, implementing and assessing against information security policies and standards Creativity • Able to analyse complex, ambiguous problems and summarise clearly with a view to establishing practical solutions • Able to \"bridge the gap\" between technologists and business-people, bringing to life information security risks to the business, while maintaining a pragmatic outlook on likelihood and impact of the risk and cost/complexity of the mitigation. • Ensuring initiatives/programmes are anchored in best practice whilst still being highly practical/pragmatic. • Ability to defuse situations and resolve conflict to a win-win outcome • Influence others understand their views and agree ways of working that are acceptable to all parties. Business acumen to understand business risks and the information security implications • Able to identify when information security risks need to be escalated to achieve the right level of management visibility. • Able to prioritise security risks and controls, differentiating the essential from the \"nice to have\". • Able to judge how to communicate messages to people to maximise buy-in and/or understanding. • Able to analyse data with rigour & reach sound conclusions • Can assess when further data gathering, or analysis will bring diminishing returns. Can place appropriate weight on prevailing (sometimes conflicting) evidence. • Support and manage budget Responsibility • Responsibility of information security incident management • Responsibility for security assessments and assurance activities (e.g. penetration testing) and when to use them. • Oversee and management of security compliance management and reporting in relation to any relevant regulatory or legal requirements Operational responsibility of management of third parties Responsibility for managing change management around project and change leadership. Able to judge the political and other people aspects of a situation, and tailor messages and approach to bring people along. • Able to work with others, setting challenging but realistic targets for team members, and through coaching and appropriate guidance, securing a successful outcome. • A positive collegiate approach to developing relationships and networks at all levels across the Company and the gravitas to work persuasively with senior stakeholders. Is aware of different styles of stakeholders and can adjust own leadership style successfully to bridge any gaps. The Client and the role is based in Central London - and you will be required to be in the office at least 3 days week. The salary for this position will be £75K + £85K plus Benefits. Please do send your CV to us in Word format for this exciting new position along with your salary and availability.

Job Description Head of Human Resources - City London Our Client is heavily involved in the electricity industry in the UK. The Client is currently looking to recruit a seasoned Human Resources professional with between 10 to 20 years proven track of working at the highest level in HR. The role is to recruit the Head of Human Resources for the company. Must have experience of managing a large in-house HR team. This will involve the usual HR functions from recruiting, disciplinary to Tupe exercises. The company employees over 3000 people across the UK. You will ideally come from the utilities arena although the Client will consider any background. Summary of what we are looking for: - someone with 10 to 15 years in HR - with the ability to manage a large HR function - company has over 3000 employees in the UK - in the utilities arena - electricity - City based - must formal HR qualifications CIPD or MCIPD Salary is £120K - £140K. Located in the City London. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Job Description Technical Project Manager - Bank - City of London As the Technical Project Manager, you play an integral role in a high performing team to deliver technical projects on time, to budget and that achieve both the project objectives and increase internal customer satisfaction. This is a hybrid role where you apply your technical expertise in either software development or IT infrastructure projects. At times, you might need to chip in on business requirement scoping and technical delivery to get the project across the line. You leverage your project management expertise and adept communication skills to lead the end-to-end project lifecycle and by doing so, you directly shape the success of IT projects, and therefore our business. Key Responsibilities: • Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes, and implementing improvement activities wherever necessary • Taking ownership of critical risks and issues, coordinating resolution with all appropriate constituents, and establishing effective communication between stakeholders • Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery • Manage metrics reporting and analysis of business demand against capacity constraints • Manage the development and delivery of IT products utilizing Scrum and Kanban methodologies • Focus on the constant improvement of quality, speed and ensuring the team learns and gets better each sprint. • Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and security teams to comply with established policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements • Provide communication and escalation to IT and business area management on critical issues • Foster and maintain good working relationships with business area representatives to remain in sync on direction and future delivery requests Key Requirements: • Comfortable capturing and challenging briefs to ensure we are delivering the most worthwhile solutions • Experience of leading, energising and mentoring project members • Experience in IT project delivery including managing all project phases from analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and hand over to BAU teams. • Ability to work to tight deadlines and work calmly under pressure • A high level of organisation and demonstrated skills to manage a team's capacity • Comfortable multitasking and prioritising several tasks at once • Hard-working with an outgoing and positive nature • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal • Technical skillsets within IT Infrastructure and Development will be mandatory Technologies: • Microsoft based environment including - MS SQL, Exchange, Active Directory, IIS, Symantec, Citrix • Network - Cisco, Palo Alto, ForcePoint, Symantec Email Security • Programming Language - T-SQL, VB.net, C#, PowerShell, ASP The Client is a bank based in the City of London. The salary for this position will be circa £60K - £70K. This is a 12 month FTC position. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Job Description IT Support Consultant As an IT Consultant, your primary responsibility is to deliver excellent IT support to end-users while ensuring that projects are designed and implemented in accordance with business requirements. You will also be responsible for introducing new technologies, promoting RPA services, and training customers to improve their IT/DX literacy. • Provide a range of IT services for our customer • Promoting MS Office365, RPA services and new technology to our customer by verifying each technology • IT Partners/Vendors Management related to those projects • Activities related to customer's IT/DX Literacy improvement (Planning internal IT seminar, Reviewing materials) • Liaison with our HQ team and end users using Japanese and English, working closely with related parties to ensure a coordinated approach to IT/DX support and projects. Key Responsibilities: IT Consultant • UX/DX support and RPA services • Respond to general IT/DX related requests collaborating with other team members • Understand a customer's IT/DX needs and clarify customer's system and DX requirements • Collaborate with customers to identify the scope of a project, timelines, and resources • Provide day-to-day management of projects by leading the planning and implementation of projects during the project lifecycle • Assist in testing including UAT and validating Proof-Of-Concepts • Provide support services for system maintenance collaborating with other team members • Communicate and coordinate with the person in charge of the project in HQ (in Japanese) • Communicate and coordinate with the users/stakeholders in each office (in English/Japanese) Skills / Knowledge: Technical • Strong experience and knowledge of M365 application, especially SharePoint Online and MS Teams • Basic system development and operational knowledge (Experiences in system design and maintenance) • IT Vendors or Partners management experiences (IT Vendors control and negotiation skills) • Customer support / user support experiences • Preferred experience with Japanese companies • Preferred experience with UX and DX (Digital Transformation) technical projects • Preferred experience with Power Platform development, Azure • Preferred technical proficiency in UiPath RPA, SAP ERP, MS Excel Macro/VBA, MS Access (desired but not required) Communication • Candidate needs to have strong interpersonal communication skills • Adoptability to work in a fast-changing environment • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Proficient in English & Japanese language skills (Reading/Writing/Speaking) • User facing support skills • Self-motivated and an innovative mindset Experience: • Must have 5+ years IT experience in a corporate environment • Preferably 1 -3 years experiences of System Development and Maintenance The Client Company is based in City of London. The salary for this position is circa £50K - £60K. Please note that the Client does NOT provide sponsorship - so you must have the right to work in the UK. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.

Job Description IT Support Technician - UK Our Client is an Entertainment, a live entertainment platform that owns and operates over 100 major music festivals in the UK, Europe and Australia. They are looking to hire an IT Support Technician to work within the UK division of the business. This role offers a self-starting candidate the ability to support a dynamic and fast-growing business, with future opportunities for personal development and career growth within the group. The IT Support Technician will report to the Director of Information Technology, and will support users both at global head office in Central London and in our operating businesses across the UK. The role will be instrumental in ensuring that users benefit from the highest standards of service, including with regards to information security, system availability and change management. Our current core tech stack consists of MS365 + Azure AD, XX XX XX XX XX, Airtable, Zoom (+ Zoom Phone), Slack and Salesforce and we support user access to Google Workspace together with various other line of business products. Prior experience administering Azure Active Directory tenancies would be particularly valuable, together with exposure to deployment and maintenance of security tools such as endpoint management and anti-virus. We support both Windows and Mac devices and our users access our services both on corporate machines and BYOD. We are 100% cloud native with no on-premises systems. Specific tasks will include: • First line support for users both in person and via support channels. Resolve or escalate issues • Hardware setup and configuration, patching and upgrades • Support audio-visual / conference room equipment and printers • Monitoring and maintaining local networking equipment such as access points, firewalls etc • Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of our backup Infrastructure, including laptops and relevant server(s) and other designated cloud backup locations. • Provide timely report to senior management on progress of dedicated tasks, or on-going activities. • Configuration and monitoring of core systems • Administration for IT processes such as: • Support ticketing • Equipment inventories • Hardware purchases, repairs and disposals • Joiner-Mover-Leaver process • Managing license count • Assisting with change projects such as data migration, office reconfiguration and platform or service changes Personal Attributes: Detail and precision in aspects of approach to tasks Ability to prioritise conflicting workflows Team player, ability to communicate effectively with non-technical users and senior management Excellent presentation and time keeping Experience 3 years experience in equivalent setting Microsoft Office 2019+ support essential Mac (iOS) support exposure desirable Exposure to endpoint device management systems desirable S Azure support essential Good documentation and analytical skills, with a passion for end-user satisfaction. Evidence of commitment to training and knowledge The Client is based in Central London with some attendance at operating business offices elsewhere in London and across the UK. You will be required to work in the office at least 3 days per week. The salary is in the range £30K - £45K. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your daily rate and availability.

Job Description Information Security Manager Role Description This is a full-time role as an Information Security Manager for Bank in Central London. The Information Security Manager will be responsible for day-to-day tasks related to information security management, including implementing and maintaining Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), ensuring cybersecurity and network security, and protecting sensitive information. This is a hybrid role, based in London with the flexibility for some remote work. Qualifications • Information Security Management, ISMS, and Cybersecurity skills • Network Security and Information Security knowledge • Experience in implementing and maintaining ISMS • Proficient in identifying and addressing information security vulnerabilities • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or equivalent are preferred • Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or related field Information Security Manager role (permanent) reporting into Head of IT (CIO | CISO) Need an individual with a strong hands on network and security background Cisco networking Cisco firewalls (Firepower / Threat Detection) Palo Alto firewalls SIEM experience (Logarithm desirable) Web proxy (Forcepoint desirable) Governance skills Policy writing / reviewing Reporting KPI monitoring Certifications like CCNP / CISM would be desirable but strong experience is preferable. The Client is based in Central London and the position is hybrid - 3 days in the office every week. Salary circa £60K - £75K + Benefits. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.

Job Description Senior Backend Developer with Umbraco C# .net Working as part of the Digital team, you'll be responsible for the ongoing development and improvements to an eCommerce website as well as other internal applications for this award-winning Travel Company. You will be responsible for: Leading the eCommerce web and application development from a technical perspective • Collaborating with the front end developer and design resource to deliver improved UI & UX • A problem solver - you'll need to be able to analyse and suggest improvements to existing website features • Analysing and identifying ways to automate processes working alongside the business lead • Implementing automated regression testing for the software developed Skills and Experience: • Excellent working knowledge of ASP.NET, C#, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, React Framework, MS SQL Server, Mongo DB, Elasticsearch • Understanding of SOLID development principles • Worked previously on projects using the Umbraco CMS • Continuous Delivery skills, tools and techniques (e.g. Git, Github, Team City, Octopus, Jenkins, Selenium, etc.) • Familiar with Azure cloud services & setting up/managing resources/deploying apps • Familiar with JIRA and Confluence • Capable of working with (and developing) multiple (REST) APIs documented with e.g. OpenAPI/swagger and other API messaging formats e.g. JSON, XML, SOAP • Experience of PowerBI, PowerQuery and R • Experience of structured testing and quality assurance approaches (e.g. Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development) • A positive and cooperative individual who will work effectively across departments and within a team • Worked in an agile/Kanban environment and familiar with JIRA and confluence • Not afraid to challenge existing thinking in order to improve processes The salary for this role will be in the range £55K to £75K per year depending on experience. The Client is based in Central London and this role will be working remotely. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.