Job Title: IT Support Technician - 1st / 2nd Line Location: York, North Yorkshire Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 dependent on experience Job Type: Permanent, Full time Hours of work: 8:30am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday. About us: Optisoft is one of the market leaders in providing specialist IT solutions for opticians and the optical profession. Our head office is in York with our customers based throughout the UK and Ireland. About the role: We are looking for an experienced IT professional to join our office-based Support Desk Team in providing a high quality and efficient service to over 500 customers with their hardware and software. Responsibilities will include: Provide telephone support for customers in difficulty with software or hardware. Analyse and resolve the customer's problems as quickly and efficiently as possible. Dial in to the customer's system to provide remote support when necessary. Log all calls on the company's support software and update as necessary. Document and report 'bugs' / 'change requests' to Development. Make courtesy calls to customers who have not contacted the Support Desk for more than 6 months. There may be some travel to customer sites across the UK, which may involve overnight stays. The company pool car would be made available for this. About you: The ideal candidate will have a passion for computers and be able to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system environment. The Candidate: Excellent communication skills and a good telephone manner. Good attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure. A calm, patient and professional demeanour. Ability to plan and execute work both independently and as a team member. Self-motivation to learn new skills and update existing ones. Reliable and punctual. Essential: Thorough understanding of PC hardware, peripherals and peer to peer networking. Good knowledge of Microsoft Windows desktop environment and Office suite. Full and clean UK driving licence. Desirable: 2 years Support Desk experience of troubleshooting and resolving common problems experienced by users. Hands-on experience working in an end-user desktop support role. Microsoft (or similar) accredited training would be advantageous. Splashtop remote support software. Diagnostic utilities, such as anti-virus, anti-malware and more. Experience of supporting SQL Server based applicat What we offer: Opportunities to learn and progress within the company. Holidays starting at 24 days increasing to 29 for long term service. Death in service and critical illness cover. Auto-enrolment into pension scheme (Royal London - 5% employee / 3% employer). Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role. Candidates with experience of: 1st Line Support, 2nd Line Support, IT Support Analyst, Desktop Support Engineer, Helpdesk Technician, Service Desk Analyst, Technical Support Specialist, Systems Support, SQL Support, PC Maintenance will also be considered for this role.
IT Director We offer leading-edge capability, technology and innovation to enable companies to take products into clinical trials and provide clinical, process development, manufacturing, regulatory, health economics and market access expertise. Our aim is to make the UK the most compelling and logical choice for UK and international partners to develop and commercialise these advanced therapies. Leadership of the IT group to service external and internal customers. Our Client is seeking to recruit an IT Director with exceptional credentials and expertise in setting up the planning and strategy framework for the company going forward. You will have at least 10 years expertise at a senior level. Key Accountabilities: • Working with the CFO and Operational leaders set the strategy and objectives • Select the right people, develop, and coach the team • Support internal customers through effective business partnering • Deliver IT services to customers/collaborators resident at the company locations including access/integration to Company business systems and infrastructure (communication/hardware) • Ensure security of data and systems balancing effectiveness with the need for collaboration internally and with customers • Deliver continuous improvement of services for internal and external stakeholders and Collaborators • Ensure IT Services and are delivered efficiently and effectively • Manage delivery of services within the agreed budget Required Experience: • A minimum of ten years' experience leading IT at a senior management level • Track record of delivering results quickly • Experience in delivering IT services to customers • Work in a GMP or highly regulated environment Preferred Experience: • Experience of agile product development • Experience of Lean Six Sigma • Infrastructure delivery (networking, hardware) to customers • Experience with data science project delivery Knowledge / Skills / Competencies: • Highly motivated, pragmatic, and practical to support the mission of the Company to accelerate the development of a commercial cell and gene-based therapy industry in the UK. • High level interpersonal, communication (oral and written) skills. • Resilient, with the ability to manage multiple and varied tasks and prioritise workload within a fast-paced professional environment, with a strong attention to detail. • Flexible and pragmatic, able to learn quickly and respond flexibly to project needs and priorities. • Project ownership and pride in its delivery. • Ability to work well under pressure, to work independently and to be able to take the initiative when completing tasks. • Ambitious, collaborative, driven. • Comfortable operating autonomously once goals and objectives are set. • Able to evaluate complex situations and find solutions for them in a professional manner. • Ability to quickly establish credibility and build rapport and trust. • Proven ability to engage constructively with colleagues at all levels across different departments to deliver objectives and to respond to a wide range of customer and management needs. • Proven diplomacy skills with diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders. • High degree of motivation, problem solving skills and innovative thinking. • A good team player with a hands-on approach, and adaptable to new challenges. • A positive attitude towards learning, personal and professional development. • Keeps up to date with professional knowledge, expertise, and best practice. • Willingness to travel. • Proven coaching/mentoring ability. • Strong presentation skills. • Sincere and secure - accepts own mistakes - prioritises team over personal goals. • Driven and proactive - goes above and beyond the call of duty to achieve company results. • Astute and persuasive - leads and inspires colleagues. • Strong influencing and leadership skills. Understands influencing, stakeholder management and negotiation strategies. The Client is ideally seeking someone from a Pharmaceutical or Bio Science background and who understands how to work with the government and government funding. This position will manage 15 people within the IT team. Qualifications: Degree level qualification MBA preferred IT qualifications preferred but not essential Location and Travel: • Contracted location Stevenage • Ability to travel to Company locations The role will be based near Stevenage with hybrid working. The rate will be competitive - circa £1000 per day. This will be a 12 month contract assignment. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with your rate and availability.
Technical Project Manager - London Our Client is looking to recruit a Technical Project Manager with at least 5 to 10 years expertise of leading teams of BA's and programmers and supporting Clients. Must have excellent customer skills. Must be fluent in Mandarin and English. The position can be based in London, Asia or USA. You must have a sound background of expertise of working within the investment banking projects as a Project Manager. There will be occasional travel to Guangzhou China – so you must be able to travel to China with no passport restrictions. Maybe only one or two customer trips plus virtual. Technology we are supporting is leading edge so PM has to act as shoulder to cry on and compliance personality. This is an 8 month contract. Rate will be dependent on experience – but in the range £400 - £450 per day. The role will be working from home – and home can be Europe, America or Asia. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with your availability and daily rate in GBP.
Dot Net Developer - Stoke Our Client is looking for a Lead Application developer. You will be have at least 3 to 5 years proven track record of developing applications with Microsoft Dot Net technology. The candidate will also be expected to mentor any new developers to help evolve that persons skills. Microsoft Word - Lead .Net Application Developer You will be involved in developing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for a niche sector. Clients then add their business requirements such as Membership Management, Event Management, Product/Publication Sales, etc. In addition, they may request to have modifications and enhancements made to meet their explicit requirements. The contact information is held within the core CRM element Dot .Net solution, all of the add- on modules have basic Sales Ledger features (i.e. invoicing, payments, refunds, rejections and credits). Therefore, any skills sets you have whereby you are able to interrogate, analyse and report upon demographic & related financial data will be an advantage. The main applications server is built to OOP principals using, VB.Net, ASP.Net with backend database development using SQL. Server. Integrated modules built using similar technologies as well as web technologies such as MVC, C#, Angular, HTML/CSS and Ajax. Understand how our customers use the Dot .Net Application suite and then using this understanding develop new features and/or enhancing & maintain current features. Developing new features and\or enhancing & maintaining current features on the main Dot .Net application suite. Assist with implementations, upgrades and resolving the more challenging support issues which require experienced developer review. On occasion assist with Helpdesk related issues responding to Customer tickets that have been deemed requiring your level of expertise/understanding and have been scheduled for you. Demonstrable experience working in a development team with OO structured processes Must have the following skills: VB.Net, ASP.Net Web Forms, Current JavaScript frameworks, Current JavaScript frameworks ORM Modelling, Oracle, MySQL, Any commercial use of source control systems C# considered as long as you are happy to work mainly in Visual Basic WCF, WebApi Location: Staffordshire Salary 35,000.00 - £40,000.00 Ideally with a degree in IT Please send your CV to us in Word format.
Project Co-ord/Analyst Start date - ASAP Location - predominantly remote but occasional travel to either Bristol or Chippenham Duration - 3 month rolling Rate - £325 per day inside of IR35 SC Cleared Manage a small team of analysts Competent with excel and smart sheets and able to carry out analysis using these tools Customer connected in this customer facing role Prepared to travel to Bristol, customer sites Nice to have: Be familiar with the WholeSale Line Rentals (WLR) obsolescence and migration programmes. Please send your latest CV Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance. An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience. Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.
Software Developer with Full Stack C# and SQL Server Our Client is an international company in the media industry. They are looking to recruit an additional Software Engineer/Developer with full stack software development experience. Must have at least 2 to 4 years of hands-on software development covering both front and backend development. We're looking for a software engineer who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design. Any experience of networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile would be very useful. The Client would like to see experience of the following skills: Languages: HTML5, CSS3, C#, Javascript ( is not main focus but knowledge is good) Frameworks: ASP.Net 4-6, MVC, Ajax, JQuery, HTML, Bootstrap and Knockout (required), Angular (optional) DB's: Ms Sql Server 2012 Testing: Nunit Tools: Jira, Git and Git Hub, Bitbucket Practices: Agile, Scrum The role: Creating and updating the user interface enabling our customers to create beautiful, bespokeproducts on their global webstores Creating a project management tool enabling customers to come back to their personalizationprojects without starting the process from scratch. Creating a one click photobook experience; a thinking system which creates and presents photos and photobooks in the best layout order Continuous optimization and debugging when adjustments are made to our webstores Design and implementation of next-generation web applications using Java and C# that can handle web-scale volumes of traffic Summary Do you have at least 2 years full stack development experience with a focus on front end development? Have you worked in a fast paced ecommerce environment? Have you experience in supporting Web applications with high traffic? Are you a whizz with scripting languages JavaScript and C# ? Experienced in full automation and configuration management? Can you help developers own and deliver change from keyboard to customer? Can you diagnose and fix complex production issues working with others as necessary? Are you a Developer who wants to work in a cutting edge & dynamic operations team? Can you help continually improve systems to reduce impact from technical issues? The Company is based in West London. The salary range for this position is £30K - £40K depending on expertise. Please send your CV to us in Word format.
