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Technical Consultant- Hybrid- Remote- up to 55k + bonus and package
Our client a leading technology brand who work in the property & facilities management space are looking to hire a number of Technical Consultant for a subsidiary brand that specialises in technology for social housing.
Working with over 120 local authorities and 200 of the UK largest housing providers the clients technology helps them with everything from social housing, social to benefits and payments.
I am looking to fill 2 Technical Consultant vacancies in their Infrastructure, build and deployment platform, within this team the main tech they use is Openedge and Progress 4GL so any experience of this would be highly desirable. I can also just consider people with a great Infrastructure background. They would also like to find some experience of data migrations for this team.
The 3rd role sits in their customisation and development team and focuses on customer integration's, interfaces and customisation. For this they have a web overlay with HTML, JavaScript, some custom web services, SQL database and moving to the cloud with Azure.
Your role will be to;
- Deploy latest releases of software to their customers
- Migrate software and databases to new servers.
- Work closely with Data Migration and Infrastructure Manager to produce professional work packages along with clear estimates and ensure that they meet the requirements for all stakeholders.
- Provide regular and effective progress updates to line managers, customers & project managers to help manage any delivery risks.
- Work closely with teams internally to ensure seamless implementation.
- Communicate with customers in a professional manner to understand and capture their requirements to be able to offer solutions.
- Undertake detailed investigations of issues reported by our Housing customer base and provide workarounds and solutions in a timely manner.
- Maintain a good working knowledge of Progress 4GL development environment.
What we're looking for:
- Experience working with computers with an understanding of Servers, Networking & Interfacing.
- Working Knowledge of Ports/Firewalls/Security/UNC Paths.
- We use a variety of software for remote access to customer environments, being a software enthusiast is crucial to this role.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills, this skill hugely assists with debugging implementation issues and delving into the unknown to find an answer.
- Attention to detail, following implementation standards and always striving to deliver excellence.
- Self-discipline, flexible working, excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Predominantly our systems use Progress coding language and framework.
- Progress / OpenEdge / C#/ DBA are desirable but not essential.
- People skills for building relationships with colleagues and customers at all levels.
In return you will be offered a competitive salary and bonus package (typically around 10%), remote working (in your contract you will be pinned to one of their offices in either London, Newcastle or Lincoln but the team are fully remote), 25 days holiday and option to buy or sell, early finish Fridays, private medical, 5% pension, cycle to work, Ev Scheme, L&D budget and loads more!
As a side note, there may a requirement to work evenings and weekends for scheduled work, which is paid at overtime rates.
If this sounds like you then please click apply now!
Technical Consultant- Hybrid- Remote- up to 55k + bonus and package
