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Junior BI Analyst Opportunity with Harrison Spinks

Who are Harrison Spinks?

We are an award-winning, innovative and rapidly expanding business just 2 miles south of Leeds city centre. A privately owned family business that is very proud of the high-quality products and strong brand heritage we have built. The company is highly vertically integrated from drawing its own wire, blending our own fibre and even owning a 300-acre farm to rear sheep and grow fibres for our natural filling’s blends. Come and join our team and be a part of our success story!

We are recruiting for a motivated team member to join our BI team. Business intelligence is a rapidly expanding area for Harrison Spinks, the role will continue to evolve and grow with the company. There is plenty of scope to challenge new and existing business processes and strengthen how we deliver information across the company. Training will be provided giving you the opportunity to expand your skillset within a supportive environment.

Job title: Junior BI Analyst
Location: Leeds/Remote
Reports to: BI Manager
Travel: Occasional but limited
Reports in: None
Key Stakeholders: Leadership Team, Head of Finance, All Departments
Job Objectives:
• Work closely with the BI Lead to support and develop new and existing internal reporting solutions, alongside a team of IT specialists.
• Help to review, assess and make improvements to the internal reporting systems and visualisations.
• Communicate with end users to analyse and identify where processes can be improved to ultimately refine the quality of data within the business.
• Contribute to the documentation and end user training plans for new and existing BI and reporting systems.

Main responsibilities:
• Regular communication with a variety of end users to understand their requirements and fulfil requests that fit within our BI strategy.
• Work collaboratively to help build the data offered across the business to enable data driven decisions.
• Design a variety of sustainable reports, dashboards, and visualisations to present clear information, predominantly using the Power BI platform.
• Assist in the maintenance, and smooth running of a dimensionally modelled data warehouse (SQL, SSIS)
• Maintain and prioritise workload using the companies ticketing system.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of business process and system documentation.
• Support other ad-hoc related duties to support the IT team.

Relevant Skill

Required:
• Degree in Technical or numerical discipline or equivalent experience within a business environment.
• IT literate, MS Excel Skills.
• Understand concepts of Data Warehousing and analytical structures.
Desired:
• Experience with Power BI or reporting tools
• 365 Platforms
• Fundamentals understanding of SQL (preferably TSQL)
• Developing reports in Microsoft AX 2012 (or other ERP systems)


Personality:
• You are passionate about IT, driven with excellent attention to detail.
• Customer focused, excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships.
• Ability to time manage and priorities workload.

For any questions or to apply email: bicareers@harrisonspinks.co.uk

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Test Driven Solutions – We’re Recruiting!

Test Driven Solutions, a local technology consultancy in Newcastle upon Tyne, are currently on the lookout for highly ambitious individuals, who are looking to be part of a company who care about their staff and offer extremely generous benefits.

We’re at the beginning, so we’re looking for individuals to help shape TDS to be one of the best consultancies in the UK. We want people who will not only be gifted technically, but also people who have a voice and will look to make a good impression on every client site we operate with.

We’re currently looking for Software Developers, specifically with Java & Python as well as DevOps Engineers to help us work with our clients. Below is a list of the skills we’re looking for.

Skills needed:

  • Experience designing, architecting, and implementing the next generation of cloud-based applications which are dynamically scalable, fault tolerant, secure, and reliable for a cloud platform such as Openshift, AWS, or Azure.
  • Experience working on highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • Experience with Linux operating systems & shell scripting, and Containers
  • Understanding and Experience with DevOps tooling such as Cloudify, Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Salt, and/or Ansible
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one of the following languages: Java, Go, C#. Most of our development is in Python.
  • Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, and or Spinnaker
  • Experience in developing automated tests
  • Effective verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to work well in a team environment If this is of interest,

Please send your cv to sam.clark@testdrivensolutions.co.uk

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Build your experience online with Infosys ‘Summer of Ideas’ global learning initiative

Infosys the global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting has recently launched their ‘Summer of Ideas’ initiative for university students worldwide. Summer of Ideas is an 8-week ideathon where students will work on industry-relevant themes in collaboration with cross-functional teams from around the world, under the mentorship of technological experts, and get the chance to showcase their ideas to industry experts.

Infosys’ next-generation digital learning platform, Wingspan, will allow participants to shape their own learning and choose courses from a content library, curated carefully by subject matter experts and educators. You’ll also be able to network with others, collaborate with teams across geographies and share ideas using various digital tools.

Applications are welcome from all stages and degree programmes including masters and PhD students. Interested candidates are requested to register here for further details.



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Technology Placements with IBM – apply now

IBM opened at 9am today for applications to their ‘Technology’ roles. Last year, some of their roles opened and closed on the same day as they were inundated with applications and they expect a similar level of experience this year. The initial application is very short and straightforward and should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.

If you miss the deadline, you can still register your interest on their website to stay informed of all future opening dates. In order to deliver the best candidate experience, IBM are aiming for successful applicants to receive an offer within 4 weeks of submitting their application. To achieve this their placement roles will be opening periodically over the academic year, giving students up to 1 week to submit their initial application.

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Lit Lab – Web and mobile development opportunity

Lit Lab is a professional network for basic science and academia. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a startup looking to advance scientific research.

We’re looking for a software engineer to build a prototype which will have a database for profiles, jobs and funding opportunities. The chosen candidate can develop this in their own time and will receive £500 upfront and a further £1500 on completion. The work should take around 4-6 weeks to complete.

Anybody interested should email their CV to rajeeve@hotmail.co.uk