Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Solutions Architect - West Midlands / Warwickshire - £450/day (Outside IR35) - 6 Months contract (potential to roll)

Role:
The role of Solutions Architect is essentially to create, guide and influence the technical design, configuration and planning implementation of the automotive client's projects. Where necessary integrating relatively simple and ‘clean’ concepts for each (sub) system or layer to constitute the whole. Create the structure and description of a system. To enable the implementation, understanding, support and further development of a system. The solution architect will specify the architecture, which essentially consists of a set of integrated designs.

Requirements:
The Solutions Architect is responsible for the high-level and low-level design of the system to be implemented. Establish the basic structure of the system, define the essential core design features and elements that provide the framework for all that follows. The Solution architect will provide an IT view of the business vision for what the system needs to be and do, and the paths along which it must be able to evolve, and strives to maintain the integrity of that vision as it evolves during detailed design and implementation.

The successful candidate will offer a proven track record in Solution Architecture (or technical lead) on significant programmes and bids, used to working with internal stakeholders and external clients/suppliers in a technical or business design function. We’re looking for demonstrable expertise developing conceptual, logical and physical architectures and applying architectural principles

Any TOGAF, depth/breadth of solution areas (applications, business analysis, data, integration and infrastructure), Enterprise Architecture methodologies, cloud-based solutions, Digital Evolution, API Management and Intelligent Automation viewed as advantageous

Responsibility:
Area of Responsibility
- Provide the primary architectural focal point for the project
- Interface with the business sponsors and all other stakeholders.
- Ensure the solution meets project requirements and is aligned to the business direction.
- Provide ownership of technical solutions as well as options with documented impacts and benefits.
- Provide knowledge on modern Applications, Networks, Servers, Storage, and Desktop Infrastructures within complex and challenging environments.
- Define the infrastructure hardware and software requirements
- Prepare and submit detailed documentation on the solution to the IT Design and Service Authority for review and approval
- Collaborate with the project manager to develop detailed project plans.
- Define system requirements, based on the business needs balanced against other constraints such as cost and timing. Ensuring that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct and operationally defined.
- Actively engage with stakeholders involved in gathering requirements and responses.
- Assist in in converting requirements into a further level of detail for solution proposals and subsequent implementation
- Interpret and map business requirements to solution functionalities
- Assist project delivery teams to understand the detail around implementation and to become involved in that delivery when required

Experience / Skills Required:
- Excellent stakeholder and communication skills
- Experience of multiple domains (Marketing & Sales, Manufacturing, Corporate) beneficial
- Experience in analysis and architecting solutions which includes designing entire solution for an enterprise and distributed applications on various platforms. - Technologies: Client Server / Distributed / Web Based / N-Tier Systems and Applications on following platforms - LINUX, WINTEL, Cloud based ( Google , Azure , Amazon)
- Have experience and Ability to deliver robust end to end solutions, to meet with third party software suppliers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Application SME’s to discuss and identify architectural changes and propose new changes to existing software and hardware specifications.
- To provide current best practices and alternatives as required as part of the functional design documents.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels including stakeholders, business users and also can work as a part of a team as well as independently.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Business Analyst - Remote Working / Warwickshire - Up to £325 /Day (Outside IR35) - 3 Months contract (rolling)

Role:
Business Analyst required to work across multiple projects within the order to delivery (commercial) domain. Working for a project manager leading the business analysis phase and supporting the design and delivery of software changes and handover to operations.

Requirements:
- HR, Pay-roll &/or Time Attendance experience
- Analyse
- Program delivery
- Solutions delivery
- Relationship management

Responsibility:
- Use Agile project methodology
- Engage with business SMEs to understand and define business problems and carry out requirement gathering workshops to capture detailed business requirements
- Work with business SMEs to identify and validate the key business requirements.
- Interpret business requirements into requirement specifications. Create Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure all requirements are considered in solution and appropriate test strategy is defined for each requirement.
- Engage with project leads to ensure that the defined requirements are understood, are accurately documented and fully meet the solution requirements of the project.
- Create interface catalogue so all related applications / capabilities are considered in the scope of the solution.
- Carry out data analysis to map out any changes to the data model
- Work with cross-functional business teams to re-engineer business processes and continuous improvement efforts, being able to map process flows
- Working with IT, evaluate potential software solutions, including off-the-shelf and open source components, and the system architecture to ensure that they meet business requirements.
- Create functional requirements in use cases/stories
- Coordinate requirements walk-through and sign-offs, verifying with user representatives/stakeholders that use cases and process models accurately portray specific business needs.
- Contribute to project planning activities
- Lead other Business analysis resources within the team, define their yearly key performance indicators and carry out performance review at end of each year.
- Lead business analysis phase for large programmes.

Experience / Skills Required:
- Able to lead business analysis work requirements within large projects/programmes of work
- Be able to prioritise work across multiple projects
- Ability to support strategic project planning and decision making
- Experience of working as a business analysis in a large manufacturing environment
- Ability to take a holistic view across the order to delivery landscape
- Good interpersonal skills with differing levels within the organisation
- Be able to contribute to end to end project lifecycle
- Ability to document ideas, requirements, potential solutions and associated issues, including requirement capture, requirement management, maturity, and traceability
- Able to document Use Cases, Acceptance Criteria, Interface documentation, systems diagrams, touch point, system process documents
- Able to understand and document technical discussion and responses of ideas and solutions in a cohesive user friendly manner
- Knowledge of working with different software methodologies
- Understanding of systems concepts, modelling techniques and methods
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to produce clear and concise documentation suitable for technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience of outsourced and offshore IT delivery model

Additional Information:
Business Analyst - Remote Working / Warwickshire - Up to £325 /Day (Outside IR35) - 3 Months contract (rolling)

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

DevOps Product Specialist Payroll T&A - Remote & Warwickshire - £Neg/day (Outside IR35) - 3 Months contract (potential for extension)

Role:
As a DevOps Product Specialist you will be responsible for the technical delivery (coding/configuration) and change management of a prioritised back log including legal and mandatory, business critical and continuous improvement initiatives for the Payroll and Time & Attendance space. This will include day-to-day operations such as supporting technical upgrades, maintenance, incident and problem resolution alongside supporting development of the long term strategic product roadmap in collaboration with our suppliers and technology partners. You’ll work within the Payroll and Time & Attendance IT team as part of the wider Corporate Services IT domain working closely with the Payroll & HR department and technical experts from the Enterprise IT teams such as Security, Infrastructure and Service Delivery. There will be a requirement to visit customer sites across the West Midlands, predominantly Solihull which is where the Payroll team are currently based and Coventry where IT is based.

Knowledge / Experience
- Ability to analyse trends in the market to inform IT and Business opinions and behaviour of the product(s).
- Continually gather and analyse industry / product data and business feedback to inform the evolution of the product development roadmap.
- Support the management of technology supply chains (performance, risk, finance, contracts, obligations, reporting, renewals, audit)
- Possesses strong analytical skills to make sense of complex and logical problems quickly.
- Knowledgeable about the Kronos/Zellis/ ResourceLink IT product(s) including development and configuration, its users and industry
- Clear communicator with stakeholders at different levels of seniority and knowledge.
- Experience with modern DevOps including CI/CD tools and techniques
- Clear verbal and written communication skills
- Collaborative skills - being open to pair programming and working closely with engineers in cross functional teams
- Good automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools

Desirable:
- Understand the business terminology to further advise performance and functional requirements and convert into technical architecture.
- Knowledge of the ITIL framework as well as a high level of IT technical competence.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

SAP EWM Lead Consultant - Remote working and Warwickshire - £470/day (Outside IR35) - 6-12 Months contract (potential to roll)

Role:
SAP EWM Lead Consultant required for configuring and supporting of the SAP EWM with our engineering client.

Responsibility:
- Configures and supports of the SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) and related SAP and legacy system components.
- Supports IS business analysts with design, development, and solution management.
- Leads or participates in functional and business requirements gathering sessions.
- Defines and writes functional specifications and/or user stories for configuration, user exits, and custom programs.
- Authors and communicates business process designs and business systems designs.
- Collaborates with Quality Assurance (QA) on configuration, data requirements and test plans to satisfy functional unit tests, regression tests and system integration tests.
- Presents, discusses and demonstrates SAP best practices.
- Performs analysis on error incidents including Intermediate Document (IDoc) rejects and system errors.
- Collaborates with technical teams to develop technical specifications and development of customized objects.
- Provides support of SAP applications, including integration points between SAP modules and non-SAP applications to ensure business processes are maintained in a non-disruptive manner.
- Adheres to team and departmental development standards.
- Demonstrates a logical and structured approach to time management and task prioritization.
- Demonstrates excellent communication skills.
- Mentors less experienced team members on SAP concepts and tool suite.
- Participates in team planning and activities for improving skills, knowledge, and quality of work.
- Responsible for continued personal growth in the areas of technology, business knowledge, and company policies.
- Available to work nights and weekends and perform 24x7 on-call support as scheduled or as needed.
- Travels within the US and CN as necessary for site visits.
- Regular and reliable work attendance at your assigned location.

Required Experience:
- Strong conceptual, analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and resolution skills.
- 5 -10 years’ prior experience configuring and supporting SAP EWM.
- At least have 3 implementation of SAP EWM
- Ability to effectively teach and mentor less experienced team members about the SAP system.
- Knowledge of SAP-related business and related business and implementation processes.
- Good understanding of integration between SAP modules and non-SAP systems.
- Proactively takes responsibility for module development activities. Must have the ability to work with limited supervision and exhibit a strong sense of urgency.
- Customer-centric focus and dedicated to business partnership while meeting the needs of the business leveraging out of the box functionality without a high degree of customization.
- Self-motivated, flexible, and open to learning.

Desirable Experience:
- General understanding of supply chain processes and principles.
- Knowledgeable about middleware and communication technologies such as PI/PO, MQ, ETL, DataPower, WAS, FTP, etc.
- Understanding of testing tools, e.g., HP ALM.
- Experience working in Agile software delivery methodologies.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Business Analyst - Remote Working / Warwickshire - Up to £325 /Day (Outside IR35) - 6 Months contract (rolling)

Role:
Business Analyst required to work across multiple projects within the order to delivery (commercial) domain. Working for a project manager leading the business analysis phase and supporting the design and delivery of software changes and handover to operations.

Requirements:
- Analyse
- Program delivery
- Solutions delivery
- Relationship management

Responsibility:
- Use Agile project methodology
- Engage with business SMEs to understand and define business problems and carry out requirement gathering workshops to capture detailed business requirements
- Work with business SMEs to identify and validate the key business requirements.
- Interpret business requirements into requirement specifications. Create Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure all requirements are considered in solution and appropriate test strategy is defined for each requirement.
- Engage with project leads to ensure that the defined requirements are understood, are accurately documented and fully meet the solution requirements of the project.
- Create interface catalogue so all related applications / capabilities are considered in the scope of the solution.
- Carry out data analysis to map out any changes to the data model
- Work with cross-functional business teams to re-engineer business processes and continuous improvement efforts, being able to map process flows
- Working with IT, evaluate potential software solutions, including off-the-shelf and open source components, and the system architecture to ensure that they meet business requirements.
- Create functional requirements in use cases/stories
- Coordinate requirements walk-through and sign-offs, verifying with user representatives/stakeholders that use cases and process models accurately portray specific business needs.
- Contribute to project planning activities
- Lead other Business analysis resources within the team, define their yearly key performance indicators and carry out performance review at end of each year.
- Lead business analysis phase for large programmes.

Experience / Skills Required:
- Able to lead business analysis work requirements within large projects/programmes of work
- Be able to prioritise work across multiple projects
- Ability to support strategic project planning and decision making
- Experience of working as a business analysis in a large manufacturing environment
- Ability to take a holistic view across the order to delivery landscape
- Good interpersonal skills with differing levels within the organisation
- Be able to contribute to end to end project lifecycle
- Ability to document ideas, requirements, potential solutions and associated issues, including requirement capture, requirement management, maturity, and traceability
- Able to document Use Cases, Acceptance Criteria, Interface documentation, systems diagrams, touch point, system process documents
- Able to understand and document technical discussion and responses of ideas and solutions in a cohesive user friendly manner
- Knowledge of working with different software methodologies
- Understanding of systems concepts, modelling techniques and methods
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to produce clear and concise documentation suitable for technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience of outsourced and offshore IT delivery model

Additional Information:
Business Analyst - Remote Working / Warwickshire - Up to £325 /Day (Outside IR35) - 6 Months contract (rolling)

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.