Sharpe Recruitment - Current Job Postings

Deployment Engineer

Job Description: This role is in the busy technology department within the UK’s most dynamic company in the online marketing space. The role is based in the company headquarters in the North East. Having established itself on the international stage, following an investment from equity backers and winning a Client with a global brand, the company is undertaking a major expansion, resulting in the technology team requiring strengthening.

Your role will be assisting the Head of Deployment with the integration of new clients onto the Companys platform (saas), providing technical support and the development of new tools and features.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for client integrations onto the Companys platform across affiliate, lead generation channels.
• Assisting clients to improve tracking solutions
• On-going technical support of existing clients
• Owner of internal / external support system
• Responsible for technical communication of client requests which impacts on API / system
• Exploration and prototyping of new product offerings and tracking solutions
• Training of Companys products to external clients
• Providing technical documentation for both internal / external use

DESIRABLE SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in digital market space
• Good understanding of web technologies such as PHP, HTML, MySQL, XML
• Sound knowledge of APIs and functionality
• Ability to communicate technical information to a non technical audience
• Problem solving skills and analytical ability
• Teamwork and strong work ethic
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks to meet deadlines

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: engineer, saas, deployment, affiliate, technical support, training, PHP, HTML, MySQL, XML

Senior Interactive Producer - Mobile & Devices

Job Description: A dynamic, growing organisation established in the UK since 2003 has brought a high level of creativity and deep knowledge of technology to the mobile and devices market as well as being known for its award winning apps, games and content for clients including MTV, BBC, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Adobe, Penguin books and the Discovery Channel.

Founded in 1996 originally in Seattle, Washington USA this company is a global leader in creating immersive, interactive content that transforms consumer experiences in the digital world and working seamlessly across multiple digital distribution channels including online, Smartphones, Tablet devices and iTV.

The Newcastle, UK based office are looking to expand its existing team by recruiting an experienced Interactive Producer. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of cross-functional team management, have a passion for user experience and new technologies, and operate within tight deadlines efficiently and seamlessly.

Job Responsibilities
• Own and manage the project production process, from RFP & scoping through delivery and post project support.
• Work with business development teams to further develop client relationships and business opportunities.
• Translate business, marketing and production goals into digital media projects with a focus on ROI.
• Write project proposals, creative briefs, functional specifications, IA, tracking requirements and content matrices.
• Work with teams to create project flow documents, wireframes and technical specifications.
• Collaborate with internal teams and clients to identify critical milestones and ensure timely deliverables.
• Act as a technical and creative partner to clients and a leader for internal teams.
• Assess new technologies, interactive applications and games; present recommendations and findings.

Personal Strengths
• Communicator: You know how to develop and sell an idea to clients, how to exchange ideas with technical and creative types and how to keep your teams motivated and informed.
• Negotiator: You’re comfortable discussing project scope, schedules and budgets with clients and vendors at all levels, as well as working out project details with internal teams.
• Multi-tasker: You have the ability to handle multiple types of projects and details simultaneously
• Problem Solver: You can anticipate issues before they occur, and you can find solutions quickly and effectively.
• Collaborator: You build and nurture positive working relationships with clients, partners, and internal teams.
• Early Adopter: You love technology and are often one of the first to have the latest gadgets.
• Critical Thinker: You’re able to evaluate feedback and ideas from clients and team members, consider all implications and determine the best next steps and recommendations that will benefit your projects.
• Consultant: You can consult with clients regarding marketing initiatives plus new and existing technologies.

Job Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree, advanced training or certification required.
• Three years of experience leading interactive projects (multi-platform projects a bonus).
• A solid understanding of the lifecycle of interactive development
• Extensive experience in creating, maintaining, and evaluating project milestones.
• Experience contributing to, and passion for, UI/UX a plus.
• Experience with MS Project a plus.

If you are interested in the advertised position please ‘Register your interest’ through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role.
Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: project management, web, mobile, interactive, MS Project

Senior Digital Designer - Mobile & Devices

Job Description: An award winning Newcastle based Digital Agency is looking to expand its existing team by recruiting an experienced Senior Digital Designer.

You’re a colour-tweaking, font crazy, problem solver who knows that good interactive design isn’t just visually rich, but a combination of aesthetics, usability, creativity, imagination and user engagement. You know that every part of an experience matters, that’s why user experience design isn’t just a new buzzword for you – it’s been your approach to solutions for years now.
This role will have you leading the design of projects that could include anything from mobile phone and tablet apps, to web applications, ePublishing and whatever else emerges in the near future. With a persistent need to understand everything from design and tech trends to the most recent industry and market developments you will have the ease and confidence needed in client meetings as well as internal presentations.

And that’s not all - as a proven leader, you’re passion for producing the best work has you instinctively taking charge in a way that communicates and motivates while leaving the right amount of room for team member autonomy and empowerment. You prefer to be hands on, leading by example as much as oversight. With over five years of experience, you move easily from designing to helping designers learn the ropes. You have a portfolio that shows off years of hands on design and you’re willing and able to take a project from start to finish.
Our client develops solutions for some of the biggest names in entertainment, lifestyle, products and ecommerce. If you can’t wait to find out more – don’t. Get in touch.

Experience & Skills
• Ability to present and communicate designs and ideas internally and externally
• Lead the visual look & feel, UX and UI for a range of projects
• Lead the creative aspects of client meetings
• Work with Executive Creative Director to respond to Requests for Proposals with strategic, innovative solutions
• Ability to lead and manage a creative team
• Ability to visualize concepts to demonstrate ideas
• Work with ECD, creative team and producers to take creative briefs and project outlines from page to reality
• Lead and contribute to brainstorms effectively
• Ability to create wireframes and screen flow diagrams
• Ability to invent a new visual convention or match styles of existing properties
• Comprehensive knowledge of design software and the latest interactive solutions, including responsive layout
• Expert Photoshop skills required
• CSS/HTML skills and experience designing for enterprise and ecommerce solutions are a plus

Character Requirements
• Passionate about design
• Curiosity - Makes you dig deeper and results in thought leadership
• Pro-activity - You never wait, but push for evolution

Minimum Qualifications
• URL of recent work/portfolio
• Minimum 5 years of interactive digital design work
• Visual, interaction design or arts related degree

If you are interested in the advertised position please ‘Register your interest’ through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role.
Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: Design, interactive, mobile, devices, web, UX, UI

Digital Producer/Project Manager

Job Description: A highly reputable Creative Agency based in Newcastle are looking to recruit a Digital Producer/Project Manager to join its team.

As Digital Producer you will manage interactive projects for a broad range of clients from kick off to delivery, on time and on budget. You’ll be responsible for translating a brief into a project plan and being the central point of contact between clients and our creative and technical teams.

Major Responsibilities:

• Deliver multiple, often concurrent projects: error free, on time or early, on or under budget, all while meeting or exceeding creative objectives and expectations.
• Establishes a relationship between client and creative team that works to the benefit of both brand and agency. The producer must develop a strong working knowledge of the brand guidelines and strategy for each client.
• Works closely with internal team of designers, developers and creatives to define project requirements, develop timeline and budget, identify technical considerations, and designate areas of responsibility among interactive team.
• Actively manages all day-to-day aspects of production by developing detailed project schedules, managing project scope, documenting change requests, facilitating project meetings, client reviews, reviewing all project
• Selects and negotiates all outside vendors contracts based on both scope/budget/time line of project and on which vendor is best suited to recreate the creative vision; estimates time allocation of internal design and development team for inclusion in client estimate.
• Generates production estimates, revises estimates when necessary. Reconciles costs at project delivery and may be responsible for invoicing client.
• Serves as part of the client-facing member of the creative team, able to explain technical and interactive concepts to clients of varying degrees of knowledge.
• Communicates actively with internal departments and clients on all aspects of the production including milestones, deliverables and due dates to keep the production process flowing smoothly.

Key Attributes

• 1 years digital agency experience minimum
• Organised
• Able to plan ahead
• Able to work independently

Personal Attributes

• Team Player
• Able to multi task
• Forward thinking

If you are interested in the advertised position please ‘Register your interest’ through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role.
Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.

| Job Skills: Digital project management, web, design, agency

Software Engineer - Powerbuilder

Job Description: We need a Powerbuilder Developer to work as part of a development team of four, developing the company’s latest payroll and HR package. The role is part of an IT Development department which has a staff of 12.

The application you will primarily be working on is written in Sybase Powerbuilder 10.5 and T-SQL.

Development activity will be focused on new functionality as well as on-going maintenance of the existing code base.

Responsibilities will include:
• Developing robust, reliable, functional and intuitive applications
• Assisting in the design of new functionality
• Advising on tools, technologies and development approaches
• Working closely with the other developers in the team, as well as other teams, to share ideas, progress etc.
• Unit and system testing application before handing over to the Testing team
• Assisting the Support team resolve issues with applications

The role of Software Developer reports to the project manager and then to the Head of IT.

The role is full time Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm with 20 days annual holiday plus all statutory bank holidays, and three days between Christmas and New Year (total of 31 days holiday including Bank Holidays).

A competitive salary is available for the role and is negotiable dependant on experience.

It is expected that you will have several years’ experience working as a Powerbuilder developer in addition to good experience of Microsoft SQL databases and T-SQL. Any experience of working with XML is also an advantage.

The successful candidate will also have strong numeric skills and any experience of the payroll/hr industry may be also useful.

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy please contact myself, Laura Sharpe via my details on the contact us page of the sharperecruitment website.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: Software Engineer, Software Developer, Sybase Powerbuilder 10.5, T-SQL

Software Developers

Job Description: These roles are in the busy technology department within Performance Horizon, the UK’s most dynamic company in the online marketing space. They are none other than the winner of the “Innovative Start-up Award” at the Marketing Innovation Awards held earlier this year! We are looking for PHP software developers at varying levels to be based in the company headquarters in the North East. Having established itself on the international stage, following an investment from equity backers and winning a Client with a major global brand, the company is undertaking a massive expansion plan, resulting in the technology team requiring strengthening.

Regardless of the level you go in at, your duties and responsibilities will be similar to this:
• Interpret written business requirements and technical specification documents.
• Perform coding to written technical specifications.
• Investigate, analyse and document reported defects.
• Perform maintenance programming and correction of identified defects.
• Create, document, and implement unit test plans, scripts, and test harnesses.
• Create and maintain technical documentation using defined technical documentation templates.
• Performs related duties as assigned

The successful candidate will possess some or all of the following attributes
• Demonstrable Software Development experience
• A 2:1 or above in an IT related discipline.
• Be fully proficient in PHP, with experience of working with MVC frameworks such as Kohana
• Flexible attitude, ability to perform under pressure.
• A commitment to quality and a thorough approach to the work.
• Demonstrate knowledge of OOP techniques
• Ability to work well within a team
• Knowledge of emerging NoSQL movement
• Understanding of design patterns
• Knowledge of database architecture and design
• Ability to interpret written requirements and technical specification documents.

We at Sharpe Recruitment are proud to be working in close partnership with Performance Horizon to find them the right people, so if you’re interested in the advertised position please apply to us through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role. Please do not apply directly to Performance Horizon as your application will only be passed straight through to us, creating additional admin for all involved.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: Software Development, Software Developer, PHP, MVC frameworks, Kohana

Database Engineer

Job Description: We’re looking for an experienced Database Engineer to join our Clients team in Sunderland, this is a formidable start up, making waves in the social media and loyalty space. They have received substantial funding and are growing rapidly as a result... This is an exclusive opportunity to be part of the next big thing!

To be considered, you will need to have an excellent understanding of PostgreSQL and in addition you will have some or all of the following:
Working knowledge of PL/pgSQL
Working knowledge of AWS
Working knowledge of High Availability, Load Balancing and Replication
Experience of PostGIS
Expert on Linux especially Ubuntu
Computer Science or Software Engineer degree or similar
Experience of working in lean and agile environment
Excellent communication skills
Positive solution focused attitude
Flexible and pro-active

You will be using PgAdmin, Eclipse, EGit and Mylyn.
In return you will receive a package which includes an iPhone and a salary of £28,000-£35,000 based upon experience and mind set. You will have 28 days holiday per annum including the usual public holidays in England and Wales.

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy please contact myself, Laura Sharpe via my details on the contact us page of the sharperecruitment website.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: Database Engineer, Database Engineering, Database Developer, Database Development, PostgreSQL, PL, pgSQL, AWS, High Availability, Load Balancing and Replication

Business Development/Account Manager

Job Description: Background

A Newcastle based Creative Agency is looking to recruit a driven, confident and ambitious Business Development/Account Manager.

Job Spec

The successful candidate will work across a diverse portfolio of brands, supporting Managing Director with pro-actively sourcing new business combined with account managing own existing clients projects.

The successful candidate will need to be extremely confident and be self motivated along with being able to communicate to all levels of management and have exceptional interpersonal skills.

Have a minimum of 2years Business Development/Account Management experience within a creative agency and will be capable of adding value creatively and strategically on conceptual initiatives internally and also in client meetings where appropriate.

Key Attributes:

The candidates will be evaluated on the basis of the following key attributes:

• Commercially aware
• Minimum of 2 years strategic sales experience
• Minimum of 2 years commercial digital agency experience
• Excellent Interpersonal skills
• Strong team player
• Able to work independently
• Ability to cope under pressure, deliver on tight deadlines and financial targets
• Attention to detail
• Hungry for a challenge

Personal qualities should include:

• Organised, logical and efficient
• Excellent communication skills
• Conscientious
• Pro-active and ambitious
• Excellent attention to detail
• Flexible
• Passionate
• Self motivated
• Forward thinking
• Honest and responsible
• Friendly and approachable

If you are interested in the advertised position please ‘Register your interest’ through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role.
Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: Agency, account management, business development, digital, design

Technical Project Manager

Job Description: We are in search of a Technical Project Manager / Head of Projects with a background as a strong Technical Project Manager with experience working on Agile software or web projects ideally for a digital agency/software company.

The Technical Project Manager role demands experience developing and managing development of large scale software applications. Our Project Managers are successful in guiding our clients, advocating for our internal teams, initiating and participating in all technical discussions, and managing risk across multiple projects. They are our client-facing resources and have proven track-records establishing great relationships within our project teams.

Primary Responsibilities
• Direct and monitor all activities for projects, from initiation to delivery
• Work with business partners to develop technology concepts, requirements, project schedules, and costs for new initiatives

Required Qualifications
• 3 years of relevant project management experience
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Previous agency experience or software house experience

Preferred Qualifications
• Scrum certification and experience
• Mobile Experience
• Experience working with FTSE 250 clients
• Former software engineer or developer
• Experience writing feature specifications and statements of work
• Experience with version control systems and other development tools: XCode, Eclipse, SVN, Git, Wiki, or other documentation tools

Salary
• Negotiable £20k to £25k

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy please contact myself, Laura Sharpe via my details on the contact us page of the sharperecruitment website.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.

| Job Skills: Project Management, Agile Development, Scrum Certification, Mobile Web Development, App Development, Writing Specifications, Version control systems, XCode, Eclipse, SVN, Git, Wiki

Multimedia Designer

Job Description: We are looking for a creative individual to join a very successful team to create 'in game' interfaces and Flash animations for console and online video games.

You will have the following qualities:

• Be highly motivated, with a passion for video games
• A strong Graphic/Web Designer
• A creative portfolio of Web or Game Interfaces
• Diploma or Degree in Multi-media or related subjects
• A thorough knowledge of Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Good interpersonal, communication and organisational skills

Competitive remuneration package will be offered to the right candidate.
If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations
| Job Skills: Graphic/Web Designer, Web or Game Interfaces, Diploma or Degree in Multi-media, Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator

ASP.NET C# Web Developer

Job Description: We are recruiting a web developer / software engineer for a fast growing market leader in the online assessment market, delivering both tailored solutions and a ‘SaaS’ application to a variety of blue-chip corporate clients.
They provide assessment solutions that deliver meaningful value for prestigious clients globally and foster relationships that grow across their business.

Based in prestigious offices between Durham and Sunderland within ‘Software City’, they have aggressive expansions plans and need the right team to achieve this. Therefore they are currently recruiting a talented and experienced .NET Developer to significantly contribute to the company's success.

The Role:
You will be responsible for the maintenance and development of their online assessment platform based on the .NET 3.5 and SQL 2005 platform.

You will be responsible for the timely delivery of development projects and will be involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and design through to development, testing, implementation and documentation. You will play a key role in the road map for the platform and ensuring that they remain ahead of the competition as the business grows.

You will play a key role within the development team of a fast growing business, delivering tailored solutions, application development, maintenance and technical support of the online testing platform.

Skills, Background and Experience Required:
• A degree in a relevant discipline
• At least 2 years relevant commercial development experience
• A thorough working knowledge of C#, ASP.NET, XML, SQL Server
• Excellent ASP.NET user interface development skills, with experience of implementing design frameworks within user interface applications
• Excellent relational database skills with experience of designing and implementing scalable database architectures
• Preferably Microsoft qualified
• Exposure to .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 and SQL Server 2005 an advantage
• A self-starter, who loves a challenge, is driven to succeed and is perhaps most importantly a team player.
• You will be proactive, with excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work unsupervised.
• You will have a proven track record of support and development, and exceptional technical skills.

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy please contact myself, Laura Sharpe via my details on the contact us page of the sharperecruitment website.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.

| Job Skills: Web Developer, Web Development, Software Engineer, C#, ASP.NET, XML, SQL Server, user interface development, relational databases, Microsoft qualified, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, SQL Server 2005

Graphic/Web Designer

Job Description: A well established Creative Agency based in Northumberland is looking for a Graphic/Web Designer to join a very successful team.

You MUST have the following qualities/skills:

• Be highly motivated, with a passion for all areas of graphic/web design
• Have strong experience in packaging design
• A creative portfolio of web and brand identity design
• Diploma or Degree in Multi-media or related subjects
• A thorough knowledge of Adobe/Aldus/Mac software
• Good interpersonal, communication and organisational skills

Competitive remuneration package will be offered to the right candidate.

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations

| Job Skills: web, packaging, branding, marketing, design

WEB / MOBILE APP DEVELOPER

Job Description: Enthusiastic Web / Mobile App Developer sought to join one of the UK's leading Digital Development Agencies.

This Newcastle based Digital Agency produces innovative, market leading web, mobile and interactive digital projects for a wide range of commercial clients. We are seeking a passionate web / mobile app developer to join their team.

The role requires a person who has excellent coding and problem solving abilities coupled with good people and organisational skills.

ESSENTIAL: You will have proven experience of Mobile / App Development and/or Flash, Actionscript and Javascript along with a knowledge and enthusiasm for HTML5 and CSS3.

Understanding of back end technologies such as Java, ColdFusion, .NET, PHP, JSP and MySQL is highly beneficial.

You should ideally have the ability to:

• develop rich interactive user interfaces across a variety of devices (web browser, mobile, tablet)
• develop software apps for iOS, Android and/or other mobile platforms
• to write clean, semantic and accessible HTML
• to produce rich Javascript interfaces with graceful degradation
• to deal with supporting multiple browsers on various operating systems and devices.
• work with server hardware / software architecture, performance database design and system design methodologies

and most importantly, you should have:

• An overall love for interactivity and enthusiasm for creating exciting digital projects.

A portfolio / samples of your work are vital so please include these in the covering letter or email that you supply with your application.

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy please contact myself, Laura Sharpe via my details on the contact us page of the sharperecruitment website.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations. | Job Skills: Mobile Development, Software Engineering, App Development, Flash, Actionscript, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Java, ColdFusion, .NET, PHP, JSP, MySQL

C# / PERL / C++ Software Engineer

Job Description: We are proud to be working with Ferrograph, a world leading public information display brand, we are helping them to recruit a software engineer with experience of C# and/or Perl programming and ideally some C++ development knowledge.

Ferrograph have over 20 years experience in the digital display information sector and are classed as the leading authority in the design, provision and systems integration for airports, bus stops / terminals, call centres, railways and media.

Produced at their 37,000 sq ft site in Newcastle, they employ 35 staff and offer the latest visual technology in LED, LCD, TFT, Plasma and rear projection displays and proudly turned over £4m last year and have been commissioned to provide 1200 displays for the upcoming Olympics. Hence their planned expansion and need for a new software engineer to work on their back end systems development.

There is the opportunity for the right person to take responsibility and work freely as you feel is right under the supervision of the Technical Manager. There are opportunities for someone with between 2 and 5 years experience to come in and learn a lot, grow with the role and look at moving into some web based development technologies.

You will need experience of working on Linux based systems, Windows CE and some knowledge of or interest in Siri which is an XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real-time information about public transport services and vehicles and is widely used in the Public Sector across the UK.

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy please contact myself, Laura Sharpe via my details on the contact us page of the sharperecruitment website.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: C#, PERL, C++, Software Engineer, Programming, Linux based systems, Windows CE and some knowledge of or interest in Siri.

Sage Technical Support Specialist

Job Description: We are looking for a Sage Technical Support specialist to join our Client’s Quality Assurance team which handles all Support, Pre-sales & QA.

As a Sage support specialist you will be providing 1st line support to users of our Client’s specialist software which integrates with Sage, you will be resolving technical issues and escalating to the development when required.

In addition to providing support, you will also be involved in documentation, QA and deployment of new software to clients.

This is a wide and varied role ideally suited to someone with excellent communication as well as technical skills who is looking to further their career beyond just a technical support role.

They are in a high growth sector of the tech industry and this is a fantastic opportunity for the right individual.

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply through the requested method and we will be in touch shortly with regards to your suitability for the role. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy please contact myself, Laura Sharpe via my details on the contact us page of the sharperecruitment website.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the North of England across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.
| Job Skills: Providing Technical Sage support, writing documentation, Quality Assurance, Deployment of new software to clients.