Square One Resources

About the Company

With over 25 years in the technology recruitment sector, Square One is an award-winning specialist recruitment agency. Based in London, we manage recruitment on an international scale with clients ranging from start-ups to global corporations. Our goal is to offer a comprehensive recruitment service for our clients, building long-term relationships with them to ensure candidates receive the best career opportunities possible.

Our consultants continually upskill, ensuring that they're at the forefront of industry, market and technology changes to better help with what your business needs to succeed.

Across permanent and contract roles, we place into the following sectors:

Blockchain | Cloud | Cyber Security | Development | Digital & Creative | Emerging Technologies | EV | Gaming | Infrastructure | MS Dynamics | Oracle | SAP | Telecommunications

Our Awards & Nominations
Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work For in the UK (ranked 16th) | Top 10 Recruitment Companies to Work For in the UK (ranked 10th) | Top 10 Best Small Companies to Work For in London (ranked 6th) | TIARA Best Recruitment Company to Work For (£50m+) Nominee

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Square One Resources

Job Title

Network Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Network Engineer
Location: Brussels/Hybrid
Salary/Rate: €400 per day
Start Date: 11/11/24
Job Type: Contract - 11 months

This position is for a Network Designer that can assist in the project to migrate the current Juniper based Hub & spoke network to a Juniper based SD-WAN network with SSR routers.
This position will assist two other designer in translating the Architect's High level design into a detailed design. This involves the testing of the solution in Design testbed, writing of the detailed design document, and providing technical assistance for the qualification team and the operation teams during qualification and deployment.
Skills:
Cloud setup
Juniper SD-WAN
Juniper SSR routers
Juniper SVR routing
Documentation

Brussels, Belgium

On site

24-10-2024

Company Name

Square One Resources

Job Title

Senior Azure Databricks Specialist - Milton Keynes

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Azure Databricks Specialist - Milton Keynes
Location: Milton Keynes - 3 days onsite
Salary/Rate: £540/day Inside Ir35
Start Date: 30/10/2024
Job Type: Contract

My client is the biggest Rail organisations in the UK. We are seeking a Senior Azure Databricks Specialist to join our dynamic data engineering team. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in Azure Databricks, ADF, Data Lake, SQL, and Python/PySpark, with a proven ability to build and deploy high-quality, scalable data solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. You will work alongside Product Owners, Architects, and engineering leadership to create impactful data lake solutions, robust data pipelines, and reusable libraries and tools.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives
Develop and implement scalable data lake solutions using Azure components, including Azure Data Factory (ADF) for ingestion, Data Lake Gen 2 and Azure SQL Server for storage, and Azure Analysis Services for data transformations.
Design and develop robust data pipelines leveraging Azure BI services for Big Data platforms.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Architects to ensure best practices in Azure Data Platform development.
Drive standards for software engineering within the team, ensuring high-quality, production-ready code.
Refactor code to build reusable libraries, APIs, and tools, contributing to a sustainable, scalable data infrastructure.
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
Mandatory: Strong in Azure Databricks, ADF, Data Lake, Strong SQL, Pyspark/Python
Hands-on-experience in developing data lake solutions using Azure (Azure data factory for ingestion, Data lake gen 2 and Azure SQL server for storage, Azure analysis service for transformations, Azure data bricks)
Implement a robust data pipeline using Microsoft Stack.
Create reusable and scalable data pipelines.
Development and deployment of new data platforms.
Leverage Azure BI services for development of Big Data Platforms.
Work closely with the Product Owners and Architects to develop Azure Data Platforms.
Work with the leadership to set the standards for software engineering practices within the team and support across other disciplines.
Produce high-quality code that allows us to put solutions into production.
Refactor code into reusable libraries, APIs, and tools.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

On site

25-10-2024

Company Name

Square One Resources

Job Title

PostgreSQL DBA

Job Description

Job Title: PostgreSQL DBA
Location: Manchester/Hybrid
Salary/Rate: Up to £435 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 11/11/2024
Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled PostgreSQL DBA to join their team for a six-month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

Must have hands on experience as Database Administration specifically with MongoDB, PostgreSQL / Oracle.
Working with database software to find ways to store, organise and manage data
Expert knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL data stores and working with a variety of structures including JSON and XML
Experience of software development with distributed data processing technologies including Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Experience in keeping databases up to date, troubleshooting, helping with database design & development, and managing database access.
Experience in designing maintenance procedures and putting them into operation.
Liaising with programmers, applications/operational staff, IT project managers and other technical staff
Managing database security/integrity and backup procedures, implementing security measures.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

Writing reports, documentation, and operating manuals
Testing and modifying databases to ensure that they operate reliably
Writing disaster recovery plans and archiving/housekeeping data.
Knowledge of Cloud platforms, serverless architecture preferable
Good understanding of software patterns and when/how to apply them
Knowledge of Kafka will be advantageous
Experience of working in an Agile/DevOps software development environment
Have ability to help with mentoring tasks.
Have experience in working on Support activities.
DBA – PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, MySQL

Manchester, United Kingdom

Remote

28-10-2024

Company Name

Square One Resources

Job Title

Data Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Data Manager
Location: Remote/Suffolk
Salary/Rate: £360 per day inside IR35
Start Date: November 2024
Job Type: Contract

The successful candidate will:

- Be responsible for the development of the conceptual, logical, and physical data models, the implementation of RDBMS, operational data store (ODS), data marts, and data lakes on target platforms (SQL/NoSQL).
- Oversee and govern the expansion of existing data architecture and the optimization of data query performance via best practices. The candidate must be able to work independently and collaboratively.
Responsibilities
Implement business and IT data requirements through new data strategies and designs across all data platforms (relational, dimensional, and NoSQL) and data tools (reporting, visualization, analytics, and machine learning).
Work with business and application/solution teams to implement data strategies, build data flows, and develop conceptual/logical/physical data models
Define and govern data modelling and design standards, tools, best practices, and related development for enterprise data models.
Identify the architecture, infrastructure, and interfaces to data sources, tools supporting automated data loads, security concerns, analytic models, and data visualization.
Hands-on modelling, design, configuration, installation, performance tuning, and sandbox POC.
Work proactively and independently to address project requirements and articulate issues/challenges to reduce project delivery risks.
Skills
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer/data science technical or related experience.
5+ years of hands-on relational, dimensional, and/or analytic experience (using RDBMS, dimensional, NoSQL data platform technologies, and ETL and data ingestion protocols).
Experience with data warehouse, data lake, and enterprise big data platforms in multi-data-center contexts required.
Good knowledge of metadata management, data modelling, and related tools (Erwin or ER Studio or others) required.
Experience in team management, communication, and presentation.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

London, United Kingdom

On site

07-11-2024