Description: Excellent Permanent opportunity with a top Financial Services Company based in Dublin City Centre.
My Client is looking for a software engineer with 1-2 years database developmwnt skills, SQL, PL/SQL.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone starting out in their career and are interested in taking it to the next level.
Working initially in the areas of database, reporting and data integration technologies, the ideal candidate will have a mix of skills suited for the development and maintenance of applications. Depending on the particular project, development tasks will have a mixture of business and technical deliverables. Training will be provided to the right candidate where required.

The role covers all aspects of the software development lifecycle from new applications development to system enhancement, maintenance and support.

Development Environment

The range of technologies in use presents opportunities to develop skills and knowledge. Our delivery platform is a distributed architecture comprised of the following:

• A Database Layer using PL/SQL stored procedures in an enterprise Oracle database.

• A Data Integration platform used to develop interfaces to integrate both internal and third party systems using an Extract-Transform-and-Load (ETL) tool. Together with scheduling, and monitoring utilities, it forms the basis for our business critical overnight batch infrastructure.

• Reports implemented as a mix of Crystal, Business Objects XI, and Web Intelligence deployed on a Business Objects XI server. Data retrieval for reports is implemented using pipelined stored procedures with communications over the ODBC and OCI protocols.

• The server environments run on Windows Server in a mixture of physical and virtual machines.

• Distributed-object architecture with in-house developed middle layer components for business logic and front end GUI applications.

• Commercial line-of-business systems and packages integrated with in-house applications, databases and reporting platforms.


The Person:

Suitable candidates will have:

• A degree in a computing or science related discipline
• Sound knowledge of software engineering principles and theory
• A natural interest in technology
• An inquisitive nature to query other team members on specific technology or business issues
• High levels of dependability, flexibility, enthusiasm, supportiveness, involvement, openness and clarity
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with business clients
• Drive & resilience to take initiative
• Ability to focus on the customer and deliver to deadlines
• Discipline & rigor combined with strong commitment to quality & standards
• Good problem solving skills


In addition to that mentioned above, familiarity with some or all of the following technologies or tools, whilst not essential, would be useful:

• SQL, PL/SQL
• Crystal Reports, Business Objects XI, Web Intelligence
• ETL/data integration tools
• Source/Revision Control tools
• Object-oriented theory & concepts
Ant or other scripting tools/languages

Apply to nollaig@eolas.ie for more details on the Role.

Description: My Dublin based client currently requires an Oracle Application Support Engineer to join their existing team in a permanent role.

The successful candidate will possess the following experience:

Key Responsibilities
• Produce technical specifications based on business requirements documents
• Triage production support requests – ensuring issues are fully assessed so that incident can be resolved.
• Plan and implement production support request solutions in a complex technical environment
• Troubleshoot application problems and implement fixes.
• Implement minor enhancements requested by end-users
• Ensure the timely turnaround of issues.
• Communicate with users, management, and third parties for issue resolution.
• Work closely with internal and off-site development and test teams.
• Control support software releases as appropriate
• Provide Oracle Database & Application Server support for production environments
• On call or out of hours work will be required.

Experience Required
• At least 5 years Oracle experience up to Oracle 10g
• At least 3 years of PL/SQL programming experience
• At least 2 years of Oracle Forms experience
• Experience developing in a J2EE environment would be beneficial
• Experience working in a Unix environment
• Hold a third level degree or appropriate professional qualification

Technical Competencies
• Oracle up to 10g
• SQL Tuning
• Unix / Linx

This is an excellent role with a leading client in the Financial Services Industry. A strong salary and benefits package is available for this position. Should you be interested please contact Stephen Daly on 01 2866666 or stephen@eolas.ie for immediate consideration.

Description: My client are looking for a software development team lead coming from preferably an oracle background or else Java
Proven track record of leading a technology team (Java and/or Oracle) with a minimum of 3 years hands-on technical team leadership experience (ideally leading a development team in a client-driven environment within the insurance / financial services domains).
Proven hands-on technical skills with at least 5 years of Oracle and/or Java/J2EE development experience, including full SDLC experience in traditional and/or Agile development methodologies.
Strong project management skills; demonstrable ability to develop project plans & see projects through to successful completion within established time frames / budget / resources.
Excellent communication skills (both written & verbal); articulates key technical concepts and ideas in a clear and comprehensible manner.
Strong people management skills; proven experience of developing and mentoring the professional and technical growth of team members based locally and off-shore (desirable).
Degree or equivalent professional qualification.

Key Responsibilities
Technical leadership of a team composed of both Oracle PL/SQL and Java developers.
Design, build, test and support application solutions for a multi-tiered application architecture.
Consult with members of departmental and business teams to plan & design application architectures.
Allocate and project manage development tasks with own team for assigned projects.
Review and sign off on the delivery of the required technical collateral needed as part of the SDCL while ensuring work is completed to a high level of quality and in line with agreed project timelines.
Full understanding of the business strategic goals and align technology selections to fit company needs.
Keep up to date with the latest industry standards, tools, methods, and techniques and roll out the adoption and implementation of new innovations into the department as appropriate.
Demonstrate a pro-active and positive attitude ensuring a can-do approach within team.
People Management of the team (development / coach and lead)
This is a permanent position with a top client based in Dublin west. Apply now for more details.

Description: My Dublin based client currently requires an experienced Oracle Developer with strong PL/SQL skills to join their team for an initial 6 month contract.

Required Experience:
• At least 5 years experience of Oracle 10g or 11g SQL, PL/SQL development including writing Oracle Store Procedures in a Transactional environments.
• At least 5 years of PL/SQL programming. experience including the ability to tune SQL and PL/SQL.
• 1 to 2 years of Oracle Forms experience.
• 1 to 2 years of Java Development experience in J2EE environments is highly beneficial.
• Experience working in a Unix environment
• Hold a third level degree or appropriate professional qualification

This is an excellent position offering very strong daily rates for the right candidate. Please contact Stephen Daly on 01 2866666 or stephen@eolas.ie for immediate consideration

Description: My Dublin based client currently requires an experienced Oracle Developer to join their existing team.

The successful candidate should have the a number of the following skills:
• Changes and support of the Linux/UNIX and Oracle-based systems and applications
• Defining application architecture
• Ideally knowledge of alternative delivery and analysis approaches (e.g. Agile)
• Minimum of 5 years development for Oracle and J2EE/JEE environments.
• More than 4 years development for Oracle 9i and greater.
• At least 4 years development using PL/SQL as the primary business logic language.
• Minimum of 3 years development of UNIX shell scripts in sh, ksh, bash or zsh (not csh or any of its derivatives).
• More than 2 years experience with an enterprise capable revision/source control system (svn by preference, Clearcase, bitkeeper, git).
• More than 2 years application and system design using OO methodologies and patterns, with evidence of the preparation design documentation and conformance to it.
• More than 2 years experience leading development projects, taking responsibility for setting timelines and working towards them.
• Ideally has 2 years development for EJB 3.0 and JEE 1.5

This is an excellent role with a leading financial services client offering a strong salary (€50k - €60k) plus benefits package. Should you be interested please contact Stephen Daly on 01 2866666 or stephen@eolas.ie for immediate consideration.