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Systems Analyst - iGaming

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:01:50 +0000

Our client is seeking a bright and enthusiastic individual to work within their rapidly expanding IT Projects Department; the IT Projects department is responsible for providing services to internal business units which include the in-house and outsourced development of software solutions.

The Systems Analyst is responsible for specifying the behaviour, organization, features, and characteristics of software systems and solutions based on a detailed investigation and study of user needs and requirements.

As someone who will be liaising with business drivers, end-users, and technical personnel, the analyst should possess excellent written and verbal English skills as well as have strong grasp of technical concepts while being able to convey these in practical terms to non-technical people.

The ideal candidate would have at least four years of experience in serving as a Systems Analyst for different software development projects, with a strong grasp of the complex interplay of software systems while keeping abreast of technological developments.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Elicit user requirements and liaise with various project stakeholders to come up with a comprehensive and highly detailed specifications document of the project being undertaken.
• Lead or facilitate group interactions designed to extract important business practices and assumptions and translate these into actionable specifications.
• Conduct research, perform detailed analysis, and justify recommended solutions.
• Establish and maintain relations with various personalities, including developers, end-users, vendors, solution providers, and stakeholders.

Personal profile
The successful candidate will be required to interact daily with all areas and levels of the business. They must be able to demonstrate an ability to manage both external demands and internal constraints, balancing shifting day-to-day priorities with the longer term project work in this fast moving industry.

Candidates should be self-starters, with a high attention to detail and are comfortable with the highly technical nature the position entails.

This is a multi-cultural organisation and as such its employees come from very different backgrounds and cultures. The successful recruit must be comfortable working in such an environment and be willing to learn and adapt to ensure he/she works as effectively as possible.

Mandatory skills and experience
• At least four years in a lead systems analysis role for software and web systems in an enterprise setting.
• At least two years of software development experience as programmer, QA/tester, or team lead/project manager
• Strong grasp of established and emerging technologies, systems, platforms, and software.
• Ability to understand, analyse and evaluate business processes.
• Creative, analytical, and with strong problem solving skills.
• Independent but collaborative, driven, assertive, and willing to work on simultaneous projects.
Desirable skills and experience
• Relevant technical background in web technologies or background in software development.
• Previous experience in working for an Online Gaming company

IT Project Manager - iGaming

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:59:41 +0000

Our client is seeking a bright and enthusiastic individual to work within the rapidly expanding IT Projects Department. The Project Management role is extremely varied, with individual Project Managers working closely with all aspects of the business (product development, IT Infrastructure, technical account management, development teams and operations), on a number of projects throughout development phase/release cycle or project duration.

There are a high number of concurrent projects to manage varying from completely new product development to on-going enhancements to the existing offering or coordinating the system infrastructure deployments and upgrades.

Projects vary in complexity and duration from simple 1 week projects to highly complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, systems, vendors and development teams.

Tasks and responsibilities
• Reporting to the Snr project Manager & IT Projects Director
• Project managing a range of projects - ownership of the entire project life cycle from inception to deployment and post-deployment support;
• Providing initial validation of incoming project requests, distinguishing those requiring further information and facilitating this with stakeholders and key management.
• Attend regular meetings with department heads and senior management to determine project priorities and communicate issues & risks with current projects.
• Creation and daily update of accurate project GANTT’s/Plans.
• Upkeep of tasks and issues within a web-based project management tool;
• Weekly reporting of project progress, risks and issues;
• Day to day communication with internal & external development teams, IT Operations, account management and direct with stakeholders where applicable;
• Where appropriate, technical account management for customer integration issues
• Provide assistance and recommendations to constantly improve internal process methodologies.
• Provide management of and mentoring to junior or new project management staff.

Candidates should be self-starters, with a high attention to detail and are comfortable with the highly technical nature the position entails. Much of the role is working closely with the chief systems analyst, developers, IT Operations, account management and stakeholders on day-to-day issues.
Mandatory skills and experience

Proven project management experience gained in a fast-paced development environment, covering the full development life cycle with added experience managing IT infrastructure projects desirable (new infrastructure deployments & upgrades).

• Strong stakeholder management experience across a variety of levels (both internal and external), with excellent communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge of working with Microsoft Project
• Knowledge of Agile, PRINCE 2 or other Project Management methodologies;
• Strong and consistent record of academic achievement.

Desirable skills and experience
• Relevant technical background in web technologies or background in business analysis.
• Experience using web based task management and resource allocation tools such as JIRA.
• Previous experience in working in Online Gaming, Telco or for a Software development company.

QA Manager - iGaming

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:57:53 +0000

Due to substantial growth in our client’s online offer, they currently have an excellent opportunity for a Quality Assurance Manager to head the quality assurance of third party and in house developed software products and systems.

This position will involve travel between international offices in and provide mentoring and QA management services to both operations.

Tasks and Responsibilities
• Ensuring the smooth running of quality assurance systems and services, and advise 'best practice' procedures throughout the testing team.
• Provide weekly reporting to senior management on QA progress, preparation and departmental issues.
• Provide technical and infrastructure designs, IT tools, consultancy and advice to other IT teams in respect of Quality and Testing;
• Be able to manage high work load, test multiple systems in parallel and delegate to QA Engineers in an efficient manner.
• Liaise with other managers and staff throughout the organization to ensure that the QA system is functioning properly. Where appropriate, the quality manager advises on changes and their implementation and provides training, tools and techniques to enable others to achieve quality
• Create and execute Tests and Test cases with test data for all testing phases: functional, integration, system and non-system tests i.e. performance/ load, using manual and automated tools
• To implement, support and maintenance of third party and in-house developed software products and systems as appropriate to the role, in support of IT systems and applications. Testing from all suppliers including test preparation and test execution for Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing & Business Process Testing
• To provide support and guidance to teams to resolve problems with respect to QA and Test project work;
• To constantly strive to improve the QA process using best of breed tools to improve efficiency and accuracy wherever appropriate.
• To maintain knowledge of testing product developments, ranges, limitations and availability.
• To familiarize himself/herself in depth on all of our client’s applications and systems and their users and usage within the business.
• Monitor and record KPI’s for QA staff for annual evaluations and bonus plans
• Perform annual evaluations for QA staff

Personal profile
Candidates should be self-starters, with a high attention to detail and are comfortable with the technical nature the position entails. Much of the role is working closely with developers, systems analysts IT and stakeholders on a day-to-day basis in order to ensure systems are tested correctly.

This is a multi-cultural organisation and as such it’s employees come from very different backgrounds and cultures. The successful recruit must be comfortable working in such an environment and be willing to learn and adapt to ensure he/she works as effectively as possible.

Mandatory skills and experience
• Minimum 2 years’ experience managing a team of QA Engineers in a fast paced environment.
• Experience in introducing new methods and tools in order to improve current QA processes, performance and accuracy with the end goal of providing high quality bug free systems.
• Experience using web based bug tracking tools such as JIRA and Bugzilla
• Experience in Test Management Tools ie Quality Centre (Test Director);
• Excellent knowledge of testing application principles, practices, tool and procedures;
• Hands on Experience in Systems and User Test Case Specifications Documentation and Scripting Design, as well as Business and Systems Process and Data Analysis;
• Experience using automated test tools for testing of performance and application capacity (e.g Loadrunner / QA Load)
• Strong and consistent record of academic achievement.

Desirable skills and experience
• Relevant technical background in web technologies or background in business analysis.
• Previous experience in working for an Online Gaming company

Unica Specialist - iGaming

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:32:49 +0000

Job Summary

Unica professional able to support and develop our client’s Unica solution.

Duties & responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of the Unica solution (including software and hardware configuration)
• Development of the Unica solution as required
• Development and management of the Marketing data warehouse

Required skills & experience

• Current, hands on experience of Unica Campaign, Unica eMessage and other products within Unica suit. Our client currently has Unica Campaign and Unica eMessage version 7.5 running on Windows and SQL. Experience of this specific version and platform is an advantage.
• Able to provide system administration and support for Unica products mentioned above.
• Advanced end user of the Unica products mentioned above. Has experience of development of marketing flowcharts to targeted cells of customers, using external lists, derived fields, strategic segments, and custom macros.
• At least 3 years experience of SQL
• Able to develop within SQL environment, creating scripts, managing datamarts
• Able to design and develop large Data warehouse, Business Intelligence and decision support systems

VIP Manager - Gaming

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:42:59 +0000

Job Summary:

Responsible for generating value from the “high roller” community of players on the Online Gaming site. Strict adherence to all compliance, legal, and internal / operational controls will always remain a top priority.

Essential Job

• Demonstrate our client’s core values, enhance their reputation, and respect all regulatory and legal requirements.
• Build and maintain a VIP player database
• Build strong relationships with key clients and provide direct on-call service for them
• Create and maintain highly targeted program of activity specifically for high rollers.
• Maintain working knowledge of competitors and keep up to date on the industry in general.
• Ensure that all staff are kept fully up to date on these programs and their role in making them succeed.
• Work closely with the Retention Manager so that the VIP activity is optimized to deliver a competitive offer for high value players.
• Ensure Customer Service staff understands the roles and responsibilities when dealing with high rollers. This should include responsiveness, escalation of issues, and reporting.
• Define and adhere to budgets, including expense controls
• Provide timely performance reports and financial updates to the Customer Service Manager and Executive Director of Online Gaming.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify goals, define objectives, and execute upon them in an organized and disciplined manner.
• Propose, and where approved, document changes to the Internal Control System in order to improve the overall Customer Service
• Propose and evaluate enhancements to the software to improve the service to high rollers and optimize the value from them.
• Assist and advise management and key functional groups on all VIP / high roller matters.
• Identify and track internal and external Key Performance Indicators.
• Provide miscellaneous operations and decision support for various business initiatives

Education:

• University degree preferred

Work Experience/Certifications/Licenses

• 3+ years in an online gaming Customer Service or marketing environment
• Similar role in land based casino environment could be an advantage

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong relationship skills and an ability to build trust
• Effective communicator
• Well organized
• Customer focused
• Ability to interact well with people at all levels within and outside of the organization
• Strong insight into gambling, and player needs

Python Developer (LAMP Stack) - Work from home

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:50:18 +0000

Python Developer (LAMP Stack) - Work from home

Exceptional Python developer required to build high grade, in-house components on the LAMP Stack platform for a major player in the global betting market data capture and provision services.

As a strong Open Source all-rounder, you will demonstrate broad awareness and versatility in the use of standard web-based Python libraries, alongside an adherence to the Full Software Development Life Cycle (FSDLC) and a thorough command of Object Orientated methodologies and implementation.

A proven track record of Python delivery on the Linux platform is essential, as is knowledge of data access layers such my SQL Alchemy and the hand-crafting of SQL code against a MySQL database.

Exposure to a betting or financial environment would be very advantageous, as would be any experience of custom built web scraping technology.

Superb opportunity to join a fast moving and dynamic, distributed global team.

Data Analyst - iGaming

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:45:25 +0000

Our client is looking for employees who wish to build value into a business during its early life and who are prepared to grow into expanding roles in line with the expansion of the company and its interests.

Role:

The Data Analyst is key to data mining and analyzing the results of the game analytics to ensure our client’s games are driving the expected results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with management to establish a robust set of measures and metrics to enable optimisation of the performance of our client’s Facebook app and future IP.
• Collaborate with key staff in product development and community management to establish an effective approach to CRM, retention and monetization.
• Proactively identify areas within the game and content and where modifications can be made to drive performance

Preferred education, skills and attributes:

• Excellent analytical /decision making skills
• Proven track record of leveraging data analysis to drive significant business impact
• Knowledge of web analytics tools (Google Analytics / MixPanel) and funnel analysis.
• Gambling or online gaming industry experience.
• Understanding of online media buying models.
• Ability to analyze large, complex, multi-dimensional data sets, then extract/visualize the key insights succinctly
• Ability to communicate advanced analysis to all levels of an organization-including explaining and defending conclusions
• True passion for data and for understanding players’ behavior
• Degree in a quantitative discipline, or deep knowledge of statistics
• Self-starter with passion, energy, enthusiasm to drive results
• Experience of designing financial forecasting models

Business Analyst - Gaming

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:25:55 +0000

Role Description
As a Business Analyst you will have the primary responsibility for eliciting, analyzing, validating, specifying, verifying and managing the needs of each project’s stakeholders. The Business Analyst will communicate and manage the specification of requirements as used by the software development team.

Skills Needed

• 3 – 5 years commercial experience

• Working experience of the Unified Modeling Language

• Interviewing skills - ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information

• Listening skills - to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say

• Analytical skills - to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements

• Facilitation skills - to lead requirements elicitation workshops

• Observational skills - to validate data obtained via other techniques and expose new areas for elicitation

• Writing skills - to communicate information effectively to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff

• Organizational skills - to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information

• Interpersonal skills - to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and engineering)

• Modeling skills - to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language, including using modeling languages already established in the development organization

Knowledge needed

• An understanding of contemporary requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice; familiarity with requirements engineering books and resources

• An understanding of how to practice requirements engineering according to several software development life cycles in a team environment

• Knowledge of product management concepts and how enterprise software products are positioned and developed

• Application domain knowledge is a plus, to have credibility with user representatives and be able to work effectively with them

Responsibilities

• Work with the product manager or project sponsor to document the product’s vision and the project’s scope.

• Identify project stakeholders and user classes. Document user class characteristics. Identify appropriate representatives for each user class and negotiate their responsibilities.

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.

• Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely.

• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements and quality, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those must base their work on the requirements.

• Define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.

• Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate.

• Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.

• Participate in requirements prioritization.

• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents. Participate in peer reviews of work products derived from requirements specifications to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.

• Enter, manipulate, and report on requirements stored in a commercial requirements management tool. Define requirement attributes and facilitate their use throughout the project.

• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.

• Manage changes to baseline requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools.

• Establish and implement effective requirements practices, including use and continuous improvement of a requirements process. Assist with the development of the organization’s requirements engineering policies, procedures, and tools.

• Implement ways to reuse requirements across projects.

• Identify ways to assist product management in product planning through requirements development and analysis. Propose new product features and updates.

Measures of performance

• Evaluation from product and project management on overall product quality and effectiveness in the marketplace of the requirements after the product has been developed

• Feedback from key customer or marketing representatives on the way in which the requirements engineering process was conducted

• Customer satisfaction measures

• Satisfying or exceeding requirements development schedules, resource constraints, and quality goals

• Control of requirements creep attributable to missed requirements and leakage of “unofficial” requirements into the project

Java Developer - Gaming

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:24:09 +0000

Main Job Purpose
To work in a small development team consisting of web, JEE and working closely with business analysts and testing team to deliver a variety of projects, small business changes and 3Rd line support.
Your focus must be on the timely delivery of stable implementations that meet with the specified requirements with go test coverage
Skills / Attributes - Required
• 3 - 5 years commercial experience
• JSE/JEE, Servlets, JSP
• Spring
• JMS
• UML
• TDD, JUnit
• Hibernate, OR Mapping
• Web Services
• Log4J
• Large website experience
• Team player with a can do attitude willing to transfer knowledge
• Proven track record of delivering on-time, quality code
Highly Desirable
• Jenkins/Hudson
• Maven 2.0
• XML binding tools
• Knowledge of authentication and authorisation
Duties and Responsibilities
• To deliver implementations in accordance with coding standards and conventions
• Maintenance of existing applications
• Development level testing (unit and integration)
• Provide, detailed estimates and report on progress
• Maintenance of builds

Account Manager - ePayments

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:18:50 +0000

Description
In order to help increase our client’s merchant and customer base, they are looking for an Account Operations Exec– Leisure and Entertainment (LET). The successful candidate will be responsible for driving and maximizing our client’s revenues by focusing on building and developing the relationship with existing merchants in the online gaming /gambling industry.
Responsibilities
• Facilitate the daily operational duties for key LET Accounts
• Help to create and drive new business by supporting Senior Account Management in sales presentations and upselling initiatives
• Liaise with Payments, Risk and Anti-Fraud departments in order to sustain current working relationships with key merchants
• Support the team by participating in multiple development projects to increase and strengthen the effectiveness of the Senior Account Managers
• Taking responsibility for key daily operational procedures that have a direct effect on Merchant relationships.
• Monitor closely on a regular basis all key LET merchants in regards to the competitive landscape.
• Maintain communication channels on various areas of the business, both current and potential ( integrations, marketing campaigns, affiliate developments and VIP’s)
Essential Skills
• Knowledge of the online gambling and online payment industries
• Focused team player with the ability to adapt to a fast paced working environment
• Understanding of website design and basic HTML coding
• A disciplined self-starter, results driven and committed to achieving career recognition and financial reward
• Outstanding interpersonal communication and analytical skills
• Fluent in English and another European language
Qualifications
• Degree in Business or related field

Graduate US Sports Trader - Online

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:51:49 +0000

Our client has been a revolution in the betting industry, they are an expanding and progressive organisation; a company that houses some of the sharpest traders in the industry.

They are searching for a US Sports Trader to join their team. You will trade live sports, focusing on the US market offerings.

Candidate Requirements:

• Extremely high numerical ability.
• You MUST have a degree which is mathematical in nature, ideally maths, physics, or alike.
• A passion for and strong interest in US Sports, including Baseball, NFL, College Football and Ice Hockey.
• High statistical analysis skills.
• A flexible approach to work.
• Commitment to working weekends.

Applicants must have a strong background in mathematics and statistics, coupled with good knowledge of US Sports. Ideally, we are looking for an individual of Graduate calibre, although non Graduate applicants showing profitable betting accounts (specifically US Sports based) will also be considered.

This role is straight from the top shelf and represents an excellent opportunity for a numerate sports enthusiast to ply his/her trade in a busy trading environment.

Junior Football Trader - Mathematical Expert

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:09:17 +0000

Our Client:

Our client is one of the world's leading online gaming companies, offering an astounding range of products, including an award-winning sportsbook product and casino. Through a mixture of high-profile advertising and innovative technology, they have rapidly become one of the most respected and fastest-growing brands in the industry. They have a sensational opportunity for an exceptional football and gambling enthusiast to join their team.

Job Description:

Working with the trading team, you will have an encyclopedic knowledge of European football leagues and a brilliant mathematical mind. You will trade on in-running football matches, requiring an exceptionally high-level of numeracy. The role involves managing liability on live sporting events so the ability to make spot-on decisions while under pressure is essential.

Job Responsibilities:

• Trading on in-running football matches.
• Maintaining liabilities and thresholds in accordance to limits set by Trading.
• Managing content on our client’s website, and keeping it up-to-date.
• Ensuring that all price changes and delivery of events are timely and accurate.

The job will involve some amount of weekend/evening work to align with the timing of most football matches.

Requirements:

• Prior trading experience is not essential; the most important thing is a passionate knowledge of football, gambling, and a superb mathematical mind.
• An academic background focused in a mathematical discipline would be highly advantageous.
• You must be computer literate.
• You should be a real team player, but also be able to work on one’s own initiative and able to self motivate.

Our client offers successful candidates heavily subsidised modern accommodation, and a very attractive trading bonus for exceptional performers.