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    Backend Developer – Laravel | Avrioc Technologies

    Employment:

    Full Time

    • At least 5 years of experience in delivering high quality backend applications including consuming and building enterprise grade APIs.• Laravel Listeners, Horizon, Telescope, Tinker, Collections is your weapon of choice while coding. • Must be comfortable with applying SOLID principles / Design patterns while coding. • Must be comfortable with writing testcases for the code. • Must have experience with at least one of the messaging queues Rabbit MQ / Kafka. • Must have experience with optimal usage of key/value based cache stores.• Must have Experience working with applications using Websockets with high load of user base. • Good understanding of microservices architecture. • Hands on experience of databases like MySQL, SQL, Cassandra, Mongo or Postgresql.• Solid understanding of developing apps for the cloud, basic knowledge of deploying in cloud AWS preferably (EC2, RDS, S3, SNS, Cloudfront et al.) • Version Control/ CI: Git, SVN, Jenkins, Circle CI. • Familiarity with Elastic Search or SOLR is highly desirable. • Understanding of MQTT / Twilio / Google Maps API is a big plus. • Understanding of the ELK stack for Dashboards is a big plus.• Familiarity with using docker

    • BS or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Sciences or relevant discipline. • Work in a fast pace and learning oriented environment we love stretching the boundaries of technology. • You are a guru in Laravel.• You are familiar with Laravel and at least have one solid project as an example.• Work with a team of engineers to deliver high quality products which will scale to millions of users.

    Our holy grail, from day one, has been innovation. At AVRIOC, providing excellent services is not just a salesline, but a part of the ethos. We think out-of-the-box, commit to improvise, and provide unmatched solutions. More

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    Software Developer | Rawabi Holding

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Company Description Rawabi Business Services is a Rawabi Holding Company fully owned subsidiary. RBS is a maker of instrumentation and automation technologies, provider of automation solutions, and a management consulting company.Job Description The main purpose of the Software Developer’s job is to develop moderate-to-high complexity software, create and execute designs for full system software or small sets of new functionalities. He or She will execute all programming tasks, including programming, analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, modifying and maintaining computer programs of small to moderate size and complexity or segments of larger systems.Principal Accountabilities – Assess user needs and requirements.- Create programs to meet reporting and analysis needs.- Design and develop applications that may involve sophisticated data manipulation.- Design and implement user and operations training programs.- Document changes in software for end users.- Follow team software development methodology.- Maintain and update existing programs.- Perform code reviews for other members of the software development team.- Performs miscellaneous tasks as assigned by his/her direct manager.- Serve as technical resource with respect to applications.- Troubleshoot and solve technical problems.Knowledge and Skills – Ability to define and solve logical problems for technical applications.- Ability to define and solve logical problems for technical applications.- Ability to recognize and recommend needed changes in user and/or operations procedures.- Ability to recognize and recommend needed changes in user and/or operations procedures.- Basic knowledge of software engineering principles.- Basic knowledge of software engineering principles.- Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures.- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design.- Current knowledge of software and design standards.- Current knowledge of software and design standards.- Experience in user interface design and implementation with modern web-based UI framework such as React or Angular.Communications and Working Relationships – Attend engineering and management meetings.- Excellent technical in English language (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening).- Work with multifunctional engineering team.Health and Safety Responsibilities – Complies with established health and safety guidelines and procedures and ensures the health, safety and welfare of self and others.- Identifies and reports to management any Health, Safety or Environmental risks and makes suggestions to address these risks and co-operate with his/her supervisor’s instructions.

    Qualifications – BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.- Experience in software development (0-2 years).Additional Information Requirements Of The Job – If Applicable- Must pass the ” Technical Assessment” .- Physically fit.- The job of the Software Developer requires local and international travel.

    Rawabi Holding, through its fully owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and partnerships with international market leaders, focuses on four core sectors:

    Oilfield Services, Contracting & Industrial Services, Offshore Services and Retail. Through these divisions, we provide a diversified range of products and services to a variety of industries: oil, gas and petrochemicals; marine; engineering and construction; power, telecom and IT; corrosion and industrial services; logistics; and consumer products. Although varied and distinct, all our offerings share the same commitment to quality, service and excellence that make them part of the Rawabi Holding family.

    Rawabi Holding is a purpose-driven company that exists not only to generate profit, but also to improve everyone and everything we can. From customer projects and employee development to our impact on the communities in which we work, Rawabi Holding is propelled by an unwavering energy to make everything we touch better. No matter how great the challenge or how complex the problem, we face it head-on to deliver proven results. More

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    Senior Manager, Audit & Assurance | Charterhouse

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Charterhouse Middle East are currently partnering with one of the Big Four firms; to assist a recruitment drive and expansion phase across the Audit & Assurance operation.These roles, at a Senior Manager level, shall take ownership of external audit divisions, engagements and deliverables with a sector-specific client coverage. Senior Manages shall be expected to plan, refine and deliver strong strategic audit and risk reviews whilst assessing and planning for audit execution, report contribution and evaluation of financial audits. This shall be undertaken along with the oversight of governance, controllership and IFRS-related compliance and advisory. The Senior Manager shall also be involved in revenue testing and assurance through a strong and detailed understanding of client activity; to ensure the required and tailored planning policy and controls are adhered-to and executed. In conjunction, the Senior Manager will also deliver a quality assurance review across the audit platform; to ensure the client engagement and deliverable are complete and exceeded. This will link also to ensuring any group business development targets are contributed towards and met.

    Our client will look to identity experienced Audit professionals whom can demonstrate a strong background within a top tier (ideally another Big Four) consultancy. The successful candidates shall be required to possess up to 10 years of post-qualified experience, within public accounting and/or large-scale consultancy practices, combined with a professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA or CPA) background. The client is open to candidates with a range of sector backgrounds/exposure and ideally they will look to recruit from within the Qatar and/or GCC market. Finally, and to meet Diversity Inclusion, the client is keen to target a broad mix of candidates to enhance their internal team dynamic along with their client interface.

    The Charterhouse brand and business was launched in Dubai and the Middle East in April 2004 by a team of international recruiters and management consultants, after its inception in Sydney, Australia in September 2003. Charterhouse Middle East is now positioned as the leading regional recruiter within its area of disciplines and functional markets.

    Charterhouse offers professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services to all sectors of the market. Service quality is guaranteed, thanks to a particular focus on flexibility. Charterhouse was the first international search and selection business to establish Dubai as its base. The growth in the Middle East region has been mirrored by Charterhouse globally, with offices now in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. More

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    Technical Solutions Manager – Pre Sales | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.Your Role and Responsibilities A Technical Solutions Management professional is responsible for the development and sales of IBM Infrastructure Services solutions and value directly to customers. By using a combination of IBM and non-IBM offerings, services, labor, assets, hardware, and software products, the Technical Solution Manager (TSM) leads the creation of the value proposition, the solution and associated cost cases for complex, multi-year opportunities which meet the customer’s requirements and assist in solving their business problems. – The technical directions established by the Technical Solution Manager are the foundation of IBM’s solution and heavily influence sales, human resource, contract and delivery strategies for the engagement. The Technical Solution Manager owns the definition of the technical solution and is the primary source of engagement management and solution design for the given deal. – This is a client facing job role, the Technical Solution Managers are expected to spend 40-70% of their time in face-to-face discussions with IBM clients. – They are responsible for the development and sales of IBM Strategic Outsourcing solutions directly to clients. – They lead multinational, multiple discipline teams of subject-matter experts, using a combination of IBM standard and custom solutions and they orchestrate the development of complex, multiple year, custom solutions and associated cost cases, all with the goal to ensure consistent delivery of high quality services and/or solutions which meet client business and technical requirements and fulfill IBM’s obligations. – Their leadership provides the foundation of the IBM solution that influences our sales teams, human resources, C&N and delivery strategies for the engagement. TSMs own the definition of the services solutions, are accountable for the overall success of the engagement and are the primary source of IBM Global Services engagement management and solution design around the world and across all product and technical disciplines. – The TSM works in conjunction with the larger pursuit team (Sales, HR, C&N, Delivery, Pricing, Risk, etc) to deliver a winning solution. Key activities and responsibilities include: – Articulating the business and technical value of our solutions and products to senior managers and technical decision makers (within IBM and our customers). – Positioning our technical solutions in competitive scenarios. – Liaise between our worldwide and regional technical leaders. – Own and drive technical solution strategy and design. – Propagate technical Infrastructure Services solution assets and best practices. – Remove technical barriers and motivate teams. – Drive competitive winnable deals in the Middle East & Africa region. – Responsible for the development of competitive cost cases for complex, multi-year opportunities which meet the customer’s requirements – Responsible for understanding country specific requirements, and “localizing” global best practices. – Create and use intellectual capital to solve diverse client issues in an innovative way.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise – Self-motivated and have the ability to network across a broad team. – Comfortable in both a technical dialogue (understanding the customer’s IT infrastructure and technical objectives) as well as a business dialogue (explaining the TCO reductions or ROI benefits of our solutions). – Understand different IT infrastructure service towers (e.g. Systems, Network, Mobility, Resiliency, Security) along with governance and the integration between such service towers. – Understand IT managed services on-premise, off-premise and hybrid and able to present the overall solution to Enterprise customers to CxOs agreement. – Strong written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills. Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise – IT Architect experience or similar delivery role.

    For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region’s technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

    Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

    Reinvention is a keyword in the company’s history and, today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. More

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    L&D Content Creation Specialist | RecruitME

    Employment:

    Full Time

    L&D content creation specialist for an International Professional Services Firm,Learning and Development (L&D) delivers a world-class learning experience that accelerates our people’s development, deepens their sense of belonging, and unlocks their potential to impact our firm, our clients, and the world. Our team supports the development of non-Managing Director and Partner core and expert consulting, and Business Services team members. As the Learning & Development Specialist for Business Service Team, you will be responsible for all admin, content and logistics aspects of Training in the Middle East. This includes curriculum design and content creation, vendor selection and management, organisational planning and coordination of local training for all of the Middle East Business Services Team. The Specialist will also be responsible for managing our internal Talent Development Program. Although this role will focus primarily on the BST, team members are expected to collaborate across Business Service needs and activities.The ideal candidate will excel at:• Sourcing and building relationships with external training vendors to ensure best practice training opportunities for our staff• Developing the local learning curriculum, maintaining existing local training materials and developing content for new programs• Mailing, collecting and analysing feedback requests and feedback on training events• Managing invoices, monthly budget controlling and coordinating with interfaces in addition to capturing and tracking of budget deviations• Planning the training budget and the annual training calendar.• Reports and analysis for Training: data entry and updates, data preparation and reporting in Excel and Power Point• Liaising with the L&D Partner and wider Training Team on annual local training programme

    Qualifications:• Relevant bachelor’s degree plus 5 years relevant experience, preferably at a corporate professional services firm, must have proven content creation and training presentation skills• Strong communication skills; fluency in English• Advanced level computer skills; Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook• Ability to use data based systems and report running• Strong service orientation and responsiveness to requests• Organizational skills: ability to handle competing priorities effectively• Resourcefulness and high attention to detail• Ability to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment• Experience managing and collaborating with senior stakeholders

    RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.

    Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.

    What we do:

    Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.

    We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved. More

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    Associate, Accounts Payable & Administration (Interim) | Charterhouse

    Employment:

    Contract

    Charterhouse are currently in the process of supporting one of our banking client’s, to identify and recruit, an Associate level candidate within an accounts payable and administration function for a temporary-based contract. This role shall be geared towards the handling and ownership of all local and international accounts payable operations, whilst managing the transactional accounting and general ledger sheets, across an Oracle-based system. This will primarily link to managing and verifying all vendor payments, along with the monthly processing of staff expense claims across the regional business, whilst ensuring any VAT coding and/or filing for financial reporting purposes. This aspect of the role shall also require an accounting alignment and compliance-check, to meet any group audit requirements, whilst also managing bank reconciliations and systems consolidation. In conjunction, the role will also cover an administrative discipline; whereby areas of contractual documents, financial records and office manuals are established, controlled and updated on a timely basis for both compliance cross-check and audit processes.

    The client will look to hire a junior professional with a finance and/or accountancy-based Degree and career background. The candidate will demonstrate up to 3 years of experience, within a mainstream accounts payable operation, managing a volume and quality-driven workload. This is coupled with the candidate requiring strong ERP and/or accounting software exposure. An advanced level of Excel understanding shall be required too; allowing for strong recording and analytical-based processes within the accounting and reporting aspects of the role. The client will look for a candidate whom can demonstrate strong, detailed and pragmatic organisational skills; to ensure that all administrative responsibilities can be completed and upgraded where applicable. In light of the interim/temporary nature of the role, the client will only consider candidates whom are immediately available in the market.

    The Charterhouse brand and business was launched in Dubai and the Middle East in April 2004 by a team of international recruiters and management consultants, after its inception in Sydney, Australia in September 2003. Charterhouse Middle East is now positioned as the leading regional recruiter within its area of disciplines and functional markets.

    Charterhouse offers professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services to all sectors of the market. Service quality is guaranteed, thanks to a particular focus on flexibility. Charterhouse was the first international search and selection business to establish Dubai as its base. The growth in the Middle East region has been mirrored by Charterhouse globally, with offices now in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. More

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    Senior Manager – Internal Audit | Parker Connect

    Employment:

    Full Time

    MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Prepare annual Audit Plan in line with GCEO and Board directions and objectives and present it to Board for approval.• Execute Audit Plan efficiently and effectively with in approved milestones.• Evaluate Internal control environment and submit valid recommendation that enhance operations.• Maintain and update Risk Register for each department.• Present the IA findings to the GCEO and Chairman.• Assist department to develop their policies and procedures internally and as per best practice. • Perform fieldwork in locations when required.• Analyze operational and management processes and system’s controls effectiveness and efficiency in view to improve them and provide value added recommendations.• Provide assurance on those operations and processes conform to current policies and procedures.• Identify control and processes weakness, document main control points and provide constructive recommendations for all levels of management, along with an audit conclusion.• Maintain respectful and professional communications and relationships with management and staff of areas under review.• Prepare draft audit reports mainly in English and in Arabic if required.• Facilitating and assisting the External Auditor undertaking periodic reviews and annual audit of Financial Statements as per International Internal Audit Standards (IIAS) and International Standards on Audits (ISA).• Execute special studies, consulting assignments and Ad hoc engagements and any other related task that may be assigned by the Top Management.• Follow up with management for implementation of outstanding recommendations.

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS• Bachelor degree from a reputed University.• CPA or CIA or its equivalent.• 10 or more years of experience in internal audit managerial position • Preferably experience in investment organizations or involvement in Investment audits.

    PARKER CONNECT is the fastest growing Management Consultancy in the Middle East. We provide world class services such as Executive Search and Consultancy through our centrally located office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Ever since starting operations, the organization has witnessed rapid growth purely achieved through firm business relations and quality service delivery. Our market knowledge in the region put together with quality consultants and excellent infrastructure has enabled us to build a strong portfolio of clients which include MNC’s and local firms. More

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    Cybersecurity Architect | Stanley James

    Employment:

    Contract

    We are recruiting a Cybersecurity Architect on behalf of a leading UAE headquartered organisation who are recognised as a leader within their industry. This is an excellent opportunity to join a once in a generation project and have a significant hand in shaping a strong brand.Applications are sought from those with 10 years of experience who will be responsible for defining structural and behavioural aspects of identity and access management systems, to enable and guide the development and implementation of IAM solutions, in alignment with the business strategy and cyber security requirements.Key Responsibilities:* Define the IAM architectural principles, polices and standards in line with the business and IT strategy, Cyber Security Policies and industry practices. * Advocate for and contribute to the development and enforcement of IAM policies across all systems and solutions.* Support audit, risk assessment and compliance functions by designing solutions to address its findings and risks. * Deliver IAM architectural artifacts during projects lifecycle * Identify potential areas of improvement in the enterprise IAM capabilities Technologies

    Critical Competencies Include:* Process Improvement Techniques * Knowledge of Six Sigma or Green Belt Certified* Certification in GIAC, CISSP-ISSAP (Information System Security Architecture Professional)* Thorough understanding of Information Security specifications including ISO 27001, PCI DSS.* Cyber security solution architecture and system integration experience* Understanding of Architecture Methods, Principles and Patters.

    Stanley James is a privately owned recruitment business with offices in both Dubai and Cape Town allowing us to have global reach and a strong presence across EMEA and APAC. We have an expert team of recruitment specialists that are people centric, knowledgeable and driven to connect talent across all corporate functions. We are the partner of choice for SMEs, niche industry specialists and enterprises across the Technology, Financial Services, Management Consultancy, Legal, Construction & Engineering and Energy & Oil Gas sectors.

    We typically recruit a wide range of skillsets across all corporate services, front/back office functions and commercial leadership teams. This includes Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Sales & Marketing, Engineering, C-Level/Leadership, Business Change, Operations, Special Projects and Business Support Services. More