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    Senior Internal Audit Consultant (Bilingual) | Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)

    Employment:

    Full Time

    As a Risk Advisory Senior Consultant you will:• Ability to strategically drive the development and execution of risk assessments and mitigation plans to enhance the client’s ability to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and mitigate risks.• Ability to perform complex business process assessments and design solutions to improve client’s operational efficiency and compliance • Ability to evaluate internal control design issues, develop mitigation plans, and assess and design internal controls procedures and policies • Ability to conduct complex business analyses, leveraging a variety of tools and technologies to support project goals and objectives • Ability to combine an analytical and strategic approach to perform internal audits • Ability to support the development of high-performing Internal Audit functions through the design of client centric business processes and controls

    • Relevant Bachelors Degree B.Sc. or Equivalent (Preferably Accounting , Finance or any other related field • Minimum total experience required 5 years – Big 4 experience is a must • Familiarity with risk appetite, tolerance, thresholds and limits concepts and applications• Working knowledge of risk governance principles and organizational structures from the Board to the Risk Owner• Bilingual (Arabic – English ) • CIA is a plus

    Deloitte is the world’s largest and leading professional services firm, providing audit & assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory and tax and services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries, whether they are in the energy, communications, oil and gas, financial services, family businesses, healthcare, public or education sectors among others.

    With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries and territories, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and high-quality service to clients, delivering the insights they need to address their most complex business challenges. Deloitte’s more than 250,000 professionals are committed to becoming the standard of excellence.

    Deloitte & Touche (M.E.) is a member firm of Deloitte globally and is the first Arab professional services firm established in the Middle East region Deloitte & Touche (M.E.) is a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) and is a leading professional services firm established in the Middle East region with uninterrupted presence since 1926 with 26 offices in 15 countries to date. What distinguishes Deloitte member firms in the Middle East is the global and regional expertise and know-how offered through specialized and highly knowledgeable talent. Deloitte aims to offer the best services to its clients through a team with more than 3,300 partners, directors and staff in the Middle East which guarantees effective communication with clients and a deeper understanding of their needs. It is a Tier 1 Tax advisor in the GCC region since 2010 (according to the International Tax Review World Tax Rankings). It has also received numerous awards in the last few years which include best employer in the Middle East, best consulting firm, the Middle East Training & Development Excellence Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), as well as the best CSR integrated organization.

    Deloitte drives progress. Our practices around the Middle East support clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. We invest in outstanding people of diverse talents and backgrounds and empower them to achieve more than they could elsewhere. Our work combines advice with action and integrity. We believe that when our clients and society are stronger, so are we.

    Our Purpose

    Deloitte makes an impact that matters. Every day we challenge ourselves to do what matters most-for clients, for our people, and for society. We serve clients distinctively, bringing innovative insights, solving complex challenges and unlocking sustainable growth. We inspire our talented professionals to deliver outstanding value to clients, providing an exceptional career experience and an inclusive and collaborative culture. We contribute to society, building confidence and trust in the markets, upholding the integrity of organizations and supporting our communities.

    Our shared values guide the way we behave to make a positive, enduring impact:

    Integrity
    Outstanding value to markets and clients
    Commitment to each other
    Strength from cultural diversity More

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    Principal Advanced Support Engineer | Oracle

    Employment:

    Full Time

    As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.As an Advisory Systems Engineer, you are expected to be an expert member of the problem-solving/avoidance team and be highly skilled in solving extremely complex (often previously unknown), critical customer issues. Performing the assigned duties with a high level of autonomy and reporting to management on customer status and technical matters on a regular basis, you will be expected to work with very limited guidance from management. Further, the Advisory Systems Engineer is sought by customers and Oracle employees to provide expert technical advice.

    Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Because of substantial customer interfacing, a demonstrated ability to work with customers on an independent basis with exceptional communication skills, while consistently achieving the absolute highest levels of customer satisfaction. Both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience 8 years related experience prior to taking this position. In addition, experience with Oracle*s core products, applications, and tools.As part of Oracle’s employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships

    Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models – including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds – to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.

    Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.

    More than 420,000 customers across 145 countries have harnessed Oracle technology to accelerate their digital transformation. More

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    Application Developer Intern – Process Management (BPM) | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!Your Role and Responsibilities Responsible for Implementing integration components by leveraging Smarter Process best practices, standards and naming notations (services integration, WWI, IDD, and BPEL). Gain knowledge of industry specific capability models, process models, service models, and business object models to accelerate development and testing of Smarter Process projects. Gain knowledge on process work flow and process choreography and would be able to develop applications to integrate various systems. The individual should have knowledge of applying the above models and processes in at least one of the Smarter Process projects and should be capable of addressing technical aspects of Smarter Process projects in the areas of customization of the models and processes during solution outline and development, testing and operation phases of the project.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.

    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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    Application Developer Intern – Enterprise Asset Management | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!Your Role and Responsibilities As an Application Developer for Enterprise Asset management you will be Designing, developing and supporting Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) application solutions using the IBM Maximo application and related frameworks and technologies. This specialty would be responsible for support existing system, design, development, testing and support of reports, interfaces, data conversions and enhancements using IBM Maximo and related tools.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field of study

    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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    Systems Support Engineer with Solaris | Oracle

    Employment:

    Full Time

    ACS is looking for Engineers skilled and with real experience on Operating System, mainly on Solaris and Linux. The engineer will join the EMEA Expertise Center, a team which centrally delivers proactive and reactive services for any country across EMEA. Advanced Customer Support (ACS) is an organization providing tailored mission critical support services for the full Oracle Product Stack. Advanced Customer Support understands the customer’s needs and helps them to increase availability, improve performance, mitigate risk and save cost. ACS Engineers have the mission:• To develop and manage the technical relationship with a designated account(s) in order to maximize the value of Advanced Customer Support to the customer, • To develop and maintain trusted relationships with the other Oracle contacts within designated account(s) and relevant third parties, • To act as the technical primary point of contact for Oracle Support and • To safeguard customer satisfaction, and renewal, through quality delivery and added value. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Delivering high quality technical results to ACS Customers; • Ensuring adherence to internal methodology, tools and quality standards;• Identifying required/recommended actions on Customer systems as main output of service delivery, based on own knowledge and experience; • Understanding customer requirements and based on own skills and experience, being able to design the proper architecture using the most appropriate products and design a technical plan to integrate them and implement the technical solution. • Analyzing, troubleshooting and solving whenever feasible, the issues the customer may face using Oracle products. • Escalating at the right time customer issues to Technical Account Manager where relevant; • Active participation on Services development; • Active collaboration with other engineers in the team or in other teams, to share knowledge, experiences and others, which can benefit ACS Business results.

    SKILLS: • Solaris Server • Solaris Cluster • Solaris Logical Domains (Architecture and Design) Zones • Oracle Enterprise Linux ZFS • Valuable skills on Exadata and Super Cluster REQUIREMENTS: • University Degree; • Fluent English (French; Spanish or German will be also valued) • Availability to travel and work onsite at customers • Availability to work 24×7 PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES:Core. Professional Competencies • Adapting to Change • Building Relationships • Business Ethics• Communication • Customer Focus • Personal Drive • Planning & Organising • Problem Solving • Quality Results Orientation Teamwork • Working Globally Presentation CORE BUSINESS COMPETENCIES:• Customer Needs Analysis • Professional &Technical Depth and Credibility FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT COMPETENCIES:• Resource Utilization & Development • Technical Problem Recognition & Resolution

    Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models – including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds – to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.

    Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.

    More than 420,000 customers across 145 countries have harnessed Oracle technology to accelerate their digital transformation. More

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    Senior Support Engineer | Oracle

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Senior Support Engineer – ACS Global Delivery- Core Database ExpertPreferred Qualifications Advanced Customer Services is a global organization within Oracle, providing tailored mission-critical support services to customers with complex IT requirements. We provide customized, proactive solutions for all Oracle applications and technologies: Sun Servers and Storage, Database, Middleware and Applications. Advanced Services Engineers (ASE) provides support in the continuous operational improvement of Oracle environments. ASEs do this by leveraging Oracle’s support-based intellectual property and customers’ experiences throughout their involvement with Oracle’s technologies. Our goal is for every customer to gain ever-more value from their Oracle Solutions by helping them make well informed decisions regarding the implementation; management and use of Oracle technologies. Core Activities and Responsibilities• Delivering high quality technical services to ACS customers. • Ensuring adherence to internal methodology, tools and quality standards. • Proactively foresee existing customer needs and activities to provide better support and remain engaged with customer focused activities • Work with other Oracle LOBs and Partners to ensure that knowledge is transferred both into and out of ACS, and act as technical Subject Matter Experts where required • Be focused on innovation and technology and understand how these can be used to benefit both customers and ACS • Manage and resolve Customer Requests according to product main strategy and model. • Respond and resolve customer issues within Key Performance Indicator targets. • Maintain an up-to-date and in-depth knowledge of new products. • Ensure the timely completion of planned proactive tasks and Customer Requests. • Owning and resolving problems and managing customer expectations throughout the life cycle in accordance with global standards.• Working towards, adopting and contributing to new processes and tools (ODC, diagnostic methodology, health checks, scripting tools, etc.

    Related Work Experience • The candidate should have MIN 5-8 years of experience in using and administrating Oracle database server with strong knowledge of UNIX, Linux and/or Windows. • Experience in RAC, DB Performance, or Backup/Recovery is a Must. Formal Education or Equivalent: • The candidates should have a degree in Computer science or similar. Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) is a must/ (OCM) is a plus in Oracle platform products including database, Cloud certified is preferred. Skills • Strong knowledge of UNIX, Linux and/or Windows. • Experience in RAC, DB Performance, DB patching/DB upgrades or Backup/Recovery is a must. • Experience in one or more of the following technical areas is a plus: • Oracle Security Products, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Golden Gate, SQL Tuning, Corruption, Exadata , Super Cluster, ZFS, ZDLRA. • Having excellent written and spoken English is a must with strong Communication skills. • Candidate should have Customer focus, working globally, team working and results orientation skills. Others (Mandatory)Candidate should be• Willing to travel for long tasks or high frequency. • Willing to work on 24×7 and flexible hours (Out of hours and weekends)

    Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models – including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds – to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.

    Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.

    More than 420,000 customers across 145 countries have harnessed Oracle technology to accelerate their digital transformation. More

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    Senior Systems Engineer with Solaris | Oracle

    Employment:

    Full Time

    ACS is looking for Engineers skilled and with real experience on Operating System, mainly on Solaris and Linux. The engineer will join the EMEA Expertise Center, a team which centrally delivers proactive and reactive services for any country across EMEA. Advanced Customer Support (ACS) is an organization providing tailored mission critical support services for the full Oracle Product Stack. Advanced Customer Support understands the customer’s needs and helps them to increase availability, improve performance, mitigate risk and save cost. ACS Engineers have the mission • To develop and manage the technical relationship with a designated account(s) in order to maximize the value of Advanced Customer Support to the customer, • To develop and maintain trusted relationships with the other Oracle contacts within designated account(s) and relevant third parties, • To act as the technical primary point of contact for Oracle Support and • To safeguard customer satisfaction, and renewal, through quality delivery and added value. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Delivering high quality technical results to ACS Customers; • Ensuring adherence to internal methodology, tools and quality standards; • Identifying required/recommended actions on Customer systems as main output of service delivery, based on own knowledge and experience; • Understanding customer requirements and based on own skills and experience, being able to design the proper architecture using the most appropriate products and design a technical plan to integrate them and implement the technical solution. • Analyzing, troubleshooting and solving whenever feasible, the issues the customer may face using Oracle products. • Escalating at the right time customer issues to Technical Account Manager where relevant; • Active participation on Services development; • Active collaboration with other engineers in the team or in other teams, to share knowledge, experiences and others, which can benefit ACS Business results. SKILLS: • Solaris Server • Solaris Cluster • Solaris Logical Domains (Architecture and Design) • Zones • Oracle Enterprise Linux • ZFS • Valuable skills on Exadata and SuperCluster

    REQUIREMENTS: • University Degree; • Fluent English (French; Spanish or German will be also valued) • Availability to travel and work onsite at customers • Availability to work 24×7 PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES Core. Professional Competencies • Adapting to Change • Building Relationships • Business Ethics• Communication • Customer Focus • Personal Drive • Planning & Organising • Problem Solving Quality • Results Orientation • Teamwork • Working Globally • Presentation Core. Business Competencies • Customer Needs Analysis • Professional &Technical Depth and Credibility Functional Support Competencies • Resource Utilization & Development • Technical Problem Recognition & Resolution

    Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models – including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds – to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.

    Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.

    More than 420,000 customers across 145 countries have harnessed Oracle technology to accelerate their digital transformation. More

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    Principal Solutions Architect | Black Pearl

    Employment:

    Contract

    Our client, who is a large IT consulting firm based in Dubai, is looking to hire a Principal / Solutions Architect.• Working experience in an agile software development environment with a good understanding of the principles of agile architecture.• Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision making.• Demonstrate strong technical skills with a deep understanding of modern architectural styles and practices such as Microservices, Containers, Cloud, APIs, Continous Delivery, Event-driven architecture, Evolutionary architecture, etc., with a passion for hands on coding.• Strong foundation knowledge of software architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes.• Ability to consistently apply them in real-world scenarios with a pragmatic, system thinking, and problem-solving mindset by analyzing architecture trade-offs for delivering high-quality, sustainable solution architecture.• Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth mindset.• Ability to foster and motivate programmers for delivering with craftsmanship.• Good personal skills to continuously engage and communicate with an egoless empathetic mindset.• Experience and expertise in delivering architectures for large software solutions meeting critical business purposes.• Ability to proactively discover technical debts and continuous improvement opportunities of existing live systems.• Work closely with the product owner and enterprise architects to influence and prioritize technical backlog items.

    Salary:
    AED
    40,000 to 55,000
    per month inclusive of fixed allowances.

    To be considered for this role, you will have the following:• 10+ years of total experience in Software Development.• JAVA is your primary language.• Experience in Architecture and Integration patterns.• Worked on Authentication and Authorisation, especially OAuth implementation.• Security – GDPR, PCI DSS, PII, Security by design, secure data in rest and in transit.• Worked on caching solutions.• A degree in Computer Science.Disclaimer: Black Pearl will never ask for money or any form to charge our candidates just to process or consider their application for any of our available vacancies. If you happen to receive such request from any members of our staff or other individuals claiming to be part of Black Pearl, please do call our office.

    Black Pearl is a progressive, dynamic and well structured HR solution provider
    that offers permanent recruitment services, HR consultancy, psychometric assessments, coaching and also professional training services for clients from different corporate sectors in the Middle East.

    Like a rare and unique black pearl, we consider our partnership with our clients and job seekers as a fine, precious and valuable encounter that needs to be affirmed, developed and supported with a strong commitment to deliver not only the right services but the best in the industry.

    Our aim is to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients, strategically offering Black Pearl services that are customized to the unique requirements of our clients and job seekers alike, resulting in effectively achieving goals and all that is required in this ever evolving and competitive market. More