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    ACS Principal Support Engineer – SCM (eBS & Fusion) Expert | Oracle

    Employment:

    Full Time

    General Qualifications An experienced functional consultant who has a solid understanding of basic business concepts and practices in the area of Supply Chain Management. The candidate should be able to operate independently to provide quality work products, and perform varied and complex duties and tasks that need independent judgment. Responsibilities – Works with the client to understand requirements, functionality and business processes – Translate customer requirements into deliverable products and services – Provide functional assessment of implemented solutions, with recommendations for enhanced processes, best usage of Oracle applications features and better performance results- Develops test plans, procedures and running the tests accordingly – Support Oracle SCM products and services in line with the contractual agreement – Works with support to resolve Customers SRs. – Conduct knowledge transfer sessions both within the Oracle team and to end users. – Work closely with the technical team and delivery leaders to provide engagements work estimates and drive excellence in functional work. – Ensures that new services are appropriately captured and put in ACS corporate repository – Proactively maintains knowledge of Oracle’s current and future products/solutions offerings for the specified SCM area.

    Technical Qualifications – 5-7+ years implementation experience of Supply Chain Management solutions – Experience with multiple SCM applications is a plus – especially Oracle EBS and Oracle SaaS – At least 2 years in implementing SCM SaaS applications – At least (1) full life cycle implementation of Oracle’s Cloud SCM solutions – Strong functional knowledge of Order to Cash and Procure to Pay business processes – Hands-on experience with CX applications is a plus – Previous consulting experience – Business analysis, requirements gathering, and workshop leadership skills – Oracle Cloud Certification is a plus Other Qualifications: – Excellent Analytical skills – Strong English written/verbal communications – Self-motivated individual who works well in a team environment – Willing to travel to customer sites on a regular basis – Experience in working as part of Global/ Matrixed/ Remote teams – Self-driven, ability to work under minimal supervision Experience: – 5-7+ years of overall experience in relevant functional roles. Travel: – Yes, 50+ % of the Time

    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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    Client Technical Specialist – Data & AI | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction Client Technical Specialists (CTP) are the technical experts and advisors to clients, IBM sales teams and/or IBM Business Partners. As a CTP you understand the client’s business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. You apply your business insights, build and maintain client relationships, incorporate hardware, software and services into client-valued solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the future for both IBM and its clients. Start your journey now!Your Role and Responsibilities IBM is looking for an experienced OEM focused IA Client Technical Professional to represent IBM Data and AI software in a pre-sales role. An IA CTP is responsible for providing pre-sales technical support and assistance for customers. They will work to understand the customer’s business needs and technical challenges. They deliver high quality solution presentations and demonstrations to clients in response to varying business requirements by utilizing product, technology, industry and business skills. The IA CTP has an understanding of products, offerings and services within their specialty. Additional ResponsibilitiesAn IA CTP will actively seek and identify new sales opportunities. They provide technical sales support which may include : collaboration with IBM sales teams to define, design, and detail the technical aspects and feasibility of proposed solutions; lead and deliver Proof of Concepts; develop and deliver customized demonstrations; support critical situations; and answer technical questions. As a member of the sales team, they will be engaged in customer facing activities, be responsible for the technical accuracy of the proposed solution and lead the technical aspects of the sale. Key Attributes- Proven communication and interpersonal skills. – Demonstrated negotiation, problem solving and presentation skills. – Customer focused. – Proven high level of responsibility for given tasks. – Ability to prioritize and work with deadlines. – Ability to be flexible. – Ability to work in both a team environment and independently. – Ability to learn and share knowledge and information.

    Candidate Qualifications – Programming and scripting experience a plus. – Application installation and system administration experience. – Previous experience with Packaged Software and Software Engineering tools. – Proven record of ability to learn new products and technologies. – Ability to articulate the IA solution in relation to the customer’s situation. – Knowledge of the key IA competitors, their strengths and weaknesses, and ability to differentiate IA products. Required Technical and Professional Expertise – You will have at least 2-4 years of hands on & architectural experience including POC/MVPs in one or more of the following areas – IBM Databases – Cloud Pak for Data – Watson Studio, Watson Discovery – Planning Analytics, Cognos Analytics – Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, NiFi etc. mainly on Cloudera Clusters – NoSQL Technologies such as MongoDB, Apache Cassandra (DataStax) – RDBMSs such as PostgreSQL, Enterprise DB

    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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    Solution Architect/Principal Software Engineer | Stanley James

    Employment:

    Full Time

    We are currently recruiting a Solution Architect/Principal Software Engineer on behalf of a leading FinTech organisation headquartered in Bahrain. This is an excellent opportunity to take your career to the next level by leading the design and development of technology solutions that will drive payments innovation across the Middle East.

    Applications are sought from those with 8-10 years of experience within IT development that includes overseeing the full development lifecycle. It is essential that you are highly experienced with back-end/front-end programming languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, .NET and Javascript. This will be combined with familiarity around multi-tier, object orientated secure application design architecture. Experience with web services, API Development, Microservices and Cloud environments such as Azure and AWS is highly advantageous. Industry experience within Financial Services/E-Commerce or the Payments industry where you have built web, mobile and desktop applications is highly desired. You will have a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and be TOGAF/IASA certified.

    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

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    Cloud Value Rep | Oracle

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Sells a subset of product or services directly or via partners to a large number of named accounts/non-named accounts/geographical territory (mainly Tier 3 accounts).Primary job duty is to sell technology software products and related services in a defined territory. Identifies, qualifies and closes new opportunities. Manages accounts including the entire sales process from business development prospecting and specifications through contract negotiations, signing, and post-sales support. Leverages the Oracle sales model to maximize revenue growth and increase local market share. Builds and expands business partner revenue and self sufficiency.

    Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years field sales experience including technology sales experience. Ability to forecast, manage sales expenses, and successfully close new Oracle business. Business development, prospecting and presentation skills. Excellent communication skills and problem solving ability. Proven track record of exceeding sales objective and territory/account development. Experience as the focal point for clients for all sales and related issues. Oracle knowledge and/or knowledge of Oracle*s competitors. Travel may be needed. Bachelor degree or equivalent.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 (if applicable).

    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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    Data Scientist – Social Trading Platform | NSI & Bluefin Talent

    Employment:

    Full Time

    I’m currently assisting an upcoming Social Investment Platform based out of Dubai, UAE to look for an experienced Data Scientist to join their growing team. Project experience related to asset management, financial risk management, trading, and crypto is highly desirable for this role.Responsibilities:• The company is using financial time series for building intelligence signal generators (price prediction, market status, and bot traders). They use classic machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning to achieve the desired results.• You will be building intelligence automatic asset management and creating portfolio evaluations. Aside from this, you’ll be researching innovative ways in Financial risk management.•You will be working with team members to analyze models, performance to visualize and tune models.

    Requirements:• Bachelor / Masters degree or Ph.D. in the field of Data Science (AI/ML), Cognitive Science, Statistics, Econometrics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or any related technical disciplines• At least +3 years of work experience in the field of AI/ML or related areas and are experienced in the productionalization of ML framework. • Experience in Python, particularly concerning AI/ML development (at least 3 years in python) • Experience in machine and statistical learning, deep learning, and Reinforcement Learning • Familiarity with time-series methods• Forecasting models using Deep learning algorithms such as FFNN, RNN, LSTM, GRU• Experience in Reinforcement Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning such as DDPG,A2C, TD3, PPO, or any custom RL algorithms• Worked with financial data such as OHLC and other indicators like MACD, CCI, RSI etc.• Having any experience in financial markets especially cryptocurrency and DeFi is a plus• Having done academic or industry research in Financial machine learning is a plus

    New Sourcing International (NSI) / Bluefin Talent have partnered so to offer a specialized recruitment solution within the Consulting and Financial services domains.

    Working together as a specialist search and selection agency, we concentrate on blue chip financial services and strategy / technology consulting organizations across Europe and the Middle East; focusing exclusively on Financial Services, IT and Risk. Being niche allows us to offer a premium search service, tailored to overcome the technically challenging nature of recruitment for the specialist functions that we work.

    We are dedicated to representing best of breed candidates in the region in our dedicated fields of employment. As such we are a leading outfit for placing ex-pats and internationally educated students in the region.

    Our biggest unique selling point, is that we are steered by a dedicated team of ex-financial services and industry professionals. This allows us to offer a level of candidate pre-screening for roles, which is largely anomalous to the recruitment profession. Our ability to bridge the technical knowledge gap typical recruiters encounter, coupled with a thorough delivery process allows us to drive consistently superior results for our clients sourcing requirements. Designed to provide a fast and efficient turnaround, we minimize the use of internal resources our clients spend vetting inadequate profiles, allowing them to quickly get back to focusing on their strategic goals.

    Our strength lies not only in the specialist nature of our firm, but also in the commitment we show towards our clients and candidates. We endeavour to build long-term relationships and recognise the crucial nature of communication throughout the recruitment process. Excellence, integrity, respect and transparency are cornerstone to the culture we promote. More

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    Functional 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 (if applicable).

    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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    Client Technical Specialist – AutomationTech Sales | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction Client Technical Specialists (CTP) are the technical experts and advisors to clients, IBM sales teams and/or IBM Business Partners. As a CTP you understand the client’s business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. You apply your business insights, build and maintain client relationships, incorporate hardware, software and services into client-valued solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the future for both IBM and its clients. Start your journey now!Your Role and Responsibilities IBM is looking for a Technical Sales specialist who will be responsible for developing and maintaining trusted client relationships at all levels within a client’s organization. As a deep Technical Subject Matter Expert and Strategic Thinker, you will help customers, IBM account teams and Business Partners to create and develop cloud strategies, roadmaps and technical plans (focused around Integration) to enable the strategic goals of your clients.- You will be responsible for gathering and understanding the client’s business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. – From this you will provide technical sales support which may include collaborating with IBM sales teams to define, design, and detail the technical aspects and feasibility of proposed solutions; delivering Proof of Concepts and/or MVPs; developing and delivering technical education to colleagues, Customers and Partners; supporting critical situations; designing solutions; and answering technical questions. – When engaged for a specific opportunity or project, you are responsible for the technical accuracy and fit of the proposed solution.Other responsibilities may include coordination of presales or (in some cases) delivery activities with internal and external service partners, presentations on marketing and enablement events, leading local developer communities, writing technical papers, blogs etc.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise Essential- 2-3+ years of experience in IT Integration, ideally using IBM Integration product portfolio or competitive counterparts, in complex and demanding projects. – 2-3+ years experience of autonomous development of Integration artefacts (integration flows, APIs etc) for Integration products. – Experience in architecting, designing and implementing Microservices, EAI, SOA, API and Web Services integration solutions. – Experience working with IBM Integration (MQ, IIB, App Connect, Datapower) or other solutions (e.g., MuleSoft, Oracle Fusion, TIBCO, Dell Boomi, etc.) – API Management solution experience (IBM API Connect, WSO2, Mulesoft, Apigee, etc.) – A deep understanding of the concepts of building resilient and reliable integration solutions on IBM or other Middleware. – Experience of designing and building solutions based on Containers/Kubernetes/OpenShift – Good understanding of the following technologies: JSON, Swagger, Web Services, XML, XSLT, Java, Node.js, – Strong analytical and good inter-personal skills. Good organizational and problem solving abilities. – Good knowledge of software development methodologies, tools, standards and procedures. – Proven track record in Tech Sales or similar role. – Excellent verbal communication, written communication, and presentation skills Preferred Technical and Professional ExpertiseBeneficial to have- Experience in deploying and working with Integration products on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift – Code development in Java, JavaScript or other popular languages and frameworks will be considered a plus. – Knowledge of container offerings: IBM Kubernetes Service (IKS), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Google Kubernetes Service (GKE). – Strong industry experience and background in one of the following industries: Banking, Telco, Public sector (Government). – DevOps tooling and processes, particularly in hybrid cloud architectures – Understanding of IT security frameworks and protocols: Oauth2.0, OIDC, Kerberos, SAML; understanding of security integration architecture for common industry patterns such as e.g. PSD2 solutions in Banking

    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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    Vice President – Technology | Charterhouse

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Charterhouse is working with a renowned Global Retail group who is looking to hire a VP – Technology to join their team. As a VP-Technology you will report to the CDO and provide the technological vision to achieve the organization’s strategic priorities.Your main responsibilities will be to develop technology strategies that enable continued transformation in the areas of digital/e-commerce, supply chain etc., and leading the development of overall enterprise architecture including supply-chain, ERP etc., and modernization roadmap. You will lead the architecture community to ensure architectural principles are appropriately applied.

    The ideal candidate should have a bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field and a minimum of 13 years of relevant experience and must have a strong background of architecture. Experience in retail innovation/technology, ERP is preferred. You must have strong leadership skills with team-oriented and collaborative approach to work and able to work well with key internal and external leaders is required.

    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