Your purpose (in a nutshell) This role operates as Cloud Infrastructure Architect for International Personal Finance Group, accountable for strategic planning, design and delivery of cloud infrastructure components, which are being used by IPF Home Credit business. Support IPF in migrating its current service from traditional collocated IT into cloud based solutions. Accountability for defining, documenting and maintaining a European Cloud Infrastructure Services and Roadmap in accordance to business needs, IT Enterprise Architecture guidance, Cost and quality effectiveness and latest innovations in IT. Responsibility for delivering appropriate technology solutions across Cloud Infrastructure platforms and contribution to delivery of the Group IT Strategy. This role is 50% hands on.   You will be accountable for: Designing and delivering stable and highly available Cloud Infrastructure for IPF business –The scope includes: Public Cloud Infrastructure management (IaaS, PaaS), especially AWS Operating Systems on the VMs Backup, archiving, restoring of company data/systems management Network management Databases management Automation IaaS/PaaS deployment Scripting of the Cloud Infrastructure components deployment Work closely with Cloud System Administrators to make sure the environments are stable and fit for purpose Working closely with the SDMs from IT Operations to ensure adequate ITIL processes are implemented in managed cloud Infrastructure Hands on implementation of designed solutions Verification and impact assessments of all cloud Infrastructure change requests received Cooperating with other leaders to deliver agreed goals and roadmap which support the overall business Delivering the appropriate technology solutions in a variety of Cloud infrastructure technology areas Providing expert advice and consultation on the Cloud infrastructure implementation and support Working with third party suppliers and products, as well as in-country IT to identify and deliver appropriate IT Infrastructure technologies and solutions. Collaboration with other IT infrastructure teams and functions to provide technical solutions for infrastructure disaster recovery Participation in relevant IT governance bodies Analyzing risks related to cloud infrastructure components and providing appropriate mitigations What skills will you have?   Qualifications: Certified AWS Professional Architect is must Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent   Skills: Strong time management and communication, inclusive of ability to communicate with senior management Proven strategic thinking Effective organizational skills, negotiating and influencing skills Experienced at working in international, multi-vendor situations Strong written and verbal communication skills Ability to work remotely and largely unsupervised, and to deliver to written requirements Managing complex change processes   Knowledge: Extensive understanding of technology and architecture standards Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud IT Infrastructure and security solutions Strong understanding of the IT industry trends Strong knowledge of the latest solutions and approaches in the world of information technology ITIL understanding Practical knowledge of IT Project management Delivery of IT solutions for a medium or large organization   Experience: At least 2 year of experience in AWS Cloud IT Infrastructure role At least 2 years of experience in working in International disbursed teams Driving the design and delivery of IT Infrastructure services Experienced at working in international, multi-vendor situations Proven experience in managing IT Infrastructure You must be legally to work in the UK, please note we are unable to support visa sponsorship.

To support the Data Science & Strategy (DSS) function in delivering numerous data initiatives supporting workstreams relating to IPF group change and governance processes and system developments as a key part of IPF’s data programme.  Working as an experienced AWS expert with DevOps experience implementing strategic data initiatives. Using your experience and expertise you’ll support complex data transformations to drive the development of data science, business intelligence and insights, ensuring the AWS infrastructure is Secure, performant and cost effective, as well ensuring development environments and pipelines are automated.  You’ll collaborate and work closely with interdepartmental teams to ensure the Data Lake adheres to internal infrastructure policies and drive a DevOps culture within development and service.   What you will be required to deliver in your new role? ·       Installation, configuration and maintenance of Cloud server environments for the purposes of development/testing, including supporting the creation of test data sets. ·       Conduct regular monitoring/audits and investigations of the AWS estate to identify cost control options and actions ·       Create Data Lake AWS access roles in line with company policy. ·       Liaise with Cloud Management team on AWS best practices, plan and implement them on the Data Lake. ·       Serve as AWS technical lead on Data Lake projects and support the upskilling of other team members on AWS   ·       Take ownership of Data Lake CI/CD pipelines. ·       Automating infrastructure build on AWS platform. ·       Manage the Data Lakes build and release process. ·       Instil and maintain best practices and usage of best of breed DevOps technologies and techniques. ·       Translation of functional specifications and story elaboration for the development of code/packages, based on in-house standards supporting data programme initiatives achieving agreed scope, data conformance and delivery plans. ·       Provision of estimates and timings to Delivery Manager for the creation and support of structured code and test criteria within work packages. ·       Match business requirements and technical specifications, developing appropriate solutions across multiple systems personally delivering solutions. ·       Willingness to learn new technologies and move between different technology stacks. ·       Documentation and contribution using online collaboration tools JIRA/Confluence/ Bitbucket. ·       Collaboration with third party suppliers and products, as well as in-country IT teams to identify and deliver appropriate technologies and solutions.   What skills are we looking for?   Qualifications: ·       Significant AWS Certified Architect/Developer or equivalent experience ·       DevOps experience (Desirable) ·       Degree qualified or equivalent (Desirable)   Skills: ·       Agile/iterative development frameworks. ·       Fluent English speaking. ·       Excellent verbal & written communication. ·       Analytically minded, abilities to develop insights from data sets. ·       Identify and resolve problems in a timely and prioritised manner.   Knowledge: ·       Demonstrable knowledge of Amazon Web Services and architecture. ·       Demonstrable knowledge of current DevOps practices and patterns. ·       Understanding of data, gained within data warehouse and/or data lake environments. ·       Knowledge of T-SQL and one or more languages of choice (Python, Poweshell, Java, Scala, Ruby, Javascript, C#). ·       Structured, semi-structured and unstructured data types and functional strengths/weaknesses. ·       Working knowledge of Change Management processes and Project Management methodologies. ·       Online collaboration tools JIRA/Confluence. ·       Financial services IT solutions. ·       IT industry and ways of working within multi-disciplinary teams.   Experience: ·       Working within agile/lean delivery teams and frameworks. ·       Demonstrable experience with Amazon Web Services data management technologies (Lambda, Aurora, Glue/ Athena, Kinesis, Cloudwatch, Route53, SageMaker, RDS, EC2, ALB). ·       Strong Hands-on experience in implementing security and governance on AWS. ·       Proven implementation and support of DevOps Pipelines. ·       Hands-on experience with CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet. ·       Able to work independently on multiple concurrent tasks in a highly dynamic environment with strong customer service skills, teaming skills and the ability to collaborate within a cross functional team. ·       Operating in an international environment. ·       Financial services would be highly beneficial. Other: You have a desire to work internationally and are willing and able to travel overseas for short periods  

The role is based in our Leeds head office, supporting businesses across central Europe and Mexico. The main focus of the role is to interpret and report the outputs from our impairment models: doing analysis to understand trends; liaising with credit and finance teams across the organisation to apply business understanding; making recommendations for changes required due to changing circumstances; implementing any agreed changes. We are looking for someone with analytical and modelling expertise combined with great communication skills, as the role requires direct contact with board level stakeholders. This could be a great opportunity for someone looking to make the move from analyst to senior analyst, or alternatively for a senior analyst looking to expand their experience in a different sector. What you will be required to deliver in your new role? Deliver a range of complex analytics projects, leading virtual teams across the group to agreed standards and timescales Provide analysis and recommendations from insight into customer behaviour and credit performance in order to shape value creating credit strategies Provide advice on how to optimise business credit strategies and customer credit policies, leading to driving change through the credit life cycle, across a range of products and portfolios Provide analytical insight by examining the best ways to utilise data that can impact business strategy and add value Development of methodologies for forecasting and stress testing credit exposure Develop relationships with key stakeholders and build their understanding in order to facilitate the identification of current and emerging credit risk and opportunities to obtain buy in to the recommended actions Develop and execute detailed plans to support wider business delivery of tasks/projects Development and implementation of models, scorecards and strategies in the management of credit risk Support the Team Manager to develop team members skills through coaching and effective support Positively support the vision and strategy of the department Support the team Manager to engage and motivate team members   …with the aim of…  Ensuring a true business partnership between the Country teams and the UK teams  Wider stakeholder engagement and development, cross country, cross functional and operational  Improving the capability of our credit decisions through consistent implementation of the risk management framework throughout the organisation  Improving long term sustainable profitability and success of the business What skills are we looking for? Qualifications: 2:1 degree or postgraduate qualification in statistics, data modelling, data mining or similar numerate discipline or equivalent Skills: Strong verbal and written communicator, with demonstrated presentation skills to a wide audience; proven effective organisational ability to meet time sensitive deadlines working on own initiative; excellent negotiating and influencing skills; excellent analytical and numerical skills with demonstration across the full customer life cycle; high level of creativity and problem solving; commercially aware decision making Knowledge: Detailed understanding of the concept of credit risk management and its role within the full customer life cycle, including link with marketing, collections and loss prevention; In depth understanding and demonstrable application of the basic principles of credit scoring; Knowledge and wide practical experience of the tools available to support the management of credit risk; Understanding of credit bureau and relevant legislation Experience: Proven experience as a Credit Analyst Proven experience and skills in managing or leading projects Proven experience gained within a financial services environment, ideally to include exposure to revolving credit products