Why We’re Successful

What we do is simple. We provide outstanding recruitment services for our clients and candidates alike. It’s easy to say, but much harder to deliver.

How do we do it? By being proactive, tenacious, more customer-focused and knowledgeable about the markets we serve than our competitors. While some agencies think ‘the more the merrier’ when forwarding CVs to their clients, we take the opposite view. Success for us is putting the best two or three candidates forward for a job. Our clients agree, because our approach saves them time and gives them the best people.

There’s one more thing you should know. We’re refreshingly honest to deal with. We hate broken promises, so if we think we can’t help, we’ll tell you upfront.

The result is that we recruit the best people for some of the biggest global brands in IT and engineering, for some of the most innovative start up businesses, and many organisations in between.

Whether you’re looking for a new job, your next contract move, or you’re an employer seeking the best talent for your organisation, we look forward to working with you.

Jobs | Testimonials

  • Otodynamics
  • Spirent
  • Nujira

Otodynamics

Otodynamics specialises in otoacoustic emissions instruments and is acknowledged as the pioneer and leader in this field.

As a specialist medical devices company, Otodynamics wanted to work with a recruitment consultancy that had a proven track record in its market sector.

“Austin Fraser was very well tuned to our needs. They put forward five candidates for a specialist quality assurance position. The three people we interviewed were able to meet the majority of our requirements so we were delighted to have had an embarrassment of riches from which to select and appoint our new team member.”

Spirent

Spirent Communications advances the next generation of communications systems, from design and development, to the delivery of network devices and solutions.

"Austin Fraser have been employed primarily to supply Spirent Communications with contract and permanent engineering design staff for hardware, software and test.  I have found Austin Fraser a pleasure to deal with and we have, over a short period of time, built up a strong working relationship."

Nujira

Nujira has an established position in the forefront of ultra-high efficiency RF power amplifier design. Engineers design, develop and deliver highly complex solutions targeting the digital broadcast, cellular infrastructure and mobile handset markets.

Nujira operate in an increasingly demanding market and required IC design engineers with previous experience in the semiconductor industry. 

"As a Recruitment Manager I look for suppliers who not only understand my business but will also do everything they can to make the recruitment process efficient and successful. Austin Fraser consistently meets and exceeds my expectations. The greatest compliment I can pay to Austin Fraser is their candidate introduction emails are always the first that I open." 

  • Web Systems Manager – Niche Magento eCommerce specialist

    Web Systems Manager – Niche Magento eCommerce specialist - £28-35k A unique opportunity has arisen for a Web Systems Manager to join a highly.... More

  • Lead Java Developers

    Austin Fraser has the pleasure of appointing a 2 Lead Java Developers for a client who are at the forefront of their domain and have some exciting growth plans .... More

  • Senior Java Developer

    Austin Fraser software development team has the pleasure of representing an exclusive client based close to Newbury. We are on the lookout for Senior Java Devel.... More

Web Systems Manager – Niche Magento eCommerce specialist

Job Reference: NCWSMLON_37042
Employment Start Date: ASAP
Location: City of London
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus

Web Systems Manager – Niche Magento eCommerce specialist - £28-35k

A unique opportunity has arisen for a Web Systems Manager to join a highly successful web based business that has had a recent implementation of Magento 2012. The business has grown from strength to strength over the last year and now has 5 major websites and brands. The role requires a wide breath of technical IT knowledge, as you will be providing some systems support, but predominantly on Magento usage (not programming), having a strong analytical background and can process data to dev teams and to improve web site and systems performance.

This Web Systems Manager role will either suit a graduate who is looking to develop their expertise in a business who has a strong IT and analytical background, or a professional with strong systems background and some eCommerce experience.

Key Skills:
- Strong background in IT systems.
- Some web, dev, scripting experience
- Analytical background

Desirable:
- Magento
- eCommerce
- Operations

If you are keen to progress as a Web Systems Manager in a niche role with an opportunity to learn an be trained in a rapidly growing web based environment, then please apply to be immediately considered.

Web Systems Manager – Niche Magento eCommerce specialist - £28-35k

 

Skills

Magento, eCommerce, e-commerce, e commerce, Web Systems Manager, Systems Manager, IT Support, Infrastructure Support

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Lead Java Developers

Job Reference: GXS-5882_35953
Employment Start Date: ASAP
Location: Hampshire
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £52000 per annum + Bonus and benefits

Austin Fraser has the pleasure of appointing a 2 Lead Java Developers for a client who are at the forefront of their domain and have some exciting growth plans to take this service provider business into the next phase of development and maintenance.

My client is a household brand and offers some great benefits, career progression and the opportunity to learn new cutting edge technologies.

As a lead developer you will be responsible for design, development and support of large-scales and complex Service Orientated Architectures SOA. You will provide day to day management of your team and be responsible for the development, integration, support and maintenance of internet and provisioning based applications/services written in Java.

My client is willing to invest heavily in you and enable you to have the environment to use the latest technologies whilst providing the very best resources and a great location.

As one of the lead developers you will have experience and or/ knowledge of the following technologies and methods;

-Solid experience of java/j2ee development in a SOA environment
-Web Services (SOAP)
-Oracle/ MySQL
-Tools (CVS, Subversion, Ant, Maven, Cruise Control and Eclipse)
-Application Server environments
-RUP-UML and agile


The ideal person for this role would be a proactive and enthusiastic developer that loves problem solving. The teams work very closely and there is a really good culture within the 4 development teams.

Please do not hesitate to apply for this new opportunity as a shortlist will be presented to my client next week.

In return for your services there are some excellent benefits and a bonus with this role.


For further information and a full spec please contact Gavin Stephens at Austin Fraser on
0118 952 0151 or email me; g.stephens@austinfraser.com

 

Skills

java, j2ee, soa, developer, lead, webservices, SOAP

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Senior Java Developer

Job Reference: GXS-1432_35953
Employment Start Date: ASAP
Location: Berkshire
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £55000 per annum + Great Benefits

Austin Fraser software development team has the pleasure of representing an exclusive client based close to Newbury. We are on the lookout for Senior Java Developer for a client who are at the forefront of their domain and have some exciting growth plans to take this service provider business into the next phase of development and expanding product portfolios.


As a senior developer you will be responsible for design, development and support of large-scales and complex Service Orientated Architectures SOA. You will provide day to day management of a junior team and be responsible for the development, integration, support and maintenance of internet applications and provisioning based applications/services written in Java.

My client is willing to invest heavily in you and enable you to have the environment to use the latest technologies whilst providing the very best resources and a great location coupled with great benefits.

As an important addition to the development team you will have experience and or/ knowledge of the following technologies and methods;

-Solid experience of java/j2ee development in a SOA environment
- Server side development
-Oracle/ MySQL
-Spring and Hibernate
- Experience with web technologies

Desirable;
-EJB (Seam Framework)
-JavaScript

The ideal person for this role would be a proactive and enthusiastic developer that loves problem solving. You will be an all rounder. The teams work very closely and there is a really good culture within the java development team.

Please do not hesitate to apply for this new opportunity as a shortlist will be presented to my client next week.

In return for your services there are some excellent benefits and a bonus with this role including an 8% pension contribution despite what you contribute.


For further information and a full spec please contact Gavin Stephens at Austin Fraser on
0118 952 0151 or email me; g.stephens@austinfraser.com

 

Skills

java, j2ee, spring, hibernate

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