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New Recruiter for Recruiters

Austin Fraser has recently employed a full-time Internal Recruitment Manager to help them achieve their employee growth plans for 2012.

Expanding into the European Market

A new satellite office in Munich for Austin Fraser.

Supporting Excellence in Electronics

Highlighting Austin Fraser's sponsorship of the 2011 Elektra awards

Austin Fraser Named Fastest Growing Private Recruitment Firm

Fast Track, in association with the Sunday Times, has today revealed Britain’s fastest growing private firms. Austin Fraser was ranked 12th in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table for 2…

We’re through to the Thames Valley Business Award finals!

We have just received notification from the judges at the Thames Valley Business Awards that our entry in the ‘best company to work for’ category was successful and we have been shortlisted as one of …

Moustaches for Movember

It's that time of year again, when seemingly normal men enter the world of fine moustachery.

Supporting PyCon UK 2011

We're proud to sponsor PyCon UK 2011, the UK Python language conference. Taking place on the 24th and 25th September, it is a community conference, which brings together professionals from across the …

New Legislation: Agency Workers Regulations

On 1 October 2011, the most significant piece of legislation to hit the UK’s private recruitment industry will come into effect. AWR will affect everyone in the UK’s flexible workforce; protecting vul…

From Exeter to Reading with Love

We’ve just cycled 170 miles in aid of Great Ormond Street. Peter Hart, one of Austin Fraser’s directors, led a dedicated crew of nine: Ashley Dunbar, Ben Hobday, Gerwyn Stephens, James Simpson, Kim Ha…

Boosting the Team

Since July we’ve taken on six new starters, working across our business. We believe that our people are our main asset, so we invest heavily in training. When a consultant joins Austin Fraser we enrol…

We’ve Moved Office!

Having grown from nine to 39 employees over the last two years, we’ve finally outgrown our offices. To accommodate our rapidly growing family, we’ve moved into Forbury Square, which boasts three times…

Jobs | Testimonials

  • ArjoHuntleigh
  • Aviva
  • Global Marine Systems Ltd

ArjoHuntleigh

ArjoHuntleigh offers a range of medical devices and equipment to improve the quality care of people with reduced mobility in hospitals and care facilities.

Working in an international marketplace, ArjoHuntleigh required candidates with specialist technical knowledge for a range of engineering positions.

“Austin Fraser found us good quality candidates, they were able to filter effectively and produce a good crop for us to select from. We would do business with them again, and overall found them to be a very good agency. As our relationship progressed they made improvements to the service they provided by listening carefully to our requirements and staying focused.”

Aviva

Aviva

Aviva is the world’s sixth largest insurance group and the largest insurance services provider in the UK. Its web presence is critical to its overall business operations and the company depends on having dependable and expert web technical specialists for it busy web operations unit.

When Aviva came to us for contract software developers to support a major rebrand, we took time to understand its business requirements and how it operates in order to ensure a fast and successful recruitment process.

“Austin Fraser is the first recruitment agency that has managed to live up to their promises delivering high quality candidates, pre-screened consistently and on time.

Their consultants are both diligent and proactive, while remaining personable. This approach has gained them a great deal of respect from both the candidates that they have supplied and from me.

They provide a high quality personalised service that has not only eased my work load but has exceeded my expectations as a supplier, and I look forward to continuing to work with them in the future.”

Global Marine Systems Ltd

Global Marine Systems is the largest independent provider of subsea cable installation and maintenance for telecommunications, offshore energy and inter-connects. 

Global Marine Systems required engineers specialising in renewable energy technologies for a range of on and off-shore vacancies.

"I applied for my current position through Austin Fraser and Will Godfrey was the person who dealt with my application. Will Godfrey was extremely helpful had all the information needed at hand and handled my application with the utmost efficiency and professionalism, I was always kept informed about the status of my application and once in the position I even received a follow up call to check I was settling in! Will Godfrey, and Austin Fraser are by far the best recruitment consultants I have dealt with and should the need arise would use them as my preferred consultants. I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending them to anyone."

  • 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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