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Operations

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

Market Operations sits at the heart of Betfair. It creates, produces and manages all dynamic betting and non betting content for Betfair, as well as 15 international homepages. It contains a mixture of strong creative elements and a significant operational production environment. Recently as the business has increased its presence overseas we have seen the addition of 10 languages and associated websites, bring a truly cosmopolitan feel to the department.

This role sits centrally in the department supporting and driving improvements in the ongoing operations.

A key element of the role will be providing and managing the ongoing training and development needs of the department, you will be responsible for establishing programs and launching this new initiative.

Further more you will provide Project Management for various large generic projects, such as the development of back office tools. You will be required to work closely with Engineering and the Project Management Office to fight for development time and will be expected to produce Business Cases and Functional specifications.

As part of Betfair?s commitment to continually improve the service it offers its customers, there is a culture of constant Business Process Improvement. A key part of the role would be to work with the Change Management Office and the operational managers in Market Operations to analyse current operations, seeking out where efficiencies and improvements can be made and driving those changes down in to day to day operations.

Key Roles:

• Owner of all Training and Personal Development in MktOps
  • Manage training budget
  • Formalise current practices
  • Develop existing practice and implement new initiatives
  • Track the development of all personnel

• Project Manager
  • Owner of all MktOps Data Feeds contracts
  • Tools Development

• MktOps Change Champion
  • Analyse current operations
  • Drive operational efficiencies
  • Seek improvement in services delivered

• Required
  • Numerical or Science based Degree (Minimum 2:1)
  • Experienced in managing and delivering training
  • Good presentation skills
  • Proven research and investigative skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Sports enthusiast
  • Familiar with betting, probability and stats
  • Good understanding of IT

• Desirable
  • Previous online experience
  • Retail background
  • Cosmopolitan International background
  • Languages
  • Six Sigma or similar

Someone who can use both sides of their brain who has with a flair for numbers but is also able to think creatively. A self starter who likes to manage themselves, is proactive, positive, enthusiastic and likes to use initiative.

Must enjoy working in very fast paced environment and be energised by rapid change. Needs to be open to new ideas and capable of delivering original ideas.

Should be an open honest straight talker.

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate. E-mail your CV to jobs@betfair.com

No phone calls or agencies.

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

As the worlds leading betting exchange with over 35 betting categories and in excess of 20,000 propositions each month we are looking for an intelligent and sharp individual to assist us with the analysis of products and operational data, management of projects and general office administration.

This is a junior position and we are looking for a recent graduate who is keen to learn about all aspects of Betfair. The analyst will provide analytical support for the Market Operations department. They will work on providing performance reports for our markets and operations, ensuring they are accurate and well presented.

• Retrieve and prepare data for analysis
• Provide intelligent and insightful analysis that drives decision making
• Compile reports and presentations
• Project work with operational teams
• General administrative duties

• Reports to the Market Insight Manager

• Numerate or Science based degree ? Minimum 2:1
• Proficient with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel ? including pivot tables and macros
• High level of logical and analytical skills
• High level of attention to detail
• Good communicator and team player

• Betting and sporting knowledge
• Working knowledge of SQL and PLSQL
• Working Knowledge of Business Objects
• Experience using Microsoft Access

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate. E-mail your CV to jobs@betfair.com

No phone calls or agencies.

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

Position created due to the expansion of the business.

• Answering calls from clients, accessing their accounts and placing bets on their behalf
• Explaining to clients what the betting exchange is and how it works and assisting them with any queries
• Explaining to clients what type of prices and markets Betfair have to offer
• Quoting the latest odds to clients
• Provide a high level of Customer Service

• Working closely with other team members
• Constant contact with clients
• Liaising regularly with Team Manager

• Must have a keen interest in all sports preferably including horseracing
• Comfortable with using Email and the Internet
• Due to legal requirement, must be at least 18 years old

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong numeric skills
• Professional telephone manner
• Able to deal effectively with difficult clients
• Team focused
• Reliable and flexible
• Enthusiasm to take on new tasks
• Willing to work additional hours where necessary

• Seasonal shift patter mirroring the racing calendar, often involving evening and weekend work

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate. E-mail your CV to jobs@betfair.com

No phone calls or agencies.

Engineering

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

Betfair is the world's leading person-to-person betting exchange, using a concept which is revolutionising the betting industry. We are looking for a dedicated, self-motivated, driven technical professional with experience working in transactional and e-commerce environments to work within the architectural team to produce application prototypes of potential future architectures using a variety of technologies. The successful candidate will have exceptional broad technical and problem solving skills, with a positive, results driven attitude.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Very quickly create working prototypes from rough ideas and concepts.
• Build and evolve a laboratory environment and tools for creation and testing of prototypes.
• Experimentally test code and infrastructure prototypes and compare with existing systems.
• Creation of architectural level design documentation.
• Frequent two-way communications (formal and informal) with fellow engineers in all skill areas within Engineering on relevant topics.

Key Working Relationships:

• This position reports to the Head of Architecture & Innovation and will also work closely with Application and Infrastructure Architects within the Engineering team.

Essential:

• 2+ years commercial development experience (whole life-cycle) using a variety of commercial technologies within an online or commercial research environment to satisfy high volume, corporation critical, n-tiered application requirements.
• 2+ years commercial experience developing Object-Oriented commercial solutions.
• Minimum of a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or applicable Engineering field.
• Have completed experimentation/research requiring quantitative testing of computer systems, ideally load and throughput testing.
• Have written formal documents showing results of research (technical papers, thesis, etc)

Desirable:

• Understanding of gambling / gaming systems and/or exchange trading systems.
• Good understanding of real-time systems.
• Experience with event driven systems.

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Proven ability to quickly understand new ideas and concepts and able to very quickly create functioning systems to realise these ideas and concepts.
• Languages and Packages:
  • Must have strong skills in at least 2 of J2EE (preferred), .NET, C/C++, PHP, ASP
  • Ability to script with at least one of: Perl, shell, Python, TCL/TK, Rebol, etc.
  • J2EE skills should include most of the following; Java 1.3+, JSP 1.2+, Servlets 2.3+, EJB 2.0, JDBC 2.0+ JMS 1.1+, Tag Libraries, JAAS.
  • Additional required skills; XML, Web Services, SQL, UML, Ant
• Web/Application Servers: JBoss (Preferred), Jetty, Tomcat, Resin, Orion, IIS, Apache, Weblogic, Websphere
• Database Systems: Must have one of Oracle 8i+ (preferred), PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Experience with messaging systems (Tibco, JMS, MQ-Series)
• Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP, UNIX (Solaris), Linux
• Understanding of, and experience with, application and infrastructure architectures
• Practical understanding of networks, clustering concepts, and storage sub-systems.
• Understanding of the various UML diagrams.
• Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion.
• Strong analytical skills coupled with formal experimentation experience.
• Enthusiasm for the architectural and research processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple and differing tasks
• 1+ years using source code control (SourceSafe, CVS, Perforce ?)
• 1+ years using defect tracking systems (PVCS, TestTrack ? )

Remuneration

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate.

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

We require an experienced Automation Specialist to work in a focused Test Automation Team to test a number of Web and Non Web based applications.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience of working on successful testing projects. They will also be able to demonstrate their in-depth understanding of Automation Test methodologies and the wider testing life-cycle. Further to this, the successful candidate will be a strong communicator who is capable of interacting with both technical and non-technical people. They will also be able to quickly develop strong knowledge of the applications being tested.

The work will be varied and rewarding but will occasionally require long hours. A flexible, good humoured attitude to work, along with an eagerness to be a strong team player is a must.

Essential:

• QA test methodologies from a Test Analyst perspective and an in-depth awareness of systematic test techniques, strategies, tools, environments and their deployment.
• Experience of using test automation tools, ideally Mercury tools.
• A strong understanding of VB/ VBA Script or C, as well as proven diagnostic and debugging skills.
• A solid background in functional testing coupled with the ability to plan, design and review test plans.
• SQL (PL/SQL or TOAD) - Verifying queries, validation of input, etc.

Desirable:

• A strong University degree in a technical, scientific or analytical curriculum.
• Experience of using QuickTest Professional.
• Web, high transactional web site (B2B/B2C) Quality Assurance experience.
• 2+ years in Test Analyst/ QA related roles.
• ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.
• Experience on several ASP/Java and Oracle n-tier based Web sites.
• Diligence.
• Proactive work ethic.
• Self starter.
• Ability to work in fast paced, team oriented environment.
• Experience of training or mentoring.

Remuneration

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate.

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

We are expanding our Business Analysis team and require an experienced Business Analyst with a proven track record of working in fast paced, high transaction organisations where time to market, quality and effective handling of change are critical to the company's success.

The Business Analysis Team provide requirements capture, documentation, workflow management, governance, as well as the facilitation of numerous projects and initiatives across the company.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Interviewing business area experts, third parties, sponsors, stakeholders, and key users with a view to gathering requirements and producing business cases, functional and technical specifications
• Convey the requirements of the business to others through meetings and the written word
• Conduct requirement reviews
• Produce production documents for project running
• Plan an approach for documenting, categorising and packaging requirements
• Author business, functional and technical requirements documents
• Create and maintain project plans
• Coordinate UAT activity
• Understand software development methodologies
• Build effective and strong relationships with product managers, business sponsors and stakeholders and members of the engineering department
• Prioritise internal applications enhancements and liaise with the business to prioritise and schedule the changes

Essential:

• Experience with one or more of the following are basic requirements for this role: transactional websites, telephone based businesses, internet payments, data warehousing, customer relationship management and development lifecycles of in-house technical tools
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbally
• An ability to think outside of the box and challenge traditional managerial thinking with new ideas and strategies
• Exposure to project management through execution of such a role, or working closely with a project manager
• The ability to plan and schedule workloads and report upon them within the team and to senior management are critical
• A high degree of flexibility and diplomacy as there is not always the time for adherence to industry project management and process standards.

Desirable:

• Experience or knowledge of betting and gaming markets are desirable but not essential
• Usability experience
• QA or Testing experience
• An interest in sport and betting
• Experience of working in support of a development lifecycle
• UML

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Degree in technical, scientific or business curriculum
• 5+ years in business analysis and/or project management role
• Extensive experience of liaison with company senior staff
• Requirements capture and specification experience
• Proactive work ethic
• Diligence
• Strong teamwork skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment

Remuneration

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate.

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

We are seeking for a dedicated, self-motivated, driven technical professional to join our team of engineers maintaining high-end, highly scaleable, web applications for the world's largest person-to-person betting site. You will work as a member of a 24x7 on-site operations team supporting the business-critical production systems.

A broad systems background with exposure to varied UNIX and Linux platforms is preferred. Experience should include Sun Solaris versions 7 to 9 and/or RedHat Linux, exposure to Windows 2000 Server/XP is desirable, as is experience of administration of Veritas products on Solaris. This is a junior systems administrator level position and would suit a senior operator with 2+ year experience.

The successful candidate will have excellent technical and problem solving skills, and a demonstrated ability to work both independently and in an aggressive, small-team environment. The candidate requires advanced troubleshooting skills, with a focus on bespoke web-based applications as well as the ability to troubleshoot and solve common desktop, server and network problems.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to think on their feet and have good analytical skills, able to operate under pressure to formal system monitoring, troubleshooting and issue resolution procedures.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Support of production UNIX and Linux systems, Windows 2000 desktops and servers
• 4x12 hour shifts as part of a dedicated on-site 24x7 technical support team
• Monitor and troubleshoot website and internal bespoke applications
• Assist Helpdesk to deal with customers' technical problems (PC, ISP, WWW) in a 2nd and 3rd line support capacity
• Liaise with all other departments to ensure quality of service demands are met
• Effectively and readily communicate issues and solutions to the business users
• Document all work completed and help build a knowledge base of problems and solutions
• Be extremely responsive to the needs of business users while being proactive to solve potential problems

Essential:

• 3+ year experience in IT/critical systems support
• UNIX/Linux systems administration
• Knowledge of Windows 2000/XP Professional

Desirable:

• Experience of supporting bespoke applications
• Knowledge of Windows Server
• Knowledge of Networking
• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL
• Administration of Veritas products

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Strong customer service skills
• Quick learner even under pressure, with particular emphasis on bespoke systems
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and diagnostic skills even under stressful conditions
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to work as an individual as well as within a highly demanding team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Special Conditions:

• Be able to work on a 24x7 shift basis with potentially unsociable hours

Remuneration

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate.

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

We are looking for dedicated, self motivated, highly skilled Quality Assurance professionals to join our team of engineers building high-end, highly scaleable Web applications for the world's leading person-to-person betting exchange.

Successful candidates will have a solid Quality Assurance background with proven technical and problem solving skills, and a demonstrated ability to work both independently and in an aggressive, small team environment.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Evaluate product requirements and functional specifications
• Using proven Quality Assurance techniques, provide intuitive feedback to product managers and change originators regarding the quality of change requests arriving in the Engineering Department
• Develop and maintain test cases, ensuring optimal test suite size for desired coverage
• Develop test plans that adhere to the company's Quality Assurance Approach
• Define the following test acceptance criteria: test-entry, test suspension, test resumption and test closure
• Liase with project managers in the scheduling of pre-development quality assurance and post-development test execution
• Proficiency in the following testing techniques: Static, Unit, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Regression and Maintenance
• Execute prepared test cases
• Ability to either manage or be managed during a testing life cycle, by either taking the lead on test projects or working as a test analyst on fellow Engineers' projects
• Document software defects clearly and unambiguously and track these defects through the test lifecycle to either resolution or removal to a later project
• Isolate conditions for recreating problems found in testing and offer assistance with problem resolution through core product knowledge
• Identify opportunities to increase or reduce release scope during a test lifecycle, in order to ensure projects remain on track for target completion dates
• Assess product usability and reliability and provide feedback and recommendations for improvements to developers and product managers
• Ability to participate in multiple concurrent projects, offering Quality Assurance services across a number of projects as defined by the Quality Assurance Manager
• Coordinate with customer support, operations and software development staff
• Excel as a team player and strive to maximise team/department performance

• 3+ years' software testing experience with a world-class consumer Web site or software product
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated knowledge
• Strong knowledge and experience with the Internet and transactional Web sites
• Understanding of browser compatibility issues
• Proficiency in test case generation techniques: equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis etc
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Keen interest in gaming and betting industry

Remuneration

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate.

Location:

• London

Position Purpose:

Betfair is the world's leading person-to-person betting exchange, using a concept which is revolutionising the betting industry. We are looking for a dedicated, self-motivated, driven technical professional to work in a team of engineers migrating and feature-improving a highly transactional, high availability, highly scaleable product using JSP/Struts and other internet technologies. The successful candidate will have exceptional technical and problem solving skills, with a positive, results driven attitude.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Review product specifications in order to give development estimates and product feedback.
• Innovative technical design and creation of technical specifications.
• Thorough, demonstrable unit testing.
• Code reviews, by and for peers.
• Software engineering, adhering to and feeding back into departmental standards and guidelines.
• Technical documentation that shares knowledge effectively.

• This position will report to the Development Manager, working with other members of the cross-skilled Re-architecture team, and will have regular contact with the teams handling the maintenance and feature-enhancement of the production systems as they are today.

Essential:

• 3+ years commercial development experience using Servlet based technologies, including JSP/Struts in a cross browser/cross platform multilingual environment.
• 2+ years commercial experience using XML/Java.
• Ability to write HTML/DHTML/CSS code by hand (without using a design tool)
• 1+ years using source code control (SourceSafe, CVS, Perforce ?)
• 1+ years using bug tracking systems (PVCS, TestTrack ? )

• Understanding of gambling / gaming systems.
• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering or equivalent.

• Languages and Packages: JSP 1.2+ (Mandatory), Javascript, DHTML, CSS, Java Beans, XML, Java 1.3+, Struts, Servlets 2.3+, ASP, VB, COM, ASP, .NET
• Web/Application Servers: JBoss (Preferred), Jetty, Tomcat, Resin, Orion, IIS, Apache, Weblogic, Websphere
• Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP, UNIX (Solaris), Linux
• Database Systems: Oracle 8+
• Understanding of and experience with application architectures (client/server, web, database)
• Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion in a timely, accurate & efficient manner.
• Self motivating.
• Proven ability & desire to innovate.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrable understanding of the entire software design, development and deployment lifecycle.
• Enthusiasm for the software development process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks under pressure with tight deadlines.

Remuneration

A Competitive Salary is on offer to the right candidate.