This is a role that has significant; budget, leadership, stakeholder management and financial influencing responsibility. The successful candidate will provide leadership to forecasting, annual planning, business analysis and strategic planning to the business.

Having a commercial mindset, to be considered for the role you will:

• ACCA holder or equivelant
• demonstrate significant exposure within a Finance leadership role
• will have exposure to the banking/financial services sector supporting Technology functions and/or worked within large Technology groups in a senior finance position shaping strategy
• Influence outcomes by successfully interact & partner with senior leadership of the organisation
• Strong commercial finance mindset with FP&A capabilities to articulate spend v's current projects

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Global Tier 1 Investment Bank seeks a VP Level Java Developer to join the firms E-Trading Global Markets Division. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest and background in the E-Trading business. Possess proven multithreading skills utilising the latest Java technology. The team are set up to work in a strats model and primarily trade Fixed Income and Rates products.

This is a very exciting opportunity to be a key part of this growing front office strats team working on a combination of greenfield and existing platforms being developed concurrently.

Day to day you will be building an electronic offering and working closely with the stakeholders and the trading business. You will be developing high performance E-Trading components with trader automation as a core concept and will be working with a wider development team to ensure solutions are cross-product and help consolidate existing functionality.

This team are using a modern tech stack of Java11 and moving onto an AWS architecture. Flexible/home working available.

Key skills and experience required:

• Expert level Java and Multi-threading knowledge and experience.
• Low latency systems experience a benefit
• Expertise in IRS/Rates pricing, analytics, yield curves.
• Strong experience in Fixed Income Trading systems.
• Exposure working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Object oriented design and development, design patterns.
• Credit business experience, comfortable with key business concepts.
• Some exposure to risk management would be a bonus
• Flexible/home working available.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

McGregor Boyall are working with a Global Bank who are looking for multiple Senior Java Developers to join a exciting project building the firms greenfield digital platform in London. The current project focus is in the digital payments stream. Successful candidates will be working on a modern tech stack with no legacy code including Java11 , AWS, JVM, Kotlin and Scala and posses experience of working on digital high volume payments gateways (ideally from a digital retail banking or fiance background) BACS, Event Driven Payments.

Required skills:

• Extensive Core Java background. Frequent usage of JVM, Spring, Reactive Streams, Threads and Annotation Processors is a benefit.
• Experience with streaming API’s a benefit and supporting large scale API versioning with backward compatibility.
• Spring – Expert-level implementation skills with the Core Spring Framework and including other sub-projects like Spring Security, Spring data Cassandra Spring Apache Kafka
• Preference for advanced experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with containers and deployment (Dockers / Kubernetes as an example)
• General – Comfortable in more than one programming language and have a firm grasp of fundamental web/internet technologies.
• TDD – Must have practical experience with unit testing including deep understanding of Mock Testing Frameworks like EasyMock or Mockito.
• ATDD – Experience with Acceptance Test Driven Development

Various levels of experience required in this project. Please do send your CV for a confidential conversation.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

McGregor Boyall are working with a Global Bank who are looking for multiple Senior Java Developers to join a exciting project building the firms greenfield digital platform in London. The current project focus is in the digital payments stream. Successful candidates will be working on a modern tech stack with no legacy code including Java11 , AWS, JVM, Kotlin and Scala and posses experience of working on digital high volume payments gateways (ideally from a digital retail banking or fiance background) BACS, Event Driven Payments.

Required skills:

• Extensive Core Java background. Frequent usage of JVM, Spring, Reactive Streams, Threads and Annotation Processors is a benefit.
• Experience with streaming API’s a benefit and supporting large scale API versioning with backward compatibility.
• Spring – Expert-level implementation skills with the Core Spring Framework and including other sub-projects like Spring Security, Spring data Cassandra Spring Apache Kafka
• Preference for advanced experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with containers and deployment (Dockers / Kubernetes as an example)
• General – Comfortable in more than one programming language and have a firm grasp of fundamental web/internet technologies.
• TDD – Must have practical experience with unit testing including deep understanding of Mock Testing Frameworks like EasyMock or Mockito.
• ATDD – Experience with Acceptance Test Driven Development

Various levels of experience required in this project. Please do send your CV for a confidential conversation.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

McGregor Boyall are working with a Global Bank who are looking for multiple Senior Java Developers to join a exciting project building the firms greenfield digital platform in London. The current project focus is in the digital payments stream. Successful candidates will be working on a modern tech stack with no legacy code including Java11 , AWS, JVM, Kotlin and Scala and posses experience of working on digital high volume payments gateways (ideally from a digital retail banking or fiance background) BACS, Event Driven Payments.

Required skills:

• Extensive Core Java background. Frequent usage of JVM, Spring, Reactive Streams, Threads and Annotation Processors is a benefit.
• Experience with streaming API’s a benefit and supporting large scale API versioning with backward compatibility.
• Spring – Expert-level implementation skills with the Core Spring Framework and including other sub-projects like Spring Security, Spring data Cassandra Spring Apache Kafka
• Preference for advanced experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with containers and deployment (Dockers / Kubernetes as an example)
• General – Comfortable in more than one programming language and have a firm grasp of fundamental web/internet technologies.
• TDD – Must have practical experience with unit testing including deep understanding of Mock Testing Frameworks like EasyMock or Mockito.
• ATDD – Experience with Acceptance Test Driven Development

Various levels of experience required in this project. Please do send your CV for a confidential conversation.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

My client, a large Asset Management company in London, are seeking a Strong Technical Project Manager to look after a small team based in London with a specific focus on Marketing technologies.

The Technical Project Manager must Build productive working relationships with internal clients, team members, senior management, project teams, and IT partners to ensure that all the departments are on board and working towards the same deliverables.

The ideal candidate must have

• Technical Project Management experience
• Marketing technology experience
• CRM application experience
• Data Analysis experience
• Financial services experience (Asset Management Advantageous)
• Agile methodology experience
• Strong stakeholder management experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Computer Science or Engineering undergraduate degree (advantageous)

**Please only apply if you have the above skill set**

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Java Low Latency Trading Engineer – Buy Side – up to £140k + bonus

A leading and expanding London based buy side trading organisation are looking to add a strong Java Low Latency engineer to their industry leading workforce. Working directly for the desk you will be responsible for both the development of greenfield components and enhancement of existing multi-threaded low latency trading applications.

You will have the opportunity to learn about a variety of products, across multiple asset classes in partnership with industry leading Traders and Quants. They have a diverse range of talent within the team, coming from buy side, sell side and non-financial services!

The successful Java Engineer can expect to receive between £80k and £140k plus the potential of a very rewarding bonus and benefits package.

Requirements

• Core Java Engineering background
• Multi-threaded systems experience
• Full SDLC experience
• Experience or strong interest in financial products
• Strong Academic Pedigree STEM

Full spec can be provided upon application

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Java Software Engineers *Multiple* - Greenfield Digital Banking – Fintech – Open Salary

A leading financial services organisation are undertaking ambitious growth plans in 2020 by developing a greenfield digital banking platform in London. They require multiple Java software engineers, with strong experience of; real time systems, multi-threading and distributed systems, at a range of experience levels to join this initiative.

The environment is typical of a fintech, with great levels of creativity and autonomy required, in order to best utilise this greenfield digital banking platform. Given the volume of their requirements for strong java software engineers, they are relatively open on salaries and offer a very competitive benefits package.

Being a Greenfield project, they are looking to bring onboard java software engineers from a diverse range of backgrounds; Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Fintech and outside of the industry. From day 1 all candidates with have the ability to shape and give direction to the future of the platform.

Requirements:

• Strong core java software engineer
• Multi-threading, Real time systems, Distributed Systems
• Deep understanding of system design and architecture
• Strong academic profile (Comp Sci or Mathematics preferred)
• Ability to work both as an individual and as a team
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle.

Job Specification and client details can be provided upon application

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Seasoned developers (Java / Scala) with a strong computer science background required to work on a highly complex, powerful real-time system. Utilising the latest NoSQL technologies this platform is one of the very best in the sector - as such we're looking to speak to real computer science focussed developers who understand logic and mathematical systems.

You'll be working on a mix of new development, ongoing fixes and complex problem solving so a little more varied than a typical new build. Recent hires into this team have come from varied backgrounds - including gaming, geophysics, trading and algorithmic roles.

You will have:-

• Strong hands on object oriented coding ability (Java / Scala)
• Development expertise on the back end with various database technologies
• Track record of designing high performance applications
• Problem solving skills
• Degree background in any of Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Maths or Physics

In return you will benefit from a long term 12 month contract and the opportunity to work with one of the best software dev teams in the local market. The interview process will include comp science based questions as logic and problem solving are very important.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Quality Engineer - Automation (Python) - Trading system

Key skills for the Quality Engineer - Automation (Python) - Trading system role:

• Ability to write auto test cases in Python
• Experience automation software (Cucumber Jenkins, GIT, Selenium)
• Experience with relational databases
• A good level of OO programming
• Linux
• A understanding of financial services/the trade lifecycle
• Good communication skills

About the Quality Engineer - Automation (Python) - Trading system role:

My client is a globally renowned financial services organisation and currently on the lookout for a Quality Engineer to join them in a mission critical area of the business. This is a highly technical role and does require a good level of programming knowledge - ideally Python, however other OO langauges may be considered. You will be working on writing automation tests on their trading system in real time.

Quality Engineer - Automation (Python) - Trading system

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.