Lead Software Developer required with a solid Java development background with an interest in utilising the best of the best possible software approaches and methodologies. Enjoy working with more than one language? For example, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, React Framewords, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go and more.

The firm’s goal is to make it easy and enjoyable for development teams to go from a business idea to delivery of an innovative production solution. This will be acheived by improving and upgrading our tools, streamlining our processes, automating and strengthening controls, and helping development teams adopt modern ways of working.

A new team of highly skilled developers and expert engineers that work to unlock and other development teams who are struggling. They are also cultural and behavioural leaders who represent the very pinnacle of our engineering culture and can help others successfully adopt the Agile mind-set and DevOps practices that our best teams follow.

Providing teams with CI/CD pipelines which helps them rapidly move a struggling team on to the latest development environments and unlock their productivity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with a wide variety of development teams and solves their issues, including coding directly on their project, refactoring, setting up environments and pipelines and coaching on behaviours and mind-setDrives lasting cultural change, including helping to establish an inner-source collaboration model, a DevSecOps mind-set, an Agile development approach, innovative risk management and a culture of continuous improvement
• Works closely with other teams across Developer Engineering, supporting their efforts and contributing their own insights gained from fieldwork
• A positive can do techie, whose optimism and enthusiasm for technology is infectious
• Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
• Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
• Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
• Good, pragmatic judgement of when to challenge the rules and offer suggested improvements
• Obsessed with coding, working on they own projects in their spare time
• An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way

Experience:

• Expert coder in several of our key languages, for example: Java, Python, C/C++, Javascript, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go
• Cloud Native Experience ideally GCP or AWS
• Microservices
• Proven track record of successfully coaching and guiding other developers
• Superbly knowledgeable Agile practitioner, with real-world experience and a highly disciplined approach
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and the underlying technologies used at Citi
• Detailed technical understanding of our operating environments, Linux and Kubernetes as a minimum
• History of developing on a wide variety of architectures, up to and including container based micro-services
• Ideally (but not absolutely required), experience of working in and/or running development teams in a banking environment

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

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

JR511 – Email Marketing Executive – Permanent – Sports Betting & Online Gaming – Manchester - £20k - £23k + Bonus/Benefits

Our client is a leading Sports Betting & Online Gaming firm who are growing their Digital and Marketing functions.

They are looking individuals seeking a new challenge in the Digital Marketing space, with experience in Email Marketing to continue their career development.

You will have the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge across marketing, working with colleagues to develop and implement targeted Email Campaigns, collaborate with the wider CRM team and hold the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The postholder will also be able to develop their analysis and reporting skills whilst managing multiple ongoing projects.

To be considered:

• Experience gained during education or post education in Email Marketing with understand of CRM and broader Marketing
• B2C / Consumer focused marketing experience. B2B will also be considered
• Excellent project management skills
• Analysis & reporting
• Able to build strong relationships and communicate effectively
• Ability to work in fast paced environments

This opportunity is being managed by James Reeves at McGregor Boyall.

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

JR525 – Digital Marketing Strategist – B2C Financial Services – Permanent – London & Home working - £50k - £60k + bonus/benefits

Our client is a large banking organisation who are looking for a Digital Marketing Strategist/Planner to join the business.

You will have the opportunity to work with global teams and support them in the development and planning of digital marketing activity. You will work closely with the local teams but also the regional agencies so good internal/external stakeholder management is essential to carry out this position.

The post holder will manage multiple ongoing projects and hold strong planning skills so previous experience in a similar role desirable. Experience in the Adobe stack and Tealium also preferred and managing resource/budget will need to be demonstrated.

To be considered:

• Experience in a digital marketing strategy/planning capacity. This is a not a hands on digital marketing position where the postholder will be executing the activity.
• Experience working in a large complex environment ideal or from an agency background
• Good key stakeholder management
• Experience with the Adobe Stack and Tealium
• Excellent project management skills
• Managed budgets and project teams

This opportunity is being managed by James Reeves at McGregor Boyall.

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

Cyber Defence Lead required. A technically minded Cyber Defence Lead is required for a premier financial services name.

The Cyber Defence Lead will sit within the Cyber Defence Operations team has a requirement for day-to-day management of security tools used to respond to malware and other security related incidents. The technologies include, but are not limited to, Advanced malware detection, SIEM, DDoS, IPS, threat intelligence and logging/analytics capabilities. The ideal candidate has experience of not only using a wide range of technologies to respond to security events, but also supporting ongoing maintenance of the tools. They will also lead and mentor a small internal , Insider Risk team.

In additional, the Cyber Defence Lead will work with global stakeholders to continually identify information that requires protection, this includes ISO’s, 1^st & 2^nd Risk and Data Protection. Develop and improve the DLP / Insider Risk strategy to continually improve our capability in this area and Implement said strategy

The Cyber Defence Lead will come with at least 2 years of previous experience working in a SOC or Incident Response position. Knowledge of, or experience working with security (SIEM, NetFlow, IDS/IPS, Anti-Virus) is welcome along with Knowledge of or experience working with security tooling (DLP, SIEM, SOAR) programming experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python, JavaScript etc is highly preferred

The Cyber Defence Lead will be a strong communicator, comfortable dealing with C-Level stakeholders and discussing the latest threats to technical audiences.

My client welcomes relevant Security Industry qualifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GMON, GNFA, SSCP, OSCP

For a more detailed job spec please contact Neil Morgan at McGregor Boyall.

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

Python, PySpark, Kafka, Data Pipelines, Greenfield Project, Investment Bank

My client are a leading global investment bank currently seeking multiple Python Developers to work within an exciting area of the business. You will be responsible for building data pipelines and integrating them with various internal or external systems, contributing to architectural decisions, understanding engineering processes as a whole- including contribution to monitoring application health, infrastructure set-up, CI/CD, etc.

You will work with data scientists and business stakeholders as end consumers of the pipelines to ensure the team are meeting their requirements. You will contribute to the team’s strategy around development and deployment best practices. This is an exciting opportunity to work on an important greenfield project, which will have huge impact on the business and future architecture in this area.

Rate advertised is via Umbrella. This role cannot sponsor at this time. Currently fully remote with flexible model once safe to do so. Candidates need to be based in/around London. 12 month rolling contract.

Required skills:

• Excellent Python Development skills (min 5 years)
• Good experience working on data-driven projects
• Strong data pipeline experience
• SQL, Oracle or Mongo DB (at least one)

Nice to have skills:

• Kafka
• PySpark
• Financial services experience

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

Senior IAM Directory Services Architect required for blue chip organisation. This is a crucial hire for my client and the successful candidate will play a lead role in designing and developing first class Directory Services capability with oversight on Identity Governance and Privileged Access Management, the solution architects assigned to each workstream will report to you and you will collaborate with colleagues and key stakeholders globally to ensure effectiveness and service delivery is of the highest standards.

The Senior Identity Access Management Architect will come with proven technical expertise designing, piloting, deploying and transitioning Microsoft Active Directory & Azure Active Directory products to operational teams with a focus on AD, AAD, ADFS, AD Connect, Conditional Access, MFA, Self-Service Password Reset & Password Less.

As a Senior Directory Services Architect, you will have extensive experience in designing, governing, implementing, documenting and operating IAM solutions for a large enterprise. Experience as a Team Lead or other supervisory role is strongly preferred with a history of designing and/or implementing PAM/IGA solutions desirable. Relevant Microsoft certifications, particularly around Microsoft Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) are welcomed.

The Senior Identity Access Management architect will have excellent skills in communication, writing, and the ability to collaborate across multiple departments internally, and internationally.

For a more detailed job description please contact Neil Morgan at McGregor Boyall.

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

C#, Serverside, Risk, SQL Server, Multithreading

My client are a leading global investment bank currently seeking two experienced C#/.Net Developers to work within their XVA (Credit Risk) function. This is an versatile and high-performing team of developers working closely with various stakeholders within the bank on a range of projects. The three main projects are related to Credit Risk, FRTB and the continuous improvement of the bank's codebase. There will be the chance to work extensively on XVA calculation.

This role cannot sponsor at this time, and applicants must have permission to work in the UK without sponsorship. Rate advertised is via Umbrella

Required skills:

• C#/.Net serverside development expertise (minimum 5+ years)
• Excellent multithreading experience
• Asynchronous programming
• Data Synapse

Nice to have:

• Front office financial experience
• Risk experience

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

JR524 – Senior Employee Communications Manager – Technology Business Partnering – Financial Services – Permanent – London & Home working - £70k - £80k + bonus/benefits

Our client is a leading Banking organisation who are looking for a Senior Employee Communications Manager to join the team.

The post holder will have the opportunity to work directly with the CIO who has recently joined the business. You will take responsibility for developing a communications, engagement and leadership strategy to over 20,000 employees, supported by two Employee Comms Managers who report directly to this postholder.

This is a challenging and fast paced environment so its important that the successful candidate is comfortable demonstrating experience in complex businesses and able to navigate effectively. Because the business area is largely tech focused, experience from a tech firm or supporting large tech functions from another industry is essential.

To be considered:

• Current/recent experience working in a large, complex tech business or supported a large tech function in a regulated industry
• Developed an engagement and communications plan, business partnering with Senior tech leaders
• Line management experience, able to include, develop and mentor team members
• Ability to navigate through a complex business and manage multiple ongoing projects or priorities
• Experience with senior management meetings, contributing ideas

This opportunity is being managed by James Reeves at McGregor Boyall.

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

**contract roles - £500-800 per day (inside IR35) - fully remote**

We are working exclusively with one of the most innovative FSTE100 companies.

They are scaling rapidly and are looking for several experienced DevOps Engineers on a contract basis. These are open to fully remote candidates based in the UK.

You will be working alongside their talented data and software engineers therefore you need to have Python programming skills.

You will be designing, building, and maintaining state-of-the-art infrastructure and architectural designs of the companies cloud-based software product running on AWS and Azure.

Essential

• DevOps Engineer background.

• AWS cloud (Amazon Web Services) or Azure cloud experience.

• Python Programming Language.

• Experience of working as a Software Engineering/Software Development.

Desirable

• AWS or Azure certifications.

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

**contract roles - £500-800 per day (inside IR35) - fully remote**

We are working exclusively with one of the most innovative FSTE100 companies.

They are scaling rapidly and are looking for several experienced DevOps Engineers on a contract basis. These are open to fully remote candidates based in the UK.

You will be working alongside their talented data and software engineers therefore you need to have Python programming skills.

You will be designing, building, and maintaining state-of-the-art infrastructure and architectural designs of the companies cloud-based software product running on AWS and Azure.

Essential

• DevOps Engineer background.

• AWS cloud (Amazon Web Services) or Azure cloud experience.

• Python Programming Language.

• Experience of working as a Software Engineering/Software Development.

Desirable

• AWS or Azure certifications.

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