Application Support Engineer

A hedge fund investment specialist based in London is looking for an experienced Support Engineer with an in-depth experience in 1st & 2nd line Application support for multiple applications. This role offers an outstanding work/balance with only 2/3 days per week in the office and comes with a highly competitive compensation package and annual performance bonus.

Responsibilities:

• As the Initial point of contact for issues raised by all business stakeholders, identify how cases should be processed
• Timely communication to stakeholders to ensure they stay informed of issue progress and within the technology teams to facilitate resolution
• 1st and 2nd level application support for business systems with escalation to the software development team, Infrastructure technology teams, end users, or third parties as appropriate
• Recording and taking ownership of issues using available tools and following through to successful resolution
• Input to the configuration of workflows and SLAs of our ticket management system
• Writing SQL scripts to resolve user queries, testing, and scheduling weeknight or weekend releases
• Incident and Problem management, including input to post-incident reviews and resolution of follow-up tasks
• Analysing the risk & impact of various tasks and prioritising them
• Monitoring business systems and creating I am running a few minutes late; my previous meeting is running over. modifying monitoring alerts. Influencing the development teams to educate on monitoring best practices and provide
• Supporting the end user to ensure continuity of the Production, UAT & Development environments
• Test and implement bug fixes or enhancements in Dev, Test, and Live environments
• Implementing change controls on the production estate
• Prepare and distribute release notes
• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning, updating run books, and DR tests
• Ensure that all procedures and policies are up to date in the knowledge base and are available for use by all members of the team
• Work with internal and external auditors
• Develop into a go-to person in the team for colleagues and stakeholders
• To excel and add value to all aspects of this role
• Ability to provide concise, technical reports to management upon request
• Provide on-call or out-of-hours support as the business requires
• Identification of recurring issues that require development effort and the escalation and prioritisation of those items

Desirable Skills:

• Database: Good SQL scripting skills with MS SQL Server or Oracle
• Operating Systems: Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 or above, UNIX or Linux
• Application: Experience in or support of Trading, Portfolio Management, Risk, Settlements, and Reconciliation applications
• Market knowledge: good working knowledge of financial markets and instruments, with broad asset class understanding, through previous experience within the financial services sector.
• Experience with the .Net ecosystem
• Scripting skills – Unix, RegEx, PowerShell
• Prior experience working with:
  • ServiceNow, Zendesk, Atlassian Confluence & Jira
  • Nagios, Splunk, ELK stack, Grafana
  • Bit Bucket, Git, Octopus
  • IBM MQ, MSMQ, Kafka
  • Automate Enterprise (Help Systems)
  • Salerio (COR Financials)
  • Fund Manager (Linedata)
  • SWIFT Message Types
  • Bloomberg Terminal and Data feeds

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

FX e-Trading Application Production Engineer

• 6-month rolling contract
• Rate: £500-£700 per day – Inside IR35

An excellent opportunity for an FX e-Trading Application Production Engineer to be part of a team working with a leading international bank in London has arisen.

The team provides technical support for all back-end components running on FX eTrading environments (more than 600 application servers – Windows and Linux).
The team also manages connectivity to electronic trading venues (EBS, Reuters FX Matching, Currenex, CBOE-HotSpot, LMAX, Euronext FastMatch, Bloomberg, MOEX) and external clients.
Systems are complex, so as part of support activities, the range of technical skills involved is wide.
All team members need to quickly develop, or already have, a good understanding of FX eTrading systems. All engineers within the team have applications and technologies allocated to them, and they are expected to take ownership and be or quickly become experts in these areas.

Responsibilities:

• In charge of Linux global migration for the main FX Spot Market Making platform (Adaptivator). This is a critical strategic migration for FX global business. It involves coordinating multiple teams globally to deliver the infrastructure, OS tuning expertise to optimise the performance, and global deployment of NATS, a new messaging technology introduced within the Bank.
• Direct involvement in the analysis and build of a new FX eTrading platform in Singapore. This is a flagship project for GM IT and business with tight delivery timelines committed to Singapore government authorities.
• Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, problem resolution activities, change management
• Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimise the impact on clients and internal users, including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, and other internal IT teams...
• Assist in the development, design, and implementation of technical support systems
• Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services
• Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, and all infrastructure teams to design and set up new systems, and improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low latency)
• Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs
• Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities
• Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with a global team

Candidate profile:

• Strong all-around IT background and proven experience in electronic trading markets on similar global FX eTrading environments
• Strong understanding of Linux (Redhat) operating systems to tune platforms for optimum performance (core pinning, kernel bypass)

Essential skills:

• Scripting (Python, Shell, SQL) and development skills for administration, monitoring and support tools
• Knowledge of FIX protocol
• Knowledge of Broadway Technology TOC product
• Knowledge of Azul Zing product
• Knowledge of ITRS Geneos monitoring systems
• Good network and firewall infrastructure understanding
• Good understanding of multicast messaging in a Tibco RendezVous environment
• Ability to analyse network captures
• Project management skills to deliver medium-scale projects

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

Global Head role leading and owning the development function of a Global Investment Banking firm’s core AI document management systems which is responsible for storage, authoring, securing, distribution, and processing all the firm’s client documents/trading contracts and is a core system for the bank.

Management of a global team with 120-200 Reports including several Development Managers and Technical leads. Utilizing the latest tech stacks available including Java, Microservices, AI, NLP and Automation, and cloud-based architecture.

Applications you will be responsible for are high profile, business critical and technically challenging to manage and involve managing several stakeholders across technology and the business user community.

Public/Private Cloud technology stack AWS, GCP and Azure
• Predominantly a Java stack
• 120-200 global reports US (NY & Tampa) and UK
• Strategic role.
• Scope includes AI, Software Architecture and Development, Cloud, Data, DevOps, L3 Support

• Several years of managerial experience
• High-Level Stakeholder management
• Experience leading and delivering with global teams
• Experience developing highly scalable and resilient systems written in Java
• Experience with financial products would be beneficial but not required
• Demonstrated leadership, management, and development skills
• Experience with a wide range of programming languages and the latest technology
• Experience with cloud platforms and architectures
• Hands-on approach to technology
• Agile approach to development
• Experience with working with NLP and AI technologies
• Experience with integrating 3rd party tooling and platforms

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

Full Stack Developer - React/Java

Location: Finsbury, London - Hybrid working
Job Type: Permanent
Start Date: December 2022 - February 2023
Industry: Financial Services

We are currently searching for a mid-Snr Full Stack Developer with some relevant industry experience

• 5+ years of experience with UI development using as many as possible below technologies:
  
  
• React.js, Node.js, Angular, GraphQL,
• HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript (ES6/7),
• Bootstrap or other Web component library,
• TypeScript or Flow,
• Sass, CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS, PostCSS,
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress and Puppeteer,
• Knowledge of SANS/CEW Top 25 and OWASP Top 10,
• Experience writing semantic and accessible code meeting WCAG AA,
• Experience working closely with UX, Design and QA,
• Experience developing and maintaining component libraries,
• Familiarity with modern design tools such as Sketch and InVision.
  
  
• Demonstrable experience contributing to back-end applications using JVM languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin) – the backend stack is developed using Java 11/17.
• Demonstrable experience developing Spring Boot based micro services.
• OOA/OOD concepts and design patterns, modularization, functional decomposition.
• SOLID principles.
• Problem solving skills and attitude for delivery.
• Full SDLC.
• Experience working with Git.
• Working within and understanding of DevOps principles.
• Understanding security aspects of software development.

For more information please submit your CV or contact Charlie Warren

React / JavaScript / Java / Node / Financial Services
React / JavaScript / Java / Node / Financial Services
React / JavaScript / Java / Node / Financial Services
React / JavaScript / Java / Node / Financial Services
React / JavaScript / Java / Node / Financial Services
React / JavaScript / Java / Node / Financial Services

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

My Client a Global US Investment Bank is looking for a Technical Lead for the small and focused development team of 5. The role’s key focus will be to deliver a greenfield cyber security and crypto DLT platform over a 24-month period. Using the best available and latest technology associated with Java including where appropriate cloud-based architecture.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Set technical direction while remaining hands-on.

Deliver a new development platform as a Technical Lead and provide design authority.

Liaise with users, stakeholders, and technologists to ensure bespoke cryptographic controls are implemented securely.

Creates Proof of Concept applications and test harnesses to prove the value of developed tools.

Ensures development practices of the team align with industry-standard Agile methodology and concepts.

Lead and promote the development and implementation of encryption technology and training to constantly improve the firm’s Cybersecurity posture.

Role requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in relevant subject or equivalent work experience

• 8+ years of relevant software development experience in Java, Multithreading, Spring, Rest, Python and Cloud-based technologies.
• Proven Subject Matter Expert level knowledge of designing and implementing software systems and Software Development Kits.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and work with cross-functional teams to manage multiple projects simultaneously under pressure
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills

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

Global Banking Firm and a leader in the FX Electronic Trading Technology space. Are in the market for an experienced Java Developer VP Level.

Join as a senior Java developer working to enhance the firm’s low-latency FX algorithmic trading platform. This involves working closely with the FX quant and eTrading desks, you will be building new greenfield Java services which include market connectivity, pricing, risk management and order execution. Knowledge of low-latency programming techniques, appreciation of mechanical sympathy and a drive to solve complex problems will be key to success in this position.

Candidates with existing FX forwards / swaps experience or Single Dealer Platform experience would be very beneficial for the upcoming project streams in 2023.

• Excellent Java programming skills with a desire to work on low-latency programming solutions
• Experience in developing low latency trading systems, with a solid understanding of concurrency and Java and system performance tuning, along with messaging, persistence, and distribution.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent academic record with a numerate degree in computer science, maths, physics or engineering.

• Willing to learn or have knowledge of KDB
• Full lifecycle development of front office trading platforms with ideal candidate focusing on significant development of high-frequency trading or pricing systems.
• Experience with modern requirements for security, encryption, cyber threats and how to go about security systems to meet those requirements.
• Agile approach combined with TDD
• Enjoys working in a global team

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

Application Support Analyst

• 6-month rolling contract
• Rate: £500-£700 per day – Inside IR35

An excellent opportunity for an Application Support Analyst to be part of a team working with a leading international bank in London has arisen.

Responsibilities:

Incident and Problem Management:

• Manage/Own P1/P2 incidents and problems end to end
• Communicates with internal users and management over incidents and post-mortems
• Ensures all support issues are correctly logged in the Bank incident management system with relevant details (downtime, slowness etc..) and ownership of their resolution
• Diagnoses issues: establishes their root cause.
• Initiates task force over critical incidents
• Liaises with upstream and downstream systems support teams as appropriate

Application Monitoring and Follow-Up:

• Responsible for a global uptime target of 99.9% across the whole Rates and Credit eTrading platform
• Coverage of Rates eTrading applications production implementation, troubleshooting and monitoring:
  • Market connectivity through ION
  • Algorithmic trading
  • Auto-negotiation
  • Pricing
  • D2D and D2C
  • Booking
• Monitors application state and input/output data correctness throughout the day, hand-over with follow-the-sun support teams
• Performs system administration
• Updates the relevant Production KPIs
• Migration of our monitoring to SCADA using Python scripts

Knowledge Management and Documentation:

• Documents support procedures on the wiki
• Owns team knowledge base on the wiki for all in-scope applications
• Provides support to end-users on how to use the application
• Ensures Follow-the-Sun and regional support teams are trained as required, over new releases
• Communicates a daily handover document to Follow-The-Sun support teams, where appropriate

Continuous Service Level improvement:

• Contributes to capacity management of in-scope applications, proactively tracks trends in application behaviour, and alerts Application Production and Development teams of any potential risks in the future
• Ensures that all application support logs are fit for purpose, i.e. meaningful and actionable.
• Actively seeks reduction of dependency on manual interventions by support staff, e.g. leveraging enterprise batch scheduling and enterprise monitoring tools

Maintenance and Enhancements:

• Participates to release cycles for functional validation on staging/preproduction and production environments – for logs
• Review release and coordinate around deployment/post-release checks
• Communicates Release Notes

Project and Specific Tasks:

• The team manages various projects, and smaller tasks, all related to supporting most of the functions are incident response, business requests or maintenance
• Projects are mainly related to a new development where the application support role is to make sure of the supportability, and monitoring of the new tool, team, and user training

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

Senior Java Developer

With over 100 million in funding over the last 5 years, my client is a well established fintech start-up offering large financial clients with cutting edge tools and services. In line with their current expansion, they are keen to hire an experienced Java developer to help build out their microservices and work alongside their currently engineering and architecture team.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Develop microservices, applications and tools whilst practicing agile methodologies within core engineering mindset.
• Develop high-quality software design and architecture using best practices, common standard and frameworks.
• Leverage design patterns, test driven development (TDD), behaviour driven development (BDD) to build software that is reliable and easy to support in production.
• Utilise technologies such as Spring boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, NoSQL and Azure.

Benefits:

• Flexible working – we are implementing hybrid working where our hub is used for team or collaboration meetings, company get togethers or when you feel like coming to the office.
• Benefits including up to 20% bonus, pension, life assurance, health insurance, and share options.

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

C++, Front Office, Low Latency, Trading Systems, Linux

My client are a leading global Investment Bank currently looking for an experienced C++ Developer to join one of their London teams. This area of the business is not only a flagship team for the bank, but also a market leader in their space.

The team are looking to maintain their competitive edge within the market whilst simultaneously upgrading their trading platform over the next 18 months, working in version 14 of C++ hosted on Linux. The role offers direct interaction with the front office whilst working on a low latency/ high throughput system used for revenue generation.

This role does not offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Required Skills:

- Excellent C++ development skills (min 7 years)

- Strong understanding and proven experience in Options Trading or eTrading

- Strong knowledge of STL and Boost

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work within the front office of an Investment Bank

Nice to have:

- Leadership/ mentoring experience of junior developers

- Multithreading

- Low Latency

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

Android Developer - Permanent

Location: London - 1/2 days per month in the office (in line with sprint meetings)
Salary: Flexible £85,000 (Mid) - £100,000 (Snr) + Bonus
Start Date: Flexible (ASAP - December 2022)
Sponsorship: This company can offer sponsorship, you must already be located in the UK for this role.

We are working with a FinTech in London who are scaling their Android team, they work in the savings and online investment sector and have 180,000 users on their application.

They're looking for developers to start over the next 3 months at mid and Snr level. This company have recently been acquired by a multi-national investment bank and there are huge opportunities to progress into Team Lead, Lead Engineer or Management positions in the future.

The key tech skills are:

• RxJava or Coroutines and Dagger or Hilt
• Kotlin, the Android SDK, Android Studio and best engineering practices
• Working in agile environment using Scrum
• Working within a cross functional mobile team (Android/iOS)
• Writing tests (unit test, integration test, UI test etc.)
• Experience with Java/Android design patterns (MVP, MVVM)
• Any banking, financial services or fintech experience would be beneficial, but not necessary

For more information please contact Charlie Warren.

Android / Kotlin / RxJava / Coroutines / Dagger / Hilt / Mobile Developer/ Android Developer
Android / Kotlin / RxJava / Coroutines / Dagger / Hilt / Mobile Developer/ Android Developer
Android / Kotlin / RxJava / Coroutines / Dagger / Hilt / Mobile Developer/ Android Developer
Android / Kotlin / RxJava / Coroutines / Dagger / Hilt / Mobile Developer/ Android Developer
Android / Kotlin / RxJava / Coroutines / Dagger / Hilt / Mobile Developer/ Android Developer
Android / Kotlin / RxJava / Coroutines / Dagger / Hilt / Mobile Developer/ Android Developer

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