Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services

Key skills for the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

• Proven experience with Java
• Project leadership
• Project delivery
• IT Service Delivery throughout the lifecycle (strategy/design/transition/ops)
• Java application development experience with sound knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle
• Strong stakeholder management experience

Key responsibilities for the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

• Provide technical leadership and be involved with programming when required
• Help managing the development, implementation and on-going management of best-practice software development frameworks and tools:
• Develop and enhance talent and skills of developers to recognize, retain, and develop technologists.
• Manage delivery of projects and relationships with stakeholders

About the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

My client is a global financial services firm based in Bournemouth. They are seeking an experienced Project Lead to be involved in a business critical platform. The team is responsible for delivering a wide range of products and services, and partnering with all lines of business to provide high quality service delivery, exceptional project execution and financially disciplined approaches and processes in the most cost effective manner.

Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role

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

Business Audit Manager

Strategic

• Perform continuous monitoring of the business, under the direction of audit management, to identify emerging risks and issues and report to audit management and the Audit & Finance Committee.
• To monitor and review key projects within the organisation and highlight any unidentified risks or potential control issues

Operational

• Independently assess risks and controls within the organisation and its entities and report to management, the AFC and regulators on their adequacy and effectiveness.
• Assist in the development of the annual Audit Plan based on an assessment of the key risks and continuous review of risks to ensure the plan is amended where appropriate.
• Perform independent validation to confirm management’s remediation of audit and regulatory issues.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with all levels of management and external parties.
• Contribute to complex, ambiguous, non-routine and cross-functional work as required.
• Responsible for the planning and execution of complex audits and high level reviews.
• Ability to travel to perform audits (approx. 1–2 trips per annum).

Skills

• Extensive experience working within Internal Audit in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and / or strong financial and operational audit experience across a range of business audits in a financial institution.
• Ability to provide technical subject matter expertise during integrated operational audits.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience of dealing with all levels of management; ability to influence at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, e.g. FRBNY

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIA)

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

Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services

Key skills for the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

• Proven experience with Java
• Project leadership
• Project delivery
• IT Service Delivery throughout the lifecycle (strategy/design/transition/ops)
• Java application development experience with sound knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle
• Strong stakeholder management experience

Key responsibilities for the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

• Provide technical leadership and be involved with programming when required
• Help managing the development, implementation and on-going management of best-practice software development frameworks and tools:
• Develop and enhance talent and skills of developers to recognize, retain, and develop technologists.
• Manage delivery of projects and relationships with stakeholders

About the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

My client is a global financial services firm based in Bournemouth. They are seeking an experienced Project Lead to be involved in a business critical platform. The team is responsible for delivering a wide range of products and services, and partnering with all lines of business to provide high quality service delivery, exceptional project execution and financially disciplined approaches and processes in the most cost effective manner.

Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role

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

Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services

Key skills for the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

• Proven experience with Java
• Project leadership
• Project delivery
• IT Service Delivery throughout the lifecycle (strategy/design/transition/ops)
• Java application development experience with sound knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle
• Strong stakeholder management experience

Key responsibilities for the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

• Provide technical leadership and be involved with programming when required
• Help managing the development, implementation and on-going management of best-practice software development frameworks and tools:
• Develop and enhance talent and skills of developers to recognize, retain, and develop technologists.
• Manage delivery of projects and relationships with stakeholders

About the Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role:

My client is a global financial services firm based in Bournemouth. They are seeking an experienced Project Lead to be involved in a business critical platform. The team is responsible for delivering a wide range of products and services, and partnering with all lines of business to provide high quality service delivery, exceptional project execution and financially disciplined approaches and processes in the most cost effective manner.

Java Project Lead / Coach - Financial services role

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

Digital Cyber Security Architect required to join global banking organisation based in London. The Digital Cyber Security Architect will provide technical leadership to the architects , designers and engineers across the team and assist in developing the banks digital and overall enterprise architecture.

The Digital Cyber Security Architect will come with a deep understanding of Microsoft Azure services, experience of migrating B2C and B2B websites into the cloud, expert knowledge around Azure platform network/DDoS defence mechanisms inc. Azure WAF and/or hybrid WAF solutions

The Digital Cyber Security Architect will come with a strong awareness of the security risks, concerns and mitigations of moving digital assets off-premise while being able to deliver end-to-end solution designs, both at an application and infrastructure/security level. They will have sound knowledge of cyber security principles, including DDoS, cloud DDoS protection, network devices such as WAFs/firewalls

The Digital Cyber Security Architect will be a quick thinker & problem solver who is able to react in a high pressure operational environment (up to 4th line support) . My client welcomes experience of both Agile, scrum and waterfall/hybrid delivery methodologies.

Candidates with Security related degrees and relevant industry qualifications including CISSP, CISA, CISM are desired.

For more information on the role please contact Neil Morgan at McGregor Boyall.

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

Our Client is looking for a Senior Compliance Consultant to join in an exciting time in the organisation's timeline.

Our client is a well regarded investment firm based here in Edinburgh. The consultant they bring in would look to:

• support and advice is provided to the business on regulatory and control issues as well as business change and regulatory projects in a timely and value added manner;
• ensure the business is supported to ensure that they are aware of and meet the requirements of the enterprise risk management framework;
• make sure the sources of risk in the business are proactively identified and assessed
• maintain the company profile is raised through representation at industry forums;
• provide and ensure effective communication takes place with the wider Risk and Compliance team both in the UK and globally

Knowledge

• Relevant knowledge of FCA and overseas regulations
• Good knowledge of investment management business and related regulation and best practice
• Good knowledge of relevant industry bodies
• Knowledge of investment products and funds

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

I am currently seeking a Cloud Ops engineer who has some experience in Ruby my client provides investment management services including mutual funds, pension management and fund platforms to private and institutional investors.

What they are looking for?

• A strong development or infrastructure senior engineer with hands on experience of cloud based security technologies across multiple cloud providers, proficient in Ruby & familiar with Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins/Concourse focusing on delivering services that are loosely coupled, highly scalable & coded to cope with failure at every level.

• Excellent knowledge of creating & managing continuous delivery pipelines enabling continuous integration using test driven development with high coverage in a multi-tenant, full stack Production enterprise cloud configuration where rolling intra-day upgrades are BAU, security & audit requirements are met by default.

• A responsible engineer who views TDD & software engineering.

• A versatile engineer who has exposure of networking, virtualisation & all aspects of security having deployed to multiple cloud environments.

What my client does?

• Core team mantras are automation - self service - innovation

• Engineer & support all aspects of the core AWS based services through continuous delivery pipelines in a multi-tenant Production enterprise environment.

• Pair program, every day using test driven development

• Challenge the status quo & deliver high quality MVPs

• Collaborative, transparent friendly working environment

• Daily stand-ups, weekly retros.

If you are interested I or would like to know more about the role, please apply for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

My client is seeking a hungry, talented Product designer to join a team in Canary Wharf, London. My client offers cloud-based finance benefit that enables businesses to figure compensations and pay all employees electronically.

Requirements

• Plan and implement user research and discovery work for specific markets and usage situations
• Apply planned thinking to design and design effective, appealing experiences which balance user requirements, business goals, and technological realities
• Link designs through sketches, flows, customer journeys, and wireframes, leading cross-disciplinary team communication, collaboration and development.
• Make lightweight prototypes which communicate the intent of initial designs and concepts with the aim of galvanizing the team toward cracking a common outcome
• Collaborate with product leaders, dev, marketing, and other teams

Core skills

• Work on multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Web and markets business 2 business, Business to customer and internal.
• Create UI designs that will help with the customer experience. Make sure that the visual elements of the product backs overall usability and represent the companies brand.
• Good precise communication skills
• Previous Involvement with Agile or Lean product teams.
• Believer in lean UX principles – not a 800 page UX specification J
• Involvement in hypothesis-driven design, A/B testing,
• Emphasis on metrics and shipping fast while designing stylish solutions for the problem at hand.
• Quick at building prototypes that show what’s can be done.
• Write humane, on-brand, and lucid copy for the interfaces and interactions you design.
• Working alongside the product and engineer teams to create the best experiences possible.

In return the client is looking to pay up to £60,000 deepening on experience flexible/ some remote working will be part of the package.

If you feel you have the right skill set, please apply for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

My client is seeking a hungry, talented Product designer to join a team in Canary Wharf, London. My client offers cloud-based finance benefit that enables businesses to figure compensations and pay all employees electronically.

Requirements

• Plan and implement user research and discovery work for specific markets and usage situations
• Apply planned thinking to design and design effective, appealing experiences which balance user requirements, business goals, and technological realities
• Link designs through sketches, flows, customer journeys, and wireframes, leading cross-disciplinary team communication, collaboration and development.
• Make lightweight prototypes which communicate the intent of initial designs and concepts with the aim of galvanizing the team toward cracking a common outcome
• Collaborate with product leaders, dev, marketing, and other teams

Core skills

• Work on multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Web and markets business 2 business, Business to customer and internal.
• Create UI designs that will help with the customer experience. Make sure that the visual elements of the product backs overall usability and represent the companies brand.
• Good precise communication skills
• Previous Involvement with Agile or Lean product teams.
• Believer in lean UX principles – not a 800 page UX specification J
• Involvement in hypothesis-driven design, A/B testing,
• Emphasis on metrics and shipping fast while designing stylish solutions for the problem at hand.
• Quick at building prototypes that show what’s can be done.
• Write humane, on-brand, and lucid copy for the interfaces and interactions you design.
• Working alongside the product and engineer teams to create the best experiences possible.

In return the client is looking to pay up to £60,000 deepening on experience flexible/ some remote working will be part of the package.

If you feel you have the right skill set, please apply for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Business Audit Manager

Strategic

• Perform continuous monitoring of the business, under the direction of audit management, to identify emerging risks and issues and report to audit management and the Audit & Finance Committee.
• To monitor and review key projects within the organisation and highlight any unidentified risks or potential control issues

Operational

• Independently assess risks and controls within the organisation and its entities and report to management, the AFC and regulators on their adequacy and effectiveness.
• Assist in the development of the annual Audit Plan based on an assessment of the key risks and continuous review of risks to ensure the plan is amended where appropriate.
• Perform independent validation to confirm management’s remediation of audit and regulatory issues.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with all levels of management and external parties.
• Contribute to complex, ambiguous, non-routine and cross-functional work as required.
• Responsible for the planning and execution of complex audits and high level reviews.
• Ability to travel to perform audits (approx. 1–2 trips per annum).

Skills

• Extensive experience working within Internal Audit in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and / or strong financial and operational audit experience across a range of business audits in a financial institution.
• Ability to provide technical subject matter expertise during integrated operational audits.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience of dealing with all levels of management; ability to influence at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, e.g. FRBNY

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIA)