I am currently looking for an Equities Support Analyst (Futures and Options) to join a top hedge fund based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Key responsibilities

Support the in-house trading plant, providing L1 and L2 support to the business and stakeholders.

Act as first point of contact to diagnose and resolve issues raised by the business as part of a Level1 team.

Analyse technical issues involving messaging or application failures.

Key skills

Experience in supporting electronic trading and connectivity environments

Excellent knowledge of FIX messaging and connectivity support

Experienced in support of Linux based platforms

Experience (Essential)

The successful applicant must possess a detailed knowledge of trading systems and understand the front to back trade flows through a typical trading plant.

FIX support skills

Front Office experience specifically in the Futures & Options space

They will have good interpersonal skills and be able to rapidly understand and retain knowledge of business processes and the technology systems

Intermediate to advanced experience in using Unix commands on a daily basis

Permanent

£80,000- £120,000 (plus benefits)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

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

I am currently looking for an experienced Trading Systems Test Analyst to join a top financial organisation based in London. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Create test strategies, approaches, plans, scripts, summary reports, compliance documents and technical designs for all types of testing

Write scripts to create and manipulate test data

Design, automate, and execute non-functional tests, support all test phases

Monitor and report on test progress, collect and report test metrics, analyse and present test results

Provide root cause analysis for non-functional defects found during testing and in live systems

Investigate test failures, extend automation coverage, provide data analysis for the business

Essential skills/experience:

Technical Test Analyst

Banking knowledge- FX, Equities, Fixed Income etc

Extensive experience in front-end and back-end testing of multi-tier applications

Intermediate scripting and SQL skills

Knowledge of UNIX and Windows environments for development and testing

Contract (initial 6 months with scope to extend)

£300 per day

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

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

I am currently looking for an experienced Trading Systems Test Analyst to join a top financial organisation based in London. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Create test strategies, approaches, plans, scripts, summary reports, compliance documents and technical designs for all types of testing

Write scripts to create and manipulate test data

Design, automate, and execute non-functional tests, support all test phases

Monitor and report on test progress, collect and report test metrics, analyse and present test results

Provide root cause analysis for non-functional defects found during testing and in live systems

Investigate test failures, extend automation coverage, provide data analysis for the business

Essential skills/experience:

Technical Test Analyst

Banking knowledge- FX, Equities, Fixed Income etc

Extensive experience in front-end and back-end testing of multi-tier applications

Intermediate scripting and SQL skills

Knowledge of UNIX and Windows environments for development and testing

Contract (initial 6 months with scope to extend)

£300 per day

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

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

I am currently looking for an experienced Automation Test Analyst (Java) to join a top investment bank based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Undertaking automated, functional and non-functional testing.

Support current automation tools and practises in use such as:

Functional testing using selenium webdriver

Functional testing of web services using SOAPUI/ Postman

Performance testing using Gatling.

Essential skills/experience:

Experienced Test Analyst

Extensive knowledge of object oriented programming languages such as JAVA

Strong Automation experience and knowledge of SQL.

Excellent knowledge of automated test scripting and processes.

Strong command line knowledge of UNIX/Linux

Extensive knowledge of object oriented programming languages such as JAVA

Strong knowledge of current commercial and open source testing tools

Permanent

£80,000- £110,000 (plus benefits)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

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

I am currently looking for an experienced Automation Test Analyst (Java) to join a top investment bank based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Undertaking automated, functional and non-functional testing.

Support current automation tools and practises in use such as:

Functional testing using selenium webdriver

Functional testing of web services using SOAPUI/ Postman

Performance testing using Gatling.

Essential skills/experience:

Experienced Test Analyst

Extensive knowledge of object oriented programming languages such as JAVA

Strong Automation experience and knowledge of SQL.

Excellent knowledge of automated test scripting and processes.

Strong command line knowledge of UNIX/Linux

Extensive knowledge of object oriented programming languages such as JAVA

Strong knowledge of current commercial and open source testing tools

Permanent

£80,000- £110,000 (plus benefits)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

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

I am currently looking for an experienced Application Support Analyst (Windows/ IIS) to join a top insurance organisation based in London. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Principal duties and responsibilities:

Provide 2nd and 3rd line support for the application suite

Troubleshooting any issues that arise and implement fixes as required

Provide assistance to other IT support teams for issues

Trend recurring incidents and provide suitable long term solutions

Work closely with the Database Administrators and Storage teams in relation to incidents, capacity management & service improvements

Technical liaison with vendors as required

Provide on-call support on a regular basis, working in a shift pattern

Essential skills/experience:

Experienced Application Support Analyst

Windows Enterprise Operating Systems (Windows 2003 and above)

Managing web applications (IIS/Application Server Roles)

Networking technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, etc.).

Database connection methods (Oracle, SQL)

Supporting web-based applications

Good understanding of:

Source Control Management

Scripting (especially PowerShell)

Citrix environments and application delivery via Citrix

VMWare / Virtulisation

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Contract

£400- £450 per day

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

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

I am currently looking for a ServiceNow Developer to join a top financial organisation based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities;

Responsibility for the design and development of change to the ServiceNow tooling platform which underpins the IT support organisation including delivering and driving the support tooling roadmap.

Ownership, support and maintenance of the tooling platform across the business.

Responsibility for the maintenance of the tooling and data contained within alongside the creation of bespoke management information on request.

Embed and enforce the culture of continual improvement across the global support tooling space, ensuring close collaboration is maintained with Global process owners.

Responsibility for identifying weak spots in existing global operational processes and supplying remediation either via project delivery or direct intervention.

Experience required;

Deep working experience of ServiceNow as a Systems Developer

Strong and demonstrable Experience with Web Technologies (JavaScript, XML, HTML, Web Services, etc)

Strong working knowledge of Object Orientated backend databases

Experience with SOAP and REST APIs preferred

Experience of Extraction Transaction and Loading (ETL) tooling strongly desired

SQL knowledge and exposure

Strong knowledge of ITIL and Service Management methodologies

Exposure to a broad range of infrastructure and application technologies in particular UNIX, Wintel, SQL Server, Oracle, Networking and Storage technologies

Permanent

£80,000- £100,000

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

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

I am currently looking for an experienced eFX Automation Test Analyst (AVP/ VP Level) to join a top investment bank based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Delivering independent testing for at least one major application belonging to the FX etrading stack.

Contributing to the build out of automated testing.

Execution of automated testing for functional and non-functional testing.

Test case design & development, test case execution, reviews of requirements and other project artifacts.

Assist the QA lead in the quantification and tracking of automation test coverage, designing testing KPIs, and reporting on corresponding metrics.

Essential skills/experience:

Technical Test Analyst

The candidate must show a clear understanding of the banking environment and have a strong interest in financial markets, particular Foreign Exchange.

Knowledge of test automation methodologies and experience of implementing test automation best practices.

Experience of integrating automation tests into the build process e.g. Hudson, Jenkins.

Experience of developing, extending and executing test automation frameworks for both functional and non-functional tests would be an advantage.

Development & technical skills e.g., Java, Python or any other programming or scripting language to a good level would be an advantage.

Business domain knowledge of FX, Rates and Commodity Trading e.g. Pricing, Order Execution, and Trading/Auto hedge risk management, along with an understanding of high-volume low-latency systems will be a significant advantage.

Permanent

£70,000- £110,000 (plus benefits)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

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

I am currently looking for a ServiceNow Support Administrator to join a top financial organisation based in London. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Reporting to the Delivery Manager, Corporate Systems, the ServiceNow Support Administrator will have the following responsibilities:

Manage user permissions within ServiceNow.

Data Management tasks.

Identify areas for improvement and implement solutions.

Configure and customise workflows and functions including forms, fields, views, reports and dashboards.

Support Business and Technical users of processes within the application.

Experience required;

Experienced ServiceNow Support Administrator

Able to write SQL queries and analyse relational data structures

Experience of working with global teams

Skilled in Scripting/coding, ideally including JavaScript experience

Good analysis and debugging skills

ServiceNow end-user experience as a minimum

Ability to produce end user documentation and train end users

Experience of web application development is desirable

Contract

£300-£350 per day

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

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

I am currently looking for a Workday Integration Developer to join a top bluechip organisation based in London. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities;

Work within a Workday Integrations Dev/Ops squad which is expected to perform “hands on” activities supporting ~150 integrations across multiple platforms, including Workday Studio, Workday PECI/PICOF, Open Shift-based technologies (JBOSS Fuse, Jenkins, Data Grid, etc.), Amazon S3, and Sterling File Gateway.

Understand and take ownership for the end-to-end data flow for assigned integrations, including performing hands-on Workday and Open Shift configuration and code updates as necessary so that integrations running across multiple technologies deliver the required business outcomes.

Ensure approximately 30 global payroll integrations, which are primarily based on PECI and PICOF, are developed according to Workday best practices, minimize ongoing maintenance needs, and run efficiently/effectively with the end result of paying all employees correctly.

Experience required;

Experience required of Workday Studio-based and/or Workday functional hands-on coding/configuration experience (preferably documented via Workday certification).

Proficiency in working with XML-based files.

Proficiency in working with Workday PECI/PICOF-based programs.

Experience working on end-to-end integration services running on the Workday platform.

Ability to work collaboratively with diverse internal and external groups which do not directly report to you and establish strong team-oriented relationships.

ContractContinue

£450-£500 per day

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

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