Chief Technical Architect – London - £150k

A FTSE 250 organisation is looking for a Chief Technical Architect to join their technology team to manage their large-scale IT team and systems. Paying up to £150k per annum, you will be based out of their London offices with required travel to international offices.

You will be a hands-on architect, implementing architecture and technical solution for their large-scale enterprise systems. You will have hands-on experience in software development and be able to manage complex programs. You will be willing to come in and make significant changes whilst understanding code and working with their development team.

Responsibilities

• Understand company needs to define system specifications
• Evaluate and optimize the existing technical and Architectural solutions.
• Plan and design the structure of a technology solution
• Communicate system requirements to software development teams
• Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
• Oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code reviews) and provide guidance to team members
• Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
• Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure
• Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect
• Implementation of large-scale projects
• Hands-on experience with software development and system administration
• Understanding of strategic IT solutions
• Experience in project management and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Knowledge of selected coding languages (e.g. JavaScript, Java)
• Familiarity with various operating systems (e.g. Windows, UNIX) and databases (e.g. MySQL)
• Experience in cloud technologies (e.g. VMware)
• Excellent communication skills
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Organisational and leadership skills
• BE /BTEC or any relevant CS Degree

If you think you have the necessary skills and experience, then please apply now!

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

A leading investment bank is looking for a UI Developer with experience in React.js to join their business on a contract basis. Paying up to £750 you will be based out of their London offices on an initial 6 month contract. You will be a Senior Developer with extensive front end web development and architecture experience, self-organizing, comfortable working in multi-disciplinary teams and demonstrating great interpersonal skills.

Skills and Experience required:

• Advanced Javascript.
• React and other key Javascript technologies e.g. websockets.
• CSS.
• Background delivering major, multi-user HTML5 applications.
• Javascript testing frameworks.
• Auxiliary development process skillset (GIT, Maven etc.)
• Agile
• TDD
• banking experience

If you have the necessary skills and experience for this role then please apply now!

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

UX Designer - £625 per day - London

A leading investment bank is looking for a UX Designer to join their team on an initial 6-month contract. Paying up to £625 per day you will be working out of their state-of-the-art Canary Wharf based offices. You will be responsible for the visual design user interfaces for web-based, hand-held, and desktop applications. You will be interested with how visual design impacts use and understanding and want to create innovative visualisation of complex information and data.

Skills and Experience Required:

• At least 2 years experience as primary UI/UX designer of web applications
• At least 4 years experience in UI/UX design
• A portfolio of previous design experience, showing both UX and UI (visual) design skills
• Expert understanding of core design principles (e.g. layout, typography, visual hierarchy)
• Strong experience of core UX design processes (e.g. user research, wire framing, usability testing, feedback gathering)
• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience working alongside and closely with UI developers
• A desire for pixel-perfection
• A pragmatism that ensures the product will be both delivered and be as good as it can be
• Understanding of interaction design

If you think you have the necessary skills and experience, then please apply now with a copy of your CV and portfolio.

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

A leading investment bank is looking for a UI Engineer with experience in React.js to join their risk team. Paying up to £120k per annum, depending on experience, you will be based out of their London offices. You will be a well-rounded hands-on web developer that is experienced in modern web development, deployment and support.

You will be responsible for:

• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Use best software development practices
• Prototype new designs to get the user feedback quickly
• Create user interface using standard HTML/CSS practices
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
• Work with stakeholders the business stakeholders
• Co-operate with the UX team
• Code reviews
• Keep in touch with emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities

Skills you will require:

• React
• Typescript, Javascript
• HTML, CSS
• Git
• Testing libraries (Jest, Enzyme, …)
• Charting libraries (HighCharts, D3, …)
• Creative Problem-Solving
• Collaborative
• Interest in learning new technologies

If you have the necessary skills and experience for this role then please apply now!

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

Full Stack Developer - Laravel and Vue.js - Immediate Start

A leading organsiation in central London is looking for a Full Stack Developer to join on an initial 2-3 month contract. Paying up to £425 per day you will be working on an upgrade for a telecommunications web app. The successful candidate will have strong experience in Laravel and Vue.js but they will also consider candidates who are stronger in one or the other.

Key Skills:

• Laravel
• PHP
• Vue.js
• JavaScript
• TDD
• Continuous Integration
• cloud architecture
• OAuth 2 / authentication architecture
• RESTful APIs

If you think you have the necessary skills and experience then please apply now!

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

Full Stack Developer - Java / JavaScript

A leading teachnology business in London are looking for a Full Stack Java Developer to join their team. Paying up to £80,000 you will join an organisation at the forefront of technology. You will join a passionate team working on cutting-edge technology and gain experience in the emerging world of Crypto-currencies and Blockchain technologies.

Key Skills:

• Server side Java and JavaScript development
• Node.js
• JPA, Spring
• Frontend development with: JavaScript, Angular or React, Web Components, HTML5/CSS 3
• Willingness to work outside of area of expertise
• Strong understanding of QA concepts
• Knowledge of automated testing (Selenium, protractor, SoapUI, etc)

If you think you have the necessary skills and experience then please apply now!

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

Senior React Developer - Contract - £500-600 per day

A leading financial organisation in London is looking for a React Developer to join their team. Paying up to £600 per day you will join on an initial 3 month contract (with potential to extend). Based out of their city of London offices you will join a fast paced and modern software development team delivering quality user interfaces.

Skills:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• React
• InVision

If you think you have the necessary skills then please apply now!

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

iOS Developer - £550 per day - Contract - London

A leading financial services organisation in London is looking for an iOS Developer to join on a 3-6 month contract. Paying up to £550 per day you will join a mobile team building a greenfield banking app with the latest technology.

Required skills

• Strong experience in iOS Development in both Objective-C & Swift.
• You will have earned your stripes designing and building iOS apps
• Be an authority in iOS development best practices and able to mentor others.
• Have an eye for detail and able to work with tools such as Sketch and Zeplin.
• Able to work with UX/UI designers and be happy to make UX/UI decisions yourself.

If you have the required skills and experience then please apply now!

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

Android Developer - £550 per day - Contract - London

A leading financial services organisation in London is looking for an Android Developer to join on a 3-6 month contract. Paying up to £550 per day you will join a mobile team building a greenfield banking app with the latest technology.

Required skills

• Strong experience in Android development
• Android SDK
• Kotlin
• Agile Scrum methodology
• Experience with Source Control - Git

If you have the required skills and experience then please apply now!

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

Technical Lead - Java - Greenfield - London - £90,000

A leading entertainment organisation in London is looking for a Technical lead to join their growing team. Earning up to £100,000 per annum you will be based out of their state of the art offices. You will be working on a digital programme which will include the creation of some exciting new capabilities and products.

You will have the opportunitity to work in a highly dynamic environment solving scalability issues that directly affect the
business. You will have the opportunitity to work with smart people who passionately take ownership of their work from inception to deployment.

Skills Required:

• Expert leadership experience
• Expert in Java 8
• Knowledge of Spring (specifically Spring Boot / Spring Rest) and ORM (e.g. Hibernate).
• MySQL
• Linux
• Cloud experience including AWS
• Microservices
• ability to describe data structures.
• experience building distributed and scalable systems
• Ability to work openly and honestly with a team to deliver the best possible solutions.
• Used relational databases to store your data.
• Agile
• Front End Technologies (is a plus)

If you think you have the necessary skills and experience, then please apply now!

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