System Monitoring Engineer required for key role within a leading global financial services organisation. You will come with advanced levels of knowledge in monitoring tools including IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Omnibus/Netcool etc.), and providing 3rd line support, environmental tuning, and architectural design and product roadmaps.

The System Monitoring Engineer will be responsible for maintaining rules, tasks, actions, and the implementation of audit policies. Working with regional and global product owners and project teams, they will ensure all configuration is completed for new and upgraded systems, including Application, Operating System, Database and Web among others. The System Monitoring Engineer will work very closely with the change management team to ensure tool configuration aligns with change related processes and tools,

The System Monitoring Engineer will be technically competent across a range of IT components such as Windows and SQL server. We also welcome applications from candidates who have previous experience of administering large IBM Tivoli Monitoring environments, Netcool/Omnibus 8 environment , and any experience of integrating monitoring tools with ServiceNow, or similar ITSM tool, is also welcomed.

The System Monitoring Engineer will be a first class communicator, comfortable working with c-level stakeholders across complex technical environments.

Candidates educated to degree level in computer science or engineering related disciplines are of high interest along with job seekers who have relevant Networking or Security related certifications.

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.

Global Tier 1 Investment Bank seeks experienced Java Developer to join the firms E-Trading Global Markets Division. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest and background in the E-Trading business. Possess proven multithreading development skills utilising the latest Java technology. The team are set up to work in a strats model and primarily trade Fixed Income and Rates products.

This is a very exciting opportunity to be a key part of this growing front office strats team working on a combination of greenfield and existing platforms being developed concurrently.

Day to day you will be building an electronic offering and working closely with the stakeholders and the trading business. You will be developing high performance E-Trading components with trader automation as a core concept and will be working with a wider development team to ensure solutions are cross-product and help consolidate existing functionality.

This team are using a modern tech stack of Java11+ and moving onto an AWS architecture. Flexible/home working available.

Key skills and experience required:

• Expert level Java and Multi-threading knowledge and experience.
• Low latency systems experience a benefit
• Expertise in IRS/Rates pricing, analytics, yield curves.
• Strong experience in Fixed Income Trading systems.
• Exposure working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Object oriented design and development, design patterns.
• Credit business experience, comfortable with key business concepts.
• Some exposure to risk management would be a bonus
• Flexible/home working available.

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

Global Tier 1 Investment Bank seeks experienced Java Developer to join the firms E-Trading Global Markets Division. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest and background in the E-Trading business. Possess proven multithreading development skills utilising the latest Java technology. The team are set up to work in a strats model and primarily trade Fixed Income and Rates products.

This is a very exciting opportunity to be a key part of this growing front office strats team working on a combination of greenfield and existing platforms being developed concurrently.

Day to day you will be building an electronic offering and working closely with the stakeholders and the trading business. You will be developing high performance E-Trading components with trader automation as a core concept and will be working with a wider development team to ensure solutions are cross-product and help consolidate existing functionality.

This team are using a modern tech stack of Java11+ and moving onto an AWS architecture. Flexible/home working available.

Key skills and experience required:

• Expert level Java and Multi-threading knowledge and experience.
• Low latency systems experience a benefit
• Expertise in IRS/Rates pricing, analytics, yield curves.
• Strong experience in Fixed Income Trading systems.
• Exposure working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Object oriented design and development, design patterns.
• Credit business experience, comfortable with key business concepts.
• Some exposure to risk management would be a bonus
• Flexible/home working available.

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

This is a role that has significant; budget, leadership, stakeholder management and financial influencing responsibility. The successful candidate will provide leadership to forecasting, annual planning, business analysis and strategic planning to the business.

Having a commercial mindset, to be considered for the role you will:

• ACCA holder or equivelant
• demonstrate significant exposure within a Finance leadership role
• will have exposure to the banking/financial services sector supporting Technology functions and/or worked within large Technology groups in a senior finance position shaping strategy
• Influence outcomes by successfully interact & partner with senior leadership of the organisation
• Strong commercial finance mindset with FP&A capabilities to articulate spend v's current projects

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

Global Tier 1 Investment Bank seeks a VP Level Java Developer to join the firms E-Trading Global Markets Division. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest and background in the E-Trading business. Possess proven multithreading skills utilising the latest Java technology. The team are set up to work in a strats model and primarily trade Fixed Income and Rates products.

This is a very exciting opportunity to be a key part of this growing front office strats team working on a combination of greenfield and existing platforms being developed concurrently.

Day to day you will be building an electronic offering and working closely with the stakeholders and the trading business. You will be developing high performance E-Trading components with trader automation as a core concept and will be working with a wider development team to ensure solutions are cross-product and help consolidate existing functionality.

This team are using a modern tech stack of Java11 and moving onto an AWS architecture. Flexible/home working available.

Key skills and experience required:

• Expert level Java and Multi-threading knowledge and experience.
• Low latency systems experience a benefit
• Expertise in IRS/Rates pricing, analytics, yield curves.
• Strong experience in Fixed Income Trading systems.
• Exposure working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Object oriented design and development, design patterns.
• Credit business experience, comfortable with key business concepts.
• Some exposure to risk management would be a bonus
• Flexible/home working available.

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

McGregor Boyall are working with a Global Bank who are looking for multiple Senior Java Developers to join a exciting project building the firms greenfield digital platform in London. The current project focus is in the digital payments stream. Successful candidates will be working on a modern tech stack with no legacy code including Java11 , AWS, JVM, Kotlin and Scala and posses experience of working on digital high volume payments gateways (ideally from a digital retail banking or fiance background) BACS, Event Driven Payments.

Required skills:

• Extensive Core Java background. Frequent usage of JVM, Spring, Reactive Streams, Threads and Annotation Processors is a benefit.
• Experience with streaming API’s a benefit and supporting large scale API versioning with backward compatibility.
• Spring – Expert-level implementation skills with the Core Spring Framework and including other sub-projects like Spring Security, Spring data Cassandra Spring Apache Kafka
• Preference for advanced experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with containers and deployment (Dockers / Kubernetes as an example)
• General – Comfortable in more than one programming language and have a firm grasp of fundamental web/internet technologies.
• TDD – Must have practical experience with unit testing including deep understanding of Mock Testing Frameworks like EasyMock or Mockito.
• ATDD – Experience with Acceptance Test Driven Development

Various levels of experience required in this project. Please do send your CV for a confidential conversation.

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

McGregor Boyall are working with a Global Bank who are looking for multiple Senior Java Developers to join a exciting project building the firms greenfield digital platform in London. The current project focus is in the digital payments stream. Successful candidates will be working on a modern tech stack with no legacy code including Java11 , AWS, JVM, Kotlin and Scala and posses experience of working on digital high volume payments gateways (ideally from a digital retail banking or fiance background) BACS, Event Driven Payments.

Required skills:

• Extensive Core Java background. Frequent usage of JVM, Spring, Reactive Streams, Threads and Annotation Processors is a benefit.
• Experience with streaming API’s a benefit and supporting large scale API versioning with backward compatibility.
• Spring – Expert-level implementation skills with the Core Spring Framework and including other sub-projects like Spring Security, Spring data Cassandra Spring Apache Kafka
• Preference for advanced experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with containers and deployment (Dockers / Kubernetes as an example)
• General – Comfortable in more than one programming language and have a firm grasp of fundamental web/internet technologies.
• TDD – Must have practical experience with unit testing including deep understanding of Mock Testing Frameworks like EasyMock or Mockito.
• ATDD – Experience with Acceptance Test Driven Development

Various levels of experience required in this project. Please do send your CV for a confidential conversation.

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

Java FX Algo Trading Developer – Fintech – Remote – up to £140k

A successful and expanding multi-national fintech require a strong Java engineer to help build out their low latency FX Algo Trading application suite. The team focus on providing the platform for their ever-growing London client base, which spans from small funds through to tier one Investment Banks, meaning that this role brings exposure to a wide range of sectors, with which brings a diverse range of challenges.

The Java Developer will be expected to take ownership of the full software development lifecycle of the FX Algo Trading product, applying a creative mindset in the process and driving to use cutting edge technology and ideas.

The successful Java Developer can receive between £70k and £140k base salary, plus a healthy benefits package.

A variety of experience levels are being considered

Requirements overview:

• Strong core java development skills
• Multi-threaded, latency sensitive systems development experience
• Ideally an understanding/experience building trading systems for the FX or Fixed Income business (other areas considered)
• Ability to work as part of a team and individually
• Desire to solve complex business problems

Full spec can be provided upon application

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

Java Low Latency Trading Engineer – Buy Side – up to £140k + bonus

A leading and expanding London based buy side trading organisation are looking to add a strong Java Low Latency engineer to their industry leading workforce. Working directly for the desk you will be responsible for both the development of greenfield components and enhancement of existing multi-threaded low latency trading applications.

You will have the opportunity to learn about a variety of products, across multiple asset classes in partnership with industry leading Traders and Quants. They have a diverse range of talent within the team, coming from buy side, sell side and non-financial services!

The successful Java Engineer can expect to receive between £80k and £140k plus the potential of a very rewarding bonus and benefits package.

Requirements

• Core Java Engineering background
• Multi-threaded systems experience
• Full SDLC experience
• Experience or strong interest in financial products
• Strong Academic Pedigree STEM

Full spec can be provided upon application

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

Linux admin/developer required for an initial 6 month contract with a global financial services clients Glasgow based offices. To be successful in this role you will have most or all of the below:

• Linux experience in an enterprise level environment – including UNIX system calls and low level O/S and network protocols.
• Scripting experience in either Perl and/or Python
• Configuration management experience in Puppet, Chef or Salt Stack to automate the management of a large scale Linux deployment.
• Excellent trouble shooting skills – Hardware, Network and storage

Please send a CV for immediate consideration.

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

Java Developers - £70-130k - Greenfield Digital Banking Project - London

A leading financial services organisation is undertaking ambitious growth plans in 2020 by developing a greenfield digital banking platform in London. They require multiple Java software engineers, with strong experience of; real-time system, multi-threading and distributed systems, at a range of experience levels to join this initiative.

The environment is typical of a fintech, with great levels of creativity and autonomy required, in order to best utilise this greenfield digital banking platform. Given the volume of their requirements for strong java software engineers, they are relatively open on salaries and offer a very competitive benefits package.

The technology stack is Core Java v11 with AWS and Microservices, you will also gain exposure to Javascript/React Native and Data Science (Kafka/Spark/Flink/Hadoop), they are looking for specialists in each field ideally, but will consider full stack developers.

Cutting edge technology; AWS cloud, React Native, java v11 and more….

Being a Greenfield project, they are looking to bring onboard java software engineers from a diverse range of backgrounds; Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Fintech and outside of the industry.

Requirements:

• Strong core java software engineer
• Multi-threading, Real time systems, Distributed Systems
• Strong academic profile (Comp Sci or Mathematics preferred)
• Ability to work both as an individual and as a team
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle.

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.

JR352 – VP/SVP Media Relations – Financial Services – Investment Banking - Permanent – London - £70k - £95k + bonus/benefits

Our client is a well-known banking organisation who are looking for a VP/SVP Media Relations to join the business.

You will have the opportunity to use your proactive and reactive media skills, working with key stakeholders advising and counselling on communications strategy and engagement. You will hold and maintain strong relationships with key media contacts which includes national and trade press, being able to suggest and pitch media angles and coverage.

The postholder will also support across some internal communication activities where needed. This largely covers EMEA but will have a global remit.

To be considered:

• Solid Media Relations experience working for an Investment Banking organisation or agency side working with Investment Banking clients
• A mix between proactive and reactive comms
• Comfortable working with challenging stakeholders, advise/counsel around communications strategy and engagement. Suggesting innovative comms solutions
• Build and manage strong relationships with national and trade press, pitch media stories and coverage
• Excellent written and verbal communications

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.