Solution Architect.

London/Surrey - Hybrid

Approx Salary £75,000 - £90,000.

Sponsorship not available.

As an experienced Solution Architect supporting the Workplace and Personal Financial Health businesses, you will play a key role working with senior business leaders, Product Owners and Technology teams within the company on a number of programs, to facilitate and lead the definition of viable Technology platforms and solutions.

Requirements:

• Skilled in the architecture, design and implementation of complex technology solutions
• Strong communication skills with different types and levels of stakeholders both internal and external.
• Effective leadership skills including negotiation, conflict resolution, influencing, bridge-building and political astuteness
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, collaboration and facilitation
• Ability to work with a range of stakeholders, from C-suite leadership to business analysts and technical architects in a global delivery model
• The ability to convey complex, abstract technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

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

Enterprise Architect

Surrey/Hybrid (4 Days per month in office).

Approx Salary: Up to £110,000 + Bonus & Benefits.

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As an Enterprise Architect for WPFH, you will provide leadership and Enterprise Architecture services to business and technology stakeholders in order to direct the investment and transformation, from an architecture perspective, ensuring strategic WPFH initiatives are delivered in line with the business, technology and data strategies. This includes working with senior business stakeholders to understand and develop their longer-term vision, aligning roadmaps to this, developing technology roadmaps that align to both the business vision as well as technology objectives, and providing guidance on M&A activity.

Requirements:

• Designed & delivered large transformation programme from legacy to new technology.
• Extensive experience in financial services or other highly regulated sector.
• Experience with and strong in working with C-suite leadership.
• Skilled in the architecture, design and implementation of complex technology solutions.
• Strong communication skills with different types and levels of stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Effective leadership skills including negotiation, conflict resolution, influencing, bridge-building and political astuteness.
• Hands-on experience managing end-to-end systems development from customer specifications through to deployment.
• Experience of managing technology driven business process change.
• The ability to convey complex, abstract technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A good understanding of financial markets, products and organisations.
• Excellent and resourceful problem-solving skills, adaptable with a willingness to learn.
• Proactive and self-organising with a “can-do” approach.

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

Seeking a People Analytics lead for a newly created role within a large global matrix organisation in the commercial sector. They are seeking an individual who is highly proficient with Workday to help them set up People Analytics capability that covers data definitions, quality, governance, reporting structure and analytical approach. The role will be an individual contributor role and is an exciting opportunity to make impact in the organisation.

Core responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of People Analytics capability, including:
  • Data structure and definitions
  • Data management principles and guidelines
  • Data governance and reporting
  • Analytics and insight approach

• Empower local teams to exploit their data and analytics for business growth through:
  • Dashboard development, aligned to global and local requirements
  • High priority project support
  • Training in analytics and insight

• Lead partnership with the central Data and Analytics team – leveraging their methodology and tools

Critical skills:

• Analytical degree preferred – e.g. computer science, accounting, maths etc.
• Extensive experience in developing reports and dashboards in Workday
• Experience in developing data governance programs from definition of data to effective management of data and quality maintenance
• Robust examples of end to end analytics projects, that have demonstrated positive results

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

PMO Analyst

Perm Role: £48K Base Salary + Bonuses

Location: Milton Keynes - (2-3 day a week in the office)

Looking for a PMO Analyst who will be responsible for providing a support and control function for a reputable banking client

Candidates should have experience of:

• Be able to coordinate issues regarding resourcing, assignments, and demand
• Effective in organising and leading management team meetings, by setting the agenda, presenting financial information
• Experience in reporting to senior management staff such as CIO/CTO’s
• Be able to listen to and to question both senior and junior colleagues using proven people management and influencing skills
• Be effective in a team environment and be willing to contribute to collective targets, collaborating with IT Business Unit colleagues to achieve successful delivery of projects or evolution of products
• Have strong organisation and planning skills to manage multiple projects so that promises are delivered
• Strong presentation skills, especially in PowerPoint & Excel

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

Portfolio Architect - Workplace Financial Health .

Surrey/Hyrbid.

Approx Salary: £110,000 + Bonus & Benefits.

As a Portfolio Architect for WPFH, you will provide leadership and Enterprise Architecture services to business and technology stakeholders in order to direct the investment and transformation, from an architecture perspective, ensuring strategic WPFH initiatives are delivered in line with the business, technology and data strategies. This includes working with senior business stakeholders to understand and develop their longer-term vision, aligning roadmaps to this, developing technology roadmaps that align to both the business vision as well as technology objectives, and providing guidance on M&A activity.

Required:

• Designed & delivered large transformation programme from legacy to new technology.
• Extensive experience in financial services or other highly regulated sector.
• Experience with and strong in working with C-suite leadership.
• Skilled in the architecture, design and implementation of complex technology solutions.
• Strong communication skills with different types and levels of stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Effective leadership skills including negotiation, conflict resolution, influencing, bridge-building and political astuteness.
• Hands-on experience managing end-to-end systems development from customer specifications through to deployment.
• Experience of managing technology driven business process change.
• The ability to convey complex, abstract technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A good understanding of financial markets, products and organisations.
• Excellent and resourceful problem-solving skills, adaptable with a willingness to learn.
• Proactive and self-organising with a “can-do” approach.

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

Senior BI Developer.

Oxfordshire/Hybrid.

Approx Salary: Up to £60,000

Reporting to the Business Intelligence Project Manager, the Senior Business Intelligence Developer is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the BI Platform (Power BI, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, etc), ensuring that the platform is stable, reliable and well supported.
This role will:

• Work with the Business stakeholders and Product Owners to capture requirements and ensure they are delivered and tested in a timely and efficient manner
• Provide training and ‘how to’ support to the business to ensure solution adoption and full engagement of the technology we deliver
• Provide, in conjunction with IT Services, technical support to ensure incidents are managed and disruption to the business is minimised

The Senior BI Developer may be a single point of contact for the business and IT management team and will support the exploitation of the BI Platform, ensuring that business aims are met, standards are followed and quality is consistently high.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years BI development experience
• Understanding of agile development principles
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) processes
• Understanding of Kimball data warehouse design principles
• Confident in using source control (e.g. Git) as part of a team
• Confidently participates in development team environment
• Awareness of process automation, security configuration, data model creation, report and dashboard production
• Understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing (OLAP) and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework
• Experience with BI technologies (e.g. Microsoft Power BI, plus DAX, SQL queries, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Desirable competency / experience:

• Certified in Agile / Scrum techniques
• Experience in full spectrum of Software Development Lifecycle
• Understanding of automated testing principles and building automated tests
• Experience writing tools in PowerShell and/or C#
• Visual Studio Database Projects / SSDT / Azure data components
• Integration experience using REST / SOAP APIs

A good understanding of cyber security and system support

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

Domain Architect – Integration, AnyPoint, TOGAF, Security, MuleSoft

Permanent

£85,000 + bonus

Hybrid – 2 days onsite – Oxfordshire

**NO SPONSORSHIP**

Company / Role

A Globally recognised outlet is looking for a Domain Architect to build integration solutions, products and artefacts that improve the overall effectiveness of Value Retail systems and data integrations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of an Enterprise Integration Strategy that will meet strategic organisational goals and objectives
• Build a comprehensive understanding of the enterprise integration landscape and produce clear, unambiguous, and maintainable artefacts for its ongoing management over
• Contribute to the definition and development of a technical operating and governance model that will assure architectural/technical quality and lead to the successful implementation and supportability of integration
• Manage and work collaboratively across multiple partners
• Look beyond immediate problems to deliver end to end solutions

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience as an Integration Architect with experience across multiple technology stacks (Microsoft, Java, NodeJS) including demonstrable hands-on experience with the MuleSoft AnyPoint platform and
• A proven ability to establish standards for secure and robust solutions and their management
• Technology breadth across multiple domains beyond integration including data, application, infrastructure, and security.
• Good understanding of the EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman), having applied one Good or more of these frameworks in practice
• Understanding of security frameworks and accepted standards for secure infrastructure (e.g. NIST 800-53, CIS etc)

Desired Experience:

• MuleSoft MCPA and/or MCIA

Domain Architect – Integration, AnyPoint, TOGAF, Security, MuleSoft

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

Seeking an HR Analytics Manager to join the team responsible for defining and delivering the HR analytics strategy and providing insights into HR data to empower stakeholders to support the business and drive data led decisions about their people.

The role will be responsible for creating the presentations that provide stakeholders with insights into HR data that drive decisions and shape the global people strategy. Presentations may include focused work on a key theme or trend, or may be more strategically focused on a business or region.

The role will also work closely with the Head HR Transformation to develop and shape the narrative around change strategy, developing the presentations and materials to effectively communicate key programmes and initiatives that impact employees and the global businesses.

This is a key new role, requiring creativity, strategic thinking, and the ability to construct a meaningful narrative that is easily understood, and drives effective decision making.

Core skills required:

• Can demonstrate prior experience of combining data sources and turning data into trends and insights to influence and communicate people priorities
• Significant experience of producing presentations for a broad range of senior stakeholders, ideally within an HR environment
• Strong visual design and story-telling skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Able to adapt to multiple and evolving priorities in a dynamic environment
• Experience of working collaboratively with colleagues across regions and functions

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

Appian Designer

Location: Milton Keynes - 4 days WFH
Start Date: ASAP - Jan 2023
Industry: Banking
Salary: Up to £60,000 + benefits

We are currently searching for an Appian Designer with 3+ years experience. This role is based in Milton Keynes and is currently 100% remote, this will change to 1 day per week over the next 6 months.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate user requests for business process automation using models to determine feasibility and technical requirements.
• Implement design, developing, testing and deployment best practices across the entire software development life cycle.
• Assist in application deployment and roll-out to production.
• Working with team members to identify, mitigate and resolve project issues and risks.
• Participate in Appian's Community of Practice across the organisation.

You will need:

• Good knowledge and strong experience on Appian solutions and models.
• Good understanding of BPM solutions and best practices.
• Excellent skills in co-working with other in the day-to-day activities of the development team.
• Good experience with relational databases and SQL scripting.

Bonus Skills:

• Good working knowledge of Application Servers.
• Expertise with API integration.
• Experience with Agile Framework.
• Experience in ALM tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Sonar, Docker

For more information please submit your CV or contact Charlie Warren

Appian / Designer / Design / SQL / API / Software / BPM
Appian / Designer / Design / SQL / API / Software / BPM
Appian / Designer / Design / SQL / API / Software / BPM
Appian / Designer / Design / SQL / API / Software / BPM
Appian / Designer / Design / SQL / API / Software / BPM

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