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.

**Contract Position**
**£750 - £850 P/D
**Hybrid working - home/office split**

The responsibilities

• A good understanding of Commercial Bank application architecture. Specifically understanding in particular key areas that relate to Commercial Banking Business domain would be ideal to have.
• Ability to work under pressure and in particular to identify the Commercial Banking decisions and issues which have the most importance and impact within the wide range of Value Stream decisions to be taken at any particular point in time.
• Strong drive to deliver, to maintain responsibility for definition/standards/governance of Commercial Banking through to guidance of the teams responsible for defining, building and implementing these initiatives.
• Excellent knowledge of the technical discipline of Commercial Banking and of developments in these areas within the IT industry.

Essential

• Experience of working within one or more of subdomains of Commercial Banking like Financial Markets, Transaction Banking, Lending, Relationship Management and Commercial Digital Services.
• Demonstrable experience of Enterprise Architecture including capability to systems mapping and blueprint realisation within known architecture imperatives to support our Bank of the Future
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills that can be referenced via previous engagements.

Desirable

• Proven knowledge of providing Digital services across complex product processing layer.
• Knowledge of Architecture frameworks, best practises and Governance processes
• Passion for Technology and Excellent Communication Skills.

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

Data Governance Office.

Initial 4 Month Contract.

£800/Daily (Inside IR35).

The Markets Transformation team provides centralized business, cross functional management & support for the implementation of major change programs across Markets Products and Clients.

This role is part of the Markets Data Governance Office, working as part of the Client Data workstream out of London, UK.

Requirements:

• Experience working within a Tier 1 Bank.
• Hands-on practitioner expertise in implementing structured business/operational processes and business requirements documentation.
• Knowledge of GIT, Team City, CI/CD, Jira, Confluence.
• Experience with Python, SQL, Pyspark, Microsoft Office (Particularly Excel).
• Demonstrable experience of coordinating with stakeholders to drive changes and understand process impact on topics including issue resolution and controls as a consultant or internal change group.
• 5+ Years’ experience in a similar field.

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

Data Quality Analyst

London, Hybrid

Permanent, Full-Time

Sponsorship - NOT AVAILABLE

This role will focus on Customer and Product data and look at where it comes from, how it is used and its quality. Meeting the regulatory requirements are essential to support TCF and Consumer Duty and requires someone with a data background, preferring candidates with data quality and/or data governance experience, alongside stakeholder management.

Main Responsibilties and Skills will include:

• Supporting Critical Data Elements, for Customer and Product data
• Working the data quality life cycle management process, including annual attestation
• Implementing the EUDA management framework, including regular review and updates and framework assurance
• Data quality Analysis
• Sound understanding of Data modelling and relational databases/data warehousing
• SQL programming
• Mining and analysising complex data to improve the customer experience and operational improvements through improved data quality
• Be passionate about data quality and continuously strive to promote data quality and consistency and effective data control
• An understanding of statutory frameworks such as CCPA, GDPR, BCBS and Data Protection Act

Role Qualification:

• Experience working in data quality, data governance or data management within Financial Services
• Demonstrate proficiency using Excel and SQL to source, analyse, normalise and process data
• Experience and/or knowledge of data quality and lineage tools
• Experience creating and using data models and data definitions
• Bachelor’s degree (in computer science, information technology or engineering) or equivalent experience and/or data quality certification

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

**Contract role**

**£600 - £750 per day**

**Hybrid working - home/office split**

The role

You’ll be a new manager in the Data Resilience team reporting into a Senior Data Resilience Manager, who in turn reports directly to our Head of Data Resilience. The aim of the team is to protect our customers, colleagues & markets by ensuring we comply with the spirit of the regulatory requirements for operational resilience established by the Bank of England, FCA and PRA.

The responsibilities

• You’ll look at how data flows from source to destination, ensuring resilience throughout.
• You’ll support the establishment of controls and assessment frameworks that identify data vulnerabilities across a complex data and technical landscape (e.g. on premise, 3rd party and cloud environments.)
• You’ll analyse outcomes to identify and prioritise remediation of risks
• You’ll support Data Mapping & Data Lineage best practice

Essential

• Experience working within a similar role focused on Data Resilience.
• Technical knowledge & experience of the considerations regarding Data Resilience (including awareness of awareness of FCA / PRA regulation).
• Technical awareness of Data Architecture & Data Lineage at scale, within a large corporate environment.
• Financial Service background.
• Technical design experience using visualisation tools, such as ServiceNow, PowerBI, Tableau or similar.

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

Solutions Architect.

Permanent.

London/Hybrid.

Approx Salary: £100,000 - £125,000.

This role will be working in Anti-Financial Crime Technology (an Information Technology (IT)) division that supports Compliance and Regulatory Business divisions delivering strategic transformation, ongoing programmes and existing applications simplification, standardisation and maintenance.

As a key actor through programme/project lifecycle, you must have strong knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Hands-on experience should cover programme goals analysis, AS-IS architecture analysis, prerequisites review and TO-BE programme/project architecture design and modelling. You will have an understanding of the value of architecture practices, strong communication skills and be able to work effectively alongside business and IT leaders in governing alignment between Target and project deliverables.

Requirements:

• Detailed understanding of Financial Crime legislation and governance requirements with a proven track record of delivery of relevant technology
• Experience in leading architecture and design in a distributed agile environment
• Experience with Big Data and Cloud technologies, data modelling including logical, conceptual, and physical is advantageous
• Knowledge of best practices, trends and solutions - a comprehensive understanding of current and emerging data technologies that can be used to gain competitive advantage
• Proven first class architecture skills with appropriate, but pragmatic, process management skills applied with rigor and structure

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

Solution Architecture

London, Permanent

Up to £120,000

Sponsorship - Unavailable

Job Description
You will be working in Anti-Financial Crime Technology division that supports company Compliance and Regulatory Business divisions delivering strategic transformation, ongoing programmes and existing applications simplification, standardisation and maintenance.
As a key actor through programme/project lifecycle, you must have strong knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Hands-on experience should cover programme goals analysis, AS-IS architecture analysis, prerequisites review and TO-BE programme/project architecture design and modelling. You will have an understanding of the value of architecture practices, strong communication skills and be able to work effectively alongside business and IT leaders in governing alignment between Target and project deliverables.

What we’ll offer you
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Solving complex problems, reviewing existing architecture landscape, and producing fit for purpose Target Solution Architecture
• Grasping and managing complexity of the data integration environment, in both a business and technical sense, understanding data and process flows through data integration layer and downstream/upstream systems dependencies
• Designing global solution overview during Programme initiation and derive various architecture levels to lead the programme development from design to delivery
• Designing complex technical solutions in an inclusive and participatory manner, to negotiate with and influence other design parties to reconcile technical and business considerations in order to arrive at the optimal solution ensuring Target Solution Architecture alignment with best Architectural practices and standards

Your skills and experience

• Detailed understanding of Financial Crime legislation and governance requirements with a proven track record of delivery of relevant technology
• Experience in leading architecture and design in a distributed agile environment
• Experience with Big Data and Cloud technologies, data modelling including logical, conceptual, and physical is advantageous
• Knowledge of best practices, trends and solutions - a comprehensive understanding of current and emerging data technologies that can be used to gain competitive advantage
• Proven first class architecture skills with appropriate, but pragmatic, process management skills applied with rigor and structure

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

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

Data Quality Lead (Customer & Product).

Permanent.

London/Hybrid.

Approx Salary: £90,000 - £115,000 + Additional benefits.

Sponsorship is not available.

The role will be focused on how the bank captures and uses Customer and Product data in the bank. In particular focusing on regulatory requirements to support TCF and Customer Duty, whilst also including 360 view of Customer and Customer experience initiatives. This role would suit someone with a solid data background, having led data quality and/or data governance teams, developing and embedding frameworks and principles to enable measurement and prioritisation of data quality initiatives. An understanding of different data structures, hierarchies and ability to simplify for appropriate audiences and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Experience working in data quality, data governance or data management within Financial Services.
• Demonstrate proficiency using Excel and ideally SQL experience to source, analyse, normalise and process data for quality validations
• Strong knowledge and understanding of master data elements and processes
• Experience and/or knowledge of data quality and lineage tools: Collibra, Informatica, IBM MDM etc.
• Experience creating and using data models and data definitions
• Experience of resolving data quality issues and data governance in the financial services industry
• Bachelor’s degree (in computer science, information technology or engineering) or equivalent experience and/or data quality certification.

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

Data Resilience Manager.

12 Month Contract.

£800/Day (Inside IR35/Umbrella).

The Data Resilience Senior Manager role is responsible for supporting the Group Head of Data Resilience in driving & establishing the Data Resiliency agenda. Successful candidates will be experienced in leading teams of subject matter experts and taking ownership of strategic initiatives across key Data Resilience workstreams:

The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. It has the responsibility to define and embed new Strategies, Operating Models and Control Frameworks to protect the Banks critical data services that our customers, colleagues and the market rely upon. The Data Resilience team works hand in hand with the Groups Centre of Excellence for Operational Resilience, which co-ordinates the overall response and alignment with the join Regulatory requirements for operational resilience established by the Bank of England, FCA and PRA.

Requirements:

• Technical understanding of data at rest architectures and how applications interact and exchange data.
• Experience of data regulations for Operational Resilience and Data Management (FCA Operational Resilience, DORA, BCBS, GDPR).
• Proven experience line managing subject matter experts, developing talent and advancing team members towards their career objectives.
• Ability to simplify and present complex ideas to a diverse stakeholder group.
• Experience organising and running effective Governance Forums, Working Groups and or Design Authorities
• Expert communication and stakeholder management, able to operate across organisational boundaries and influence technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical problem solving skills, with the ability to prioritise what matters.

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

**Permanent role**

**£90k - £115k per annum (+ package)**

**Hybrid working - home/office split**

The role

The role will be focused on how we capture and use Customer and Product data in the bank. In particular focusing on regulatory requirements to support TCF and Customer Duty, whilst also including 360 view of Customer and Customer experience initiatives. This role would suit someone with a solid data background, having led data quality and/or data governance teams, developing and embedding frameworks and principles to enable measurement and prioritisation of data quality initiatives. An understanding of different data structures, hierarchies and ability to simplify for appropriate audiences and stakeholders.

The responsibilities

• Implementation of data quality standards, frameworks, policies, guidelines and rules across the bank for Customer and Product data. Working closely with the data management team and data consumers across the bank.
• Data Steward Accountabilities for Customer and Product data, responsible for implementing data management policies and procedures. To include supporting on implementation of the enterprise-wide data catalogue and creating/documenting business glossary definitions for Customer and Product domains.
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of a business data dictionary, working collaboratively with the data management, data governance teams
• Working with business and technology teams to rollout and maintain data management and remediate data quality issues. Lead prioritisation, assessment and remediation of Customer and product data, which includes defining the critical data elements (CDE’s).
• Leading workshops to capture requirements and work with stakeholders to define critical data.
• Partner with IT and business to establish solutions and adhere to banks data principles and governance framework.
• Champion the continued development of ‘single source of truth’ for Customer and Product data, working with other stakeholders including data consumers, data producers and data owners and stewards to define requirements

Essential

• Experience working in data quality, data governance or data management within Financial Services.
• Demonstrate proficiency using Excel and ideally SQL experience to source, analyse, normalise and process data for quality validations
• Strong knowledge and understanding of master data elements and processes
• Experience and/or knowledge of data quality and lineage tools: Collibra, Informatica, IBM MDM etc.
• Experience creating and using data models and data definitions
• Experience of resolving data quality issues and data governance in the financial services industry
• Bachelor’s degree (in computer science, information technology or engineering) or equivalent experience and/or data quality certification.

Desirable

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to analyse, articulate and present complex issues clearly and concisely
• Interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with impact with people at all levels
• Integrity and discretion
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Attention to detail and an organised approach to work

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

Permanent Role

London Based (Hybrid)

No Sponsorship

Role

• Test/evaluate new alternative datasets in collaboration with quant researchers and data teams
• Once identified with machine learning and statistical methods, automate the extraction of predictive features
• Manage the full lifecycle of data science projects: data acquisition/exploration/engineering, prototyping, and production
• Operate a wide array of methods, including unsupervised, supervised, learning, natural language processing (NLP), anomaly detection etc

Requirements

• A keen interest in financial markets, data analysis and programming
• Structured and unstructured data management expertise
• Advanced programming experience in Python, C/C++, C# is a plus
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.) expertise
• Intellectual curiosity to identify emerging and alternative data
• Capacity to work with autonomy within a global team (researchers and data engineers)
• Post Graduate degree in Data Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or Statistics

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

Data Analytics Engineer

London/Hybrid.

Perm.

Competitive Salary + Bonus & Benefits.

Sponsorship is not available.

Day to day responsibilities:

• Test/evaluate new alternative datasets in collaboration with quant researchers and data teams
• Once identified with machine learning and statistical methods, automate the extraction of predictive features
• Manage the full lifecycle of data science projects: data acquisition/exploration/engineering, prototyping, and production
• Operate a wide array of methods, including unsupervised, supervised, learning, natural language processing (NLP), anomaly detection etc
• Work in collaboration with data engineers, quantitative researchers, to help understand and architect the systems

Requirements:

• A keen interest in financial markets, data analysis and programming.
• Structured and unstructured data management expertise.
• Advanced programming experience in Python, C/C++, C# is a plus.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.) expertise.
• Intellectual curiosity to identify emerging and alternative data.
• Capacity to work with autonomy within a global team (researchers and data engineers).
• Post Graduate degree in Data Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or Statistics.
• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer/Analyst/Scientist.
• Significant experience in NLP preferred.
• Ability to work in a high-performance, high-velocity environment.
• Excellent communication skills.

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