Prestigious Global Investment Banking firm seek an experienced Senior Java Developer to work in the firms highly successful E-Trading business offering. Working on a variety of projects including some greenfield replacement projects of existing front office legacy RFQ and pricing applications utilising that latest version of Java.
This is a very exciting opportunity to get a role in a growing team building an electronic digital offering. You will be developing high performance E-Trading components and solutions are cross-product and help consolidate existing functionality.
Hybrid Role 1 day a week in the office. The team are using Agile and TDD. Work closely with business user and are comfortable communicating with stakeholders across the business. You will be developing applications in small pods as part of a bigger team of 20-30 individuals in London utilising the agile development process.
Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, multi-threading, rest. (GIT, Maven etc.) React or WPF may be useful but not a must.
Interest in working for an Investment Bank in a Front Office team. Fixed Income, RFQ or other Front Office Trading systems knowledge useful but not a must.
Object oriented design and development, use of design patterns.
Hybrid working model 1 day per week office based.
Desire to use the latest version of Java. Computer Science Degree BSc
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
FX e-Trading Application Production Engineer
An excellent opportunity for an FX e-Trading Application Production Engineer to be part of a team working with a leading international bank in London has arisen.
The team provides technical support for all back-end components running on FX eTrading environments (more than 600 application servers – Windows and Linux).
The team also manages connectivity to electronic trading venues (EBS, Reuters FX Matching, Currenex, CBOE-HotSpot, LMAX, Euronext FastMatch, Bloomberg, MOEX) and external clients.
Systems are complex, so as part of support activities, the range of technical skills involved is wide.
All team members need to quickly develop, or already have, a good understanding of FX eTrading systems. All engineers within the team have applications and technologies allocated to them, and they are expected to take ownership and be or quickly become experts in these areas.
Responsibilities:
Candidate profile:
Essential skills:
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Application Support Analyst
An excellent opportunity for an Application Support Analyst to be part of a team working with a leading international bank in London has arisen.
Responsibilities:
Incident and Problem Management:
Application Monitoring and Follow-Up:
Knowledge Management and Documentation:
Continuous Service Level improvement:
Maintenance and Enhancements:
Project and Specific Tasks:
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Quality Engineer – Edinburgh
6 months contract – (possibility of extensions)
Rate: £450-£550 per day Inside IR35
Hybrid Working
An exciting new opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join a team working with a major financial service provider has arisen.
Requirements:
As a Quality Engineer you will have a Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering background. You will probably be ISTQB Certified and have deep knowledge of the Test Lifecycle, Test Models, Best Practices, Test Benchmarking and Test Tools. You will be experienced in defining Quality Engineering and Assurance work, producing quality test artefacts in an agile delivery environment.
You will probably be experienced with:
The test lifecycle including Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, Test Data and Environments.
Creating test data and strategy behind this
Salesforce experience – (essential)
Integration with legacy systems (COBOL, JCL, IMS, SDSF, TSO, VSAM, DB2)
Programming languages (JavaScript, Java, SQL/NoSQL, Python and Unix Shell)
And proficient in:
Testing toolsets including Selenium, Cucumber, Perfecto, Appium, Saucelabs, Blazemeter, Jenkins, CA Lisa, Jira and QC.
If you have the right technical background, a willingness to be part of a team dedicated to transforming the landscape and are willing to develop yourself then we’re keen to hear from you.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Strong proficiency in Java (8+ years)
Experience working on front office trading systems and trading practices
Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
Strong understanding and experience with agile methodologies
Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics from a leading university
Self-organized with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities
Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders and senior business people alike
Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Strong proficiency in Java (8+ years)
Experience working on front office trading systems and trading practices
Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
Strong understanding and experience with agile methodologies
Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics from a leading university
Self-organized with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities
Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders and senior business people alike
Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGNER £479 Per Day
6 Month contract with opportunity to extend.
Main skills required:
For further details please apply
McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
A Global financial organisation are looking for a Design Researcher with extensive expertise and drive. The chosen applicant will have previous experience closely collaborating with product and design teams to identify and prioritise consumer issues and formulate the best research questions. They will be capable of developing research roadmaps to keep the team on track and assist in establishing both short- and long-term strategic direction. They will have a strong understanding of and expertise with the design thinking process.
Responsibilities:
Ask the right research questions and collaborate closely with the design and product teams to discover and prioritise client needs.
Make research roadmaps to keep the group on track and to assist provide both short- and long-term direction.
Significant expertise doing both strategic and tactical research projects from scratch is required.
Ability to synthesise and communicate information in a powerful and usable way to create a shared understanding of user opportunities and demands.
Ability to work in the Cardiff office and has a proven track record of managing stakeholders and being courageous in pushing design research (whenever necessary)
If this sounds like you send your CV to tshort@mcgregor-boyall.com or apply to the advert for a confidential chat.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
IT Infrastructure Platforms Storage and Windows L3 Engineer - HP SAN/Storage, 3PAR/Primera storage, Dell NAS, VMware, Hyper-V, (Powershell OR Python), Varonis Datadvatage
Contract, 6 months rolling, paying up to £590/day (Via Umbrella)
Global Financial services client is looking for an IT Infrastructure Platforms Storage and Windows Engineer to join their team on a contract basis. The successful candidate will have sound understanding of HP SAN/Storage, Dell NAS technologies in a Windows environment based on HP ProLiant hardware is essential. Some out of hour’s work is expected, one weekend in 4 is usually required, but this varies.
Key Responsibilities
Skills and experience required:
If this is of interest and you have the required skills, please submit your CV over for immediate consideration.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Major UK bank is seeking Security Architects to join their Security Engineering and Design team on a 6 month contract basis. (inside IR35)
The role involves working with Banking labs and projects to help deliver secure financial products and services, whilst providing cyber security leadership, and working with security teams and SMEs across the Group to ensure standards are met.
The candidate should have the following experience:
The bank has offices across the country including in Edinburgh, London, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol (amongst others) but are flexible with hybrid working.
If this sounds of interest to you, please reply to this ad and someone will be in touch with more details.
McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
A Global financial organisation is looking for a talented Service Designer to join their team! The role will involve mapping customer service experiences and determining how organisations may improve what they deliver and how they deliver it. The role requires someone who has been used to a fast, agile environment that can work well within a team but also on their own. The company need someone to come in and improve the projects that the team have been working on as well as maintain what has been achieved already.
Role Requirements:
If this sounds like you send your CV to tshort@mcgregor-boyall.com or apply to the advert for a confidential chat.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Strong proficiency in Java (8+ years)
Experience working on front office trading systems and trading practices
Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
Strong understanding and experience with agile methodologies
Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics from a leading university
Self-organized with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities
Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders and senior business people alike
Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
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