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

• 6-month rolling contract
• Rate: £500-£700 per day – Inside IR35

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:

• In charge of Linux global migration for the main FX Spot Market Making platform (Adaptivator). This is a critical strategic migration for FX global business. It involves coordinating multiple teams globally to deliver the infrastructure, OS tuning expertise to optimise the performance, and global deployment of NATS, a new messaging technology introduced within the Bank.
• Direct involvement in the analysis and build of a new FX eTrading platform in Singapore. This is a flagship project for GM IT and business with tight delivery timelines committed to Singapore government authorities.
• Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, problem resolution activities, change management
• Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimise the impact on clients and internal users, including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, and other internal IT teams...
• Assist in the development, design, and implementation of technical support systems
• Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services
• Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, and all infrastructure teams to design and set up new systems, and improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low latency)
• Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs
• Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities
• Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with a global team

Candidate profile:

• Strong all-around IT background and proven experience in electronic trading markets on similar global FX eTrading environments
• Strong understanding of Linux (Redhat) operating systems to tune platforms for optimum performance (core pinning, kernel bypass)

Essential skills:

• Scripting (Python, Shell, SQL) and development skills for administration, monitoring and support tools
• Knowledge of FIX protocol
• Knowledge of Broadway Technology TOC product
• Knowledge of Azul Zing product
• Knowledge of ITRS Geneos monitoring systems
• Good network and firewall infrastructure understanding
• Good understanding of multicast messaging in a Tibco RendezVous environment
• Ability to analyse network captures
• Project management skills to deliver medium-scale projects

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

Application Support Analyst

• 6-month rolling contract
• Rate: £500-£700 per day – Inside IR35

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:

• Manage/Own P1/P2 incidents and problems end to end
• Communicates with internal users and management over incidents and post-mortems
• Ensures all support issues are correctly logged in the Bank incident management system with relevant details (downtime, slowness etc..) and ownership of their resolution
• Diagnoses issues: establishes their root cause.
• Initiates task force over critical incidents
• Liaises with upstream and downstream systems support teams as appropriate

Application Monitoring and Follow-Up:

• Responsible for a global uptime target of 99.9% across the whole Rates and Credit eTrading platform
• Coverage of Rates eTrading applications production implementation, troubleshooting and monitoring:
  • Market connectivity through ION
  • Algorithmic trading
  • Auto-negotiation
  • Pricing
  • D2D and D2C
  • Booking
• Monitors application state and input/output data correctness throughout the day, hand-over with follow-the-sun support teams
• Performs system administration
• Updates the relevant Production KPIs
• Migration of our monitoring to SCADA using Python scripts

Knowledge Management and Documentation:

• Documents support procedures on the wiki
• Owns team knowledge base on the wiki for all in-scope applications
• Provides support to end-users on how to use the application
• Ensures Follow-the-Sun and regional support teams are trained as required, over new releases
• Communicates a daily handover document to Follow-The-Sun support teams, where appropriate

Continuous Service Level improvement:

• Contributes to capacity management of in-scope applications, proactively tracks trends in application behaviour, and alerts Application Production and Development teams of any potential risks in the future
• Ensures that all application support logs are fit for purpose, i.e. meaningful and actionable.
• Actively seeks reduction of dependency on manual interventions by support staff, e.g. leveraging enterprise batch scheduling and enterprise monitoring tools

Maintenance and Enhancements:

• Participates to release cycles for functional validation on staging/preproduction and production environments – for logs
• Review release and coordinate around deployment/post-release checks
• Communicates Release Notes

Project and Specific Tasks:

• The team manages various projects, and smaller tasks, all related to supporting most of the functions are incident response, business requests or maintenance
• Projects are mainly related to a new development where the application support role is to make sure of the supportability, and monitoring of the new tool, team, and user training

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:

• VMware
• Azure
• Linux (Red hat)

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

• Delivery of regional components of global electronic markets infrastructure projects
• Responsible for ensuring proper monitoring and capacity planning of local systems as a part of the global framework
• Installation and configuration storage, SAN and layered products

Skills and experience required:

• Work with autonomy and independence but within the framework of a global support structure
• Strong skills in production installation and management of HP Primera, 3PAR, Dell Isilon/ PowerScale with Superna Eyeglass Data Protection Suite, Brocade, Microsoft Windows Server, HP ProLiant.
• Automation – PowerShell and/or Python
• Working within virtualised environment (Hyper-V, VMware)
• Working knowledge of Varonis Datadvatage and Device42 - beneficial
• Hybrid Working model (3 days in the office)

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:

• Experience and knowledge of a broad range of IT security principles and associated technologies.
• Significant knowledge of Cyber Security as it applies to Enterprise business and ideally exposure to risk or threat assessment techniques.
• Ability to Design and implement security controls using a combination of Enterprise Architecture Patterns, Security Standards and bespoke deliverables.
• Document the security design articulating how the design meets the security requirements.
• Risk assess control weaknesses and have an understanding of Risk management frameworks.
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)

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:

• Significant experience of designing for a variety of digital touch-points and non-digital channels including creating journey maps, blueprints and service prototypes
• Good communication skills to mentor junior designers
• Research, user experience design, and product design are some of the areas in which you should have experience.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft suite.

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.