Full Stack Drupal Developer

KDB+, Algo, eTrading, Agile practices

My client are one of the largest global investment banks. They are seeking an expert KDB Developer to work within one of their front office eTrading teams. Based in London, the team face off to global stakeholders in the USA and India. The ideal candidate will fit into the team and the current code base, make it their own, and use this as a base to be able to design and develop new components. This will include ongoing re-implementations of the existing codebase, extensions thereof and ongoing support of those systems.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with a market-leading algorithmic eTrading team here in London.

Must have skills:

• KDB+ Development (on Linux)
• Prior front office banking/finance experience essential
• Knowledge of agile practices within the SDLC
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work within the FO

Nice to have:

• eTrading experience
• Experience with Maven, Java or GIT
• Prior work on large, distributed systems
• Experience working on projects with a strong element of data science

Due to Covid, all interviews will be remote. The client are open to onboarding remotely and the role may be remote to begin with, with the successful candidate working in the office 3 days a week once safe and able

For permanent candidates, my client can wait for notice periods of up to 3 months

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

Microsoft Dynamics, CRM, .Net, PowerBI, SQL Server

As a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer in with my client, you will be working as part of a dynamic Technology team, delivering market-leading CRM solutions to front office colleagues (Sales, Dealing, Client Services, etc). Your focus will primarily be on delivering, evolving and supporting a scalable, performant and robust CRM platform. My client's proprietary business applications are all built on C# and .NET technologies, SQL Server, and run within Microsoft Azure. This client are in the latter stages of delivering a Dynamics CRM solution replacing their legacy Salesforce platform, and plan to deploy by the end of June. You will assist with significant enhancements. which are to be delivered over the coming months incrementally adding value to the business, and integrating with my client's Skype for Business/Anywhere 365 and Teams based voice systems, etc.

You'll do great if you have strong, proven experience with:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, PowerBI, SQLServer, .Net, C#, etc.
• Full-cycle experience of Microsoft Dynamics and .Net development from conception, architecture, design through test and deployment
• Detailed understanding of the Microsoft Dynamics database schema and business data model, configuration and customization where required and in a maintainable manner
• Broad understanding of the functional areas of Microsoft Dynamics such as Marketing, Sales, Customer Service

*In the current climate this role can be remote*

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

Senior Python Developer

MyClient is one of the world's largest and respected financial institutions Offering careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions. You will benefit from working for an institution that is constantly evolving and thriving in a changing world.

What will you be doing?

• Developing high quality maintainable code for yourself and the team

• Making technical decisions that require a strong understanding of the problem domain i.e. both deep technology and business product knowledge.

• Collaborating and communicating globally with other developers and team leads to build technical solutions

• Using your strong knowledge of software development methods, tools and standards to ensure the team complies with practices

What skills are required?

• Extensive experience developing medium to large size Python applications

• Knowledge of Equity Derivatives/Structured products, specially within electronic markets (FIX, REST, online etc.) arena serving structured retail indirect channels

• Experience of server side development & multi-threaded code

• Experience of HTTP protocol and web services

For immediate consideration, pleass send your CV to Jmcmath@mcrgregor-boyall.com

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

Global Investment Bank have a multiyear opportunity for an experienced VP/ED Level Java Developer to join the firms Electronic Trading FX Strat team. This opportunity is for a Java Developer who will be responsible for designing/developing a new FX eTrading trading platform The role will focus on migrating key derivative products such as Forwards, Swaps and NDF’s onto the new platform, and decommission of the existing legacy platforms..

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• Core Java ideally with some low latency exposure
• Distributed systems server development
• Messaging, Tibco Rendezvous, EMS / JMS
• Framework Design and Development
• Knowledge of FX Products (Spot, Forwards, Swaps and NDF’s)

• eTrading / eFX experience
• Ability to learn new technology including utilising Cloud AWS based architecture
• Knowledge of e-Trading workflows (Contribution, Trading, STP, RFQ, Market data)
• Ultra low latency
• eFX Risk and Pricing
• multi-threaded systems experience

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

We are working with a FTSE100 company who are looking for a DevOps Developer on a permanent basis.

You will help architect and implement the solution to onboard the analytics onto the AWS Cloud.

You must have a strong working knowledge of architecting and implementing Amazon AWS Cloud solutions. As well as hands-on working with Python (Conda framework) and expert DevOps knowledge.

As this is a DevOps Engineer position, day to day, you will be expected to -

• Encompass systems engineering and performance, configuration management, and day to day operations.

• You'll seek to automate wherever possible to improve efficiency and support Infrastructure as a Service.

• You will also promote DevOps best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, branching strategy, and environment decoupling) and manage and maintain a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure).

Essential

• DevOps Engineer background (or something similar)

• Experience of working on AWS cloud (Amazon Web Services)

• Hands-on working with Python (Conda framework)

• Experience working with security and confidentiality requirements for the data

Desirable

• Experience with Infrastructure automation (e.g. Chef, Puppet or Ansible)

• Familiar with monitoring infrastructure (e.g. ELK, Prometheus)

• Previous Software Engineering or Software Development background

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

Salaries vary between £60,000 - £120,000 depending on experience

World renown investment bank embarking on a multi-year greenfield initiative to rebuilding and modernise their low latency Credit Trading team.

The Fixed income technology team at a global investment bank based in London are looking to hire a number of Java Developers of all levels to come on board and help design, prototype, and develop a state of the art, cutting edge credit trading and pricing system

Key skills:

- Server-side java experience

- Low latency experience is very useful

- Previous experience utilising multi-threading and performance tuning

- Experience with databases such as Oracle

- Knowledge of AWS services

- Understanding of messaging/ middleware technologies (Solace, MQ) is beneficial

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

C++ developer *Real-time trading systems* Perm up to £90000

Global markets organisation based in London is looking to hire a C++ Developer to develop their Real-trading system.

This is a mid-level hire perfect for a C++ Developer looking to expand their career in the finance industry.

Key Skills

- Experienced in C++ Development

- Broad knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

- Familiarity with Linux and SQL

- Strong communication and organisation skills

- Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.

Bonus: Experience in one or more relevant financial areas (market data, order management,
algorithmic trading, financial systems integration, compliance, etc.)

C++Developer; Linux, Trading Systems

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

Equities Algo Java Developer; up to £120k

Key skills for the Equities Algo Java Developer; up to £120k role:

• Core Java - including low level programming (threading, sockets, low latency etc)
• Cash equities (big plus, however, not a must have)
• Algo development - experience writing execution strategies
• Experience working on the trading floor
• Ability to work closely with quants/traders/stakeholders

Tasks required for the Equities Algo Java Developer; up to £120k role:

You will be working in a brand new team that will work closely with the equities algo trading quants on the design and development of high performance trading strategies for the equities algo business. Whilst this is a development reasonable maths skills will also be required. The team are very happy to consider candidates with a strong interest in algorithmic programming who have an in depth knowledge of core Java including the internal workings of the JVM. You will also be required to demonstrate solid problem solving skills. You will be responsible for building high performance trading systems as well as working on the design and development of algo trading strategies. Any level of experience will be considered but some banking is essential.

Equities Algo Java Developer; up to £120k role

Conor Fletcher / cfletcher@mcgregor-boyall.com

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

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

FX Algo Java Developer; up to £120k

Key skills for the FX Algo Java Developer; up to £120k role:

• Core Java - including low level programming (threading, sockets, low latency etc)
• FX (big plus, however, not a must have)
• Algo development - experience writing execution strategies
• Experience working on the trading floor
• Ability to work closely with quants/traders/stakeholders

Tasks required for the FX Algo Java Developer; up to £120k role:

You will be working in a brand new team that will work closely with theFX algo trading quants on the design and development of high performance trading strategies for the FX algo business. Whilst this is a development reasonable maths skills will also be required. The team are very happy to consider candidates with a strong interest in algorithmic programming who have an in depth knowledge of core Java including the internal workings of the JVM. You will also be required to demonstrate solid problem solving skills. You will be responsible for building high performance trading systems as well as working on the design and development of algo trading strategies. Any level of experience will be considered but some banking is essential.

FX Algo Java Developer; up to £120k role

Conor Fletcher / cfletcher@mcgregor-boyall.com

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

Java eFX Developer

Key skills for the Java eFX Developer role:

• Core Java - Multithreading, concurrency, data structures
• In-depth messaging knowledge - Ideally 29 west
• eFX business knowledge
• Must have worked on high volume low latency systems

About the Java eFX Developer role:

My client is a Tier 1 Investment bank based in London. They're seeking a strong technologist to join them on the build out of their FX e-trading system. The systems must handle high volumes of real-time data and be carefully tuned for performance. This role will have close interaction with traders so clear communications skills are vital. As well as business facing skills candidates must have a thorough understanding of low-level Java and messaging products. You will join a fast-paced, dynamic environment - a thriving technologist will excel in this position which is hugely rewarding.

Java, FX, eTrading, eFX, Front office, Trading, Low latency

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

Python, HTML5, CSS, Flask, Bootstrap, Jenkins, Gitlab, VBA, Front Office

My client are a major investment bank in London seeking a Python Developer to work on a number of projects across the Front Office. Multiple headcount for candidates at the mid level stage of their career (Associate to Junior VP) looking for a new challenge.

This team is the highest performing asset area of the business (top 3 for business line in London finance market) and a sister team to the bank’s flagship team. The work will focus around Python development but any exposure you have with either VBA or Javascript UI’s (HTML5 and CSS) will work in your favour. Alternatively, the manager is happy to upskill candidates in these. Gitlab, Jenkins and Devops are all a major plus.

This team are heavily front office and sit directly with the traders. As such, great communication skills are key and any prior Front Office experience is useful. One of the purposes of this hire is to help upskill traders in Python and create an easy framework for them to use (EUC).

Must have:

• Hands-on Python Development
• Great communication skills, ideally within the Front Office
• Some form of Javascript experience

Nice to have:

• Devops
• Flask
• Bootstrap
• Gitlab
• VBA
• Java

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