Solace Support Engineer - Contract Rate: Up to £650/day Duration: 6-month rolling contract Location: London (Hybrid - very flexible WFH) Industry: Leading Bank The Opportunity We're looking for a Solace Support Engineer to join a high-performing infrastructure and Middleware team, supporting a mission-critical messaging environment. You'll play a key role in onboarding applications to the Solace messaging platform, troubleshooting complex incidents, and driving platform improvements in a fast-paced banking environment. What You'll Do Provide specialist technical support for the Solace platform, ensuring stability, performance, and resilience. Onboard new applications, guiding teams on Solace APIs and integration best practices. Analyse capacity, performance, and latency metrics, recommending optimisations. Manage incidents end-to-end - from diagnosis to resolution - escalating to the vendor where required. Collaborate with engineers, architects, and business teams on platform evolution. Implement and maintain monitoring, backup, and recovery processes. Contribute to risk management, operational documentation, and disaster recovery readiness. What You'll Bring Essential: Proven expertise with Solace Message Broker and Solace APIs. Advanced Linux/Unix skills. Solid experience in monitoring tools (eg, ITRS Geneos). Strong problem-solving and communication skills. Desirable: Financial services or high-volume transactional systems experience. Understanding of networking concepts and Firewalls. Scripting skills (eg, Shell, Python). Previous application support experience.
27/08/2025
Contractor
Solace Support Engineer - Contract Rate: Up to £650/day Duration: 6-month rolling contract Location: London (Hybrid - very flexible WFH) Industry: Leading Bank The Opportunity We're looking for a Solace Support Engineer to join a high-performing infrastructure and Middleware team, supporting a mission-critical messaging environment. You'll play a key role in onboarding applications to the Solace messaging platform, troubleshooting complex incidents, and driving platform improvements in a fast-paced banking environment. What You'll Do Provide specialist technical support for the Solace platform, ensuring stability, performance, and resilience. Onboard new applications, guiding teams on Solace APIs and integration best practices. Analyse capacity, performance, and latency metrics, recommending optimisations. Manage incidents end-to-end - from diagnosis to resolution - escalating to the vendor where required. Collaborate with engineers, architects, and business teams on platform evolution. Implement and maintain monitoring, backup, and recovery processes. Contribute to risk management, operational documentation, and disaster recovery readiness. What You'll Bring Essential: Proven expertise with Solace Message Broker and Solace APIs. Advanced Linux/Unix skills. Solid experience in monitoring tools (eg, ITRS Geneos). Strong problem-solving and communication skills. Desirable: Financial services or high-volume transactional systems experience. Understanding of networking concepts and Firewalls. Scripting skills (eg, Shell, Python). Previous application support experience.
I am working with a Global investment bank who are seeking a dynamic individual to Join the eFX Team in London. Working within the technology group you will be a hands on problem solver, supporting the BA & Devs and have knowledge or experience in eFX, UNIX, SQL, FIX, ITIL and at least one Scripting language. This is a great opportunity to join a small Front Office support team with visibility across the whole trade life cycle and plenty of opportunity for advancements Responsibilities: Monitoring eFX platforms Incident and Change Management Implementing and promoting automation FIX On-boarding
05/11/2021
Full time
I am working with a Global investment bank who are seeking a dynamic individual to Join the eFX Team in London. Working within the technology group you will be a hands on problem solver, supporting the BA & Devs and have knowledge or experience in eFX, UNIX, SQL, FIX, ITIL and at least one Scripting language. This is a great opportunity to join a small Front Office support team with visibility across the whole trade life cycle and plenty of opportunity for advancements Responsibilities: Monitoring eFX platforms Incident and Change Management Implementing and promoting automation FIX On-boarding
A leading Hedge Fund are in search of a Senior Web Applications Developer to join their team. The Role The team use the latest technologies to design and build trading systems that enable the company's investment strategies. This includes the continued evolution and expansion of the firms' multi-asset Management System and in-house algorithmic execution capability. As a Senior Web Applications Developer you'll be a key part of the team working to build our next-gen trading platform. This includes building Real Time UI to visualise and monitor large-scale systematic order execution, building custom workflows for OTC products, building UI to control order routing and algo wheels. You'll be joining a collaborative team working alongside Server Side developers and trading teams to deliver important projects. The Technologies They Use Frontend: TypeScript, React, Openfin, WebSockets to build our Real Time, multi-window, multi-monitor UI. Backend: Java, Aeron messaging/Aeron Cluster to build our high performance, fault-tolerant systems. Infrastructure: GitHub, Docker, Hashicorp stack to automate deployment and networking. Experience, Knowledge & Skills Essential JavaScript or Typescript expert. Ideally you have used Typescript on previous projects. ReactJS Expert. You know how to use it and how it works. Experience working on Real Time, data-centric applications such as those found in Finance or Data visualisation. You have practical knowledge of web tooling such as Webpack, Storybook, NPM and Yarn. Highly proficient with Chrome dev tools Well versed in core user-interface technologies - Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3 A self-starter with a gets things done' attitude capable of taking projects from inception to completion. At least a bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field. Advantageous Experience Openfin TypeScript, Rx.js Trading systems UI in any asset class Personal Attributes Collaborative - works with colleagues at all levels to assist with their queries and find solutions; Flexible - considers all matters on their own merit and not the status quo; Passionate - has a genuine desire to add value to the business at every level; Positive - exudes a can-do approach and ethos to all colleagues; and Consistent - offers the right advice every time.
05/11/2021
Full time
A leading Hedge Fund are in search of a Senior Web Applications Developer to join their team. The Role The team use the latest technologies to design and build trading systems that enable the company's investment strategies. This includes the continued evolution and expansion of the firms' multi-asset Management System and in-house algorithmic execution capability. As a Senior Web Applications Developer you'll be a key part of the team working to build our next-gen trading platform. This includes building Real Time UI to visualise and monitor large-scale systematic order execution, building custom workflows for OTC products, building UI to control order routing and algo wheels. You'll be joining a collaborative team working alongside Server Side developers and trading teams to deliver important projects. The Technologies They Use Frontend: TypeScript, React, Openfin, WebSockets to build our Real Time, multi-window, multi-monitor UI. Backend: Java, Aeron messaging/Aeron Cluster to build our high performance, fault-tolerant systems. Infrastructure: GitHub, Docker, Hashicorp stack to automate deployment and networking. Experience, Knowledge & Skills Essential JavaScript or Typescript expert. Ideally you have used Typescript on previous projects. ReactJS Expert. You know how to use it and how it works. Experience working on Real Time, data-centric applications such as those found in Finance or Data visualisation. You have practical knowledge of web tooling such as Webpack, Storybook, NPM and Yarn. Highly proficient with Chrome dev tools Well versed in core user-interface technologies - Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3 A self-starter with a gets things done' attitude capable of taking projects from inception to completion. At least a bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field. Advantageous Experience Openfin TypeScript, Rx.js Trading systems UI in any asset class Personal Attributes Collaborative - works with colleagues at all levels to assist with their queries and find solutions; Flexible - considers all matters on their own merit and not the status quo; Passionate - has a genuine desire to add value to the business at every level; Positive - exudes a can-do approach and ethos to all colleagues; and Consistent - offers the right advice every time.
A financial services firm dedicated to the digital asset, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry are looking for a UI Developer to join their team. Working as part of the technology team, the candidate should have good working knowledge of React, CSS and web development. The candidate should be able to look at user screens and mockups, and build the equivalent Front End trading system based on those requirements. Responsibilities Building Front End technology systems that cover Trading, OMS, PMS, Operations, and Finance systems. Required Qualifications Proficient (3-5 years) with React, CSS and Web development Preferred Qualifications Experience with HTML, React, Javascript and CSS Full life cycle development of a commercial system, including: requirements definition, agile planning, releasing, and production support Experience or excitement working in a small agile and dynamic technology team
05/11/2021
Full time
A financial services firm dedicated to the digital asset, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry are looking for a UI Developer to join their team. Working as part of the technology team, the candidate should have good working knowledge of React, CSS and web development. The candidate should be able to look at user screens and mockups, and build the equivalent Front End trading system based on those requirements. Responsibilities Building Front End technology systems that cover Trading, OMS, PMS, Operations, and Finance systems. Required Qualifications Proficient (3-5 years) with React, CSS and Web development Preferred Qualifications Experience with HTML, React, Javascript and CSS Full life cycle development of a commercial system, including: requirements definition, agile planning, releasing, and production support Experience or excitement working in a small agile and dynamic technology team
We are currently working with a Tier 1 Investment Bank who are in search of a .NET Core Developer to join their team. The role: - work with an agile team on an application being built with .NET Core, React Front End and hosted on Azure cloud - analyse functional requirements, design and implementation - participate in technical design of application components in distributed/web platform - code, test, and deploy application components with local and offshore developers within a Scrum team - responsible for delivering high quality code in production - work with test engineers to ensure minimum defects are introduced into QA - work with business and IT stakeholders to discuss requirements and implementation. You will have the opportunity to work to understand local and global system requirements, design and implement the required functionality/bug fixes/enhancements. You will be responsible for components that are developed across the whole team and deployed globally. You will be a senior member of the team and be in charge of day to day dev activities, release and deployment along with design and development of the application. You will have the opportunity to provide third line support to the application's global user community, which will include assisting dedicated support staff and liaising with the members of other development teams directly - some of which will be local and some remote. The team: This team is building a new application from scratch and you will be responsible for development and overseeing the effort from other members of the team. You will be involved development, release planning and deployment of the application's first go live and all subsequent delivery. Your expertise: - a Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering/Science preferred. - ideally 8 years of core development experience in .NET Framework, with 2 years in .NET Core. - hands on experience with .NET Core 3 and cloud based technologies (preferably Azure). - a good understanding of web UI technologies like React/Angular will be a bonus.
05/11/2021
Full time
We are currently working with a Tier 1 Investment Bank who are in search of a .NET Core Developer to join their team. The role: - work with an agile team on an application being built with .NET Core, React Front End and hosted on Azure cloud - analyse functional requirements, design and implementation - participate in technical design of application components in distributed/web platform - code, test, and deploy application components with local and offshore developers within a Scrum team - responsible for delivering high quality code in production - work with test engineers to ensure minimum defects are introduced into QA - work with business and IT stakeholders to discuss requirements and implementation. You will have the opportunity to work to understand local and global system requirements, design and implement the required functionality/bug fixes/enhancements. You will be responsible for components that are developed across the whole team and deployed globally. You will be a senior member of the team and be in charge of day to day dev activities, release and deployment along with design and development of the application. You will have the opportunity to provide third line support to the application's global user community, which will include assisting dedicated support staff and liaising with the members of other development teams directly - some of which will be local and some remote. The team: This team is building a new application from scratch and you will be responsible for development and overseeing the effort from other members of the team. You will be involved development, release planning and deployment of the application's first go live and all subsequent delivery. Your expertise: - a Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering/Science preferred. - ideally 8 years of core development experience in .NET Framework, with 2 years in .NET Core. - hands on experience with .NET Core 3 and cloud based technologies (preferably Azure). - a good understanding of web UI technologies like React/Angular will be a bonus.
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