Job Title: Technical/Solution Architect Location: London, EC2 Hire Type: Permanent Position Salary Offered £100,000 to £115,000 per annum + Benefits Starting ASAP Dimensions This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest European investment management businesses. Our client is currently on a digital transformation journey and require a talented individual to take responsibility for a number of end-to-end technology solutions to deliver strategic business outcomes. The candidate will be required to put forward roadmaps and designs for an all-encompassing vision for target state technology solutions for the initiatives, and work with several engineering teams spanning multiple technologies to ensure its implementation. The person filling this position will interact with a number of people in IT, the business and external vendors, so good verbal as well as written communication skills are of paramount importance. The candidate must be able to identify and resolve issues that are creating inefficiencies or hindering progress proactively. Principal Responsibilities Design Ownership o Producing and owning the end-to-end design of the solution spanning multiple software components (evidencing at all points how the design answers the requirements - clear traceability) o Working with engineering teams to ensure detailed component-level design responds to the end-to-end design o Working with the Senior Architects to ensure that data and functional architectures adhere to the high-level architecture principles and support target state vision for the enterprise o Working with the IT Infrastructure implementation team to make sure that planned infrastructure adequately supports the software components of the solution Requirements o Working closely with Business stakeholders, Product Managers/Owners and Business Analysts to help translate desired business outcomes into robust system requirements, both functional and non-functional Development & Testing: o Facilitate and participate in detailed design reviews and ensure that all components of the solution are aligned to the target state vision o Working with the testing team to support the definition and implementation of the testing strategy for the initiative Software Delivery o Working with component developers to elicit, validate and refine estimates for developing the software components o Planning and coordination of deployment activities across multiple technology platforms o Overall accountability for delivering technology change is shared with IT project managers Profile of ideal candidate Academic Qualifications: Educated to degree level Experience: Substantial experience in software/application development with progressively increasing responsibilities and long-term engagements with employers. Track record of designing and delivering solution architecture for data-intensive initiatives spanning multiple technologies, delivered over the course of 2-3 years, and budgeted above £5m. Experience of large transformational projects with multi-year system migration planning. Experience of the Charles River product and interfaces. Experience implementing and integrating 3rd party packages as part of technology solutions. Experience with Agile delivery methodologies; working knowledge of the SAFe framework would be a plus. Practical understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). Experience working on investment management Front Office systems including portfolio management systems, OMS & trading platforms. Understanding of IBOR & ABOR fundamentals. Specialist knowledge/skills Excellent understanding and practical experience of defining, designing and implementing Microservices in an enterprise environment Excellent understanding and practical experience of cloud technologies, including PaaS, container platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), Serverless, etc. Experience with Red Hat Openshift and AWS of significant benefit Experience of Business Process Management (BPM) tools and techniques; ideally using Pega and Camunda Experience with a range of modern enterprise application integration technologies such as Apache Camel and MuleSoft Knowledge of enterprise messaging technologies with experience of Kafka Knowledge of UX/UI design and technologies In addition, it would be a plus to have exposure to: o Big Data technology stacks, such as Cloudera CDH/CDP o Data management and data quality tools Competence/Characteristics Self-starter Visual thinker able to communicate effectively with diagrams Good facilitation skills, ability to broker an agreement on a contentious issue Proactive, can learn'/can do' attitude Team & customer focused Good attention to detail Intellectual honesty
05/11/2021
Full time
Job Title: Technical/Solution Architect Location: London, EC2 Hire Type: Permanent Position Salary Offered £100,000 to £115,000 per annum + Benefits Starting ASAP Dimensions This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest European investment management businesses. Our client is currently on a digital transformation journey and require a talented individual to take responsibility for a number of end-to-end technology solutions to deliver strategic business outcomes. The candidate will be required to put forward roadmaps and designs for an all-encompassing vision for target state technology solutions for the initiatives, and work with several engineering teams spanning multiple technologies to ensure its implementation. The person filling this position will interact with a number of people in IT, the business and external vendors, so good verbal as well as written communication skills are of paramount importance. The candidate must be able to identify and resolve issues that are creating inefficiencies or hindering progress proactively. Principal Responsibilities Design Ownership o Producing and owning the end-to-end design of the solution spanning multiple software components (evidencing at all points how the design answers the requirements - clear traceability) o Working with engineering teams to ensure detailed component-level design responds to the end-to-end design o Working with the Senior Architects to ensure that data and functional architectures adhere to the high-level architecture principles and support target state vision for the enterprise o Working with the IT Infrastructure implementation team to make sure that planned infrastructure adequately supports the software components of the solution Requirements o Working closely with Business stakeholders, Product Managers/Owners and Business Analysts to help translate desired business outcomes into robust system requirements, both functional and non-functional Development & Testing: o Facilitate and participate in detailed design reviews and ensure that all components of the solution are aligned to the target state vision o Working with the testing team to support the definition and implementation of the testing strategy for the initiative Software Delivery o Working with component developers to elicit, validate and refine estimates for developing the software components o Planning and coordination of deployment activities across multiple technology platforms o Overall accountability for delivering technology change is shared with IT project managers Profile of ideal candidate Academic Qualifications: Educated to degree level Experience: Substantial experience in software/application development with progressively increasing responsibilities and long-term engagements with employers. Track record of designing and delivering solution architecture for data-intensive initiatives spanning multiple technologies, delivered over the course of 2-3 years, and budgeted above £5m. Experience of large transformational projects with multi-year system migration planning. Experience of the Charles River product and interfaces. Experience implementing and integrating 3rd party packages as part of technology solutions. Experience with Agile delivery methodologies; working knowledge of the SAFe framework would be a plus. Practical understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). Experience working on investment management Front Office systems including portfolio management systems, OMS & trading platforms. Understanding of IBOR & ABOR fundamentals. Specialist knowledge/skills Excellent understanding and practical experience of defining, designing and implementing Microservices in an enterprise environment Excellent understanding and practical experience of cloud technologies, including PaaS, container platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), Serverless, etc. Experience with Red Hat Openshift and AWS of significant benefit Experience of Business Process Management (BPM) tools and techniques; ideally using Pega and Camunda Experience with a range of modern enterprise application integration technologies such as Apache Camel and MuleSoft Knowledge of enterprise messaging technologies with experience of Kafka Knowledge of UX/UI design and technologies In addition, it would be a plus to have exposure to: o Big Data technology stacks, such as Cloudera CDH/CDP o Data management and data quality tools Competence/Characteristics Self-starter Visual thinker able to communicate effectively with diagrams Good facilitation skills, ability to broker an agreement on a contentious issue Proactive, can learn'/can do' attitude Team & customer focused Good attention to detail Intellectual honesty
Your role: My client is looking for a BigData Platform Engineers to assist in developing a state-of-the-art Front Office Risk System using Cloud Microsoft Azure technologies. The selected consultant must have the ability to resolve complex issues and think outside of the traditional development box. We are looking for an platform engineer to: Resolve big data processing problems at enterprise scale implement infrastructure automation of a BigData stack (data lake, security, failover, auto-scaling) in Azure contribute to code base in Java, Scala and Python understands design principles underpinning data warehouses and data lakes understand importance of automated testing and different levels at which these need to be performed have the ability to think outside the box and willingness to learn new skills have the aptitude to work in a challenging environment with frequent deadlines and deliverables be part of a strategic programme Your team You will be working in the Front Office Risk and P&L team in London alongside the Business. The team is highly motivated and is part of a global multi-discipline team and consists of data quants, business analysts, software engineers and some of the bank's best technologists. Your primary focus will be on delivering a platform for data analytics and processing solution, along with a highly scalable workflow orchestration engine with state of art dependency tracking and monitoring. Your expertise Very strong knowledge on Data Lake automation, security and governance - preferably on Azure Data Lake Gen 2 Experience working with other non-data lake cloud platform services (Azure Databricks preferred) Be able to solve issues with security, networking, data recovery, backups Able code in at least on one of the following languages at enterprise level: Scala/Java/Python strong analytical, problem-solving and synthesizing skills (you know how to resolve issues) Datamodelling worked with agile SDLC and TDD methodologies, with Git/GitHub and continuous integration the ability to work closely with business partners, as part of a global team, delivering iteratively experience working with an investment banks' Front Office - trading, sales is desirable You are: passionate about what you do, you value excellence, learning and integrity enjoy a work environment that places emphasis on team work, collaboration and delivering business value while working at a sustainable pace someone who is technically excellent and can aspire, and inspire others, to our values and culture proactive, detail-oriented and comfortable working in dynamic environments with fast paced deliveries and changing requirements a self-sufficient, quick learner, who can work well both independently as well as in a team an excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills in English
04/10/2021
Full time
Your role: My client is looking for a BigData Platform Engineers to assist in developing a state-of-the-art Front Office Risk System using Cloud Microsoft Azure technologies. The selected consultant must have the ability to resolve complex issues and think outside of the traditional development box. We are looking for an platform engineer to: Resolve big data processing problems at enterprise scale implement infrastructure automation of a BigData stack (data lake, security, failover, auto-scaling) in Azure contribute to code base in Java, Scala and Python understands design principles underpinning data warehouses and data lakes understand importance of automated testing and different levels at which these need to be performed have the ability to think outside the box and willingness to learn new skills have the aptitude to work in a challenging environment with frequent deadlines and deliverables be part of a strategic programme Your team You will be working in the Front Office Risk and P&L team in London alongside the Business. The team is highly motivated and is part of a global multi-discipline team and consists of data quants, business analysts, software engineers and some of the bank's best technologists. Your primary focus will be on delivering a platform for data analytics and processing solution, along with a highly scalable workflow orchestration engine with state of art dependency tracking and monitoring. Your expertise Very strong knowledge on Data Lake automation, security and governance - preferably on Azure Data Lake Gen 2 Experience working with other non-data lake cloud platform services (Azure Databricks preferred) Be able to solve issues with security, networking, data recovery, backups Able code in at least on one of the following languages at enterprise level: Scala/Java/Python strong analytical, problem-solving and synthesizing skills (you know how to resolve issues) Datamodelling worked with agile SDLC and TDD methodologies, with Git/GitHub and continuous integration the ability to work closely with business partners, as part of a global team, delivering iteratively experience working with an investment banks' Front Office - trading, sales is desirable You are: passionate about what you do, you value excellence, learning and integrity enjoy a work environment that places emphasis on team work, collaboration and delivering business value while working at a sustainable pace someone who is technically excellent and can aspire, and inspire others, to our values and culture proactive, detail-oriented and comfortable working in dynamic environments with fast paced deliveries and changing requirements a self-sufficient, quick learner, who can work well both independently as well as in a team an excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills in English
My client is looking for a Scala & Spark Developer support in developing a state-of-the-art Front Office Risk System using Cloud Microsoft Azure technologies The selected consultant must have the ability to resolve complex issues and think outside of the traditional development box. We are looking for an IT software engineer to: resolve big data processing problems at enterprise scale develop and improve data pipelines in Apache Spark written in Scala perform Scala code reviews, improve and optimize code understands design principles underpinning data warehouses and data lakes understand importance of automated testing and different levels at which these need to be performed have the ability to think outside the box and willingness to learn new skills have the aptitude to work in a challenging environment with frequent deadlines and deliverables be part of a strategic programme Team You will be working in the Front Office Risk and P&L team in London alongside the Business. The team is highly motivated and is part of a global multi-discipline team and consists of data quants, business analysts, software engineers and some of the bank's best technologists. Your primary focus will be on delivering a platform for data analytics and processing solution, along with a highly scalable workflow orchestration engine with state of art dependency tracking and monitoring. Your expertise very strong Scala knowledge, good Java, Python desirable strong analytical, problem-solving and synthesizing skills (you know how to resolve issues) strong experience solving problems with Apache Spark (enterprise level usage of Databricks desirable) Datamodelling understanding of Microservice design patterns and how to apply them appropriately (desirable) large-scale enterprise, object-oriented design and hands-on experience in building distributed systems worked with agile SDLC and TDD methodologies, with Git/GitHub and continuous integration the ability to work closely with business partners, as part of a global team, delivering iteratively risk calculation knowledge (TV, Greeks, PnL) is desirable experience working with an investment banks' Front Office - trading, sales is desirable You are: passionate about what you do, you value excellence, learning and integrity enjoy a work environment that places emphasis on team work, collaboration and delivering business value while working at a sustainable pace someone who is technically excellent and can aspire, and inspire others, to our values and culture proactive, detail-oriented and comfortable working in dynamic environments with fast paced deliveries and changing requirements a self-sufficient, quick learner, who can work well both independently as well as in a team an excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills in English
04/10/2021
Full time
My client is looking for a Scala & Spark Developer support in developing a state-of-the-art Front Office Risk System using Cloud Microsoft Azure technologies The selected consultant must have the ability to resolve complex issues and think outside of the traditional development box. We are looking for an IT software engineer to: resolve big data processing problems at enterprise scale develop and improve data pipelines in Apache Spark written in Scala perform Scala code reviews, improve and optimize code understands design principles underpinning data warehouses and data lakes understand importance of automated testing and different levels at which these need to be performed have the ability to think outside the box and willingness to learn new skills have the aptitude to work in a challenging environment with frequent deadlines and deliverables be part of a strategic programme Team You will be working in the Front Office Risk and P&L team in London alongside the Business. The team is highly motivated and is part of a global multi-discipline team and consists of data quants, business analysts, software engineers and some of the bank's best technologists. Your primary focus will be on delivering a platform for data analytics and processing solution, along with a highly scalable workflow orchestration engine with state of art dependency tracking and monitoring. Your expertise very strong Scala knowledge, good Java, Python desirable strong analytical, problem-solving and synthesizing skills (you know how to resolve issues) strong experience solving problems with Apache Spark (enterprise level usage of Databricks desirable) Datamodelling understanding of Microservice design patterns and how to apply them appropriately (desirable) large-scale enterprise, object-oriented design and hands-on experience in building distributed systems worked with agile SDLC and TDD methodologies, with Git/GitHub and continuous integration the ability to work closely with business partners, as part of a global team, delivering iteratively risk calculation knowledge (TV, Greeks, PnL) is desirable experience working with an investment banks' Front Office - trading, sales is desirable You are: passionate about what you do, you value excellence, learning and integrity enjoy a work environment that places emphasis on team work, collaboration and delivering business value while working at a sustainable pace someone who is technically excellent and can aspire, and inspire others, to our values and culture proactive, detail-oriented and comfortable working in dynamic environments with fast paced deliveries and changing requirements a self-sufficient, quick learner, who can work well both independently as well as in a team an excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills in English
We are currently looking for a Production support consultant to join our client full time. The role will consist of a mixture of working from home and in the office. Required Skills: Previous experience within Application Support, Development or DevOps based role. Experience with automation Experience with applications hosted within Unix environment Database SQL knowledge in any Relation Database Management System Experience with some programming languages such as Unix Shell Scripting, Python or Perl Knowledge of third-party Observability tools such as 3Forge/Elastic (ELK)/Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus Experience with developing Front End screens using UX technologies - Java/JavaScript/NodeJS Desired Skills: Experience in developing tools using third party/vendor products. Previous experience with ITRS Geneos Monitoring and Service Now Experience working within Financial organization ITIL Knowledge/Certifications Knowledge of Fix Protocol Knowledge of network latency measurement tools like Corvil/PICO The selected consultant will be offered a Salary of £90k + the following Benefits Pension - Health Insurance - Life Insurance - Cycle to work Scheme - Season Loan Ticket - Mum in Balance - Employee Assistance Programme - Overseas Employees Parents Medical Insurance
04/10/2021
Full time
We are currently looking for a Production support consultant to join our client full time. The role will consist of a mixture of working from home and in the office. Required Skills: Previous experience within Application Support, Development or DevOps based role. Experience with automation Experience with applications hosted within Unix environment Database SQL knowledge in any Relation Database Management System Experience with some programming languages such as Unix Shell Scripting, Python or Perl Knowledge of third-party Observability tools such as 3Forge/Elastic (ELK)/Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus Experience with developing Front End screens using UX technologies - Java/JavaScript/NodeJS Desired Skills: Experience in developing tools using third party/vendor products. Previous experience with ITRS Geneos Monitoring and Service Now Experience working within Financial organization ITIL Knowledge/Certifications Knowledge of Fix Protocol Knowledge of network latency measurement tools like Corvil/PICO The selected consultant will be offered a Salary of £90k + the following Benefits Pension - Health Insurance - Life Insurance - Cycle to work Scheme - Season Loan Ticket - Mum in Balance - Employee Assistance Programme - Overseas Employees Parents Medical Insurance
