Applicants must reside and be eligible to work in the UK.

Job Role: Service Designer – New Product Proposition - London / Remote

Location: London / Remote (travel to London office expected 1 day per week)

Rate: £625/day (umbrella rate – approx. £6950/month net take home after tax deductions and umbrella fees)

Duration: 6 months

Start: ASAP

Service Designer – New Product Proposition - London / Remote

Summary:

• Working on a greenfield project
• Analyse user needs and business objectives
• Lead on design concepts and high-level service blueprints
• Examine internal and external user cases for Proposition
• Ideate possible service scenarios, verifying use cases, and sequences of actions
• Define vision and outcomes for the proposition, shaping strategy
• Lead on design workshops and design sprints with the team, senior stakeholders, and customers
• Working closely with a User Researcher and UX Designer to deliver a Proof of Concept.

Skills Required:

• Experienced working on discovery/proposition projects working on Proof of Concepts
• Analysing user needs and business objectives in highly complex service areas
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience in large, regulated environments

Applicants must reside and be eligible to work in the UK.

Job Role: User Researcher – New Product Proposition - London / Remote

Location: London / Remote (travel to London office expected 1 day per week)

Rate: £625/day (umbrella rate – approx. £6950/month net take home after tax deductions and umbrella fees)

Duration: 6 months

Start: ASAP

User Researcher – Product Propositions - London / Remote

Summary:

• Working on a greenfield project
• Primarily qualitative research, but also quantitative.
• Examine internal and external user cases for Proposition
• Working closely with a Service Designer and UX Designer to deliver a Proof of Concept.

Skills Required:

• Qualitative research experience with a proven ability to scope research.
• Experience working on discovery projects building Proof of Concepts
• Excellent communication - charismatic & personable individual
• Experience in large, regulated environments

Role: Business Analyst (Permanent)

Salary: £50K

Location: Hertfordshire

Start: ASAP

Business Analyst required for market leading financial services client based in Hertfordshire.  Candidates will have 2-3 years of commercial experience and will posses the following:

• Technical background, can read functional specs.

• Need to sit between business and IT and possess strong communication skills

• Will possess Financial Services experience and ideally Insurance
• Strong Stakeholder engagement skills
• Agile experience (nice to have)

Great opportunity to work in a growing team and to work with some really interesting products.

Please send CV for more details. 

Applicants must reside and be eligible to work in the UK.

Job Role: DevOps Consultant / Engineer – London / Remote

Location: London / Remote (Travel to London expected 1 day per week)

Rate: £750-800/day (umbrella rate – approx. £8500/month net take home after tax deductions and umbrella fees)

Duration: 6-12 months

Start: ASAP

DevOps Consultant / Engineer – London / Remote

Summary:

• Working within a multidisciplined facilitator team of subject matter experts (SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps engineering)
  • SRE:  managing services that are already live, including microservices, load balances, databases.
  • Platform Engineering: engineering tasks, building out functionality of the platform
  • DevOps: new or existing service needs to move onto the cloud – CI/CD pipeline.
• Not expecting someone with the whole breadth of experience, but looking for hunger to develop knowledge and likely have expertise in 1 of the above areas
• Building Azure Cloud Platform

Skills Required:

• Cloud Platform Experience (Azure, Cloud, GCP)
• Kubernetes and CI/CD – Service Mesh – need to understand how an application runs, how it scales.
• DevOps Experience
• Platform – understanding application context
• Particularly technology knowledge isn’t required, just good practice – designs / builds good code.
• Regulated environment experience
• A can-do attitude and a hunger to develop technical knowledge

Role: Digital Product Owner (Digital / Mobile) 

Location: Gloucestershire

Duration: 6 months

Rate: £645 via Umbrella

Start Date: ASAP

• Digital Product Owner required for market leading Financial Services client based in Gloucester.
• Candidates will have a strong background as a Product Owner and will possess a background in Digital Products
• Will have experience of launching new Products and building propositions, ideally within Mobile/Online Apps
• Must have enterprise level thinking and have worked in an Agile environment previously
• Must have strong stakeholder management and communication skills 
• Any Salesforce knowledge would be well received

Please send CV for further details. 

Role: Solution Architect

Rate: £750 - £850/day (via umbrella)

Location: Remote (occasional travel to London)

Duration: 12 months

Solution Architect is required to work for a leading banking client for an initial 12 month contract, with the expectation for this to run beyond initial contract length. This role will be predominantly home-based, with some travel to the clients office in London.

Key skills and experience required:

• On-prem to cloud experience
• Experience with API’s, data integration and microservices
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure / GCP)
• Proven experience of ownership of solutions through delivery and transition into operation and their subsequent refinement, or modification
• SAS solutions
• Connecting and integrating API’s
• Experience designing; Digital Channels, MicroServices including failure modes, REST API, security standards, patterns, gateways, SOAP,  multi-cloud integration including SaaS and legacy on-premise
• Able to liaise with stakeholders effectively

Applicants must reside and be eligible to work in the UK.

Job Role: UX Designer – Navigation / IA

Location: London / Remote

Rate: £600-650/day (umbrella rate)

Duration: 6 months (extensions expected)

Start: ASAP

UX Designer – Navigation / Information Architecture

Opportunity for an experienced UX / Interaction Design to get involved with a major banking client across Mobile / Internet Banking HCD improvements. The role will require travel to the office in central London up to 1-2 times per week, but may be less depending on project and business needs.

Summary:

• Evolution of navigation of Mobile app and Internet Banking
• Deeper navigation associated with accounts; features are continually added but navigation needs to be streamlined for a more User-centric experience.
• Will involve grouping features / information for easier navigation
• Additional tasks as requirements across mobile / Internet banking

Skills Required:

• Take initiative, ale to own a problem/requirement rather than asking for help or direction.
• Experienced UX / Interaction Designer skill set
• Ability to face up to and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Need to be flexible with approach, work well in a team environment.
• App navigation design experience, looking at Information Architecture
• Financial Services / Corporate environment experience

Applicants must reside and be eligible to work in the UK.

Job Role: Drupal Developer

Location: Fully Remote

Rate: £350-450/day – Outside IR35

Duration: 2 weeks

Start: ASAP

Drupal Developer – Short-term contract – Remote working

Skills needed:

• Drupal 8/9 experience
• Experience in custom module development
• API Development (Entity)
• Code re-factoring experience – making existing code more performant
• Docker / docker-compose 

Role: Finance Project Manager

Rate: £500pd via Umbrella

Duration: 6 months

Location: Gloucester

Start: ASAP

Finance Project Manager required for market leading Financial Services client based in Gloucester.

• Must have a strong background in Project Management and will have previously led Finance related deliveries
• Significant experience of driving change in financial services organisations
• Significant experience working within a finance environment
• Significant experience of project delivery methodologies and processes

Any experience of working on Finance related deliveries such as Sarbanes-Oxley will be well received.

Please send CV for more info. 

Role: Business Analyst (Asset Finance)

Rate: £550/day (via umbrella)

Duration: 6 months (long-term extensions beyond initial contract)

Location: London (Flexible Working) 

Asset Finance Business Analyst required to work with a Banking client based in London, with the option of flexible/remote working. The successful candidate will be required to hit the ground running

Key skills & experience required:

- Separation / divestment experience required

- Asset Finance experience is highly desirable

- Full project lifecycle knowledge

- Requirements gathering and documentation  

- Solid core BA skillset required with the ability to facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders

- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to forge relationships quickly with key stakeholders