Role:                     Business Analyst – Retail Banking Product Proposition              

Rate:                    £500-600/day (via umbrella)

Location:             Remote / London

Duration:            6 months+

Start date:          ASAP

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst to join Challenger banking client helping elicit business requirements for multiple savings product propositions

Knowledge / experience required:

Essential:

• Proven business analysis experience working on Retail Banking product propositions
• An understanding of product approvals / product governance within Retail Banking
• Full product lifecycle experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to solve problems and provide input to drive transformation

Desirable:

• Ability to deliver utilising both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Knowledge of online access savings

Role:                     Project Manager – Retail Banking Product Proposition              

Rate:                    £550-650/day (via umbrella)

Location:             Remote / London

Duration:            6 months+

Start date:          ASAP

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join Challenger banking client helping management the timeline and delivery of various savings product propositions

Knowledge / experience required:

Essential:

• Retail Banking product proposition delivery experience
• An understanding of product approvals / product governance within Retail Banking
• Full product lifecycle experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to solve problems and provide input to drive transformation

Desirable:

• Ability to deliver utilising both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Knowledge of online access savings products
• Experience managing UAT

Role:                     SharePoint Analyst

Rate:                     £500/day (via umbrella)

Location:              Remote / South West (2 days per week in office)

Duration:             4 months + (renewal likely)

Start date:           ASAP

Excellent opportunity for an experienced SharePoint Analyst to assist on a SharePoint migration for a leading Financial Services client

Knowledge / experience required:

Essential:

• Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of Sharepoint online, plus wider Microsoft 365 applications (Power App, Power Automate, Streams)
• Ability to use Sharepoint migrations tools such as Microsoft Sharepoint Migration Tool or ShareGate
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills are key to this role
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable: 

• Financial Services experience

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

Role:                     Lead Software Engineer

Rate:                     £800 /day + (via umbrella)

Location:              Remote

Duration:             6 months+

Start date:           ASAP

Excellent opportunity for an experienced software engineer to join a major banking client and lead a team in their transformation.

Knowledge / experience required:
Essential:

• Java / spring / spring boot
• C# / .NET awareness
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to solve problems and provide input to drive transformation

Desirable:

• React
• Angular
• Rest APIs
• Node.JS
• SQL Server
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud hosting)
• Jenkins
• Understanding of architecture principles and frameworks

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

Role:                     Scrum Master

Rate:                     £500-£550 (via umbrella)

Location:              Remote / South West (2 days per week in office)

Duration:             6 months+

Start date:           ASAP

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Scrum Master to join a financial services client.

Knowledge / experience required:
Essential:

• Looking for someone who has worked as a stand alone Scrum Master
• Minimum 2 years experience leading Scrum Teams
• Strong experience within Scrum and Kanban
• Background in Business Change
• Strong facilitating skills
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Desirable: 

• Financial Services experience

Dev Lead

Location: Bristol

Salary: £70-80k 

Flexible working options: 1-2 days a week from the office 

Job purpose

In order to ensure the successful and quality delivery of the organisations product roadmap, we are seeking a talented Development Lead to join our growing team. Experienced in delivering business to consumer software, working with our product and tech teams, the Development Lead will manage and lead product development, QA and DevOps teams, holding accountability for the timely and within-budget delivery of the platform developments.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the COO, the Development Lead’s key responsibilities will include:

• Managing, measuring and monitoring the effective delivery of the agreed product roadmap.
• Working closely with the CEO and later the Product Analyst, to ensure that the released products have the right customer experience.
• Developing and publishing reports on team velocity and performance.
• Ensuring there is the right flow of information and collaboration between all team members: ensuring the right processes, communication, and reviews are in place and encourage the teams to collaborate fully with total trust.
• Escalate any risks, issues and blockers to the COO.
• Leading the recruitment of a world-class development team.

Experience/qualifications

• Proven experience of working with and leading global software development teams in different time zones.
• Demonstrable experience working within agile and rapid prototyping software development environments to deliver quality software that solves complex customer problems. 
• Experience working in the business to customer software development for web and mobile platforms.
• Proven experience of being an effective Scrum Master.
• Evidence of identifying technology trends, evaluating appropriate technology platforms and figuring out how to harness them for the benefit of the organisation and our customers.
• Setting up new processes and procedures for successful software delivery and operation.
• Familiarity with secure software development lifecycle and building software that is ISO compliant.
• Expertise in working with the latest web and cloud technologies using proprietary and open source software.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

Role:                     BI Developer - Oracle

Rate:                     £450 /day (via umbrella)

Location:              Remote

Duration:             6 months+

Start date:           ASAP

Excellent opportunity for an experienced BI / data warehousing developer to join a financial services client.

Knowledge / experience required:
Essential:

• Sound knowledge and experience of Oracle PL/SQL and Unix scripting
• Ability to deliver data warehousing and BI solutions

Desirable:

• Understanding of mortgages and savings
• Experience of both agile and waterfall environments

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

Role:                     Python Developer

Rate:                     £620 /day (via umbrella)

Location:              Remote / London (2 days per week in office)

Duration:             6 months+

Start date:           ASAP

Excellent opportunity for an experienced python developer to join a financial services client.

Knowledge / experience required:
Essential:

• Java / spring / spring boot
• Python / pandas
• GIT
• Jenkins / Maven
• Experience working within an Agile environment and with Agile development methods e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira or Confluence
• Previous experience within banking or financial services
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable:

• Linux
• MS SQL
• ReactJS
• Containerisation / docker / kubernetes / CaaS
• Cloud experience - AWS, Azure or GCP
• Any experience within DevOps is a bonus

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

Role:                     Software Developer - Sales and Trading

Rate:                     £700 /day (via umbrella)

Location:              Remote / London (2 days per week in office)

Duration:             6 months+

Start date:           ASAP

Excellent opportunity for an experienced software developer to join a financial services client and work within their sales and trading lab.

Knowledge / experience required:
Essential:

• Excellent C# WPF skills
• Devex experience
• An understanding of bonds, commodities and futures

Desirable:

• Experience working as a senior developer
• Banking experience, specifically within sales and trading
• Previous experience working as a business analyst is a bonus