Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location.

Job Role: UI Designer - Remote

Location: Remote

Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 (dependant on experience)

Start Date: ASAP

UI Designer – Remote Working

Excellent opportunity for an experienced UI Designer to work with a growing UK tech client that provides Data Management solutions utilising AI & Data Science. 

The client is based in Buckinghamshire; however, their flexible working stance is you can come in as often or as little as you like (or not at all!) – It’s entirely up to you.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
• Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

Experience Required:

• Proven UI experience (2+ years)
• Demonstrable UI design skills with a strong portfolio
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or other visual design and wire-framing tools
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Excellent Benefits, Including:

• 9% Pension contribution and full private health care
• Mental wellbeing support – including private counselling, 24/7 helpline, and wellbeing workshops
• 25 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays
• Monthly allowance towards phone / internet costs
• Personal training allowance
• Monetairy allowance for home office equipment – such as a desk, comfy office chair, etc.

Reference : 2118
Job Title : Data Analyst

• As a result of mergers, historical position data will need to be migrated from one fund to another, and the previous records terminated, in order to ensure Fund Monitoring capabilities in FactSet/Bloomberg are not impacted by change.

• • Due to Phase1 go live being pushed back current resource will no longer be in place for phase 1 go live

• • • Phase 1 IDH dev theoretically could be completed ahead of go-live, however would be untested as SSGS changes are an enabler which won’t be made until go-live.

• • • Will not be able to offer any post go-live support for Phase 1

• • No DA is currently allocated for Phase 2 migration activity

• New Fund Managers are sending automated direct data feeds for Schedule 5 monitoring requirement submission.

• • DA resource required to work with managers to build Schedule 5 process

• • • Agreeing content & transmission with managers

• • • Testing feed & developing ingestion jobs into IDH

• • • Building PowerBI/data outputs to satisfy analyst monitoring requirements

• • Managers in scope for Phase 1 have been engaged & files agreed

• • • Expecting test files for 2/3 managers ahead of go-live, remaining 1 manager will deliver after go-live.

• • • IDH development to ingest files cannot commence until test files in-place

• • • Development activity to load and report on these files likely to last until early/mid-August

• • No DA assigned for Phase 2 manager feeds

• • • Phase 2 manager feeds significantly higher impact on basis that additional T & C data from Amundi required in order to load Aladdin/Bloomberg/Factset. Without this data in place SJP will have no monitoring capability for Liquid Alts

Role: Head of Test & QA

Location: Bristol

Salary: £60-65K

Start: ASAP

Head of Test & QA required for market leading Bristol based client within the Tech for Good sector.

Will define and implement an effective Test and QA strategy.

Be responsible for managing the release process and ensuring the quality of the product delivered to the production environment.

Manage a team of Testers and Developers in Test, ensuring that the team is maximising its performance and has the required support, tooling and developmental opportunities

Will possess as much of the following technologies as possible: 

• Azure DevOps Test Plans
• Postman API
• Fiddler
• Agile Development
• End to End testing
• REST/JSON
• BDD
• Security testing
• JMeter/Gatling/K6
• Continuous Delivery
• C#

Please send CV for further details. 

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location.

Job Role: Data Engineer - Remote

Location: Remote (travel once a fortnight to office in Gloucestershire)

Rate: £550/day (Umbrella rate - approx. £6200 per month after tax deductions)

Duration: 6 Months initial

Start Date: ASAP

Data Engineer - Remote

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Engineer to work with a Financial Services client. The Data Engineer will use their expertise in developing Data Pipelines to ensure deliverables meet Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Build Pipelines from Analysts’ data mapping
• Implement Architecture based on models developed by data architecture team.
• Ensure quality by reviewing and documenting development against standards
• Communicate with other members of the Project Team to report progress, resolve problems and share knowledge.

Experience Required:

• 3+ years with ANSI SQL compliant Datastores (Snowflake)
• Building ELT Pipelines (Matillion)
• Data Warehousing concepts (Kimball)
• Highly analytical and able to problem solve.
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative.

• Works well under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Ideally experience with Erwin & SQL Server

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location.

Job Role: User Researcher - Remote

Location: Remote

Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 (dependant on experience)

Start Date: ASAP

User Researcher – Remote Working

Excellent opportunity for an experienced User Researcher to work with a growing UK tech client that provides Data Management solutions utilising AI & Data Science. You will be instrumental in ensuring a User-centric approach by conducting user research, running usability tests, and working closely with design and product teams.

The client is based in Buckinghamshire; however, their flexible working stance is you can come in as often or as little as you like (or not at all!) – It’s entirely up to you.

Responsibilities:

• Working within UX principles and best practice to deliver creative user-centric solutions for the business.
• Conducting user research activities, including user interviews, affinity sorting, building personas, gathering data & insights, and usability testing.
• Take insights and gather requirements from UX workshops with the business and end users, working with UX / UI Designers to translate them into design deliverables.
• Use research findings, market, and competition analysis to support future design/research strategy.
• Work with the development team and ensure for quality and user experience is kept front and centre.
• Ensure proposed UX solutions comply with usability/accessibility guidelines and provide relevant material to delivery/development teams for implementation.

Experience Required:

• Good communication skills and able to clearly articulate thinking.
• Proven experience in conducting User Research activities (2+ years’ experience ideally)
• Understanding of different internal / external audience groups.

Genuinely Excellent Benefits, Which Include:

• 9% Pension contribution and full private health care
• Mental wellbeing support – including private counselling, 24/7 helpline, and wellbeing workshops
• 25 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays
• Monthly allowance towards phone / internet costs
• Personal training allowance
• Monetairy allowance for home office equipment – such as a desk, comfy office chair, etc.

Job Title: Automation Test Analyst

Location: South West

Rate: £400 per day (Outside IR35)

Duration: 6 months

Automation Test Analyst required for market leading organisation based in the South West.  Will have as much of the following as possible. 

• LoadRunner TruClient specialism, i.e. used it to create functions, define custom object definitions (XPath, JavaScript), execute JavaScript on Objects
• XPath 
• JavaScript 
• Experience of testing ERP systems
• Experience of automation against a dynamic interface i.e. the form and its options change based on your input and other factors
• 3+ years of Automation experience (UFT1)

Please send CV in the first instance.  There is remote working available with this opportunity.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location.

Job Role: UX Designer – Financial Services

Location: South West (with flexible & remote working)

Rate: £550/day (Umbrella rate - approx. £6200/month net take-home after all tax deductions)

Duration: 6 months

Start Date: ASAP

UX Designer – Financial Services

Excellent opportunity for an experienced UX Designer to work with a Financial Services client based in the South West. You will be instrumental in creating effective User-centred design for interal and external forms.

Responsibilities:

• Leading User-centred design activities, implementing UX principles and best practice to deliver creative user-centric solutions.
• Take insights and gather requirements from UX workshops with the business and end users, translating them into design deliverables.
• Designing wireframes and prototypes, deliver improvements to existing product lines, and create new innovative solutions.
• Engaging with relevant stakeholders to ensure solutions are consistent with existing UI patterns and are on-brand.
• Use research findings, market, and competition analysis to drive future design strategy.
• Work with the development team and ensure for quality and user experience is kept front and centre.
• Ensure proposed UX solutions comply with usability/accessibility guidelines and provide relevant material to delivery/development teams for implementation.

Experience Required:

• Good communication skills and able to clearly articulate thinking and influence stakeholders.
• Have a portfolio you can share that demonstrate your work and process.
• Proven experience in UX Design with forms, ideally with experience in FormStack or DocuSign.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location.

Job Role: UX / UI Designer – Digital Transformation – Banking

Location:  Remote (with 1-2 days based in London office from end of year)

Rate: £625/day (Umbrella rate - approx. £6950/month net take-home after all tax deductions)

Duration: 6 months initially (lots of work here with good potential to extend)

Start Date: ASAP

UX / UI Designer – Digital Transformation – Banking

Excellent opportunity for an experienced UX / UI Designer with Content and Research experience to work with a Banking client on a digital transformation initiative. You will be instrumental in creating effective User-centred and Visual designs for the bank’s key business clients.

Summary:

• Entering at Discovery phase
• Looking at researching business clients, understand requirements, test and learn

• Business clients themselves are complex with things they deliver, their turnover etc, therefore a complex environment where there are lots of different variables and priorities are continually moving.
• A supportive team that looks after each other through any pivoting / changing requirements

• Incremental, iterative, agile

• Performance driven and insight led, looking at data/insights to drive strategy.
• Ensuring consistent design and visual identity
• Looking at bettering forms of communication with clients, simpler navigation and more accessible (improving user journeys)

• Looking at User Journeys, doing mock-ups

Experience Required:

• Good communication skills and able to clearly articulate thinking
• Broad design skills across Visual/UI Design, Content Design (mostly reviewing / improving content), UX Design and ideally some User Research experience.
• Ideally experienced in design within CMS, or have an understanding of restrictions of CMS.
• Experience in complex environments with continually changing goalposts.
• Character – happy to roll sleeves up, take initiative, be proactive in taking on more when you have capacity.
• Experience in Financial Services or regulated environments.
• Breadth of understanding of different audience groups.

Role: Test Manager

Location: Bristol

Duration: 12 month Fixed-Term Contract

Salary: £50-55K

• Test Manager required for market leading Financial Services client on a 12 month FTC
• Will be required to develop and manage Test strategy for a major migration programme. 
• Must have previous experience of managing complex Migration programmes and will have led small to medium sized Test teams previously. 
• Will have previously led teams and built Test Strategies from the ground up / E2E
• Financial Services experience will be well received
• Strong Communication and Stakeholder management skills 
• Great Opportunity to join a growing organisation experiencing growth.  

Please send CV for further details.