Job Overview:
The successful candidate will be a programmer with experience in C++ and Java development. The role involves enhancement and migration of the existing code base requiring good knowledge of desigining performance efficient solutions. Ability to understand business flows is also key in order to support and maintain the existing systems.

Key requirements:
* Support a suite of existing applications within the asset servicing world.
* Make both tactical/strategic changes to the established code base
* Liaise with developers/development teams/stakeholders within region, and in other regions.
* Ability to understand programming deficiencies with a view to improve performance and maintainability.

Application area involves following functions in Asset servicing.
* Corporate Actions
* Income - Dividends and Coupons
* Claims Tracking
* Tax Calculation and Reporting

Key Objectives critical to success of the role:
* Rapid assimilation & understanding of existing applications and technical environment.
* A desire to take resposibility and ownership of components/processes within the team
* Pragmatic approach to problem solving
* Ability to commuicate and work effectively within the peer group

Skills & Experience

Required:
* Investment Bank Back Office Experience
* Degree in Computer Science, or other numerate dicipline
* Extensive programming experience in C++ and Java
* Relational Database, pref. Sybase
* Unix knowledge
* Basic Shell Scripting knowledge
* Minimum 10 years commercial IT Experience

Desirable:
* Corporate Actions knowledge
* Knowledge/experience of build,deployment and versioning tools such as Maven,Jenkins,GitHub
* XML processing experience.
* Sybase IQ
* Messaging systems: IBM WebSphere MQ

Job Overview:
The successful candidate will be a programmer with experience in C++ and Java development. The role involves enhancement and migration of the existing code base requiring good knowledge of desigining performance efficient solutions. Ability to understand business flows is also key in order to support and maintain the existing systems.

Key requirements:
* Support a suite of existing applications within the asset servicing world.
* Make both tactical/strategic changes to the established code base
* Liaise with developers/development teams/stakeholders within region, and in other regions.
* Ability to understand programming deficiencies with a view to improve performance and maintainability.

Application area involves following functions in Asset servicing.
* Corporate Actions
* Income - Dividends and Coupons
* Claims Tracking
* Tax Calculation and Reporting

Key Objectives critical to success of the role:
* Rapid assimilation & understanding of existing applications and technical environment.
* A desire to take resposibility and ownership of components/processes within the team
* Pragmatic approach to problem solving
* Ability to commuicate and work effectively within the peer group

Skills & Experience

Required:
* Investment Bank Back Office Experience
* Degree in Computer Science, or other numerate dicipline
* Extensive programming experience in C++ and Java
* Relational Database, pref. Sybase
* Unix knowledge
* Basic Shell Scripting knowledge
* Minimum 10 years commercial IT Experience

Desirable:
* Corporate Actions knowledge
* Knowledge/experience of build,deployment and versioning tools such as Maven,Jenkins,GitHub
* XML processing experience.
* Sybase IQ
* Messaging systems: IBM WebSphere MQ

PHP Web Developer - Birmingham - Salary DOE

We are IT recruitment specialists partnered with a multi award-winning content protection solutions provider who require a Web Developer with strong PHP or C++ experience.

You will have the opportunity to work on solutions for some of the biggest and most well-known sports and entertainment brands in the world. If you are keen to work with the leading global provider of channel, content and platform protection services - get in touch today!

Key responsibilities:

• Create and maintain software documentation
• Develop functions for pushing/pulling data into and from databases
• Implement task runner/worker components and interface with other internal solution components
• Gathering and refining requirements

What do you need?

• Strong commercial software development experience, PHP and/or C++
• Experience in software development for distributed systems.
• Excellent mathematical and communication skills.
• Experience with automated testing best practices, and Continuous Integration/Delivery.
• Familiarity with software configuration management (SCM) concepts and version control systems, especially Git.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux systems, including Scripting skills.

Desirable experience, skills and tools

• Image/video processing techniques and libraries (especially OpenCV)
• AWS cloud services (including ECS, EC2, CloudWatch, RDS, Lambda, S3)
• PHP Scripting
• Docker
• GitLab CI
• Embedded C
• MySQL
• Redis
• Beanstalk/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ
• BEng/MEng/BSc/MSc in relevant subject from a Russell Group University

PHP Web Developer - Birmingham - Salary DOE

PHP Web Developer - Birmingham - Salary DOE

We are IT recruitment specialists partnered with a multi award-winning content protection solutions provider who require a Web Developer with strong PHP or C++ experience.

You will have the opportunity to work on solutions for some of the biggest and most well-known sports and entertainment brands in the world. If you are keen to work with the leading global provider of channel, content and platform protection services - get in touch today!

Key responsibilities:

• Create and maintain software documentation
• Develop functions for pushing/pulling data into and from databases
• Implement task runner/worker components and interface with other internal solution components
• Gathering and refining requirements

What do you need?

• Strong commercial software development experience, PHP and/or C++
• Experience in software development for distributed systems.
• Excellent mathematical and communication skills.
• Experience with automated testing best practices, and Continuous Integration/Delivery.
• Familiarity with software configuration management (SCM) concepts and version control systems, especially Git.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux systems, including Scripting skills.

Desirable experience, skills and tools

• Image/video processing techniques and libraries (especially OpenCV)
• AWS cloud services (including ECS, EC2, CloudWatch, RDS, Lambda, S3)
• PHP Scripting
• Docker
• GitLab CI
• Embedded C
• MySQL
• Redis
• Beanstalk/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ
• BEng/MEng/BSc/MSc in relevant subject from a Russell Group University

PHP Web Developer - Birmingham - Salary DOE

Lead Network Architect

Location: London

Business Description:

Client is a leading global investment client with a substantial private client's franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the Client is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 73 countries, Client offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world.

Key Objectives of Role:

• The Lead Network Architect has continuous responsibility for the network architecture/engineering, design definition and documentation of various network infrastructure, load balancer and security products. The role also includes integrating new infrastructure components into client's centralized management, monitoring and self-service configuration systems.
• In practice, the Lead Engineer works on the details of the network infrastructure products, services, and/or technologies and can filter to the right/higher level of detail when engaging Enterprise/Domain Engineers. The focus of the Lead Engineer is on network infrastructure technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the IT architecture/engineering, the design definition and the engineering documentation of a network infrastructure product or service including hardware/software changes or enhancements with a focus on design and implementation of ADC/F5 technology solutions.
• Engages in projects affecting the network infrastructure products or services under their responsibility in order to determine and confirm technical and network infrastructure related aspects of solution engineering and design, considering specific business constraints, requirements and dependencies.
• Determine and agree a network infrastructure solution in accordance with the domain and enterprise engineering blueprint and with regard to the long-term network infrastructure portfolio strategy including total cost of ownership.
• Contribute to and/or review high-level and low-level network design documentation and approve.
• Measure the quality of the developed solution from an engineering perspective and ensure the conformance of delivered network infrastructure designs with predefined quality metrics.
• As part of the Lead Engineer's role, ensures alignment to Enterprise and Domain Engineering standards and processes and ensure usage of Enterprise and Domain Engineering assets, where possible.
• Contributes technical and application related aspects to the overall Enterprise and Domain Engineering blueprints.
• Responsible for all technical and product related aspects of solution engineering (ie maintainability, scalability, effective integration with other solutions, usage of shared solutions and components where possible, optimization of the resource consumption) with the objective to drive the appropriate balance between business needs and total cost of ownership.
• Responsible for discovering, promoting and executing SOI solutions and reusable network infrastructure components/functionality.
• Evaluate all designs and engineering to ensure that they incorporate the right level of reliability in the most cost effective manner
• Design, engineer and support the Client's growing reliance on ULL products

Essential Technical Skills

• Strong experience with F5 technologies to deliver highly scalable, efficient and secure application delivery solutions. Prior experience deploying and managing large scale network ADC infrastructure (F5) is preferable.
• A firm understanding of networking(routing/switching) and OS concepts, Linux/Unix administration, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS and other related protocols
• A good understanding of ULL, FIX and Market Data environments, with key focus on FIX routing and TLS encryption best practices.
• Dev-Ops Experience: F5 infrastructure automation and integration using iControl, iRules, As3 and other related tools to programmatically extend F5 services for self-service type operating models and integration with CI/CD toolchains and orchestration systems.
• Some experience of Security and Risk Analysis knowledge for Extranet setups.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a highly visible fast paced enterprise environment
• Ability to competently test and Certify Load Balancing/ADC software and all associated features and functions
• Management Systems: Good understanding Network Security knowledge: Good understanding of protocols Writing technical documents: Good report writing skills Operation and implementation: A few years work experience Design experience: Minimum of 3 years Technical lead experience: for a number of projects
• Experienced in financial markets and applications, including market data feeds and API's. Work closely with application development and business users to develop technology solutions for multiple scenarios.

Experience Desired:

Overall 5-10 years' experience in IT delivery and engineering, of which at least 3-5 years as an Engineer and 3-5 years in IT Delivery as technical project manager.

Lead Network Architect

Location: London

Business Description:

Client is a leading global investment client with a substantial private client's franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the Client is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 73 countries, Client offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world.

Key Objectives of Role:

• The Lead Network Architect has continuous responsibility for the network architecture/engineering, design definition and documentation of various network infrastructure, load balancer and security products. The role also includes integrating new infrastructure components into client's centralized management, monitoring and self-service configuration systems.
• In practice, the Lead Engineer works on the details of the network infrastructure products, services, and/or technologies and can filter to the right/higher level of detail when engaging Enterprise/Domain Engineers. The focus of the Lead Engineer is on network infrastructure technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the IT architecture/engineering, the design definition and the engineering documentation of a network infrastructure product or service including hardware/software changes or enhancements with a focus on design and implementation of ADC/F5 technology solutions.
• Engages in projects affecting the network infrastructure products or services under their responsibility in order to determine and confirm technical and network infrastructure related aspects of solution engineering and design, considering specific business constraints, requirements and dependencies.
• Determine and agree a network infrastructure solution in accordance with the domain and enterprise engineering blueprint and with regard to the long-term network infrastructure portfolio strategy including total cost of ownership.
• Contribute to and/or review high-level and low-level network design documentation and approve.
• Measure the quality of the developed solution from an engineering perspective and ensure the conformance of delivered network infrastructure designs with predefined quality metrics.
• As part of the Lead Engineer's role, ensures alignment to Enterprise and Domain Engineering standards and processes and ensure usage of Enterprise and Domain Engineering assets, where possible.
• Contributes technical and application related aspects to the overall Enterprise and Domain Engineering blueprints.
• Responsible for all technical and product related aspects of solution engineering (ie maintainability, scalability, effective integration with other solutions, usage of shared solutions and components where possible, optimization of the resource consumption) with the objective to drive the appropriate balance between business needs and total cost of ownership.
• Responsible for discovering, promoting and executing SOI solutions and reusable network infrastructure components/functionality.
• Evaluate all designs and engineering to ensure that they incorporate the right level of reliability in the most cost effective manner
• Design, engineer and support the Client's growing reliance on ULL products

Essential Technical Skills

• Strong experience with F5 technologies to deliver highly scalable, efficient and secure application delivery solutions. Prior experience deploying and managing large scale network ADC infrastructure (F5) is preferable.
• A firm understanding of networking(routing/switching) and OS concepts, Linux/Unix administration, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS and other related protocols
• A good understanding of ULL, FIX and Market Data environments, with key focus on FIX routing and TLS encryption best practices.
• Dev-Ops Experience: F5 infrastructure automation and integration using iControl, iRules, As3 and other related tools to programmatically extend F5 services for self-service type operating models and integration with CI/CD toolchains and orchestration systems.
• Some experience of Security and Risk Analysis knowledge for Extranet setups.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a highly visible fast paced enterprise environment
• Ability to competently test and Certify Load Balancing/ADC software and all associated features and functions
• Management Systems: Good understanding Network Security knowledge: Good understanding of protocols Writing technical documents: Good report writing skills Operation and implementation: A few years work experience Design experience: Minimum of 3 years Technical lead experience: for a number of projects
• Experienced in financial markets and applications, including market data feeds and API's. Work closely with application development and business users to develop technology solutions for multiple scenarios.

Experience Desired:

Overall 5-10 years' experience in IT delivery and engineering, of which at least 3-5 years as an Engineer and 3-5 years in IT Delivery as technical project manager.