Business Support Developer Business Support Developer - Global Investment Bank - Central London

A global investment bank are looking for a senior business support developer who will be responsible for the day to day support of the bank's Enterprise Data Management System.

Key Responsibilities

- Management of the service delivery process e.g. change request management, change approval board

- Manage of Incident, Problem and Change management to successful conclusion

- Management and development of the Disaster Recovery process

- Work closely with vendor to raise/track issues and implement fixes in production

- Provide regular updates to business owners on progress and expected resolution of production issues

Required Skills

- Programming language: C#, JavaScript, Shell scripting

- Web technologies: ASP.NET MVC

- DB Technology: SQL, Oracle

- Operating Systems: Windows, Unix

- Jira, ControlM (Desirable)

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

BY APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE WHICH TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT GOVERN YOUR USE OF MORGAN MCKINLEY SERVICES.

Business Support Developer Business Support Developer - Global Investment Bank - Central London

A global investment bank are looking for a senior business support developer who will be responsible for the day to day support of the bank's Enterprise Data Management System.

Key Responsibilities

- Management of the service delivery process e.g. change request management, change approval board

- Manage of Incident, Problem and Change management to successful conclusion

- Management and development of the Disaster Recovery process

- Work closely with vendor to raise/track issues and implement fixes in production

- Provide regular updates to business owners on progress and expected resolution of production issues

Required Skills

- Programming language: C#, JavaScript, Shell scripting

- Web technologies: ASP.NET MVC

- DB Technology: SQL, Oracle

- Operating Systems: Windows, Unix

- Jira, ControlM (Desirable)

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

BY APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE WHICH TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT GOVERN YOUR USE OF MORGAN MCKINLEY SERVICES.

Support Manager - Technology Services Support Manager - Technology Services: 1900025990
Location: London
Salary: Competitive
Application period: Friday, 14/02/20 - Friday, 13/03/20

The Role Responsibilities

Technology power's Standard Chartered Bank's vision and strategic agenda through the provision of innovative and efficient technology solutions; we will deliver greater value to our business stakeholders, improve the skills and flexibility of our people and work more effectively with our internal and vendor service partners.
You will be joining a technology support team spread across multiple geographies, primarily supporting MTS (Money Transfer System) which is implemented in the US, European markets and Japan, as well as global Swift Messaging systems that support the banks entire Swift messaging. The role will demand in depth knowledge in MTS, he ability to work within 24x7 global support team, knowledge sharing and eagerness to learn.

• SME for MTS (Money Transfer System) to provide all-lines (1st-3rd) BAU support to the Cash business
• Change coordination and implementation. Adhere to Change Control and Fault Reporting Procedures
• Participate in BCP/DR exercise
• Performance/stability reviews/improvementt incident management
• Problem Management and Root Cause Analysis
• Put forward ideas to improve automation and efficiency and take ownership through to implementation
• Drive Delivery teams to provide fit-for-purpose solutions as required
• Work closely with SD/Database/Network /Infrastructure teams to improve platform service offering
• Work out-of-hours/weekends as required
• Travel when required

Our Ideal Candidate

• University Diploma or degree preferred but not essential
• Banking/Finance Industry experience essential
• Excellent communication, both written and verbally
• Should have been in application support for a minimum of 5-6 years and experience to support payment systems is added advantage
• Strong technical skills on Unix, MQ, Oracle, WebServices and Java
• Knowledge of monitoring & job scheduling tools like ITRS, BMC & Control-M
• Knowledge of Swift messaging systems an advantage
• Knowledge of the MTS/ ACE / Pelican / Prognosis a strong advantage
• Able to self-manage with strong collaboration skills and able to interact effectively with others
• Ability to work under pressure, multi-task and deliver
• Ability to resolve incidents and manage problems
• Team player

We are looking for candidates that align to our culture and values, which are an important part of who we are and what we stand for as an organisation. To be considered as a candidate, you will be required to complete a Culture Fit Assessment - this is an online assessment of your alignment and behavioral fit to our culture. The test takes approximately 30 minutes to completes and is mandatory. After your application you will get the link to the test to your mailbox. Should you not complete this assessment, you will be considered as not meeting the requirement of the role.

Support Manager - Technology Services Support Manager - Technology Services: 1900025990
Location: London
Salary: Competitive
Application period: Friday, 14/02/20 - Friday, 13/03/20

The Role Responsibilities

Technology power's Standard Chartered Bank's vision and strategic agenda through the provision of innovative and efficient technology solutions; we will deliver greater value to our business stakeholders, improve the skills and flexibility of our people and work more effectively with our internal and vendor service partners.
You will be joining a technology support team spread across multiple geographies, primarily supporting MTS (Money Transfer System) which is implemented in the US, European markets and Japan, as well as global Swift Messaging systems that support the banks entire Swift messaging. The role will demand in depth knowledge in MTS, he ability to work within 24x7 global support team, knowledge sharing and eagerness to learn.

• SME for MTS (Money Transfer System) to provide all-lines (1st-3rd) BAU support to the Cash business
• Change coordination and implementation. Adhere to Change Control and Fault Reporting Procedures
• Participate in BCP/DR exercise
• Performance/stability reviews/improvementt incident management
• Problem Management and Root Cause Analysis
• Put forward ideas to improve automation and efficiency and take ownership through to implementation
• Drive Delivery teams to provide fit-for-purpose solutions as required
• Work closely with SD/Database/Network /Infrastructure teams to improve platform service offering
• Work out-of-hours/weekends as required
• Travel when required

Our Ideal Candidate

• University Diploma or degree preferred but not essential
• Banking/Finance Industry experience essential
• Excellent communication, both written and verbally
• Should have been in application support for a minimum of 5-6 years and experience to support payment systems is added advantage
• Strong technical skills on Unix, MQ, Oracle, WebServices and Java
• Knowledge of monitoring & job scheduling tools like ITRS, BMC & Control-M
• Knowledge of Swift messaging systems an advantage
• Knowledge of the MTS/ ACE / Pelican / Prognosis a strong advantage
• Able to self-manage with strong collaboration skills and able to interact effectively with others
• Ability to work under pressure, multi-task and deliver
• Ability to resolve incidents and manage problems
• Team player

We are looking for candidates that align to our culture and values, which are an important part of who we are and what we stand for as an organisation. To be considered as a candidate, you will be required to complete a Culture Fit Assessment - this is an online assessment of your alignment and behavioral fit to our culture. The test takes approximately 30 minutes to completes and is mandatory. After your application you will get the link to the test to your mailbox. Should you not complete this assessment, you will be considered as not meeting the requirement of the role.

Technical Tester About Standard Chartered
We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.


The Role Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with Project Managers, Business Analysts and Testing Team to understand requirements and agree on acceptance criterion. Plan, design and develop test script, take ownership of end to end testing delivery
• Test Planning & Analysis, solid understanding of Manual and Automated testing concepts
• Document Test Strategy (functional and non-functional strategy), Closure reports and participate in project retrospection meetings.
• Manage senior stakeholder expectations, articulate project challenges and progress. Coordinate and monitor testing progression and prepare reports and communicate results and progress with project stakeholders
• Good understanding of agile processes, participate in backlog grooming sessions and daily sprint meetings
• Ensure software solution meets business requirements
• Detect, document and report bugs and errors encountered
• Facilitate high quality software deliveries by applying business and functional knowledge including testing standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Support cross-functional teams in integration test efforts, support user acceptance testing and sign offs.
• Create and maintain high quality documentation
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

Our Ideal Candidate

• Minimum eight + years of professional experience in testing domain, preferably in banking/ insurance sector
• Experience managing testing deliverables & resources, design manual/automated test plans according to projects requirements
• Strong understanding of software quality best practices and processes. Experience with a broad range of testing practices
• Domain knowledge of front-office trading - pricing and execution platforms for Derivatives products - FX Options, Rates and Commodities
• Deep understanding of front-office trading functionality - trade lifecycle, trade booking models, trade pricing execution workflows, trade reporting and new product onboarding.
• Back-office and Middle-office experience will be a plus
• Extensive experience with test automation tools and frameworks - Cucumber for Java, Selenium
• Knowledge of REST and SOAP based web services standards, messaging models. Strong understanding of and experience with JSON, XML, HTTP. Experienced in API testing.
• Strong proficiency in collaboration tools like Atlassian Confluence, JIRA and Microsoft Office suite.
• Programming experience in Java, experience in other programming languages will be good to have
• Hands-on experience in automation scripting will be highly regarded
• Strong experience in SQL, Unix scripting, Git
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced and challenging environment

Desirable skills

• Good understanding of build automation tools - Maven 3, Gradle, experienced in setting up CICD pipelines in Jenkins
• Experience in Performance Testing tools
• Knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, Web sockets, Experience with Web UI frameworks - Angular, React JS.
• Experience with various messaging middleware technologies - Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS
• Good understanding of distributed computing, exposure to Spark and Hadoop ecosystem
• Experience with log, metrics aggregation and analytics toolkits - ELK stack

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.

To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages .

Technical Tester About Standard Chartered
We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.


The Role Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with Project Managers, Business Analysts and Testing Team to understand requirements and agree on acceptance criterion. Plan, design and develop test script, take ownership of end to end testing delivery
• Test Planning & Analysis, solid understanding of Manual and Automated testing concepts
• Document Test Strategy (functional and non-functional strategy), Closure reports and participate in project retrospection meetings.
• Manage senior stakeholder expectations, articulate project challenges and progress. Coordinate and monitor testing progression and prepare reports and communicate results and progress with project stakeholders
• Good understanding of agile processes, participate in backlog grooming sessions and daily sprint meetings
• Ensure software solution meets business requirements
• Detect, document and report bugs and errors encountered
• Facilitate high quality software deliveries by applying business and functional knowledge including testing standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Support cross-functional teams in integration test efforts, support user acceptance testing and sign offs.
• Create and maintain high quality documentation
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

Our Ideal Candidate

• Minimum eight + years of professional experience in testing domain, preferably in banking/ insurance sector
• Experience managing testing deliverables & resources, design manual/automated test plans according to projects requirements
• Strong understanding of software quality best practices and processes. Experience with a broad range of testing practices
• Domain knowledge of front-office trading - pricing and execution platforms for Derivatives products - FX Options, Rates and Commodities
• Deep understanding of front-office trading functionality - trade lifecycle, trade booking models, trade pricing execution workflows, trade reporting and new product onboarding.
• Back-office and Middle-office experience will be a plus
• Extensive experience with test automation tools and frameworks - Cucumber for Java, Selenium
• Knowledge of REST and SOAP based web services standards, messaging models. Strong understanding of and experience with JSON, XML, HTTP. Experienced in API testing.
• Strong proficiency in collaboration tools like Atlassian Confluence, JIRA and Microsoft Office suite.
• Programming experience in Java, experience in other programming languages will be good to have
• Hands-on experience in automation scripting will be highly regarded
• Strong experience in SQL, Unix scripting, Git
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced and challenging environment

Desirable skills

• Good understanding of build automation tools - Maven 3, Gradle, experienced in setting up CICD pipelines in Jenkins
• Experience in Performance Testing tools
• Knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, Web sockets, Experience with Web UI frameworks - Angular, React JS.
• Experience with various messaging middleware technologies - Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS
• Good understanding of distributed computing, exposure to Spark and Hadoop ecosystem
• Experience with log, metrics aggregation and analytics toolkits - ELK stack

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.

To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages .

Senior Software Engineer - C++ (Contractor) The goal of Bloomberg Connectivity & Integration Solutions (CIS) group is to provide stable, secure, and self-service connectivity to the firm and a platform for customers to receive data in the formats they choose, from different Bloomberg business lines. Our enterprise clients and vendors want tight integration of Bloomberg products with their own highly complex and time sensitive software systems. With ever increasing demands for more capabilities in data transformation and analytics, we are building our platform offering (Integration Platform as a Service - iPaaS) through an architecture using a combination of open source, third party, and in-house technologies to meet these demands.

This team (ENG Integration Workflows) within the integration part of ENG connectivity and integration serves three roles. We provide data registration (APIs & best practices), generic acquisition (schedules and triggers), and delivery (to connectivity) for other Bloomberg business. We support and expand our hosted orchestration system that allows our internal implementations staff to create more complex workflows on behalf of our customers. Finally, we provide custom data acquisition tasks specifically on behalf of Trading Systems.

As a contractor of our team, you will be responsible for the support and maintenance of these client-facing integration services. Your key focus will be to make improvements to our services and UI focusing on maintenance, deprecation, tooling, or small feature requests.

You'll need to have: 

• Experience in Python, C++, and JavaScript
• Efficient software engineering skills to complete and deploy small changes quickly and safely

We'd love to see: 

• Experience with Perl
• Experience supporting and improving an older codebase

Our upcoming projects:

• Deprecate feature flag switches safely
• Move scripts from Python 2 to Python 3
• Port software packages away from Unix utilities and Perl to Python
• Add tooling to support common support questions
• Fixing JavaScript issues in the UI

*Please note this role falls within IR35*
You can also learn more about the products we build at: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/integration-and-distribution /

Senior Software Engineer - C++ (Contractor) The goal of Bloomberg Connectivity & Integration Solutions (CIS) group is to provide stable, secure, and self-service connectivity to the firm and a platform for customers to receive data in the formats they choose, from different Bloomberg business lines. Our enterprise clients and vendors want tight integration of Bloomberg products with their own highly complex and time sensitive software systems. With ever increasing demands for more capabilities in data transformation and analytics, we are building our platform offering (Integration Platform as a Service - iPaaS) through an architecture using a combination of open source, third party, and in-house technologies to meet these demands.

This team (ENG Integration Workflows) within the integration part of ENG connectivity and integration serves three roles. We provide data registration (APIs & best practices), generic acquisition (schedules and triggers), and delivery (to connectivity) for other Bloomberg business. We support and expand our hosted orchestration system that allows our internal implementations staff to create more complex workflows on behalf of our customers. Finally, we provide custom data acquisition tasks specifically on behalf of Trading Systems.

As a contractor of our team, you will be responsible for the support and maintenance of these client-facing integration services. Your key focus will be to make improvements to our services and UI focusing on maintenance, deprecation, tooling, or small feature requests.

You'll need to have: 

• Experience in Python, C++, and JavaScript
• Efficient software engineering skills to complete and deploy small changes quickly and safely

We'd love to see: 

• Experience with Perl
• Experience supporting and improving an older codebase

Our upcoming projects:

• Deprecate feature flag switches safely
• Move scripts from Python 2 to Python 3
• Port software packages away from Unix utilities and Perl to Python
• Add tooling to support common support questions
• Fixing JavaScript issues in the UI

*Please note this role falls within IR35*
You can also learn more about the products we build at: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/integration-and-distribution /

SRE - Site Reliability Engineer - VP As a SiteReliability Engineer (SRE) you will help build a meaningful engineeringdiscipline, combining software and systems to develop creative engineeringsolutions to operations problems. Much of our support and software developmentfocuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and reducingwork through automation. You?ll join a team of curious problem solvers with adiverse set of perspectives who are thinking big and taking risks. In thisenvironment you?ll take the lead on relevant projects, supported by anorganization that provides the support and mentorship you need to learn andgrow. As an SRE you?ll be focused on running better production applications andsystems.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths andcapabilities, including:

? Engineeringdegree or equivalent experience

? Expertise in atleast one technology stack designing, coding, testing, and delivering software

? Experience inOracle SQL queries; optimization; Unix/Linux shell scripting

? Understanding ofthe Java/J2EE technology stack, web technologies, experience with Unix/Linux,JDBC, relational databases such as Oracle.

? Understanding ofBigdata technologies, concepts and technology exposure.

? Understanding ofJava concurrency, concurrency patterns, Enterprise design patterns, industrybest practices, domain driven design, Microservices patterns and architecture

? Experience withlog analysis and monitoring tools such as AppDynamics/SPLUNK

? Proficiency inone or more technology domains, may be a cross-domain expert able to solvecomplex and mission critical problems within a business or across the firm

? Knowledge ofinfrastructure components is preferred (E.g. routers, load balancers, cloudproducts, container systems , compute, storage and networks)

? Excellentdebugging and troubleshooting skills

? Require basicunderstanding and willingness to learn on the job skills around reporting toollike Tableau

Responsibilities:

? Troubleshootpriority incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems and ensure permanentclosure of incidents

? Engage withdevelopment team throughout the life cycle to help develop software forreliability and scale, ensuring minimal refactoring or changes

? Perform theL1/L2/L3 support activities for the Production Support project with analysisand design work, including impact of requirements across all system components

? Design, code,test and deliver software to automate manual operational work

? Create unit testcases, perform unit testing, document test results and perform code reviews

? Identifyapplication patterns and analytics in support of better service levelobjectives

? Designself-healing and resiliency patterns

? Design automatedsoftware and product upgrades, change management, and release managementsolutions

? Participate inthe 24x7 support coverage as needed

Our CorporateTechnology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applicationsand provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network.You?ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolvingtechnology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

When you work atJPMorgan Chase& Co., you?re not just working at a global financial institution.You?re an integral part of one of the world?s biggest tech organizations. Inour global technology centers, our team of 50,000 technologists design, buildand deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data andmobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity,machine learning, and cloud development. Our $11B annual investment intechnology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that aretransforming the financial services industry.

At JPMorgan Chase& Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we?re building atechnology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and careerdevelopment, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you?re looking to build your career as partof a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives ofpeople and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.

SRE - Site Reliability Engineer - VP As a SiteReliability Engineer (SRE) you will help build a meaningful engineeringdiscipline, combining software and systems to develop creative engineeringsolutions to operations problems. Much of our support and software developmentfocuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and reducingwork through automation. You?ll join a team of curious problem solvers with adiverse set of perspectives who are thinking big and taking risks. In thisenvironment you?ll take the lead on relevant projects, supported by anorganization that provides the support and mentorship you need to learn andgrow. As an SRE you?ll be focused on running better production applications andsystems.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths andcapabilities, including:

? Engineeringdegree or equivalent experience

? Expertise in atleast one technology stack designing, coding, testing, and delivering software

? Experience inOracle SQL queries; optimization; Unix/Linux shell scripting

? Understanding ofthe Java/J2EE technology stack, web technologies, experience with Unix/Linux,JDBC, relational databases such as Oracle.

? Understanding ofBigdata technologies, concepts and technology exposure.

? Understanding ofJava concurrency, concurrency patterns, Enterprise design patterns, industrybest practices, domain driven design, Microservices patterns and architecture

? Experience withlog analysis and monitoring tools such as AppDynamics/SPLUNK

? Proficiency inone or more technology domains, may be a cross-domain expert able to solvecomplex and mission critical problems within a business or across the firm

? Knowledge ofinfrastructure components is preferred (E.g. routers, load balancers, cloudproducts, container systems , compute, storage and networks)

? Excellentdebugging and troubleshooting skills

? Require basicunderstanding and willingness to learn on the job skills around reporting toollike Tableau

Responsibilities:

? Troubleshootpriority incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems and ensure permanentclosure of incidents

? Engage withdevelopment team throughout the life cycle to help develop software forreliability and scale, ensuring minimal refactoring or changes

? Perform theL1/L2/L3 support activities for the Production Support project with analysisand design work, including impact of requirements across all system components

? Design, code,test and deliver software to automate manual operational work

? Create unit testcases, perform unit testing, document test results and perform code reviews

? Identifyapplication patterns and analytics in support of better service levelobjectives

? Designself-healing and resiliency patterns

? Design automatedsoftware and product upgrades, change management, and release managementsolutions

? Participate inthe 24x7 support coverage as needed

Our CorporateTechnology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applicationsand provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network.You?ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolvingtechnology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

When you work atJPMorgan Chase& Co., you?re not just working at a global financial institution.You?re an integral part of one of the world?s biggest tech organizations. Inour global technology centers, our team of 50,000 technologists design, buildand deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data andmobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity,machine learning, and cloud development. Our $11B annual investment intechnology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that aretransforming the financial services industry.

At JPMorgan Chase& Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we?re building atechnology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and careerdevelopment, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you?re looking to build your career as partof a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives ofpeople and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.