Diamond Search Recruitment are delighted to be representing our client, a leader within their field, providing trusted identity and security solutions enabling businesses, large enterprises, cloud service providers and IoT innovators around the world to secure online communications, manage millions of verified digital identities and automate authentication and encryption. The company has offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

In London, the company is developing an identity platform, forming the core of the company's current and future products. The platform is designed to scale to the needs of IoE and major cloud deployments, being capable of issuing billions of identities, with industry leading performance. Built to meet existing and future web standards and compliance rules, it is capable of servicing any scenario where strong identity is required. Developed mostly in Golang, the platform meets the customer’s needs through APIs and integrates with many external services.

Our client is looking for:

• Quality - You care about the quality of the code and ensure quality is good, taking corrective measures when needed and always looking for improvements.
• Agile - You understand and promote an agile development methodology designed to boost team effectiveness and performance, whilst maintaining quality.

Responsibilities:

• Development. You take ownership for the feature full software development life cycle - design, coding, testing, deployment
• Identify opportunities to optimize development process, defined tools and requirement
• Adopt continuous Integration methods
• Lead the technical design of systems and services

Experience/Qualifications:

• Strong experience of software development in any of the following: C, C++, Java, Golang
• Strong experience architecting and designing distributed systems that meet stringent performance and availability requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Conducted code reviews to maintain quality of code
• Managed multiple concurrent projects with aggressive schedules
• Helped to adapt SCRUM/agile methodologies for team needs
• Defined and led execution of experiments designed to identify performance bottlenecks

What's on offer:

• A friendly and personal working environment
• Excellent growth opportunities
• Competitive Salary
• Company Profitability Bonus Scheme
• 25 Days Annual Leave
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• 37.5 hour working week and you will be able to agree a flexible working pattern around the core hours of 10am to 3pm with your line manager.
• Company paid for medical cover with the option to add family members at your expense
• Employer matched pension contributions to 5% of salary
• Insurance policy for life cover and critical illness

Apply today!

Diamond Search Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in regard to this vacancy.

Diamond Search Recruitment are delighted to be representing our client, a leader within their field, providing trusted identity and security solutions enabling businesses, large enterprises, cloud service providers and IoT innovators around the world to secure online communications, manage millions of verified digital identities and automate authentication and encryption. The company has offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

In London, the company is developing an identity platform, forming the core of the company's current and future products. The platform is designed to scale to the needs of IoE and major cloud deployments, being capable of issuing billions of identities, with industry leading performance. Built to meet existing and future web standards and compliance rules, it is capable of servicing any scenario where strong identity is required. Developed mostly in Golang, the platform meets the customer’s needs through APIs and integrates with many external services.

Our client is looking for:

• Quality - You care about the quality of the code and ensure quality is good, taking corrective measures when needed and always looking for improvements.
• Agile - You understand and promote an agile development methodology designed to boost team effectiveness and performance, whilst maintaining quality.

Responsibilities:

• Development. You take ownership for the feature full software development life cycle - design, coding, testing, deployment
• Identify opportunities to optimize development process, defined tools and requirement
• Adopt continuous Integration methods
• Lead the technical design of systems and services

Experience/Qualifications:

• Strong experience of software development in any of the following: C, C++, Java, Golang
• Strong experience architecting and designing distributed systems that meet stringent performance and availability requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Conducted code reviews to maintain quality of code
• Managed multiple concurrent projects with aggressive schedules
• Helped to adapt SCRUM/agile methodologies for team needs
• Defined and led execution of experiments designed to identify performance bottlenecks

What's on offer:

• A friendly and personal working environment
• Excellent growth opportunities
• Competitive Salary
• Company Profitability Bonus Scheme
• 25 Days Annual Leave
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• 37.5 hour working week and you will be able to agree a flexible working pattern around the core hours of 10am to 3pm with your line manager.
• Company paid for medical cover with the option to add family members at your expense
• Employer matched pension contributions to 5% of salary
• Insurance policy for life cover and critical illness

Apply today!

Diamond Search Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in regard to this vacancy.

Senior Engineer, Front Office Risk (Java)

If you're an experienced Java developer with strong knowledge of high-input system development within Front Office, this position may be relevant to you. It sits within the Risk area of a leading Investment Banking client of mine.

You will -

• Work with cutting edge tech - Java, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, etc.
• Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
• Experience in the end-to-end design, development and support of financial markets systems
• Ability to work and liaise directly with the Front Office and various risk functions

Skills & Experience

• Strong Java skills
• Any experience in distributed data stores a plus
• Functional programming experience a plus
• Strong knowledge and previous experience in end-to-end design, development and subsequent support of large-scale data processing systems
• Familiarity and confidence working in an agile development environment.
• Someone who can drive / facilitate the requirements and development effort with the business.

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.

Senior Engineer, Front Office Risk (Java)

If you're an experienced Java developer with strong knowledge of high-input system development within Front Office, this position may be relevant to you. It sits within the Risk area of a leading Investment Banking client of mine.

You will -

• Work with cutting edge tech - Java, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, etc.
• Take ownership and responsibility for the full development lifecycle
• Experience in the end-to-end design, development and support of financial markets systems
• Ability to work and liaise directly with the Front Office and various risk functions

Skills & Experience

• Strong Java skills
• Any experience in distributed data stores a plus
• Functional programming experience a plus
• Strong knowledge and previous experience in end-to-end design, development and subsequent support of large-scale data processing systems
• Familiarity and confidence working in an agile development environment.
• Someone who can drive / facilitate the requirements and development effort with the business.

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.

Role Purpose

The bank is looking for a business analyst with good understanding of bank business to provide BA support to business departments and coordinate with HO/3rd parties

Responsibilities

o To provide support to business departments for completion of the Business Requirement Documents according to bank requirements.

o To produce and enhance Business Requirement Documents for business departments by communicating with good understanding of business requirements against system functionality.

o Liaise with HO system developers, business departments and support resources as required to facilitate business change and development management requirements. Coordinate with HO, including translating notifications from HO and collecting feedback; completing HO tasks; drafting weekly work report to HO.

o Business data analysis using Excel/SQL tools as required.

o To provide support to business departments by developing business reports tailored to HO/bank's platform.

o To provide support to business departments in product/system testing includes: 1. compile UAT requirements from all stakeholders, 2. draft/review UAT plan/request document and submit to HO and 3. Run EOD batch.

o UAT management following UAT processes, including UAT relevant resources coordination, issues tracking etc. to make sure UAT is carried out as scheduled. To understand and analyze production issues, coordinate relevant resources to solve the issues, include the remedy/enhancement works afterwards. To provide solutions to stakeholders.

o Assist PMO manager to produce professional template, report, policy and procedure documents to make project running more efficiently with high quality Other ad hoc as requested and any other duties that are assigned.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

o Excellent language skills of written and spoken English, fluent Mandarin speaking and writing are preferred.

o Able to interpret user business requirements and present them to developers and vendors in appropriate content and form.

o 3-4 years' experience as a Business Analyst in bank industry.

o Good knowledge of bank business, preferably in regulatory reporting, client on boarding, AML, financial control, risk management, compliance and treasury.

o Good knowledge of structured database. Experience in writing SQL queries, experience in Cognos platform is preferred.

o Good understanding on the project management and development procedure

Role Purpose

The bank is looking for a business analyst with good understanding of bank business to provide BA support to business departments and coordinate with HO/3rd parties

Responsibilities

o To provide support to business departments for completion of the Business Requirement Documents according to bank requirements.

o To produce and enhance Business Requirement Documents for business departments by communicating with good understanding of business requirements against system functionality.

o Liaise with HO system developers, business departments and support resources as required to facilitate business change and development management requirements. Coordinate with HO, including translating notifications from HO and collecting feedback; completing HO tasks; drafting weekly work report to HO.

o Business data analysis using Excel/SQL tools as required.

o To provide support to business departments by developing business reports tailored to HO/bank's platform.

o To provide support to business departments in product/system testing includes: 1. compile UAT requirements from all stakeholders, 2. draft/review UAT plan/request document and submit to HO and 3. Run EOD batch.

o UAT management following UAT processes, including UAT relevant resources coordination, issues tracking etc. to make sure UAT is carried out as scheduled. To understand and analyze production issues, coordinate relevant resources to solve the issues, include the remedy/enhancement works afterwards. To provide solutions to stakeholders.

o Assist PMO manager to produce professional template, report, policy and procedure documents to make project running more efficiently with high quality Other ad hoc as requested and any other duties that are assigned.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

o Excellent language skills of written and spoken English, fluent Mandarin speaking and writing are preferred.

o Able to interpret user business requirements and present them to developers and vendors in appropriate content and form.

o 3-4 years' experience as a Business Analyst in bank industry.

o Good knowledge of bank business, preferably in regulatory reporting, client on boarding, AML, financial control, risk management, compliance and treasury.

o Good knowledge of structured database. Experience in writing SQL queries, experience in Cognos platform is preferred.

o Good understanding on the project management and development procedure

• Turning designs into usable code
• Ensuring cross browser compatibility
• Best practice coding
• Maintaining company UI components
• Maintaining and implementing new features to current React applications

• 4+ years as a React Developer
• Writing JavaScript tests
• Storybook
• CSS, SCSS, LESS
• Agile/ Scrum experience

• Turning designs into usable code
• Ensuring cross browser compatibility
• Best practice coding
• Maintaining company UI components
• Maintaining and implementing new features to current React applications

• 4+ years as a React Developer
• Writing JavaScript tests
• Storybook
• CSS, SCSS, LESS
• Agile/ Scrum experience

Role: Principal Solution Architect

Location: Edinburgh with travel across the UK

Package: Salary + private healthcare + car allowance + flexible benefits + life assurance

The Company

Sopra Steria helps government to solve today’s big challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reimagine the way that public services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to create intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We’ve been helping government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how public services are delivered. Empowering government to make a difference to everyone, every day.

The Day Job

Sopra Steria is recruiting for Principal Solution Architect to join our growing Public Sector.

The Principal Solution Architect will join the Government sector Architecture & Engineering Centre of Expertise, where you will help design new innovative IT solutions for customers digital needs that will disrupt the industry.

You will work with a team of Architects to analyse, design and implement modern platform and cloud services for use across UK Government. This will involve using industry leading techniques, technologies and products as well as enhancing existing systems.

Key Responsibilities

• You will create, enable, deliver, and support end-to-end software/platform solutions for digital change, creating architectures and strategies including mapping and translating the clients business needs into complete technology blueprints.
• Assessment of potential solutions/products and their alignment to technology strategy, and technology partners to the partner ecosystem.
• Building relationships and acting as a technology adviser to the clients IT transformation and cloud migrations.
• You will need to be an experienced Architect having worked in an agile delivery environment; be a strong communicator; have accountability for creating and delivering end-to-end solutions for key initiatives, projects and feature teams; have a keen interest in emerging technology, be networked into the industry, and you will have the drive and motivation to make a difference.

Essential Skills

• Proven ability to establish business and technical direction, delivering architecture for clients aligned to technology strategy.
• Experience working with stakeholders and other IT colleagues to gather a thorough understanding of detailed functional and non-functional requirements and articulate the impact of any proposed change on the business systems, IT software and infrastructure landscapes.
• Ability to construct solutions that deliver the desired business objectives ensuring the agreed standards relating to the IT target architectures, IT services (availability, resilience, and performance), and quality and cyber/security policies are met.
• Creating IT solution artefacts using standard industry best practice frameworks and methodology that are mapped to the business requirements, stories and benefits.
• Experienced working within Agile Feature teams to ensure developers from various IT development areas create components that deliver your solution design.
• Excellent working knowledge of the Governments digital standards, or equivalent, including both the GDS and or gov.scot standards to enable you to develop innovative solutions that meet the digital technical and delivery objectives.
• Skilled in presenting technical issues and IT solution strategies to stakeholders and other IT professionals enabling informed decisions to be made.
• Experience of Cloud solutions (AWS or Azure) would be an advantage.

Reasons why you should apply to us

• We have an enviable client list - we work with some of the biggest names out there.
• We ensure our working environment is supportive and collaborative, everyone has a voice and all opinions count.
• Our goal is to disrupt the market, not just follow the status quo.
• Sustainability is really important to us, in fact we are within the top 1% of companies worldwide tackling climate change and managing our emissions.

Get in touch for more details or to have a confidential discussion about whether this could be the opportunity for you.

Role: Principal Solution Architect

Location: Edinburgh with travel across the UK

Package: Salary + private healthcare + car allowance + flexible benefits + life assurance

The Company

Sopra Steria helps government to solve today’s big challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reimagine the way that public services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to create intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We’ve been helping government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how public services are delivered. Empowering government to make a difference to everyone, every day.

The Day Job

Sopra Steria is recruiting for Principal Solution Architect to join our growing Public Sector.

The Principal Solution Architect will join the Government sector Architecture & Engineering Centre of Expertise, where you will help design new innovative IT solutions for customers digital needs that will disrupt the industry.

You will work with a team of Architects to analyse, design and implement modern platform and cloud services for use across UK Government. This will involve using industry leading techniques, technologies and products as well as enhancing existing systems.

Key Responsibilities

• You will create, enable, deliver, and support end-to-end software/platform solutions for digital change, creating architectures and strategies including mapping and translating the clients business needs into complete technology blueprints.
• Assessment of potential solutions/products and their alignment to technology strategy, and technology partners to the partner ecosystem.
• Building relationships and acting as a technology adviser to the clients IT transformation and cloud migrations.
• You will need to be an experienced Architect having worked in an agile delivery environment; be a strong communicator; have accountability for creating and delivering end-to-end solutions for key initiatives, projects and feature teams; have a keen interest in emerging technology, be networked into the industry, and you will have the drive and motivation to make a difference.

Essential Skills

• Proven ability to establish business and technical direction, delivering architecture for clients aligned to technology strategy.
• Experience working with stakeholders and other IT colleagues to gather a thorough understanding of detailed functional and non-functional requirements and articulate the impact of any proposed change on the business systems, IT software and infrastructure landscapes.
• Ability to construct solutions that deliver the desired business objectives ensuring the agreed standards relating to the IT target architectures, IT services (availability, resilience, and performance), and quality and cyber/security policies are met.
• Creating IT solution artefacts using standard industry best practice frameworks and methodology that are mapped to the business requirements, stories and benefits.
• Experienced working within Agile Feature teams to ensure developers from various IT development areas create components that deliver your solution design.
• Excellent working knowledge of the Governments digital standards, or equivalent, including both the GDS and or gov.scot standards to enable you to develop innovative solutions that meet the digital technical and delivery objectives.
• Skilled in presenting technical issues and IT solution strategies to stakeholders and other IT professionals enabling informed decisions to be made.
• Experience of Cloud solutions (AWS or Azure) would be an advantage.

Reasons why you should apply to us

• We have an enviable client list - we work with some of the biggest names out there.
• We ensure our working environment is supportive and collaborative, everyone has a voice and all opinions count.
• Our goal is to disrupt the market, not just follow the status quo.
• Sustainability is really important to us, in fact we are within the top 1% of companies worldwide tackling climate change and managing our emissions.

Get in touch for more details or to have a confidential discussion about whether this could be the opportunity for you.