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Model Validation Quantitative Specialist - London We require a Model Validation Risk Quant with at least 5 to 7 years of experience in IRB risk model validation. The candidate should be experienced in conducting independent model validation and quantification of model risk including necessary communication of key facts and issues identified through those activities. They must have hands on experience of validation and expert level knowledge of validation of models according to the UK regulations (CRR and SS 11/13) and industry best practice. We have vacancies in Retail Banking across Secured, Unsecured and Corporate products. Must have retail banking credit systems experience. Must have Experience A track record of validating credit IRB models within retail banking. Experienced in reporting of model risk to management. Good verbal and written communications skills. Knowledgeable in interpreting the CRR and Supervisory Statements (SS 11/13),Knowledgeable in IFRS9. In depth understanding of Credit Models particularly PD LGD and EAD with associated assumptions, data requirements and methodology approach knowledge. Familiarity with analytical packages such as R, MATLAB, SAS. Possess the ability to rebuild the model offline for the purposes of validating outputs. Fluent in English language and excellent verbal and written communications skills. Knowledgeable in upcoming regulations consultative documents and market trends. Educated with an associated finance or mathematical discipline to a post graduate standard. Preference will be given to candidates who have the following additional experience:- Professional qualifications such as CFA, PRMIA etc. Direct regulatory liaison/relationship with the Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) on all retail model submissions, regulatory developments and capital impact assessments. Any capital analytics experience within retail banking. Presentation of model risk papers for the risk oversite committees. Additional Notes Investment banking quantitative experience is not relevant for this role. SAS model developers willing to move into validation may be considered for other roles. The position will be based in the City London. Please send your CV to us in Word format along daily rate and availability.

Solutions Architect – Retail Banking Systems We are looking to recruit a number of Solution Architects with banking systems experience. The main emphasis is on Personal Banking systems – so retail banking with current accounts, standing orders, savings accounts etc… You will have at least 5 years experience as a banking systems Solutions Architect with E2E designers. Must have experience of the following business areas within banking: § Retail banking – Current Account / Savings etc. § Digital § Payments – Credit or Debit § Fraud This is a contract role – duration 3 to 6 months. Location is Cheshire – close to Manchester. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Database Developer with TeraData - Coventry Our Client is looking to recruit a Tera Data Developer with at least 5 years hands-on experience in data analysis, data modeling & SQL writing in Teradata Environment. Must have strong knowledge in Teradata Architecture. (Must have knowledge on Journal, RAID, CLIQUE,FALLBACK mechanism) Good understanding and working knowledge of ALL SQL functions, Join strategies (HASH, MARGE etc.) Understanding and working knowledge of all System tables such as DBQL, PDCRINFO etc Hands on knowledge on Teradata PL/SQL, Store Procedure, Ref Cursor etc With very good hands on knowledge on Teradata SQL, BTEQ, Fastload, Multiload, TPUMP, TPT skill Complete understanding of Performance Tuning technique, working with SKEWNESS, SPACE MANAGING, LOCKING Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Data Warehousing Concepts Should have knowledge on Data Profiling activities Should have knowledge on Teradata Viewpoint portlets, alert mechanism etc With excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with quick adaptation to new technologies, methodologies, and system Good individual contributor as well as a team player with ability to build strong partner confidence Excellent communication skills and judgment, ability to manage multiple tasks, and work towards a deadline in a fast paced, aggressive development schedule Ability to work in any Shift (24x7) Tera Data, DWBi Concepts, Data Modeling, Development, SQL & analytics. Salary for this role is negotiable but will be in the range £45K to £60K. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Senior Data Architect – Canary Wharf London We are looking to recruit a Senior Data Architect who will be responsible for the end to end information architecture and liaising with globally distributed teams. Looking for someone with over 8-years of experience within this domain ideally Oil and Gas. The following are some notes for this Senior Data Architect role: Senior Data Architect - - Requirements capture & assessment - Conceptual/logical/physical data modelling / dimensional modelling - Data integration & flow design - SOA architecture & principles - Query & database performance tuning - ETL - Cloud computing - Globally-distributed database replication/synchronization patterns Technical skills needed: - MSSQL [2008 up thru 2016] - Postgres - Informatics - Tableau - MS SSIS - SSAS - BI OLAP This is a 6 month contract in Canary Wharf London. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Desktop Support Analyst – Bank in the City London Our Client is an International Bank with its European Head Office based int eh City London. They are looking to recruit a Desktop Support Analyst with at least 5 to 8 years proven expertise within Desktop Support. The Support team operate a rota to cover the core hours from 7.30 am to 6.00 pm Monday to Friday. You will be working as a part of the Service Support Team and as such providing Desktop Support to around 130 users across several countries in Europe with the bulk in the City London. This position will require you to have experience in hardware builds for both PC's and Servers along with software installations and upgrades. It will also include login permissions along with training users in the use of software. The focus of the role will be to take control of all issues and problems raised by users and ensure that they are clearly documented and followed up with the appropriate action to resolve them within the Support Team. The Client uses Cisco and Microsoft platforms so you need to have experience of both Cisco and Microsoft software. In terms of the types of software the Client uses – the following is a list of the various software and tools that they would like you to have experience of: -In-depth knowledge of CISCO including firewalls, switches and routing protocols -In-depth knowledge of supporting a data-centre and branch inter-connectivity -Strong technical skills are essential -Experience of CISCO multi-layer switches and routers, including 6500s -CISCO certification, ideally CCNP -CISCO CSM -VLAN segregation -McAfee HIPS, Trend Micro -Centralised authentication service (AAA) -SafeNet Ethernet Encryptor -RADIUS / RSA -Security certification (advantageous) You will also need to an understanding of the following technologies: VLAN segregation. DMZ. VSS. Failover. OSPF. High availability. CISCO. Palo Alto. Juniper. McAfee IPS. SafeNet. Tripwire. This is a permanent role and salary for this position is between £45K - £50K. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Senior Network Specialist with Security and Cisco – City London Our Client urgently requires a Senior Network Specialist with heavy background in Network Security on Cisco and Microsoft. The security and support of the company's network is paramount. Predominately a support role (BAU) with design of scalable solutions deliverable through projects. Encompassing numerous technologies that benefit high-availability solutions. This role requires a responsible individual who can design and deliver secure networking solutions. Fast thinker who can diagnose, assist others and remediate BAU support issues. Main Aspects of the role: -Work within Infrastructure team in supporting and delivering all aspect of BAU and support services -Design, build and implement firewall solutions from perimeter to DMZ roles -Support IPS deployment for European branches -Develop, maintain and deliver global standards to all networking devices -Remediate Penetration Test results -Ensure seamless migration of network estate to newly adopted security framework General Skills -Experience working within mission-critical environments -Experience in operational deployments -Datacentre cabling and racking of equipment Technical Skills you need to bring to the table: -In-depth knowledge of CISCO including firewalls, switches and routing protocols -In-depth knowledge of supporting a datacentre and branch interconnectivity -Strong technical skills are essential -Experience of CISCO multilayer switches and routers, including 6500s -CISCO certification, ideally CCNP -CISCO CSM -VLAN segregation -McAfee HIPS, Trend Micro -Centralised authentication service (AAA) -SafeNet Ethernet Encryptor -RADIUS / RSA -Security certification (advantageous) You will also need to an understanding of the following technologies: VLAN segregation. DMZ. VSS. Failover. OSPF. High availability. CISCO. Palo Alto. Juniper. McAfee IPS. SafeNet. Tripwire. This is a contract role for up to 18 months to start immediately. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Digital Systems Architect – Financial Services - Northampton We require a Digital Architect to Support in the definition of digital architecture, roadmaps and technical solutions as well as technical consultancy and leading edge technology thinking as required across. Clearly articulate / communicate direction and benefits of digital architecture to developers / engineers and non-technical stakeholders Responsible for creating digital technology architecture solutions and cost estimates, to meet business needs, in line with strategy and architecture. Work with supply chain (including external) as appropriate. Working with the relevant enterprise wide architects and digital business aligned strategy leads, supports the creation of an appropriate digital technology strategy for the relevant business area. Maintain technology roadmaps for digital capabilities across the Company. Responsible for ensuring the digital engineering / development teams are aligned to the technical strategy, architecture, quality standards and policies. Work collaboratively with the relevant technology colleagues, project managers, architects, business analysts and developers to ensure that the digital outcomes delivered by projects are consistent with the original technical solution specified. Able to challenge stakeholders creatively and professionally to create architectural solutions which meet the business need (including budgetary / time constraints) whilst being aligned to Company architectural blueprint, principles and standards. Can describe existing / emerging digital technology and technology strategy to developers and non-technical stakeholders both verbally and via appropriate documentation. Experience of application client and server architecture in the web and/or mobile domain, application frameworks and architecture patterns Experience of Object-Oriented design and Enterprise Integration Patterns, of presenting technical concepts to a non-technical audience Specific experience of domain driven and event driven architecture The following would be nice to have: Experience of operating in an Agile delivery environment, microservices and refactoring to microservices Knowledge and experience of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman). Experience of DevOps and containerization Past and/or current experience of Java / JavaScript software development in an agile development environment The salary for this role will be £60K - £80K. Based in Northampton. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Senior Data Scientist PhD – Canary Wharf We urgently require a Senior Data Scientist with at least 5 to 10 years proven track record as Data Scientist. Must have a PhD ideally in Maths or Physics and an excellent understanding of data analytics. The Client would also like to see experience of managing and leading a team of Data Scientists. Should have experience of SCALA/SPARK and Hadoop. Initially this is a 3 month contract assignment in Canary Wharf – with likelihood that it will go on beyond that point. Location is Canary Wharf London. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with daily rate.

DevOps Senior Operations Engineer Our Client is looking to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer with at least 5 to 7 years expertise. They are a young talented team building the next generation video advertising platform. The key purpose of this role is focused on development in the capacity of improvements to the systems and operational environment by scripting, automation or building of tools. There are several key areas that require constant development: • Automation – Enhancements to the automation build process. Enhancements are continuously added to the base repository as well as additions of new technologies. • Scripting and Tools – There are many processes, tasks that can be made easier using scripts or custom designed tools in a managed services environment. We are looking for someone with knowledge of networking and storage, virtualization and operating systems, as well as good knowledge of the Architecture side of the role. Ideal skills and experience - what are you bringing to the party? • Experience working in operations - making sure the wheels are greased and the ship is humming along • Automation, Packaging, Deployments (Custom Hypervisor, Puppet, Git, scripting, CI services) • Source Code version control systems: Git & SVN • Monitoring: NewRelic, PagerDuty, etc • Programming Languages: Bash, PHP, GoLang • Virtualisation: We have a custom hypervisor (ZPF) but things like VMWare ESXi/KVM/oVirt/RHEV • Classics: Apache, MySQL, Redis, Varnish • Logstash & Elasticsearch • Networking (switching, routing, firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, load balancing, DNS, Cisco, F5, Akamai) • Multi cloud setup - AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Linode etc • DNS, NTP, SMTP, Jenkins • A solid background in Linux System Administration Functions and responsibilities This is a dynamic and varied role, which includes things like: • Build, deployment and maintenance of new and existing environments • Designing and maintaining highly available architectures • Security (patch management, vulnerability scanning & monitoring) • Uptime – design and maintain the systems and networking for uptime, resilience, architecting for failure. • Evaluation of new, cutting-edge technologies to help improve business processes and streamline • Develop highly-available, scalable, robust systems and take ownership of problems as they occur • Undertake ad-hoc out of business hours work for occasional technical support The salary for this role will be in the range £60K - £80K. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Technical Support Engineer – Holborn London As a Technical Support Engineer you will have at least 2 to 5 years hands-on experience in Technical Support. You will provide effective, high-quality technical support to the Company's rapidly growing global customer base. The Technical Support Engineer is a natural problem solver who is able work patiently and efficiently with hundreds of customers, exponential traffic growth and millions of impressions per month. The role will involve supporting both technical and non-technical end users, while also contributing to programming and documentation projects, as required. This is a great position for someone early in their Development career: you have some experience in customer service and enjoy resolving people's problems. Main responsibilities and qualifications: Extremely strong communication and follow-up skills. You can speak both engineer and human. Speaks and writes English fluently. Self-driven and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Shows initiative; works hard and leads by example as part of a greater team. Brings new ideas to the table about the support process and architecture; is able to implement them if needed! Great organization skills and ability to plan ahead. Must be a creative problem solver; able to think outside the box when challenging support issues appear. Customer focused mentality required; you love helping other people and see how they make great use of our products. Awareness of API, iOS SDK, JS SDK Experience querying/searching databases, preferably MySQL/SQL. Moderate experience/understanding of web technologies, including CSS, HTML, and XML, and JavaScript language and concepts.. Familiarity with Git, such as GitHub, Bitbucket, or other version control platform. Troubleshooting (especially when time is of the essence). Strong ability to retrieve historical data from multiple sources. 2 - 5 years experience in customer service/support role Salary for this role will be £35K - £38K. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with salary.

MicroStrategy Developer with SQL Server – Victoria London We require an experienced Micro strategy Developer with Microsoft SQL Server BI with SSIS and if possible with experience of Tableau. The following is a list of skills that we require: Micro Strategy v10.4 Architect Web Visual Insight Report Services Distribution Services Mobile (inc. setup) Previous experience in software upgrades SQL Server Very strong T-SQL DB versions 2005 – 2014 Experience with query performance enhancements (e.g. indexing) Stored Procedures Very strong SSIS experience Nice to have SSAS and MDX experience Tableau The Client would ideally like to see recent development experience of developing with Tableau. The Client is based in Victoria London. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with daily rate and availability.

Senior Software Developer with Angular – Central London Our Client is seeking to a recruit a Senior Technical Lead Developer with at least 5 to 10 years solid expertise in developing software with Angular and Node.js A background in product development and working within a regulated environment would be beneficial. Must be seasoned professional Senior Lead Software Developer to be based at the offices in Central London. Our backend is built with Node.js, Redis and Elastic Search on Heroku, The front end is built with Angular, and a Swift App, As a key decision maker on tech strategy, you will be able to influence the future direction of the platform. Experience working in a regulated sector like betting, banking or payments can be beneficial. Salary will be circa £70K - £80K + Benefits. Please send your CV to us in Word format along salary and availability.

Network Support Analyst - Cisco CCNA – European Bank - City London Our Client is looking to recruit a Network Support Analyst with Cisco CCNA – you must have at least 4 to 7 years proven track record. This is a support role supporting Business As Usual (BAU) with involvement in design of scalable solutions deliverable through projects. Encompassing numerous technologies that benefit high-availability solutions. Fast thinker who can diagnose, assist others and remediate BAU support issues. Maintain documentation and networking diagrams for both support and stringent internal audits. This role requires a responsible individual who can support to root cause analysis. Key duties - Work within Infrastructure team in supporting and delivering all aspect of services - BAU encompassing networks, telephony, PABX, voice recording, desk moves and changes - Support annual Disaster Recovery invoking/testing - Contribute to design, build and implementation of firewall solutions from perimeter to DMZ roles - Develop, maintain and deliver global standards to all networking devices - Interpret network security reports - Assist with seamless migration of network estate to newly adopted security framework - Facilitate internal/external Audits and Penetration Testing. Remediation Technical Skills -In-depth knowledge of CISCO including firewalls, switches and routing protocols -In-depth knowledge of supporting a datacentre with branch interconnectivity (LES circuits) -CISCO certification, required CCNA -VPN technologies (IPSEC) -Security certification (advantageous) Technologies Layer 2 Switching, Layer 3 Routing, VPN IPSEC & SSL, TACACS, RADIUS, NAT/PAT, VSS. High availability, including failover technologies and first hop redundancy protocols. Simply this is a 1, 2 and 3 Line Network Support position – ensuring that the applications and services that the Client has are supported and operational. The Client is based in the City in London close to Liverpool Street. Salary for this position will be in the range £45K - £60K plus banking benefits. Please send your salary to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Network Engineer with Security and Cisco – City London Our Client urgently requires a Senior Network Engineer with heavy background in Network Security on Cisco and Microsoft. You must have experience of working in a banking environment. The security and support of the company's network is paramount. Predominately a support role (BAU) with design of scalable solutions deliverable through projects. Encompassing numerous technologies that benefit high-availability solutions. This role requires a responsible individual who can design and deliver secure networking solutions. Fast thinker who can diagnose, assist others and remediate BAU support issues. Main Aspects of the role: -Work within Infrastructure team in supporting and delivering all aspect of BAU and support services -Design, build and implement firewall solutions from perimeter to DMZ roles -Support IPS deployment for European branches -Develop, maintain and deliver global standards to all networking devices -Remediate Penetration Test results -Ensure seamless migration of network estate to newly adopted security framework General Skills -Experience working within mission-critical environments -Experience in operational deployments -Datacentre cabling and racking of equipment Technical Skills you need to bring to the table: -In-depth knowledge of CISCO including firewalls, switches and routing protocols -In-depth knowledge of supporting a data-centre and branch inter-connectivity -Strong technical skills are essential -Experience of CISCO multi-layer switches and routers, including 6500s -CISCO certification, ideally CCNP -CISCO CSM -VLAN segregation -McAfee HIPS, Trend Micro -Centralised authentication service (AAA) -SafeNet Ethernet Encryptor -RADIUS / RSA -Security certification (advantageous) You will also need to an understanding of the following technologies: VLAN segregation. DMZ. VSS. Failover. OSPF. High availability. CISCO. Palo Alto. Juniper. McAfee IPS. SafeNet. Tripwire. You will ideally be coming with experience from a City based investment bank. Salary for this role is between £50K and £60K plus banking benefits. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with salary and availability.

Collibra Ranger Data Project Manager – Docklands London We are keen to recruit a Collibra Ranger Certified data Project Manager with at least 1 to 2 years experience of Collibra Ranger. Overall you must have a background in data and data management especially in line with GDPR. Any experience of working within the banking sector would be a major plus. This is a permanent position based In the Docklands London. This is an exciting and challenging new position working data, Big Data and Collibra. Salary will be in the range £60K - £70K. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with salary expectations and availability.

Business Analyst with Data Protection and Banking Systems – Manchester We are looking to recruit a Business Analyst with at least 5 years experience with full project life-cycle. Must have experience of working on retail banking systems and must have the following experience: Experience of regulations such as GDPR, SRP and any background with Data Privacy. This position is based around risk and Data Protection – we would like to see as much expertise in this area and ideally have Data Protection certification. This will be a 6 to 12 month contract – but will go on much longer. The Client is based close to Manchester. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with daily rate.