Technical Project Manager – Bank – City of London As the Technical Project Manager, you play an integral role in a high performing team to deliver technical projects on time, to budget and that achieve both the project objectives and increase internal customer satisfaction. This is a hybrid role where you apply your technical expertise in either software development or IT infrastructure projects. At times, you might need to chip in on business requirement scoping and technical delivery to get the project across the line. You leverage your project management expertise and adept communication skills to lead the end-to-end project lifecycle and by doing so, you directly shape the success of IT projects, and therefore our business. Key Responsibilities: Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes, and implementing improvement activities wherever necessary Taking ownership of critical risks and issues, coordinating resolution with all appropriate constituents, and establishing effective communication between stakeholders Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery Manage metrics reporting and analysis of business demand against capacity constraints Manage the development and delivery of IT products utilizing Scrum and Kanban methodologies Focus on the constant improvement of quality, speed and ensuring the team learns and gets better each sprint. Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and security teams to comply with established policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements Provide communication and escalation to IT and business area management on critical issues Foster and maintain good working relationships with business area representatives to remain in sync on direction and future delivery requests Key Requirements: Comfortable capturing and challenging briefs to ensure we are delivering the most worthwhile solutions Experience of leading, energising and mentoring project members Experience in IT project delivery including managing all project phases from analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and hand over to BAU teams. Ability to work to tight deadlines and work calmly under pressure A high level of organisation and demonstrated skills to manage a team's capacity Comfortable multitasking and prioritising several tasks at once Hard-working with an outgoing and positive nature Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Technical skillsets within IT Infrastructure and Development will be mandatory Technologies: Microsoft based environment including – MS SQL, Exchange, Active Directory, IIS, Symantec, Citrix Network – Cisco, Palo Alto, ForcePoint, Symantec Email Security Programming Language – T-SQL, VB.net, C#, PowerShell, ASP The Client is a bank based in the City of London. The salary for this position will be circa £60K - £70K. This is a 12 month FTC position. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.
2 Level Application Support Engineer We are looking for a experienced technical engineer to join our growing Equities business. The platform you will be looking after is used by multiple trading desks servicing a diverse set of clients and instruments. As part of the wider platform team you will be working closely Developers along with technical, analysis and testing colleagues. Investigation and resolution of the work items at hand will require competent technical skills and a keen intellect. The business is a growth area, with current investments taking place in all of the technology, business and middle office areas. Primary Responsibilities: Monitor application components. Global support and includes weekend availability to troubleshoot production related issues and perform checkouts. Expertise in operating windows and Linux environment with good command over any scripting language such as Shell, Perl, Python, etc. Knowledge of configuration Management systems such as Ansible. Strong Knowledge of CI tools such Bamboo or Jenkins. Ability to work both independently and in groups in an energetic, diverse environment. Debugging the system and fixing the production related issues. Handles complex operational tasks and recommends process and technology changes. Build monitor tools for production environments. Expedient deployment of new systems. Capacity planning and support for increasing volumes and business growth. Knowledge of networking and storage concepts. Escalate / follow-up on permanent fix for development related issues. Provide solutions for application automation. Manage communication of system and application outages to the end users whenever required. Resolve complex application and technical problems. Build, test and install software in Dev, QA, Prod/DR environment. Support complex efforts involving Analysis, Design, Development and testing of various application components Desired Experience/ Skills: Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics Previous career roles in Support Analyst coupled with experience within the Financial industry at least 3+ yrs. Expertise in operating windows and Linux environment with good command over any scripting language such as Shell, Perl, Python, etc. Basic knowledge of infrastructure concepts. Nice to understand Devops tools such Bamboo or Jenkins. Hands-on experience in support of a real-time trading environment. Knowledge of support applications that use high-performance messaging/middleware. Strong analytical, and verbal and written communication skills. Strong Knowledge of FIX protocol. Java, C#, C++ development skills set, nice plus. Personal Attributes Good communication skills, including the ability to write clearly. Able to function effectively as a member of a team. Proactive with respect to personal and technical development. The position is based in the City London. The duration of this contract is 12 months. The rate for this assignment is circa £400 per day. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with you daily rate in GBP and availability.
