Our client is a high-growth data-centric automation software whose intuitive, no-code platform are being used by global financial institutions worldwide. The global pandemic has only exacerbated their business and due to growth plans, they have created 2 new headcounts to support the growth.

As an Implementation Consultant, you live to delight customers by solving business problems with technology. You are a customer advocate and responsible for end-to-end project lifecycle, from inception to “go-live”. Working alongside the business teams, you will gather and document customer functional and technical requirements before going on to configure products to ensure they fit the technical requirements of customer’s environment.

Some key deliverables include solution designing, quality of configuration, resolving any technical issues, providing oversight for test case production. You will also educate customers on what’s required for successful implementations, deliver administrator, train-the-trainer, and end-user training sessions, and authoring training materials as required, regular project discussions with customers and project teams to review work plans, risks, actions, issues, and decisions that drive projects to completion and minimize “time to value”. This role will also see you supporting sales opportunities as and when required.

Who you are:

• 5+ years of prior experience in an implementation-focused role, with good technical knowledge of programming languages such as C#, C++, SQL, Java, Python
• Project management and exceptional organizational skills a must.
• You have exceptional communication skills and get pumped speaking with customers
• You’re a self-starter who can take charge of tasks with minimal direction in a fast-paced environment

If you are looking to work in a highly collaborative environment and are committed to making a difference, we’d like to meet you.

Following a series of successful fundings, and valuation crossing multiple billions, our client, a payments unicorn with a strong global financial infrastructure platform in place has created multiple headcounts within its global solutions team to scale the business.

You will work collaboratively at a high level with internal and external customers in sales, product strategy and development teams to optimize and leverage any product/sales capabilities and build them into the short- and long-term pre-sales strategy. Through a cutting-edge technology stack, you will provide a seamless payments solution for global issuers.

Your day to day will cover, but may not be limited to just the following activities:

• Drive the consultative selling process based on a strong understanding our clients’ payments business and operating metrics and develop win-win technical solutions
• Design the alignment of client objectives to our solutions in order to deliver the most impactful value propositions for our clients
• Acting as a SME within the organisation in order to effectively position services with prospective and current customers and be able to carry a conversation with the necessary level of functional, system architecture, technology knowledge
• Craft and develop proposals and presentations to prospects and leads with regards to technical compatibility and feasibility, and when required, contribute to the development of the pre-sales strategy.
• Collaborate with sales, product, solutions and business teams internally to influence or shape GTM strategies, execution strategy as well as market development and marketing plans
• Ensure successful technical delivery of products

What you bring to the organisation:

• A minimum of 10 solid years combined experiences in hands-on delivery and presales capacity
• A passion for technology and payments, you enjoy technical conversations with external stakeholders to drive successful revenue growth
• Innovative and relishes challenges, you are constantly looking for ways to develop new products and solutions to bring to market
• Strong understanding on FinTech, in particular, payments will be essential for you to be successful
• Fluent in business and technology consulting – knowledge of methodologies, delivery management and commercial acumen

If you are looking to make an impactful result with a FinTech unicorn, this role may just work for you!

Our client, a Gartner Magic Quadrant winner and a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions to Fortune 500s and global enterprises has been on a trajectory growth mode. This is a newly-created headcount to support their Asia expansion plans.

Responsible for the APAC market, this role will be instrumental in in delivering revenue growth via building and growing their channel eco-system infrastructure to ensure the success of the partners and alliances. You will report to the VP of Sales and will cover the following responsibilities:

• Dedicated to growing the channel pipeline, marketing initiatives, lead generation and market share
• Proactively leads a joint partner planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones associated with a productive partner relationship
• Proactively participate in quarterly and annual partner discussions and planning processes, ensuring revenue successes and growth
• Develop and maintain necessary partner opportunity pipeline to support sales performance expectations
• Manages potential channel conflict with other internal sales channels by fostering excellent communication internally and externally, and through strict adherence to channel rules of engagement
• Proactively assesses, clarifies, and validates partner needs on an ongoing basis
• Collaborate with partner and alliance organisations to sell to end users
• Create and implement sales and marketing campaigns for channel partners to drive revenue in key vertical markets
• Recruit, enable and drive new SIs and strategic partners 

To be successful in this role, you should ideally possess the following:

• Degree-qualified, ideally from IT or Computer Science, with extensive regional experiences
• A minimum of 10 years in channel partner management, ideally within the software applications space 
• Strategic program management and execution skills
• Strong writing and presentation skills are requisites to the success of this role
• Demonstrated stakeholder management, with proven track records in managing strategic channel partners and SIs and finding creative win-win situations with partners to drive successful partnerships

If you take pride in establishing long-term business relationships, is commercially astute with extensive applications software experiences and looking for growth, this is the ideal role for you!

Position summary:

My client who is a leaving provider in financial market data and infrastructure is looking for a Programme Manager to join their London based team. 

The objectives of the team are:

• Maintain and evolve the project charters, coordinate project plans, resource plans, and related project management, ensuring all requirements and objectives are met
• Lead detailed plans across the critical path to delivery of project objectives, engaging with partners and critically assessing requirements
• To direct and manage programme project delivery on time and to budget
•  Ensure that risks and issues are clearly identified and mitigated to minimise impacts on the organisation and our customers
• To provide clear, accurate, timely and actionable information that allows technology and business partners to understand delivery status, progress and performance
• Partner with Business and Technology stakeholders to align on delivery and ensure business value is achieved based on the corporate strategy
• Ensure that there is high visibility and transparency of programme portfolio health to enable senior management to make informed decisions
• Deliver compliant solutions following best practice, standards and regulations

Main Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Collaborating with key stakeholders, Shape, Manage and Deliver a multi-workstream technology programme and/or portfolio of projects.
• Manage and report workstream delivery against a clearly defined delivery plan that includes Quality assurance of workstream deliverables.
• Provide leadership and direction to the programme or project team, resolving escalated issues.
• Provide Clear communication of portfolio-level and where necessary detailed reporting to C-Suite's
• Operate in a matrix environment with a clear understanding that the service relationship is owned by the service owners and development leads.
• Identify, monitor and mitigate Programme, Project and where related, Operational Risks (& mitigations)
• Manage local communications to a clearly defined communication plan

Essential Skills/Experience Required 

• Successful experience in delivering technology risk reduction programmes or projects
• Successful experience in delivering technology integration/separation requirements resulting from an organizational mergers & acquisitions
• Successful experience in delivering large-scale, complex transition programmes
• Successful experience in Programme Management, Transition, Vendor Management, Technology Operations
• Degree or equivalent level of professional qualifications and/or experience

My client is a global leading FinTech firm who specialise in providing financial market data and infrastructure. They are currently looking for a Senior Java Software Engineer, to join their team in London. 

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of experience using Java technologies 
• Experience using both Java 8 and Java 11
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools
• Strong experience using Agile Methodologies 
• Experience using SQL or Oracle
• Experience using Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience Spring/ Spring Boot
• Strong communication skills
• Good team player

Experience:

• Experience using Cloud technologies, ideally AWS
• Experience using Multi-threading and Low-Latency
• Ideally a relevant Engineering degree

Are you looking to join one of the worlds largest providers of financial market data and infrastructure. This global FinTech Provider are currently looking for a Solutions Architect, to join their Nottingham or London based team.

Accountabilities & Duties: 
• Hands-on Technical Architect working closely with the Business, peer Architects and agile development teams to define solutions architecture.
• Responsible for vendor assessment.
• Align Trading Architecture with the wider Enterprise Architecture and Business vision
• Understand and review current system architecture
• Define the glide path from current state to target architecture
• Ensure our open platform architecture remains secure
• Drive the highest levels of quality and service
• Promote enterprise wide reuse of technology components
• Track industry trends and ensure new system designs exploit enabling technologies
• Maintain strong working relationships and ensure design patterns and best practices are communicated to and effectively adopted by development teams
• Communicate and win support from senior stakeholders for business-impacting technology decisions
• Collaborate with development, QA, Application support and Infrastructure managers to improve the operational efficiency of the organization.

Accountabilities & Duties: 
• Understanding of Financial Services / FinTech enviroments
• Understanding end to end workflows across desktop, Office 365, cloud, snowflake etc and co-mingling with proprietary data
• Understanding of the content and analytics required to support workflows and techniques to onboard (inc. from 3rd parties), process and distribute those content sets.
• Understanding of Data Modelling and Management inc. Data Quality
• Good understanding of FIX data/message modelling and FIX infrastructure management
• Solution design and estimation.
• Low Latency Trading Systems Architecture including Software, Bus, Caching and Database technologies.
• Self starter, highly motivated, outstanding problem solver
• Technology evangelist
• Experienced at striking the balance between architectural vision and near term delivery
• Effective collaboration and influence across organizational boundaries
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills
• Strong verbal and written communications.
• Design and architecture of systems and software components
• Demonstrated track record architecting systems for quality, availability, supportability, scalability, extensibility and security
• Experience in Cloud technologies particularly AWS, Azure,
• HTML5/JS, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, serverless, Authentication protocols eg OAuth, API definition eg Swagger,
• Information security architecture and secure software development and tooling.
• Agile development methodologies and DevOps, CI/CD pipeline and associated tooling, Jira
• Excellent organizational and analytical abilities
• Strong ability to build and maintain working relationships with the Business and implementation teams.

Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent experience

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a Global Fintech company which are undergoing several business and technology transformation projects. This global Fintech Provider are currently looking for a Senior Technical Delivery Manager, to join their London team.

Accountabilities & Duties:

• The Delivery Manager will actively lead all phases of the projects. Identifies, assesses and managers risks to the success of the program and ensures stakeholders have information to make effective decisions.
• Builds effective relationships to ensure the success of the projects.
• Have effective control, leadership, and responsibility to deliver the program – including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business value.
• Ensures the communication channels and processes are in place to notify key stakeholders so that plans can be amended, and the necessary actions taken.
• Provides leadership on all aspects of the program to ensure successful delivery.
• Establishes the appropriate tools and processes to meet project goals.
• Influences program sponsor to make the appropriate decisions and modifications in response to external influences on the program.
• Ensures appropriate sponsorship.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Successful experience in delivering large-scale, high-profile ‘must deliver’ projects
• Successful experience in delivering support across client migrations
• Successful experience in Programme Management, Project Management, Transition, Vendor Management, Technology Operations
• Strong Communication and presentation skills 
• Experience within financial services
• Degree or equivalent level of professional qualifications and/or experience

Our client is a Global leader in the FinTech markets. We’re building a community of extraordinary people who will break new barriers, evangelise what User Research can do. If you’re passionate about research methods and integrating user research to the design process and the product development, you could join our growing team of researchers.

Role summary

• Identify research needs, plan, collect, analyse user behavior through product development
• Extract impactful findings and communicate them in a meaningful way to support the cross functional team
• Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and oral presentations
• Drive user-centered design by collaborating with the team (designer, PM, Editorial etc.

What you’ll be doing:

• Identify and leverage existing knowledge and insight on user behaviour to augment their product experience dynamically
• Develop and utilise personas, journey maps and run workshops to aligned with the cross functional teams
• Identify research needs, plan and design research studies, defining recruitment screeners, and use recruitment channels as well utilising various parts of the organisation to build internal and external customer engagement.
• Design hypotheses and lead studies that examine both user behaviour and attitude, motivation as well as larger market directions
• Conducting research to gather insights for new product and concept developments including user requirements gathering and early-stage concept and prototype testing, guerrilla research, and other approaches to ensuring the user needs are fully understood
• Work closely with Product Owners, Designers and Developers to turn user data into actionable product/service requirements that feed into prototype development, and influence product direction
• Modelling insights gained from user research into formats to enhance organizational understanding of our users – such as experience maps, service blueprints and actionable reports
• Confidently communicate findings and actionable insights to ensure true end-to-end experience is considered

What you’ll bring:

• MSc/PhD, human behaviour related field (HCI, Psychology, Social Science, Information Science, anthropology, or related field)
• Full understanding and demonstrable experience of research methodologies: Qualitative: RITE, usability testing, and contextual enquiry, interview, diary study etc.
• Basic understanding of quantitative: usability metrics, web analytics, survey creation, card sorting, behavioural analysis and statistical concepts
• Ability to support AND challenge product and user experience assumptions and related questions across mobile and desktop devices.
• A passion for research with a self-starter attitude
• Strong stakeholder management skills at various levels of hierarchy
• Evidence that you have successfully designed digital / self-serve journeys which became the user’s desirable, feasible and viable channel-of-choice
• Comfortable supporting multiple initiatives simultaneously

Exciting opportunity to join a fast growing digital asset focused firm. Our client are an established, well placed digital asset and digital trading business that are looking to make a key strategic wealth management sales hire in Hong Kong to spur their growth through revenue growth and strategy. This business is well led, well placed and powered by some impressive technology, they have a diversified offering which is experiencing strong uptake in the market.

The hire is to target UHNW and Wealth management markets/clients and engage market participants, to invest and trade into digital assets via our clients platform and market access.

Reporting to the MD of this business line, you will be working closely with the senior management and be responsible for driving revenue into the private wealth management markets.

The ideal person must have a strong sales track record, be strategic thinking, ideally with around 7-10 years sales experience gained within private banking, wealth management firm or a business servicing this client segment. Good experience in how private banks/wealth management firms operate, hedging and other related practices these firms use will be very helpful to gain traction with the target market. You will also have to have a passion and be enthusiastic about cryptocurrency and/or trading related technology. You will be able to operate successfully and smoothly in what is a startup-type environment, someone self-motivated and relentless for success/growth.

If you have direct experience in cryptocurrency, this would be great, as well as strong understanding or experience with derivatives, electronic trading or prime services. Most of all you will be able to demonstrate the strong sales qualities in being able to prospect, win and close deals. Fluency in Mandarin is required.