Scala Engineer

Credit Risk IT –Engineer

You will be responsible for working collaboratively in a cross functional SAFeAgile Scrum feature team to deliver solutions for business partners in the Credit Risk domain.  All team members are committed to working together to deliver front and back end components along with automated tests that ensure the quality of deliverables.  The team partners directly with key stakeholders and end users in a globally distributed organization to understand requirements and collectively design and develop the best possible solutions.

We are looking for strong big data development skills to enhance our team’s technical capabilities.    The team will be working across multiple technologies and will need to work together to ensure delivery of business value.  This will mean sharing your technical expertise with teammates and being willing to learn and take up tasks with technologies that may not be your primary skill set.

What You Will Do:

• Analyze user requirements and design appropriate big datasolutions that best fit those requirements
• Work in a cross functional Agile Scrum team to design, develop, test and maintain solutions
• Ensure that solutions are in line with department and domain architecture strategies and contribute to defining and improving those strategies
• Help build, maintain and continually implement tests for an automated testing framework that drives integration tests front to back across components.
• Work collaboratively - sharing knowledge and helping mentor teammates in your areas of expertise.

Skills You’ll Need:

• A Strong hands-on technical lead with 7+ years of software development experience using Scala, Scala, Java, Spring, Spark Framework, R, Python and Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop.
• Excellent problem solving skills in a distributed, multi-technology ecosystem
• Architectural Design Patterns, Highly optimized, Low latency and Massively Scalable Platforms
• Strong understanding of concurrency, distributed systems development and performance optimization.
• Experience of implementation and design of Business Critical, calculation and data intensive data flows using one of key Public Cloud GCP/AWS/Azure, GCP preferred. Experience working with GCP native services like Composer, Cloud Run, Cloud functions, Terraform templates, Data Proc, GCE. GKE, Service Mesh etc.
• A willingness to learn all layers of the development stack, including test and auto deployment tools, to be able to collaboratively deliver front-to-back solutions, as well as champion best practice development techniques.
• Experience with source control (Git), build tools (Maven) and continuous integration (TeamCity / Jenkins)
• Strong communication and writing skills.
• Ability to communicate directly with peers, managers, and clients while facilitating development of a completed and successful solution.
• Strong organization skills to manage multiple timelines and complete tasks quickly within the constraints of clients’ timelines and budgets.

Skills That Will Help You Excel:

• Financial Services Industry Experience – Exposure to Stress Testing is a huge plus
• Knowledge of Risk Management
• Experience working in SAFe Agile program
• Interest in learning and contributing with some of these technologies:
  • REST services
  • Angular (or React), HTML5, Javascript, JQuery, CSS  and other web based technologies

Technical Business Analyst

Technical Business Analyst – Banking – Finances

Location: Luxembourg

We have a long-term contract opportunity for a Technical Business Analyst to join our client in January 2022 for a 12-month contract.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Business Analyst who has worked in large financial organisations and has experience in software development within the financial industry.

The tasks/activities will include:

-          Assistance to the business departments in writing business cases.

-          Business analysis of complex projects, this will encompass the following tasks:

• Eliciting requirements,
• Requirements analysis,
• Co-authoring of the business requirements with the business experts,
• Authoring of the functional requirements.

-          Be the interface between the business experts and the IT project managers, solution architects and developers.

-          Assisting the IT developers and IT testers on the business and functional aspects of the projects.

-          Writing conceptual data model, business processes and building the functional architecture of the projects.

-          Eventually participating to the testing activities: writing test strategies, test cases, preparing test data, executing test cases.

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in business analysis in large (more than 500 employees) financial organisations.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in software development in the finance industry is mandatory.
• Software architecture experience is recommended.
• Testing of IT applications in the financial field.
• Demonstrable knowledge in:
  • Modelling technics and languages: UML and business process modelling.
  • English writing skills (C1 European Level), French is recommended (B2 European Level)

Endeavour has an exciting contract opportunity for a Finance Systems Support Analyst to join a client based in central London.

Your role as a Finance Systems Support Analyst will be to support the efficient operation of all finance systems, including issue resolution within the finance systems function.

Our client is looking for a Finance Systems Support Analyst able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders, who has strong systems skills, preferably in a P2P application and with either SUN or a suitable ERP. This experience needs to be in the back-end of these applications rather than as a front-end system user.

Required skills/knowledge:

• Experience of maintaining a robust finance IT systems control environment ensuring that all reconciliations and postings are carried out to timetable and an appropriate standard
• Experience of working with large volumes of financial transactions on computerised financial systems
• Practical experience in maintaining financial records and undertaking reconciliations.
• Demonstrable experience of purchase order systems, and their interface with the finance IT accounting system.
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload.
• Ability to analyse and solve problems in a high-pressure environment.
• Excellent PC skills including Microsoft Word, and advanced Excel.
• Clear understanding of the regulatory framework of accounting demonstrated by either an accounting qualification or significant experience working in a financial environment.

If this sounds like you, get in touch ASAP or send us your CV to be considered for this contract opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent opportunity for an Application Support Manager to join our client based in Dublin. You will lead a team of analysts and developers to provide Application Support Services across the service delivery platforms. Salary in region of €75,000 per annum.

Responsibilities –

• Design and implement an IT Service fit for purpose for multi-client/multi-platform operations
• Ensure Service Improvement Plans (SIPs) are utilised
• Ensure key deliverables are identified and prioritised
• Ensure solutions adhere to business goals
• Manage system development priorities
• Manage costs, resources, and delivery schedules
• Manage delivery of IT Services to ensure systems remain operational

Required Skills and Knowledge –

• Experience managing Application Support teams
• Experience working in a client-facing role
• Knowledge of Software Architecture
• Knowledge of standard IT Practices
• Previous experience working in financial services industry would be beneficial
• Knowledge of Life Assurance industry would be beneficial

Please apply as soon as possible to be included on the shortlist for this role.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Network Engineer to work on the network projects and evolution of the test infrastructure for an international financial sector client in La Hulpe, Belgium. This duration of this role is 12 months and the rate is market related.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

Expert knowledge of the following:

• English Speaking
• Cisco Hardware/Software
• F5 Hardware/Software
• Juniper Hardware/Software
• Network Design
• Network Testing
• Network Troubleshooting
• Experience In Testing
• Experience In QA

The scope of work is as follows:
Work on the qualification of network projects and evolution of the test infrastructure. 

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Project Leader with 5 years of experience to work for a large financial services client in Brussels, Belgium. The duration of this role is initially until the end of the year with possibility of extension thereafter and the rate is market related.

Required Skills and Responsibilities:

• Must be fluent in English
• Must have at least 5 years of experience as a Project Leader
• Experience with API is a strong advantage
• Experience and understanding of a financial/ banking environment is a strong advantage.
• Must be an expert at Project Management
• Must be an expert at People Management
• Must be an expert at Program Management
• Must be an expert with Communications and Organizations
• You must be able to keep track of the different commitments within the initiative, to structure the commitment from different parties and make sure that milestones are met.
• You will have to manage the launch of a API program internally.

Please get in touch for further details on this excellent, not to be missed contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Product Manager with Financial knowledge to join our leading client in Wembley.  Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in Finance/Banking.  Attractive salary of up to £50K. 

Our Client is in the financial sector and manufacturing industry.  For you to be successful in this role, you must have good business acumen with excellent communication skills, experience in the banking sector and be able to analyse problems to find effective solutions. 

Essential Skills: -

       Degree in Mathematics or Computer Sciences or relatable subject

       PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent

       Knowledgeable on International Standards for Payment Specifications for Smart Card personalisation and fulfilment

       Cryptograph (PKI)

       IT Systems and Communication Protocols

       Very good understanding of Software Development

       Expertise with MS Office products

       Design and Delivery Presentations

Competencies: -

       Innovative

       Results orientated

       Planning and organizing skills

       Ability to analyse information

       Excellent communication skills

       Motivated

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS

CVs should not be longer than 2 Pages

You will not be considered if you have employment gaps

Reference process that takes 4-5 weeks prior to onboarding

Candidates with CCJ, IVA, Bankruptcy or Criminal record will not be considered.

Applications invited from candidates with Banking / Project Management experience. 

Endeavour Recruitment has a FANTASTIC opportunity  for an experienced Functional Analyst.

You will understand and apply the concepts of incremental and interactive development.

Knowledge of Archimate is an advantage. Working in an agile context. 

Primary responsibilities will be to:

• Transform business requirements in functional requirements. Taking into account functional and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security and usability)
• Providing high level technical impact during the proposal stage
• Perform functional analysis of information systems and draws up the functional design
• Responsible for the technical design within the framework of architecture, standards and criteria.
• Responsible for qualitative hand-over to and support of the development team
• Review and monitor the design and development deliverables
• Support changes and enhancements from design & development through production including (automated) testing.
• Contribute to the drawing up and management of the planning for analysis and design phase.
• Consult on development and updating of training materials and user manuals and prepare documentation for implemented products/processes.

Required certification and experience:

• Knowledge of financial services (banking and insurances)
• Data modelling (relational and logical)
• Analysis of the business context (AS IS and TO BE)
• Apply architecture principles and standards
• Functional modelling including documentation
• Model storming
• Define user stories
• Structured and convincing communication skills You have the analytical skills to understand our E2E business processes
• Incremental and interactive design & development
• Define a technical plan that describes how the system will be built to meet the functional design
• Performance skills
• Define impact and dependencies
• Agile testing
• Define input for planning : workload estimations, risks, ...
• Coordination & coaching skills towards developers
• Use interview techniques
• You share your experience in the design community.

Please apply for further detail on this excellent contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an experienced Java Engineer to join our client based in Vienna. This is an initial 3-month contract with a strong opportunity for extension. Looking to pay a daily rate of €45-€50 EUR per hour. Now is a great time to work in Europe with the exchange rates!

 You will be responsible for the development of professional web application software in an international environment. You should have excellent knowledge of java web development technologies and can be a part of a scrum team.

 Required Skills:

• Ability to write, document and test Java Code
• Java programming skills
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• CSS
• Java8
• Hibernate
• Spring
• JSP
• Servlets
• SOAP
• Good SQL knowledge and database (preferably Oracle)
• Agile mindset with practical scrum experience

Beneficial Skills:

• Industry experience in a banking or finance industry
• A technical degree or equivalent
• German is an asset but strong English communication is a must!
• GWT, MQ Series, Struts, JaxB

If you are an experienced Java Engineer and are looking for an EXCITING contract role please apply ASAP to be shortlisted!