My client is looking for a Senior Product Designer for initially a 6 month contract to join there multi – disciplinary team to work on professional financial platform across the web.

What you will be doing;

Work with the Design Principal and members of the design team where you will follow SAFe, Lean and Agile product design methodologies.
Create new designs that address the particular needs of users.  
Develop the current existing designs.
Drive specific projects and programmes, showing creativity and ingenuity.
Ability to clearly prioritize and plane activities to ensure timely delivery.

What you will bring;

6+ years of experience within similar roles and a minimum of 3 years working in a complex product design agile environment.
Ability to work end to end from discovery all the way through to delivery.
Able to build relationships with multiple managers and stakeholders.
Knowledge of Financial design.
Being able to work or adapt to using Figma as a tool.
Worked with collaboration tools like FigJam and LucidSpark.
Able to create flow diagrams in either Lucid or Figma.
This candidate must be London based and willing to travel into the office 1 – 2 days per week.

My client is looking for a Technology Project Manager for initially a 6 month contract to manage a large book of work to help it achieve growth and maturity.

What you will be doing;

Ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the timelines and impact of the project.
Support the Programme Lead on all delivery aspects and manage the delivery performance.
You will identify and plan the migrations of programme risks.
Work with Programme managers to ensure that stakeholders are consistently updated on the projects plans.
Manage the end to end resource plans and manage the budget and scope of the programme.

What you will bring;

12+ years of Technology Project Management skills within Banking or Financial Services.
Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and skills.
Strong Technology Delivery experience.
Experience working in a team oriented and collaborative environment.
Knowledge of Capital Markets
This candidate must be London based and willing to travel into the office 1 – 2 days per week.

This Global Exchange is looking for a Business Analyst  to join their Data & Analytics Programme, which is a part of the technology integration portfolio.

This role will initially be a contract role for 6 months with a view to extend

What you will be doing;

Work with decision makers / product owners to define business financial and operational requirements to help identify and resolve issues.
Review and Analyse new and existing systems as well as develop new strategies to improve these systems.
 Provide orientation and training to end users for all modified and new systems
Create systems models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmers.
Provide guidance and support as well as coach more junior members of the team.

What you will bring;

5+ years of Business Analysis skills within Banking or Financial Services.
Demonstrated Business analysis skills.
Ability to work under pressure and make informed decisions.
Experience working in a team oriented and collaborative environment.
Knowledge of Capital Markets is desirable.
This candidate must be London based and willing to travel into the office 1 – 2 days per week.

EC1 Partners has won a superb Pre Sales role with a Global Exchange working within the Real Time Feeds and Connectivity department.  Our client provides market data and trading infrastructure to various clients. 

The role of the Pre Sales Consultant will be to gather and document prospects needs for a data feed solution, supporting proof of concepts and trials as well as assisting the Sales team in the contractual process.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements gathering and presentations to prospects
Solution design of what product mix fits the requirements in the most effective way
Applying commercial guidelines to help cost out set solution and completing the relevant product order forms.
Support any trial and proof-of-concept efforts to help prospect through the evaluation phase. 
Assist the Sales team in the contractual process and providing the relevant supporting technical documentation/information.

What you bring 

Strong presentation skills 
Market Data and/or Electronic Trading domain knowledge
Confident and professional communicator, both written and in front of audience
Fluent in English, fluency in a secondary major European language an advantage 
Excellent understanding of financial markets and related terminology 
Expert user of Microsoft Excel, Visio, PowerPoint
UNIX or similar command-line experience (desirable) 
Programming experience at some level in Java, C# or C++ (desirable)

United States (Remote) – Description:

This company specializes in the development of software and data products that help governments and organizations combat serious financial crime. Our technology is used to identify criminal activity such as money laundering and terrorist financing, and enables organizations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.

Team mission

The company’s core mission is to deliver best in class solutions to our customers, to empower them to identify, investigate and prevent complex financial crimes through proactive collaboration and detailed understanding of their problems.

Our whole team ethos is built on integrity, professionalism, creativity and pride.

Who you are:

• A highly motivated Sales professional to help grow the Americas new business sales team

• 7+ years direct enterprise software selling experience

• A solid background selling complex solutions into Financial Services

• Proven network of Director Level stakeholders and decision makers

• Understands consultative selling and complex sales cycles

• Can perform effectively in difficult and complex situations

• Strong commercial and entrepreneurial skills, ability to negotiate high value contracts

• Ambitious, energetic and strong interpersonal skills

• Constructive, resilient and perseverant

• An independent decision maker

• Can achieve success through others and is prepared to lead from the front

• Results driven and proven track record of overachieving sales targets

• Ability to work within a team orientated and innovative environment

• Excellent written and verbal professional communication skills

• Self-driven, highly motivated and independent contributor

• Proven negotiator, positive attitude, self-initiative

What the job involves:

• This role is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing and well-funded scale-up, to take control of all new business sales activities across the region, managing a sales team to maximize business revenue streams

• This position is integral for aggressive growth plans in 2023 and beyond

• Build, lead and grow the Americas New Business Sales team

• Define, implement & execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue targets

• Generate new leads through inbound and outbound sales activities

• Manage leads to closure through a complex Sales cycle

• Maintain detailed opportunity information and provide accurate forecasting

• Collaborate with team to maximize lead generation and account coverage

• Develop and maintain detailed territory go to market and account plans

• Monitor customer, market and competitor activity and provide feedback to company leadership team and other company functions

Benefits

Why you’ll love it here:

• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service • Hybrid working • Company Share Scheme • Private Family Healthcare • Employee Assistance Program • Company contributions to your pension • Enhanced maternity/paternity pay • The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro

Capital Markets 

Are you looking to work within a collaborative and global software development team? This leading global technology management consultancy is looking to a hire a Full Stack Developer to join one of there Tier 1 Investment Banking clients to help with the end to end service. 

What you will be doing:

Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions.
Design, Build, Architect and Test for changes, while be supported by senior leaders.
Implement & Deploy changes to the code across all environments.
Monitoring end of day batches and acting as a point of call for any BAU queries.
Updating the business and senior tech stakeholders on any progress and issues identified.

What you will bring:

7+ years development experience – ideally within C# or Python
Financial Services experience
Good understanding of asset classes and full trade lifecycle with an emphasis on Capital Markets.
Solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle 
Good understanding of SOLID principles.
Must be London Based – 2 – 3 days in the office 

EC1 Partners are exclusively partnered with a fintech start-up that have created a revolutionary buy-side SAAS platform. They are in search for a strong C# Engineer to work closely with the founders and focus on greenfield projects.

Qualifications

Working with stakeholders, elicit and understand functional and non-functional requirements in order to design and deliver software solutions.
Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC). For example for development processes and tasks and new features.
Tech stack Vue.js, ASP.NET Core, C#, MS SQL Server – all in Azure
Building applications from scratch
Strong understanding of API’s
Good knowledge of cloud principles
Knowledge of Financial Services (Advantageous)

You will be one of their first permanent employees (current dev team are contracting), where you will be delivering solutions in line with their product roadmap whilst going on a growth journey.

This opportunity will offer generous equity and a competitive base salary. Given you will be part of the initial founding team, you will be able to accelerate your career through constant C-Suite interaction, full autonomy in the role with the view to become a leader one day.

Do you want to make an impact?

Our client is the international market leader in data integration and analytics solutions for financial services.

We support some of the largest and most influential financial institutions in being able to make the decisions required to service their customers and whole economies! So, if you want to do impactful work on engaging projects that you can feel proud to be a part of, this may be the place for you.

What you’ll do

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining cutting edge infrastructure and architectural designs of our cloud-based software product running on AWS. Besides that you will:

Be responsible for the automation, deployment and maintenance of a portfolio of applications running on Linux on bare-metal and cloud environments like AWS, GCP and Azure
Focus on automation of infrastructure and configuration management using Ansible
Work with Docker containers and orchestrate using Kubernetes. Build/Maintain Kubernetes clusters both on-premise and cloud
Involve on a daily basis with Git, Bitbucket and create Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for the product and infrastructure
Understand the development frameworks and focus on microservices based solutions
Build and Deployment of artifacts and maintain using Nexus/Cloud repositories
Deliver infrastructure and troubleshoot solutions for technologies like Cassandra, Kafka, Postgres etc.,
Troubleshoot issues and remediate
Automate routine tasks using Python/Shell scripting
Use IaC tools like Terraform as when required
Create documentation and process improvements

You will work on projects with utmost enthusiasm and continuously work on ways to automate and improve development and release processes. You will deliver projects autonomously on time and within budget.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, no two days will be the same. You will be working in a dynamic and multicultural environment.

What you’ll bring

We’re not just interested in what you have done but also what you could do with the right opportunity, so we’re open speaking to people at any stage of their career with the skills, experience and attributes below.

Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes
Eagerness at evaluating problems accurately and displaying sound judgment
Flexibility in using a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
With your experience you can effectively deliver the solutions on time
You like to collaborate and communicate efficiently with our engineering and business teams.

Technologies

AWS and other clouds like Azure, GCP etc.
Docker
Kubernetes
Ansible
Git
Jira
Jenkins/Bamboo
Cassandra, Postgres
Kafka
Terraform, Cloudformation
Python/Bash Scripting

What you’ll get

By joining us, not only will you have the opportunity to work with and learn from those at the forefront of data solutions, but you’ll also get access to a range of benefits (depending on location), including:

A highly competitive salary
Annual bonus scheme
Hybrid flexible working
Pension scheme
25 days of paid holidays
Life assurance
Private medical insurance
Enhanced family leave schemes
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
Discounted gym membership
Unlimited LinkedIn Learning access
Season ticket loan
Travel insurance
Company social events

Come as you are…

We don’t want you to change. We want to meet you, the real you. We know that diversity drives innovation and that is just one of the reasons why we welcome applications from those from all backgrounds.

We also know that people do their best work when they can be their authentic selves and we therefore strive to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer, where our people feel safe to be exactly that.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please speak with the hiring team who will be happy to support you.

If you have a preferred pronoun, please feel free to highlight this during the process (e.g., she/her, he/him, they/them, etc.).

Keep in mind

Our customers are from the largest and most influential financial institution worldwide, we carry out background checks on all our new hires. This background check includes a Credit Check, an Adverse Media Check, a PEP Check, a Sanction List Check and a Criminal Record Check.

EC1 Partners are currently working with a Tier 1 Investment Bank. They are currently expanding their Development team based in London. The client is looking for a Full Stack Developer who has working experience as a Software Developer, focused with Python technologies. They are keen to speak to developers that want to take their career to the next level, by progressing into an exciting new senior role, and help the company to continue developing forward.

The ideal candidate will currently be working with Python Technologies, as well as some experience or knowledge with SQL and Investment Banking domain background,  Cloud technology exposure would be beneficial.

Role:

Analyse design and develop solutions for business requirements 
Understand and be involved in the change management process
Follow an Agile methodology approach

Key Requirements:

Experience working with Python technologies
Experience with both Data and Enterprise applications.
Deep understanding of Financial products.
Hands of Developer who is able to coach more junior people within the team.
Understanding or working experience with cloud technologies
Good understanding and working experience using SQL
Bachelor’s Degree or master’s degree within relevant fields
Strong Communication skills
Thrive in a highly collaborative team
Investment Banking domain experience and understanding ( a must)

EC1 Partners is currently working on an exclusive Client Engagement role for a leading independent platform provider of data, analytics and risk solutions on systematic and factor based models. 

Our client’s product allows institutional investors to discover and analyse the market of quantitative strategies. 

The role will provide support for Buy side clients, leverage client relationships and provide advice on how to improve usage.

Key Responsibilities

First line responder responsible for day-to-day client interactions, addressing customer questions and potential issues in a timely manner
Articulate the solutions to technical financial institutions 
Collaborate with multiple internal teams 
Assist customers to implement and access company data and analytics services
Provide advice and guidance on how to improve client engagement and develop lasting relationships
Maintain a thorough knowledge of the company’s products and service offerings and methodologies
Work in a fast-growing B2B sales environment for one of the most innovative Fintech Platform

What you bring 

Technically skilled with a customer focused mind and excellent communication skills
A strong academic background
Minimum 2 years’ experience within a client services role
Understanding of financial markets and mathematical background 
Organised, strong attention to detail and confident to work under your own initiative with a willingness to learn and ask questions
Willingness to travel within a wide geographical area for client meetings
Experience with Python will be a plus