London (City)

Quant Analyst / Developer
Several roles
Day rate contracts. 6 months+
Competitive day rates
Flex to work from home f/t is desired
Global bank

As a long- established tech recruitment partner to this international back we have been asked to assist in the hire of a number of individuals with experience in the Quant space both at Developer and Analyst levels, Over 120 individuals have joined this bank via us over the years. We enjoy a good relationship, and we view this as one of the better banks in terms of working culture.

Benefits of joining this team: You would be joining a smaller Quant team compared to most banks in London and as such your role would be more diverse in terms of touching all areas and you should have the option to work on asset classes you perhaps have an interest in. This has been confirmed to us. Further there is lots of on-going work, so good longevity prospects.

All roles need robust ability in either C++ or C# (at Developer or analyst level) with experience in a quant related technical role. Further some of the following skills are needed for some of these roles:

Common skills across all roles:
Quants
C++
C#

Other skills / experience (not needed for every role)

Pricing theory
FO pricing tools
Vanilla Interest Rate pricing
P and L attrition
Valuation
Risk
Monte Carlo
VBA
Excel
Testing
Continuous Integration

We can pass the detailed role specs to interested parties. Several roles here. These roles were budgeted to give a gross contract day rate (PAYE Umbrella) of c. £750pd, however candidates needing above these figures will be reviewed by the hiring stakeholders on merit.

These roles may suit individuals who have held the following roles: Quant Analyst, Quant Developer, Quant Consultant

Deerfoot IT is one of the UK’s most established, independent IT recruitment specialists. We are keen to foster strong relationships with IT consultants based on providing a transparent and supportive service. Now in our 24th year we pay promptly and are a stable contracting partner in good financial health. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906). We never send your CV without your email authorisation.

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Join our client’s team as a Senior UX Designer and embark on an exciting journey to create exceptional user experiences in the messaging and archiving space for compliance. This is an opportunity to tackle challenging problems and make a significant impact on customers' lives.
As a UX Designer, the individual will be the advocate for users throughout the entire product management cycle. From understanding the context and framing the problems to delivering meaningful solutions, they will champion the needs of customers. Collaborating with stakeholders, UI designers, and developers, they will conduct research, design innovative solutions, and ensure seamless delivery.
Responsibilities:
• Be the voice of customers, gaining deep insights into their work and the challenges they face
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product management to develop effective approaches, going beyond mere requirement gathering
• Apply research techniques proactively, tailored to each unique problem
• Conceptualize, prototype, validate, and refine design solutions
• Communicate designs to developers in an agile software development environment
• Create sketches, flows, wireframes, and other design artifacts
• Utilize metrics to drive product management decisions and measure success
• Guide and coach fellow designers and non-designers, fostering their design thinking abilities
• Work with a diverse team, utilizing modern tools
Qualifications:
• 6+ years of experience in user experience design for web, desktop, or mobile applications
• A portfolio showcasing their UX process and the impact it has had on products that people love (Rationale needed on Portfolio).
• Proficiency with a variety of tools and a willingness to adapt to new ones as needed
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask and stay organized in a dynamic environment
• Excellent understanding of web technologies
• Empathy, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to learn about compliance in finance
• Experience in an enterprise business environment is a definite asset

Join the team in shaping the future of user experiences, where their expertise and passion will drive meaningful change. Interested individuals can apply now and be part of a diverse and inclusive team!
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is one of the UK’s leading IT Recruitment Agencies, trusted by many of the UK’s leading employers. Established in 1997, we have over 25 years of experience as IT Recruitment

Do you have UI design experience, and are you seeking a new job opportunity? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Deerfoot IT Recruitment is helping a global provider of cloud-based solutions find a Senior UI Designer to join their welcoming and inclusive team. This full-time UI design role is predominantly based working from home with weekly travel to their London office and comes with an attractive salary and many excellent benefits.

As a skilled and dedicated Senior UI Designer, you will take responsibility for overseeing, guiding and creating new components and patterns that are scalable, user-accessible and meet the customers' needs. This is an exciting time to join the company, and you will get to work predominantly from home and within their state-of-the-art EMEA HQ in London.

To apply for this Senior UI Designer role, you will need experience in Visual/UI design for web, desktop and mobile applications. You will also require knowledge of user-centred design best practices and atomic design principles (or similar). In addition, you must have the following skills and expertise:
• High Level expertise with Figma Design
• Familiarity with design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, etc.
• The ability to guide other designers and projects and manage stakeholders
• Experience working with and contributing to design systems and component libraries
• An understanding of responsible design and mobile design guidelines
• Experience in agile enterprise business environments and Motion Design (beneficial)

In return for your passion, collaborative approach and commitment, you will receive a generous salary and a fantastic benefits package, including 25 days of holiday (increases with service), private medical cover, dental cover, life insurance, income protection, a bonus scheme (up to 8% dependent on revenues and team performance), flexible working and more!

For full details and to apply for this full-time Senior/Lead UI Designer job based working from home and in London, please get in touch with Deerfoot IT Recruitment today. It is worth to note that a detailed portfolio is required as part of the application which should include rationale behind clearly demonstrated problem solving.

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is one of the UK’s leading IT Recruitment Agencies, trusted by many of the UK’s leading employers. Established in 1997, we have over 25 years of experience as IT Recruitment Specialists. W

Deerfoot IT Recruitment is looking for an experienced and collaborative Lead Java SDET to join our client's inclusive and welcoming team. This full-time Lead SDET role is based in London and comes with an attractive salary of £70k-£120k and an excellent benefits package.

As a Lead Java SDET, you will oversee testing resources on a small, highly focused team responsible for delivering highly scalable and robust services within the company's platform. You will ensure appropriate and efficient testing strategies are applied in your areas of responsibility, focusing on shift-left testing principles.

In your first few weeks in this Lead Java SDET role, you can expect to:
• Manage performance assessments and hiring for a small team of SDETs
• Guide the team's' testing and automation strategies
• Define and organise the team's test planning for releases
• Design and code automation frameworks, tests and tools
• Participate in team planning and story grooming

To apply for this Java SDET role, you will need at least 8 years of test development experience and 2 years of directing a small team. You will also require the following:
• A good understanding of the Java language and object-oriented principles
• Expertise in applying test practices in an agile environment
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit
• Familiarity with testing backend systems or APIs
• Knowledge of testing performance with JMeter or similar tools

As a vital member of the team and in return for your expertise, inclusive approach and commitment, our client will provide a favourable salary of £70,000-£120,000 and the chance to join a passionate and welcoming team.

For full details and to apply for this full-time Lead Java SDET job in London, please get in touch with Deerfoot IT Recruitment today. We look forward to hearing from you!
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is one of the UK’s leading IT Recruitment Agencies, trusted by many of the UK’s leading employers. Established in 1997, we have over 25 years of experience as IT Recruitment Specialists. We will never send your CV anywhere without your authorisation and only after you have seen the complete details of this opportunity. Deerfoot is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. Each time Deerfoot sends a CV to a recruiting client, we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (1070906). Deerfoot is also climate positive in partnership with Ecology.

Contract Infrastructure Operations Analyst
Competitive day rate
Initial 2-week contract

As a trusted, approved and preferred recruitment partner to this well-known chartered accountant firm, we have been asked to assist in the recruitment of a contract Infrastructure Operations Analyst to support the infrastructure and operational environments of the business (Network Infrastructure, Network Administration, ITIL Management, Service Desk) for an initial two-week period.

Skills / Environment
- Provide BAU 3rd Line Technical Infrastructure Support
- Act as point of escalation for Infrastructure Incidents given by the Service Desk
- Mentor, Coach and Assist junior members in the Service Desk Team
- Monitor the health of Infrastructure Systems
- Improving the monitoring of systems
- Administer Corporate Infrastructure (Active Directory, LAN, Internet Access Firewalls, Exchange, Office 365)
- Monitor, Troubleshoot and Resolve Server and Network Performance
- Administer and Manage the Backup and Replication Solution
- Maintain Operational Documentation

Technical Experience Required
- Knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012R2/2016 including clustering
- Knowledge of PowerShell
- Knowledge of VMware vSphere 6.5+ in an enterprise environment
- Knowledge of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010+\Exchange Online
- Knowledge Citrix Presentation/XenApp/XenDesktop 7.15
- Knowledge/experience of troubleshooting networking protocols and technologies such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing and vLANs
- Knowledge of backup and replication systems (preferably CommVault and VMWare SRM)
- Knowledge of Office 365\Azure
- Knowledge of Microsoft Windows 7+\Windows 10
- Knowledge of SQL Server 2014+
- Understanding of VOIP
- MSCA/MCSE/MCITP: Enterprise Administrator or Server Administrator or equivalent IT qualifications an advantage

Contract rate: Competitive

This role may suit candidates, who hold the following job titles: BAU Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure Support Engineer, Infrastructure Support Analyst, 3rd Line Infrastructure Support, 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Analyst, Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst, Infrastructure Operations Analyst, Infrastructure Operations Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist.

Deerfoot IT is one of the UK’s most established, independent IT recruitment specialists. We are keen

Lead Solutions Architect - ECM
Circa £100,000 + Benefits
UK Countrywide

As a trusted, approved and preferred recruitment partner to this prestigious organisation, we have been asked to assist in the recruitment of a Managing Solution Architect. This position will sit within our clients Content Services department and will focus on Information Strategy assessment, business case development and agenda-based selection of new systems, rapid ECM Health Check and implementation of content service platforms. This will be a key Leadership role with a focus on empowering, coaching and developing team members (Team of 40+). The role requires someone who is strategic and critical thinking, possessing problem solving skills and being results driven.

Key Responsibilities / Skills:
• Oversee the relationship with partners - Microsoft, OpenText, Alfresco and BOX and technology enabling vendors for the team to build strategic partnerships to underpin delivery of current and future offers.
• Proven experience in managing a broad range of programmes and projects. You will be able to undertake all tasks relating to programme and project management, including business case preparation, benefits management, reporting, risk management, change management and stakeholder management and communication.
• Ability to communicate technical information effectively to a non-technical audience and vice versa
• Experience in managing multiple engagements with competing priorities
• Able to introduce innovative approaches that can be used to improve performance, reduce costs, increase quality and improve business processes, and provide clear rationale and supporting data to justify solutions
• An understanding of information governance and ECM technologies, with knowledge and practical experience of the following technologies:
o Microsoft Azure
o SharePoint Online
o SharePoint 2019
o OpenText xECM
• Keep up to date with developments in area of specialism.
• Communicating confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in the materials you produce.
• Building and maintaining internal and external network.

Candidates may have held the following job titles; Head of Solutions Architect, Lead Solutions Architect, CMS Architect, ECM Architect, Enterprise Architect

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