We’re keen to speak to contractors who are available at short notice to join a financial services client in the City of London and work on a project to that will focus on enhancing and supporting existing platforms while contributing to automation, microservices, and greenfield initiatives in a fast-paced, business-facing environment.
Please note this role is outside IR35 and requires 3 days a week onsite.
Key Responsibilities
- Enhance, automate, and support existing applications and processes
- Design, develop, test, and deploy system enhancements using CI/CD pipelines
- Build and release microservices in a time-critical environment
- Set up and automate server and application deployments
- Translate user stories into technical solutions; estimate and participate in Scrum ceremonies
- Write integration tests as part of the development lifecycle
- Produce rapid UI proofs of concept using wireframing tools
- Provide production support when required
- Collaborate closely with developers, stakeholders, and the wider technology team
Required Technical Skills
- C#, .NET 8, Python
- ASP.NET UI development (extensive hands-on experience)
- RESTful APIs, Web API, microservices architecture
- RabbitMQ or similar messaging technologies
- Redis caching
- Azure DevOps (CI/CD, Octopus, Jenkins pipelines); experience setting up DevOps tooling and integrating with tools such as Monday . com or Confluence
- Relational databases: SQL Server, AWS RDS
- NoSQL databases: MongoDB or similar
- Cloud platforms: Azure and/or AWS, including authentication mechanisms
- Dapr (cloud-native frameworks)
- Docker, Kubernetes (containerisation)
Nice to Have
- FIX protocol experience
- Knowledge of financial asset classes (FX Options, Forwards, etc.)