FinTech Wales Recruitment Roundup – 28th April – Including Coincase, Trust Payments, & More
28 April, 2021
Welcome to the FinTech Wales Recruitment Roundup, a bite-sized bulletin of the latest jobs added to FinTech Wales member’s career pages over the last week.
If you’d love the opportunity to work at an industry-leading company that specialises in financial technology, then check out the latest lowdown of the newest jobs from our FinTech Wales members.
Coincover – Sales Manager: Partner Recruitment
Company – Coincover
Job Title – Sales Manager: Partner Recruitment
Location – Cardiff
Salary – Competitive
Flexible Working – Available
Contract – Full Time, Permanent
Perks – Yes
Description – “As Sales Manager – Partner Recruitment you’ll be a driving force at Coincover and our growth plans for Crypto Currency Safety. You’ll be responsible for lead generation and conversion of prospective partners – some of Coincover’s most important customers. You’ll work closely with our Customer Success and Marketing team to accelerate Coincover’s aspirations to introduce our products and services to new audiences and drive commercial success. This is a new role with the opportunity to make a significant impact!”
Responsibilities
- Driving business growth globally by developing partnership and strategic relationships
- Collaborating and consulting with customers, increasing the customer base and optimising business growth by establishing a healthy pipeline of partnerships.
- Researching, identifying and approaching new potential partners and finding the best route into their businesses
- Tailoring communication to prospective clients to help them understand the potential and benefits of our products and services and in turn, how they can support their business and sales aspirations
- Implementing the sales strategy to meet our commercial targets and business growth plans
- Working alongside colleagues in Marketing and Customer Success to meet and exceed our sales targets
- Analysing data trends and client performance, to develop solid sales plans, and preparing and conducting strategic pitches and presentations
- Working with a broad range of prospective cryptocurrency partners and customers and an internal team
- Working with the Head of Commercial and Head of Product to use your sales conversations to feedback customer challenges to inform new markets and products and present commercial strategies to develop commercial performance
- Proactively improving sales processes and services to continually improve our offering
- Ensuring the CRM is used effectively and efficiently to maximise revenue and provide seamless integration to Customer Success and the onboarding process
- Refining our sales approach where needed to achieve mutually beneficial results for us and our customers
- Working with Operations and the Customer Success team to ensure a seamless transition for the customer from the sales stages through to our onboarding process and beyond
- Researching, identifying and approaching new potential partners and finding the best route into their businesses
Apply on the Coincover website here
Trust Payments – Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Company – Trust Payments
Job Title – Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Location – Bangor
Salary – Competitive
Contract – Full Time, Fixed
Remote Working – Yes
Perks – Yes
Description – “Mobilize Systems is a division of Trust Payments which develops mobile technology to provide seamless, data-rich services to merchants looking to capture and expand customer engagement and loyalty programmes. The acquisition will enable Trust Payments to combine behavioural analytics with transactional data to offer enhanced product journeys for customers, improved payment options, and better insight for businesses.”
Responsibilities
- Technical lead for the new platform
• Cloud platform service environments provided by Amazon AWS
• Software architecture for highly scalable and reliable serverless systems, including data structures, dataflows, horizontal scale, system composition, security
• Event sourcing microservices architectures
• Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
• APIs, including REST and GraphQL using the Apollo client / server framework
• Business logic implemented in AWS serverless technologies, transitioning from an existing Java backend (Spring Boot)
• MySQL and Oracle DB transitioning to AWS Aurora, AWS Athena, AWS S3, and AWS DynamoDB with data analytics provided by AWS QuickSight
• Omni-channel messaging including push notifications, email, and SMS using AWS Pinpoint and interaction with our mobile app development team
• Understanding customer and business needs
• Migrate legacy platform into new AWS Architecture
• Continue to drive the architecture to meet the product roadmap
• Carry out instructions given by your line manager
• Comply with the Health and Safety at work Act (1974) and relevant directives in all activities.
• Compliance on all relevant aspects of GDPR as appropriate to the role
• You may be required to undertake any other reasonable tasks, which is broadly consistent with those in this document as determined by your line manager
Apply on the Trust Payments website here
ActiveQuote – Business Analyst / Project Manager
Company – ActiveQuote
Job Title – Business Analyst / Project Manager
Location – Cardiff
Salary – Competitive
Contract – Full Time, Permanent
Perks – Yes
Description – “We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst / Project Manager to join our Development team in Cardiff Bay. ActiveQuote provides Life, Health and Income Protection insurance advice to customers via a wide range of insurers, including Aviva, AXA, Bupa, Vitality, AIG, L&G to name but a few.”
Responsibilities
- Analyse and outline challenges, opportunities and solutions for the business
- Owning the Development Roadmap, collaborating with the Senior Management Team to ensuring it aligns with the business’ strategy
- Gathering business requirements for projects, creating compelling user experiences, detailed user stories, process maps and non-functional requirements
- Responsible for delivering concurrent projects to a high standard and on time
- Championing best practices in the software development lifecycle, governance and business analysis activities
- To aspire to the company values of Integrity, Unity, Innovation and Passion
Apply on the ActiveQuote website here
Wealthify – Product Owner
Company – Wealthify
Job Title – Product Owner
Location – Penarth
Salary – £30,000 – £35,000
Contract – Full Time, Flexible
Perks – Yes
Description – “Product Owner is a newly created key to delivering our human centred approach to product development, working directly with the Chief Product Officer in the Product Team. We believe there is an opportunity to build products that re-frame peoples’ relationship with their money – building more positive interaction and behaviours – to achieve that,”
Responsibilities
- Researching and analysing the current market to identify value opportunities to support Wealthify’s growth through product development
- Working with Human Centred Design Teams to identify Customer problems and needs and developing solutions to fill those gaps
- Validating potential solutions through prototyping and customer testing
- Working with our in-house product development squads to scope work, define a backlog of user stories and support delivery of solutions
- Work with our data and finance teams to understand how products and features are performing and can be improved
Apply on the Wealthify website here
Confused.com – SEO Executive – (maternity cover)
Company – Confused.com
Job Title – SEO Executive – (Maternity Cover)
Location – Cardiff
Salary – Competitive
Contract – Full Time, Maternity Cover
Perks – Yes
Description – “An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Marketing team at Confused.com! We’re looking for an executive to support us in our SEO team. We want you to help us drive more organic traffic to Confused.com.“
Responsibilities
- Working collaboratively with the SEO, Design & UX and Web Production teams to make changes to existing and new landing pages based on research in line with Google quality guidelines
- Working together with the editorial content and in-house PR and outreach teams on the optimisation and creation of editorial content to support SEO and link acquisition
- Ensuring all work aligns with marketing, compliance, IT and product team requirements
- Day-to-day monitoring and reporting of performance, progress against targets, search engine rankings, team KPI’s and ongoing optimisation of campaigns
- Helping to maximise SEO benefit from products, above-the-line campaigns and any other company initiatives
- Supporting the SEO Campaign Manager and Content/PR teams in the production and outreach of high-quality content to authoritative sites
- Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving performance issues
- Developing and maintaining existing reporting to aid day-to-day optimisation, and reporting results to stakeholders as required
- Working with external suppliers (e.g. SEO agencies, content producers) to ensure that external tasks and projects are delivered on time, and providing data and support to them as required
- Supporting and running digital landing page optimisation test plans; including building and testing new landing pages, and analysing the effectiveness and performance of landing pages using a range of sources
- Keeping up to speed with changes within the SEO industry and changes to Google’s algorithm
- Supporting the Marketing team on other campaigns and projects as required
Currencycloud – Core Operations Specialist
Company – Currencycloud
Job Title – Core Operations Specialist
Location – Cardiff
Salary – Unspecified
Contract – Full Time, Permanent
Remote Working – Yes
Perks – Yes
Description – “Our Operations department is looking for a talented Operations Specialist to help us start our new Cardiff team, working alongside colleagues in our London HQ, Amsterdam and New York offices.
Responsibilities
- Deliver the following service to our customers:
- Process and monitor all payments
- Process incoming funds
- Identify & escalate issues with the Customer Success, Relationship Management team and/or Compliance teams to ensure a high level of service is provided to customers at all times
- Investigate and resolve customer queries
- Handle complaints and support with incident management
- Troubleshoot technical/operational issues
- Complete any other ad hoc duties as required
- Maintain adequate knowledge of internal systems/processes and a sound understanding of the payments and FX market.
Apply on the Currencycloud website here
Sonovate – Software Engineer
Company – Sonovate
Job Title – Software Engineer
Location – Cardiff
Salary – Unspecified
Contract – Full Time, Permanent
Remote Working – Yes
Perks – Yes
Description – “We need a number of Software Engineers to work in our high skill, high productivity engineering teams, taking pride in delivering high-quality software into production, bringing your skills and experience to bear. From problem solving to new concept ideas, you have the genuine opportunity to release your full potential.”
Apply on the Sonovate website here
Backbase – Technical Architect
Company – Backbase
Job Title –Technical Architect
Location – Cardiff
Salary – Competitive
Contract – Full Time, Permanent
Perks – Yes
Description – “You will join our Architects in leading the technical design for our Identity & Access Management (IAM) products. As a member of the IAM leadership team, you will work closely with our customers, Product Owners and fellow architects to develop the high-level technical approach, guide our Engineering Teams and ensure production-readiness concerns are carefully considered.”
Apply on the Backbase website here
Principality Building Society – Application Support Engineer (SAS)
Company – Principality Building Society
Job Title – Application Support Engineer (SAS)
Location – Cardiff
Salary – £35,000
Contract – Full Time, Permanent
Perks – Yes
Description – “As a SAS Administrator you’ll demonstrate expertise in helping us to help develop and operate our SAS Analytics platform, you will be fully responsible for the SAS application and related infrastructure, working with our SAS community to ensure the upkeep and successful operation and performance of the SAS Platform.”
Responsibilities
- You will be the sole administrator responsible for the SAS Platform, and will have the opportunity to shape the roadmap and deliver Best Practice within the SAS User Community
- There are opportunities to get involved with the with Data Services & Administration of them within the IT Estate (Azure, SQL Server)
- Configuration, Monitoring & Maintenance of SAS Platform, including user account management, platform upgrades, data source management
- Maintenance of SAS Library definitions and meta data. Delivery of best practice in use of SAS tools in test and production environments
- Ensure Platform / Data meets compliance policies for Data Retention & Data Security
- Provide Technical Support to IT & Business Colleagues for SAS and related Data Services
Apply on the Principality Building Society website here
Delio – DevSecOps Engineer
Company – Delio
Job Title – DevSecOps Engineer
Location – Cardiff
Salary – Up to £45,000
Contract – Full Time,
Remote Working – Yes
Perks – Yes
Description – “The DevSecOps Engineer will participate in the design, development and implementation of innovative security architectures for protecting systems and data deployed into different types of cloud and local infrastructure. Your responsibilities will primarily be based within our cloud-based environments. However, you will also be responsible for security through the entire lifecycle, from workstations, to local infrastructure and then in the cloud.”
Responsibilities
- Deploying infrastructure in AWS, Azure and managing “local” infrastructure
- Maintaining and improving IaaS
- Maintaining, implementing and improving CI/CD pipelines (Circle CI, Jenkins)
- Maintaining and helping troubleshoot production applications
- Staying on top of security best practices, keeping us ahead of the curve
- Helping developers understand security, supporting them in finding issues and mentoring them where needed
- Deploying legacy applications and supporting the migration to microservices
- Being open to out of hours deployments for legacy applications, based on a rota
- Review, assess and document current architectures
Apply on the Delio website here
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These are just a selection of the new opportunities available in Welsh FinTech, so if you’re ready to take the next step professionally or know someone looking to kickstart a career in financial technology, don’t hesitate to apply for an exciting position at Wales’ best FinTechs.
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