VP Front Office C#/.NET Architect – Hybrid London

McGregor Boyall; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

McGregor Boyall is recruiting a VP‑level C# Software Engineer for a leading global investment bank in London. This hands-on role demands technical ownership of front office securities financing platforms and modernisation of applications using C#, .NET Core, AWS, Kafka and Redis.

You will design, develop and deliver complex enterprise solutions, collaborating with global teams across London, New York and Asia, while guiding architecture decisions and engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial software engineering using C# and .NET
• Experience delivering complex enterprise applications in banking or capital markets
• Knowledge of Securities Lending, Stock Loan, Securities Financing or Equity Swaps
• Ownership of technical architecture and delivery
• Understanding of OO design, data structures, algorithms and software engineering principles
• Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server or MySQL

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and enhance high-performance C#/.NET applications supporting front office trading and securities financing activities.
• Take technical ownership of projects from initial requirements and architectural design through development, deployment and production.
• Contribute to the modernisation of existing applications and the development of strategic cloud-based platforms.
• Design scalable, maintainable solutions using modern software engineering principles and distributed technologies.
• Work collaboratively with engineering teams and business stakeholders across London, New York and Asia.
• Evaluate technical approaches, make architectural decisions and drive engineering best practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality and delivery efficiency.

Skills

C# / .NET

Enterprise applications

Architecture ownership

OO design

SQL databases

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Redis

SQL Server

MySQL

Job description

McGregor Boyall is recruiting a VP‑level C# Software Engineer for a leading global investment bank in London. This hands-on role demands technical ownership of front office securities financing platforms and modernisation of applications using C#, .NET Core, AWS, Kafka and Redis.

You will design, develop and deliver complex enterprise solutions, collaborating with global teams across London, New York and Asia, while guiding architecture decisions and engineering best practices.