Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Owns the critical responsibility of ensuring that risk and PnL calculations are delivered on time for the global business
- Owns and deliver specific projects within the global program of work, in charge of the entire cycle of development from concept to delivery
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Interact daily with the business in Asia and Europe to support the BAU book of work on risk and PnL, client reporting and structuring product expansion
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Mentor team members with different level of seniority to provide career and technical guidance
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT system and practical cloud native experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Experience in performant, large-scale system development in an object-oriented or functional programming language such as Python, Java, C++ or C# and the willingness to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language
- Excellent interpersonal skills to interact confidently and credibly with business users, to understand and agree business requirements and their prioritisation while building a good understanding of end to end business processes
- Focus on testing through the entire development cycle to produce reliable and maintainable software
- Enthusiastic to keep learning and growing, in technical aptitude, business understanding and personal effectiveness
- Eager to take ownership of work, have real business impact, overcome obstacles and take it through to completion, working as part of this team and collaborating with a much bigger community of developers sharing the technology and code base