JPMorgan Lead Software Engineer - Rates Risk 

United Kingdom, England, London 

422313736

Job responsibilities

• Sit with and facing off to numerous, often senior, traders, who cover the currencies of developed economies.
• Work in the full development life cycle, i.e. requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, support of RAD application portfolio.
• Build relationships with Front Office users, Quant Researchers, other teams in Rates/Macro Technology, and Finance.
• Maintain and enhancing the RAD toolset.
• Analyze challenges facing the business, both technical and financial in scope, and requiring a thorough understanding of both aspects in order to propose the most appropriate solutions.
• Architect, engineer/develop, and maintain complex financial calculations and technical solutions for the business, and for partners in technology and quantitative research, for the toolkit which is used to risk manage, understand, and predict P&L on complex interest rate risk
• Act as part of the support rota, support and debug time-critical issues reported by our partners in the business, technology, or finance, then implement or propose solutions that ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Work effectively as representative of immediate team, as part of ad hoc teams working on larger projects, covering changes to such things as regulatory requirements, risk management framework, and technical systems, to ensure the toolkit meets requirements.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Financial markets knowledge concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Excel delivery experience
• Python delivery experience
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Learns technologies and patterns quickly.
• Good communication, relationship-building skills
• Creative problem solver
• Excellent time management
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Self-starter
• Flexible, conscientious, professional, enthusiastic

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Interest Rates Derivative knowledge
• Risk and P&L knowledge
• Experience working on trading floor