Design and develop critical data applications to support trading and risk management for a Tier 1 bank.
Collaborate with business partners and other technology teams in the Rates and wider Markets businesses.
Promote and follow engineering best practices.
Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in detail, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround.
Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to enterprise solutions.
Ability to take initiative to research, learn and recommend emerging technologies.
Provide post release assistance to business, development, and support groups.
Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…).
Qualifications:
5- 8 years demonstrable and relevant SLDC experience.
Necessary: Solid understanding of Java / Spring stack development.
Beneficial: Solid understanding of C#, .Net Core 3.* + (VS 2017 or above)
Useful: Strong understanding of Python 3.6 or above, python frameworks and libraries, including Pytest, Pandas, Flask, and Kafka
Solid understanding of REST API development.
Demonstrable experience in writing reusable, testable and efficient code with proper error and exception handling.
Experience with design and implementation of cloud-ready applications and deployment via Kubernetes / Openshift.
Experience with big data computation platforms (Flink, Spark, Apache Beam) or big data distribution platforms (Hadoop, Gemfire, Ignite)
Hands-on experience in handling various data structures.
Good understanding of Data modeling, partitioning and sharing of huge data sets.
Software engineering skills:
Experience working on a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment. Familiarity with TeamCity, Sonarqube and Jenkins
Experience with the SDLC lifecycle and in working within an Agile environment
Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit
Understanding of Agile software development methodology and strong experience with standard CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Sonarqube, git).
Business facing and interpersonal skills:
Strong communication skills, oral and written.
Ability to apply sound technical skills and knowledge of the Rates business to develop creative solutions to meet client and business needs.
Responsible, agile and collaborative team worker.
Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners.
Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required.
Ability to face off to all business users (traders, financial controllers, risk managers, etc.)
Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe
Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones.
Education:
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, or related technical and quantitative discipline. Demonstrable success in designing and delivering multi-tiered applications.
Ideally, an understanding of financial derivatives (rates or other) or willing to learn about this area.