Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability - UNIX / Linux, ability to write scripts
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Python Scripts / Code
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Able to read and interpret / diagnose scripts in the event of failure
- Quick thinker, problem solver and a fast learner under changing environments
- Excellent communication skills, be able to communicate effectively with both business and technology partners
- Ability to automate and build tools for improved productivity
- Ability to understand and work within the demanding nature of the trade floor
- Exposure to monitoring and capacity management tools (Geneos, Splunk, Corvil)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Knowledge and experience of FIX protocol
- Able to conduct effective post incident reviews
- Release ownership and management
- Understanding of eTrading market data distribution
- Able to proactively improve processes to ensure the quality of the deliverables and the efficiency of the team improves