Senior Java Developer - Risk Systems - Global Investment Bank
Join the team developing a strategic risk and PnL platform for Financial Markets at a leading investment bank. We bring a deep understanding of the market, a scientific approach and innovative technologies to bear on the challenges of profitable trading in the world's highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to get into an organization working with smart, great technologists globally in financial markets domain.
The successful candidate will play a leading role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programmes with the primary responsibilities around building components within the risk platform. Any developed solution must be scalable, robust and fault tolerant catering to the existing and future business needs in a timely manner. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to develop innovative solutions with a view to these being released quickly to gain feedback before advising on the full scale roll out.
The candidate will be a natural leader and mentor with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology with a proven background in delivering high quality business critical software. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for critical deliveries. In addition, the successful candidate will have come from a demonstrable agile background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change.
The candidate will work closely with the other team members and senior stakeholders in order to design and implement critical strategic solutions whilst collaborating and engaging with Business Stakeholders to deliver to exacting requirements. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with business analysts, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations.
Ideal Technical Skillset:
- Relevant hands on development with investment banking IT experience
- Relevant Java development experience working in a performance focused concurrent environment
- Experience with Hadoop/Spark/ Scala could be advantageous
- Experience of TDD and BDD in a commercial environment
- Exposure to continuous build and deployment solutions such as Jenkins
- Ability to work within an agile environment delivering software incrementally
Other Preferred Skills
- Strong analytical & problem solving and creative skills
- Good communication skills in both written and oral English
- Ability to be organized and multi-task on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure
- Cultural sensitivity and awareness to work with a range of people from diverse background and geographies
- Technical or numerate degree in subjects such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics
Technical skills (Non-essential but beneficial for this role)
- Any data and compute grid experience a plus
- Development experience on functional language, such as Haskell, is a plus
Domain Knowledge (Non-essential but very beneficial for this role)
- Knowledge of financial instruments and derivatives, trading and risk management, market data, and market risk processes and methodologies
- Understanding of risk measures, risk analysis and reporting
- Knowledge of at least one specific asset class / line of financial instruments
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
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