Job Purpose:
- This is a senior developer role within the Global Tradeable Indices Nexus technology team with the expectation that the candidate will help shape and drive the significant re-engineering effort thats underway in order to grow the business
- This is a fantastic opportunity to join an award winning technology team working on a range of greenfield projects whilst leveraging the firms core infrastructure products and services.
- The team leverages a number of exciting technologies including an ecosystem of Big Data storage using Cassandra, Compute backbone of high-performance grid computing and hosting, quantitative algorithms built to analyze risk and improve hedging strategies, core engines modelled in Athena (a globally replicated object-oriented database, with a powerful dependency graph, and a fully integrated stack across pricing, risk and trading tools)
Your Responsibilities:
- Partner with the business to analyse and define requirements for the rapidly evolving products and client requirements.
- Work collaboratively with the trading desk, structurers, quantitative research and other technology teams to formulate innovative technical solutions to industrialise the growing business.
- Develop enhancements and/or build new solutions for booking and risk managing new Index/Basket/ETF products and deals executed by the business.
- Work closely with/Influence other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other dependent or core systems.
- Define development/project plans with key milestones in line with strategy and own the full delivery
- The candidate will be responsible for developing the core engine in Athena (which underpins the data model behind the product) as well as the trade booking and life cycle management of the various tradeable index strategy types
- The data model also serves as the underlying source to the JPMorgan Markets Web portal which is an integral part of our client offering
- Some of the key initiatives the role will involve include: working with the global team in developing the strategic core infrastructure used to model the index strategies (whether algorithmic or client driven), sourcing underlying reference and fundamentals data used to model the signals and back test strategies, build and deliver reporting content (e.g. performance/back test results) and client driven functionality (e.g. user initiated index rebalance) on our external facing web portal
- Technologies utilized by the team include Python, Java, HTML5 etc.This exciting FO facing role involves working closely with our highly enthusiastic business partners to ensure development efforts are focused in the right way at the right time and that they satisfy business needs for the long term
- Candidate will be involved with the full delivery lifecycle, from strategy through to design, development, testing, deployment and support
Skills and Qualifications:
- Self-starter with the ability to quickly pick up new ideas, concepts and technologies.
- Experience with development, deployment and maintenance of commercial service oriented application(s).
- Disciplined approach to code management, testing and deployment practices and high quality delivery.
- Experience of full project lifecycle, breaking requirements down into technical deliverables and effort estimation.
- Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across NA, EMEA, APAC etc.) whilst influencing and contributing towards the development of the global platform.
- Experience of stakeholder management with the ability to challenge the status quo and propose alternatives.
- Experience working to tight time frames without sacrificing quality.
- Experience with Python preferable
- Experience of working in a front office environment within financial services
- Understanding of equity derivative products.
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