Role and Responsibilities
This is a technical lead role, providing individual contribution as well as technical/architectural/design support to more junior team members globally, and also liaising with business and other technology teams in all regions to field requests, gather requirements, or solve production issues. The role will suit a candidate with solid technical and inter-personal skills, a delivery focus, and experience in building large-scale technically robust solutions.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Part of global team developing and supporting the market data systems for Fixed Income and Currencies pricing and risk systems, as well as producing markets for official EOD valuations.
- Primary responsibility will be for developing, enhancing, and supporting a Java micro-service based system responsible for producing live ticking interest rate curves for feeding trader live intraday PnL and Risk systems.
- Work as core part of a global team with a mix of Java, Python, C# (minimal). Work as part of a growing team of developers in Mumbai, supporting the global system and on strategic projects.
- Working on multiple areas of the Market Data platform, including Java microservices, Python libraries, Internal/Exterrnal Market Data publication and feeds, Intraday/end-of-day market capture.
- Work on technical and business focussed change to enhance the capabilities of the curve producing system to align and consolidate multiple curve producing systems.
- Face-off to senior stakeholders, partners, and end-uses to understand requirements, solve problems, and design solutions.
- Collaborate across a global technology team as well as across functions to implement practical solutions and run or contribute to tactical and strategic programmes.
- Individually contribute to Analysis / Design / Development / Project management/Support
- Provide second-line support to the business for both system and business problems.
Skills, Experience, Qualifications and Knowledge requirement
- 13+ years of experience in Java, Linux, Spring, Git, Jenkins, JUnit
- Financial Markets; Trading and risk management systems
- Desirable: Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and minimal: Windows, SQL, C#, Excel/VBA depending on experience.
- Desirable: Exposure to market risk concepts; Market data platforms and providers (e.g. Reuters, Bloomberg), Market data concepts (e.g. Interest Rate Curves and input instruments)
- High level of attention to detail, a positive hands-on attitude, and a strong focus on producing work of the highest standard are essential.
- Excellent communication skills (candidate will be interacting with diverse functions and levels globally).
- Willingness to contribute to the RTB support of our end users and processes in a dynamic and time critical environment.
- Strong problem solver
