Job Description:
- Mendix, Python & SQL as primary sources of technology.
- Test driven development and source code reviews and change control standards to maintain compliance with policies.
- Strong technical ability, excellent communication and collaboration skills including the ability to develop and troubleshoot a diverse range of problems and influence stakeholders to get consensus on key decisions to ensure project deliveries are made under tight deadlines.
- Prefer at least 2-5 years of experience in financial services with basic understanding of Bonds, Loans, Mortgage backed securities.
- 2-3 years of recent experience in Java or python and SQL.
- Prior experience in Mendix low code platform is required.
- Rapid Application Developer Mendix certification would be an added plus.
- AWS basic knowledge ( Cloud9 IDE, EC2, Lambda, Redshift, Aurora, Secret manager )
- Familiarity with React UI framework & skills to improve User Experience (UX) would also be an added plus.
Risk & Investments Technology Team:
Risk & Investments Technology team is responsible for building and maintaining firm's strategic business system that processes Investment Trading activity , pre and post trade functions, Reference data & Risk reporting.
Key stakeholders Team works with are :
- Front office: Trading desks , portfolio managers to support pre-trade functions to manage pipeline planning, unfunded commitments , compliance checks and trading activity in the internal business systems that are integrated with upstream and downstream vendor platforms.
- Risk team: primarily for Credit, Interest, Liability & Liquidity risk functions and Asset liability matching
- Middle Office: Investment Operation processes for post trade life cycle activity such as Maintaining Security Master, Portfolio and Entity master reference data, Process Corp Actions, Trade Confirmation & Clearance , Settlement processing , process periodic remittances until maturity
- Back Office: Treasury Operations for Internal/External wire payments, Cash flow projections
Business system Front End and Back-end server components are built on Mendix low-code platform as containers and hosted on Mendix cloud with integration to various other internal and external systems including firms’ enterprise data warehouse Redshift database for archived historical data. For compute heavy workloads team uses distributed cloud computing grid using python.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Candidate will be part of Risk and Investments IT team and primarily be responsible for leading solving business needs in Risk & investments area using Mendix, Python & SQL as primary sources of technology.
The role will follow modern SDLC principles, test driven development, source code reviews, and change control standards to maintain compliance with policies. This role requires a highly motivated individual with strong technical ability, excellent communication and collaboration skills including the ability to develop and troubleshoot a diverse range of problems and influence stakeholders to get consensus on key decisions to ensure project deliveries are made under tight deadlines.