Python Risk Developer

Job Duties:

We are looking for a talented and experienced Python developer with exposure to Market risk domain for one of our Global Investment Banking Clients

• Work within an Agile team, writing requirements and specifications, developing strategic risk management and trading tools and maintaining existing code for the Risk technology team.

• Primary task would be to help the bank design and enhance the strategic risk infrastructure for cross LOB CCAR and VAR full reval infrastructure development, right from design to development and testing.

• Coordinate with market risk, front office, quants and technology teams to understand the requirements

• Responsible for supporting modern agile software development methods; including educating & mentoring less experienced OOP team members.

Education: Master in Computer Science/ software engineering , additional qualification in Finance is desirable

Skills Required:

• Excellent hands-on application development experience on Python

• Understanding of risk and pricing of Derivatives Product, market risk, VaR, CCAR

• Excellent Analytical skills

• Experience working on different analytical tools is desirable

• Good excel skills so they can create pricing sheets to be able to compare what’s happening in the risk engine vs analytics

• Experience on participating in end-to-end development lifecycle in a rigorous test driven software development environment

• Experience of Agile software development process is desirable

• Experience on developing and delivering scalable applications

• Excellent communication skills

Very desirable

• Follows clean code principles

• Experience of Agile methods