Product Engineer, Associate

Contract Type: Fixed Term (2 years)

Purpose of Job

The Associate is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of the Bank’s platforms and software solutions. The Associate plays a critical role within the squad, taking a lead on designing, developing and optimising EBRD's infrastructure and software solutions within their own value stream. The Associate provides guidance to individual contributors and works closely with other multi‑functional teams and business product owners, to deliver high quality, product aligned services, that meets our users' needs. The role may involve leading small projects and the individual is expected to be proficient in software design and ability to implement CI/CD pipeline, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or technologies within their specialism.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Engineering Excellence: The Associate brings in-depth knowledge and experience and uses this to enable others within the team to be successful, though remains humble and is proactive in keeping updated with the latest technologies, tools and best practices within their field. The role will mentor and guide less experienced engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and learning. The role will work with colleagues to understand business needs, design optimal engineering architectures and ensure engineering quality throughout the lifecycle.
• Listen well and speak up: The Analyst demonstrates openness and is comfortable sharing their questions and ideas with team members, demonstrating their commitment to a continuous learning and growth mindset. They are curious and open to different perspectives, playing back and validating what they have learnt and are willing to speak up when they feel that something isn't right, or they have ideas to share.
• Agile Ways of Working: The Associate is an established agile practitioner and will help the squad to adopt Agile Ways of Working. The role will build and maintain high‑performing teams focused on delivering continuous value to our business whilst enabling teams to learn how to adopt an adaptive and iterative approach using experimentation and metrics to help learning and continuous improvement.
• Managing cost and budget: The Associate will follow the appropriate tooling to track time and effort. The Associate will not be directly responsible for budget management however would be responsible for effectively managing the value from technology and delivery partners. Taking ownership and responsibility for the quality of individual work, enables each team member to bring their best work to enable team success, seeking feedback and asking for help when needed and being an active member in engineering communities of practice within and outside the Bank.
• Quality at our core: The Associate ensures that technical excellence and a quality assurance mindset are embedded with their own and the team's work. This involves a strong focus on automation and use of industry best practices such as Test‑Driven Development to embed the mindset of accountability across the development lifecycle.
• Secure First: The Associate actively promotes and ensures engineering activities are fully aligned with EBRD Cyber and IT Security policies and procedures, and works to embed a DevSecOps culture and working practices.
• Drives User Experience: The Associate ensures that services which are being developed and supported are based on user needs, which are captured in user stories and acceptance criteria. This helps keep users at the centre of engineering efforts, and enables teams to align with established user journeys and user experience goals, in support of business requirements.
• Risk and MDR: Enables and is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting customisations within the QRE data suite to deliver seamless solutions for end users accessing data. Collaborates with the product owners of QRA to deliver solutions as agreed. Proficient in innovating and documenting the legacy and evolution path of the QRE platform. Operates without supervision to perform daily‑to‑monthly audit control checks, ensuring data integrity and preventing discrepancies. Confidently interacts with Market Data vendors, resolving open items and addressing BAU issues.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or demonstrates equivalent professional experience.
• Proficient understanding of common treasury and banking products, market / credit risk measurement techniques (VaR, PFE, CVA etc.).
• Proficient in scripting, including but not limited to Perl, Shell and Python.
• ETL build and support using Informatica PowerCenter 10 (minimum version 9).
• Experience with ETL processes and file processing (flat files, XML and JSON in particular).
• Build and support experience in Oracle, PL/SQL, Tuning.
• Knowledge of SQL server and NoSQL database.
• Ability to build and test Control‑M based orchestration of QRE processes.
• Familiar with source control management using SVN and Bitbucket.
• Experience of managing and maintaining test environments.
• Proficient in IT application support, with flexibility for occasional out‑of‑hours software maintenance.
• Experience of managing and administering QRE data users based on AD groups.
• Awareness of stylesheets and XSLT is desirable.
• Experience in producing ICF reports as required by Auditors.

What is it like to work at the EBRD?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in. The EBRD environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does. A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities. As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expect our employees to attend the office 50% of their working time.

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted.