Assistant Director, Technical Developer

Assistant Director, Technical Developer

Reports to: Director, Solutions Engineering & Delivery

Location: London

Job purpose

• Working as part of the ISDA Data & Digital Solutions team, this role focuses on providing support to facilitate member adoption of the Common Domain Model (CDM) or ISDA’s Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) extension.
• The CDM is a standard codified representation of transactions, events, agreements and processes, and is a key initiative to digitally transform the industry.
• The role, based in London or New York, involves interacting with market participants and other trade associations globally.
• The role will drive model analysis, code development, data mapping, and manage technical queries related to the models or codebase.

Duties and responsibilities

• Support implementation of CDM/DRR by ISDA’s membership and other firms.
• Become an SME on the CDM & DRR solutions.
• Hands‑on coding in Java and Python, exposure to domain‑specific or functional languages, code generators, build and release best practices, testing frameworks and using the GitHub repository and issue‑management environment.
• Work with assigned members to assist with their business analysis, mapping of proprietary models and/or other data standards such as FpML, modelling and technical queries related to CDM & DRR, focusing on collateral management and regulatory reporting use cases.
• Assist with CDM data model extensions, driven by member feedback.
• Represent ISDA, its membership and constituencies at meetings with its members, other associations and service providers.
• Assist the Data and Digital Solutions team in maintaining a product development task list and roadmap based on members’ requirements.
• Document members’ requirements into agile stories for development by service providers.
• Represent members at working groups to propose modelling changes and developments to the models; these could be within the open source community.
• Write user documentation related to newly developed code.
• Validate technical contributions made by other parties, particularly assigned members.
• Work with other trade‑association technical leads, and ISDA’s service providers in submitting developments for and prioritising content for releases.
• Assist with administration related to contribution of CDM/DRR model extension, including attending sprint planning and checkpoint meetings.

Project Management

• Support Head of Data and Digital Solutions to deliver the adoption strategy for CDM and DRR.
• Maintain project‑management responsibilities for implementation‑assistance projects with members.
• Ensure data capture from member implementation needs is fed back into the product roadmap.

Relationship Management

• Understand relative importance of industry stakeholders and ensure appropriate engagement with CDM & DRR initiatives by developing relationships that support adoption.
• Work with colleagues to ensure that CDM & DRR product agenda continually reflects the priorities of ISDA’s membership and provides a transparent process for identifying and adopting new features and developments.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships, in particular with industry subject‑matter experts across member firms (including buy and sell side), vendors, other trade associations and third‑party administrators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any specialty (computer science, engineering or technology preferred).
• Further business‑analysis or technology qualifications an advantage.
• Requirements gathering: articulation of functional and technical requirements in a clear fashion for developers.
• Ability to work with data formats (JSON, XML, FpML) and code editors (IntelliJ, VS Code).
• Data modelling of financial products, transactions and lifecycle events.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to actively listen to members and industry stakeholders.
• Proven ability to learn quickly.
• Knowledge of the derivatives market and technical expertise across derivatives.
• Proven ability to gain credibility at all levels quickly and demonstrate excellent relationship‑management skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team, demonstrate initiative and proactively contribute ideas, views and recommendations.
• Ability to adapt plans based on data‑driven input.
• Detail‑oriented in composing, typing and proofing materials.
• Self‑starter with a strong work ethic who demonstrates an appreciation for punctuality, reliability and a desire to drive change and achieve results.
• Team player who contributes to the success of the immediate team and ISDA as a whole.
• Good working knowledge of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook).
• Ability to work in an organized fashion balancing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Technical Requirements

• Code development using Java and/or Python.
• Working with GitHub (pull requests, branches, merging, repositories, administration, issues).
• Integrated development environment (IDE) such as Eclipse, IntelliJ, or VS Code.
• Experience with XML (FpML) and JSON.

Experience

• 5+ years working in Financial Services, preferably derivatives trade processing in a software engineering role.
• Prior experience in code development for trade‑processing implementation.
• Modelling financial products and processes, preferably in derivatives product classes with hands‑on model development experience.
• Experience with collateral management and/or regulatory reporting functions/processes within a financial institution.
• Desirable but not essential: experience with the CDM or ISDA DRR, and working with open‑source technology and communities.

Seniority Level

• Director

Employment Type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Information Technology