Assistant Director, Technical Developer in England

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 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