Global Banking Markets - Software Engineer, Data Platform - London - Vice President

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

The Data Platform team is responsible for platform architecture development to provide a scalable, resilient, performant, adaptable stack that meets the evolving needs of different business lines globally. As a senior member of the team and owner of the core system in the post-trade stack, you will be responsible for the full product lifecycle from requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, support, and monitoring. We expect a high degree of ownership, adaptability to embrace newer technologies, and adherence to a high degree of software quality.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, scalable, near real-time yet nimble and adaptive platform for processing and persisting high volumes of business critical data and distributing it to downstream applications post-trade processing.
• Develop highly reliable data ingestion processes to consume large volumes of data emitted by trading and market data systems.
• Design distributed computation infrastructure to run parallelized queries over large volumes of data.
• Design and develop an AI-powered UI/agent framework that delivers intelligent analytics and insights over the data we process and hold, enabling users to interrogate and derive value from large-scale datasets.
• Communicate with business, client applications, Regulatory & Compliance teams about new feature requests, explanation of existing features, etc.

Required Qualifications & Skill-Sets:

• About 5-10 years of professional experience developing high performance, low latency systems (sub-seconds).
• Ability to contribute and drive on complex industrial scale development of systems independently.
• Thorough knowledge of Java programming concepts.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Experience in developing high availability, low latency systems with low footprint – awareness of JVM internals, performance optimizations, concurrency, tuning for low-latency, GC-free real-time operation.
• Experience in distributed, stream processing systems handling large volume (big data) in near real-time.
• Exposure to stacks like HDFS/S3, SingleStore, Kafka/Streaming Message System, Flink/Distributed Processing, Java/Scala.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team while also being able to drive things independently.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Benefits:

• We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location, including medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident, and business travel accident insurance.
• We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
• We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected.
• We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
• We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program.
• To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers.
• We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms.