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

Location: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

GLOBAL MARKETS 

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. 

Job Description

Data Platform team is responsible for platform architecture development to provide scalable, resilient, performant, adaptable stack that meet the evolving needs of different business lines globally.

As a senior member of team & owner of core system in post-trade stack, will be responsible for full product lifecycle from requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, support, and monitoring. We expect high degree of ownership, adaptability to embrace newer technologies and adherence to 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 & persisting high volumes of business critical data and distribute 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.
• Communication 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 & 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 Available, Low Latency systems with low foot-print – 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 stack like HDFS/S3, SingleStore, Kafka/Streaming Message System, Flink/Distributed Processing, Java/Scala
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team and at the same able to drive things independently
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills