VP - Lead Technologist - Financial Markets - Full time - Office based 5 days a week
My client is a Global Investment bank with a large London presence and we are looking for an experienced / lead technologist to join them and lead on some significant programmes of work.
This team operates globally and looks after all Financial control and Regulatory obligations of the bank of which the demands are significant, the Engineering team is responsible for designing and implementing solutions to manage the firm’s P&L, measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory obligations. The global teams are agile (based across Americas, EMEA and Asia) develop and manage the platforms, calculation engines, and analytical tools that controllers, risk management, and deal-making teams use to project, monitor and report externally to regulators for both regular business activity and under stress scenarios.
We are looking for individuals who thrive in a dynamic environment, enjoy leading tech projects just as much as cutting the code and delivering alongside a team.
Tech environment:
* Tools & Technologies: You will program in Java and model data using Alloy/Legend – a data management and data governance open source platform that we will teach you. Other technologies in use in our space: RESTful services, Maven/Gradle, Apache Spark, BigData, HTML 5, AngularJs/ReactJs, IntelliJ, Gitlab, Jira.
* Cloud Technologies: You’ll be involved in building the next generation of finance systems onto the cloud platforms, one of the key strategies for the division in which you’ll get exposure to technologies like AWS S3, Snowflake, EMR etc.
These are great roles playing a role on some really big interesting projects.