Lead Python Developer

• Work with the central architect / design group to build strategic architecture for transaction reporting and assist with design principles and ideas; Primary task would be to help the bank design and enhance the transaction reporting platform, right from design to development, testing and documentation including training materials.
• Help improve the data infrastructure including quality, governance and controls for an enhanced transaction reporting process along with audit trail, data lineage and other BCBS239 principles
• Coordinate with front office, technology, and regulatory teams to understand the requirements
• Responsible for supporting modern agile software development methods; including educating & mentoring less experienced OOP team members.
• Experience of working with enterprise design requirements preferably at a large investment bank

Skills:

• Excellent hands-on application development experience on Python
• Understanding of capital markets; Knowledge of transaction reporting and related regulations like EMIR, MiFIR, SFTR, CAT, etc is a must along with understanding of asset classes like derivatives, repos, etc.

Excellent Analytical skills

• Strong knowledge of AMPS and similar messaging protocols
• Experience working on different analytical tools is desirable
• Experience on participating in end-to-end development lifecycle in a rigorous test driven software development environment; Knowledge of BDD, TDD is a must
• Experience of Agile software development process is desirable
• Experience on developing and delivering scalable applications
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to lead a large team of developers and provide guidance from best practice perspective
• Working and coordination with multifarious client teams like business, tech, regulatory reporting, FO, etc.

Very desirable

• Follows clean code principles and OOPs
• Experience of Agile methods
• Fluency in the Python standard libraries
• Experienced in test-driven development/BDD
• Experience with RDBMS, ORM
• Experience with CQRS and related interface standards of REST/HAL
• Experience with MQSeries/AMQ/AMPS or similar event oriented technology
• Understanding concepts of event sourcing and the alternatives
• NoSQL/Document Oriented databases - Cassandra, MongoDB
• Highly Available/Scalable Search - Elasticsearch
• Knowledge of a large bank enterprise standards
• Knowledge of a large bank application landscape
• Knowledge of realtime transaction platform
• Knowledge of regulations MiFID, EMIR, SFTR, CFTC, TRACE, CAT
• Knowledge of data modelling including internal and industry initiatives such as FpML and CDM
• Knowledge of derivatives in general and trade lifecycle