Application Programmer V

Our client, is an multinational investment bank and financial services holding company, is seeking a Application Programmer V.

Location: New York, NY

Position Type: Contract

Schedule: Hybrid- 3 Days/Wk Onsite

Job Summary:

• Application Developer required for derivatives risk system.

• The position offers a unique opportunity to be involved in a key role for a critical application with high visibility to the business end users.

• Design and implementation of the large scale enterprise end of day risk system using QUARTZ (Client proprietary development platform on Python)

• Work as part of the agile development team to deliver new products/functions for the business.

• Provide architectural recommendations and optimizations across environment

• Provide L3 support to keep application lights-on.

REQUIRED Skills:

• Hands-on development experience in object-oriented programing. Python. SQL, database, C++

• Extensive knowledge on design and implement large scale distributed systems

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Excellent written and verbal skills with a strong work ethic.

• Team player, self-motivated

• Experience in high pressure working environment within a financial institute.

• Experience in Agile/Scrum Management and Agile Tools.

DESIRED:

• Knowledge of credit derivatives

• Familiar with Risk management and P&L attribution.

GENERAL:

• Responsible for designing and developing complex requirements to accomplish business goals.

• Ensures that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.

• Ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset.

• Possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry, and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns.

• At this level, specializations start to form in either Architecture, Test Engineering or DevOp.

• Contributes to story refinement/defining requirements.

• Participates and guides team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.

• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.

• Codes solutions and unit tests to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.

• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.

• Assists team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.

• Designs/develops/modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained.

• Designs/develops/maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance).

• Sets up and develops a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.

• Automates manual release activities.

• Mentors other Software Engineers and coaches team on CI-CD practices and automating tool stack.

• Individual contributor.

Note: We cannot work with C2C candidates.

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