You will work on Imagine, a third-party application, and the in-house processes that have been built around it. Our focus is building and expanding data access to and from Imagine. We are working towards building services that provide our users with proactive support and modernizing the way they interact with it. This requires developing tools to automate workflows and extending functionality of existing applications. In addition, you will be involved in Imagine release management, configuration, testing, and production troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Participate in designing, building, and refactoring REST based service layer for the equity transactional system
- Migrate existing processes that allow direct database access to access via RESTful API
- Automation of system maintenance tasks, end-of-day processing jobs, data integrity checks, and bulk data loads/extracts
- Extend Imagine functionality to support middle and back office processes
- Participate in capacity planning and performance/throughput analysis
- Design and development of applications following Agile and continuous delivery practices
- Provide level three support for Imagine and processes developed by the group
Required Experience
Must have
- Strong understanding of and experience with SOA (Service Oriented Architectures), RESTful APIs, and micro services
- Ability to write supportable and readable Python
- Prior experience in another OO language such as Java/C++/C#
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux
- Strong fundamental understanding of relational databases including 5+ years of experience with writing and tuning SQL queries.
- Experience in finance – knowledge of common financial asset classes. Some knowledge of basic risk measurements, corporate action processing, and/or P&L is helpful.
- Understanding of modern SDLC practices
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. A desire to work in a collaborative environment
- Detail oriented. Demonstrates thoroughness and strong ownership of work
Nice to have
- Experience with SAP HANA
- Experience with Sybase
- Experience with PERL/shell scripts
- Hands-on experience with a vendor front office / risk / trading applications – Imagine, Murex, Calypso, Front Arena, Summit, Advent Geneva, Charles River, Sophis, etc.
- Experience or working knowledge of Agile Practice and TDD (test driven development)
- Experience with GIT and JIRA, Jenkins
