Feature Lead- GMOT

Responsible for providing leadership, technical direction, and oversight to a team as they deliver technology solutions. Develops solutions and processes for delivering features based on their knowledge of design/architectural patterns and Agile/DevOps practices. Ensures the systems design and requirements are aligned to achieve the desired business outcomes, and that team practices and coding/quality principles are aligned to achieve the desired technology outcomes. They have built significant experience through multiple software implementations and has developed both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Designs and develops and is accountable for feature delivery. Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality. Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt. Responsible for compliance and security items and audit support at the team level. Acts as a liaison for production activities/issues. Works with Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria. Guides the team on work breakdown and execution. Plays a team lead role (as an individual contributor) and mentors the team. Guides team members with skills and practices (planning & estimation, peer reviews and other engineering practices). Identifies skill and role gaps, and works with Technology Manager to address them. Works with Technology Manager in creating resource contingency plans where required. Individual contributor.

Job Responsibilities:

GMOT provides technology solutions and services for capital markets operations within Client Merrill Lynch. GMOT has development teams in Chicago, New York, Toronto, London, and India with business users in those locations and also Charlotte, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

An experienced Python developer is being sought to assist in building the next phase of our strategic OTC derivative confirmations platform in 2022 for equity swaps and FX Options. Coordination across all regions and development locations will be required to deliver a confirmation solution that will provide STP confirm generation and matching for equity derivatives.

Technology stack will primarily be a Python based in house framework used front to back for pricing, trade capture, risk management, lifecycle management, confirmation, and settlement with a shared code base across all of capital markets technology groups. A distributed object oriented database with a high speed search cache and a document generation vendor product SmartDX will also be used extensively.

The candidate will be responsible for contributing to all phases of the Agile development process and L3 production support. Interaction with our business, subject matter experts, and developers within and outside of the GMOT will be required.

Required Skills:

• 5+ yrs of object oriented programming and design (C++, Java, Python, etc...)
• Desire to learn and develop primarily in Python
• Unit testing framework
• Strong written and verbal communication

Desired Skills:

• Test-driven development
• Distributed systems
• Object oriented databases
• Linux
• XML
• FpML
• MarkitServ, DS Match, & Swift (300,305,306) platforms for OTC derivatives
• OTC derivative products
• OTC derivative operations processes
• Agile SDLC processes

GMOT Client:

• Believes diversity makes us stronger so we can reflect, connect and meet the diverse needs of our clients and employees around the world.
• Is committed to building a workplace where every employee is welcomed and given the support and resources to perform their jobs successfully.
• Wants to be a great place for people to work and strives to create an environment where all employees have the opportunity to achieve their goals.
• Provides continuous training and development opportunities to help employees achieve their career goals, whatever their background or experience.
• Is committed to advancing our tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve our clients and their evolving business needs.
• Believes in responsible growth and is dedicated to supporting our communities by connecting them to the lending, investing and giving them what they need to remain vibrant and vital.