Python Developer III

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional non-functional and compliance requirements and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

LOB Position Summary:

This role is for a Senior Python Developer within the Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) Technology team responsible for the design development and evolution of a complex largescale technology platform supporting the creation calculation lifecycle management reporting and hedging of QIS products. The platform supports 1000 live Equities QIS products and is built on a distributed serviceoriented architecture on Quartz platform with stringent requirements around performance scalability and reliability.

The ideal candidate will be an extremely handson senior engineer and architect with deep Python expertise and a strong track record of building and operating highperformance scalable systems in a frontoffice environment. The role requires close engagement with front office and quant stakeholders to address critical business queries resolve production issues and deliver strategic enhancements. The candidate will play a key role in leading and executing complex technology initiatives mentoring junior and intermediate developers driving architectural decisions and identifying opportunities to modernize simplify and improve the overall QIS technology platform. This position demands strong technical judgment ownership mindset and the ability to balance daytoday delivery with longerterm platform strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs develops and modifies architecture components application interfaces and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement definition of requirements and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

• Act as a senior hands on developer and technical leader for the QIS technology platform contributing directly to core codebase.
• Design build and maintain performant scalable and resilient services supporting creation lifecycle management reporting and hedging of QIS products.
• Enhance maintain and redesign a highly performant scalable and resilient service for consuming and caching market data services.
• Own and drive architecture and design decisions across a complex multi service platform ensuring alignment with business growth and performance requirements.
• Partner closely with front office quants trading and risk teams to understand requirements address critical queries and resolve high impact production issues.
• Lead the delivery of strategic projects from requirements and design through implementation testing and production rollout.
• Identify and execute opportunities for platform redesign refactoring and modernization improving scalability latency reliability and developer productivity.
• Apply best practices in software engineering including code quality testing observability and operational excellence.
• Guide mentor and review the work of junior and intermediate developers setting high engineering standards across the team.
• Contribute to incident analysis root cause investigations and ongoing improvements to system stability and performance.
• Collaborate with Global Technology teams to ensure consistent architecture tooling and development practices.

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of handson software development experience with deep expertise in Python in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and implementing largescale distributed systems with complex business logic.
• Strong experience and knowledge of Object Oriented Programming concepts.
• Proven ability to act as a technical architect defining system designs APIs data flows and inter - service interactions.
• Demonstrated experience building highperformance and scalable solutions; experience with lowlatency systems is a significant plus.
• Experience working directly with front office or quantitative stakeholders in a capital markets environment.
• Strong knowledge of software performance optimization concurrency and resource management.
• Experience leading projects and taking endtoend ownership of delivery.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong mentoring skills and a demonstrated ability to develop junior talent.

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of pricing hedging or lifecycle management systems in Capital Markets.
• Prior experience modernizing or rearchitecting platforms in a regulated environment.
• Hands on experience with Quartz or similar platforms Athena Beacon etc.

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

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