| Location | New York |
Job Description
The Counterparty Risk and Margins team is the firm's risk team for assessing and mitigating counterparty risk. We provide a comprehensive set of risk calculations like Stresses, Greeks, VAR, Betas, Exposure and Backtest, which are used to asses risk on counterparty portfolios under various different situations. The users of the Risk platform are both internal and external to the firm. Via the Matrix application, we provide the risk platform to our external clients which include large hedge funds, pension funds, etc. Internally, our tools are used by Risk Managers, operations users, as well as senior management in various business lines, to look at the counterparty risk that the firm is exposed to, as well as to assess the risk profiles of potential new clients. This robust platform is also being leveraged by firm's Global Wealth Management group. We are looking for a Java developer to join our development team and help us with delivering strategic projects in the coming year, spanning the area of Risk Analytics across asset classes and business groups.
Qualifications
External Skills required:
Experience in full lifecycle development using Java and very good knowledge of Spring and SQL
Experience in test driven development -- Fitnesse / JBehave/Cucumber/Concordian
Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and Design Patterns
Good understand of Agile/DevOps process
Good communication, analytical skills and design skills
Good knowledge of development tools
- Eclipse, Perforce, Ant, Jenkins and Ivy
Working with geographically split teams
Desired Skills:
Knowledge of various financial products (Equities, Fixed Income, Credit products etc.) is an advantage
Knowledge of Angular would be an advantage
Knowledge of NoSql DBs or DB2 would be an advantage
Technology Stack:
Primary technology is Java on Linux. Strong exposure to Java development, object oriented design paradigms, concurrent and distributed programming concepts are critical to be successful in this role.