Python Developer - VAR Market Risk Investment Bank

• Proficient in Python, with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and functional programming paradigms
• Familiar with Python application design and architectural patterns
• Demonstrable ability to write clean and readable code
• Experience with SQL and any industry standard relational database
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Creating data schemas that represent and support business processes
• Unit, integration and end to end testing

Functional Skills Required:

• Appetite for developing an understanding of finance and risk metrics
• Experience of market and/or counterparty risk would be advantageous
• Knowledge of risk and pricing and deal representation would be advantageous

We are looking for a Python Developer responsible for construction of application components and Scripting to manage the interchange of data between external services and the system. Your primary focus will be the development of the core strategic framework, ensuring a code documentation and set of scripts fully integrated to the core System. The code delivered must have a good quality and it should have high performance and responsiveness on deal and market data integration plus market risk and counterparty metrics calculation. In this context, understanding of finance (more precisely the concept of Value at Risk and reserves), together with a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

The successful candidate will be expected to fulfil the role of a Python developer with a strong business appetite as follows:

• Be part of a growing team that is at the heart of our business users teams
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Jython/Python code
• Rapidly prototyping solutions to quickly prove/disprove new concepts
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Deal processing and integration into the system
• Risk Metric Calculation
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation

This role offers hybrid working 50 % and is inside IR35 Umbrella

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