Client Digital
Business Services is a pivotal part of the Group, providing essential
operational and technical support to our global businesses and helping improve
customer service and efficiency. Digital Business Services combines global
expertise and technology to help keep us ahead of the competition.

We are
currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team, Equities &
Cross-Asset Financing Tech, as Synthetic Trading Lead Engineer.

Equities
& Cross-Asset Financing Technology is a diverse global team that works
together to build innovative sales and trading systems for the Prime Brokerage
and Financing businesses. We care about working hand-in-hand with our business
partners towards realising the architectural principles of simplicity,
efficiency and transparency. The successful candidate will be working on
an exciting project to deliver the ‘next generation’ of client Synthetic
trading platform.

Principal
responsibilities

• 
  Design and
  build a scalable and highly available global low latency Synthetic trading
  platform
• 
  Contribute
  and make strategic decisions that affect the design and architecture of this
  platform.
• 
  Work
  closely with the front-office trading and product teams to ensure fast and
  accurate delivery of new functionality and improvements.
• 
  Liaise with
  local compliance, NFR and other risk/control teams to ensure full compliance
  with the letter and spirit of all relevant regulatory guidelines and
  requirements.
• 
  Maintain
  continuous communication with the wider global team: collaborative development,
  reviews and strategic decision making.
• 
  Contribute
  and influence on the future state architecture.

Requirements

• 
  Prior
  experience of working in an investment banking setting.
• 
  Expert-level,
  applied Java experience including the JVM, garbage collection, data structures
  and non-blocking IO.
• 
  Prior
  experience of low latency development, GCP and UI development is a plus.
• 
  In-depth
  knowledge of DeltaOne and Synthetic trading including the order lifecycle,
  locate, inventory management, FIX messaging
• 
  Good
  understanding of the design and architecture of robust, scalable and highly
  available distributed trading platforms.
• 
  Passionate
  advocate for technology, technological solutions and continuous improvement.
• 
  Good
  understanding of risk, risk management and the role technology plays in this
  highly regulated environment.
• 
  Fluent in
  written and spoken English and an excellent communicator.
• 
  Appreciation
  of agile software delivery practices and knowledge of DevOps.