Delivery Lead, Software Engineer - Global Banking & Markets - Vice President - London

Vodafone; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company seeks an experienced engineer to join its trading team in London. The successful candidate will lead a skilled team to design and develop a robust trading platform that supports a vast array of trading operations. This role demands a deep understanding of Java and associated technologies, along with proven leadership and analytical skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Java engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of data distribution architectures and NoSQL databases.
• Proven leadership in team management and project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers to design, build, and maintain high-performance trading platforms.
• Utilize data to guide decision-making and enhance tools.
• Communicate effectively with traders, sales, and compliance officers.

Skills

Java

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Data Structures

Performance Analysis

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Kafka

Akka

Spark

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Hadoop

Kubernetes

Apache NiFi

Job description

YOUR IMPACT

As a member of the team, you will play an integral role on the trading floor. This dynamic, entrepreneurial team has a passion for technology and markets, with individuals thriving in a fast-paced, changing environment. The team adopts a data-driven approach to decision-making, and you should be willing to participate in the full product lifecycle—from requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, support, to monitoring trading risks for systems and strategies used by our clients.

OUR IMPACT

Controls engineering is responsible for building the next-generation firm-wide control plane for our front office desks. The successful candidate will leverage deep technical skills to implement a highly scalable, message-driven architecture processing approximately 3 billion messages per day, making real-time 'safe to trade' determinations. The role also involves developing web applications that enable users to register, develop, and administer controls on the platform.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a team of engineers to design, build, and maintain a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive platform supporting front-to-back trading systems such as order management, exchange connectivity, smart order routing, internalization, clearing, and securities lending.
• Utilize data to guide decision-making, developing or enhancing tools for data collection as needed.
• Understand market rules, regulations, exchange services, and build systems to facilitate them.
• Communicate with traders, sales, clients, and compliance officers regarding new systems, feature requests, and explanations of existing features.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on Java engineering experience with 5+ years in developing Java systems.
• Proven leadership in team management and project delivery with a commercial mindset.
• Experience with Event Sourcing technologies (Kafka, Akka, Spark) and data distribution architectures.
• Experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Hadoop), in-memory (MEMSQL, Ignite), and relational databases (Sybase, DB2, SybaseIQ).
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Experience in performance analysis and optimization based on data.
• Excellent communication skills and teamwork ability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Kubernetes deployment architectures.
• Experience with Apache NiFi.
• Experience building trading controls within an investment bank.

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