Senior Software Engineer - Research Management Systems (Analytics & Reporting)

Bloomberg L.P.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Greater London seeks a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to design and build core components for a new analytics platform. You will lead projects and technical decision-making, ensuring best engineering practices. Strong proficiency in Python, C++, Java or JavaScript is essential. Excellent communication and collaboration skills are required. The role involves working with teams across various locations and supporting junior colleagues.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with a strong background in designing and building distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, Java, or JavaScript with production-quality code ability.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core components of the analytics platform.
• Lead projects and make technical decisions.
• Support and mentor less experienced colleagues.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

JavaScript

OLTP technologies

OLAP technologies

Data visualization

Communication

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

Trino

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Description & Requirements

Research Management Systems (RMS) provides structure, control, efficiency and transparency to the investment research process of institutional investors. Every client has their own approach to identifying investible opportunities, it forms a key part of their strategy for beating the market. RMS seeks to provide custom solutions that align to the unique needs of every client, in a scalable way. We are a recently formed engineering group and a rapidly growing part of the business. RMS has multiple teams, in multiple locations, each with a clear mission.

The mission of the Analytics & Reporting team is to give research leaders visibility into the internal operations of their team to empower evidence-driven decisions about the process, the tools and the team. This transparency is important in becoming more effective, in sustaining their effectiveness and in demonstrating their effectiveness to prospective partners.

About the Role

We’re seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with experience in scalable, distributed system design. Experience of decision analytics would be helpful as our mission requires us to build a new analytics platform. You will influence key technical decisions for us and thereby build a system that will influence key decisions and processes for our clients.

We'll trust you to:

• Design and build core components of our analytics platform as part of a team.
• Lead projects and technical decision making.
• Ensure the team adopts best engineering practices across the entire SDLC.
• Collaborate with a broad set of stakeholders including your immediate team, the broader RMS group, other parts of the engineering community, sales, implementations, support, product managers and user experience experts.
• Support and mentor less experienced colleagues as appropriate.
• Embrace an inclusive approach to communication and collaboration.

You’ll need to have:

• Proven experience in software engineering, with a strong background in designing and building distributed systems or data platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, Java, or JavaScript is required, with a demonstrable ability to write production-quality code.
• Experience with OLTP and OLAP technologies and a demonstrable familiarity with query languages.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across interdisciplinary teams in a variety of locations.

We'd love to see:

• Experience with, or an interest in, data visualisation and communicating insights as clearly and impactfully as possible.
• Familiarity with industry standard and open source analytics tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Trino.
• Experience with semantic data modeling.
• Familiarity with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

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