Vice President Python Credit Risk Lead Engineer
Jefferies
Vice President Python Credit Risk Lead Engineer
Jefferies
Global investment banking and capital markets
Company
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for over 50 years. Headquartered in New York, with offices in over 30 cities around the world, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, as well as wealth management. The firm provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Position / Group description:
The Risk Management Technology group provides support to global Risk Management in the areas of technology and information processing for measuring, quantifying, analyzing, controlling, and reporting Risk exposures for traded securities products.
The position is for a senior engineer who will be part of Technology team supporting the Global Risk Management Technology group. The work assignments will include playing a key developer role in major project related work. Projects will include custom development, implementation and integration of vendor products, and enhancement/support of existing on-premises and cloud-based systems.
The Role will involve designing, developing, enhancing, testing and implementing solutions to integrate with Numerix services for the calculation of PFE and other risk measures for multiple financial products by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting issues and resolving production problems along with supporting users by developing documentation and assistance tools.
Primary Responsibilities:
Serve as a VP-level technical lead within Risk Management Technology, responsible for delivering scalable, reliable, and business-critical risk applications.
Partner with business users, quants, project managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, architect and implement scalable technical solutions.
Perform and oversee functional, integration, regression, and non-functional testing to ensure solutions are stable, scalable, and ready for user acceptance testing and production deployment.
Own implementation verification, release readiness, production deployment, post-release validation, and ongoing support for delivered modules.
Essential Experience/ Skills:
Strong hands-on Python development experience with 6+ years of relevant experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting enterprise applications.
Strong Risk Analytics knowledge and experience required.
Experience and knowledge of SDLC and agile methodologies and development processes such as requirement gathering, analysis and definition, prototyping, proof of concept, designing and implementation
Strong SQL skills and experience on Snowflake, Oracle or other RDBMS data platforms
Experience across a broad range of AWS services (Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, etc)
Experience in the financial services industry with knowledge of counterparty credit risk (PFE, PE, etc) domains (market risk experience a plus)
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics
Preferred:
Experience with Numerix OneView and/or CrossAsset
Experience of using GIT based source control repository and tools such as Bitbucket and SourceTree.
Experience of using Jira for full development cycle (requirement to deployment).
Hands-on experience with Java and related enterprise frameworks
Personal Attributes:
Strong analytical, verbal and written communication skills
Self-starter and entrepreneurial in approach
Ability to escalate / follow-up proactively
Good time management skills
Strong technical and people leadership skills, with the ability to mentor engineers, delegate effectively, manage delivery priorities, provide architectural direction, and drive accountability across projects.
Jefferies is a global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that serves investors, companies, and governments with advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management. It provides M&A and restructuring advice, helps raise capital, trades financial instruments, covers market research, and manages investments for individuals and institutions. It stands out by offering a wide range of services under one roof through a network of more than 40 offices worldwide, giving clients broad market access and execution power. Its goal is to help clients navigate financial markets, raise capital, and grow wealth by providing practical advice, research, and execution across different geographies and asset classes.
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