VP-Fullstack Developer- Risk tech

Description

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

Position / Group description

The Risk Technology group builds and supports a global risk platform enabling the Risk Management group to oversee all areas of risk across the Firm. The risk platform provides capabilities for measuring, quantifying, analyzing, reporting, and controlling exposures across market and credit.

The position is for a Senior Developer who will be part of Risk Technology team. The developer will play a key role in major transformation projects involving the end-to-end build of a modern, highly scalable, risk platform.

The role will involve the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of risk analytics, data modelling, reporting, and management systems. This will be executed by implementing system components; coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting issues and resolving production problems.

Primary Responsibilities

• Building key risk technology components
• Interfacing with senior stakeholders in Risk Management and across the firm to gather requirements and resolve issues.
• Contributing ideas and industry best practices to the wider Risk Technology group as part of design discussions and incident reviews

Essential Experience/ Skills

• Expertise in building interactive dashboards, data visualization, and reporting solutions.
• Proficiency in front end technologies such as Angular or React or similar
• Deep expertise in Java, Python, or similar programming language with experience building production applications
• Strong knowledge of SQL and large-scale data modeling, processing, and storage utilizing modern columnar and relationship databases like Oracle, Snowflake, and AWS RedShift
• Experience in developing cloud based loosely coupled event driven microservices using serverless technologies, preferably on AWS
• Knowledge of modern SDLC tooling, including Git, Bamboo, and Jira
• Experience in risk analytics, market risk, or credit risk
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar technical discipline

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex data related issues
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-starter and entrepreneurial in approach
• Ability to escalate and follow-up proactively
• Good time management skills

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer. We practice equal opportunity for all, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with qualified disabilities, as appropriate, under applicable law.