Sr Application Developer

Sr Application Developer - Financial Risk Technology

NYC, NY

6 months contract with extension

Pay: $80.00 - $100.00 p/hr

Our prestigious client is a leading global financial services firm with a long-standing history of serving institutional clients seeks a skilled Senior Application Developer to join its Risk Management Technology team. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of financial services, including capital markets, advisory, and research, across various asset classes and geographies.

Position/Group Description:

The Risk Management Technology group is responsible for developing and maintaining technology solutions that support global risk management functions. This includes the measurement, quantification, analysis, and reporting of risk exposures for traded financial products.

This role will be a key developer position within the technology team, contributing to major projects involving custom development, vendor product integration, and enhancement of existing on-premises and cloud-based systems. The role will focus on designing, developing, testing, and implementing solutions for complex risk calculations and integrations with specialized risk platforms, supporting various financial products.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Senior Application Developer within the Risk Management Technology team.
• Collaborate with business analysts, project managers, and other stakeholders to implement business requirements using diverse programming techniques on Linux/database-driven platforms, including object-oriented, scripting, and SQL-based development.
• Conduct thorough initial testing to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met before user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Verify implementation, perform functional testing, and deploy system/module updates to production environments.
• Integrate with third party risk calculation services.

Essential Experience/Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Python with 8+ years of application development experience.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, and implementation.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as Oracle, Snowflake, or similar.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms, particularly with relevant cloud services (e.g., containerization, serverless functions, compute instances, storage).
• Experience in the financial services industry with a strong understanding of market risk concepts (e.g., risk metrics, profit and loss analysis) and/or counterparty credit risk (e.g., potential future exposure).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Preferred:

• Experience with specialized financial risk calculation platforms.
• Experience with Git-based source control repositories and tools (e.g., Bitbucket, SourceTree).
• Experience using issue tracking and project management tools (e.g., Jira).

Personal Attributes:

• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Proactive and self-motivated with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Ability to effectively escalate and follow up on issues.
• Excellent time management skills.

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