Senior Scala/Java Developer

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The Role: Senior Scala/ Java Developer

The Team: Financial Risk Analytics is part of the S&P Global group and provides industry leading risk analytics solutions to sell side and buy side institutions within the financial markets. Risk management and risk regulation is continuously driving demand for more accurate calculations and risk system vendors are continuously striving for improvements in performance and scalability. The product is carefully architected to scale from running on a single laptop for demonstration purposes right through to running on 1,000 core distributed grids. Financial Risk Analytics provides solutions for Credit Risk PFE, Market Risk VaR and sensitivities, Credit Value Adjustment (CVA), Initial Margin (IM) and regulatory calculations.

Financial Risk Analytics is currently investing in their technology platform to develop new revenue-generating products, leveraging open-source projects and big data technologies. These include new visualization, risk aggregation and smart data initiatives that address new data, risk, and regulatory requirements and are highly visible and strategic within the organization. These initiatives are using technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, HBase, Apache Kafka, Docker, AWS, along with in-house-developed technologies, on Windows and Linux operating systems. This role will specifically be using the following languages and technologies: Scala, Redis, AWS, Python, Docker, Git, Apache NiFi.

The Impact: You will be working with multiple time zones, from North America to APCA, and will be fundamental to adding support coverage for internal and external clients.

What s in it for you: You will be working in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment, building commercial products which are at the heart of the business. You will have the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and customer support. You will have a development background (mandatory) and an interest in finance (ideal). You will work closely with Agile development teams (your own and others), financial engineers, and product development groups.

Responsibilities: The successful candidate will work on the Orchestration team where its responsibilities would include:

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