Global Banking & Markets - Ledgers Engineering - Associate

Job Description

About the team We are a part of a growing team in Bengaluru that will collaborate with colleagues around the world to support our legacy platforms as well as deliver our new strategic post trade portfolio platform. We are responsible for keeping the books and records for the firm.All our projects are cross-location and cross-function, meaning we work directly with Front office, Mid-office, Operations, Legal, Tax, Client Reporting and Regulatory Reporting and Engineering colleagues from those areas, across the wider firm. We work directly with Global Control, different business lines to design and implement a wide range of functions including Core Ledgers services, Exception detection processing, Client statements & interest accruals. Our strategic new platform is a brand new/greenfield initiative toconverge all our businesses onto a single technology platform, to proving much better scalability, improved resiliency and reducing the time needed to develop and deliver new features.The programme is sponsored by our division's senior leadership and is one of the key strategic deliveries of the next few years. Highly developed analytical and technical skills, combined with a commercial and collaborative approach to problem solving, are essential to our success. Responsibilities and Qualifications Who Are We Looking For Self-guided pragmatic individual with a proven track record in designing and delivering complex software solutions in the financial services industry. Motivated by the opportunity to make impactful deliveries for our businesses and clients Strong analytical skills Hungry to learn new concepts and technologies Ability to efficiently work within a global team Effective written and verbal communication skills Able to keep a commercial outlook while maintaining a focus on technical quality and attention to detail Skills And Experience We Are Looking For 3+ years of strong programming experience in Java Comfortable multi-tasking and working as part of a global team. Experience building and maintaining scalable and distributed systems. Familiarity with Test Driven Development and Business Driven Development Performant data structures and algorithms Experience of databases (SQL, NoSQL) Linux / Unix skills including scripting (shell) Knowledge of financial markets, asset classes and market infrastructure Basic experience in SRE practices and Incident Management.