Senior AWS Developer - Risk Technology - VP

About Us

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 Leucadia Asset Management alternative 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 AWS 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
• Design, develop, and deploy cloud-native applications using AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, and API Gateway.
• Build and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes (EKS), Dockers, and Helm Charts.
• Develop automation scripts and backend services using Python and Boto3.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code using tools like CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform.
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, and product teams to define and implement cloud strategies.
• 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:

• 7+ years

  of hands-on experience in AWS cloud development.
• Strong expertise in

  AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, IAM, CloudWatch, and API Gateway

  .
• Experience with

  Kubernetes (EKS), Dockers,

  and

  Helm Charts

  for container orchestration and deployment.
• Proficiency in

  Python, SQL,

  and

  AWS SDKs

  (e.g., Boto3).
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and event-driven design.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure automation.
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate or

  AWS Certified

  Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience in market risk, or credit risk
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar technical discipline

At Jefferies, we value the unique skills of every employee. We encourage professional growth and career development and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you’re looking to build your career as part of a fast-paced technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.

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, and takes affirmative action to ensure that 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 applicable 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 disabilities, as required by applicable law.

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Please note that any email contact with Jefferies personnel will come from an “@jefferies.com” email address. Further, Jefferies will not notify shortlisted candidates through social media platforms (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) or ask candidates to make payment to participate in the hiring process.