Senior/Lead Java Developer - Stamford, CT/NJ/NYC

Senior/Lead Java Developer

US Citizens, GC, EAD (H4, L2), E3 TN visa holders preferred, NO third party corp to corp accepted for this job

Responsibilities

• Develop/integrate Derivative Trading Applications
• Lead a distributed team of engineers
• Communicate with business stakeholders including Traders, Operations, and Strats
• Understand and translate business requirements into technical design specifications
• Identify technology solutions for enhancements or new initiatives
• Implement unit and integration test cases with industry-standard test automation frameworks.
• Document changes necessary to support business

Skills Must Have

• Investment banking background
• Good knowledge of Financial Instruments, incl. Derivatives and Fixed Income securities.
• Experience in Trading or knowledge of the Trade Life Cycle
• 6+ years of enterprise development experience. (JDK 8 or 11)
• Experience in leading distributed teams
• REST API (including Enterprise Authentication and Authentication)
• Enterprise services (including monitoring, state management)
• Expert practitioner of object-oriented techniques
• Solid expertise in concurrency and multithreading
• Spring (including Spring Boot and Spring Boot Actuator)
• JMS
• MS SQL Server
• Experience with automated testing (TDD, BDD)
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Personal leadership: realistically identifies own skills, experience, knowledge and other personal attributes; displays confidence and resilience.
• Planning and organizing: identifies and meets milestones; understands and articulates deliverables; assesses and mitigates risks; sticks to the scope of work and manages any changes.

Nice to Have

• Understanding how Derivatives instruments are valued
• Murex Pricing or other Murex APIs integration experience
• Apache Camel (Version 2 or 3)
• Integration with vendor packages like: Murex
• Debugging accounting issues would be an added advantage
• BS or higher degree in Finance, Mathematics or equivalent
• Test management
• Trade life cycle management
• Market Data management
• Client focus: understands clients' businesses; identifies and understands the needs and objectives of clients, both on an individual and corporate basis; builds strong relationships
• Analytical decision-making: identifies and solves problems using insight and experience to make good decisions; gathers relevant information, identifying important issues and drawing conclusions.