Senior Python Developer

Job Title: Senior / Lead Python Developer - Transactional Reporting

Location: London UK

Employment Type: Full time, Permanent

Working Mode: Hybrid, 2 days / week - Work from Office

Salary: In the range of £100K -£120K Per annum

Experience: 10 -15+ Years of Python Programming primary from Financial Services domain.

About the Role

We are looking for individuals to engage in solution design and development spanning transaction reporting. The successful candidate will work with cross-functional team such as data modelers, BA and developers in foundation design and engineering of the component architecture. This role would invariably suit an experienced software engineer with an interest in abstracting domain components and engineering system interfaces for data processing orchestration and user tool workflow management.Work within an Agile team, writing requirements and specifications, developing strategic transaction reporting platform and maintaining existing code for the reporting technology team.

• Work with the central architect / design group to build strategic architecture for transaction reporting and assist with design principles and ideas; Primary task would be to help the bank design and enhance the transaction reporting platform, right from design to development, testing and documentation including training materials.
• Help improve the data infrastructure including quality, governance and controls for an enhanced transaction reporting process along with audit trail, data lineage and other BCBS239 principles
• Coordinate with front office, technology, and regulatory teams to understand the requirements
• Responsible for supporting modern agile software development methods; including educating & mentoring less experienced OOP team members.
• Experience of working with enterprise design requirements preferably at a large investment bank

Required Skills:

• Excellent hands-on application development experience on Python
• Understanding of capital markets; Knowledge of transaction reporting and related regulations like EMIR, MiFID, SFTR, CAT, etc is a must along with understanding of asset classes like derivatives, repos, etc.
• Excellent Analytical skills
• Experience working on different analytical tools is desirable
• Experience on participating in end-to-end development lifecycle in a rigorous test driven software development environment; Knowledge of BDD, TDD is a must
• Experience of Agile software development process is desirable
• Experience on developing and delivering scalable applications
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to lead a large team of developers and provide guidance from best practice perspective
• Working and coordination with multifarious client teams like business, tech, regulatory reporting, FO, etc.