Axelon
Risk Developer - C#/.NET and Python
Axelon, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246
Global Financial Firm located in HOUSTON, TX has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Risk Developer - C#, .NET, and Python
"This role is currently on a Hybrid Schedule.You will need to have reliable internet, computer and android or iphone for remote access into the client systems during remote work.We will be expected in the office weekly 3 days depending on the team requirement.
****Video/ f2f interviews are required prior to all offers.
C#, .NET, SQL Server, Python - Risk Developer and BAU Support - Server side
Key Responsibilities•BAU (Business As Usual Support): Interact with stakeholders such as traders, finance, business unit managers for day-to-day support including enhancements, analyzing the issues reported in detail and addressing/resolving the issues by identifying the root cause and remediating the same. In doing so, provide feedback to the development team of any shortcomings, enhancement requests from the stakeholders.•Services Development and maintenance: Design and develop and maintain high performing and fault tolerant C#/.NET and Python services in order to deliver seamless user experience for the users.•Collaboration with internal technology teams: Collaborate with Markets Quantitative Analytics (MQA) team who develop analytics pricing models to best integrate with the Risk Platform and with Commodities Market Data (CMD) team who are golden source of all the market data used for Risk computation.•Collaboration with Global Teams: Commodities Technology team in Client is spread across various geographies worldwide and this is key responsibility to collaborate and work with these global teams.•Integration with other supporting libraries: Work on integrating other libraries such has Market Data, Trade Repository libraries in the Risk Platform. It is necessary to understand the design and working of these components to effectively integrate and work with Risk Platform.•Continuous Learning: Stay updated with latest trends and developments in frontend technology, especially in React ecosystem both within Client and on street.
Experience / Background•Solid Commodities Risk background, experience with interacting with the trading desks and capability to analyze and address immediate issues, queries.•10+ years of proven hands-on experience with C#, SQL Server and Python, preferably with multi-threading. This experience needs to be recent/current. Capability to write code using RAD (Rapid Application Development) to analyze, troubleshoot prod issues.•Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex system and application issues.
Preferred Skills•Commodities risk and PnL background with different commodities assets such as Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Power etc. know-how of various risk greeks and PnL Explains, understanding of various types of trades (Options, Futures, etc) and market data (curves, fixings/settlements, etc) with respect to commodities business.•Experience with C#, SQL Server, Python on Services development preferably with distributed services architecture.•Experience with Microsoft Orleans Framework - Preferable•Experience in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery and Automated Deployment environment with tools such as Jenkins, OpenShift/Client Project, TeamCity, uDeploy.
Position OverviewBanking is one of the largest players in the financial industry, employing more than 200,000 people across the globe. Our Commodities trading business in Houston, employs around 200 staff.
The Commodities trading business at Client has grown significantly in the last 10 years to become one of the leading industry players. It is a federated business model that covers market making across all types of assets including Oil, Gas, Power, Agriculture, Emissions, Metals, Freight, Exotics and Indices.
This role is within the Houston Commodities Risk Technology team, focussing on services and auxiliary components for our front-office trading platform.Our proprietary trading platform is currently going through an exciting green-field re-engineering phase and we are seeking to build out the development team.
On the risk management side, one of our greatest engineering challenges is the amount of computational effort required to continuously generate millions of risk sensitivities per hour in real-time.
Since we calculate large volumes of results data on a front-office risk system, there are considerable challenges in data modelling, processing & grid computing. Hence, we require a seasoned server-side developer who can efficiently design and develop services and components which can handle and process large amount of data with optimal performance.
We are committed to hiring the brightest and best technical experts and in return can offer roles with direct business interaction and day-to-day usage of the latest technology.
"This role is currently on a Hybrid Schedule.You will need to have reliable internet, computer and android or iphone for remote access into the client systems during remote work.We will be expected in the office weekly 3 days depending on the team requirement.
****Video/ f2f interviews are required prior to all offers.
C#, .NET, SQL Server, Python - Risk Developer and BAU Support - Server side
Key Responsibilities•BAU (Business As Usual Support): Interact with stakeholders such as traders, finance, business unit managers for day-to-day support including enhancements, analyzing the issues reported in detail and addressing/resolving the issues by identifying the root cause and remediating the same. In doing so, provide feedback to the development team of any shortcomings, enhancement requests from the stakeholders.•Services Development and maintenance: Design and develop and maintain high performing and fault tolerant C#/.NET and Python services in order to deliver seamless user experience for the users.•Collaboration with internal technology teams: Collaborate with Markets Quantitative Analytics (MQA) team who develop analytics pricing models to best integrate with the Risk Platform and with Commodities Market Data (CMD) team who are golden source of all the market data used for Risk computation.•Collaboration with Global Teams: Commodities Technology team in Client is spread across various geographies worldwide and this is key responsibility to collaborate and work with these global teams.•Integration with other supporting libraries: Work on integrating other libraries such has Market Data, Trade Repository libraries in the Risk Platform. It is necessary to understand the design and working of these components to effectively integrate and work with Risk Platform.•Continuous Learning: Stay updated with latest trends and developments in frontend technology, especially in React ecosystem both within Client and on street.
Experience / Background•Solid Commodities Risk background, experience with interacting with the trading desks and capability to analyze and address immediate issues, queries.•10+ years of proven hands-on experience with C#, SQL Server and Python, preferably with multi-threading. This experience needs to be recent/current. Capability to write code using RAD (Rapid Application Development) to analyze, troubleshoot prod issues.•Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex system and application issues.
Preferred Skills•Commodities risk and PnL background with different commodities assets such as Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Power etc. know-how of various risk greeks and PnL Explains, understanding of various types of trades (Options, Futures, etc) and market data (curves, fixings/settlements, etc) with respect to commodities business.•Experience with C#, SQL Server, Python on Services development preferably with distributed services architecture.•Experience with Microsoft Orleans Framework - Preferable•Experience in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery and Automated Deployment environment with tools such as Jenkins, OpenShift/Client Project, TeamCity, uDeploy.
Position OverviewBanking is one of the largest players in the financial industry, employing more than 200,000 people across the globe. Our Commodities trading business in Houston, employs around 200 staff.
The Commodities trading business at Client has grown significantly in the last 10 years to become one of the leading industry players. It is a federated business model that covers market making across all types of assets including Oil, Gas, Power, Agriculture, Emissions, Metals, Freight, Exotics and Indices.
This role is within the Houston Commodities Risk Technology team, focussing on services and auxiliary components for our front-office trading platform.Our proprietary trading platform is currently going through an exciting green-field re-engineering phase and we are seeking to build out the development team.
On the risk management side, one of our greatest engineering challenges is the amount of computational effort required to continuously generate millions of risk sensitivities per hour in real-time.
Since we calculate large volumes of results data on a front-office risk system, there are considerable challenges in data modelling, processing & grid computing. Hence, we require a seasoned server-side developer who can efficiently design and develop services and components which can handle and process large amount of data with optimal performance.
We are committed to hiring the brightest and best technical experts and in return can offer roles with direct business interaction and day-to-day usage of the latest technology.