Software Engineer II - Post Trade Technology
Chicago, Illinois
Job Description:
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Job Description:
This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.
LOB Specific Summary
Post Trade Technology (PTT) provides technology solutions and services for capital markets operations within Bank of America Merrill Lynch. We have development teams in Chicago, New York, Toronto, London, and India with business users in those locations and also Charlotte, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney.
An experienced Python developer is being sought to assist in building the next phase of our strategic OTC derivative confirmations platform in 2024+ for equity derivatives and FX Options. Coordination across all regions and development locations will be required to deliver a confirmation solution that will provide STP confirm generation and matching for equity derivatives.
Technology stack will primarily be a Python based in house framework used front to back for pricing, trade capture, risk management, lifecycle management, confirmation, and settlement with a shared code base across all of capital markets technology groups. A distributed object oriented database with a high speed search cache and a document generation vendor product SmartDX will also be used extensively.
The candidate will be responsible for contributing to all phases of the Agile development process and L3 production support. Interaction with our business, subject matter experts, and developers within and outside of the PTT will be required.
Responsibilities:
Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
Required Qualifications
Technical Skills:
5+ yrs of object oriented programming and design (C++, Java, Python, etc...)
2+ years Python
Unit testing framework
Object oriented databases
Non-Technical Skills:
Strong written and verbal communication
Desired Qualifications
OTC derivative product knowledge
OTC derivative operations processes
Agile SDLC processes
Test-driven development
Distributed systems
Linux
XML
FpML
Skills:
Application Development
Automation
Collaboration
DevOps Practices
Solution Design
Agile Practices
Architecture
Result Orientation
Solution Delivery Process
User Experience Design
Analytical Thinking
Data Management
Risk Management
Technical Strategy Development
Test Engineering
Minimum Education Requirement - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Work Experience
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
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