Equities Middle Office - User Interface Lead (VP)

Description

The company handles about $5 trillion of transactions a day through its network, across more than 180 countries.

The Technology team has more than 230,000 people worldwide and builds systems for global finance, including advanced AI and global markets.

This role keeps established business-critical applications stable, reliable and maintainable, adds new functionality and resolves technical issues.

You will also help shape the architecture and development approach for the replacement applications.

The role suits someone who wants to build software engineering skills in a collaborative setting.

Responsibilities

• Keep established business-critical applications stable, reliable and maintainable.
• Add new functionality and fix technical issues in those applications.
• Develop and maintain application functionality in C WPF and ASP.net.
• Build and maintain user interfaces in React.js.
• Help modernise the applications as part of the wider programme.
• Assess applications for vulnerabilities and security issues, and test and debug them.
• Work with users, clients and other technology groups to pinpoint issues, recommend programming fixes, and install and support customer-facing systems.
• Identify and define system enhancements using script tools, and by analysing and reading code.
• Apply knowledge of programming languages to design specifications, and maintain basic knowledge of other technical areas.
• Partner with designers and stakeholders to release features.
• Write clean, documented code, join peer reviews of code and team talks, and build unit and integration tests.
• Keep up with software development best practice.
• Advise or coach newer or junior analysts.
• Act as subject matter expert for senior stakeholders and team members.
• Solve problems by analysing information, making evaluative judgements and choosing solutions guided by precedent.
• Work with limited direct supervision and use your own judgement.
• Weigh risk in business decisions, protect the firm's reputation, clients and assets, drive compliance with laws, rules and policy, and escalate and report control issues openly.
• Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience as an application developer.
• Strong experience in modern frontend development.

Conditions

Full-time role.

Hybrid working, with up to 2 days a week working from home.

Business casual workplace.

Competitive base salary, reviewed annually.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
• Private medical care and life insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Pension plan.
• Paid parental leave.
• Discounts for employees, family and friends.
• Access to learning and development resources.