Description
Job details:
Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: London, UK
Job Type: Contract (IR inside 35)
Technical
Excellent C# and Python skills
Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, Event architecture (event hub, event bus, etc.), ELK, etc.
5+ years experience with CI/CD delivery using GIT, VSTS/ADO, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
Practical agile experience in both startup and enterprise environments
Functional
Knowledge of the trading-related operating environment
You'll have strong communication and collaboration skills, along with 5+ Years' experience working in a trading-related environment (energy & commodities trading, banking, or consultancies) with Front Office Trading Managers.
Communicating between the technical and non-technical
Able to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them. Able to manage stakeholders' expectations and be flexible, is capable of proactive and reactive communication. Facilitates difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
Generate technical design to solve business problems
Well-designed systems balance risk, technical and business complexity, cost, and value. Working with technology, or recommending technology we should introduce, you'll create pragmatic, implementable technical designs.
Maintaining delivery momentum
Able to facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo. Able to actively address internal and external risks, issues, and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team.
Making the process work
Able to identify and challenge organizational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. Able to add value and can coach the organization to inspect and adapt processes. Guides teams through the implementation of a new process.
Planning
Understands the environment and is able to prioritize the most important or highest value tasks. Able to use data to inform planning. Able to manage complex internal and external dependencies. Able to provide delivery confidence. Able to remove blockers or impediments that affect the plan and is able to develop a plan for difficult situations. Ensures teams plan appropriately for their own capacity.
Team dynamics and collaboration
Able to bring people together to form a motivated team. Able to empower delivery teams. Able to help create the right environment for a team to work in. Recognizes and deals with issues. Able to facilitate the best team makeup depending on the situation.
Responsibilities
As the Technical Lead, you will provide technical leadership and architectural design:
Own the technical design for the Data Platform, partnering with the Product Manager to lead the implementation
Work closely with a wide range of business and IT stakeholders to ensure the correct day-to-day and strategic technical decisions are made, implemented, and documented
build and maintain motivated teams, ensuring that we recruit the right staff, and develop our staff to the best of their abilities
protect the team and make sure the team collaborates, communicates, and focuses on what is most important
proactively manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and get the best value against constraints